The Heights February 6, 2017

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On Sunday, students gathered for an emergency meeting held by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s Student Assembly to present and discuss “A Resolution Concerning the ‘Muslim Ban.’” Two other members FaceTimed into the meeting in order to attain a quorum necessary for debate.

Sponsored by Aneeb Sheikh, MCAS ’20, and Michael Proietta, MCAS ’19, the resolution concerning the “Muslim ban,” officially known as a travel ban, affirmed UGBC’s commitment to “protect and ensure the safety of the diverse identities within the Boston College community,” as

well as calling for the University to “provide free housing to students, staff, and faculty (if applicable) who are affected by the ban” over the various academic breaks.

The resolution was passed unanimously.

“This is certainly a commentary on a national issue, but because it does affect some students on this campus, it is directly in relation to all of us,” Proietta said. “And an attack on refugees, on those that are not fully United States citizens, is not just an attack on those individuals, but an attack on all of us.”

According to CNN, federal judges in Boston had ruled that officials cannot detain a person on the basis of Trump’s executive order, and courts in New York and Washington issued similar judgements to ease the panic and confusion.

On Sunday, Jan. 29, the Department of Homeland Security said that it will comply

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flight has a full day ahead. Among the sport coat-donning businessmen and caffeine-drenched flight attendants sits a soft-spoken Austrian economist, typing on his laptop.

A frequent flyer, he has perfected the art of never wasting an hour, using this free time to work on his research.

Though most of the passengers may spend a few weeks or even just a few days in Boston, this man will be gone by the evening. He will catch a 4 p.m. flight back to D.C. in order to make it home

for dinner.

This kind of hectic schedule is perfectly normal for Mathis Wagner. He’s the co-author of 10 academic papers, a short-term consultant for the World Bank, and a Boston College economics professor. Wagner lives in D.C. and travels to Boston twice a week. He began working for BC in 2010, and the World Bank in 2012, giving him arguably the busiest schedule on campus.

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Aneeb Sheikh, MCAS ’20, (left) and Michael Proietta, MCAS ’19, sponsored the resolution.

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After a week-long extension to the nomination deadline, four teams are officially in this year’s race: Akosua Achampong and Tt King,

both MCAS ’18; Raymond Mancini and Matt Batsinelas, both CSOM ’19; Davis Pollino, CSOM ’19, and Sebastian Biber, MCAS ’19; and Dan Wu and Jack Kelly, both MCAS ’18.

Each team introduced itself and then presented some ideas, though all the teams’ campaign platforms have not yet been released.

Batsinelas said his team’s goal is to repair UGBC’s relationship with the administration, implement financial accountability, and expand UGBC’s resources to more students on campus. Mancini, who could not attend yesterday’s event, is a member of the Student Assembly, which he has criticized for its focus on issues of diversity and inclusion. In the fall, he and Michael Proietta, MCAS ’19, co-

sponsored a resolution in the SA that would have created an independent committee to review UGBC’s budget, which they think is misallocated. The resolution was voted down overwhelmingly—Mancini and Proietta were the only votes in favor.

Batsinelas said that previous UGBC leadership had “destroyed” its relationship with the administration, though he did not give specific examples. Students pay a $330 activities fee that helps to fund UGBC’s $328,000 budget, which he and Mancini think is not used effectively. Batsinelas said that they are focused on outreach to groups he thinks UGBC does not serve, including first-generation students and transfer students.

Pollino and Biber have a three-part platform focused on inclusivity, transparency, and accessibility. The two want to create a diversity database of all diversity groups on campus and their descriptions. Pollino said they are also focused on diversity resources, such as finding a faculty adviser for the GLBTQ Leadership Council. Their platform criticizes UGBC for not publishing documents on voting in the SA or budget measures.

“Everything UGBC does seems to be behind closed doors,” Pollino said.

He suggested having a Facebook Live stream for every UGBC meeting or a weekly newsletter with all of UGBC’s activities for the week. UGBC does currently have a weekly

email newsletter with information on events and initiatives it is sponsoring, as well as links to community resources, but it does not specifically cover SA resolutions or voting. UGBC revamped its communications department this year to focus on transparency, with an emphasis on outreach to students.

After a round of the Newlywed Game, where the candidates were asked to answer questions about their running mates, Achampong and King, who were random roommates as freshmen, presented parts of their platform.

