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Jesuit Institute answers call of student protesters Series of panels on race scheduled for spring semester

BY GUS MERRELL Asst. News Editor In response to campus protests staged at the end of last semester—most notably a “Right on the Heights” rally and die-in in St. Mary’s Hall—the Jesuit Institute at Boston College plans to spearhead a semester-long initiative to promote student discussions about matters of race and student experiences on campus, according to Rev. James Keenan, S.J., director of the institute. The project effectively began last week with a “Race in the USA” panel, which sought to put the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner—and respective non-indictment

decisions for the police officers that killed them—in context with larger national trends as well as life at BC. Keenan said that there are more panels and discussions currently being organized, beginning this week with “After Ferguson,” which is currently scheduled for Jan. 27.

Keenan said that while the general consensus was that the recent panel itself was a huge success, the student-led discussions in an overflowing Fulton 511 were sensational and have prompted him to continue to try to facilitate more discussions in the future.

“If I see some of the same students talking [at future panels], I want to invite them over to the Jesuit Institute to see how can we continue these discussions,” he said.

The Jesuit Institute is also working

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A BC streak: women’s hockey stays unbeaten for 24th straight game No. 1 Boston College defeated No. 3 Quinnipiac 2-1 in women’s hockey Saturday, extending its unbeaten streak to 24 games. Juniors Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa scored for the Eagles and freshman goaltender Katie Burt made 18 saves. See page B1.

For unregistered student organizations, an ambiguous future As BC revisits student guide, UGBC hopes for compromise on unrecognized campus clubs

BY MUJTABA SYED Asst. Features Editor Talks on the revision of Boston College’s student guide began between the University and the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) in December, the central complaint lodged by UGBC’s Free Speech and Reform team being the restriction the current guide places on groups other than registered student organizations.

The conversation initiated with the Office of Student Involvement (OSI) and the University’s Board of Directors is expected to continue this semester, with concerns about how registered organizations are to interact with unrecognized entities still mounting.

Over 200 organizations at BC are identified as Registered Student Organizations (RSO), focuses on a specific category: academics/pre-professional, campus ministry,

honor societies, intercultural, music, art and performance, political, publications and media, service, or specific issues. An undocumented group of organizations, however, exists outside the parameters for RSO’s outlined by the University.

When a fledgling student group attempts to become a Registered Student Organization, it must follow a set of steps outlined by OSI. According to Dhara Bhatt, vice president of student organizations for UGBC and CSOM ’15, the group must begin by submitting an application on OrgSync that includes a constitution outlining its name, mission, and vision. The group then

undergoes an interview with UGBC’s Board of Student Organization, which consists of 12 undergraduates ranging from freshmen to seniors.

UGBC then provides its recommendation based on the interview with OSI, and the two parties jointly come up with an accept, reject, or deferral decision. According to Bhatt, most decisions end up being deferrals, giving organizations feedback prior to a second interview to further explore the group’s candidacy.

When each group meets with the UGBC board to interview, they are evaluated based on a rubric created by UGBC in conjunction

with OSI. The rubric’s main tenants call for the organization at hand to first, enhance the BC experience and create an inclusive environment; second, to not duplicate or be repetitive of an existent organization or office on campus; and lastly, be sustainable in the long run, according to Bhatt.

While these base considerations provide the basis for UGBC and OSI’s joint consideration of groups seeking to become registered student organizations, Bhatt added that other factors play a role, such as the organization’s

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UGBC candidates prepare for 2015 election season Elections Committee lays out timeline, expectations for four prospective teams

BY ARIELLE CEDENO Assoc. News Editor EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

Full scholarship athletes are now eligible to receive stipends to cover their full cost-of-attendance, with BC providing these funds.

Despite initial vote, BC to cover athlete costs

BY TOM DEVOTO Heights Editor Boston College Athletics director Brad Bates confirmed that the University intends to cover the full cost-of-attendance for full scholarship student-athletes—as calculated by the Office of Student Services—as early as August, according to an article published

by ESPN. This decision comes less than a week after BC cast the only vote against an NCAA measure, passed 79-1, that will allow universities to issue stipends to student athletes on full scholarship, covering their full calculated cost-of-attendance beyond tuition, housing, books, and food. The stipend will cover cost-of-living expenses, which include school supplies, laundry, and travel back home, among other minor expenses, as calculated by the University.

Bates said that BC will comply with the legislation, but wanted to raise certain issues that were found within it, notably furthering the distinction between regular students and student-athletes, as well as putting an unnecessary burden on financially strapped athletic departments. The cost-of-attendance gap at BC is reported to be around

$1,200, which is tied for the lowest in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) with the University of Notre Dame. The higher amounts in the ACC hover around $5,000.

The ESPN story cited a report published by the NCAA in August 2014, which claimed that only 20 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs generated a profit. More than 100 other FBS programs relied heavily on subsidies from their universities.

“A lot of those subsidies come from student fees at many institutions,” Bates said in a phone interview from earlier this week. “So with increased costs of higher education, we keep passing legislation that’s increasing our costs. We’re putting a lot of pressure on athletic departments to really seriously look into eliminating sports, which ultimately hurts student-athletes rather than helps.”

Bates added that 15 schools have eliminated a combined 66 sports since 2010, despite the fact that the NCAA has lucrative television and sponsorship deals. The University of Alabama-Birmingham became the first school to eliminate football—the sport that generally raises the most revenue for universities—since Pacific University

in 1995.

Additionally, Bates was worried about the fact that cost-of-attendance figures might serve as a recruiting advantage, offering a hypothetical scenario in which football powerhouse University of Alabama would not let its rival, Auburn University, surpass its institution’s cost of attendance.

“With the research we’ve done, we’ve seen the highest amount of difference in cost of attendance is a little over $6,000,” Bates said on the Tim Brando Show on Sirius XM. “Some schools are going to be able to give the students over $6,000 per student per year. Other schools are less than $1,000.

There’s already an inherent disadvantage, based on what your cost-of-attendance is.”

The cost-of-attendance legislation allows collegiate institutions to offer, on average, $2,000 to $5,000 to its student-athletes in addition to the traditional full scholarship.

Bates agrees that covering full cost-of-attendance is beneficial in principle, but had concerns that the NCAA rushed its decision to pass this legislation.

“I’m not sure that everyone fully comprehended the types of issues we’re talking about right now,” Bates said. 

Prospective candidates for president and executive vice president in the upcoming Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) elections met with the Elections Committee on Thursday night, in preparation for UGBC’s sanctioned campaign season, which begins Feb. 9.

Of the teams represented at the mandatory meeting, there were two confirmed as seeking candidacy for president and executive vice president, respectively: Cassidy Gallegos, LSOE ’16, and Michael Keefe, A&S ’16; Thomas Napoli, A&S ’16, and Olivia Hussey, A&S ’17. Ryan Quirk and Nico Varano, both CSOM ’16, did not attend the meeting, but were confirmed as a team by the Elections Committee.

James Kale, LSOE ’16, and Jose Altomari, A&S ’16, are unconfirmed bids to run in the upcoming election, but were also in attendance Thursday.

The meeting, led by Dan Ahern and Kiera Keller, co-chairs of the Elections Committee and both A&S ’15, discussed the necessary qualifications for nomination in the upcoming election and the procedural guidelines for campaigning.

To secure candidacy and a nomination on the election ballot, each team must gather 250 signatures by Jan. 26. The Elections Committee also

highlighted the Presidential Elections Code, which the prospective candidates must adhere to for the duration of their campaign.

The code outlines general campaign procedural guidelines, as well as behavioral expectations for the campaign team and the candidates.

“Candidates, along with their campaign teams, are expected to act with integrity throughout the entirety of the campaign season,” reads Section 1, Part A of the elections code. “As leaders of the Boston College community, it is in the best interest of all candidates to act as role models both within and outside of campaigning.”

Among these guidelines are rules for appropriate campaigning, campaign materials, electronic communications and social media, and residential life.

The elections code also features a Sanction Guideline that details the handling of disqualification, violations, and complaints relating to campaign season.

There were minor revisions made to the elections code for the upcoming campaign season. This year, candidates must have campaign team members formally approved through the Elections Committee on Orgsync. This was done to reduce the issue of extraneous campaign team members that candidates have faced in years past, and to foster greater candidate oversight over their campaign team. The candidates are also newly required to have an elections liaison, with the purpose of handling communication between the candidates and the Elections Committee.

Unlike years past, primary elections will not be held this elections season.

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Filmmaker Luis Argueta will present and discuss his new film, ABRAZOS, in a screening in Fulton Hall, Room 511, on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. The film tells the inspiring story of a group of children who travel 3,000 miles from Minnesota to Guatemala.

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Professor Tom Muir of Princeton University will host a presentation at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, in Merkert Hall, Room 130. The talk is titled “Houdini Proteins: Discovery and Applications of Ultrafast Inteins,” and is sponsored by the Chemistry Department University Lecture Series.

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Watch the American premiere of the play A Case Named Frued, by award-winning playwright Savyon Liebrecht, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, in Fulton Hall, Honors Library. The play takes an intimate look into the story of Sigmund Freud and the young Nazi, Dr. Sauer.

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News Professor awarded for work in Christian ethics Briefs

By Sophie Reardon Heights Staff

BC subpoenaed Boston College has been ordered not to hand over materials relevant to the Belfast Project, an oral history project the University started in 2001, as officials from Northern Ireland make plans to seize them Lawyers representing Winston Rea, a former prisoner of the Irish Loyalist Party, requested an injunction on interviews procured during the Belfast Project.

The interviews for the Belfast Project were conducted with the understanding that the transcripts would not be released until after the deaths of the participants.

The tapes had been given to U.S. authorities earlier this week, and the Police Service of Northern Ireland had planned to fly to the U.S. to collect the materials.

Rea’s legal team issued an emergency application for an injunction after they learned that police were planning to fly to the U.S. to get the materials.

The subpoena is unlawful, Rea claims in a BBC News report.

Blizzard warning A blizzard warning has been issued for eastern and southeastern Massachusetts as well as all of Rhode Island by The National Weather Service.

The warning is in effect from 7 p.m. Monday until 1 a.m. Wednesday.

The area could face up to three feet of snow.

The notice was upgraded from a blizzard watch to a warning Sunday afternoon.

Preparations should be made for the storm—it has the potential to be catastrophic, meteorologist Benjamin Sipprell told the Boston Globe.

The blizzard warning includes snow accumulation around 20 to 30 inches and winds around 30 to 40 miles per hour.

At times, visibility will be one-quarter mile or less.

At time of publication, there has been no formal announcement by the Boston College administration on how the blizzard will affect classes.

Career network BC has launched the Boston College Career Community on LinkedIn in order to forge connections between BC students and alumni.

The group creates an exclusive networking space for alumni and students. This is the first time an official LinkedIn group has been established.

“We recognize that students need, and want, more career-related resources, and are working with the administration, faculty, and alumni to expand opportunities for students in that area,” said Joseph Du Pont, associate vice president for Student Affairs of Career Services. “Everyone is committed to this goal.”

The initiative was started by the BC Career Center, and is supported by the Office of News & Public Affairs as well as University Advancement.

The group currently has 5,200 members.

Last week, professor of theology Lisa Cahill flew to Florida to receive the Yves Congar Award for Theological Excellence for her contributions in contemporary theological ethics.

The award is given annually to a theologian who is able to “embody the spirit of Cardinal Yves Congar, OP (1904-1995), by working, writing, and teaching in light of the tradition while moving that tradition forward to meeting the challenges of today,” according to Barry University, which presents the award.

At the ceremony in Miami, Fla. last week, Cahill spoke about the distinction between marriage and family. To the traditional Catholic faith, a family includes marriage, she said. But Cahill raised the argument that people do not need to be married to be a family. Take for example, she said, someone who is not married but still has other family: parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, or cousins.

She believes that the church should not condemn them but help them. And in fact, last year, Cahill explained, the Pope married 20

couples, several of whom already had children together. As a result, the Catholic Church held up a positive view of marriage, which was a much more welcoming message than condemning those couples, according to Cahill.

“Like Congar, Lisa exemplifies how genuine reform of church thinking can remain both true to the deepest meaning of the Christian faith and also creatively responsive to new currents in intellectual and social life,” said Prof. David Hollenabach, a longtime friend of Cahill. “She has shown this in her work on sexual ethics, gender roles, bioethical issues, and the challenges of peace, war, and reconciliation in our divided world.”

Cahill has always been surrounded by the Catholic faith. She attended a religiously affiliated high school in Washington, D.C., that was just across the street from Georgetown University, and later the Jesuit-affiliated Santa Clara University for her B.A. For her Masters and Ph.D., she went the the University of Chicago Divinity School.

At Santa Clara, she majored in theology as well as English. During her time there she chose to pursue

Christian ethics.

She explained that she began at the University of Chicago just after the Second Vatican Council, a meeting that resulted in many Jesuits seeking higher education. Because of the University of Chicago’s association with a Jesuit university, Cahill often had many Jesuits in her classes.

“I feel that I have a real affinity with the Jesuit identity and mission,” she said.

In 1976, she began to work at Boston College. Since joining the BC community, Cahill has made strides in the field of theology and ethics.

Her numerous books, articles, and lectures all guide theology so that it better fits our world today. Among the topics that she has explored, Cahill has found that bioethics, gender equality, marriage, and family are among the most important at this time.

BC has been encouraging by giving her the freedom to be creative, despite the fact that not everyone agrees with her work, she said.

“There are places in the larger Catholic world that I would not feel as comfortable because there wouldn’t be the same openness to

intellectual exploration of the tradition in a creative, forward-moving manner,” she said.

Cahill is encouraged by the expanded focus of today’s Catholic scholarship. For example, she is currently editing a book written by African theologians on the subject of AIDs. The book brings together the interests of violence and warfare, women’s rights, and bioethics, she said.

“They are just brilliant and inspiring African theologians: men and women, clergy and lay, who are writing about this from their own perspective,” she said. “It’s also a fantastic example of working within the tradition and moving it forward really into new continents and new contexts.”

Cahill’s voice has also influenced many—her influence is international, said Prof. James Keenan, S.J., a former student of Cahill’s.

“Cahill has taken traditions, like social justice and feminism, and made them act like engines in driving other traditions, like theological ethics, forward to answer all people’s needs for justice, participation, and development,” he said. n

Panel considers role of journalism in 21st century

By Alec Greaney Heights Editor So long as the new world continues to lean towards a 140-character mentality, there seems to be little room for literary forms beyond normal briefs and articles. “Newsworthy: New Forms of Journalism, Personal Essay and Public Reflection in an Age of Entertainment” explored how different means of connecting people with information can still find a place in the 21st century. The third event in the Clough Center’s “The Arts and the Culture of Democracy” series, the Thursday night panel was held in Devlin 101.

This edition featured Edward Hirsch, a poet and critic who worked in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston; Jill Lepore, the Kemper ’41 professor of American History at Harvard University and a writer for The New Yorker; Carlo Rotella, the director of American Studies and the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College and a regular columnist for the Boston Globe; and Lawrence Weschler, a former staff writer at The New Yorker and currently a distinguished writer-inresidence at the Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

With its “Democracy” series, the Clough Center sought to analyze the links between art and democracy in our contemporary society. The two previous lectures, “The Arts and the Culture of Democracy” and “The Political Life of Poetry,” were held this past September and November in Devlin Hall. Hirsch, who moderated the event, has been featured at all three lectures.

Hirsch began by discussing how the typical news formats people read compare to poetry. He referenced

Ezra Pound, who claimed that literature and poetry are made up of “news that stays news.”

“What he meant by that is after the events have passed and the cycle is turned, and the news of today’s stories is no longer relevant, poetry is still relevant because it got to something deeper in the story,” Hirsch said. “It got to something deeper in the human concern and, unlike the newspaper, the way in which it’s said is inseparable from what is being said.”

He also spoke about the attack on Sept. 11, 2001, and how he was struck by the number of people who looked towards poetry, both new and existing. Hirsch referenced a poem

by Adam Zagajewski titled, “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” which ran in The New Yorker in Sept. 2001.

Although many people believed the poem was written in reaction to 9/11, it wasn’t—Zagajewski penned it in response to earlier events in Poland.

