The Heights January 23, 2017

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Although introductory speeches didn’t officially begin until 11 a.m., hundreds of eager attendees had already crowded around the large stage and screen where the speeches would take place. As they milled around, waiting for the events to begin, friendly interactions could be seen taking place between strangers as they complimented each other on a creative sign, or an inventive take on the pink pussy hat.

Shortly after 10 a.m., groups began arriving en masse, and soon, the Common was packed with over 175,000 people of all races,

genders, ages, and backgrounds, according to the March’s final press release. The protesters transformed the grassy expanse into a sea of pink heads dotted with brightly decorated and inventive signs. Music began blasting over the loud speakers, and marchers began dancing to everything from Mary J. Blige to the soundtrack of the musical phenomenon, Hamilton.

As it grew closer to 11 a.m., the number of protesters climbed into the thousands.

Although many of the marchers attended for different reasons, they were all united by a common concern for the future.

Gila Nolan, who experienced many protests during her time at Boston University in the early ’70s, said that she attended the March for too many reasons to count. But, most importantly, she wanted to send the message that nothing would keep her down.

Nolan expressed her fear that the country has devolved over the past eight years, and that she now feels depressed and anxious.

But attending the march gave her a slight change of mood. “[Being at the march] makes me feel energized and rejuvenated, like we’re going to be okay, we’re going to keep on,” Nolan said.

Billy Stuart, a U.S. Army veteran dressed

in a distressed camo jacket covered with embroidered peace patches, noted that attending made him feel excited and less alone.

“And as the old Black Panther party said in ’68, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem,” Stuart said. “So we want to be part of the solution.”

Over 100 Boston College students were also in attendance, at least 70 arriving with the informal group organized by Molly Newcomb, MCAS ’18, and Olivia Hussey, MCAS ’17. Newcomb explained that they were marching to protest the rhetoric that was woven into the campaign and administration of Donald Trump—rhetoric Newcomb and Hussey said “normalized hateful viewpoints.” They also wished to stand in solidarity with marginalized communities around the country.

Newcomb explained that she and Hussey organized this BC contingent to present a united student front, and to provide a company for those who planned on attending the march without any one group.

Newcomb also highlighted the importance of BC students engaging with the current political world.

When Katherine Krabek, MCAS ’18, got back to 2000 Comm. Ave. for the semester, she figured people would have moved into the spaces left vacant by friends on her floor who went abroad. She was surprised to find that nobody had moved in, leaving several empty rooms on her floor, including two whole four-man suites. And if that was on her floor alone, she said, there are probably a lot more empty spots.

Also known as the Reservoir Apartments, 2000, the apartment building purchased

by Boston College in 2008 that opened as a 540-bed student dorm this fall, currently has approximately 100 open spaces for the spring semester according to Greg Jones, the director of housing operations for the Office of Residential Life. Jones said the surplus was caused by more students choosing to study abroad in the spring this year than in the fall.

Jones said that last semester, 2000 was at 99percent capacity.

When applicants are admitted to BC, only students with physical disabilities, NCAA fullscholarship athletes, students in the Connell School of Nursing, and the top-15 percent of the incoming class are awarded four years of on-campus housing, according to an FAQ page on the Office of Undergraduate Admissions website.

BC uses a housing appeals process through which interested students with three years of on-campus housing can apply for housing their junior year, when many students live off

campus. If a student with on-campus housing goes abroad for a semester, their bed is normally filled for the other semester by a student returning from a semester abroad or somebody moving back on campus. Students may appeal for an entire year of housing or just one semester.

Jones said that in a typical year, ResLife approves about 100 housing appeals prior to room selection. ResLife estimates the number of appeals to grant by looking at how many appeals were granted in years past and how many students are eligible to live off campus.

“We would love to grant every appeal that we receive, but the reality is that we have limited number of spaces, and therefore we can only grant the requests that demonstrate a high need for campus housing,” Jones said.

Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18, who is an op-ed columnist for The Heights, spent the fall semester in Dublin. She was granted housing after she appealed last year, but decided to live off campus this spring anyway.

ResLife institutes a two-week housing freeze at the start of every semester before granting room changes in order to figure out who is at BC and who is not, such as a student who takes a semester off or decides, like Loos, not to use housing gained through an appeal.

“We need to let the dust from move-in settle before we can start making changes to assignments,” Jones said in an email.

Jones said that there are also openings in other buildings on campus, though very few spaces are empty in places like Upper Campus. It is unclear how many of the empty beds in 2000 will be filled once the housing freeze is lifted.

“We expect beds may be filled through room changes, but we do not anticipate filling all of these spaces,” Jones said in an email.

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Organized by the Socialist Alternative and Socialist Students groups, Friday’s Resist Trump rally was co-sponsored by many other organizations including Massachusetts Peace Action, Boston May Day Coalition, and Boston Feminists for Liberation. Joe Sugrue, a member of the Socialist Alternative and organizer of the rally, explained that planning began immediately after the election of Trump. As the group hosted public meetings through December and early January, the plans for the

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Protestors marched Friday evening, holding homemade signs and chanting together. rally solidified.

Sugrue highlighted the importance that mass protests will hold during the Trump administration in the coming years, as they have historically proven to be effective tools against forms of oppression and discrimination.

“I believe that mass protests boost the morale of those who are willing to resist the establishment, and provide an entry point to independent politics, organization, and coalition building,” Sugrue said.

During the first hour of the rally, organizers led attendees in roaring chants and shared brief speeches given by leaders from some of the other participating groups. Participants continued arriving throughout the hour, filling the Common with passionate chanting and creative handmade signs.

As 7 p.m. approached, organizers mobilized the protesters and began a slow march

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Climate Justice at Boston College (CJBC) will host a rally today from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Heights Room as a part of a nationwide day of action to resist and reject President Donald Trump’s denial of the severity of climate change. The group will also call out the BC administration for maintaining its investments in fossil fuel energy. The GLBTQ Leadership Council and Eradicate BC Racism will co-sponsor the event.

The nationwide day of action was cre-

BO KNOWS SPORTS

ARTS & REVIEW This Carney exhibit explores the touching photography of five students.

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SILVER AND INK

Thanks to Ky Bowman, men’s basketball was on the heels of North Carolina until late.

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ated by the Divestment Student Network, a group that coordinates peaceful student rallies calling for divestment, and 350.org, a group that works to build a movement for climate justice. This movement is set to be the largest coordinated student action calling for divestment in history.

“The reason for the timing of this nationwide movement is the convergence of BC’s investment in the fossil fuel industry with a new Trump presidency,” said Aaron Salzman, a member of CJBC and MCAS ’20.

Salzman said that he often hears the argument that the BC administration does not want to “get political” with the endowment, potentially creating tensions with the University’s largest donors. He believes, however, that the Trump administration

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FEATURES: Carry On, Carry On

A look at BC’s efforts to build a student center and how the school stacks up..........A3

What do Queen and Galileo have in common?

A lot, says Sarah Gwyneth Ross................... A5

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The Office of Student Involvement and the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) will host the spring Student Involvement Fair tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. in Conte Forum. Registered student organizations will pass out information regarding their clubs.

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The Career Center will hold the Spring Career and Internship Fair on Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Heights, Boston, and Newton Rooms in Corcoran Commons. Over 80 for-profit and not-forprofit organizations will have tables to network with students about internship opportunities.

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Mike Roose, the assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Boston Red Sox, will speak to UGBC about the importance of maintaining healthy habits in college. The event will take place in the Murray Function Room in the Yawkey Athletics Center on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. The event is open to all students.

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Gif]% Jkl[`\j NfibgcXZ\ Erika Sabbath, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, is the principal investigator for a project within Harvard University’s Center for Work, Health, and Wellbeing. The project, the Partners Employee Research Database and Study (PERDS), will amount to more than $1.6 million over five years.

PERDS is a collaboration between Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Partners HealthCare, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. It aims to analyze various factors in the workplace setting which affect health and safety—workplace policies and practices, stress from work, and physical health hazards involved in some jobs. PERDS is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC/NIOSH)’s Total Worker Health Program. This program seeks to define various policies, programs, or practices that protect workers health and safety while preventing illness and injury.

“It’s an honor to be leading a team within this partnership,” Sabbath said to the BC social work blog.

Sabbath is co-principal investigator with BU’s Leslie Boden.

They are working with a group of BU scholars, Dana-Farber, and Partners HealthCare. Sabbath’s team is working to investigate how organizational factors in acute care hospital settings affect workers, employers, and patients.

Long term, Sabbath’s goal for her team is to create interventions that improve outcomes for workers, patients, and employers.

=`cd GcXee\[ fe JZXe[Xc Seth Gordon will direct an untitled, upcoming film centered on the true story of Boston College basketball’s point-shaving scandal. Robert Carlock, 30 Rock’s co-showrunner, will script the movie, according to Variety. The point-shaving scandal, also seen in Playing for the Mob, a documentary from ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, occurred during BC basketball’s 1978-79 season.

Like Playing for the Mob, the film will tell the story of how three BC basketball players—Jim Sweeney, Rick Kuhn, and Ernie Cobb—became involved with a group of Pittsburgh gangsters to fix games in accordance with the point spreads. The two main mobsters involved in the point-shaving scandal were the notorious Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke. Both of these men have already been depicted in Hollywood movie Goodfellas, as the two main characters.

As a result of the scandal, Kuhn, who was the first to get involved with the mobsters, received a 10year prison sentence. This sentence was the longest ever for a United States athlete convicted of sports racketeering. Cobb was acquitted of sports bribery charges, while Sweeney was never charged.

“While this issue represents an unfortunate chapter in BC athletics, it occurred 35 years ago at a different time in our history,” University Spokesman Jack Dunn said in an email. “We are focused today on the present and future and not on the alleged actions of three individuals from the 1980 team.”

This year, the Office of Residential Life, resident directors, and resident assistants (RAs) have been working to form programs that allow freshmen to meet one another and create friendships.

RAs in freshman areas have traditionally held H O OTS (Hanging Out on Tuesdays) for their floors a couple times each month. During HOOTS, RAs meet with the residents on their floor and hold an activity—from watching a TV show together to talking about transitioning to college over pizza.

In the fall, the Office of Residential Life wanted to capitalize on the success of HOOTS and decided to expand them to include the entire building in events called CAHOOTS. This would provide students with the opportunity to meet people on other floors rather than constantly socializing with their floormates.

RAs will also hold three events under the Learning Outcome Program this semester.

Andrew Layman, MCAS ’18, held two Learning Outcome Pro-

gram events last semester. During one of the events, Layman brought in captains from Freshman League to talk with the residents on his floor about male culture on campus and defining masculinity. The second event was co-sponsored by Agape Latte and sought to explain the importance of faith and family.

These events were more formal and serious than HOOTS and allowed residents to have more meaningful conversations.

The building-wide events, which RAs refer to as CAHOOTS or group HOOTS, happen about once a month, Layman said.

HOOTS continue to happen every other week. Four CAHOOTS are planned for the spring semester.

Layman said that the response from freshmen about CAHOOTS was mixed, as many felt like they had not met new people and continued to socialize with only their floor. Most freshmen favor HOOTS because it was more comforting knowing everyone there, so he said that they’ll be back this spring by popular demand. “[I like floor HOOTS better] because I know the people there and am able to have a conversation with them rather than standing

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Resident assistants will be changing their programs for freshmen this semester to include more students. in line for an ice cream for a half an hour in the Chevy lounge with people I’ve never seen,” Graydon Wood, MCAS ’20, said in an email.

Attendance for CAHOOTS has generally been low, according to Layman.

“I’ve never been because they often conflict with my schedule,

but I feel like I’ve never missed anything of importance when I have not been able to attend,” Elizabeth Burke, MCAS ’20, said in an email.

Layman believes that HOOTS have been a more effective way of bringing freshmen together.

“I personally savor last year’s method more because the more

formal smaller HOOTS gave me a little more flexibility in working with my residents and catering to their interests and needs,” Layman said. “When I do a larger group program, I don’t have as much time to sit down and just chat with them. I felt like the older system helped me connect with my residents.”

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In a conversation on Thursday titled “Out of the Shadows: Illuminating the Dignity of Immigrants,” which was sponsored

by BC Campus Ministry, Ospino was joined by Rocio Calvo, an assistant professor in the global practice concentration at the BC School of Social Work, and moderator John Glynn, a campus minister, to discuss the ways in which immigration, including unauthorized immigration, is affecting both the Catholic Church and the United States as a whole.

Ospino, himself an immigrant from Colombia, said that his research is increasingly focusing on the ways in which a recent influx of Latino immigrants is

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changing the Catholic Church in the United States.

He said that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a statement in 2000, “Welcoming the Stranger Among Us: Unity in Diversity,” which adjured Catholics to wel-

conversations is injurious not only to the those being disparaged, but also to the nation as a whole.

Ospino said that almost all Americans, with the exception of Native Americans, are either immigrants themselves or descendants of people who at one time

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immigrated to the U.S. Currently, he said, around one-half of the 42 million immigrants in the U.S. are Latino, 25 percent of whom are undocumented.

While immigrants today comprise around 10 percent of the

U.S. population, at certain times in the nation’s history that figure was nearer to 50 percent, Ospino said. He warned that if Americans forget that they or their ancestors were once immigrants, he fears that they may fail to be just to the next generation of immigrants currently entering their country.

“Every one of those immigrants brings a gift—a gift to society, a gift to the Church, a gift to our educational institutions, and ultimately, to the United States as a nation,” Ospino said. “We need to acknowledge that immigrants are important—are essential—to building this society.”

Ospino also said he believes that Catholics have a responsibility to embrace immigrants because they’re human beings with an inherent dignity that should be honored as containing divine worth. “[Valuing the dignity of immigrants] is just like seeing the face of God in them, recognizing the presence of Christ in them, and that’s what we have a responsibility to every immigrant,” Ospino said.

Calvo said she is also an immigrant, and that after she arrived in the U.S. she began her current

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Friday, Jan. 20

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6:14 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm at Shaw House.

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research dealing with the effects of immigrants on American society.

In a few years, the U.S. will, for the first time in history, have a white minority. This seismic demographic change will cause many immigrants to lack access to education, job opportunities, and basic social services and become an unavoidable problem for America, Calvo said.

Ospino said that the Catholic Church, 50 years ago, was 90 percent European immigrants who were the objects of anti-immigrant rhetoric similar to that directed toward Latino communities today.

By 2050, however, the Catholic Church will be only 20 percent white, and most of this change has been due to the same patterns of immigration found in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Church is obliged not just to welcome immigrants, Ospino said, but to also build faith communities with their immigrant brothers and sisters.

“Being an immigrant is not easy—there are pains and struggles,” Ospino said. “In light of the Judeo-Christian tradition, we need to be human, and treat immigrants as humans, too.”

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CORRECTIONS Thursday’s issue incorrectly stated that the story “Study Has BC Among Nation’s Wealthiest” was written by Chris Russo. It was written by Connor Murphy.

Additionally, a graphic on A1 stated that 30 percent of early action applicants were accepted. The correct figure is 33 percent, as stated in the accompanying article.

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University Counseling Services (UCS) will hold a panel Tuesday titled “Impacts of Bias and Isms” to bring together faculty, students, and staff in the Division of Student Affairs to discuss issues of diversity and inclusion. Julie AhnAllen, UCS’s assistant director of diversity and inclusion, said in an email that the panel will be similar to an event UCS held before Winter Break. That event competed with the Christmas Tree Lighting, so turnout was low, and the hope this week is to reach more students.

The panel, moderated by AhnAllen, will consist of Usha Tummala-Narra, an associate professor of counseling, developmental, and educational psychology; Yvonne Jenkins, a senior staff psychologist in UCS; Director of UCS Craig Burns, and Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo. Vice President for Student Affairs Barb Jones will give the opening remarks.

“The events of the last year have been difficult in many ways,

[and] we wanted to explore ways to provide support in light of what can be very challenging conversations,” Jones said in an email. “The University Counseling Services, along with colleagues in Academic Affairs, are uniquely positioned through their training and interactions with students to shed light on the impact of these events on individuals and how the conversation can move forward.”

AhnAllen said that UCS sees many students who talk about their negative experiences with bias and racism, sexism, or other “isms,” so the panel is meant to open those issues to the wider campus.

The panel was developed at the beginning of the school year in response to race-biased incidents and students concerns—part of UCS’s goal is to “continue a difficult conversation given that these topics are emotionally charged and so personal,” AhnAllen said. She added that last year’s presidential election and an incident at Boston College this fall, in which letters on a parking sign in the Mod Lot were rearranged to read a homophobic slur, also played a role in UCS’s developing the event.

After both of those events, students organized rallies voicing concerns about their place on campus.

In September, students responding to the Mod Lot controversy orga-

nized a march on campus called “Silence is Violence” that sought to provide students a space to discuss their concerns about discrimination.

Then, Eradicate BC Racism held a “love rally” in November in response to the election of Donald Trump.

Also in November, a group of students released a petition modeled after similar petitions at other schools that called upon the University to develop a response plan to potentially discriminatory actions under Trump’s administration. One part of the plan suggested that BC add its name to several statements expressing support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive order under President Barack Obama that offers protections for undocumented students— University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. added his name to two statements expressing support for DACA. AhnAllen said UCS is focused on better understanding the experiences of first-generation college students with its work this year, and is hoping to host an event focused on being an ally to underrepresented identities.

“We have a particular mission to serve those students who feel marginalized and reach out to students who are less likely to utilize our services,” she said.

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The Division of Student Affairs announced this month that, starting Feb. 1, Hillside Cafe’s lounge area will stay open until midnight Monday through Thursday as “Hillside After Dark.” It’s part of an initiative to open up more spaces for student use as the University continues to plan for a student center. Meredith McCaffrey, Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) executive vice president and MCAS ’17, said the Hillside plan is a stand-in for the kind of use a student center would fill.