Achampong is the current chair of UGBC’s AHANA Leadership Council, and King, who

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Nick Gozik, the director of the Office of International Programs, could not provide

specific numbers of students who went abroad this year, but he said that in the past three years, more students were going abroad in the fall than in the spring.

“In this case it is difficult to know whether we are dealing with a trend or aberration, since the shift is very recent and not consistent across the U.S., or even locally for that matter,” Gozik said in an email.

Director of Undergraduate Admission John Mahoney said in an email that while his office is monitoring abroad trends closely, there have been no discussions so far about adjusting housing awards to reflect the changes. Gozik said it is difficult to predict how the situation will evolve based on limited data, so it is unclear whether changes will be necessary.

Gozik said that one speculation about why the abroad trend flipped this year is that more students have been advised to be on campus in the fall, when they can participate in recruiting for industries like banking and consulting. He added that some companies can interview students over Skype or in the spring, when they’re back on campus.

“It may be that the need to stay on campus is at times more of a perception than a reality; however, this also depends on the industry and hiring practice,” Gozik said.

According to Amy Donegan, the assistant dean for undergraduate career advising in CSOM, students applying to jobs in banking, corporate finance, operations, and other industries might not have that

option. Donegan said well over 300 current juniors are finance majors, including double concentrators. Normally, about 40 percent of the students go abroad junior year, and because of the change in recruiting season, that has shifted from the fall to the spring.

Donegan said that students need to be on campus for these types of interviews.

Career advising has not seen much flexibility with companies granting Skype interviews, because the steep competition means the incentive is low for them to do something abnormal. Donegan has seen some students land consulting internships with Skype interviews, but those are rare because making connections is difficult without being on campus.

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“It makes it difficult because it’s not enough to just submit your resume, the recruiters need to know you and that networking piece of crucial,” she said.

Gozik said that his office does not normally encourage students to go abroad in one or the other semester, but it is better to have an even split. With more balance, there is less competition to get into highlycoveted programs, and BC services like housing have less trouble when there is more of an equilibrium.

Total study abroad participation for BC students in the 2014-15 school year was 50.9 percent, good for 15th among the top doctorate-granting universities, according to a study by the Institute of International Education.

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EcoPledge, RealFood BC, and the Undergraduate Government of Boston College will hold a screening of the documentary Reuse! Because You Can’t Recycle the Planet on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Higgins 300. Pizza and drinks will be provided

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Gerhard Bowering will give a talk titled “Observing Prayer and Ritual” as a part of the Gasson Lecture Series. Bowering is a professor of Islamic studies at Yale University and editor-in-chief of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Thought. The talk is on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in Gasson 305.

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The GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC) will host a spring welcome social in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. The event is designed to bring together questioning students, allies, and queer-identifying students to make campus feel like a more inclusive place. Food and games will be available.

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8cld 8[mfZXk\j ]fi ;`jXYc\[ Michael Amoruso, BC ’91, was a key member in passing the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act, which was signed by President Barack Obama in December. The act allows mentally-competent individuals with disabilities to establish a special-needs trust.

Congress first recognized special-needs trusts in 1993, but an oversight in the law only allowed trusts to be created by the disabled person’s legal guardian or the court.

Amoruso argues that the law presumed that anyone with a disability lacked a mental capacity, so they were unable to create their own trusts. His cause to change this law was especially significant for Amoruso, who is legally blind and was born with bilateral hearing loss.

During his first case as a lawyer, Amoruso learned about the language of special needs trusts. He was representing a disabled woman who won damages in a medical malpractice suit. After he suggested putting the money into a trust to protect her assets, he learned that she couldn’t sign her own trust.

Amoruso was surprised, angered, and sought to change the law from that moment forward.

Amoruso was at the White House when Obama signed the Act into law in December.

“I feel it is my duty to be a voice for the disabled and for seniors and be an example,” he said to westfaironline.com.

=\i^ljfe Jg\Xbj kf :JFD Roger Ferguson, the CEO and president of TIAA Financial Services, recently spoke with first-year Boston College MBA students at the Carroll School of Management. For nearly an hour, Ferguson talked in a packed Fulton 130 about the action needed to prevent a retirement crisis, as well as the waning trust toward the financial services industry.