Weschler spoke next, focusing on long form narrative. He argued that the “Twitterverse” and other outlets do not allow humans to absorb information as well as they can through narratives. He acknowledged, however, the difficulty in capturing the chaos in the world.

“You are imposing a form on all that material—a form that is a story, and a form that is fictive by its very nature,” Wescher said. “It is composed, it is made up. You try and turn it into a way that it can be read. That is a fictive act, and it is a provisional act, and that is its glory.”

Lepore took the floor next to discuss how modern day media has afflicted both the past and present.

“It’s a huge impoverishment for any civil society to have no past,” Lepore said. “But we really have eradicated the past with this constant

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7:45 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was later transported to a medical facility from Maloney Hall.

12:33 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic stop in the Upper Dorms Roadways.

10:07 p.m. - A report was filed regarding the providing of police service.

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The panel discussed the role of the ‘Newsworthy’ in contemporary society. attention to the present in the sense that one must be keeping up with the latest, news-breaking event. That sense of always being on the edge of the next thing is a particular feature, a particular posture, of the moment we live in history.”

She also spoke about academics’ responsibility to deal with information, citing the controversies of climate change as one instance where an intended intellectual discussion was misinterpreted. “When academic historians behave as though they don’t know anything and that nothing is knowable, the public looks elsewhere for an explanation, for an understanding of the past,” she said. “I think that’s dangerous to our public sphere.”

Rotella spent the majority of his time explaining the experience of being a columnist. He spoke about his time doing a story on the governor of Massachusetts, and hearing in the

office, “We don’t want this to end up on the editorial page of the Boston Globe.”

“That really encapsulates one of the functions of the column,” Rotella said. “One of the traditional functions of the column is that some strong voice calls out the people in power and keeps an eye on people in power.”

By the end, all of the writers had touched in one way or another on the importance of accuracy.

Wescher told a story about a graduate class he used to teach, which consisted of half journalism and half poetry students.

“I used to say we were here trying to create a generation of lyrics reporters and investigative poets,” he said. “The point being that the reason we read so much poetry was about precision—getting the words right.” n

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9:49 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a file alarm activation in Merkert Chemistry Center.

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3:05 p.m. - A report was filed regarding vandalism to a nonresidence building in Corcoran Commons.

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Would you rather have Mac & Cheese from the Rat for every meal for a year, or live in Greycliff for all 4 years?

“I guess I’ll have the Rat mac.”

—Alexandra Kamonelis, A&S ‘17 “Greycliff, I’m not a Mac & Cheese person.”

—Kelsey Tague, A&S ‘18

“I’ll take the ‘Cliff.”

—Tyler Wilkinson, A&S ‘15

“What’s a Greycliff?

Mac & Cheese for a year.”

—Owen Kehoe, A&S ‘18

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Jesuit Institute aims to increase discourse on race, diversity Jesuit Institute, from A1 alongside the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life to potentially host a panel discussion about the concept of protests.

Keenan said this was especially important to do because of the ways that students made themselves heard at the “Rights on the Heights” rally and the die-in at St. Mary’s, both in December.

It is necessary for people to understand what protesting is really about and why it might be a good thing that people go out and block interstates or bridges, he said.

Keenan believes that while students may be very passionate about something, the faculty may not know that.

He said that lack of understanding becomes apparent when only a handful of faculty members showed up to the “Rights on the Heights” rally.

“I think the students are having a fine conversation, but I’m not too sure that the faculty know about it,” Keenan said. “I think that that’s the more interesting question, because what this needs is more faculty involvement, and I think faculty are interested if they knew more about these things.”

At this point in time, Keenan said, it is important for students to have positive, yet critical, discussions amongst themselves and the faculty.

But, it is also important to bring in other voices, Keenan said.

“How can we develop appropriate space so that students can have good conversations with one another over this, and the level of discourse everyone said was so high, and we need to capitalize on that moment,” Keenan said. “At the same token we’re thinking of bringing in speakers who can talk about race and matters related to race here at BC.” The Jesuit Institute hopes to bring a range of speakers to campus this semester, with the idea of

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Recently, students staged a die-in at St. Mary’s, several groups held a rally, and faculty members spoke at the Race In The USA panel. BC wants to increase discussion about race. bringing a senior member of the civil rights movement, as well as Michelle Alexander, a civil rights advocate and associate professor of law at Ohio State University.

Keenan said that Alexander, the author of the book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, is a very desirable speaker since many people involved in the upcoming panels believe it is important to look at race in regards to incarceration rates.

Although Keenan did not give

any personal indication as to how he felt about the protest at St. Mary’s that delayed the Jesuits’ move-in, he commented that it was a very important catalyst that ultimately led to the discussions that will be occurring this semester.

It is less important to discuss the actual immediate effects of the protest and whether or not it was controversial, he said, when it can be looked at as an event that forced discussion between the students and faculty and ad-

ministration.

“One of the things that we wanted to do is get us on the right track, to have the right discussions, the right actions, the right reflections, the right alliances, to move things forward rather than a focus on something that happened that I think many people took notice of but why it happened and how it happened and who decided and what was decided,” Keenan said. “Nobody really knows that, and I think that people want to realize that it was

a catalyst for what is hopefully going on now.”

While issues of race seem much more prominent now in light of the violence in Ferguson and Staten Island, this is not just a current issue, but one that has persisted since the end of segregation, according to Keenan.

He cited a chapter on race in his upcoming book, and said that there was a belief at the ending of segregation that if white, black, Latino, and Asian college students were all thrown together

at the age of 18, there would be no problems with alienation or separation.

So far, he said, that belief has not been realized.

“Universities know that they were told years ago that they needed to engage people from different racial backgrounds together to talk about neuralgic issues, and therein they would realize that there was a lot more in common than the differences that they were appearing to believe in,” Keenan said. n

UGBC strives to promote multifaceted, authentic happiness Happiness, from A1 Himes was one of the first people we considered. He responded right away … I think it’s really at the core of what he values.”

In addition to the “Talks,” the week will include several other

activities and ongoing events.

There will be tabling in the Rat, McElroy, and Corcoran Commons, with opportunities to answer, “What makes you happy?” at the former, and stickers, merchandise, and tasks available in the latter two dining halls.

Completion of the projects—

and a post to the BC Happiness Project Facebook page to prove it—will allow students to be entered into a raffle for BC Bookstore gift cards. Similar to the “Before I Die” art projects in many major cities, near O’Neill a wall with the question, “What makes you happy?” will stand so

Splash starts to recruit students to teach local teens for one day Splash, from A1 Butterfly,” in addition to those geared toward college prep.

Other course categories are the arts, the humanities, math, science, computer science, and walk-in seminars.

“The classes are very interactive,” McCormick said. “They like to engage the students, have it be discussion-based and not just talking at them, which is really good to make the students more passionate about education.”

Several campus organizations have also offered classes with BC Splash, including improv comedy group My Mother’s Fleabag, the Student Martial Arts Club, and Boston College EMS. “A lot of those classes, too, are really popular because the students who are teaching them are so engaging and passionate about what they do,” Czeisler said.

The time commitment required of students teaching for BC Splash is two hours, plus any additional time needed to plan for the courses.

The program holds a one-

hour training session, held multiple times a few weeks prior to the day of classes.

The second hour is the class

“They like to engage the students ... which is really good to make the students more passionate about education.”

—Alicia McCormick director of BC Splash itself, which runs for an hour.

“What’s really great about BC Splash is that a lot of students on campus are really busy and involved with what they do—BC Splash, at least teaching for it, is a really low time commitment,” Czeisler said. “It tries to allow students to share their

passions.”

In addition to classes, BC Splash runs two other programs: Splash Leaders and the Parent Program. Splash Leaders act like orientation leaders for the students arriving on campus.

The program is offered at 9 a.m. before classes begin, during which the visiting students are put into small groups to familiarize themselves with the campus and ask questions about BC, as well as college in general.

“The Splash Leaders are basically like orientation leaders for the day for the high school students ,” McCormick said.

“They’ll do ice breakers, get to know them [the students] a little bit, show them around campus, and take them to lunch during our lunch period where we take them to Mac.” While students spend their day taking classes on campus, parents can make use of their time by learning about the application process for BC. The Parent Program offers a panel of admissions and financial aid officers, as well as professors, and members of BC Splash talk about student life. n

that students can offer their own personal contemplations on happiness through writing.

“The goal is to have it be a kind of visual expression of positive energy on campus,” Hussey said.

Further, the Project’s organizational team will offer personalized “coffee sleeves” with the inscrip-

tion “What makes you happy? #HappinessProject.” These cozies, too, are meant to serve as reminders of what truly matters in life, and how to lead a better one.

“By starting the conversation about what genuine happiness is, we are striving to break down that perception of perfection [at

the University] and get back to authenticity, one small act at a time,” Hussey said.

“Although the Happiness Project is only a week long, I truly hope the message behind it resonates much longer and carries into all of our own day-to-day lives.” n

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Four new student organizations featured at Involvement Fair

By Anne Bigler For The Heights

The Rat was full of frenzied freshmen, shuffling through herds of people to find what the Spring Involvement Fair had to offer Tuesday afternoon. Because the experience can be overwhelming to say the least, here are a few brand new clubs on campus to consider this semester.

One such club is the publication The Other Americas. “The Other Americas is a publication on Latin American affairs that has been functioning for the past four years as a monthly newsletter on issues involving politics, social justice, and culture in a region that we feel is neglected by the U.S. media and the BC community,” Miguel Salazar said in an email. In addition to printing a monthly newsletter, the staff plans to produce at least one magazine issue per semester. The group also meets on a weekly basis to discuss featured topics that will disperse knowledge and awareness to those interested in gaining a greater understanding of Latin America.

Salazar noticed a lack of knowledge as well as interest in the problems of Latin America on the Boston College campus. By joining the Organization of Latin American Affairs, Salazar learned the importance of cultural clubs and significance of having a multicultural body within those clubs. According to Salazar, “culture clubs are very important, but they can deter students from joining that don’t personally identify with that culture but who want to learn more about it. The Other Americas stems from that idea, and over the years we’ve had members from all backgrounds and cultures that just want to learn more.”

A second club beginning its first year on campus is the Chemistry Club. The club is a student affiliate of the American Chemical Society. “It is designed to be a place for those students interested in chemistry to gather and bond in a more casual, non-academic setting,” Aran Hubbell, the group’s president, said via email. “It is a place to interact with other chemists across grade levels and pass

on shared experiences.” Although the first Chemistry Club on campus was established in 1926, it has been inactive for almost a decade. Because all of the other natural sciences have active representative clubs, Hubbell and his peers believed it was time to reestablish the society. The Chemistry Club

has many things planned for the upcoming semester, including a science resume workshop, a seminar on applying to internships and graduate school, a speaker from industry, and a Bill Nye movie night.

The Sales and Business Development Club is an additional new club on campus

this semester. “We are a new club focused on helping students learn about and begin to develop one of the most fundamental skills in business: selling,” president and co-founder Chris Alto said via email. “On Linkedin, the second most common job for a BC alum is sales, and with so many

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Students explored opportunities for extracurricular activities at the Spring Involvement Fair last Tuesday in the Rat.

students possessing the idea of a ‘used car salesman,’ we thought it was about time to shed a positive light on the skill and profession.” Vice president and co-founder John Ippolito agreed via email, saying, “The club is a necessary addition to BC in order to change this negative perception of sales and provide students with hands on experiences that will better prepare them for professional endeavors.” Alto and Ippolito, both emphasize the importance of sales in every profession and encourage students with career paths outside of the world of business to get involved. Throughout the upcoming semester, the club plans to have interactive panels, as well as host a visiting speaker, Kent Summers, who is world renowned for his “Sales in Startups Bootcamp.”

The fourth and final, new addition to the University’s campus is the Retro Gaming Club of BC. The club, previously called the Smash Club, was initially one that “invited people who were all interested in the Super Smash Brothers video game series. Our generation also had the opportunity to grow up and play this game—to many it is very nostalgic, and the amount of interest we garnered eventually lead to the formation of this club,” Ryan Romanos said via email. In a college environment as “preppy” as that of BC, Romanos felt the creation of the club would foster “a much more friendly environment towards video games and other dorky stuff.” The club also hopes to help remove stereotypes about gamers in general. “We aren’t a group of people who live in their mother’s basements playing games all day!” Romanos said. “Gamers are socially adjusted members of society as well, and I feel like that’s something that our club reminds the general public.”

The club has both casual and competitive tournaments and enjoys competing against students of other colleges in the region.

These new clubs represent only a few that students may have missed at the club fair and demonstrate the myriad of opportunities to get involved for students with differing interests. n

Potential candidates finalize bids for upcoming election UGBC Elections, from A1 Primary voting is only necessary in instances where five or more teams are confirmed as seeking presidential candidacy, said the Elections Committee, with the intention of reducing the amount of teams running to three. This year’s initial pool of possible teams is already larger than last year’s, which was comprised only of one team—an event that forced the candidacy to be reopened after the initial deadline to avoid an uncontested election.

“We expect that since more teams are running this year, the candidates will be even more enthusiastic and ambitious than last year,” Keller said, in an email. “We also believe that with more teams involved, more of the student body will also be involved.”

The official campaign season will commence on Feb. 9, following a campaign kickoff event on Feb. 8, and will last 10 days, keeping the reduced dura-

tion of the last year’s campaign season.

Candidates are not allowed to campaign in any form or to any extent—beyond stating their intention to run—until the official teams are announced at the kickoff event.

The Elections Committee hopes to continue the trend of high participation by the student body, through new ways of publicizing and facilitating the voting process, and events that encourage student attendance and involvement, Keller said.

Voting will open at midnight on Feb. 17 and last until 8 p.m. on Feb. 19. The official election results will be released at 8:15 p.m. that evening.

“After meeting and talking with the candidates, I noticed their strong determination and commitment to lead their student body,” Keller said.

“The candidates have been diligently planning their platform and campaign ideas. I feel that this year’s Presidential Elections will be a very close race.” n

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Last Thursday, the Elections Committee met with potential candidates interested in the upcoming UGBC presidential election.

Frustrations of a finance student: rethinking recruiting at BC

Mujtaba Syed As another semester on the Heights slowly eases underway, much of the chatter around campus and overall volume of student stress seems to surround the endless flurry of resume drops, networking, and interviews that constitute the bulk of recruiting for summer internships and full-time jobs. Often viewed as necessary resume building for freshmen, gateways to the all-important junior year internship for sophomores, bridges to full-time job offers for juniors, and first jobs out of school for seniors, internship and job searches exert a certain type of “real life” pressure that students seldom face in the classroom or within their extracurricular endeavors.

These are, of course, generalizations that vary based on exact course of study and future aspirations—some students focus on building their resumes for graduate school applications as opposed to full

time jobs while others pursue different activities in the summers that will better prepare them for their full time roles in fields like teaching or nursing after graduation. However, the recruiting experience is one known to many Boston College students, and one that they historically do very well at.

As a junior studying finance in the Carroll School of Management, I find myself alongside the majority of my peers in the thick of the recruitment cycle for summer positions that will likely go a long way in determining my postgraduate plans as well as the early portion of my career. I often think about my journey at BC that has in many ways built up to this current process. I immediately enrolled as a finance student, worked hard to secure internships each subsequent summer, and made sure to network with all of the firms I would be interested in working for over the course of my first five semesters in Chestnut Hill. It’s a long, thorough process that many other students can relate to. But why?

When examining the Class of 2013’s publicly available employment statistics, it becomes clear that a certain group of industries and companies dominate what BC graduates choose to do in the immediate

years following their graduation. Of the top 10 employment fields for graduates University-wide, five include accounting, consulting, financial and treasury analysis, portfolio management, and corporate finance.

When looking at CSOM specifically, these five categories make up the entire top five employment fields, which constitutes over 52 percent of the management school’s graduating class. In terms of employers, 11 of the top 14 firms that recruit the highest amount of BC students hire for accounting, finance, or consulting roles.