“We are so thrilled and honored to have the privilege of advocating for this project right now, but in a way the entire student body is being disserviced by the lack of a student center, and that will happen until one is built,” said Russell Simons, Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and MCAS ’17.

Simons hopes that projects like the Hillside Cafe hours extension will meet students needs and that students will eventually reap the benefits of a new student center.

UGBC has made the student center a priority this year, especially this semester. This year is a strategic planning year in which BC will lay out its goals for the next decade. Simons and McCaffrey feel that this is the time to really open up conversations around building a student center.

BC has reached the blueprint stage in building a student center at least twice, in 1995, then again in 2005. While the University has strongly considered constructing a student center, BC remains the only top-30 university without one. UGBC has been advocating for the construction of a student center be a top priority in the Strategic Plan.

A Heights article from 1986 stated that a student center was in its planning stages, with a goal to be completed in 1990.

According to a Heights article from 1995, after the renovation of Fulton Hall, the construction of a student center and renovations of Carney and McElroy were next on the docket. Even in 1995, the construction of a student center was “long-awaited.” According to Alfred Penino, the vice president of construction and planning at the time, construction drawings

for the building were half finished, and the target date to start the project was set for June 1995.

When June came around, the plans for the student center were being finalized, and construction was thought to begin that fall.

But according to a Heights article from the fall of 1996, BC ran into problems with the town of Newton, and faced delays in the permit-approval process. As a result, the project was postponed indefinitely. BC needed a special building permit from the Newton Board of Alderman in order to begin construction, but ran into some problems with scheduling times to meet with the board.

“A broader Middle Campus plan met with substantial opposition over 20 years ago,” Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley said in an email.

The project was again taken up in 2005 and reached blueprint stages, but ultimately did not proceed.

A student center would provide students with a space to meet, to study, a space for programming, and a more centralized place to advertise events and initiatives, McCaffrey said. To address some of these needs, the Division of Student Affairs has been trying to open up more spaces on campus for students to use.

Quigley and Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead have been co-chairs of the University Strategic Planning Initiative for the past 13 months.

“The Board of Trustees will review our emerging ideas later this year, and authority to approve the strategic plan lies with the Board,” Quigley said in an email.

“There are a number of facilities that are being discussed as part of this process. As with the last several planning processes for the University, approval of a plan will give way to a decade or more of implementation.”

Many comparable universities across the nation have student centers that serve as a hub for student life. Georgetown University, with an undergraduate population of 7,540, has two student centers—the Leavey Center and the Healey Family Student Center.

The Leavey Center, built in 1988, provides recreational and meeting places for students, faculty, and staff. It also houses a 146-room hotel, conference centers, and various eating facilities. The Healey Family Student Center (HFSC) opened in September 2014 and is meant to serve as the “living room” of the campus. The HFSC includes many lounge areas, dance studios, music practice rooms,

film-screening classrooms, the Campus Information Services Center, and a full-service campus restaurant and bar.

Notre Dame’s LaFortune Student Center became a student center in the 1950s, and provides students, faculty, and staff with meeting rooms, a convenience store, restaurant eateries, and space for students to meet and work. The center also houses four offices within Notre Dame’s Division of Student Affairs. There are plans to build a second student center, the Duncan Student Center, with the expected finish date set at Dec.1 of this year.

Boston University has two student centers as well—the George Sherman Union and the Yawkey Center for Student Services. The George Sherman Union was built in 1963, and provides students, faculty, staff, and BU alumni meeting spaces, several auditoriums, two bank branches, many of BU’s administrative offices, a nine-restaurant food court, and a 10-lane bowling alley. The Yawkey Center for Student Services includes state of the art dining services, and will house BU’s career services and the Educational Resource Center (ERC). The ERC offers tutoring, language group discussion, and writing and reading discussions.

Last September, Simons and McCaffrey presented the idea for a student center to the Board of Trustees. And last fall, UGBC passed a resolution affirming their commitment to building a student center, as well as encouraging the Board to prioritize it.

“I think it’s a question of where in the next 10 years does this project fall in the University’s priorities,” Simons said. “It’s not that people aren’t warm and receptive to the idea, it’s just a matter of when can we feasibly get this done.”

According to Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Jones, the site for the future student center is where the Flynn Recreation Complex currently stands. The new athletic center will be built where Edmond’s Hall used to be.

While a student center is part of the current campus master plan, there are a series of construction projects that need to take place before the Plex can be torn down to make space for a student center.

“There’s not anyone who says we don’t need it, it’s more about what the best avenue to get there, and what needs to be done before we can build the center, and people have different opinions about what to do first,” McCaffrey said.

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As 7 p.m. approached, organizers mobilized the protesters and began a slow march to the State House and to City Hall.

Leading the mass of people in a bright red truck that was flocked by a small bank of drum players, the organizers from the Socialist Alternative slowly drove out of the Common and onto the streets of downtown Boston as the other protesters marched behind. Toiyah Shester, one of the organizers, used a megaphone to lead the marchers in a ceaseless series of chants as they slowly moved down the streets shouting everything from “Trump lies, Trump cheats, build the movement, hit the streets,” to “No Trump, no KKK, no racist, fascist USA.” As the protesters continued down Beacon Hill and toward City Hall, the number of attendees stretched down the long street as far as the eye could see.

Some of those in attendance, such as Cara Hundersmart, a resident of Watertown, rallied to draw attention to a specific worry—for Hundersmart the misuse of the natural resources contained in the land that the Navajo Nation rests upon—instead of just expressing their general dissatisfaction with the new administration. Hundersmart also noted that this form of protest is a perfect starting point for future action.

“[These protests are] a good way to get people out and know familiar faces so that you know who your allies are,” Hundersmart said.

Others, like Melissa Miller, a current freshman at Northeastern, focused more upon the trials facing women’s rights in the future. Miller acknowledged, however, that each person’s reason for attending held equal importance. “[We’re] coming together for a whole lot of movements that we feel Trump and his cabinet are totally against,” Miller said.

“I think that if there’s any good thing to come out of this election, it’s to see that people are angry enough to say that they’re not going to sit down and take it.”

Students of Boston College, such as Sabel Flynn, CSON ’19, were also in attendance. Flynn explained how, as a firm anticapitalist, ze feels that the rest of the nation is finally joining hir point of view.

“I’d say we’ve got a demagogue in power at this point,” Flynn said. “I think that people are waking up to how bad it really is and how bad that the majority of the nation put this man in power.”

Flynn also expressed a satisfaction in the rally, noting that any protest is an effective protest.

“I feel like really, no one is left out here,” Flynn said. “They made the route very accessible

for differently abled people, and I really like the atmosphere they’ve created here.”

As the organizers’ red truck— and the stream of protesters trailing in its wake—reached City Hall, it slowed to a halt, creating an interesting juxtaposition with the crowd of people enjoying the Boston Winter ice skating rink just a few hundred feet away. The chants came to an end as more speakers took to the podium inside the truck to speak to the crowd about immigrant rights, and about the fight to come.

As the speakers continued, a papier maché puppet of Governor Charlie Baker with a tissue stuffed in his nose was brought in front of the crowd to remind them of the Socialist Alternative’s demands that he has currently failed to meet.

Other groups, such as an antifascist group, were less playful in their demonstrations, and instead burned the American flag in front of the crowd.

But even with such a strong showing of anti-Trump protesters, those resisting the ralliers’ message still attended. When asked why they disagreed with the ralliers, the objectors—who abstained from giving their names—explained that they had voted for Jeb Bush, and expressed a general dissatisfaction with the events taking place.

“I disagree with loud noise,” one of the dissenters said. “I disagree with everything.”

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He believes, however, that the Trump administration has made climate change a political issue because of its denial that climate change exists and is caused by human activity, despite overwhelming scientific research that supports this claim. “[BC has] to face the reality that divestment is a critical issue and it’s a necessity in order for BC to return to its Catholic, Jesuit values,” Salzman said.

Dean of Students Thomas Mogan has largely been supportive of CJBC’s intentions to hold rallies. The group often meets with Mogan when it registers its rallies through the University.

“I met with leaders of Climate Justice after their last rally...and I felt that we had a productive dialogue,” Mogan said in an email.

“I met with some of the same leaders to register their event for Monday and the process went smoothly. I am planning on attending the event on Monday.”

CJB C has other events planned for this semester after

today’s rally. It will host an event next Monday calling together all the people who attended the rally to get them more involved in CJBC. The group also plans to have e duc ation c amp aig ns , ho st speakers, and have a band powered by solar energy perform on campus.

“I think in CJBC’s view, justice means more than just accepting the institutions that are present, and it really means challenging the things we find wrong in institutions,” Salzman said.

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8k Dfekj\iiXk :fXc`k`fe# Jkl[\ekj =`e[ Jlggfik 9P 9<IE8;<KK< ;8I:P For The Heights A recent article published by The New York Times ranked Boston College’s student body as one of the wealthiest in the country, with 70 percent of students coming from households with incomes in the top 20 percent of earnings nationwide.

But not all BC students are supported by affluent families. Roughly 1,400 BC students are members of the Montserrat Coalition, an office in the Division of Mission and Ministry that supports students at the highest level of financial need.

Montserrat offers its members free tickets to a variety of campus events, including athletic games, cultural events, and theatre productions.

Additionally, Montserrat has assisted students with funding for EMT courses, retreats, service programs, independent study, and research. Montserrat not only helps students meet their financial needs, but also empowers students through emotional, social, and academic counsel.

Frank Garcia-Ornelas , assistant manager of the Montserrat Coalition, begins his workday with a sense of great purpose. He often starts his morning by meeting with students about financial assistance.

Next, Garcia-Ornelas informs students of free events on campus that they may be interested in attending.

Additionally, he meets with students about opportunities to get involved in the community at BC. “We’re here to make BC a home,” he said.

Garcia-Ornelas started working in the Montserrat House as a first-year student in the Boston College School of Social Work. He had planned to work with high school students in urban and lowincome areas after he earned his degree.

But soon after joining the Montserrat team, he realized how important it was to serve low-income, high-need college students.

“The connections I built with students convinced me to stay here after graduation,” Garcia-Ornelas said.

Garcia-Ornelas’ own undergraduate experience began at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit liberal arts college in Kansas City, Mo. He felt out of place within his school’s racially and economically homogenous student body. Furthermore, Garcia-Ornelas did not receive the help he needed from the university—programs assisting low-income students like Garcia-Ornelas did not exist at Rockhurst.

During his junior year, Garcia-Ornelas transferred from Rockhurst to the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He

graduated with a BA in art and came to BC to earn his graduate degree.

He was drawn to the University’s Jesuit values and diverse student body, which was more racially and economically varied than the student population at Rockhurst.

“Some students say BC is the least diverse place they’ve ever been,” Garcia-Ornelas said. “But for me, it’s more diverse than any other place I’ve lived.”

The Montserrat Coalition supports economic diversity at BC. Established in 2008, Montserrat’s program and services grow with each passing year.

Last spring, the office held an end-ofyear reflection and celebration, bringing students together to look back on the academic year. For the first time, alumni were invited to the event and shared their stories.

“Alumni showed current BC kids where they are now,” Garcia-Ornelas said. “They want to start a mentorship program to help the current Montserrat students grow and find their niche on campus. They want to take initiative.”

One of the most challenging parts of Garcia-Ornelas’ job is not getting to help all students who are in need. Because Montserrat is a coalition, however, the organization maintains relationships with other BC services like the Career Center, Connors Family Learning Center, the Athletics Department, and many more.

By collaborating with one another, these organizations support students in ways that go beyond finance and toward academic and social growth.

This past November, the Montserrat House held a Thanksgiving dinner for students who could not afford to go home. The staff cooked students’ favorite dishes and celebrated as a BC family.

“Sometimes, students come to me with tears in their eyes,” Garcia-Ornelas said. “They may not leave the Montserrat House smiling big every time, but they often leave our home with a great sense of relief.”

Garcia-Ornelas and the Montserrat family also work to combat the stigma associated with being a BC student of high financial need. During 2016 freshmen orientation sessions, the Montserrat team spoke with incoming students about economic diversity and the importance of equal opportunity.

Because this is Garcia-Ornelas’ fourth year with Montserrat, he will see many of the first students he worked with graduate this May. “One of my first students was a struggling freshman with a 1.9 GPA,” GarciaOrnelas recalled. “She felt so lost. But now she’s a senior with a 3.5. She shares her experience with other Montserrat students, showing them that they can do it, too.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF FRANK GARCIA-ORNELAS

In an attempt to better understand the elusive ways of the Boston College faculty, The Heights set out on a mission to gather information on the semester-break activities of multiple professors across the different schools.

Compiled here are the blessed few who responded to our emails.

From the mundane to Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield, here’s a small dose of what your professors have been getting up to for the past month.

Margaret Lombe - School of Social Work “Over Winter Break, a graduate seminar comprised of 19 students from the School of Social Work, the Law School, and School of Theology and Ministry, traveled on an educational immersion trip to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The class was led by a team of three faculty from each of the schools mentioned: Professor Margaret Lombe, Mary Holper, and Andre Brouillette SJ, and by a coordinator from Mission and Ministry, Ryan Shannon. The class encountered the challenging reality and hope of the people of Haiti through engaging with the life, culture, and stories of those living on the island. The trip consisted of an exploration of the issues surrounding the Haiti and Dominican Republic border, immigration law, social welfare and visiting the Jesuit communities that are working to support education efforts through Fe y Alegria schools.”

Heather Cox Richardson - History Department “The truth is that, for the first time in my entire career, I took most of the time of the break off. That meant that I also did something I haven’t done in 25 years ... I watched TV. Wow, has it changed in 25 years! I was fascinated— and frustrated—by the network news.

I watched a number of NBC Nightly News broadcasts, and was struck first of all by the sheer number of commercials for drugs. It was clear from the advertisements that the news-watching demographic is relatively old, and that pharmaceutical companies are pushing drugs to those consumers incredibly aggressively. There was very little time for actual news by the time they had stapled a half-dozen drug commercials together at a time. But it was not just the advertising I found novel about the national news. I read the news pretty constantly, so I have a better handle on it than most people. The news broad-

casts covered the day’s stories, but the coverage was frighteningly superficial, and at least half the time got the story wrong enough to be entirely misleading. That is, the broadcast seemed to me to be several hours behind the latest information. And then, there were repeated stories about local weather, with reporters standing in extreme conditions—interesting if you lived in those areas, I’m sure, but kind of a waste of prime time for national news. And then there were the “human interest” stories, which seemed to have little point except to show folks understandably upset over a personal tragedy. It felt exploitative to me, for their tragedies did not illuminate a larger national problem, they simply showed individuals in crisis.

Watching the news helped me to understand why Americans of a certain age are so woefully uninformed about the world. The national news broadcast I watched had very little actual content, and most of that was misleading or shallow. It was an interesting experience, but now that I’m back at work, I won’t repeat it. It’s easier, faster, and way more instructive to read breaking stories on my laptop.”

Penelope Ismay - History Department “After the holidays, I spent 12 days holed up in a cabin in the hills and managed to finish my book! It was pretty spectacular. I feel rejuvenated coming into the new year and new semester.”

Rob Lehman - English Department “After grading final papers and exams, I spent the break revising a couple articles for publication—one dealing with the relationship between Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics and contemporary versions of formalism in literary criticism, the other dealing with the interplay between genius and taste in the modernist works of James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp. My other “project” was flying across the country with my 4-month-old daughter. I learned that, while babies don’t necessarily like to fly, this one at least loves the magic of O’Hare International Airport over the holidays. Don’t we all?”

Seth Jacobs - Histor y Department “I spent my Winter Break working on my current book project, “Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy.” Chapter four addresses the ambassadorships of Walter Hines Page

and Joseph P. Kennedy. I had completed all of the research for the Page sections of the chapter, and my goal was to complete those sections before classes resumed. Alas, I did not succeed. As of today, I’m not even halfway toward my goal, and I’ve already exceeded the word limit I forecast while outlining the chapter. I thought I’d get better at self-editing as I grew older and more experienced, but apparently not!”

David Quigley - Provost and Dean of Faculties “My past few weeks haven’t been that exciting. I celebrated Christmas at home in Cambridge with my wife and our three sons, we spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s visiting family in Manhattan and on the Jersey Shore, and since I returned to the office in early January, I’ve been working regularly with Mike Lochhead, the Executive Vice President, on a draft strategic plan for the university to present to the Board of Trustees for their review later this winter.”

Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield - English Department “I was in Hollywood last week and took a tour of Paramount Studios, the only movie studio still in Hollywood itself, and the oldest of all the studios.

We all give lip service to how we all live in virtual realities of all sorts, from social media and dating apps to actual VR, to fake news. But to see the actual studios where films are made and to hear the commentary from the tour guide about how everything—everything in a film is created, provided a blunt reminder that in some ways all reality is a construct. To explain, in addition to being an English professor, I build houses and am reminded daily that everything in a house has to be put there, built— the floors, walls, ceilings, but also the doors and windows, the door knobs, door stops, light fixtures and on and on. We live in our rooms and take them as given, like facts, but like facts they are made. This extends to our entire lives, as it turns out: all parts of us are constructions.

I suppose in that sense we’re off the hook for taking ourselves only seriously.”

In closing observations, it appears that statistically speaking, history department professors are the most likely to respond to unsolicited emails from college newspaper reporters.

So there’s a small snapshot of the world of academia over the semester break.

Until next year, loyal readers.

JULIA HOPKINS / PHOTO EDITOR | PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY SCHNEIDER

David Quigley (left) and Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield (right), among other professors, recounted their semester break experiences.

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;f k_\ =Xe[Xe^f `e IfjjË ?`jkfip :cXjj 9P J?8EEFE B<CCP 8jjk% =\Xkli\j <[`kfi For someone who has received threatening emails for her “left-leaning ideals,” Sarah Gwyneth Ross has only one trigger warning in her classroom— jumpsuits. The warning, in bright red and large lettering, flashes across the IMAX-like screen in Devlin 008, as 300 or so students in Europe in the World I (depending on if they all show up, they fill every seat and make do with the stairs and folding chairs in the back) exchange glances and a buzz of chatter, concerned about what’s to come.