Ferguson also mentioned that he always welcomes an opportunity to visit and speak with college students.

“I’m really glad I came—it was a good use of my time,” Ferguson told The Chronicle. “I thought the students’ Q&A showed an awful lot of sophistication and understanding of the current situation with the markets and economy.”

On Sept. 11, 2001, Ferguson was the only Federal Reserve governor in Washington, D.C., and was faced with the responsibility of keeping the financial world from crashing. Ferguson shared his experiences of managing crises as a leader during this time, describing how his team released a statement to inspire confidence and supported the entire U.S. economy for several days. His team worked with central banks around the world, making sure that all ATMs had enough currency to support demand.

TIAA manages about $1 trillion in investments, and counts BC as one of its longtime clients.

“TIAA has been a tremendous partner with the University,” Vice President for Human Resources David Trainor told The Chronicle.

“The opportunity to have Roger here at Boston College is something that we jumped at and we’re really thrilled that he could come.”

“Please stand for the Black National Anthem,” a member of B.E.A.T.S., a Boston College student a cappella group, said to the audience who had gathered for the Opening Ceremony for Black History Month at BC. After a clatter of silverware and rustling of napkins, the assembled guests listened to the group’s rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song written by James Weldon Johnson in 1899.

The dinner and musical program they were attending was sponsored by the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center (BAIC), and was held at the Shea Function Room in Conte Forum.

During Black History Month, eight more commemorative events will take place at BC. The next event is a “Spoken Word Lounge” in Gasson 100 on Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m., and is co-sponsored by the Black Student Forum and the Campus Activities Board.

Inés Maturana Sendoya, director of the BAIC, began the kickoff event by briefly describing the history of Black History Month itself.

Sendoya said that Black History Month is officially celebrated in three countries—the United States and Canada in

February, and the United Kingdom in October.

“Black History Month can be traced to 1915, when Dr. Carter Woodson, a historian, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, and the purpose of that organization was to disseminate the achievements of people of the African diaspora,” Sendoya said.

The Association sponsored the first-ever “Negro History Week” in 1926, to be held annually during the second week of February, which coincided with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12, and Frederick Douglass on Feb. 14, Sendoya said.

Sendoya said that in subsequent decades many schools and communities organized similar, local celebrations. Mayors from major American cities started issuing proclamations recognizing Negro History Week.

In the 1960s, due in part to the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, Negro History Week evolved into Black History Month on many college campuses, and was nationally recognized in 1976 by President Gerald Ford, Sendoya said.

Sendoya said that BC began officially celebrating Black History Month in 2008, coordinating numerous events with student clubs and university departments.

Following Sendoya’s remarks,

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Lovely Hoffman, BC ‘03, and B.E.A.T.S, performed at the first Black History Month event on Friday night.

B.E.A.T.S., an a cappella group formed in 2009 and named after their mission to capture the “Black Experience in America Through Song,” performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” among other songs by African-American singers and musicians, such as The Spinners and Ste vie Wonder.

Lovely Hoffman, BC ’03, a musical artist, educator, and activist, performed next. Hoffman won a New England Urban Music Award for her 2007 debut single “Can’t Wait,” which peaked at No. 10 on urban col-

lege radio charts.

During her time at BC, Hoffman co-founded the all-female B C step team F.I.S.T.S. (Females Incorporating Sisterhood Through Step). During the event, Hoffman punctuated her renditions of original and classic songs with comments related to Black History Month.

“Today we’re here celebrating Black History Month, but we know that black history is 365 days a year,” Hoffman said, to audience applause.

Hoffman also sang the vocal portion of her award-winning

original music video “Black Lives Matter.” The video won first place in the Best Music Video category at the San Francisco Black Film Festival.

After her performance, Hoffman said that Nina Simone, a prominent artist and activist, was once asked to define freedom.

Simone replied, “I’ll tell you what freedom is—freedom is the absence of fear.”

“That really made my heart ache—as people of color, we’re in a constant state of fear,” Hoffman said. “[People of color] don’t have freedom in this country.”

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On Thursday night in Cushing 001, Newell and Pappalardo spoke to students about starting Reductress, how they use satire, and the types of topics they aim to tackle.