If the growing BC alumni network’s highest concentrations fall within the same few roles each year, it is no surprise that potential applicants and incoming freshmen place a certain value on BC’s ability to place them into these familiar industries and jobs. While the university experience is about so much more than finding employment after graduation, the cyclical nature of industries BC graduates join spills over into how students approach their studies, extracurricular interests, and summer breaks away from campus. Because so many before them have been successful through familiar paths during their time at BC, current students often get trapped into following formulas that will land them in

secure, desirable positions.

If it isn’t already clear, I closely fit the profile of the type student I’m critiquing— someone who was drawn to the careers BC graduates seemed to excel at getting into, and someone who paid careful attention to upperclassmen in order to glean the best possible ways to put himself in position to succeed. As a freshman, I looked toward the next few years as a time through which I could reach tangible goals I had already set for myself by means of potential employers and postgraduate plans. I was content with the direction in which I was headed, and excited to have minimal uncertainty clouding my immediate future as well as a real opportunity to accomplish what I considered my goals at the time.

Now, as I find myself in the thick of what I worked towards for the past two and a half years, much of my excitement has faded away as wariness over the herd mentality that dominates recruiting has crept in. It makes me uneasy imagining bright students potentially failing to explore their true academic and career interests in favor of finding security in industries the University has historically excelled at getting students into.

Somewhat (or maybe a whole lot) hypocritically, I intend to finish what I started by wrapping up recruiting for finance positions over the next few weeks.

And while in an ideal world, every student would find what they are passionate about during their four years at BC, the point does stand that stable beginnings to careers allow greater flexibility later on to pursue broader interests.

In the long term, a happy medium exists in which students can both use their time at BC to think hard about what they truly want to do—while also being able to take advantage of the school’s tremendous recruiting opportunities. When the frustrations students feel with recruiting for the same few industries begin funneling graduates to a broader array of positions, incoming students will start to recognize the breadth of opportunity that actually exists. Then, the talent and work ethic so clear to anyone that spends time on BC’s campus will shine even more through alumni accomplishments in the professional world.

Mujtaba Syed is the asst. features editor for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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A tale of terror in two cities: life amid crisis in Boston and Paris Pamela Taylor It was Tuesday, Jan. 6. I woke up bright-eyed and eager to savor the third day of my five-month adventure in Paris, France. Quicker than my host mother could bid me a bonne journee, I was out the door and onto the streets of my new home.

I spent hours that day exploring new neighborhoods, encountering a number of Parisians in the process. It was not until late afternoon that I was informed of the news. When I arrived to French class, my classmate explained that there had been a massacre at the Parisian satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the attack killing 12 and injuring 11 with the suspects yet to be found.

Our teacher remained composed, sweeping the day’s terror under the rug of French conjugations, but I still felt anxious: What the hell are we doing in class? Are those black figures across the courtyard the masked killers? Is that a creaking door, or the sound of an AK-47?

On my walk home from the Metro that evening, I was bothered by the bustle of the city, how it carried on relatively unchanged. At dinner, the cool attitude of my host family confirmed that Paris would not skip a beat.

They told me to continue living as I had in days past, but to always follow my intuition, Suivez votre intuition. I took their advice to heart and continued my discovery of Paris, suspending my afternoon fears.

Meanwhile, I followed the progression of the search for the killers in Le Monde and The New York Times. Despite the panic-inducing headlines and images that were published, I ensured my family and friends that Paris was op-

erating smoothly, and while the events were tragic, Parisians marched on.

To say that the reaction of Parisians was calm is not to say that there was no reaction at all. I remember the bagpipes that wailed as mourners placed flowers at the base of the statue at the Place de la Republique. The constantly metamorphosing street art that coated buildings with the vibrant phrase “Je suis Charlie.”

The photographer who captured the moment of a Hasidic Jew passing an armed soldier who guarded the temple nearby. The people that formed snaking lines from newsstands, hopeful to purchase one of the seven million copies of Charlie Hebdo before they ran out.

The most memorable reaction, though, was the demonstration on Sunday, Jan. 11. It was the largest rally that Paris had ever seen, and it aimed to mourn the fallen and to show that the French are not afraid. I wrote about the experience to a friend: With each intersection, more people flooded the march, until finally the streets became so congested that we were brought to a halt. From where I stood, the statue at the Place de la Republique was out of view. It didn’t matter that there was nothing much to see from this distance—there seemed to be a blanket of patience that lay upon the crowd. The point was that so many French citizens stood peacefully sideby-side.

Occasionally waves of applause or chants reverberated from the center of the manifestation. At one point, a woman with an apartment above the crowd opened all of her windows and played John Lennon’s “Imagine,” and everyone sang along.

Still, the absence of certain groups from the demonstration cannot be

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Journalists display their press cards during the minute of silence held in Paris on Jan. 8 for the 12 killed in the Charlie Hebdo attacks. overlooked. Amid an estimated 1.6 million people, I did not once see a Muslim or Jew dressed in outwardly religious clothing. It would be wrong to say that Paris in its entirety stood together without fear that day.

As a student who resided in Boston during the 2013 Marathon Bombing and in Paris during the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre, I cannot help but draw comparisons between the two.

Both tragedies occurred in cities with history rooted in revolution and a pride rooted in liberty. Both tragedies provoked mourning, as well as political, religious, and social controversy.

Both tragedies were results of satellite

terrorists claiming to act in the name of a greater regime. But the panic that ensued in Boston after the Marathon Bombing was absent here in Paris. The city did not hiccup. There was no lockdown. Tanks never lined the Parisian streets.

It is difficult to isolate the reasons behind these incongruent reactions, but a main factor could be the targets and the methods. As compared with a bomb that killed and injured unsuspecting marathon runners and spectators, the Charlie Hebdo attack was not an imprecise explosion: it was aimed toward a specific symbol, Freedom of Expression, and a specific newspaper that pushed

this right to provocative lengths.

In my never-ending effort to evade appearing foreign, I have tried to observe and adopt the ways of Parisians.

I have noticed that many of the Metro lines here run more smoothly than the T in Boston or the subway in New York, and so Parisians find little need to grip onto metal bars for support. They have this way of gliding along with the movements of the ride, unafraid of uneven jolts that threaten to land them on their very backs.

Pamela Taylor is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

Law School launches new, independent blog The editorial site incorporates the perspectives of nine BC students

By Carolyn Freeman News Editor

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Crane, a professor within the English department located in Stokes Hall, recently published a book examining 16th-century society.

Crane juxtaposes literature, science

By Kayla Fernando For The Heights In her new book Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England, Boston College English professor Mary Crane explores the Scientific Revolution’s anthropological effects on society, referring to both works of literature and scientific treatises of the day to reconstruct the existential crisis experienced by the people of the 16th century.

The inspiration for this work, coincidentally, came from a revolution within Crane’s own life. Born and raised near Fredericksburg, Va., Crane relocated to the northeast to receive her undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate degrees at Harvard University, where she studied English Renaissance litewrature and culture. “I’ve always been BC Office of News & Public Affairs interested in Mary Crane analyzes intellectual societal impact of the history, the Scientific Revolution relationship between literature in the 16th century and how people in the period thought about thinking and reading,” she said.

Crane’s decision to write a book illustrating the relationship between science and society arose from her unwillingness to accept what she was taught in school.

“Ever since I was in graduate school, I had been skeptical about what literary scholars taught about the intellectual changes that led to the new science, especially about

the characterization of people in the 16th century,” she said, vowing to provide future scholars with a more realistic portrait of the people who comprised Renaissance life.

This eventually led to her first two publications, Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory and Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth Century England. The topics of cognitive and literary theory are both discussed in Losing Touch with Nature.

“This book is a convergence of insights from cognitive science and linguistics to understand how literature works,” Crane said. “I’m interested in the Scientific Revolution that happened in the 16th and 17th centuries and how that influenced literature, and I’m also interested in the concept of intuitive science.”

Crane puts the societal mentality of the 16th century into perspective. “I ran across the idea proposed by other historians that the people’s view of science inherited from classical antiquity had coincided with ‘intuitive science,’ beliefs on how the world works based on ordinary experiences of the world, similar to a child’s understanding of the world before learning anything,” she said. “Intuitive science was so fundamental and compelling to people that it coincided with ‘official science.’ They later diverged as science became increasingly counter-intuitive.

As we gained control over nature, science has become more specialized.”

Crane spent many years researching primary sources in order to reconstruct the progression of scientific recognition accurately, describing the change in social conscience during the Scientific Revolution when scientists began proposing ideas about the universe that were radically different from socially

accepted facts. “My book focuses on how people came to terms with the realization that what they had been taught and what they observed about the world wasn’t true,” Crane said. “I looked at popular science of the day, when people were writing trying to explain these things and describe them to people. I looked at literary works and how they reflected people’s anxieties and this period of confusion.”

The people of the 16th century came to accept that they had to be as dynamic as their ever-changing universe, developing tools of observation and measurement and applying a systematic method to replace misinformation with scientific fact. The Scientific Revolution was undoubtedly important in creating modern society, but the stories of the people who lived through this exciting time are often lost in the annals of history or are neglected compared to giant, contemporaneous scientific advances.

Crane’s book seeks to enlighten readers with a snapshot of a society that lacked the modern technology and knowledge taken for granted today. “I think it provides a more accurate sense of what came before the Scientific Revolution, how people lived through it, and how it had an important influence on writers,” she said.

Crane currently teaches classes on Shakespeare, Introduction to British Literature and Culture I, and a graduate class on 16th-century writers at the University, eager to share her passion with other interested individuals. “My interest is what ordinary, educated people in the 16th century could understand about changing ideas in the period about the natural world,” she said. n

Prospective and admitted students to the Boston College Law School will now be able to see an unedited view of the school from the perspective of current students. Last week, the Law Student Association and BC Law’s communication department launched BC Law: Impact, an editorially independent blog designed to illustrate what life at BC Law is like for the students.

The law school provides a platform and technical support, while nine different law students contribute content to the blog. Nate Kenyon, the director of marketing and communications, plans to provide technical support and helps the student contributors, as they need it.

Although many law schools do have promotional blogs, BC’s is unusual because it is not edited or moderated by the administration. It is managed by Nate Kenyon, the director of marketing and communications, as a technical administrator, but the content shows an unfiltered student perspective.

Content will be created by nine law students, while Kenyon plans to provide technical support and helps the student contributors, as they need it.

It is both a collaborative and an individual experience: contributors write their stories on their own, but can then work with each other to improve their work. Each writer chooses a specific focus, with topics including study abroad, externships, and social life.

Elizabeth Blass, a second-year student, writes for the blog about public service, specifically juvenile rights issues. Her first post will be about why she came to law school, even though she does not plan on being a traditional lawyer, she said.

“I got involved because I really do believe that BC has a stellar student community and a stellar source for student life,” she said.

“What I hope I will accomplish is communicating that to prospective and admitted students.”

One of the hardest things about ap-

plying to law school is that is it nearly impossible to understand what the community will be like before getting there, according to Blass. BC Law is colloquially known as the “Disneyland of law schools” within the law school community because it is known to be fun and friendly, Blass said.

The blog depicts what it is like to be a student at BC Law—recent posts include the highlights of Cleveland circle as well as a video of the Newton campus, with the law school covered in snow.

“I think it’s really cool that admitted and prospective students will have the opportunity to get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a law student before they actually do it,” Blass said.

The blog aims to help prospective students make a more informed choice, regardless of if they ultimately choose BC Law or not, according to Kenyon.

“We want our students’ viewpoints to be heartfelt and honest and we truly believe that the special nature of our law school will come through loud and clear,” he said in an email.

“Law school is a serious commitment and students deserve to find a place that will feel like home for the next three years—and one that will help support their career and life goals, whatever they may be.”

Each of the writers will publish a post relevant to their topic of focus once a week. Writers will be able to engage with each other and with prospective students in the comment sections of the site.

The contributors are all law students, but several have a background in writing as well: Rob Rossi is a staff writer at the Boston College Law Review and, when he was an undergraduate, was the Managing Editor of The Gavel.

Another contributor, Mike Tierney, is the managing editor for Environmental Affairs Law Review, and has published short stories in local journals.

Rossi hopes the blog will help to forge connections as well as start a dialogue on what it means to enter the law profession today. He wants BC Law: Impact to emphasize the school’s focus on impacting society positively through the study of law, he said.

“Law school doesn’t have to be a terrible three years, BC Law students know that better than anyone,” Rossi said in an email. “The law is a tool, and if used well, it can help us accomplish great things.” n

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A crucial step forward for BC on issue of race

Last semester, Boston College struggled to find an appropriate response to the non-indictment decisions in regards to the killing of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, two unarmed black men from Staten Island, N.Y., and Ferguson, Mo., respectively. Drawing harsh criticism from both students and faculty, the University’s disjointe d ans wer to a die-in protest staged in St. Mary’s Hall brought to light an institutional inability to adequately address issues of races, as thoughtfully outlined in a letter by the Black Student Forum to The Heights last December.

The Jesuit Institute has taken a strong, positive stance on the issue, spearheading an initiative that will provide forums for students and faculty to discuss matters concerning race.

Beginning with a “Race in the USA” panel that took place last Wednesday, the Institute plans to coordinate an ongoing, concerted series of conversations through the spring semester, redirecting energy of students and faculty toward improving race relations at BC. At the forefront of the initiative is Rev. James Keenan, S.J., director of the Jesuit Institute, who is very excited about the potential that these discussions hold. He cited the St. Mary’s protest as an important catalyst in bringing the concerns of the student body to the administration, stating that BC’s discussion on race should move past the immediate concern of the disciplinary consequences these protesters faced.

The St. Mary’s die-in protest w a s a pivotal e vent , bring ing larger systemic issues at BC to the attention of the adminis tration. Faculty members who made their presence known also added weight to the conversation, connecting the concerns of students with the broader BC community.

Administrators are limited by their role as the enforcers of rules, and working in such a capacity, cannot effe ctively resp ond to some deeper questions of justice and equality in University affairs.

BC’s large Jesuit population will be invariably important in orchestrating the follow-up to last semester’s events. The upcoming panel discussions are an important first step in answering the students’ call for the resolution of American racial injustices—many of which perpetuate here at BC. Instead of simply being a lecture, these talks will allow students to talk with each other as well as with the faculty through open discussions. The Jesuit Institute has expressed its desire to listen more than lecture, and promote dialogues between students and faculty.

The deep, spiritual voice that rumbles through B C ’s institutional frame work needs to be directed toward fighting racism at all levels of University culture. BC currently stands at No. 8 on the Princeton Review’s 2015 list of schools with “little race/class interaction,” a ranking based on the input of current students. This is a shameful mark on the school, and should be treated as a matter of extraordinary importance.

The massive issue of race on

campus can become more manageable if addressed through focused dialogues amongst students and faculty, and the Jesuit support will be necessary in pressing for decisive action on the issue.

Thus far, the discussions have been from the students’ perspective, focused on their experiences on campus. The first panel has already made a strong case that these sort of discussions are beneficial and can invite meaningful conversation onto BC’s campus.

The dialogue between the students about a potentially difficult subject was very respectful, yet ver y candid. The forum was a safe space for students to discuss race and have their concerns sufficiently regarded, something that might not have been able to occur during an average day at BC. Ultimately, the Jesuit Institute should be praised for its proactiveness in taking steps to ad-

The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the

Editorial Board. A list of the members of the Editorial Board can be found at BCHeights. com/opinions.

“You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.”

-Richard Hugo (1923-1982), American poet

At the forefront of the initiative is Rev. James Keenan, S.J., director of the Jesuit Institute, who is very excited about the potential that these discussions hold.

He cited the St. Mary’s protest as an important catalyst in bring the concerns of the student body to the administration. dress the issues regarding race on campus. Students made it clear at the end of last year that they were deeply concerned about the events that unfolded in Ferguson and Staten Island and were unsure of their school’s ability to understand that frustration.

On a deeper level, last semester’s events pointed to problems in the way students of color are treated on campus. It brought conversation of BC’s mission as a Jesuit Institution back to the center of student concern, with many of the complaints raised against the University worded with the very language the institution has used to define itself. It reconnected the student population with a historical tradition of protest on campus, and in a concrete way, charged student organizations to reexamine problematic notions of “social justice,” that stress solidarity with people abroad but ignore the fraught state of relations here in Chestnut Hill.