Ross changes the slide. The room fills with the uber-harmonized first lines of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Is this the real life? There are hesitant cheers and looks of amused disbelief. For the next six minutes, Ross stands at her podium, watching the big screen, swaying her arms to the beat—even singing along.

So, why is Queen, its members’ cheekbones complemented by the aforementioned garish unitards, making an appearance in a Boston College histor y class? Because of Galileo, the bad boy of the Renaissance—an outsider in his own time who asserted that the earth revolved around the sun.

Freddie Mercury, Ross explains, was an outcast, too. His sexual orientation and subsequent illness landed him on the edge of society. But, like Galileo, that does not mean his stor y was not important, or that he would not be remembered long after for his actions. Ross emphasizes this in a core history course, dredging up overlooked information from the Middle Ages to the revolutionary period, in a way that is purely her own.

Despite her unique style of teaching history, education was never on Ross’ radar. Like most college students who think they have set ideas for future career plans, Ross arrived at Bowdoin, her alma mater, with the intention of majoring in English or history. But one class shifted her next four years,

taking her into the world of Latin and eventually Greek. History was placed on the backburner in the form of a minor, and Ross went full-steam ahead into classics.

“You know how it is—how life really often nudges you in directions that you wouldn’t necessarily have expected,” Ross said.

Similarly, fate came knocking after Ross finished her doctorate in history at Northwestern—there was an open position in the BC history department for a professor with a specialization in women’s European history. In fact, BC wanted her so badly that when Ross could not accept the job due to postdoctoral work at Princeton, the department left the spot open for her. Two years later, in 2008, she made her way to Chestnut Hill to begin teaching. In keeping with her original specialization, Ross has focused her time at BC on telling stories, not of kings, but of the common people of the day.

“There is this big story that can be told about different eras in any place in the world, but what about looking at these spaces and places and times from slightly more oblique angles and more everyday folks?” Ross said.

Straying from the typical narrative is a daunting task, but she faces it headon. There’s a stereotype for history professors, even on Google Images, of bespectacled men with sensiblytrimmed beards, lecturing in front of dozing students. Ross defeats this in small ways, beginning class with a rousing rendition of Adele’s “Hello” or, again, letting the big rocker hair of the mid-’70s do the talking for her.

Ross’s performative nature didn’t begin with her drumming excitement for lessons, but rather from her early childhood. Growing up with a playwright and actor father in Kansas City, Mo., Ross found an outlet in classical ballet.

When the time came to get serious about school or dance, she stepped back from a potential artistic career.

Students, especially when they are younger, forget that their teachers

have lives outside of their classroom or lecture hall, and that they are not confined to pages of research and study.

Students are all the more shocked when they see their teacher out and about, like your third-grade teacher in the restroom at SeaWorld Orlando. So too might they be to see Ross in adult lessons at the Boston Ballet twice a week, picking up her passion from grade school. She loves that everyone who walks in—lawyers, doctors, homemakers, and herself, the lone history professor—has committed him or herself to continuing something he or she is passionate about.

This passion even envelops Ross’ work as the director of the history core. Taking up the role in 2015, Ross has attempted to make known the classes that the department has to offer, including the new African Diaspora and the World course. She wants orientation leaders and programs geared toward freshmen to spread the word about the offerings, with the hope that freshmen will take advantage of the new options and feel that there is more choice outside of Western-focused history.

Ross’ desire for freshmen to feel included comes through in the classroom, from the very start of the year. At the end of her first Europe in the World lecture in the fall, Ross shifts gears to a map of BC on the big screen, a big arrow and “You are here” superimposed on it. A freshman-heavy class, it’s likely the first large classroom the first-year students have sat in, anxious at the prospect of their new lives away from home. Ross knows this. She looks at the image and takes a moment to remind them all that they are here, at BC, for a reason. The shuffles of notebooks and chit-chat quiet as she continues. They are here for a reason, and no one would rather be anywhere else. 12:50 p.m. approaches, and the students leave the classroom with a little more hope. Ross has a content smile on her face.

“Being an educator has endless variety,” Ross said. “It is also incredibly s at i s f y i n g . Ev e n th o u g h i t ’s a l s o terrifying.”

JOSH MENTZER / HEIGHTS STAFF

History professor Sarah Gwyneth Ross brings her particular brand of wit, including music and pop culture, to the classroom.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BOSTON COLLEGE MOCK TRIAL

Jkl[\ekj :fdg\k\ Xe[ C\Xie `e 9: DfZb Ki`Xc 9P 8J?C<P JK8L9<I =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Imagine an elderly man overwhelmed by the rapidly changing technology around him. Although he does his best to remain relevant in his field, he finds himself cast aside by his boss in favor of someone more adaptive. Could age discrimination have been the predominant factor in his firing, or was a lackluster job performance really to blame? These are the questions the Boston College Mock Trial program has to contend with in this year’s case.

The fictional incident, created by the American Mock Trial Association, took place at a newspaper-culture magazine in 2014. Sawyer Shaw, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, buys the magazine and turns it entirely online, which alters the target audience of the magazine toward younger people.

After working for Shaw for two years, writer Riley Winter is fired and accuses Shaw of firing him because of his age. Although within the report there is considerable evidence pointing toward age discrimination, there is equal data suggesting that Winter was not thriving in his career as a writer. As a team either for the prosecution or the defense, BC Mock Trial must prove that one of these sides of the argument surpasses the other.

Sam Kuchma, the coordinator of BC’s Mock Trial program and CSOM ’17, described how the group has already accomplished a lot in just this past semester, such as sending five teams to competitive invitationals at three different universities in the Northeast. BC Mock Trial also plans to send another team to Quinnipiac University for an upcoming competition.

Unlike other teams, which “stack” the competition by taking their best people and making what Kuchma calls a “super team,” BC Mock Trial strategizes differently.

“BC’s team is distinct in that we have four teams that operate individually,” he said. “I am the coordinator so I oversee all of them in terms of administration and planning for regionals and tournaments, but all four of these teams operate independently.”

In this year’s case, the teams have been broken up into prosecution and defense with three lawyers for either side, including an opening lawyer, middle attorney, and closing lawyer. The number of witnesses for both sides tends to vary, but is often more than the number of lawyers.

“As a witness you really get to have a lot of fun and use acting skills where as a lawyer

you are able to object, dive into case theory and acquire a lot of lawyer pre-academic skills,” Kuchma said.

All of these invitationals prepare the team for the culminating event: regionals. Two teams will compete in a regional competition at Yale at the end of February.

Kuchma will be hosting the BC Regionals, which will be held a few months from now right on campus.

As they approach, each team must take time to prepare. Kuchma’s team meets two or three times a week for two-hour practices, in which they work and collaborate on various aspects of the upcoming trial, such as “directs, crosses, opening statements, and closing statements.”

While Kuchma is the coordinator, Rohit Bachani, treasurer of Boston College Mock Trial and CSOM ’19, is responsible for making sure that the program is fiscally secure and complies with the standards set by the Office of Student Involvement, while also competing.

“Each team has its own dynamic and is familial and competitive at the same time and we all have a very strong rapport within the organization,” Bachani said.

Jordan Tessler, a Mock Trial member and MCAS ’19, also commented on how the program has taught her many valuable skills.

“I think that a lot of people think that Mock Trial is just for people that want to go to law school, but it’s not because it has taught me so much about public speaking and how to present yourself as part of a team,” Tessler said.

Kuchma, adding on to Tessler’s observation, noted the diversity of backgrounds in Mock Trial, including a biology major, a business school student, an international studies major, and a photographer and film studies major alongside pre-law students.

This includes Kuchma, who will be working for a consulting firm next year and hopes to go to law school after that.

“The reason I coordinate and try to run the program as best as possible is because the people are great and Mock Trial itself is amazing,” he said. “One of the goals I have before I leave is to try and increase campus awareness of Mock Trial and get more people to come out and try out.”

Actors, debaters, and brave souls alike find a place in Boston College Mock Trial, where they seek justice, while also gaining a stronger sense of confidence, self-awareness, and community in the process.

K_\ Dlij[Xp <]]\Zk :_Xgk\i (1 K_\ Nfic[ `j JkiXe^\ ?\i\ AF8EE8 FO=FI; “The Mursday Effect” is a humor piece created pseudonymously by two authors, with each devoting him or herself to an alternating chapter each week. The newest installment in the serial will appear in each Monday issue of The Heights. It can also be found online with the previous chapters.

Though it happened several years ago, one can still hear its name uttered over the sound of frozen mozzarella sticks rolling around the Mac kitchen. When one passes the statue of St. Ignatius, the wind whispers the same song. The space where the occasional mouse skitters out into one’s suite, too, carries this sound, singsongy in tune.

“Mursday. Mursday.”

By now many of those who experienced that fateful day have gone on to their Great Reward—graduation and a high-paying job, as it is—but the remnants of the events pervade in those who dare to speak it out loud.

“There were so many snow days on Monday they switched the schedule around,” Darren Blake, young enough to not remember who Aaron Carter is and CSOM ’20, says

in the Chocolate Bar to someone who also knows nothing about the world.

The truth is, Mursday was more than Boston College holding Monday classes on Thursday. Some have forgotten this by now.

Many never even knew. This is the story of what really happened on Mursday 2015, and the events that occurred because of it. *** George awoke Mursday morning late for his 9 a.m. economics class, and it took him a moment to realize that, due to these Mursday shenanigans, he didn’t actually have that class today. So more accurately, it should be said that George awoke quite early for his noon accounting class, but that does not adequately capture the acute anxiety with which George awoke and looked at his phone. The relief set in, and George felt even more soothed by the absence of his roommate, Trent, in their double in Fitzpatrick. He was the worst—constantly chatting about the drone he had purchased specifically to play fetch with his dog.

He sat up in his bed, his legs hanging off the side as he made the precarious jump down from the somewhat lofted bed. He meandered six feet over to his desk, which

was littered with lightly used textbooks. He noticed at the top of the pile a certain $300 purple book for his accounting class. That’s weird, he thought. He could have sworn that book was blue. Without considering this perplexing matter further, he stuffed it into his bag and walked out the door.

George settled down into one of the high tables at Mac with his Egg McBC, the thinner alternative to the bagel, egg, and cheese. Those sandwiches weren’t even out that day. George took notice of this, mostly because the ham in the Egg McBC tasted of Lunchables, but continued eating anyway.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw Trent balancing three take-away containers.

“Hey, George!” Trent shouted, prompting looks from several irritated students.

He jumped up a little in his chair at the enthusiasm in Trent’s voice. Trent was a notorious monotone talker. What was he doing yelling across Mac like some kind of cordial human? How had he already not said something about his dumb drone?

“Hey, Trent. What’s going on?” George mumbled halfheartedly, as one does when he or she has to interact with someone he or she does not like.

“Nothing much! I’m enjoying this change in schedule. But I really do miss my pet turtle at home,” Trent said.

“You have a turtle? I thought it was only your dog, Howard,” George said. “The one you got the drone for.”

“A drone? Where would I even get one of those? And for a dog, no less! You okay, George?”

Trent’s brows were furrowed, showing a concerned look George had never seen before. Was he okay? Things seemed different from yesterday.

“I’m fine, thanks. I have to go to class now,” George said as he leapt down from the chair, hurrying off to Fulton.

As he entered Fulton 135, George already felt like the weight of the world was slowly crushing him—someone had taken his seat. This is the worst thing to ever happen to me, he thought. I will never recover from this. He slipped into an open spot in the first row. It truly was a terrible thing.

“Okay, folks, time to whip out your calculators and do some accounting!” George’s professor said. She looked down at his poor, sad face in his unfortunate seat. He took out his calculator and purple textbook and

got to work on a problem: a $10,000 loan with 6 percent interest due at the end of the fiscal year.

“That should be $600,” George whispered to himself, which does not happen much in real life but does for the sake of written pieces. But the calculator showed 582. George looked back at his old seat longingly, the space occupied by a curlyhaired teenager who was slamming the buttons on her calculator, clearly experiencing the same mathematical impossibilities.

What kind of bizarre world was this?

Where colors changed, personalities twisted, and not even math, beautiful logical math, could be trusted?

After class, George spotted the girl hurrying out of the room as she threw a worried glance over her shoulder. He quickened his pace and caught up to her by the statue of St. Ignatius. He pulled his calculator out of his pocket, flashing the 582 in her face. She looked back at him, her mouth agape (which means open, not to be confused with the Latin agape, from the latte thing).

“Meet me in McGuinn 110 at 3 p.m.,” she said.

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8Zk`fe Dljk =fccfn 9fjkfe Nfd\eËj DXiZ_ On Saturday, over 175,000 people took to the Boston Common to participate in the Boston Women’s March for America. The march was a part of a larger movement of similar demonstrations that took place in cities across the United States and around the world.

The Boston Women’s March had one of the largest turnouts, with the highest being at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. The international initiative was planned with a positive message at its center, encouraging people around the world to stand up for women’s rights and equality. Over 100 Boston College students attended the march.

The tone of Saturday’s march contrasted that of Friday’s Resist Trump: Occupy Inauguration rally, organized by the Socialist Alternative and Socialist Students, as well as a number of other groups. On Friday, protesters took a more combative approach, with some choosing to burn flags in response to Trump’s inauguration as president, creating a much different scene on the Common and in the city streets.

While demonstrations such as marches and protests are paramount to combating oppression and giving a voice to the public, it is important to consider the message and motivation of these events. Those centered around a specific issue or cause, such as the Women’s March, are much more relatable and can attract significant attention, demonstrated by prominent speakers at Saturday’s march such as Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. Standing up for what you believe in is important, but doing it in a way that can effect real change is important as well.

The Women’s March movement presented a much needed departure from the negativity following the election of Donald Trump, instead ushering in a wave of optimism and leaving millions poised to work for the goal of women’s equality.

MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

-Barack Obama, Feb. 5 Speech

One can learn more from one’s mistakes than successes, and protests such as the Women’s March represent a realization that a renewed spirit and steadfast unison is the only way forward.

And while protesting is a powerful medium, there are other concrete actions that students can take to contribute to the cause of the Women’s March in working for women’s rights and equality. Writing letters to and calling your congressmen and congresswomen is a concrete and direct means of influencing governmental decision making.

The congressman currently representing BC’s campus is Joe Kennedy, a relatively young politician with a progressive record in Washington. Students should also reach out to representatives in their home states, at the local, state, and national levels, to promote change from the ground up.

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Participating in a day of activism is good, but enacting continuous efforts to influence change is better and the only way that the goals of movements such as the Women’s March will come to fruition.

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<DD8 >I<:F THE RES AND RESOLUTIONS - Climate change sucks just about as much as anything. It might not be No. 1 necessarily, but it’s up there.

Sometimes though, the impending doom of our planet and species can be pushed to the back of one’s mind, as the unnaturally-warm January air hits the skin. Donning shorts he figured would be retired for the season, the freshman glided down away from his dorm. Away from his worries, and out of the bubble of campus. He reached the Reservoir and began his run along the gravel loop. Music blasted in his ears, but the escape and the calm could not have been more real. The water showcased the colors of the sky as the sun slowly fell, families walked together with their dogs in the warm evening. In this sanctuary, the overwhelming universe of BC can be forgotten.

The swans lining the rocky walls surrounding the water do not fret over Friday-night plans, and the trees that sway in the wind pay no mind to Snapchat stories and superficiality. Reaching the far side of the path, the freshman turned to admire the view of campus from afar. He looked on at the picturesque view of Gasson towering above the tree line and marveled at the irony of how a place in its shadow could help shed so much light on what it represents. Here, campus felt like a distant Narnia, separate from reality, as if it wasn’t just across the street. Sometimes it’s good to step back and realize we’re not alone in this world.

Rushing out of my exam on the night of the presidential election, I bursted into the brisk evening air before I’d even put both arms into my coat. Nerves were sparking inside me, and they had nothing to do with the exam. I was half-terrified that it might not go the way I hoped and half-exhilarated at the thought of America being on the verge of electing its first female president. Anxiously and somewhat excitedly, I watched the election results roll in, believing that my country would choose to move in a positive direction that would affect real and necessary change.

Hour by hour, my hopes dwindled and the reality of what was about to happen sank in. I knew that we would feel the repercussions of America’s decision for the next four years and beyond. The following day was tainted by a certain numbness and denial. It couldn’t be true. America had elected a man who, by his own admission, had committed sexual assault instead of a highly qualified, educated woman. There are many other points of President Donald Trump’s platform that one could contend with, but the blatant sexism surrounding this election struck a particular chord within me.

How could this situation be explained to little girls? Trump’s victory exemplified to young women everywhere that even if you do your absolute best and pour your heart and soul into something, whatever mistakes you make will defeat you in a way that the mistakes of an incompetent man never will defeat him. No woman has ever been president, not to mention the fact that women have held the hard-won right to vote for less than a hundred years.

This election was definitive proof that the sexism that pervades every aspect of American society still exists at the highest tier of political power. Of the 22 high-ranking members of Trump’s incoming cabinet, only four are female, when including Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the United

Nations. This does, however, correlate to the current situation in Congress. There are a combined 104 women in the Senate and the House of Representatives, which amounts to only 19 percent of all members of Congress. This statistic is startling, considering that the United States is 50.8 percent female, according to the most recent census.

To provide some context for just how ludicrous this is, consider the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s list of the percentages of women in parliamentary assemblies throughout the world: Rwanda is No. 1, with its parliament proportionally comprised of more women than any other country’s. The U.S. comes in at No. 100 on the list. The fact that we are ranked so low is downright disturbing for a nation that prides itself on equality.

During Trump’s campaign, the political climate morphed into something I had not encountered in any previous elections I had witnessed or learned about. Since when has it been acceptable for a presidential candidate to threaten to jail his opponent?

For a candidate to interrupt his opponent every few words during a debate and to later dismiss her as a “nasty woman?” It was certainly never before possible for a candidate to be involved in such a scandalous and vulgar incident as the “pussy grab” video and recover from it to secure the presidency.

Brushing Trump’s remarks off as simple “locker room talk” is demeaning to mature and respectable men and frankly insulting to women. A man who once claimed that he could just “grab” women by their privates now sits at the desk in the Oval Office, which validates his behavior by allowing him to get away with it. Excusing behavior like Trump’s permits sexism to continue to have a malignant presence in America, and I do not think that it is outrageous to be wary of a man who views women in that way and is now the leader of the free world. Will he realize that there are fully capable and intelligent women in Congress and the rest of the country, or will he view all women as he viewed former Miss Universe Alicia Machado: based on her weight and physical appearance?

Our new President and Vice President have concerning records on women’s

health. Trump commented on the campaign trail that “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who receive abortions. Mike Pence is infamous for restricting access to abortions in Indiana and working to slash funding for Planned Parenthood during his time in the House and as Governor. In 2016, he signed the Indiana Omnibus Abortion Bill, which banned abortions based on the race, sex, or disability of the fetus, and required doctors to perform an ultrasound at least 18 hours prior to the procedure and to preserve the remains of the fetus in order to offer it to the mother. A federal judge later blocked the law.

The American government, with a presidential cabinet and a Congress largely in the hands of men, is poised to make decisions about women and their bodies with less input from women than from men.

This begs the question of what women can do to combat this form of oppression.

Sitting back and doing nothing will allow our right to equality and our own choices to be taken away from us. If this seems unappealing, then being bystanders is not an option.

The Women’s Marches that took place around the world, including here in Boston, proved to us all that women from across the globe are not prepared to surrender to the misogynistic attitude of this administration. The momentum and passion women are experiencing now cannot be allowed to die down over the next four years. We must continue to make the voice of the female half of America heard, to fight sexism, and to support women in positions of power.

Women in America are used to inequality. We are used to men receiving more than we do— more power, more money, more respect—and we are accustomed to less greatness being expected of us in life.

Now, more than ever, is not a time to allow the current order of societal norms to perpetuate and be expanded upon: it is a time to oppose ignorance, sexism, restrictive laws, and blatant disrespect. It is not too much to ask for equality.

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K_\ :Xj\ ]fi X :ffb`e^ :cXjj THE BITTER END - Rudely disturbing the peace like someone blasting music in a dorm bathroom at 6 a.m., the end of syllabus week is upon us. The time has come for shenanigans to subside, and for students everywhere to face the music. Well, really, to turn down the music, because the curtains are falling. It is a sad event to lay to rest the freedom and carelessness of this brief era, a shame to shut the gate to the playground. There may be students brave enough to venture to keep the spirit alive, and to continue to live as though the day to follow will come without essays and tests. But even they will eventually find the gust of academia too strong to stay grounded in their haphazard lifestyle. Their bodies will leave the ground, and the twister will carry them away from Cleveland Circle and right back to their dorm lounge, pen in hand. Although there may be ebbs in the wind, believe not that the cyclone will lay dormant forever.

It is best to wipe the beer stains off your textbook covers, finally log into your canvas account, and bunker down for the storm.

WHERE’D ALL THE GOOD TURKEYS GO - A squadron of maybe 7-10 turkeys used to roam the grasslands of Upper Campus during first semester. As of late, the turkeys have gone missing. This is a tragedy. If anyone out there knows the whereabouts of these majestic creatures, please let us know.

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M8C<I@< :?<I9<IF I have nine tubes of acrylic paint in a plastic bag under my bed. They sit there untouched, probably undergoing some kind of chemical reaction in the shadows of my empty suitcases and laundry basket. These tubes are a memento of my dalliance with the Fine Arts Department of Boston College. They remind me that, although I am not a painter, I have taken Painting Foundations and I have the leftovers to prove it.

I enjoyed Painting: the quiet of the empty studio, the swish of paintbrushes, smudges of acrylic paints on my forehead. But let’s not play around, I chose to take Painting for one reason alone: to complete the dreaded core. Compared to dance or theatre, painting seemed like a safe choice. But what if there was another choice? One that didn’t require a trip to Blick or a confrontation with stage fright. What if there was a choice for those who aren’t inspired by music or drawings, but rather the hiss of fresh eggs in hot butter or the clatter of pans in the kitchen? What if cooking was considered a fine art?

I’ve always suspected that cooking does more than just satisfy hunger.

When my grandfather, a chef and the greatest eater I’ve ever known, unveils his Grand Marnier soufflés each Christmas, my family sits in awe. When my dad arranges seared scallops on a heaping pan of paella, he does so with the tact and vision of da Vinci or Caravaggio. Although, admittedly, my dishes often look more like Picassos than Renoirs, the idea still stands. Cooking and cooking well is not merely a trade or a skill. It is an art, and a useful one at that.

Some schools recognize the link between artistic vision and food.

Schools such as the University of New Hampshire, and Boston University offer courses or programs in the culinary arts. Within these programs, students learn and practice the techniques used in professional kitchens. They also study the indelible connection between culture and food. Although BC offers courses such as Food Writing and Food in African American History, we have few other classes that bring students into the kitchen and allow them to explore the techniques, traditions, and trends within the food world. BC students are not given the opportunity to study food, and we are worse off for it.

In the summer of 2015, I took the Food Writing course in Paris. As we poured over essays by MFK Fisher,

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Although I firmly believe than anyone with a stovetop and a frying pan can cook an egg, exceptional cooking requires careful practice, vision, and creativity. What more does the Fine Arts core hope for? The addition of a culinary core class would dispel the idea that the arts are limited to visual or auditory media. It would affirm the idea that when we create things that inspire and evoke

emotion, we create art. This can be an oil painting or a blackberry galette. And a cooking course need not mimic Home Ec or a simple lesson at Sur La Table.

With proper planning, this course would follow the structure of other Fine Arts core classes. Rather than learning about shading or brushstrokes, Cooking I students would master knife work, roasting, and plating. They would learn from the work of Julia Child, Auguste Escoffier, and Alice Waters, as well as contemporary chefs in Boston.

BC’s failure to recognize cooking as a fine art reveals a deeper distrust of culinary arts on campus. Most students live on campus, and most have a meal plan.

Although some students have kitchens in on-or-off campus apartments, many eat out. I have seen an anxiety in the kitchen similar to that seen in Painting I or Drawing I, the fear of trying something complicated and expressive. Practicing and experimenting in the kitchen can be a scary thing, especially when stovetops and finicky apartment fire alarms are involved. Unfortunately, there are no academic outlets for this fear. No classroom with a stocked refrigerator and a stack of aprons and a professor trained in the culinary arts. No place to learn about and demystify fine cooking.

An elevation of the culinary arts would do more than ease the stress of the core. It would bring life to food on campus. It would remind students that they can eat more than El Pelon and halfhearted salads from Lower. They need not travel far or spend that much money. With practice and vision and perhaps a stint in a Cooking I course, students could gain confidence in the kitchen. More importantly, students might begin to view food as more than just nourishment or a guilty pleasure, they could see it as a form of expression and a thing of beauty. An art of incomparable joy and reward.

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>8II<KK I<PEFC;J Both sides of the political aisle in America throw hyperbolic statements at each other in an often successful strategy to sway the public. Outrage eventually erupts when modern muckrakers uncover fake statistics or misleading information. But sometimes this false information becomes so common that it’s hard to discern the truth.

One recurring misunderstanding among the public is the view of the American budget system and the idea of where exactly our money goes. It’s unsettling to see some illustrations showing how much the U.S. spends on its military compared to, say, infrastructure. But it’s important to understand that these charts don’t tell the whole story.

Writers seldom discern discretionary spending from non-discretionary spending—in other words, money the U.S. has to spend on certain programs vs. money the U.S. can choose to spend on certain programs.

As of 2015, according to data from National Priorities, the U.S. expenses are about $3.8 trillion. Non-discretionary spending makes up about 65 percent and discretionary spending is roughly 30 percent. The remaining five percent or so helps pay the interest on our debt. A chart showing over 50 percent of expenses going to the military is most likely displaying discretionary spending. In reality, military expenses represent about 17 percent of total spending—the combination of discretionary, non-discretionary, and interest spending, far less than the propagated 50 percent. It is important to understand, however, that 17 percent of the U.S. budget is no small sum of money. Our military spending vastly surpasses that of other nations, but given the size of our GDP, world leadership roles, and international involvement, this spending is justified.

So, where are the majority of U.S. expenses going? In terms of the entire budget, roughly 60 percent of expenses go to funding social services called entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security).That means Congress can’t touch 60 percent of U.S. spending because it’s already allocated to the above. The remaining 40 percent must then be distributed among the military, education, research, infrastructure, and other facets of the budget. While entitlement spending is morally grounded—we have to provide for people who can’t provide for themselves—we need to understand that it is also the reason our country can’t spend its resources on other needs like education.

Of course, it’s difficult to withhold social services from dependants, so the military seems like an easy target to take away funding from. People commonly argue that we spend too much on deadly weapons and not enough on the well-being of the public, but that isn’t substantiated. The smaller 17 percent of our expenses don’t solely fund bombs and guns—they fund the salaries, dental care, and medical care of military personnel, the upkeep of bases and facilities worldwide, and the research that sets the stage for a safer country and a safer world. The priority of the military isn’t to create a sadistic war machine that drains the economy. Instead, its goals are to protect our nation’s policies, views, and people, and to defend human liberties worldwide, benefiting millions of noncombatants.

We can spend less on the military and provide more funding for, say, infrastructure, but we can only downsize the military so much. Everything else the government could spend its money on takes a financial hit in order to provide the funding for entitlements, and most politicians don’t have the guts to change the status quo for fear of not being re-elected.

Yet if we think long-term, an overhaul of U.S. infrastructure, especially our energy and technology infrastructure, would sustain a growing economy, provide jobs, and lift people out of poverty—the same people that currently rely upon social services. The real question is how we can do this without depriving dependents of their standard of living. The answer is unclear, but slashing funding for the military or infrastructure, purposes appropriate for federal spending, is certainly not it, because such purposes don’t cost as much as some might claim.

Before we can even begin to think about budget reform, we need to have an open-mind to see where our money is going instead of impulsively following a surface understanding.

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Conversation comes easy for the affable and gregarious mayor of Dallas, Texas, Mike Rawlings—whether he’s paying a visit to the destitute and downtrodden camped out under the I-45 overpass, hobnobbing with the kind of high-powered Dallasites immortalized in the hit ’80s TV show Dallas, or taking a few moments to make the day of a young girl heading into a hospital waiting room with her father.

Broad-shouldered, barrel-chested, and checking in at well over 6 feet, the mayor is a towering presence in the room. His gait is slow and unsteady, a remnant of his time as defensive end for Boston College football.

He has plenty of brains to go along with the brawn: he graduated from BC magna cum laude in 1976 and one credit short of a triple major in Philosophy, Communication, and Fine Art. “He’s a bit of Renaissance man,” his wife, Micki Rawlings, said to WFAA in Dallas, and “a bit of a rockstar.”

In addition to taking classes full-time and playing for the Eagles on scholarship, Rawlings waited tables on Newbury Street to pay his way through school. During this time, he says he really started to learn about leadership and adversity. Originally from Texas, he grew fond of New England and still spends some of his time off there, but the decision to move back to Texas and stay in Dallas for all of his professional life was an easy one.

“Dallas has been so good to me,” he said.

His office—on the fifth floor of City Hall— is near the heart of Dallas proper, hugging the base of the city center’s glitzy, gleaming skyline. It takes patience and contemplation to appreciate Dallas City Hall, which takes the shape of an inverted pyramid and the color of drab cement. For this building, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. From one perspective, it could be a brutish bomb shelter. From another, an avant-garde masterpiece.

At the time of groundbreaking, City Hall was part of “Goals for Dallas,” a broad-sweeping campaign of then-Mayor Erik Jonsson to fix the city’s image problem. This, following

the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and decades of racialized, vitriolic local politics, was a time in which Dallas had earned the ignominious moniker “City of Hate.”

Rawlings takes after Jonsson. “[Jonsson] said something that has always stuck with me … ‘Dream no small dreams,’” Rawlings said.

Rawlings also includes native Texan and former President Lyndon B. Johnson as a politician from whom he draws inspiration.

Jonsson, who presided over the revival of the city, and Johnson, who spearheaded the passage of watershed civil rights legislation, were no strangers to dreaming big.

And neither is Rawlings. At a time when politics are deeply divisive and partisanship is at a fever pitch across the country, mayors like Rawlings are in a difficult position.

Now a seasoned politico, Rawlings had no political experience on his resume when he entered the mayoral race in 2011. Following his time at BC, he worked his way up from entry level to chief executive at Tracy-Locke, a prominent advertising agency, before switching over for a six-year stint as CEO of Pizza Hut. “Business is an inch wide and mile deep and being a mayor is a mile wide and inch deep,” he said. “It’s a different approach but the work ethic, the critical analysis you need, your ability to team with other people, is still an extremely important part of leading a city.”

Leading up to his bid for mayor, he had cut his teeth on various public issues, most notably his initiative as “homeless czar” of Dallas, which gave him a platform to explore what he called “public safety issues, humanitarian issues, mental illness, substance abuse,” and learn from these experiences.

As a Democrat, Rawlings has to deal with a difficult political reality—Texas is a sea of red, and Dallas a small spot of blue. Are there ideological differences between him and his state counterparts? Absolutely, he concedes.

In fact, he has made ripples in national news time and time again for his outspoken stances on gun control, immigration, international trade, and Syrian refugees. This puts him at the unpopular end of the spectrum in Texas politics, where the majority has staked out op-

posing stances on these hot-button issues.

For the most part, though, Rawlings is effective at staying above the fray, cutting deals, and meeting in the middle. After all, he can’t afford to get caught up on ideological snags or partisan bickering—he has potholes to fill, trash to pick up, and a police force to run.

For him, fixing things is more important than adhering to abstract party lines or ideological doctrines.

“Look, everybody wants to grow,” he said.

“That’s the thing; the key is how we keep this growth going. I’ve been able to find common ground with Republicans on that, and I think that’s good.”

And grown Dallas has. Rawlings has presided over “eye-popping” population growth and explosive economic growth, according to the Dallas Morning News. Dallas was “last in, first out” of the Great Recession, Rawlings said.

Downtown Dallas, teeming with cranes, multinational headquarters, and apartment buildings on the rise, is where the boom manifests itself most. It also splits North and South Dallas down the middle. The divide is more than geographic. To the north is a mostly-white, well-off suburbia of manicured lawns, luxury cars, and private schools. To the south is the city’s beleaguered but rebounding, minority-heavy, and comparatively-poorer neighborhoods.

Throughout his political career, Rawlings has managed to straddle the north-south line well. He lives in Preston Hollow, a plush North Dallas neighborhood, but the marquee issue of his mayoral campaign was revitalizing the southern flank of the city. He cites “getting momentum and growth in Southern Dallas” as his proudest accomplishment to date. He has drawn on support from the city’s elite while also seeking out the problems the city’s people are facing on the ground.

When asked about the most interesting people he has met on the job, his answer was immediate and decisive: a “real neighborhood hero,” Anna Hill, and a prominent philanthropist, Margaret McDermott. Hill is a woman living in one of the roughest parts of South Dallas, who “just on her own, with the help a few people and a few neighbors,

has taken back her neighborhood.” Talking about McDermott, who is 105 years old, he said, “what she’s done for the city, the money that she’s given, the grace she’s done it with” has been inestimable.

“I really think the women in Dallas have done a great job and that story has not been told fully,” Rawlings said. This dovetails nicely with another core of his political career, a message central to his public persona—fighting domestic abuse and violence. He is not soft-spoken or empathetic to the macho attitudes or locker room type behavior that accompanies or gives way to abusive relationships. Despite being a serious Dallas Cowboys fan, he wasn’t afraid to call the franchise out when it signed Greg Hardy, a defensive end with serious domestic violence allegations.

It was a “shot in the gut,” he told the Dallas Morning News.

His tenure as mayor has not been perfectly successful or entirely optimistic. Homelessness is still a big problem, one that he could not stymie as easily or as quickly as he might have hoped. Certain parts of the city south of the Trinity River—while facing increasing prospects—are in dire straits. With the development and gentrification of South Dallas, affordable housing projects have been shortchanged. And now, the city is struggling with enormous debt for the pension fund for the city’s firefighters and police officers. The city faces what The New York Times has called a “Texas-size threat of bankruptcy.”

Perhaps the worst day of his time in office was July 7, 2016, when tragedy struck in downtown Dallas. Like Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov. 22, 1963—a delusional ex-military sniper, wielding a rifle and perching above Dallas’s streets—a shooter unleashed a horrific wave of violence, leaving five police officers dead and nine wounded. The site of the 2016 shootings was just blocks away from the “X” on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, marking where Kennedy was shot.

Many feared the worst—the boiling over of already-frayed racial relations and tensions within the police community. On the contrary, Rawlings and Dallas Police Chief David Brown handled the city’s response in a manner that many around the country hailed

as graceful and statesmanlike. Dallas did not need any overhaul. It showed that it couldn’t be more removed from the “City of Hate” that it once was.

“You’re never ready for anything like that,” Rawlings said. “Fortunately we had pretty good relationships and were able to come together. I was very proud of the city for that and my small part in that.” He downplays his role in mending the wounds left by the violence and working to unify and strengthen the city, state, and nation in the face of a devastating, senseless injustice.

Because ultimately, that’s who mayors are. They put the city and its people over all else, and place the premium on progress by whatever means—that’s what mayors do. As the country licks its wounds following the brutal, no-holds-barred presidential campaign of 2016 and the many years before of scorchedearth, tit-for-tat mudslinging between Democrats and Republicans, public servants like Rawlings can’t get caught up in the food fight.