In the months to come, the Jesuit concept of solidarity will be critical in seeing across the Un i v e r s i t y ’s r a c i a l d i v i d e , i n bringing together students and faculty, and in understanding the struggles students of colors face everyday at BC.

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Freezing the stigma around nonprofits

Sean McGowan Strangers Holding Doors When we go back home from school, we are astonished that no one wants to hold the door for 45 seconds for us as we walk into the same building as them. People at this school are the nicest—thanks for making sure we never have to take our hands out of our pockets when it’s in the teens outside.

Free Newspapers in The Dining Hall - Thanks for all the New York Times, Boston Globes, Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine and Wall Street Journals—it makes keeping up with life outside of this bubble just a little bit easier.

Plus, we couldn’t be pretentious college students if we didn’t eat our breakfast with the paper open before us. Next step, steak and eggs and free coffee because we are such regulars.

The Blizzard - Look, by now, if this “historic,” blizzard of the century is the real deal, then it’s already snowing . We fe el the seams of our soul ripping apart with the idea of getting a snow day for a second year in a row.

We’re getting ready for cancelled classes, and just absolute madness. Boston has been saving up all the snow for this one, terrific moment, and we cannot wait for a l l o f i t to j u s t co m e f a l l i n g down.

You probably haven’t thought about the ice bucket challenge for a while. And why would you? It’s cold, you’re in school, and any talk of it on social media died out sometime around September of 2014. However, I think it might be worth taking another look at.

What began as a brilliant fundraising campaign by Boston College’s own Pete Frates became a national sensation, raising over $100 million and counting for the cure and treatment of those affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Those who doubted early on that the movement could raise any money at all have found it difficult to argue with the figures, leaving—for those who care to look for it—only one problem with the campaign to be had: What are they doing with my money now?

Brad Robbins, an irritated pseudo-intellectual from Brooklyn, New York, has become a sort of champion for scrutinizing the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association’s (ALSA) usage of those funds. He is the star of a Facebook video gone viral, in which he chastises the ALSA for its decision to spend less than eight percent of the $55 million it received during that particular fiscal year on “actual research.” Upon hearing Robbins’ call for the rest of us to “wake the f—k up, and see that not for profit organizations don’t really do much for research,” the viewer is faced with a seemingly well-founded sentiment, and accused of blithe ignorance for placing any trust in the everevolving (and quite misunderstood) nonprofit sector of the United States.

Mr. Robbins’ thoughts on the matter are simple, and unfortunately similar to those of many Americans with respect to philanthropy.

If the primary goal of an organization is the cure for a particular disease, why allocate such a small percentage of funds for research in favor of overhead costs? If I donate 100 dollars to the ALSA, should every last penny of it not go directly to someone in a lab coat, bent over

a microscope and mixing some trial version of a cure? These questions are difficult to ignore, and they do have answers, to which any donors are more than entitled.

And yet, as is often the case, the source of the answers is incredibly important. If unlettered, contrarian crackpots like Robbins are to be believed, the executives of these nonprofit organizations are simply too greedy to allocate any more than eight percent of their funds to actual research. They are depraved, diabolical neoconservatives, blowing the other 92 percent on beach houses and cufflinks while they twirl their mustaches.

However, in addition to the (false) assumption that all areas other than research exist only to line the pockets of executives—which underlies the argument above—it is unsustainable for entirely different reasons, unaddressed in popular culture due to a fundamental flaw in the way most Americans view nonprofit organizations. This is articulated best by Dan Pallotta, a veteran of the nonprofit sector, in his book, Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine their Potential.

The Ice Bucket Challenge became a national sensation, raising over $100 million dollars.

Throughout the book, Pallotta traces the banishment of self interest from charitable work to a 400-year-old tradition of Puritan Calvinists—free market capitalists who atoned for the sin of their wealth through charity, and therefore vilified the notion of any nonprofit organization taking in revenue to invest in itself.

This attitude toward charity has changed very little in the centuries since the puritans, as is evident in the complaints of men such as Robbins and others who seek to disband nonprofit organizations for the sin of free market charity.

Can these critics of nonprofits actually claim that a genuine, charitable soul and a profit seeking, capitalist mind are mutually exclusive? To do so would be to undermine both the intentions of affluent agents of social

change the world over, as well as the undeniable necessity of funds and their proper handling for the accomplishment of any corporation’s stated goals.

Imagine, if you will, that the disease ALS is some sort of tangible monster, terrorizing a city.

I prefer a large velociraptor with bear claws, but feel free to get creative here. In founding our nonprofit organizations on such outdated sentiments of absolutely selfless, overhead-free charity, we have put in place organizations whose effectiveness ranks slightly above that of a small boy with a slingshot full of pebbles.

We have put ourselves in a terrible sort of David and Goliath scenario, in which David must beg for his every rock from a crowd that keeps a constant, predatory watch over him, ensuring he doesn’t go off looking for bigger ones. We, the crowd, have been ethically conditioned by outdated values to be accepting of the notion that any funds not allocated directly for research have been wasted. We demand a cure and withhold the freedom necessary for nonprofit organizations to provide one.

If critics of the Ice Bucket Challenge wish to trace the fate of their hundred dollar contribution, he or she need look no further than the ALSA’s consolidated financial summaries for the past three years. During the 2012 fiscal year, the “wasted” funds not used for research were allocated to other key areas of the business, such as administration and fundraising. The latter of the two amounted to roughly 18 percent of total expenses, or $9.2 million. By investing in itself, the association oversaw a leap of nearly 40 percent from $3.9 to $6.6 million, and led to total year end revenues of $61.3 million. Such results suggest either that public interest in ALS experienced some divine spike from 2012 to 2013, or that this association knows what it is doing.

Gimmicks aside, a staggering amount of money has been raised for a wonderful cause.

The ALSA has an incredible opportunity not only to eradicate ALS, but with it the stigma surrounding successful nonprofit organizations, and it requires nothing from us but continuing support.

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

The Stokes Arsonist Chronicles (Vol. 1) The Monsoon - The blizzard was huge farce and it got too warm at the last moment in typical B oston fashion and it’s just a torrential downpour out there and everything is flooding and our laptops and books are waterlogged because they won’t cancel class and we slip down the Million Dollar Stairs and sprain an ankle and everyone laughs at us before they fall down too and we just want snow.

Getting Sick Already - We had been back at school for three days when first noticed our dwindling tissue supply. We thought we would have at least a few more weeks before the BC Flu hit us hard again. It’s like that first round of midterms—you know it’s coming, but you want to put it off for as long as possible. Well, there’s always next semester to try to stay healthy. For now, Netflix, Vitamin C, and excessive naps.

Getting Your Textbooks in the Mail - We know we ordered them, but every time we get a package receipt notification, we still harbor hope it will be a care package filled with cookies and money.

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November, 2013 “Well if it isn’t Joey P.I, in the flesh, right here!” Brent had a habit of making his sentences redundant when the joke didn’t land, which was often. In his four weeks on the job, Joey McCall had become a keen observer, picking up bits and bobs from the people around him that had previously eluded his lazy college eye. He also found himself using phrases like “bits and bobs” more often. And cigarettes. Plenty of those.

“Come on Brent, Nimitz, we’re all shootin’ at the same net here. Let’s keep it professional.”

Brent had an older Boston College cop buddy name of Nimitz that talked liked this when he did talk, which wasn’t often. Mostly the big body stood in the back and nodded at crime scenes. But he always chuckled at “Joey P.I.” When Joey took the job as Student Investigative Liaison, BCPD immediately treated him like an unwanted upstart with a non-job that got in the way of real police work. And, late in 2013, that’s how it felt to Joey too. The big men on campus had been giving out work study jobs like candy, under the mantra of “keep it in house” and the sub-mantra of “get students ready to pay more rent cause the Big Crackdown is right round the corner.” There were more kinds of student cleaners, caterers, and administrative assistants running around than ever before, keeping BC running in tip top shape. And to BCPD, Joey was another cleaner. So they belittled him with a nickname meant to remind him that he hadn’t been around the block like they had. After all, Joey had never seen an episode of Magnum, PI, so what did he know?

But the Stokes Arsonist case had piqued Joey’s interest. Maybe he was growing to fit in with the job, or maybe he felt a pang of sympathy with the culprit lashing out against

the system the only way he knew how, but Joey felt drawn to the mystery. He figured if there was ever a time to become the thorn in their side BCPD always thought he was, this was his moment.

“What a shame, doing this kind of damage to a beautiful building like Stokes,” Brent declared. “I don’t know,” Joey replied, brushing lint off of his trench coat. “This whole Stokes malarkey feels plastic and fake, like somebody painted all the stones on the walls. So what’s the plan for finding this guy? Don’t see anybody around, and there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of evidence.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Nimitz belched.

“We’re gonna round up some witnesses.”

“Round up some witnesses?” Joey asked.

“Yeah.” Brent was unusually succinct. A pause floated around the room. Joey struck up a cigarette.

“No smoke in here!” popped Nimitz. Joey nodded, then ashed his cigarette on a nearby wall.

“Thought this whole damn building was gonna ignite,” Joey muttered. He left.

He figured if there was ever a time to become the thorn in their side BCPD always thought he was, this was his moment.

January, 2015 Joey never forgot Nimitz’s cryptic aside from that day. BCPD picked up the arsonist with a kind of clairvoyance, using the eerily effective testimony of witnesses. It troubled Joey that lazy college eyes had apprehended the arsonist so soon after the incident. The strangeness of the case, of the arsonist’s testimony, of the witnesses’ efficiency ate at Joey for all of the following year. He had moved into an apartment by himself the fall prior, one of the sad ones along Commonwealth Ave. Joey could spend more time with the case, which pleased him immensely. The Big Crackdown made rent around Brighton a damn sight more pricy, but Joey could always take more hours working the investigative beat to make do.

By early 2015, the Big Crackdown was in full swing. BCPD and city officials were bouncing hundreds kids in “more than four”

apartments, and any student in the area knew to tread very lightly in their dealings with the authorities. A sextet down the hall from Joey fell victim, getting the toss from Nimitz himself. He missed those neighbors. Loud, yes, but friendly. They always had enough Bombay gin to go around. Now Joey had enough of the peace and quiet he needed to study the case, but none of the Bombay and lemonade to get his detective’s eye dancing.

Joey serendipitously found one of the arson witnesses, a misanthrope named Kieran, living in Joey’s building, holed up in an equally sad single. Kieran was so high-strung Joey wondered whether he hadn’t done the whole arson business himself and stuck that whole shebang on that poor Kevin fellow. But that seemed similarly unlikely as BCPD’s findings.

“Come on, Joey, you know I’m not that crazy to stick my neck out there for nothing like that,” Kieran responded to Joey’s inference.

“I don’t know that, Kieran. It’s a bold gesture, impressive even.”

“That’s rich talk coming from one of them.

You’re just trying to pressure me for—” “I’m not one of them” Joey cut in. “I’m a private investigator.”

Kieran seemed relieved. “You can’t trust ‘em. Not anyone. The cops, the administration, the Big Crackdown, they’re all in on it.

They’re all putting the squeeze on us.”

“But you were on campus that night,” Joey replied. “What were you doing in Stokes that night?”

“I was, I … don’t worry about it” Kieran stammered. Joey raised an eyebrow at Kieran.

Kieran started to sweat.

“Come on, what do you want me to say?!

Check my search history, all the cops can!

That’s how they found me. They tracked my computer, they went through my search history and they …” Kieran took a big swig of gin, then gave some to Joey.

“They fixed up my story.”

Joey swigged and sat back. “They doctored your testimony?”

“I can’t keep talking to you. Find Liz—she’s an admin assistant in Maloney.” With that Kieran clammed up and ushered Joey to the door. Joey kept the gin, had another swig, and set off.

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

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Accepting both poles Will Flautt It is widely accepted that magnetic monopoles do not exist in physics. If you cut a magnet in half, it doesn’t produce two magnets with single north and south poles.

Instead, it is bifurcated into two weaker magnets, each with their own north and south pole. Could the same process be true of our emotional magnets? Allow me to explain.

A fascinating talk on vulnerability by Brené Brown gave me the idea. A particularly poignant line of hers was the following: “You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other effects, our emotions,” she said. “You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. And it becomes this dangerous cycle.”

It sounds like we try to get rid of our emotional south poles, and, like cutting a magnet in half, we fail to isolate the emotional highs of life from the lows, just as scientists fail to isolate a magnet’s polarity.

Instead, we get a weaker magnet, a lesser emotional experience.

Keep the “hard stuff ” close enough to the surface for you to feel, well, who you really are.

We do not fail for want of trying. We take drugs, we suppress memories, we hide behind Facebook facades, we lie about ourselves. We do all sorts of odd things to avoid unhappiness, however trivial. We definitely try. There is an abundance of chemical technology whose goal it is to selectively keep happiness and eliminate the “hard stuff” and its side effects. There is an abundance of social norms that encourage not thinking or talking about the “hard stuff”. There is a mountain of social and personal pressures that coal-compress our “hard stuff” deep down in the mines of our souls.

The solution is not to strip-mine our bodies with drugs, sex, and food.

The solution is to keep the “hard stuff” close enough to the surface for you to feel, well, who you really are. Brown found in her research that trying to split the good from the bad results in an overall numbness of emotion, not a net gain in happiness. In the same way, scientists fail each time they cut a magnet in half—they just keep getting smaller, weaker magnets. We fail because we are not wired to have happiness monopoles, just as the universe is not physically able to have magnetic ones.

“The Pursuit of Happiness” is second-fiddle only to “Life and Liberty,” as written in our constitution. The problem is that “Pursuit” often manifests itself as a take-home science project whose goal, in absolute terms, is as futile as making a magnetic monopole. There is a lot to be said for happiness. Its pursuit is a noble endeavor.

However, there is no north without south, and no capacity for happiness without the capacity for its opposite. What does capacity mean?

It means being able to accomplish lofty goals and bask in your success. It also means being able to wallow in defeat after failing at something you believed you could do—but most importantly, it means accepting that it is okay to feel defeated and done.

It means being able to spend time with friends, to laugh, and to be your silly, happy self. It also means being able to close your door, to cry, and to worry who the hell you even are—but most importantly, it means accepting that it is okay to feel sad and alone.

It means being able to leave the world and fly away when a spark lights up your world in love. It also means being able to wear the weight of heartbreak and sink deep into a bed of inaction—but most importantly, it means accepting that it is okay to feel heartbroken and be crushed.

Feeling happy is a central pursuit—if not the only real pursuit—in our lives. But it’s only part of the story, the top half of the magnet.

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

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Unconventional ‘Splash’ courses return to BC BC students to teach one-day classes to local students

By Jenn Suh Heights Staff Entering its fifth year at Boston College, BC Splash is now beginning to plan its day of education in March, an event giving college students the opportunity to teach a course to local high school and middle school students. The nationwide program, started by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, brings area high school students to college campuses to be familiarized with the University and also learn from current students.

Emily Czeisler and Alicia McCormick, directors of BC Splash and A&S ’17, met each other through their involvement in the Boston College chapter of Splash.

Both joined the e-board as freshmen and taught the course Professors, Lectures, and Roommates, Oh My!: A Guide to College Life. Now, Czeisler and McCormick direct the program together as one of three student organizations run under Education for Students by Students (ESS).

Teacher registration for Splash is now open, running through Feb. 13. The BC program allows students to teach by themselves or in groups of two or more, pitching a course with a creative title and short description. The chosen college mentors will finalize their curricula by late March.

“BC Splash is a really great way for the high school students to experience academics and various types of learning outside the traditional classroom setting and bridge the gap between academics and what their passions are,” Czeisler said.

The program holds two days of classes per year, and classes for this semester will be held on Sunday, March 29. The classes, which are free, are expected to attract about 300 to 600 students, the majority of which come from nearby high schools in the surrounding Boston area. BC Splash is also offered to students in seventh and eighth grade, as well as those from the greater New England area.

“Students will come again and again to the Splash program each semester, so they’ll tell their friends about it, bring them along,” McCormick said. “We often see kids coming with a group of friends.”

Last semester, over 150 BC students taught, with around 100 courses offered.

High school students usually take about four courses and have a one-hour period for lunch.

“It’s a great chance to take classes about things that they might be interested in and also get a feel for what the college campus life is like, because during lunch, they get a chance to eat in our dining halls,” Czeisler said.

Popular courses from last semester included Morality with SpongeBob SquarePants and How to Be a Social

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The pursuit of happiness UGBC brings ‘The Happiness Project’ to Boston College with the goal of promoting a science of happiness

By Corinne Duffy Features Editor Gretchen Rubin’s New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project has been published in 35 languages, sparking a global movement aspiring toward a science of happiness, which attaches empirical research to longstanding notions of the “happy” state of mind. This “Happiness Project,” initiated by Rubin’s work, will arrive on Boston College’s campus this week.

In collaboration with the Office of Health Promotion (OHP), the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) will host The Happiness Project from Jan. 26 through the 30th, featuring a series of speakers, tasks, and activities during the week, with events designed with the idea of engaging the broader BC community.

“At BC, we often walk around feeling like we have to be perfect and happy every minute of every day, when the fact of the matter is that sometimes we’re just not—and that’s okay,” said Olivia Hussey, chair of campus climate within UGBC and A&S ’17. This question of “genuine happiness” inspired Hussey to organize The BC Happiness Project: The Happiness Talks, a weeklong initiative to promote reflection on joy and happiness.

“Really, the point of the week is to spread happiness and ask, ‘What makes me happy and how can I make others happy too?’” Hussey said. Alongside her in terms of leadership are Megan Flynn, a member of the UGBC

Be Conscious team and A&S ’17, and Lindsay Stone, part of the undergraduate student volunteer health coach team within the OHP and A&S ’17.

The initiative’s main event, “The Happiness Talks,” will be comprised of a series of speeches surrounding the concept of personal and extensive happiness. Beginning at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 27 in Cushing 001, five selected students and keynote speaker Rev. Michael Himes, S.J. will discuss their respective interpretations of genuine happiness, obstacles to achieving it, and where it is that they find it in their own lives, according to Hussey. UGBC’s campus climate committee—a division that deals closely with mental health, AHANA, women and gender issues, and community building at the University—chose the speakers from members of the student body who submitted applications online, and those sharing with the University on Tuesday come “from diverse backgrounds, grades, and are involved in an array of various clubs and organizations,” Hussey said in an email.

Once Hussey and her team knew that the central event would involve “The Happiness Talks,” Himes immediately came to mind for the keynote address.

“When we were brainstorming a list of what the big event would be, we knew we wanted it to be genuine and engaging so that students could take part,” she said. “And after we decided upon the speeches, Father

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A BC student addresses his class as a professor in the 2013 iteration of BC Splash.

UGBC looks to reform free speech policy for non-RSO groups Student Organizations, from A1 ability to further BC’s mission as a Jesuit, Catholic university as well as space, facilities, equipment, legal, and risk management concerns.

BC’s Social Justice Coalition (SJC) is a group that acts as an umbrella organization for multiple social justice groups on campus. According to Thomas Napoli, chair of UGBC’s Institutional Policy Review Committee and A&S ’16, at least one of the organizations over which SJC acts as an umbrella is unregistered. In situations with umbrella organizations, UGBC and OSI’s concern generally focuses on the financial aspect of the larger organization funding smaller groups within it—even if the larger organization was legitimate, its ability to fund unregistered organizations would negate its

own candidacy as an RSO, said Napoli.

According to Napoli, many groups under SJC that are registered seek to unify under one umbrella in order to amplify their voices on campus, with the hope that their various social justice missions will become more transparent and ultimately more powerful when branded under a common name.

“There is this idea that there is too much of a discrepancy between what your regular individual student can do and what a recognized student group can do,” Napoli said.

“For a lot of us in UGBC and a lot of these unrecognized student groups that are trying to have a voice, they feel like just because they’re not getting the recognition they can’t exist in other ways.”

For a student organization, recognition from the University is necessary for certain administrative functions associated with the

running of a group on campus. UGBC’s Free Speech and Reform team noted that unregistered organizations are barred from posting fliers on campus, bringing speakers to the school, reserving a space for meetings, holding demonstrations on University grounds, and distributing literature at BC. “My personal perspective is that they should be able to say their name, hold meetings, post flyers, disseminate literature,” Napoli said. “Right now there are a lot of limitations—they can’t say their name in a public forum, the posting policy is reserved for recognized student groups.”

Napoli noted that the neither the University nor UGBC should be forced into recognizing any group due to funding and administrative issues, but measures can be taken to ensure unregistered groups have a right to their free speech and can still contrib-

ute to the academic discourse on campus.

Napoli then outlined a specific revision to the Student Guide that the UGBC Institutional Policy Review Committee passed onto OSI and the Dean of Students Office (DOS), which hinges upon five students signing a petition in order to achieve the right to express their group opinion.

“The way the free expression policy handled it was by saying that if five individual students sign a petition that they want a poster or banner, they can do that,” he said. “If five students think an idea is worth sharing, then it can be heard on our campus.”

Slated to be discussed by various administrative departments including the DOS and OSI alongside the rest of the committee’s proposed revisions of the Student Guide, the five-student petition rule would go into effect during the fall of 2015 if approved.

“The hope is that by the beginning of next school year, we will have compromises in place that allow a unified and cohesive free expression policy,” Napoli said.

The policy would be an instrument through which unregistered student organizations could implicitly—not explicitly—exist and have a voice on campus after being denied by OSI and UGBC. At the present time, there are no efforts to reform UGBC and OSI’s approval process for student organizations.

Napoli and others within UGBC continue to attend SJC meetings to remain updated on the organization and its student leaders’ efforts. The University has yet to publicly take a stance on the proposed revisions on the student guide, and plans to continue discussions with student groups on the guide this semester. n

Paying tribute to SkyMall with a revamped bookstore catalogue

Connor Mellas As that cocky son-of-a-craftsman Icarus learned a few thousand fortnights ago, flying too close to the sun carries an inherent danger of ending up burnt to a crisp, or in his case, plunged into the ocean.

Despite the warning of that shriveled-up Ancient Greek, humans continue to aim higher and fly farther, landing drones on comets, investigating dark matter, and discovering two new possible planets in the solar system. So, when the company behind SkyMall—the very pinnacle of human creativity and ingenuity—announced that it’s filing for bankruptcy Friday morn-

ing, old Icarus must have enjoyed quite the knowing chuckle down in his watery grave. It turns out you can only create so many High Waist Control Boxer Briefs ($37.00) and NFL Forest Faces ($22.99) before you tread dangerously close to God’s secret vision for the universe.

But don’t weep for spilled Casita & Bungalow Cat Trees ($59.99 - $199.99).

Sure, SkyMall got burnt, but that was the always the risk with setting up shop in the stratosphere.

In solemn eulogy for that great vendor in the sky, I’ve created a mini catalogue of what would be the most popular products in the Boston College Bookstore—if the minds behind SkyMall were given free reign and zero supervision. Here we go.

Vineyard Vines Quarter Zip With Six USB Ports & Built-In Battery Organizer & Tester ($160.00)—Nothing screams “I’m sporty but fashionable and kind of an ass”

like this Beantown essential. Out on Newbury St. trying to post an Instagram with Bae? Use one of your six USB chargers to stay connected all day long. And don’t worry about running out of juice: with a built-in organizer and tester, you’ll never have to stop texting.

Jesuit Dog Collar ($9.99)—Get your pup out of the dog house and into the House of God. Neutered dogs only.

Maroon & Gold Spirit Blanket With Kevlar Popcorn Maker ($99.95)—Picture this: You’re curled up with that special someone, enjoying a lovely fall picnic beneath this hand-crafted comfort cloud.

Or maybe you’re cozying up on the couch, binge-watching Netflix. Either way, don’t get up if the stomach grumbles come—just fire up the built-in popcorn machine, but watch out for the scorching hot butter! This blanket is strong enough to survive fire and light artillery shelling,

so feel free to bring it over to Grandma’s house.

Yoga Mat ($40.00)—This stylish and comfortable mat is perfect for all your die-in protesting and downward facing dog posing needs. For best results, don’t bring it into St. Mary’s.

Men’s Leather Watch ($29.55)—A truly special collector’s item, and a staff favorite—it’s just like the watch your great-grandfather wears, except this one lights up with a little Baldwin when you hit a tiny, difficult-to-press button. It’s also a total piece of junk, and will explode if partially submerged in water.

BC Dudefest Tent ($110.00)—Ever wondered what it’s like to live inside the head of charismatic football coach Steve Addazio? Heck if we know, but with this four-paneled, four-Addazio-faced tent featuring the furious “What The F—k Kind of Call Was That” Addazio, the

joyous “Thank God For Tyler Murphy” Addazio, the strangely confident “Let’s Kick On Third Down” Addazio, and the morose “We Burned A Scholarship On Mike Knoll” Addazio, you can #BeADude all tailgate long. Bonus Deluxe Version: For an extra $19.99 you can own a largerthan-life foldout of Addazio’s heart and family.

Camelbak Water Bottle & Breathalyzer ($19.99)—UGBC meetings getting a bit too boozy? There’s no better way to keep your elected and well-paid student leaders safe than by having them hydrate with this 25-fluid ounce water bottle. Just make sure they hit the breathalyzer before advocating on your behalf, or whatever the hell they do now!

Connor Mellas is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at news@bcheights.com.

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A close look at cost-ofattendance

FIRE ON ICE Eagles dominate in their biggest matchup to date

Fitz’s hat trick clinches another clutch BC victory

MICHAEL SULLIVAN After years of fighting for autonomy from NCAA, the Power Five conferences made their first major decision: to provide cost-of-attendance scholarships to studentathletes.

Sixty-four schools and 15 appointed student-athletes voted in favor of the measure, while Boston College Athletics cast the lone dissenting vote.

This measure, enacted last week, reverses a 1975 decision by the NCAA that authorized schools to only provide full grant-inaid to student-athletes on full scholarship.

This mandate meant athletic departments could pay only for tuition, room, board, and other necessary fees. A full-scholarship athlete’s additional cost-of-attendance, as defined by universities’ financial aid offices, consists of miscellaneous items—laundry, travel costs, toiletries, to name a few—and amounts to $1,000 to $5,000, depending on how each school calculates its figures.

Why, then, did BC stand alone? For starters, the school didn’t expect that it would.

“We didn’t necessarily anticipate being the only one,” Director of Athletics Brad Bates said in an interview on Friday. “In hindsight, it’s worked out pretty well because it’s given us a platform to work out our rationale.”

That platform, however, led to massive outcry this past week aimed at Bates and the University for acting as misers. A school with a massive endowment in a major conference should have enough money to grant student-athletes a little more leeway, critics decried. Doesn’t this just look bad on the school’s part?

Schools have considerable difficulty divvying up money for all of their students, whether for financial aid, merit awards, or athletics. Despite having one of the country’s largest endowments, BC is no exception. It’s not always that easy for institutions to find the extra money to allow students to attend school.

But to say that the University is pitted against Jesuit values in voting down the measure, as many have done, is a simplistic way of looking at the issue. Many have cited this as an instance of the school not care about giving scholarship support to students who desperately need it, and to call its leaders—to quote from several tweets I’ve gotten over the last week—a “core of laziness and incompetence” or giving off the “perception of arrogance and stinginess” comes off as overlooking the complexities of Bates’ arguments.

Let’s examine each of Brad Bates’ three core stated reasons for voting against the cost-of-attendance measure.

“It further differentiates student-athletes from the general student population,” Bates said in an interview on the Tim Brando Show Wednesday on Sirius XM Channel 91.

This argument seems outdated at this point, a point which host Tim Brando made quickly and one that Bates agreed to as well.

The student-athlete has grown further separated from the rest of the student body—a partly understandable separation, given the amount of media scrutiny, intense practices, and travelling most student-athletes do.

And yet, Bates still brings up a good point. “Just because they are separate doesn’t mean we have to continue contributing to that separation,” Bates said in the interview.

Students coming to BC have a wealth of talents, many outside of athletics. I spoke with Bernie Pekala, BC’s director of Student Financial Strategies, who said that 51 percent of BC students will graduate with some form of debt, averaging $21,000 for the Class of 2013. And although scholarships exist for other activities, like the marching band or ROTC, their amounts pale in comparison to the hefty scholarships provided to studentathletes.

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BY JOHN PUGH Heights Staff Another night on the Heights and for the Eagles—Boston College women’s hockey faced the team’s toughest test of 1 the season Quinnipiac 2 Saturday Boston College afternoon, going up against No. 3 Quinnipiac University at Kelley Rink. The Bobcats feature the nation’s top defense, behind senior goaltender Chelsea Laden.

They were no match, however, for the No. 1-ranked Eagles, as BC won 2-1.

The Bobcats quickly jumped on the offensive in the first few minutes of play, holding most of the puck possession through the first five minutes.

“They’re a very good team, and they came out hard,” BC coach Katie Crowley said of the team’s opponent. But she was quick to note a change in the Eagles’ defense as the first period continued.

And change they did. Following a hooking penalty on Quinnipiac’s Emma Greco, BC began to control the ice, bringing the puck time after time across the Bobcat blue line and towards senior

goaltender Chelsea Laden.

The Eagles broke the stalemate in the 17th minute of the first period, when a broken offensive play at the top of the crease led to a shot by junior Haley Skarupa and a finishing rebound by linemate and fellow junior Alex Carpenter.

Quinnipiac immediately bounced back and BC resorted to playing defensively through the next couple of minutes until a rush by the Eagles brought the puck back before Laden, then pushed quickly to an open defensemen who took a big slapshot from the top of the circle.

The shot was blocked, however, by a Quinnipiac defender.

BC entered the second period with blazing accuracy, amounting a staggering 22 shots in the 20 minutes of play.

The offensive pressure paid off quickly, when Haley Skarupa fired a one-timer over the goaltender’s right shoulder and into the back of the net.

The play began off a rush generated by sophomore Andie Anastos, who brought the puck up the far boards before cen-

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BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN Sports Editor Frigid temperatures coursed through the veins of students at Boston College after the first nor’easter of 2015 blanket2 ed ChestConnecticut Boston College 3 n u t H i l l with snow. Excited freshmen from the West Coast, some seeing snow for the first time, grabbed sleds and hit the hills on Upper, while other students across campus curled up by the heater with a nice book (or Netflix).

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and BC wanted nothing more than to serve one up to the University of Connecticut men’s hockey team.

And just as they had to the Boston University Terriers last week, the Eagles (15-8-2, 8-5-2 Hockey East) did just that Saturday, defeating the Huskies (7-12-5, 4-6-2 Hockey East), 3-2.

In November—the first meeting of both the year and all-time between the two schools—UConn’s Evan Richardson forced his former team to the showers in shame, scoring a power play goal at

11:32 in the first period. A shutout by Connecticut goaltender Rob Nichols led to a 1-0 BC loss at the XL Center in Hartford.

Early on in this game, it seemed the Eagles faced a similar fate at the hands of Nichols. BC dominated the offensive zone, getting off the first seven shots against the sophomore goalie from Dallas. It wasn’t until nine minutes into the game that the Huskies got their first shot off, courtesy of forward Spencer Naas.

Following a Matthew Gaudreau penalty for high-sticking at 8:53, the ‘Ice Bus’ found an opportunity to get rolling. UConn defenseman Ryan Segalla launched the puck past BC goalie Thatcher Demko from the top of the right circle at 10:13, putting the Huskies up, 1-0.

Connecticut, behind strong play

by Nichols, kept the Eagles at bay, preventing shot after shot, despite strong attempts by several BC players. The Eagles nearly knotted the game up after Zach Sanford’s near tip-in was waved off

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Eagles pick up first ACC win against GT in Atlanta

BY ALEC GREANEY Heights Editor

Boston College and Georgia Tech competed on Sunday for the right to take a step up the bottom rings of the 64 ACC ladder.

Boston College The two 62 Georgia Tech teams entered the matchup ranked in the bottom three in points per game, in the bottom four in field goal percentage, and a combined 0-11 record in conference games.

Virginia Tech was the only other team that had yet to scrape out an ACC win on Sunday—and the Hokies spent a good amount of the afternoon outpacing No. 2 Virginia, before the Cavs finally recovered in the final minutes.