They have too much work to do.

On post-mayor plans, he’s genuine in his emphasis to stay in the now: “I’m not even thinking about that … I still have two and a half more years in my term.” When asked about running for statewide positions, he demurs—it seems unlikely at this point. But even if higher office is in his future, he can’t afford to think about a seat in Congress or the governor’s mansion in Austin right now. He has his work cut out for him in the upsidedown pyramid and the city surrounding it.

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And, despite hectic traffic on the T, many students from BC arrived before the performances and speeches began shortly after 11 a.m. Each performance was accompanied by an interpreter who translated the words into sign language.

After an opening song by the Providence, R.I. singer and songwriter, Emeline, a series of performances from groups such as Voice Rising—a feminist chorus—took place before

Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09 took the stage to deliver a passionate address.

Walsh told the crowd about the sickening feeling that he developed while watching President Trump take action after his first hours in office. But seeing the vibrant and fighting faces that filled the Common cured Walsh of that nauseous feeling, and drove him to consider what must come next.

“And we need to continue to stand united no matter what happened nationally,” Walsh said. “In Boston we are going to fight for our right, we’re going to fight for our families, we’re going to fight for our women, we’re going to fight for the LGBTQ community, we are not going to stand down … We need to amplify up all our voices. But it’s not what we do today that’s important. It’s what we do

tomorrow, that’s what we have to do.”

Walsh stressed the importance of organizing everything from the neighborhood to women in the workplace, as assured those present that Massachusetts would be the first state to fight back against the Trump administration.

“We’re going to stand up, we’re going to take this fight from Boston Common to the Mall on Washington to let the president know that he’s supposed represent all of us,” Walsh said.

After Walsh concluded his speech, Senator Elizabeth Warren moved to the microphone to deliver a fiery speech. Warren highlighted the groups marginalized by the election, along with the struggles that they will face in the coming months, and

explained that President Trump will attempt to rig an already uneven playing field in favor of those at the top.

“Now we can whimper, we can whine, or we can fight back,” Warren said. “We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear we are here, we will not be silent, we will not play dead, we will fight for what we believe in. We have a vision, and that vision defines who we are as a people. First we fight for basic dignity and respect for [everyone].”

Her powerful words proved to be the perfect jolt of energy that the endless crowd needed. Shortly after 1 p.m., the sun poked out from behind the clouds, the sea of pink hats began rippling, and the people of Boston began their march.

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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No I didn’t. I just lied. In print too, no less. That first sentence was what we in the business (the non-profit college newspaper editing/columnizing/quietly-weepingover-our-lost-youth business) refer to as a “lede.” I hit you with a little ol‘-fashioned crazy opening and then drew you into my column, where I now unleash my cogent, poignant, intellectual, stimulating, frustrating, thought-provoking, bizarre, unnecessary, overwrought, underprepared, and above all concise musings.

So now that we’ve got that out of the way in a manner both direct and engaging, I can transition smoothly toward my main points, stuff I’ve learned that might be worth writing about.

Solitude.

Originality.

Mac and cheese.

Not Solitude.

Having completed precisely 64.08 percent (rounded up) of my total days as a Boston College undergraduate, I believe that I have developed something approaching an understanding of life at this wacky university. And if I haven’t, I’ll just pretend I have. Unearned confidence gets ’em every time.

During said time, the first of my many profound observances and discoveries was the importance of solitude. As a child in the untamed Wisconsin wilderness, I spent many a night tracking moose through the forest so that the little ones could have supper. In the freezing cold, with only my two hands, a trusty pair of boots, and a smartphone, I braved the world and came to the understanding that in solitude there is peace, and there is freedom.

Then I came here, got a forced triple, and learned that in communal living there is stank, and there is noise. In the sweaty quagmire of freshman living, I could feel my mind slowly melting like an ice sculpture that has not been properly stored inside some sort of refrigeration unit.

The library became my refrigeration

unit.

Among the books, I regained solitude and wrote strange and slightly annoying columns. The silence was total, except for the interruption of some guy eating a bag of potato chips and occasionally passing gas. In this pulchritudinous cornucopia of unnecessarily fancy vocabulary, I was officially at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (just running with the ice sculpture metaphor now). For hours, I would stack books on the floor between the shelves, open each volume one by one, smell them thoroughly, sigh deeply and loudly, and roll around in the pile of literary knowledge. I have been kicked out of the library 17 times, if you were wondering.

I also learned one way to make it past the library and function as a human being in the real world: originality. In whatever you’re doing, you gotta be original. It makes the everyday interesting and tolerable. That’s why I frequently scream “Look out. The potatoes have overtaken us. All hail the mongoose,” in crowded dining halls. Super original.

This world is filled with people who walk around day after day and blend into the woodwork like the army of gigantic chameleons living in my meat-curing

shack. We’re all going to die, in case you forgot, so may as well try to bleed a little originality out of your bruised and beaten soles. If you were wondering, that last line was not a typo. I am referring to the soles of your feet and not the soul of your essential being or whatever. Walking, driving, bunny-hopping, or using any preferred mode of transportation: get around and make something real of yourself before the aging, disease, and unavoidable death all really start to hit you.

That’s pretty much what I’ve tried to do, albeit in stupid and weird ways. I spend time alone to think, to despair, and to understand, and then I try to make myself, and the work I do, worthwhile, original, and decent. And with all that, I’m still pretty much a sad, little mess of a human being, but don’t worry about it.

Before I draw this column to an entertaining and memorable close, I’d like to set a final scene to illustrate one of the points I learned a little later in my time at BC. I’m sitting in the Stokes lounge, reading Walker Percy, when I stop, put down the book, and stare at a wall.

Life is pain. Everything falls apart.

“Everyone I know goes away in the end,” according to Johnny Cash, quoting Trent

Reznor.

Dang.

But then I hear my name, and I look up to see someone walking toward me: “Hey, how are you?”

“All right. Totally not thinking about futility and cancer and pain. How about you?”

The conversation continues as many conversations do, until this person leaves.

Everything is a little better now. So the final point: Not Solitude. Sometimes to stay sane, you have to leave the solitude, paddle your canoe to shore, drive on down to the general store, and talk to Dale about the weather while he wraps your sandwich. It keeps the wheels turning, and by wheels I mean … I don’t know, some internal mind thing, you get it. People might be horrible, but they can also be not horrible, which is nice.

And as for the mac and cheese point that I promised above, which may in fact be the greatest lesson I have learned at BC: Mac and cheese tastes good when you eat it. That’s all. Until next time.

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On Saturday afternoon, Ky Bowman’s red hair made a return to Conte Forum.

So, too, did his shooting stroke.

After scoring a combined 13 points in his last two North Carolina 90 games, the Boston College 82 freshman point guard erupted for 33 points, including seven 3-pointers, against No. 9 North Carolina—the school he was originally committed to for football.

Wi th h i s te a m trailing 27-17 midway through the first half, Bowman took over the game. The two-time ACC Freshman of the Week drilled a corner three, then hit another triple a minute later.

On the next trip down the court, Bowman drove strong to the hoop, drawing a foul and finishing the bucket. On the other end, he picked Tar Heel guard Nate Britt’s pocket and streaked down the court for an easy slam, putting the exclamation mark on a single-handed 10-0 run that tied the game at 27-27.

But as hard as Bowman tried to will his team to victory, it wasn’t enough for the Eagles (9-11, 2-5 Atlantic Coast) against one of the most talented teams in the country. North Carolina (18-3, 6-1) used a combined 56 points from its lethal starting frontcourt to escape Conte Forum with a 90-82 win.

In the first half, graduate transfer Mo Jeffers did a stellar job protecting the paint in spite of a noticeable size disadvantage. The 6-foot-9 forward finished with five rebounds, three blocks, and a steal, along with altering several other shots near the rim. Thanks to its

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interior defense, BC allowed no doubledigit scorers in the first half and only trailed 34-33.

Ironically, it was when the Tar Heels switched to a smaller lineup that the Eagles struggled to rebound. Instead of playing the two-headed monster of Isaiah Hicks and Kennedy Meeks together, UNC head coach Roy Williams alternated between them, opening up the lanes for his quick guards to penetrate. In turn, the Eagles’ help defense often left the offensive boards ripe for put-backs.

“When they had Hicks and Meeks in there, there was a little less space,” head coach Jim Christian said. “We had a tougher time guarding when they went small because of the space for [Justin] Jackson, the space for [Joel] Berry.”

During a key sequence late in the second half, the Tar Heels extended their lead from three to seven points thanks to back-to-back tip-ins by Theo Pinson. It began a stretch during which UNC earned offensive rebounds on four straight possessions. Consequently, the Tar Heels owned advantages in secondchance points (15-5) and points in the paint (24-20).

But a brilliant second half from Jerome Robinson largely offset much of the domination down low by UNC. The North Carolina native put up 13 points after halftime, maintaining momentum with Bowman on the bench for a brief spell.

Ultimately, it was the hot perimeter shooting of Jackson and Berry down the stretch that made the difference for the Tar Heels. Jackson drained three 3pointers in the second half, all of which seemed to come right as BC was knocking on the door. With 1:13 left and the game separated by just two possessions, Berry provided the dagger, a 3-pointer that pushed the UNC lead to nine.

“Justin Jackson might be the most improved player in the country,” Christian said. “Those threes he hit deep? He didn’t have that consistently last year.”

Despite the loss, the performance is certainly a step in the right direction for the Eagles and their star backcourt, which totaled 51 combined points..

And about that lucky red hair of Bowman’s?

“The black hair will never be back,” Christian said. “Even my son, who’s seven years old, said, ‘Don’t ever let him go back.’”

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After a tough overtime battle against the University of Vermont on Friday, Boston College women’s hockey returned to Gutterson Fieldhouse the following day to sweep the Catamounts in the two-game series. Katie Burt and Megan Keller had a banner weekend, surpassing long-held records in their respective positions while also helping the Eagles to a 13-game unbeaten streak.

The Saturday rematch saw the Eagles (183-4, 14-2-2 Hockey East) make quick work of UVM (10-9-7, 6-5-5). Though the Catamounts held it together for the first period, BC managed three goals nearly in succession during the second period to create a substantial lead. Makenna Newkirk notched the first one six minutes into the period after Sarah Kelly was sent to the box for her second inter-

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ference penalty of the game. Andie Anastos passed off the puck by the crease to Newkirk, who launched it past Madison Litchfield to set off the offensive onslaught.

Soon after, defenseman Kali Flanagan slotted the puck past Litchfield for her fourth goal of the season and her first since Dec. 7 against Dartmouth. Caitrin Lonergan streaked up the boards and crossed the puck to a waiting Flanagan for a shot unencumbered by any Vermont defensemen. Halfway through the period, Delaney Belinskas capitalized on a tripping penalty by Ali O’Leary.

Belinskas used a rebounded shot and made it 3-0 in the eight seconds from faceoff to goal.

The rest of the game petered out without any more offensive action, but the Eagles also kept the Catamounts at bay to hand Burt a shutout.

Entering the 2016-17 season, sophomore walk-on Gordon Gehan had big shoes to fill.

“Steve [Perpiglia] was my best friend on the team last year,” Gehan said of the 5-foot-10 Perpiglia, whose shoes, in comparison, are actually quite small. “He kinda taught me everything. I always followed him and did whatever he did.”

Perpiglia, a 2016 graduate, spent most of his Boston College career as a walk-on before earning a scholarship for his final semester from head coach Jim Christian following a Dec. 22 win against Fordham. The reaction of his teammates, including Gehan, was caught on tape and soon went viral.

“This is a program we’re building here,” Christian said in the video.

“And people need to be rewarded for everything that they do.”

Perpiglia embraced the walk-on role with a sort of infectious enthusiasm that he would eventually pass down to Gehan. The most visible examples were at the end of the bench, where Perpiglia would dap up each teammate with his personalized handshakes. If someone sunk a huge three or slammed home a posterizing dunk, Perpiglia was the first one off the bench and on his feet, flexing at opponents or turning his 3-point celebration into a Zorro mask. And, considering the Eagles won just 15 total ACC contests during his fouryear career, those celebrations were often the most entertaining parts of the game.

But it was during practice that Perpiglia perfected his duties.

Aware of his place on the team, the Broomall, Penn. native always knew when to jump in a drill and when to back off—in essence, how to push the team to improve without actually playing. In practice, Perpiglia was many things: a silent spectator, an active team captain, a student of the game, but also a mentor to the younger walk-ons.

Most of all, though, he was just happy to be there. Perpiglia went unrecruited out of high school and gained a spot on the 2012-13 roster in part because former coach Steve Donahue was a longtime friend of his high school coach.

They’re the chief tenets of the walk-on way of life: selflessness and positivity. Take Gehan’s pre-game ritual, for example, which carefully balances supporting his teammates while avoiding interfering with their focus.

“I wait and talk to all the starters,” Gehan said. “When they walk out on the court, I go by and give everyone a handshake or a high five, then I come back and sit. That’s what Steve did last year, so I’m doing it again this year.”

Of course, it’s not the only thing that Gehan inherited from Perpiglia.

In the offseason, Gehan switched from No. 25 to Perpiglia’s No. 20 in an effort to “keep the walk-on dynasty of No. 20 going.”

He also took over as the unofficial leader of the scout team, where he is tasked with, in Perpiglia’s words, “keeping the positivity up.”

Even Gehan’s goals for the future are the same as Perpiglia’s were during his time on the Heights.

“I just wanna see the program keep getting better and better,” Gehan said. “And to just do anything I can to try to help the team.”

But what about individually?

“I think it would be really cool to get a scholarship like Steve did in that situation,” he said. “They tell us a

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Fast forward to 2017, and BC welcomed No.15 Blue Devils to Conte Forum again, hoping to recreate the surprise victory two years later. And although the Eagles kept it close in the first half, they lost momentum in the third quarter, suffering a 67-44 defeat.

Once again, 3-pointers were significant in the matchup, but this time for a different reason. BC (8-12, 1-6 Atlantic Coast) shot 4-for-19 from beyond the arc, making one in each quarter. But it was enough for senior guard Kelly Hughes to reach two important milestones. In the first quarter, Hughes sank a triple to reach 300 career 3-pointers. In the third quarter, she hit her second three of the game to set a new all-time BC 3-point record, male or female, with 301 career treys.

Duke (17-3, 5-2) and BC played competitively throughout the first half. After allowing the Blue Devils to jump out to a quick 7-2 lead, the Eagles clawed back. Hughes scored sevenstraight points for BC, cutting the lead to 11-9. With just under a minute to go, Taylor Ortlepp was fouled in the act of shooting a 3-pointer. She calmly sank all three free throws to give the Eagles their first lead of the game, 1211, heading into the second quarter.

The game stayed competitive at the start of the second quarter. The two teams traded baskets, with neither taking a lead of more than one point for almost three minutes. A pair of free throws from Kailey Edwards gave the

PROCESSING  The Philadelphia 76ers have won eight of their last 11 games. In the past 10, head coach Brett Brown’s crew has tallied more victories than the Cavaliers, Rockets, and Raptors.

Philly has already totaled five more wins than all of last season and if you ask Joel Embiid, the group is headed to the playoffs.

FLY HIGH - Matt Ryan and the Falcons shredded the Packers’ defense like cheese en route to a 44-21 win in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday. Ryan, a BC graduate, is headed to Houston to try to win the Super Bowl—a prize much more satisfying for BC fans than the Quick Lane Bowl.

HUGHES’S HUGE DAY  Kelly Hughes led B C in scoring against Duke with 14 points, but the bigger accomplishment was setting BC’s all-time 3-point record with 301 career treys. She has more to look forward to, as she is two rebounds away from recording 600 career boards.

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Eagles a three-point lead, but Duke’s Rebecca Greenwell tied it up seconds later with a 3-pointer. Taylor Ortlepp regained the lead for BC with a trey of her own, and then the teams traded baskets again, unable to pull away for a multi-possession lead until the final minute.

With 56 seconds to go in the half, Rebecca Greenwell made a 3-pointer to give Duke a four-point lead. It looked as though the Blue Devils would take that lead into halftime— until Edwards chucked up a shot as the buzzer went off. She missed, but was fouled in the act of shooting, so she went to the free throw line to try to reduce Duke’s lead to one point heading into the half. Edwards made all three free throws and the teams headed into the locker rooms with the score at 29-28.

That’s when the troubles started.

“We haven’t quite figured out how to play in the third quarter,” Hughes said. “We’re right there with teams coming out of the locker room, and then the third quarter hits and we’re playing back on our heels.”

The Eagles certainly struggled in the third quarter. Although the game remained competitive for several minutes, Duke broke away with five minutes to go in the quarter. Kendall Cooper made a jumper to give Duke a three-point lead. Seconds later, Greenwell stole the ball from BC and found Kyra Lambert open for a layup, pushing the lead to five points. With just over three minutes to go, Cooper made a layup herself, pushing the lead to seven points. And with just under three minutes to go, Lambert drained a 3-pointer and suddenly Duke had a 10 point lead. At the end of the third quarter, that lead had grown to 15 points, as the Blue Devils led 52-37.

Meanwhile, BC struggled to score for most of the third and fourth quarters. With seven and a half minutes to go in the quarter, Mariella Fasoula

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Senior Kelly Hughes led BC with 14 points, including two 3-pointers, giving her the BC all-time 3-point record.

sank a pair of free throws. The Eagles then didn’t score for five minutes. With just over two minutes to go, Hughes converted two shots from the charity stripe. After Hughes’s free throws, BC struggled through a scoring drought that lasted until there were only three minutes to go in the fourth quarter.

While BC failed to score, Duke pulled away. Greenwell, Lambert, and Brown each scored to push the Blue Devils’ lead beyond 20 points to 25 and then 28. Duke never actually reached a 30-point lead in the game, but the damage was done.