BC (9-9, 1-5 ACC) trailed early in the game but eventually held a consis-

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tent lead, relying on its junior phenom, Olivier Hanlan, for the majority of its offensive production. The Eagles, per usual, allowed GT (9-10, 0-7 ACC) back into the contest in the final minutes, but made just enough free throws down the stretch to bring home a 64-62 win.

The first six minutes showcased how poorly both BC and GT can shoot. Each team made just one field goal in that time, while they combined to miss 16 shots. The game finally started to pick up around the 13-minute mark, as both managed to connect both in close and from beyond the 3-point line.

GT led for the majority of the half, though neither team proved very impressive on either end of the court. BC took its first true lead of the game (after

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Men’s Hockey: Eagles beat UConn The Eagles keep the good times rolling, crushing Maine by double-digits......................B2

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Olivier Hanlan paced the Eagles with 25 points, a season-high, and seven rebounds.

Women’s Basketball: Big BC Upset The Eagles take a thrilling victory over No. 15 Duke for their first ACC win.........................B4

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THUMBS UP HAT TRICKS  Ryan Fitzgerald lit the lamp three times on Saturday, singlehandedly leading the scoring charge to top a pesky UConn team. Fitzgerald’s offensive explosion has the Eagles right on the edge of a tournament birth, and his trio of goals was the first for a BC player since...

JOHNNY ALL-STAR  Of course.

Everyone’s favorite diminutive hockey player was the last Eagle to score a hat trick . Johnny Hockey’s talents (and sense of humor) were on full display this past weekend at the NHL All-Star Game in Columbus. Bonus points for the idea to light his stick on fire during the Skills Competition, but a big thumbs-down to the NHL for nixing it in the name of safety.

CONFERENCE WINS - It wasn’t easy, but BC men’s basketball squeaked out a road victory against the worst team in the ACC, Georgia Tech. Considering this was BC’s first conference win of the year, we’ll take them however they come.

UPSET CITY, BABY  Down go the Dukies! Women’s basketball pulled off the biggest upset of the year thus far for BC, topping the No. 15 Blue Devils by a score of 60-56. Dick Vitale would be devastated, but we’re okay with that.

THUMBS DOWN 409  Following the announcement that former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno would have his vacated wins restored, the PSU community celebrated like it just won the national championship.

Did they forget why the wins were vacated in the first place?

PRO BOWL - The week before the Super Bowl is filled with boredom, and the Pro Bowl does nothing to change that. In fact, it might make it even more boring. How long do we have to wait before someone decides to end this train wreck?

KELLEY RINK PRESS BOX - It’s small, and with the lack of elbow room, we feel like velociraptors trying to hack away at a keyboard. And we need the neck of Brontosaurus to see the ice over the computer screen.

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Hanlan scores season-high 25 in victory over GT From Men’s basketball, B1 leading 2-0 with an offensive rebound and tip-in from Eddie Odio 14 minutes into the game.

He, along with Garland Owens and John Cain Carney, saw extended minutes on Sunday with starting center Dennis Clifford out with an illness.

Will Magarity star te d in Clifford’s stead, logging nine points on four-of-six shooting and five rebounds in 28 minutes.

Although defenses always appreciate having a seven-footer inside, BC didn’t seem to miss him too much against the Yellow Jackets, outscoring them 28-24 in the paint.

Offensive rebounds, however, continued to plague BC. The Eagles allowed 14 in the game, twice its own seven offensive bounds. This gave the Yellow Jackets twice the second-chance opportunities, and they capitalized, scoring 15 compared to BC’s seven.

Though BC led at the half primarily through a team effort, it was Hanlan that gave his team the necessary edge in the second.

After putting up just five points in the first 18 minutes of the game, he scored the final five of the half for the Eagles, and then went on to add 15, finishing with 25 points, seven rebounds, and a pair of assists.

Once Hanlan and company stopped settling for outside shots, as they did for the first part of the game, they began to consistently outplay GT. With 10 minutes to go in the game, BC stood atop an 11-point lead, its largest of

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Aaron Brown has been Hanlan’s right-hand man all season, and Sunday was no exception. The guard dropped 11 points in the win for BC. the contest.

The Yellow Jackets refused to fade, however, in large part thanks to Marcus Georges-Hunt, who played 37 minutes for GT— nine more than anyone else on his team. He scored 20 points in that time, going 7-13 from the field and 5-7 from the line. Quinton Stephens also had a good second half, finishing with 17 points on

the day.

After a slow-moving 30 minutes of basketball, the pace of the game finally started to accelerate.

GT gained a rhythm it hasn’t found much in the past several weeks, coming all the way back and tying the game on a GeorgesHunt free throw with 1:26 to play. A Hanlan layup and two Heckmann free throws put BC

up by four, but an Aaron Brown turnover, a Stephens offensive rebound, and subsequent 3-pointer made it a one-point game.

GT sent Brown to the line, where he would make just oneof-two, giving the Yellow Jackets a last-second chance for a win.

Fortunately for the Eagles, the buzzer-beater attempt didn’t fall, and BC came away with the

narrow win.

BC improves to 1-5 in the ACC, though no part of its play suggests any change in its course this season. This was a game where a star took over at the right time and led his team to a win, plain and simple. Although it’s great for Hanlan to break out in this way, the Eagles can’t exactly be proud of their effort. 

Eagles falter late on the road at Pitt

BY TOM DEVOTO

Asst. Sports Editor The Boston College women’s basketball team lives and dies by the 3-pointer: it shoots Boston College 70 from Pittsburgh 78 long range more than any other team in the ACC. The deep ball was working for the Eagles on Saturday, but the University of Pittsburgh had an answer for every BC dagger—and then some.

Despite 18 points from Kelly Hughes, the Eagles dropped yet another ACC road game, this time to Pitt, 78-70.

The Eagles fall to 9-11 overall this season and 1-6 within the conference.

Petersen Events Center was decked out in pink for the matinee in honor of Pitt’s eighth annual “Pink The Petersen” Breast Cancer Awareness game. The Panthers wore special pink jerseys, while many of the fans in attendance sported special-edition pink tshirts, as well.

BC jumped out to an early lead thanks to the hot hand of Hughes, who scored 11 of her points in the

first half. Former Pitt volleyball player Monica Wignot and senior guard Brianna Kiesel paced a roaring comeback for the Panthers, though, as the duo shot a combined 7-of-11 from beyond the arc during the first 20 minutes.

The Eagles placed a heavier emphasis on interior scoring in the second half. The ball found its way to center Karima Gabriel much more often, and the sixfoot-two redshirt junior capitalized on her opportunities. She scored a career high 14 points against the Panthers, and her rise as an offensive threat opened up more chances for BC’s guards to let it fly.

Pitt and BC traded blows back and forth for the last 10 minutes of the game, but the shots that BC was hitting during clutch time just two days ago against Duke were just not falling Saturday.

The Panthers launched an 150 run in the final minutes to pull away from BC, whose 3-point shooting wasn’t enough to keep it in the game. Kiesel finished with a game-high 29 points, while Wignot and forward Yacine Diop each added 18 points. The Eagles had four of their starters finish with double-digit points. 

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“I wish I didn’t.”

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Women’s hockey’s 24-game unbeaten streak dates back to early October. The Eagles have yet to lose a game this season.

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BC women’s basketball attempted 35 3-pointers in an upset victory over Duke University on Thursday.

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Burt outperforms Quinnipiac goalie Laden in colossal BC win

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Haley Skarupa hammered home another goal Saturday afternoon, bringing her season total to a whopping 21.

tering it to Skarupa, who was hot on the heels of the pursuing Bobcat defenders.

“It was a great play by Andie,” Skarupa said of the goal. “She drew three or four people to her, and then she just gave it back to me, wide open”.

The rest of second period play was riddled with penalties, as both sides suffered two. The teams were put in a 4-on-4 situation, following an interference penalty by senior Emily Pfalzer, and an embellishment penalty for Quinnipiac. Neither team generated much of an advantage from the penalties, with each shooting just once on the power play.

BC noticeably took the foot

off the gas after the second goal, allowing Quinnipiac time to take some shots as the Eagles turned to a more conservative possession of the puck.

As Kelley Rink settled in for the third period, Quinnipiac turned on its jets, continually bringing the puck into BC’s defensive zone, and doubling BC’s shots in the final period of play.

“They won that third period and that’s something that will resonate with our kids,” Crowley said of the Bobcats performance in the waning minute of the game.

The Eagles’ defense held the two goal lead for 17 minutes before Bobcat junior Nicole Connery sneaked one by freshman goaltender Katie

Burt out of a scrum at the top of the goal crease.

Despite the goal, Burt was optimistic about her fellow defenders’ play. “They played incredible, and just really did their jobs, especially in a few 2-on-1 situations that came up in the third,” she said.

Quinnipiac entered desperation mode with just 2:40 left in the game, but the Eagles were adamant on getting their 23rd win of the season.

“We really tried to stick to our game, and to stay disciplined for the full 60 minutes,” Crowley said.

With just nine games left in the regular season, the Eagles look to be on the path to an unbeaten season—a staggering accomplishment for Crowley and her players. n

Fitzgerald, Demko dominate in landmark victory over UConn From Men’s Hockey, B1 and deemed no good after a penalty review.

In his return to Chestnut Hill after 18 seasons as an assistant coach under BC’s Jerry York, even UConn head coach Mike Cavanaugh conceded that the Eagles came out stronger in the first.

“I thought Boston College had the much better play in the first period,” Cavanaugh said, in reference to BC outshooting the Huskies 15-6 in the first. “But in the second and third, I thought we were able to garner some chances and play a pretty good game.”

The Huskies gained better chances early in the second period, outshooting the Eagles 6-2 eight minutes into the period. On the other side, BC showed significantly sloppy play, through both poor passing and an inability to get welltargeted shots, highlighted by a Chris Calnan breakaway, on which he couldn’t finish—once again, after a stellar save by Nichols.

Nothing, however, could prepare either team for the wild three minutes that concluded the second.

After a tripping penalty by UConn freshman Derek Pratt at 14:42, Ryan Fitzgerald broke BC’s

scoring drought, launching a shot past Nichols and tying the game at one at 16:40.

The Huskies responded almost immediately, as Joona Kunnas raced down the ice and shot it past Demko a mere 23 seconds later, again giving Connecticut the lead.

Shortly after, Fitzgerald took over again, wristing in a shot right over Nichols’ left shoulder after the feed from Cangelosi at 19:06, sending Kelley Rink into a frenzy and tying the game at two apiece.

Penalties abounded for both sides early in the third, as a hitting foul by Sanford and a hooking call on Kasperi Ojantakanen allowed each team to trade power plays, to no avail. The power play came again for Connecticut at 11:40, when Kunnas went to the box for hooking.

This one haunted the Huskies for good. And the same man pounded in the dagger.

At 12:20, Fitzgerald again rocketed a shot from the mid-right circle for his third goal of the game, and Eagles’ fans let their headgear fly.

The hat trick, the first of Fitzgerald’s career, bumped his season goal total up to 12, surpassing Calnan as the Eagles’ leading goal scorer.

“It’s definitely special,” Fitzgerald said of his triple goal effort, prefer-

ring instead to talk about the team’s overall performance.

Cavanaugh, on the other hand, felt envious. When asked his reaction to the excellent performance of the forward he recruited for BC, the UConn coach simply replied “I wish I didn’t.”

He then had nothing but good words for the sophomore from North Reading, Mass. “He’s a really good player,” Cavanaugh said. “He plays both ends of the ice, he’s got excellent stick skills, he’s gritty, he goes to the tough areas, and that was evident tonight—that’s why he scored.”

Perhaps the most clutch performance of the game came in the final minute.

With their net emptied, the Huskies bombarded Demko with shot after shot, punctuated by a lunge to his left and a glove snag of a rocket by Kunnas.

“The three quick saves rapid fire by Thatcher at the end of the game, when he had not seen much action through a long stretch and all of a sudden he was called upon to make some remarkable saves was certainly one of the keys to us winning the game,” York said of Demko’s late-game run.

Cavanaugh praised the goalie

even more. “Thatcher made probably an ESPN Top Ten Save there,” as Demko clinched BC’s 3-2 win.

With time running down on the Eagles’ season, they need all of the wins they can get.

The Beanpot, UMass-Lowell, and two games against Vermont all lurk right around the corner, and BC cannot afford to lose any of these “gimme” games to lesser opponents like UConn or Notre

Dame.

And while getting a win always feels sweet, some stone cold revenge on the pesky Hockey East newcomers probably feels a little sweeter. n

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The Eagles put heavy pressure on UConn goalie Rob Nichols Saturday night, bombarding him with 34 shots.

Bates, BC have a moral point on stipends, but is it good business?

From Column, B1 Believe me, I’m not trying to say that student-athletes don’t deserve scholarships. Many student-athletes do need significant financial aid, but like any other student, full scholarship student-athletes in dire need of having their full cost of attendance covered can apply for federal Pell Grants.

To have Pell Grants cover beyond full grant-in-aid—or the additional cost-of-attendance—the amount for a full-time undergraduate range from $5,730 in grant for a zero dollar calculated federal family contribution to the amount of $602 for a federal family contribution of $5,157, Pekala said. A studentathlete must be in serious financial need to receive this money, but the federal government will provide it if such need is demonstrated.

These Pell Grants will not count against the NCAA’s rules preventing student-athletes from receiving BC grants, however, which also count against the school’s athletic scholarship count. According to associate athletic director for compliance Carly Pariseau, 50 student-athletes, or seven percent, received a Pell Grant this past year.

Student-athletes can also apply for money from the NCAA’s Student Assistance Fund (SAF). According to Pariseau, this fund is for “anything other than tuition fees, room/board, required books, and athletic-related things—so [BC] couldn’t use it to pay for private lessons or skill instruction.” CBS Minnesota’s David McCoy reported on the SAF last year, referencing student-athletes at the University of Minnesota: one who used it for travel to a funeral,

and another who purchased a dress for the WNBA Draft.

But student-athletes aren’t the only ones who need help—many current BC students would never be capable of getting the kind of assistance student-athletes get from the SAF. And I think critics must be sensitive to that fact.

When BC non-athletes receive “full scholarships” from the school, through BC grants based on both financial or merit aid, those funds are capped at tuition. Non-athletes must demonstrate additional need and apply for loans or federal grants to cover room and board. This is an important contrast to the “full grant-in-aid” scholarships that student-athletes receive, which includes room and board.

It seems the argument, rather, should come as criticism of the way BC, not just the athletics department but the school as a whole, decides to calculate financial aid.

And it’s fair to attack this artificial cap when other schools make accommodations to provide for full cost-of-attendance scholarships.

BC, however, makes a valiant effort to give as much money as possible to as many students as possible. This strategy, while denying full cost-of-attendance to the most needy, spreads the aid around and allows some students to at least have a shot of coming up with the money to attend the school. For that reason, BC’s strategy, while different from other schools, has its merits.

Bates also argued against “continuing to pass legislation that increases expenses when the vast majority of athletic departments are already subsidized by their university.”

Yes, BC has this generous endowment. But it doesn’t mean that it, and other athletic departments, have all the money in the world. SB Nation compiled a list of all of the public institutions—private schools can choose not to release financial data—finding that only 20 of 230 Division I institutions turned a profit in 2013, with many reporting huge losses.

With a lot of red on the books, many schools turn instead to cutting programs—take, for example, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, which shut down its football program this year—and nothing good comes for student-athletes if they lose their sports. Criticizing BC Athletics for excessive spending practices in the past, however, makes sense. If BC can make the incredibly costly decision to continue paying large salaries to fired employees, do we believe that they’re too strapped for University funding for full scholarship athletes?

His third argument relates to the possibility of teams exploiting the measure. “The federal financial aid formula is sufficiently ambiguous that adjustments for recruiting advantage will take place,” Bates said in the radio interview. He is pointing to the great disparity between the way schools calculate what constitutes as cost-of-attendance. These figures range from as little as $1,000 to $6,000. Given that BC’s cost-ofattendance is on the lower end, in comparison with other schools at least, the advantage BC gets is not too big. Schools like Virginia Tech, however, serve to gain a great advantage from this—the school can offer an extra $5,480.