Fasoula broke the scoring drought with a layup with three minutes remaining in the game, bringing the score to 65-39. Emilee Daley made a layup to further cut into the lead, but then Oderah Chidom responded with

a layup herself. With seconds left, it seemed like the game would end at 67-41, Duke. But with less than ten seconds to go, Daley grabbed an offensive rebound off of a free throw.

She passed to Edwards, who wheeled around and kicked it back out to Daley, now positioned beyond the arc. Daley sank a three as time expired, prompting cheers from the younger fans in attendance, but the buzzer-beater did nothing but reduce the lead to 23 points. Duke finished the game with a 67-44 lead.

Although the Eagles stayed competitive throughout the first half, Duke overshadowed them in almost every category. The Eagles were 14-for-18 from the free-throw line, including a perfect 14-for-14 through three quarters, for 77.8 percent accuracy from

behind the line. Duke, by contrast, converted only two of its six opportunities for 33.3 percent. BC hauled in 12 offensive rebounds compared to Duke’s 11, but the Blue Devils outrebounded it in general, grabbing 40 boards compared to BC’s 38. Duke shot 45.3 percent from the field, compared to a dismal 25 percent from the Eagles. And the Blue Devils shot 46.7 percent from beyond the arc, while BC shot just 21.1 percent.

The effort was not enough to defeat a ranked conference opponent. After the game, head coach Erik Johnson accepted responsibility for the loss, but emphasized that he believes his team should have been able to hang in there better in the second half.

“We’re better than that,” he said.

“We need to be better than that.”

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Head coach Erik Johnson’s squad was right where he wanted it to be.

As the final minute of the first half Boston College 69 ticked Duke 80 down, the momentum began to shift away from No. 6 Notre Dame back to Boston College women’s basketball.

What had once been a double-digit lead was now only seven points

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thanks to a Kelly Hughes 3-pointer, beautifully assisted by Mariella Fasoula. With five seconds remaining, Emma Guy found Fasoula in the paint for a signature scoop lay-in, cutting the lead to five.

But the No. 6 Fighting Irish weren’t done yet.

First Team All-ACC guard Lindsay Allen sprinted up the court and quickly drilled a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to extend the Notre Dame advantage before half. This was the theme of the day for the Eagles. Every time they started to

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Notre Dame star Lindsay Allen defends Taylor Ortlepp at the top of the arc.

W HOCKEY EAST STANDINGS CONFERENCE

OVERALL

Boston College

14-2-2

18-3-4

Northeastern

11-7-2

15-9-3

New Hampshire

9-7-1

11-13-1

Boston University

7-7-4

12-8-5

Vermont

6-5-5

10-9-7

Providence

7-6-2

12-11-2

Connecticut

6-9-1

11-12-3

Maine

4-12-1

8-16-1

Merrimack

4-13-0

8-16-3

build momentum, the Irish would answer with their own big play to extinguish BC’s hopes.

The Eagles fought hard, but a troublesome third quarter and the strong play of Notre Dame proved too much, as they were ultimately defeated 80-69 at home.

The Irish (17-3, 4-1 Atlantic Coast) are built around their twoheaded monster of Allen and 6-foot-3 center Brianna Turner, who was voted ACC Player of the Year by coaches as a sophomore last year. While she and Allen were impressive, the damage was largely done by sophomore guard Marina Mabrey. Mabrey finished with a game-high 21 points, including seven points in both the first and third quarter. The Eagles (8-11,1-5) just could not seem to stop her as she shot 3-for-4 from behind the arc and 8-for-10 overall.

While many players in head coach Muffet McGraw’s lineup were remarkable, none of them played as well as the most dominant player on the court: BC’s Mariella Fasoula. Fasoula finished with 20 points and 14 rebounds, her fourth double-double of the season. She also added an impressive six assists,

NUMBERS TO KNOW

51

Number of points the duo of Ky Bowman and Jerome Robinson scored in men’s basketball’s 90-82 loss to No. 9 UNC on Saturday.

6

Number of Eagles that reached the back of the net in men’s hockey’s 6-1 victory over UMass on Friday night.

301

Number of 3-pointers that Kelly Hughes has knocked down as an Eagle—the most in BC basketball history.

four of which came in the first half.

It looked like Fasoula may have been on pace for a triple-double at one point, but a third-quarter slump by the Eagles made it so that many of Fasoula’s dishes were not capitalized on. What makes this even more impressive is that Fasoula took on Turner, a dominant defensive presence who ranks third on Notre Dame’s all-time blocks list.

“We emphasize [passing] a lot in practice and I try to look for it,” Fasoula said. “When there’s a double team, I know obviously that one player is open since I have two on me, and our forwards always do a great job cutting to the basket really strong and I try to look for them.”

Many of Fasoula’s passes were to Guy, who did a fantastic job finishing for BC and ended the night with 14 points. Australian freshman Taylor Ortlepp made her first start on Thursday, and while there were growing pains, she found her groove in the second quarter, hitting two 3-pointers. Although the Eagles played well at times, turnovers were still an issue, as they turned the rock over 20 times.

That’s above their season average of 18.4, and the Irish capitalized on the sloppy play with 23 points off these mistakes.

“We gave them transition, and a top-10 team makes you pay for it at the other end,” Johnson said, “And suddenly—bam! They’re up and they’re feeling good. And again what I say all the time when you find your character, you find out who you are when things get ugly, right? And we found out who we are—we’re a good, tough, hardnosed team that kept fighting.”

Notre Dame ran out of steam in the fourth quarter, scoring only nine points, but at that point the damage was done. The Eagles battled back to within 11 points, but the Fighting Irish’s onslaught of 31 points in the third quarter proved to be too much for BC to overcome.

“Again, the question with this team is are we good enough with that?” Johnson said. “Or are we gonna keep that same fight, keep that same togetherness and now make two more plays and go beat Duke on Sunday? And for me, that’s all I’m excited about and I cannot wait to get back in the gym.”

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“Even my son, who is seven years old, said, ‘Don’t ever let him go back [to black hair].’”

— Jim Christian

on Ky Bowman’s signature red hair.

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Conte Forum sold out for Boston College men’s basketball’s Saturday afternoon date with North Carolina. The crowd featured a mix of gold and maroon and a whole lot of Carolina blue. But one additional color overshadowed the rest—red.

S e veral B C f ans donne d Ronald McDonald-esque wigs to support the red-headed Ky Bowman. While the freshman has experimented with three different hair colors (yellow, red, and black) this season, his play has consistently reached another level when dying his hair red. He simply catches fire.

After briefly switching to black for Wednesday night’s game against No. 16 Virginia, in which Bowman scored just seven points and the Eagles lost by 17, the floor general returned to red.

And just like that, he returned to electrifying form.

Bowman tied his career-high of 33 points in BC’s valiant 90-82 loss to the No. 9 Tar Heels (183, 6-1 Atlantic Coast). Despite dropping its third consecutive game, the Eagles (9-11, 2-5) hung with the country’s fourth-highest scoring team for 40 minutes.

Three Up 1) Back(court) in the Swing of Things BC’s offense is dictated by the play of underclassmen guards Jerome Robinson and Bowman.

Prior to Wednesday, the two were averaging nine and six points, respectively, in their past two games. As a result, the team was blown out by both Syracuse and Virginia. Against UNC, the pair combined for 51 points.

Bowman set the tone early with a 3-pointer, giving the Eagles their first points of the day. The shot foreshadowed what was to come. The North Carolina native, who originally committed to play football for the Tar Heels, knocked down 7of-9 shots from 3-point land in front of his childhood team.

Robinson struggled to find a rhythm in the first half. The sophomore shot 2-of-8 from the field, mustering five points. As a result, BC found itself down by 10, deep into the first half.

Right then, Bowman proved why head coach Jim Christian calls him a “catalyst”—by sinking two triples, driving for a basket, and slamming home an emphatic dunk, he single-handedly erased the Eagles’ deficit.

Whenever BC needed points, Bowman came to the rescue.

Whether it was a nifty lay-in, clock-beating 3-point shot, or game-changing dunk, the 6-foot1 guard did everything he could to keep his team in the game.

And eventually his wingman, Robinson, started to click.

The ACC’s fourth-leading scorer shot his way out of a funk, draining two 3-pointers and scoring a total of 13 points in the final half of play. Nearing the halfway point of the second half, Robinson made a statement.

After stealing a UNC pass, he split the Tar Heel defense, leapt a few feet in front of the charity stripe, and delivered an angry one-handed jam.

Versus any other team, 50plus points from a team’s two leading scorers would most likely ensure a victory.

2) Energy Level The Eagles looked lethargic in their Wednesday night loss to the Cavaliers. Besides a careerhigh performance from Jordan Chatman, there was nothing positive to take away from the game. Shortly into the first half, BC was confronted with a large UVA lead. In terms of effort, the players shut down.

In response, Christian addressed his team. And it worked.

Every Eagle who took the court on Saturday knew what it would take to beat a top10 team—everything. Diving left and right for loose balls, Christian’s crew left it all out on the floor. Even when the game was all but over, Bowman and Chatman drilled two treys on back-to-back possessions.

“I was so disappointed after Wednesday night because that’s not who we are, that’s not how we play,” Christian said. “To me, this is who we are, this is who we have been.”

At times, shots weren’t falling for players like Robinson and A.J. Turner. But they didn’t let their shooting woes take them out of

the game. Instead, they looked for the open man, rebounded, and hustled to every play.

“I thought the Virginia game we became deflated,” Christian said. “Guys weren’t making shots.

Guys weren’t playing right. They wouldn’t play hard enough. And tonight when we made mistakes, we played through them, and we played harder. That’s maturity.”

3) Mo Jeffers Mo Jeffers played his best game of the season. If you look at the stats, you wouldn’t know: six points, five rebounds, and three blocks. But his defensive presence was far greater than any number. Occasionally, Kennedy Meeks, Isaiah Hicks, or Tony Bradley would get by Jeffers in the paint.

But there were times when the undersized forward dominated the interior.

Almost three week s ago, Jeffers fouled out against Wake Forest, having played only eight minutes. He was tasked with guarding Dinos Mitoglou and could not stop the 6-foot-10 Greek without fouling. On Saturday, Jeffers was the heart of the Eagles’ defense, constantly challenging the three-headed beast, that is Meeks, Hicks, and Bradley, for 27 minutes of play.

Three Down 1) Getting to the Line BC struggled to get to the foul line. As a whole, the team was 6-of-7 from the line—identical to Hicks’ numbers. Meanwhile, the Tar Heels consistently drew whistles when driving to the hoop. Shooting 24-of-29 from the strip on the day, more than a quarter of UNC’s points came uncontested.

The discrepancy in free throw numbers could be attributed to the undersized Eagles’ frontcourt. Tava and Jeffers stand at 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-9 apiece.

Those two had the responsibility of guarding the likes of Meeks (6-foot-10), Hicks (6-foot-9), and Bradley (6-foot-10). It’s only natural to foul when you have a bigger body penetrating the lane.

Regardless, the frequent trips to the line slowed down BC’s high-octane offense, potentially disrupting its momentum.

2) A Tale of Two Defenses

In the first half, the Eagles limited UNC to just a shade under 39 percent from the field, including a mere 25 percent from 3-point territory. Coming into the game, the Tar Heels were making close to half of their shots in their 17 wins.

BC’s 21st ranked 3-point defense forced UNC inside—something that this guard-led team is not used to. The backcourt duo of Justin Jackson and Joel Berry II entered the game averaging a combined 33.8 points per game.

The two perimeter shooters were relatively quiet in the first period of play. They weren’t the only ones who couldn’t find a rhythm. Not a single UNC player eclipsed the eight-point mark in the first half.

Additionally, the rebound battle remained a stalemate going into halftime. For BC, this was a win within itself, as the Tar Heels are the nation’s leaders on the glass. Both UNC and BC hauled in 22 boards.

But as the teams reconvened for the final 20 minutes of basketball, ever ything changed.

Head coach Roy Williams’ group started heating up. Jackson and Berry II hit clutch 3-pointers, and Meeks and Hicks put in work on the inside.

In the end, four Tar Heels ( Jackson, Meeks, Hicks, and Theo Pinson) finished in double figures, and the team bumped its field-goal percentage up to about 47 percent. UNC’s 90 points—56 of which came in the second half—extended the team’s scoring tear. The Tar Heels have now scored 85-plus points in six straight ACC games for the first time in team history.

3) Second Chance Scoring As the rebounding advantage shifted toward the Tar Heels, the y began to capitalize on second chance scoring opportunities. This especially hurt BC near the tail end of the game. On back-to-back UNC possessions, Pinson targeted his teammates’ missed shots, snuck into the Eagles’ interior, and put them back with ease.

Just as BC was trying to make its move, it could not get a stop, largely because the Tar Heels had multiple scoring chances each time they ran down the floor.

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Jerome Robinson elevates for a dunk (top right) and celebrates the slam with a packed student section (left), while freshman Ky Bowman (right) drives to the hoop against UNC’s Joel Berry on Saturday afternoon.

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For all the hard work Gehan has put in behind the scenes, it would be fitting to see him receive a scholarship as a senior, just like his mentor did a year prior.

Until then, though, the Dallas, Texas native’s moments in the spotlight will come in brief minutes during games in which the outcome is already determined.

When Gehan subs in, the bench usually stands in anticipation. A section of students—some his friends, some

strangers—scream Gordon’s name at the top of their lungs and encourage him to shoot every time he touches the ball.

During the Eagles’ win against Dartmouth in December, Gehan attempted his only two shots of the season—one of which hit off the side of the backboard—and the crowd was as louder than it had been for most of the game.

Just as Perpiglia did, Gehan has developed a cult following among BC basketball fans.

Right as Gehan was raving to me about Perpiglia, the man himself walked into the Power Gym practice facility on the second floor of Conte Forum.

Wearing plain clothes and looking as if he may have lost a step since graduating last spring, Perpiglia instinctively picked up a basketball and began hoisting up treys. He seemed right at home.

“Steve, what’s the most important thing you taught Gordon?” I hollered from across the gym.

Between airballs, he turned around and smiled.

“Timing is everything.”

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Gordon Gehan (center) celebrates a Jerome Robinson slam dunk on the bench with Mo Jeffers (right).

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Boston College men’s hockey had already put up one of its best periods of the Massachusetts 1 season Boston College 6 to open its Friday evening tilt with Massachusetts. Entering the final faceoff, the Eagles had already outshot Hockey East’s basement dwellers, 13-1, and found the net twice, a stifling performance on both sides of the ice.

Yet a two-goal lead was insufficient for Christopher Brown. After all, his team was 1-4-1 in its last six and were coming off a weekend sweep by archrival Boston University.

So with under 10 seconds remaining, Brown ripped a Hail Mary-esque shot from the bottom of the left circle.

The puck had knocked off UMass goaltender Ryan Wischow just barely, trickling down to Austin Cangelosi on the right side of the crease. The bantam yet speedy senior had already raised his hands as he poked the puck, its meeting with the twine an inevitability.

“I couldn’t tell how many seconds were left, but I knew it was low,” Brown said of his last-second heave.

“I think it hit three different people to find its way in.”

What had been a frustrating period for the Minutemen quickly turned into a demoralizing, defeated crawl off the ice, and desperation to leave Chestnut Hill as fast as possible.

Cangelosi’s last-second goal chased Wischow from the game.

But his replacement didn’t fare much better. With goals from six different players—three against Wischow, three against Nic Renyard—the Eagles cruised to a 6-1 victory over the Minutemen, staying atop the conference standings. BC outshot UMass, 46-13: the second-most shots taken by BC this season (Dec. 30 vs. Ferris State) and the fewest shots allowed.

The Eagles (15-9-2, 10-3-1, Hock-

ey East) overwhelmed Massachusetts (5-17-1, 2-9-1) early on thanks to some of the crispest passes they completed all season. Unlike their games over the weekend against the Terriers, they easily connected with one another to put up those Grade-A scoring chances. Wischow withstood the attack at first, but it wouldn’t last.

Eight minutes into the first, BC’s second line struck. Cangelosi danced along the far corner on Wischow’s right, drawing in several UMass defenders. The decoy left David Cotton all alone on the left, and Wischow had no idea. The freshman from Parker, Texas slapped one into the empty space for the game’s first strike.

Though Cangelosi set up that goal, he nearly lost the momentum with a tripping penalty seconds later. Yet, unlike the conference’s other top teams, the Eagles had little to fear from their Bay State foes, from whom they’ve notched a point in each of their last eight matchups. Sure enough, it didn’t take long for UMass to negate its gift.

Ray Pigozzi got called for interference in the middle of setting up an offensive play, creating a 4-on-4.

Now at even strength, BC’s depth showed off again, this time courtesy of the third line. Defenseman Scott Savage fought off two UMass attackers at center ice, dumping the puck off to Luke McInnis. Skating down the near boards, McInnis hit Julius Mattila in stride. The Finnish freshman slammed it strong enough at Wischow’s five-hole that it snuck through for a 2-0 lead.

After Cangelosi’s conversion off the Brown rip, UMass head coach Greg Carvel reevaluated the goaltender position.

“I didn’t think Wischow was very sharp,” Carvel said. “You can’t get your team off to a 3-0 hole.”

So Renyard stepped into the crease to start the second, hoping for an easier time against BC’s forwards. And at the beginning of the second, the Minutemen snatched the momentum back. During a 4-on-4

midway through the second period, Pigozzi made up for his penalty flub by toasting Jesper Mattila on a defensive breakdown to cut the lead to 3-1.

Yet the advantage didn’t last long. With three minutes to go in the second, Scott Savage fit the puck through the tiniest of windows on Renyard’s blocker side. By the time the third period rolled around, BC coasted, adding goals from Michael Kim and J.D. Dudek—the latter of which chased Renyard for Alex Wakaluk. Unlike the celebrations that come in tight games, where one goal might take a team from the depths of defeat, to escaping with a point, to even a victory, Kim and Dudek chose to go with the subdued, soft smile and hug combo.

Though a footnote in the box score with all the scoring, backup goaltender Ryan Edquist stood up again for the Eagles. Although he only faced 13 shots on goal, York said that he has been impressed with the Lakeville, Minn. native’s play, and with good reason—Edquist is 4-1-1 in six games. And while Joseph Woll has continued to impress, expect to see more of Edquist down the stretch.

“Ryan’s earned playing time,” York said. “The two games he played in Pittsburgh were excellent when Joe was gone. And you want to get a little more depth at all positions. …

I wouldn’t have done it unless Ryan could handle it.”

Yet the offense was the real story.

After a rough stretch to start 2017, in which the Eagles have gotten to several goaltenders but have had trouble finding the twine, York was pleased with his team’s ability to make the most of its opportunities. And with a real race to the finish in Hockey East to end the year, he hopes that the late outburst will push the Eagles to success going forward.

“A real workman-like effort for our team, we’ve finally been rewarded with some goals,” York said. “We’ve been getting some chances, but we want to get some red lights on.”

9P ;A I<:EP <o\Zlk`m\ 8jj`jkXek As it often does, defense played a critical role in Boston College men’s hockey’s rout of Massachusetts. In a 6-1 victory, BC demonstrated several key aspects of its defense that are indicative of how the Eagles manhandled the Minutemen and how they might dismantle other, higher-ranked teams with more dominant offenses.

It was imperative that the Eagles settled into a groove on defense, not only to triumph over UMass, but to hone in their skills for their schedule moving forward. In doing so, the Eagles were able to limit offensive opportunities for the Minutemen by forcing the puck to the outside, playing physically when necessary, and dominating the turnover game.

The combination of these three things, when properly executed, smothered UMass’ offense, which produced a total of only 13 shots.

Perhaps the most vital component of the defensive performance from the Eagles was the ability to force the puck outside. The comparatively undersized Eagles defensemen, at an average of 5-foot-11 inches and 185 lbs, severely limited the Minutemen’s ability to take good shots by eliminating inside shooting lanes.

In fact, the Eagles often hindered UMass’s ability to take shots at all, purely by eliminating the middle of the ice as an option.

Forcing the puck outside and deep, BC defensemen were then able to throw a hit and dish the turnover to a backchecking forward. Jesper Mattila exemplified this with a little bit more than three minutes left in the second period, facing a driving Michael Iovanna. Trying to force his way inside, Iovanna was denied by the backward-skating Mattila, who forced the UMass forward to swing his shot out wide, completely missing the net. Although

it didn’t register as a blocked shot in the scorebook, Mattila was solely responsible for the shot missing the net.

On the other hand, Mattila showed how gaining an inside position can create legitimate scoring opportunities.

Just prior to the eight-minute mark in the second period, a stretch pass from Iacobellis found Ray Pigozzi just in front of the blue line.

Mattila played the outside drive, allowing Pigozzi the space to drive inside to the slot. Following a quick toe drag, Pigozzi lit the lamp with a snapper past freshman goaltender Ryan Edquist.

“I was just going wide there… and the D overcommitted,” Pigozzi said when asked about his goal. “I was able to get it by him and get a shot on net.”

BC also capitalized on its physical play, which led to a tired and frustrated UMass offense and offensive opportunities for the Eagles’ forwards in the neutral and offensive zones.

This was particularly notable on UMass odd-man rushes, especially in the third period. By playing with a physical presence and confidence at their own blue line, BC defensemen forced the Minutemen to take line changes instead of driving deep into the zone by standing them up at the mouth of the defensive zone.

This effort was led by a defensively-dominant and offensivelyproductive Scott Savage, with notable contributions from freshman blue liner Connor Moore.

The effectiveness of physical blue line play was epitomized by Mattila, who, with the notable exception of UMass’ only goal, played an extraordinarily-solid game defensively.

Playing on the penalty kill with nine minutes remaining in the third, Mattila forced the drive wide into the boards, where his checking popped the puck loose. Sophomore forward Colin White was there to

body the incoming UMass sophomore Brett Boeing and clear the puck. The two rushing Minutemen maintained possession in the offensive zone for no more than 10 seconds, thanks mostly in part to physicality at the blue line and a timely turnover.

Lastly, the Eagles were masterful at creating turnovers in the defensive zone. This not only limited the Minutemen’s ability to put shots on net, but pinned UMass forwards deep in the offensive zone while streaking BC forwards were dished the puck on the fly. As a consequence of the physicality often present at the blue line, pucks squirted out of the grasp of UMass forwards.

These were efficiently collected and dished out, which created opportunities such as J.D. Dudek’s near snipe that glanced off the iron in the second period. A Michael Kim hit and collection of the turnover found a wide open Dudek streaking through the neutral zone.

Finding inside leverage, he popped a wrister off the near-side post to narrowly miss a goal.

This opportunity, although certainly facilitated by Dudek’s skill in the offensive zone, was made possible by strong defensive play that found the Eagles’ defense forcing the puck outside with physical play, collecting the rebound, and taking advantage of UMass players caught out of position on the rush.

Although UMass is no hockey powerhouse, the consistent defensive play displayed by the Eagles is something they must maintain should they wish to beat opponents of a higher offensive caliber like North Dakota or the bruising Boston University.

There are some reasons to be optimistic about the BC’s defensive play moving forward, yet the Eagles need to maintain their stranglehold on opposing forwards if they want to beat other Hockey East teams.

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David Cotton, Julius Mattila, Austin Cangelosi, Scott Savage, Michael Kim, and J.D. Dudek all scored in Friday night’s 6-1 pounding of UMass. The win snapped the Eagles’ two-game losing streak.

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After a stalemate half way through the first period, UVM struck first with a goal by Amanda Drobot. Mackenzie MacNeil slalomed through BC defense-

men and passed it up to Drobot, who was waiting between the face-off circles. Her hard-hit shot sailed through the commotion in front of the net, and Burt was left with her gloved hand clenched in the air, without the puck.

Midway through the second period, the Catamounts’ Victoria Andreako extended the lead to 2-0. Andreako shot from just in front of the blue line, and Burt appeared to have a handle on it as she came out a few feet from the crease. She bobbled the puck

and the Catamounts seized on it, causing a chaos in front of the net that knocked the puck in.

Despite five power-play opportunities between Vermont’s two goals, none of the Eagles’ chances stuck. Less than a minute after the Catamounts’ second goal, however, BC made magic happen when UVM gifted it with another power play. Keller and Anastos tried their hands at a goal, but Newkirk capitalized on a rebound to end a five-game goal-scoring drought for the

sophomore.

Keller tied it up with less than a minute left in the third period with a one-off shot from the left face-off circle, causing raucous celebration in front of the Vermont net and a few Eagles, namely Kenzie Kent, to take a tumble on the ice. The last-ditch effort sent BC into overtime, but not for long. Newkirk needed only 39 seconds to hook around the crease and poke the puck into the right side of the goal for the game-winner.

While any win is sweet, Keller and Burt added the icing on the cake. With the first win against the Catamounts, Keller surpassed BC’s own Emily Pfalzer, who graduated in 2015, in the Hockey East point-scoring record. After Saturday’s game, Burt notched 81 career wins, surpassing Molly Schaus, a 2011 graduate, for BC women’s hockey’s win record for goalies. The pair of wins moves her into the top 10 for number of career wins against goalies in women’s college hockey.

With the loss of Tori Sullivan in the last half of the season and the suspension of Toni Ann Miano in late December, one might have expected the defense to put up a lackluster fight in the last half of the season. The penalty kill, however, remains stalwart, while the offense has struggled to put goals in the net during power plays. If the Eagles can improve offensively, BC could put up a strong enough performance to move up from its No. 6 ranking.

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Many of us struggle with an incessant internal dialogue. It is difficult to gain control when conflicting emotions clash and pull us in every which direction. For Kevin Crumb in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split, he must grapple with entire entities, different people, as they seek to exercise their will in his body. His dissociative identity disorder (DID) is extreme and laces itself deep into every facet of his being. He must fight to regain control, before he becomes something much worse and hurts those around him.

After being kidnapped by Dennis (James McAvoy), a personality of Kevin, three young girls, Casey (Anna Taylor-Joy), Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), and Marisa (Jessica Sula) realize their captor has sinister plans. After meeting Miss Patricia and Hedwig, more alternative personalities of Kevin, it is revealed that inside Kevin’s body resides 23 personalities, each different from the last and each with its own agenda. A 24th personality, named ‘The Beast’ by the other personalities, is said to be coming soon and that the girls will be

sacrificed in order to welcome him. With this knowledge, one of the girls, Casey, comes to understand that the key to their survival also lies in the man who brought them here.

Shyamalan seems to have shed his detrimental fascination with twists and created a film that is well rounded and intriguing throughout. The film is categorized as a horror thriller and there is much of that to be seen. But, a fair portion of the film is quite funny. The taken aback if not completely stunned attitudes of the girls in face of a man sporadically changing his manner of speaking and demeanor bring a kind of solemn humor to the film. When watching the film, some may wonder if the resulting laughs were not intentional, a la The Happening, but in many cases it seemed to serve the purpose of deflating the tensions being built up due to the girls dire situation. The inclusion of humor is, in part, a cause of concern for many who criticise the film for its portrayal of those with DID. The setting of the film is very reminiscent of 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) as both share a tight, claustrophobic set for most of the film.

The pacing of Split is also similar to that of 10 Cloverfield Lane as much of the action

and surprises come in the third act. At some points, the film dragged slightly as the narrative waned in the transition from the first to second act.

McAvoy was phenomenal in the role of Kevin and all his fractal personalities. It was impressive to see him transition strongly into what are essentially different characters. As certain personalities play the antagonist and others more neutral roles, viewers may find themselves despising and then sympathizing with him in subsequent scenes. His ability to act as different characters is believable and the emotional responses he elicits from viewers reflects that.

In all, McAvoy’s performance is laced with deeply sympathetic undertones toward his character. The few times Kevin is present in the film effectively conveys the level of sorrow and anguish he must deal with as other persons assume control of his body. The sadness in his eyes is instantaneously palpable and easy to register, which is a testament to the caliber of actor McAvoy is.

Thematically, Split touches on some interesting notions of evolution and the self.

As characterized by Kevin and his personali-

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ties, those who are broken or splintered have more virtue as they have experienced the most change internally. They are required to rebuild themselves, a form a self-mutation—a necessary step in evolution. The mutations are, in this framework, what make us more human.

Split has something for everybody, whether it be horror, dry-dark humor,

or a few thrills. Shyamalan appears to be on a course of innovation as now comes off two successes with this film and The Visit (2015).

Maybe Shyamalan’s true directorial calling beckons him to horror, after all, with as many box office and critical bombs as he has had, he certainly has an eye for it.

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Albums often have odd names with even odder origins. No Answers by Electric Light Orchestra is one such album.

When an employee from ELO’s American label called to see what the name of the album would be, no one picked up the phone.

The employee jotted down “no answer” on a scrap of paper. This was mistaken for the name, and the album was printed. ELO was not pleased, as the original name for the album was The Electric Light Orchestra.

Most fans agree that No Answer is a much more interesting name, and things worked out for the best, as the band went on to have enormous commercial success.

Lemon Memory is Menace Beach’s second album, and it was named such in order to “lift a citrus-based curse” on the house the band lived in. The band has yet to comment on whether it worked, but in the meantime, fans can enjoy this album in spite of, or maybe because of, its occult origins.

Menace Beach is an indie rock band from Leeds, England led by Ryan Needham and Liza Violet. The rest of the band has been composed of a rotating cast of musicians from various bands with no

real manager, unlike most “proper bands.”

The founders claim that this fluidity and variety allow Menace Beach to avoid the pitfalls of its new-band status, something Needham addressed in an interview with The Independent.

“I’ve been in a couple of bands before this, we had proper management, you get so into it,” Needham said. “But there’s a point where you’re not running it, you wonder why you’re doing it ... Not saying it was a ‘proper band’ was a way to avoid all of that.”

Lemon Memory has a very distinct sound, often reminiscent of ’80s and ’90s indie rock. Tracks like “Give Blood” and “Maybe We’ll Drown” have a steady electric guitar progression and distorted vocals that bring to mind indie rock bands from the time that Menace Beach appears to replicate.

Nirvana’s drowned out vocals and long riffs on guitar immediately spring to mind. Menace Beach clearly hasn’t reached Nirvana status just yet, but the inspiration is evident.

Violet takes center stage on Lemon Memory, a distinct change from their first album Ratworld. Her soaring and lofty vocals fade across songs like “Owl” and the final and longest song on the album, “Hexbreaker II.” “The first album, I hadn’t been in a studio that much so I didn’t know how

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to get my ideas across,” Violet said. “This time, we knew what we wanted from the beginning.”

The album had its origins in the halls of classic rock. The band travelled to an island off the coast of Ibiza called Formentera. In the ’60s, Formentera was populated almost exclusively by hippies.

The island voyage was enough for the band to begin writing songs while visiting these landmarks of classic rock.

“Pink Floyd lived there in the sixties,” Needham said. “Bob Dylan lived in a little windmill so we hired scooters and found it. You could see why they would have gone there. It had that kind of vibe, it felt pretty magical.”

The trip clearly worked when listening to “Suck It Out,” the seventh track on Lemon Memory. The song has an anthemlike quality. Droning, monotone lyrics describe people trapped in the mundane routines of their own lives. The song then leaps into striking guitar chords and chants of “Suck It Out!” This mantra is like a callback to the age-old (and incorrect) adage of sucking out the venom from a snakebite. Menace Beach is singing about sucking out the poison that is keeping people restrained and obedient.

Menace Beach continues to call back to earlier forms of exploratory rock with its use of a talk box, most clearly outlined in “Can’t Get A Haircut.” A talk box is a device that allows players to shape the sound of an instrument, in this case and most commonly an electric guitar, to the sound of their voice.

With the talk box, they can make it sound like the electric guitar is speaking.

Peter Frampton famously used a talk box to make the guitar ‘say’ “Do you feel like we do?” in his song, “Do You Feel Like We Do.” The talk box in “Can’t Get A Haircut” allows for the sounds of the electric guitar to extend to their natural conclusion, letting the chords fade through the rest of the song.

Lemon Memory combines a wide variety of sounds, from indie rock to alternative and even hard rock. Menace Beach is only 5 years old, and they, along with the album, sound “new.”

The band is clearly talented, however, and is capable of making good music. The album can be most concisely summed up by Violet in an interview with DIY Magazine.

“The one rule thing we went into the album session with was to keep in mind that sometimes doing The Opposite is much more interesting.”

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ÊoOoË `j <oki\d\cp =Xjk# <oki\d\cp Cfl[# Xe[ <oki\d\cp D\[`fZi\ 9P A8:F9 J:?@:B 8jjk% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi xXx: Return of Xander Cage is aptly named, as it starts with three strikes against it. First, it is a sequel to an action movie series that no one has cared about in over 10 years. xXx: State of the Union came out in 2005, and xXx, the first one with Vin Diesel, was released in 2002. Second, Diesel already has a wildly-successful action movie franchise in which he performs outrageous and unbelievable stunts. It’s called The Fast and the Furious series. If an action movie with an ensemble cast of actors and musicians is the goal, then seven of these movies already exist and they are all better than this one. Third, xXx: Return of Xander Cage is not the good kind of January movie. It wasn’t shown at a film festival last summer with a wide release now.

This movie is the bad kind of January movie. It was released in January because it doesn’t have the draw of a summer blockbuster or the potential for any awards like Oscar-bait movies in fall or winter. xXx: Return of Xander Cage is filled with almost every single action movie trope in the book.

Diesel plays walking cliché Xander Cage in the third installment of the xXx series.

The xXx program is a government-run task force composed of the most extreme people on earth. Cage used to be an extreme sports athlete until he was recruited by the agency to save the world a first time. After he completed his first mission, he faked his death and went into hiding until the beginning of xXx: Return of Xander Cage.

In classic action movie fashion, a new terrorist group threatens the safety of the world.

The group of four terrorists, Xiang (Donnie Yen), Serena Unger (Deepika Padukone), Hawk (Michael Bisping), and Talon (Tony Jaa) has stolen a device known as Pandora’s Box. This device, naturally enough, is treated as ignorantly as most technology is treated in action movies. “It can hack into anything!” and “This device has the capability to kill lots of people if it falls into the wrong hands!” are among its vaguely outlined powers. The terrorist group is using the device to cause satellites to crash into targeted areas and kill people.

Cage and his team, Adele Wolff (Ruby Rose), Tennyson Torch (Rory McCann), and Nicks

(Kris Wu), are reluctantly recruited to stop them. Basically it’s a Fast and Furious movie with fewer cars and a worse plot. xXx: Return of Xander Cage has many faults. Its greatest fault, however, is simple mediocrity. The movie does not innovate in the slightest. Action movies do not always have to be the same generic thing that a lot of them are. There are ways to make them good. This movie does practically none of them. The plot is uninspired and unoriginal.

The dialogue is cliched and cringe-inducing, full of “jokes” and catchphrases. Some of the acting is outrageously bad for a movie of this size. xXx: Return of Xander Cage feels like a bad episode of 24.

That being said, there are bright spots.

Diesel plays himself, which is always fairly enjoyable. Some of the side characters are actually pretty fun to watch. McCann’s character, Torch, is pretty hilarious at times, the main reason probably being that he is played

by McCann. Jaa doesn’t seem to know he is in a movie, and yet he fits incredibly well into this one. But, the shining star, the magnum opus of xXx: Return of Xander Cage, is Yen. Yen is

a Chinese actor who has recently been getting more and more work in American movies. He was one of the best parts of Rogue One, and he is easily the best part of this movie. He is actually trained in martial arts, so his fight scenes are very enjoyable, instead of being cut to oblivion because the actor needs a stunt double. He’s a great actor when he is trying to be, and there are a few moments where his

ability shines through. xXx: Return of Xander Cage is not a good movie and, with the exception of Yen, adds nothing to the franchise. There are bright spots to be had, but this movie should not have been made. Everything this movie does right, Fast and Furious does better. Hopefully Paramount Pictures doesn’t make eight of these movies too.