Bates claims he has the support

of both the student-athletes and coaches. He said last week that he spoke to only one coach—Steve Addazio—about the measure, and Addazio “completely supported what [BC is] doing and why [the school] supported it.”

In addition, Bates claims that the student-athlete advisory committee (SAAC) “supported our no-vote.”

SAAC, according to the program’s website, links “student-athlete concerns with the BC administration” and “provides vital input on student-athlete support services,” has representatives all across BC Athletics, and is headed by Collin Fedor, a member of the track and field team and A&S ’15.

Thinking in this light, BC made a foolish decision If SAAC, which takes input not just from its 15 members, but also has open forums with all studentathletes, supports the decision, it’s hard to fault Bates for feeling confident about his vote.

Let’s take a quick step back here, however, and look at this from a business perspective rather than a logistical one.

Thinking in this light, BC made a foolish decision.

Singling the department out will add significant ammo for schools competing with BC for recruits, such as UMass, Connecticut, or any other ACC school. Bates told me that no recruits have pulled out, nor that he finds it to be a major concern. But with half of the men’s basketball team graduating and the football team’s stock rising

and needing better recruits more than ever, BC needs any recruiting advantage it can get. Voting against cost-of-attendance doesn’t help.

In addition, BC now plays in a major conference, but the way the school spends on athletics makes it seem like BC longs to return to the Big East. Those days are over. BC cannot continue to deny its studentathletes sufficient facilities—for example, the lack of an outdoor track or a working soccer field.

To remain competitive in a major conference, BC must spend and prioritize certain functions of athletic departments in the way other ACC schools do.

Talks of paying college athletes, stemming from the O’Bannon vs.

NCAA case and the Northwestern unionization movement, should scare athletic departments more than they let on. Considering the massive amounts of revenue and publicity schools get from athletics, often exploiting student-athletes (see: the NCAA selling jerseys’ of players on its own website), the schools are fighting a losing battle.

Providing cost-of-attendance will quell the anger.

And despite attempts to hold true to the school’s initial stance and Bates’ claims to have not expected to be going into this decision alone, the fact is that this measure was widely known to pass fairly easily. It seems as if BC went out of its way to make a point, and that, therefore, invites this negative criticism.

Ultimately, BC has chosen to act in favor of cost-of-attendance scholarships, complying with the measure, according to a report by ESPN’s Andrea Adelson.

I don’t believe BC athletics made

the right call—much of their actions come across as hypocritical, given some of the spending decisions by the department, and I believe the school hurt its recruitment appeal far more than Bates believes. In addition, athletic departments should provide whatever means necessary to give benefits to student-athletes that will prevent them from unionizing. I don’t believe student-athletes should get paid directly from schools—however, considering the exploitation of free labor of student-athletes, individually pursued endorsements or other outside payments shouldn’t be out of the question.

That being said, I think we must look at the rationale of the department before we vilify BC and Bates, and their decisions become far more understandable when looking at Bates’ reasons.

It doesn’t make them right or the strongest reasons, but it has basis from thought-out planning.

The situation BC falls in reminds me of the sports world’s current controversy: the New England Patriots and #DeflateGate. This is simply a media circus about a non-story—no matter what anyone says, the Patriots will still be heading to Glendale for the Super Bowl next Sunday.

Considering BC, as well, will pay these cost-of-attendance scholarship, a lot of the reaction to this story is merely overreaction. And perhaps that response is more telling than the decision itself.

Michael Sullivan is the sports editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@ bcheights.com

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Sharpshooting from behind the arc propels Eagles to upset

BY CELINA DANIEL For The Heights Boston College upset No. 15 Duke at Conte Forum Thursday night, 60-56.

This was the 15th meeting between BC women’s basketball (9-10, 1-5 ACC) and Duke (13-6, 4-2 ACC), with the Blue Devils winning their last five encounters.

The Eagles came into the game looking to bounce back from a five-game losing streak—all of which have been against conference opponents. Duke, on the other hand, was coming off a 68-53 win against Miami.

Duke controlled the ball from tip off and Rebecca Greenwell hit a 3-pointer in the first 30 seconds of play. This catalyzed the first nine points for the Blue Devils, which initially went unanswered by the Eagles.

Kelly Hughes then caught the ball on a rebound and went on to successfully shoot a 3-pointer, putting the Eagles on the board. Soon after, Nicole Boudreau made a left corner 3-pointer, drawing a timeout from Duke. The Eagles continued to press the Blue Devils, extending to full court pressure and forcing a turnover.

Boudreau quickly posted up another three points, tying the score at nine.

Hughes continued to dominate at the 3-point line, with four successful shots in the first half. The Eagles returned to the locker room leading 35-30.

In the second half, BC appeared eager for an upset, aiming to break a pattern of losses to Duke dating back to 2010.

Duke, being the top rebounding team in the ACC, was expected to overpower the Eagles under the basket, but BC

stepped up on a multitude of occasions, aggressively going for rebounds Thursday night.

The Eagles’ momentum partly slipped early in the second half, however, as Greenwell knocked down a 3-pointer to knot the game up at 35. BC attempted to respond, but Duke stayed hot with Elizabeth Williams earning a trip to the free throw line—the senior knocked down both free throws to give Duke its first advantage since early in the game.

Ka’lia Johnson then extended Duke’s lead with a field goal, giving the Blue Devils a 43-40 advantage.

BC soon regained its control of the game, thanks to a jumper by Marti Mosetti and a 3-pointer by Hughes on the two ensuing possessions. This put the Eagles back on top, 45-43, midway through the half. BC did not relinquish this lead for the remainder of the game.

The face-off grew messier as the clock wound down, but Emilee Daley managed to cement BC’s lead, landing a 3-pointer with only a minute remaining.

With four to give, Duke coach Joanne McCallie continually signaled for her players to foul in a desperate effort to stop the clock. The final dagger came with 1.5 seconds left. From the foul line, Hughes notched BC’s victory after knocking down both of her free throws.

The Eagles can attribute this monumental win to a few stars who looked particularly good from behind the arc.

Three players surpassed double digits on Thursday: Boudreau (18), Daley (17), and Hughes (11).

Freshman center Katie Quandt was a key player in the second half of play. She

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The women’s basketball team celebrates its upset over No. 15 Duke. The Eagles finished 13-of-35 from behind the arc to drop the Blue Devils. stepped up her game and showed great strength throughout, hitting the shots when necessary, and blocking Duke’s shots at every turn.

“Someone needed to step up so I got myself open,” Daley said. “They got me the ball and it all worked out. A win like

this gives us confidence [and] lets us know that we can compete with Duke and other teams in the ACC.” Duke had not lost to an unranked team all season, leaving the Blue Devils searching for answers as they left Chestnut Hill to prepare for a matchup against

longtime rival North Carolina on Sunday.

For the Eagles, however, this win—BC’s first in the conference this season—provides a spark that could perhaps lead them to the ACC tournament, if only they can keep up the heat that roasted the Blue Devils Thursday. 

Strong power play and penalty kill unit carries BC over Huskies

BY CAMILLE HOMA For The Heights

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Zach Sanford tries to jam one past the Connecticut goalkeeper in front of the net.

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Trumping the exceptional performance of University of Connecticut goalie Rob Nichols and the UConn defense were Boston College’s stellar power play rushes and penalty kills—resulting in a 3-2 win for BC. Ultimately, Ryan Fitzgerald’s leading role on the power play and penalty kill units led to his first career hat-trick.

Although he faltered in the third, Nichols’ whopping 34 saves kept the Eagles at bay for some time. The first period started with high energy from the Eagles’ offense, as they peppered UConn’s net with shots. Nichols’ skill, however—along with the Huskies’ defense—kept the Eagles from finishing on any of their chances.

After B C for ward Danny Linell rushed along the board towards the Huskies’ zone, a minor penalty was called on Matthew Gaudreau for high sticking.

Meticulous passing by UConn’s Trevor Gerling and Johnny Austin on the ensuing power play set up Ryan Segalla to score by sending a scorcher past Thatcher Demko’s glove side, giving the Huskies a one goal lead.

A power play for BC led to many good chances, but the talent of the netminder Nichols proved too strong to break in the first period.

To start the the second period, UConn’s offense picked up speed and chances as the team made a concerted

effort to place more shots on Demko, who had less practice saving shots than Nichols in the first period.

Strong play by the UConn defense also allowed the Huskies to deny any possible BC goals early in the second.

In the third, Nichols continued to show his strength as a netminder, saving 10 shots. “ The y trap down low and the y just make it hard to get shots on net,” Fitzgerald said of the UConn defense.

The Eagles came out on top and ended strong with the play of their special teams.

“Special teams was the difference tonight,” said UConn head coach Mike Cavanaugh postgame.

In the first period, BC continued on with momentum after its power plays.

In a particular rush by the Eagles, many rebounds on Nichols resulted in an exciting poking goal chance by Zach Sanford.

An icing to UConn in the second period led to a solid rush for the Eagles, which resulted in a scoring chance on Nichols and an interference call on BC’s Steve Santini.

Led by Fitzgerald, BC’s penaltykilling crew created many man-down chances for the Eagles.

BC gained a power play after a tripping penalty on Derek Pratt, Destry Straight for slashing, and Jacob Poe for hitting. In the play afterwards, Fitzgerald finally netted a shot to tie the game.

There was no rest for the Eagles,

however, because the Huskies immediately answered back with a goal scored by forward Joona Kunnas.

After a 3-on-1 rush for the Eagles led to no results, BC tried again to move the puck in front of the net. A pass from Cangelosi bounced off of Fitzgerald’s skate and landed on his stick, and the dorward put it into the net to tie the game up with less than a minute to go in the second.

BC lept out of the gate at the start of the third period. A push from behind by Zach Sanford, however, led to a power play for UConn.

On the power play, UConn’s offense proved to be lacking while BC’s defense came out with strength, giving the Eagles some straight away clears out of their zone and the ability for play in the UConn zone.

A beautiful shot by Fitzgerald went past Nichols’ glove side to give BC the final advantage of 3-2 over UConn and Fitzgerald the hat-trick at 4:20 into the third.

“So I often think if we can be effective on special teams and excellent goaltending, we’re gonna win 95 percent of the games we play, as any team would,” said BC head coach Jerry York after the game.

While the Huskies’ defense and Nichols’ goaltending was strong throughout the game, it was not enough against the Eagle’s superb power play and penalty kill, allowing BC to come back from behind twice and pull out a victory in a thrilling game. 

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BC men’s tennis toppled Sacred Heart 7-0 on Saturday.

Fr e s h m a n p a i r Kent Mukai and Will Turner each won their singles matches by wide margins in two sets apiece before defeating Sacred Heart partners Justin Pagan and Cory Seltman 6-3.

Sophomore Aidan McNulty looked to be on track for an easy singles win with a first set score of 6-0 before opponent Matthew Dean soared back to life, winning 7-6 in the second set. McNulty made short work of him in the third set, winning 6-3.

Dean’s second set was the only set that Sacred Heart would take against BC.

Meanwhile, women’s tennis struggled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina , losing a close contest to Louisiana State University, 3-4.

The singles matched fell in BC’s favor through the first half of the day, but LSU commanded singles play for the last three matches of the day.

On the doubles courts, BC won two of three games, most notably, a nail-biting win for senior Jessica Wacnik and sophomore Lexi Borr over Joana Vale Costa and Noel Scott. The pair won in the tiebreaker 7-6.

Both girls won both their singles and doubles matches for the day.

The BC swimming and diving teams had a long week with a pair of meets in Connecticut against the Fairfield and the University of Connecticut.

The men’s team conquered the struggling Stags by a score of 186-107, while the women’s team outperformed their opponents 184-108.

BC men’s and women’s teams remained on top over all three top places during the 400M Medley Relay, while Fairfield bested BC’s women in the 1500M Freestyle.

BC controlled the sprint events, highlighted by a sweep of the top four places in the men’s 100M Breaststroke.

UConn swam past BC the next day, edging the Eagles out of the top spot in nearly every race.

BC met cross-town rival BU along with UMASS Lowell, Sacred Heart, and Delaware State at BU this week.

Six BC runners set new personal records.

Sophomore Devaun Bovell shined in this 60M hurdles, not only taking first place with a 8.34 time but also besting his previous PR in the event by 0.09 seconds (8.43).

Five more Eagles would break their previous PR’s: James Newhouse, Tyler Hanson, Richard Lucas, and Nick Denari all broke their previous 3000M records while junior Ryan Cooney ran a 4:21.54 mile.

Senior Collin Fedor bested the competition in the 800M while freshman Gabriel McLarnan finished third.

The B C Sk iing team struggled in their second tournament of the year, falling to 16th place in the UVM Winter Carnival, which took place at Mount Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont.

The men’s team dismal outing was highlighted by the slalom, in which no Eagle finished. The women, however, found a little more success in the slalom, with two racers finishing in the bottom half.

Coming off of a less than stellar performance, BC skiing looks to turn things around in Smuggler’s Notch, Vermont next weekend for the St. Michael’s Carnival.

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Cooper has Oscar in his sights with latest film ‘American Sniper’

BY TYLER WILKINSON Heights Staff

In recent weeks, American Sniper— which is titled after Navy SEAL Chris Kyle’s autobiography—has become increasingly controversial. Some have claimed the heroic nature in which the film portrays Chris Kyle glorifies the soldier as a sadist with racist tendencies. This question is imAMERICAN SNIPER portant Clint Eastwood to the broader canon of critique for director Clint Eastwood.

With a cigar always dangling from his lips and squinty eyes glistening in the Mojave Desert, Eastwood seems to evoke the cool dynamism of yesteryear. His films, however, are burdened with sexism (Million Dollar Baby) and racism (Gran Torino, American Sniper). Why is Eastwood so obsessed with racism? Can we really take his worldview seriously?

The answer is yes (with reservations).

The beginning of the film is filled with an unnecessary amount of movie tropes

and incredibly bad dialogue. Chris Kyle’s father gives the most blase and God-fearing moralistic speech on the three types of people in the world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs (Lord, please lend me the strength to leave this theatre right now).

Father Kyle isn’t afraid to hit his boys, but restrains because “we protect our own,” a prominent theme that manifests itself throughout the movie.

After the succession of lazy filmmaking, the real plot of the film commences with the grown Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) wanting to be a cowboy. It is clear that he has ambition. After being injured at the rodeo, he comes home early to see his girlfriend having an affair. His younger brother Jeff (Keir O’Donnell) is the only real friend he has and adds an air of levity to Kyle’s personal turmoil. Patriotic fervor veils Kyle after he watches the 1998 bombings of the American embassy in Nairobi to the point where he wants to join the United States Army. He is recommended for SEAL training and survives the brutality, which claims over 90 percent of enrollees.

His membership in the Navy’s elite special forces gives Kyle the necessary

boost he needs to pick up his future wife at a bar—Taya Renae Kyle (Sienna Miller). After their marriage ceremony, the call comes in for the SEALs to join the fight in Iraq. During his first tour in Iraq, Kyle’s skill with a rifle is lauded, and he quickly racks up many kills as a sniper. It was during this first tour that Kyle has to confront the evil in which he sees, killing his “enemies”—women and children.

Two separate threads/missions, however, arise that force him to come back again and again to Iraq. First, a counter-insurgent enforcer named the Butcher leads a brutal campaign against the Americans. The Butcher instills mass fear in the Iraqi people. His instrument of torture is a power drill—used every time an Iraqi gives information to an American soldier. Second, the counter-insurgency contingent is joined by a Syrian Olympic gold medalist in riflery named Mustafa. His skill with a rifle rivals that of Kyle’s as the two duel throughout the film.

As Kyle inches closer and closer to finding and killing these rivals, he spirals deeper and deeper into hate and obsession, neglecting his burgeoning family

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Clint Eastwood ramps up the intensity in this epic biopic about renowned sniper Chris Kyle. at home and signing up for more tours of duty in Iraq. Not since Oscar winner The Hurt Locker (2008) has a war movie attempted to paint the thrill and desperate need to fight in the recent Iraq and Afghanistan wars as American Sniper.