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Superman, Batman, Spiderman.

These are some of the most recognizable characters in the world.

In recent years, Hollywood has focused on telling the origin stories of these heroes. But, instead of telling the story of how Bruce Wayne became Batman, or how Peter Parker developed his spidey-senses, what if they told the story of how a single burger stand in San Bernardino became an international food empire with annual sales of over $125 billion?

This is the story that the new movie, The Founder, tries to tell—but over the course of the film it becomes apparent that it might not be a story of heroes, but of villains.

The story follows the traveling

salesman Ray Kroc, portrayed brilliantly by Michael Keaton, who, after bouncing around different getrich schemes, is down on his luck selling rapid milkshake mixers. He hears about a stand in San Bernardino that has ordered six machines, a number he is sure is a mistake.

But when he gets there he finds two brothers, Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman), have created the first true fast food restaurant, McDonald’s.

After receiving a tour, Kroc realizes the potential of this idea and pushes for them to franchise. Here we find the central conflict of the movie.

Both the McDonald brothers and Kroc are underdogs who are pursuing the American Dream, but their ideas of the dream differ. Kroc wants an empire while the brothers

just want to make the best product they can. They resist the franchising idea out of fear of losing out on quality control. They relent when Kroc signs a contract that gives them total control. After that point, Kroc is off to the races, growing at an absurd pace. But he is frustrated by the contract he signed as the brothers are resistant to change, and his profits aren’t matching the expansion. Things change, however, when he runs into a businessman (B.J. Novak) who tells him that he is not in the hamburger business, but rather the real estate business and that Kroc should own the land that the franchises are on. With this development, the money starts pouring in, and he takes control back from the brothers.

Keaton continues his recent hot

streak (Birdman, Spotlight) with a great performance of a man so blinded by his ambition that he is unable to comprehend the damage he is causing to those around him.

He works with a borderline obsessive nature, completely willing himself to success. While Kroc might seem like a classic American hero, a man who started with nothing and due to his perseverance and grit, pulled himself up from his bootstraps and built a name for himself, it is clear he lacks the virtue of a true hero. The McDonald brothers call him a leech, an accurate description for what Kroc seems to have become. After all, Kroc took the two brothers’ company, he took their store, he took their name, and took their money. Part of the deal to buy out of his contract was that the brothers would receive 1 percent of

annual sales. Kroc insisted, however, that this be a handshake only deal.

Once the deal was signed, he backed out and the brothers never saw their money—money which would be close to $100 million a year.

But the worst thing he took from them was their history. Kroc is pained by the fact that he is not the founder of McDonald’s, so after the contract, he tells the story that he created McDonald’s and makes business cards that declares his job title as “The Founder.” Keaton portrays all of this without ever veering into overacting or making a caricature out of him.

The film captures the heart of mid-20th-century America, with beautiful establishing shots and scenes of how life was back in the day.

Some of the funniest bits of the movie

come from the contrast between now and then. The audience let out a verbal gasp after the total price of a burger, fries, and drink came out to 35 cents, or when Dan McDonald stated a now ironic line: “I don’t care for that type of crass capitalism, it’s not McDonald’s.”

The film has the tough job of telling us a story we all already know the ending to—the golden arches of McDonald’s are instantly recognizable and there is no question if the company is going to be a success.

Yet by telling the story through the lens of one man’s personal obsession to achieve the American Dream, and the cost of pursuing said dream, The Founder manages to turn the business deals of a fast food company into a gripping film that more than holds your attention.

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Throughout the album, an artful use of deliberate melodies coupled with occasional dramatic silences allow for an intriguing listening experience.

As a whole, the album lives up to the band’s extensive prior success.

The album begins with the song “Dangerous,” which is characterized by its easy tempo complemented w ith an energ i z ing tr ump et accompaniment and a prominent bassline. While introducing the listener to the group’s evolved sound, it also presents the start of conflict on the album. With the lyrics, “They say you are dangerous, but I don’t care” and “Let them say there are warning signs, they must be blind,” the listener gains the impression that really “seeing” someone requires more than easily accessible and perhaps superficial information. The song’s insistence on drawing attention to the problematic aspects of a person with its title, however, presents the complicated nature of meeting that challenge.

Some of the album’s other songs include “Say Something Loving,” featuring harmonic vocals and soaring electronic music that explain, “You say something loving / It’s so overwhelming, the thrill of affection.”

The track is a serene moment on the album that inspires a sense of peacefulness in the listener and transports them to a far-off place.

“Lips” is an intriguing song complete with nonlinear melodies and vocals that feature a calm ferocity that contributes to the intimate, sensory nature of the lyrics. In another musical twist, the song “Replica” features a fuller musical track that incorporates a meta element to the album. Referencing the feeling that “this song’s already been sung” and wondering, “Another encore to an aftershow / Do I chase the night or does it chase me?” the listener is treated to the perhaps repetitive nature of creating and performing music as a metaphor for getting “stuck on repeat” in that arena and even life on the whole.

In the reflective and melancholy track, “Brave For You,” the compelling bassline and unconfined electronic touches build as the vocals overcome fear and loss with the resolution, “I will be brave for you / Do the things I’m afraid to do.” The song showcases another incarnation of the group’s edgy and vulnerable sound, and draws the listener into that conflict seamlessly.

Another facet of The xx’s musical variation appears in the song, “On Hold,” which begins with a spacious quality that builds to an intricate intensity as the story of regret and confusion over a past relationship unfolds. With the lyric, “Where and when did we go cold? / I thought I had you on hold,” the listener hears a heartbreaking sentiment overlaying

a more perplexing one. No one ever likes being put “on hold.” Plenty of people are familiar with the agonizing nature of wasting time on the phone, the annoyance of not being a priority in the moment, and perhaps the thought that waiting in the line might not even be worth the trouble in the first place. While the listener is spared the disagreeable music one might hear while waiting on hold, the song cultivates the agitation it might elicit with a choppy and vaguely incomprehensible section repeatedly asking, “Where does it stop? / Where do you dare me to (draw the line)?” This gentle conflict, paired with destiny failing to bring the relationship together like the stars in the sky expected, develops the sense that things will only remain predictable for a limited span of time, and serves as a nice change in pace at that point in the album.

The album closes with “Test Me,” a moody track that features a mixture of delicate piano and simple electronic accompaniment and wraps up the album’s theme with, “You look but never see.” The song doesn’t shrink away from exposing the hazards of acting in that manner, as the prominent request to, “Test me, see if I stay,” leaves the listener shocked and perhaps even more receptive to the album’s overarching theme.

As a whole, the album features a varied exploration of the personal conflicts of the band members, as well as a unique musical style that ranges from mildly playful to extremely dramatic and displays the growth of The xx in an enjoyable way.

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In the 1960s, North America is seen cleaved in two—under the heel of the Nazi Reich in the east and under the Japanese rising sun in the west. There appears to be little hope for freedom or peace for all constituents involved as the Nazi war machine inches closer to war with the much weaker Japanese Empire.

The Resistance seeks to undermine the imminent nuclear destruction of the world through the distribution of films depicting an alternate reality— of a free America. But many actors from all walks of life are conflicted as to who is the lesser of the two evils in such a twisted world.

In the Japanese Pacific States, Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) feels the spiritual pull of a reality separate from the one inhabited by the victorious Axis Powers. Meanwhile, Juliana Crane (Alexa Davalos) and her boyfriend, Frank Frink (Rupert Evans), are roped into Resistance activities and must wager their lives to

save each other and the world. In the American Reich, Obergruppenführer John Smith (Rufus Sewell) must grapple with absolutist, Nazi ideology and dissenting feelings in his own heart. In Berlin, Nazi agent Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank) meets his father and confronts his past, as shadowy figures look to seize power after Adolf Hitler’s death.

The second season seriously ups the stakes of the first season as the world rests on the brink of destruction. In the first season, the drama and stakes, namely for Blake and Crane, were localized to their persons. This is a necessary escalation that creates a palpable amount of tension as the season came to a close in its ponderous finale. This kind of escalation necessarily must come to a head in the next, lest the weight be utterly deflated in anticlimactic fashion. One would not think that possible when dealing with Nazis.

Many of the most compelling performances in this season come from those within the Nazi ranks.

As the season paints a vivid picture in a world reigned by Nazis, it does make many compelling points about the progression of societies, fascist or not. German artist and filmmaker, Nicole Dormer (Bella Heathcote), and her cohorts of wistful youths exhibit believable qualities that one might assume despite the ultimate authoritarian society. The show suggests that drug experimentation and sexual liberation would parallely have arisen even in Nazi-occupied Germany. The undercurrents of counter-culturalism and environmentalism are quaint

additions to the show’s mythos.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, t h e m o r a l absolutism, regarding extermination and racial purity, are explored in several characters as they grapple with these stringent principle in practice within their families. Smith is confronted with news of his son’s illness. Blake learns of his birth in a secret SS facility and the fracture of his family along ideological lines. In practice, such applications certainly would have been harder to implement in times of peace rather than war.

When the show digresses on tangential, pseudo-philosophical grounds, namely Tagomi’s forays into alternate realities, the show loses its immersive factor. Much of the appeal of the show lies in its craft of this dystopian world. When it tries to remind viewers of the true history or historical reality, it cheapens the rest of the events in the series. Not only is this a waste of screentime, but a complete subversion of the pertinent character stories being fleshed out it the framework of the fictional world.

The Man in the High Castle is one of the most engrossing shows out there. It has the potential to truly say something universal about societies and war, regardless of the victors. It calls into mind important questions about absolutism and strict ideological implementation, not only in this fictional world, but in our own.

In many ways, confronted with enemies on all sides, the show asks viewers to find humanity in adversaries and observe that we are more like them than not.

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Then I got to thinking about the nature of writing screenplays and what happens afterward. Though the conversation covered the fanciful idea of bringing a great work into the world—not the Great American Novel, but the Great American Screenplay. Understandably, when one finishes the work, it most certainly is time to reap the rewards of your labors. It is time to sell.

But I then realized film is much different from other arts in this way. Where a painting, whether hung in a truck stop bathroom stall or among others pieces in an upscale gallery, remains imbued with the beauty and intent of its creator. A book can be housed on any shelf, in any place, while its pages remain in the words of its author. A screenplay’s final iteration is, naturally, on the screen. The original intent of a finished film and a screenplay can be markedly different.

I began to think of people who make careers of it. Making visions incarnate, pouring passion into every letter, and seeing flashes of your narrative played out just as you imagined on screen only to sell the dream must be wretching to some. The work into which you may have poured your heart will be sold. Its pages may collect dust and discolor as they float from desk to desk or become lost altogether.

Another terror crossed my mind—a worse fate to befall. Your work falls into the hands of the incapable, creating a film that shares nothing with your dream other than name. A mishmash of elements will ramble along in horrid fashion, as this director’s vision neglected your own and substituted it with a cheap alternative. Your name will read on screen, but the images on screen are a far cry from what you intended. At best you may be forgotten, at worst you are remembered. Maybe this is how George Lucas feels.

Even if met with success, much of the film’s lavish praises will be heaped on actors and the director rather than a person behind the scenes like a writer.

With all these unfavorable possibilities, I wondered why write them at all, unless you were to do it yourself. At least, how could someone not in the business get exposure to attract attention of those who could bring their screenplay to life?

Given the choice or chance, I am sure most screenwriters would direct their own films given the experience. But few are afforded that luxury so it seemed a fruitless endeavor.

My brother then said something that resonated with me. Many of the stories he had envisioned in his mind has faded away or atrophied. They became distant as new stories arose or they failed to retain his interest. In this way, if one does not write these stories down, they are like to be lost in the streams of our own consciousness.

And that made sense to me.

To pluck these things out of the mind is not only for the individual, but for the collective. Films are a collective experience. The cinephile community begets great writers and it is in their inclinations to share their stories with others. So many people, from the production assistants on set, to those who seat themselves in the theater, are involved in the film experience.

That includes screenwriters, too. Everyone serves to pass along the narrative, no matter where one stands on the track.

This demands of me to take hold of the stories I have before they escape me, as all things do in time.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF YITING CHEN

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Maybe you set foot in the gloomy hallways during the chaos of finals, following the advice of a random acquaintance that suggested you might happen upon an empty classroom to study in. The well-intentioned step into Carney’s halls, for me, quickly became an extensive exploration fueled by procrastination and fascination with the dusty, abandoned feeling of the place. Carney is an unexpectedly creative place—the mystique could inspire thoughts of experimental movies, or narratives including a haunting, or even cold, lonely photographs.

A love of Carney is uncommon. It’s consistently written off by the student population as the ugliest building, a place where you don’t go unless you absolutely have to. But beautiful things are happening in Carney, despite public opinion. The unpopularity of Carney makes it an accessible place for artists and musicians to develop and display their creative efforts. The current gallery space in Carney 203 is a prime example of this.

Carney 203 is a repurposed classroom turned art gallery that is currently hosting a magnificent exhibit called Silver and Ink: A Photographic Exhibition. The exhibit showcases the work of five extremely talented undergraduate photographers from Professor Muldowney’s Photography II Class, and it will be presented until the end of January. Silver and Ink features the work of five students: Yiting Chen’s Identity,; Andres Gonzales’ Imaginary Objects, Jackson Rettig’s The Boredom Complex, Yiwei Wang’s Self-portrait, and Liam Weir’s The Devlin Herald.

The course that inspired the Silver and Ink gallery aimed to have each photographer create a strong body of work, going beyond the technical focus of a Photography I class to have the students develop a cohesive aesthetic and personal photographic vision using the skills they have previously learned. It pushed the students to fully explore the relationships between the technical aspects, such as exposure, film development, camera, and the aesthetic results. It required each student to have a thesis or theme to govern their collection of images, which made the

course function very well in a gallery setting.

The gallery is stunning. The three stark white walls are brightly illuminated with typical gallery spotlights that give the prints a lively glow. The minimalistic presentation follows the design of your typical art museum, giving the work the power to stand out against the plain walls. When you first enter the room, there is a split second where you don’t know where to go first, leaving you stuck in the middle noticing only the diverse arrangements of the works and taking them in as a series of 2-dimensional shapes. For instance, Self-portrait spans the entire wall on left, arranged randomly with prints of varying sizes that draws the eye on a fluid, very haphazard journey across the wall. Similarly, Imaginary Objects is arranged freely and spaced widely, with the sharp contrast of the images standing out on the white wall. This stands in contrast with the highly organized, uniformly sized presentations of The Boredom Complex and Identity that gives an impression of an understood sequence.

They all stand in contrast with Weir’s exhibit on the far right, The Devlin Herald, which presents one image displayed through disconnected pieces of newsprint that overlap to form a larger street scene on the wall as an example. The other images folded in the classic newspaper format that are intended to be interactive were casually laid out on a white bench, the only object in the room. The print text offered a commentary on the legitimacy of news media in the world we live in, where the truth can be pieced together like his multi-paged photographs that required the “reader” to disassemble the newspaper booklets and puzzle-piece them together on the rug floor.

Each exhibition draws you in in its own way, and requires a focused, analytical glance. When you get closer, the shapes become photographic works of art that all sprung from an incredibly unique theme or idea.

For example, Boredom Complex explored how several students coped with being isolated in a completely dark room for several hours. The subjects were photographed periodically, without knowledge or sense of the passage of time, using a remote controlled by Jackson on the other side of the door in order to preserve the goal to catch the subjects off guard, in their natural state of boredom. The images were organized like a grid, plotting the passage of time on the top and the names of the students on the left, giving a pretty interesting comparison of

the subjects in various states of boredom at the same time. The collection included over 80 photographs, and due to the unplanned exposures, they gave a very human and vulnerable face to the subjects in their various states of disarray and utter boredom.

Identity was the only collection that appeared in color. Her fiercely vibrant, yet soft, images featured stunning portraits in which the subject’s face is obscured by blur through the use of a longer exposure, giving the images a dynamic, moving quality. If the faces had been shown, they would have taken on the form of extremely elegant fashion portraiture as they made use of beautiful studio lighting and intricate, artful clothing. The artistic choice to blur the images, however, gave the collection a universal feel, as if the model could be anyone, anywhere, an extremely interesting concept given that the series is titled Identity.

On the adjacent wall to Identity, Imaginary Objects was similarly insightful. The aim of Imaginary Objects was to depict what one would codify as more cliche images on campus and in the city of Boston uniquely through the distortion of the film negatives. The use of a candle to burn, melt, fold, and buckle the negatives after developing transformed the photographs of cliche places, like Gasson Hall and Boston Common, into new worlds that dissolved and swirled into large black spots where the data on the film was ruined.

Self-portrait also utilized film, but focused instead on the intricacies and abstract shapes of the things in the realm of the everyday. Her gallery was certainly the most extensive in the context of how many diverse technical skills were used to make unique exposures, and the range of subjects that her images depicted. Her use of light and blur was also extremely striking, and her photographs show a real talent at capturing geometry and light with a unique eye. The inclusion of very small, contact sheet-sized images interspersed throughout the larger format of more geometric images created a dialogue between the things she chose to shrink and the ones she printed full size. The display was visually interesting, enhancing her already artful images.

Silver and Ink does not disappoint, strong and beautiful enough to rival even the aesthetic goals of the bathrooms in Carney. And if you do find yourself in the supposed wasteland of Carney one day, you’ll find a stunning display of student creativity.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF YITING CHEN

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ARTS& REVIEW

‘Split’

‘The Founder’

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Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc shows how one man brought burgers to billions.......................................................................B7

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