Some may call it glorifying murder, especially against those that Chris Kyle calls “savages,” but Clint Eastwood does an amazing job of portraying the job as a soldier as one that protects the in-

nocent Iraqis against the Butchers and the Mustafas.

The film is clearly on track to be the highest grossing war film in American film history (not adjusted for inflation).

It does deserve its credits and a Best Picture nomination, but merely that—it definitely should not be considered equal to the top contenders (Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Selma) for this year’s most prestigious film awards. 

Depp sinks to new depths in ‘Mortdecai’

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Charlie Mortdecai (Depp) parades around London and Los Angeles, despite inability to make audiences laugh.

BY CHRIS FULLER Assoc. Arts & Review Editor Johnny Depp has lost some pizzazz over the last decade. Although many of his most famous characters are the most bizarre, ludicrous, and recognizable favorites throughout Hollywood, his MORTDECAI most David Koepp recent films like The Lone Ranger, Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows (among others) have not reaffirmed his popularity among moviegoers. Depp is beginning to lose his once undeniable drawpower, and with that, the films he appears in do not gain the immediate credibility they once did.

Mortdecai gave audiences hope with its luscious color palette, funky narrative, and Depp’s dashing mustache. Unfortunately, not only did Mortdecai fall flat of critical expectations, Mortdecai made egregious use of an otherwise all-star ensemble of Hollywood legends and confused audiences with a tangled and unnecessarily ridiculous story.

One of the biggest attractions to Mortdecai was the A-list actors that director David Koepp was able to pull together for such an unusual project. Based off of a 1970s comic series about the titular character, Mortdecai follows

the nearly detestable Charlie Mortdecai as he travels around London and Los Angeles, tracking down a stolen Goya painting. His search is aided by Agent Martland (Ewan McGregor), a British officer in charge of the preposterous mission, and Mortdecai’s deceptively brilliant wife Johanna (Gwyneth Paltrow). Alongside Olivia Munn and the always stunning Jeff Goldblum, Mortdecai sounds as though it would be packed with larger-than-life performances from these reputable stars.

Mortdecai’s plot and aim, however, are so skewed that these actors and actresses have little room to display anything of real caliber.

The only character that holds any interest is Depp’s Mortdecai and the jokes and scenarios revolving around the character just are not entertaining or substantive enough for the film to be enjoyable.

Although Depp gives Charlie Mortdecai what appears to be a full-hearted and genuine effort, a viewer can’t help but cringe every time he tweaks that over-used mustache of his. There are entirely too many jokes about Mortdecai’s mustache and general helplessness that the character does not develop in much of any way at all.

Mortdecai is often put into a comedic scenario where his wife or manservant, Jock, must come to his aid. This dynamic harkens almost too much to familiar buddy cop/moron dynamics seen in films like The Pink Panther and Sherlock Holmes. While Depp’s charac-

ters—like the everlasting Captain Jack Sparrow and the obscene reporter Raoul Duke—are helpless in their own almost adorable way, Mortdecai’s general cowardice is almost insulting to the viewer’s intellect and interest. It feels as though Lord Mortdecai had the potential to be one of Depp’s most memorable goofballs in the last decade, had it not been for lazy writing and toilet jokes.

One of the stronger highlights of the two-hour monstrosity was the art direction and the film’s overall aesthetic. Several of the character’s wardrobes, especially Depp’s, are meticulously put together and contribute to Mortdecai’s aristocratic demeanor. A few landscapes and mansion interiors are especially pleasant and colorful distractions from the off-timed, poor humor of the whole film. The intricate attention to detail given to everything but the writing of the film suggests an uneven effort by the production that is especially disheartening. The film is at times beautiful, though what is actually happening on screen is often hideous.

Depp holds a special place in cinematic hearts throughout the world. Sadly, the roles that he has been taking over the last few years make it harder and harder for his fans to appreciate his work. Alongside classics like What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this most recent performance in Mortdecai appears to be one of Depp’s most disappointing showings in his career. 

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Student exhibit sheds intimate light on the life of Kapwa

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From Kapwa, A8 The next by Abbie Amico of St. Louis University ’16 features a host of kids climbing and grasping a figure already covered in kids. But it’s her short per-

sonal essay that makes this particular piece striking. In just a few paragraphs she reflects on Narnia, her own journey, and magic and how we encounter it the real world.

Finally, the exhibit ends with

Gaynor’s piece “Discovering Kapwa.”

The shot features three hands outstretched reaching for a basketball at the rim, cast in the shadow of a setting sun.

(That is, admittedly, an awful description of a near perfect picture.)

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I think it’s an acknowledged phenomenon that sunsets of and in places you don’t know seem more beautiful than those at home.

But by the end of the exhibit, the sunset has become a bit of its own home

as it was to the students. But thanks to that final image, it’s as striking as the first sunset that it faces across the horseshoe. We’ve discovered a sort of home here—one that is vividly poignant and truthful. n

Oscars highlight indies, and little else From Oscars, B8 and Steven Spielberg have all followed similar patterns in their career, yet they’re some of the greatest filmmakers alive today, so this absence can’t come as a complete shock.

But the most surprising snub this year has nothing to do with diversity.

The Academy, in some mental lapse of judgment, did not recognize The Lego Movie, the highest-grossing animated movie of the year, which was widely considered to be the frontrunner to win. This snub reflects a theme within this Oscar season. The Lego Movie was innovative, captivating and original, but failed to garner the attention it deserved (see: Foxcatcher, Guardians of the Galaxy).

While many deserving films shamefully weren’t recognized, some unworthy nominations slipped through the cracks as well. Whiplash and The Theory of Everything weren’t really anything more than glorified festival darlings, but somehow made it to the big stage, while Bennett Miller’s meticulously and phenomenally directed Foxcatcher was omitted from the nomination list. Also, while no one denies the directing abilities of Clint Eastwood, American Sniper was little more than a generic, impersonal account of the Iraq War. The show may also face some difficulty in viewership. The Academy Awards tend to look toward younger audiences for high ratings, but that will be a difficult feat this year. Last year’s nominees included four movies that grossed over $100 million, while this

year’s nominees make up one of the least-commercial Best Picture categories yet.

In total, before the nominations were announced, all eight movies had only grossed a combined $210 million so far. And without The Lego Movie, which grossed more than all eight films combined, odds are that most viewers won’t have seen any of the nominated films, with the exception of perhaps American Sniper, which went on to make a shocking $200 million after the announcement.

But it isn’t all bad. Julianne Moore is nominated for her portrayal of a woman diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers—certainly the year’s best female role. And having Michael Keaton, Reese Witherspoon and Bradley Cooper all in attendance won’t hurt either (although nothing can really compare to last year’s Meryl StreepBranjelina-Jennifer Lawrence selfie).

With the singing, dancing and acting talents of host Neil Patrick Harris, we’re probably in for a solid two to three hours of entertainment.

And while the Best Picture noms lack diverse characters or relevant material, the race doesn’t lack talent.

It was a great year to be from Texas, with native-born Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson’s films garnering rightful nominations in both film and directing categories. Linklater’s Boyhood took an astonishing twelve years to film, as he focused on the progression of a Texas youth as he grows up in a broken family. The Academy’s recognition of Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel with an astounding

nine nominations came as a wonderful surprise to critics and moviegoers alike. Budapest Hotel was a critical darling back when it came out in early March, but movies released in the first quarter of the year are notoriously almost never recognized by the Academy.

While it may not be good for ratings, having a lineup of almost all indies this year is a great thing for movies. It’ll grow a wider audience for smaller filmmakers and studios, and get people out to see films that would have normally never been seen. Take The Artist, which won Best Picture back in 2012. How often is someone going to see a silent, French, blackand-white movie? Or The Imitation Game this year, which, in my opinion, is perhaps only outdone by Boyhood.

Both films have hugely benefited from the Oscars, without which their niche stories would have gone almost entirely undiscovered.

All in all, it won’t be the most intriguing Oscar show—not by a long shot. Viewers in 2014 likely haven’t seen the nominated movies and have little interest in an industry that isn’t engaging them the way that it has in the past. Television has filled the void that filmmaking willingly vacated, bringing viewers original, engaging, and most importantly, culturally relevant content that wasn’t widely offered in theaters this year.

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

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‘The Lego Movie’ was snubbed this year en route the Academy Awards. Apparently, not everyone thought this movie was that awesome.

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Academy set to award the same old statues of gold From Academy, B8 Director category had she received the nomination. Leading actor David Oyelowo also failed to pick up a Best Actor nomination, despite his highlytouted and critically-acclaimed performance as Dr. King. Selma, however, did manage to earn two nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Song so all recognition for the film may not be lost.

The large diversity gap in Academy Award nominees comes as no surprise to those familiar with the entertainment industry. A 2012 Los Angeles Times study found that the composition of Academy voters was markedly less diverse than the movie-going public. Oscar voters were found to be 94 percent white and 77 percent male, with the median age of voters at 62 years old. The academy’s executive branch, by that same token, is 98 percent white and 90 percent male.

Mirroring the hiring patterns in Hollywood, female directors and writers are often underrepresented in their respective categories. Gillian Flynn was shut out of the Best Adapted Screenplay category despite Gone Girl receiving critical acclaim and a nomination for its leading actress, Rosamund Pike. Similarly, only seven percent of Best Actor winners were people of color. Halle Berry is the only person of color that has been awarded the Best Actress title for her 2002 role in Monster’s Ball.

In another facet of Oscar controversy, the release of Selma has been met with backlash for its depiction of President Lyndon B. Johnson as a political obstacle to Dr. King’s iconic march for civil rights, led from Selma

to Washington D.C. in 1965. Although Selma is not the first film to come under fire for its historical inaccuracies, the film is most notable for its portrayal of combating racial injustice through the lens of black leadership.

By denouncing DuVernay for the film’s unsympathetic rendering of Johnson, critics have provoked negative response both from the public and the director herself. Criticism of Selma has been derided as catering to the “white savior” narrative while DuVernay has responded to criticism with the statement, “I’m not a historian.

I’m a storyteller.” Despite the film’s backlash, Selma received universal acclaim and holds a 99 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 89 out of 100 on Metacritic.

So how can award ceremonies become more representative of women and people of color while recognizing cinematic achievement in the industry? In regards to Selma, the brunt of the blame has been placed on Paramount for sending screeners of the film to voters too late. Likewise, hiring practices in the Academy have made great strides by electing Cheryl Isaacs as the first African-American female president, but AMPAS still has ways to go in terms of diversifying membership. Closing Hollywood’s diversity gap begins by greenlighting more films directed and led by women and people of color while expanding the academy’s executive positions. As moviegoers, the most we can do is support these films and cross our fingers that Selma takes home the award for Best Picture.

Summer Lin is the Asst. Arts Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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‘Discovering Kapwa’

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The first piece of the exhibit is from Jillian Baker, BC ‘13, and features a group of fishermen getting one last game in before the sun sets. Basketball, anywhere and everywhere, is the national past time in the Phillippines.

Tucked into the first floor of O’Neill, “Discovering Kapwa” is an exhibit of the simple life and the people who made Casa Bayanihan home, for a little while.

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or a couple weeks now, O’Neill 103 has had an added touch of spice. The small space between the front desk and the stairs, beside one of the only official group study spots on campus, has played host to more than its usual pack of students laying into their studies between classes.

Alex Gaynor, A&S ’15, has curated and contributed to a photo exhibit dedicated to her and others’ time in the Philippines.

“Discovering Kapwa,” as the exhibit is called, is what Gaynor describes as “a shared identity of solidarity: the idea that I am not me without you.” What the exhibit aims to do—and does—is offer for the viewer an experience of discovery. The students who’ve reported back with striking and poignant images have already been to the Philippines and they offer a glimpse into the communities they shared.

As we bustle from the lower end of campus to the University’s academic buildings, “Discovering Kapwa” is an exhibit that exists in passing. The exhibit is a product of five semester sessions for Casa Bayanihan, an alternate service learning

program in the Philippines. The program highlights the reality, and apparent beauty, of everyday people and everyday life.

Thirty images and corresponding personal essays wrap around the study space in a horseshoe figure.

The exhibit centers around a couple central themes—basketball, water, children, and ates (older sisters). While the exhibit is most vividly one of photographs, snippets of personal essays and even poetry also make the exhibit.

The exhibit starts and ends with basketball and the sunset.

The first by Jillian Baker, BC ’13, depicts a group of fishermen shooting hoops on a sandy court as the sun sets through the trees—a “Field of Dreams” like scene. Many of the pieces are dedicated to the ates (meaning older women) who hosted and lived with the students. Katherin Borah of the University of San Franscisco ’14, made “Oh My Galay!” which features her mother abroad at the market with a face-splitting grin as she reaches for a bushel of asparagus, celery, or some other green vegetable I’m unfortunately unable to identify.

“Ate Fe” by Julianne Peithman of UC Santa Cruz ’13 features another smiling ate. Peithman shares a message her ate shared with her over Facebook. “Maybe we’re miles and oceans away but you are very near,” it reads. “You’re here in my heart and I’m always thinking of you. I can whisper through the air and look up to the sky to get near you.” Peithman shares the intense connection in both picture and word.

Children are also featured heavily in the exhibit and each offering, in its own way, captures the shot of life these kids gave to the students. Of particular note were “Princess” and “Look, then Look Away.” The first by Baker features the child aptly named Princess herself. The whole exhibit is worth seeing solely because of her big, bright eyes that stare right into the camera unapologetically. Baker even writes in her short essay that Princess loved having her picture taken. It’s a simple, understated, beautiful image.

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Looking at Hollywood’s diversity gap State of the Oscars: Back to the basics SUMMER LIN The 2014 Oscars awarded a diverse year in film.

12 Years a Slave had a particularly strong showing at the ceremony. Lupita Nyong’o tearfully accepted the Best Supporting Actress award for her debut role. Steve McQueen became the first black filmmaker to direct a Best Picture winner and 12 Years a Slave earned nine nominations total, taking home three awards. For a fleeting moment, it seemed Hollywood was working toward fixing its diversity problem.

And maybe we had spoken

too soon.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled the 87th Oscar nominations last Thursday, amidst criticism that the Academy had failed to recognize any actors of color.

In fact, this year’s Oscars race is the whitest since the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, with no female directors, screenwriters, or cinematographers on the nominations list and no actors or actresses of color. While 2014 was a banner year for Oscar recognition, with Mandela and Captain Phillips up for multiple awards, this year’s Oscar nominations seem to be taking a step backwards. The glaring lack

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of diversity caused social media to erupt with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite as the top trending topic on Twitter, indicating this year’s Oscars may be the worst for diversity in recent history.

Among its most egregious snubs, Selma, centered on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his struggle for racial equality, was shut out of several major categories. Golden Globe-nominated director Ava DuVernay would have been the first African-American female to be included in the Best Director category had she received the nomination. Leading actor

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‘American Sniper’

GRACE GODVIN Perhaps the best part about awards season is that no two years are ever the same. This year’s campaign to the Oscars has been remarkably different than the last, most notably in that there’s no frontrunner to win Best Picture. Last season saw 12 Years A Slave dominate the race, while Argo was the inevitable winner in 2013 even after Ben Affleck failed to get nominated for directing.

This year, the Academy has fallen under intense scrutiny for its failure to nominate a single non-white actor, director, or

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screenwriter, with the exception of Birdman’s director Alejandro Inarritu. In fact, there is not one woman nominated this year for directing or writing, as well. In a year fueled by racial tensions from Ferguson to Paris, the Academy’s choices fail to reflect the current state of the nation.

The fact of the matter is that any movie nominated this year could have been made 10 or even 20 years ago. There isn’t anything particularly progressive about the stories in any of the eight films nominated, almost all of which focus on white male leads with relatively conservative plots. Perhaps the trouble lies in the Academy’s

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vote base: Oscar voters are 93 percent white, 76 percent male, and have an average age of 63.

I don’t think, however, the old white guys are fully to blame here. Filmmakers hold a lot of the fault as well. The eight films nominated represent the best filmmaking of the year, without a doubt (besides Whiplash). The best filmmakers out there simply aren’t utilizing diversity in their films. Take Clint Eastwood, whose American Sniper is nominated six times this year. He has never cast a non-white actor as a lead in any of his films. Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan,

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