Newell and Pappalardo met while doing sketch comedy together in New York City. While writing comedy pieces with other women, Newell noticed that many of the ideas they were writing focused on poking fun at the way advertisers target women. In April 2013, Newell

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approached Pappalardo with the idea of creating a satirical publication that poked fun at the way media portrays women.

Reductress started with an idea, practically no budget, and 50 or 60 articles. From there, Pappaladro and Newell hit the ground running and have not stopped since.

“Media has this legacy of talking to women in a particular way, talking down to us and using our fears and insecurities in order to sell us things,” Newell said.

“That was part of the inspiration for how we developed a satirical women’s magazine.”

She then went on to mention how other outlets, like The Onion, had satirized the standard news website, but a take on a women’s publication had not been done yet.

The website aims to satirize both big and seemingly trivial issues that women face. From rape culture and police brutality

exaggerate like Reductress does.

Along with writing satirical magazine pieces, Reductress creates fake ads that parody the way marketing campaigns target women. One of the campaigns they created was called “Bologna for Her,” a comment on the “For Her”-type of campaigns many companies run.

In November 2014, Reductress did a “rape culture takeover” of its homepage in response to the rape allegations against a man who was kicked out of the Upright Citizens Brigade, a New York sketch comedy group. For the first time, every article on the homepage was dedicated to the same subject.

“We kinda took it from all angles, how people talk about it on the internet, witch hunts, just being an ally and what that means right now, and also kinda dealing with the aftermath of being a victim,” Pappalardo said.

This past October, Reductress

published a book titled How To Win At Feminism: The Definitive Guide To Having It All—And Then Some! written by Newell, Pappalardo, and Anna Drezen.

How to Win is a satirical guide that “teaches” women how to be “good feminists.” The book aims to critique the way feminism is perceived in the mainstream media.

At the end of the talk, Newell and Pappalardo opened up the floor to questions. One of the audience members asked Newell and Pappalardo what they hoped to accomplish with their writing.

Newell said they don’t expect to change the world, but hope some people can relate to the truth behind the satire.

“I think the goal is to have people say ‘Oh, I never saw it that way,’ and then they might experience their world differently, being aware of things they weren’t aware of before,” Pappalardo said.

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Wednesday, Feb. 1

10:30 p.m. - A report was filed regarding lost property at BCPD headquarters.

6:47 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic crash at Lower Lots.

Friday, Feb. 3

5:33 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance at the Brighton Campus Lots.

to microaggressions in the workplace, Reductress tackles it all.

They aim to shed light on the fact that, although women are treated better now than they have been historically, there is still room for improvement.

Newell and Pappalardo then went on to explain how and why they use satire as their medium of choice. Part of the strategy of writing satire, Newell explained, is to heighten the topic, which means exaggerate to the point of ridiculousness. She explained how this style of writing can make tough subjects more palatable to readers. When they plan a piece, Pappalardo explained, the writers try to hone in on one core truth and focus the article around that.

They differentiated what Reductress does with its satire from how other blog-style websites operate. Pappalardo explained that blogging websites often use snark to make a point, but do not

1:44 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility.

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Last year, in response to losing 320 oncampus parking spots due to construction, and a subsequent 10 percent hike in parking plan costs, Boston College’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) submitted a proposal to reduce the increase in parking prices. The proposal outlined three different ways to combat the rise of parking costs, including expanding the reach of the shuttle service which would decrease the number of cars on campus.

Chris Tansey, GLSOE ’17, is the current president of the Graduate Education Association (GEA), the main student association serving graduate students in the Lynch School of Education.

He drafted the proposal after many graduate students expressed frustration toward the rising prices of parking without notification from administrators.

“I came up with a proposal to try and address [students’ frustration],” he said.

The main parts of the proposal outlined three possible solutions—to reduce the pricing and stop the increase, an alternative pricing plan so that maybe students could pay for a few days a week for parking, and lastly, new shuttle routes so students wouldn’t have

to bring their cars on campus.

According to Tansey, the Office of Transportation and Parking did not think the first two options were viable, but was receptive to the idea of new shuttle routes.

Tansey was tasked with creating a survey to show student demand. The survey generated 1,041 responses—about 34 percent of respondents identified themselves as undergraduate students, while about 66 percent identified themselves as graduate students.

The survey results showed that 35.6 percent of respondents lived in Brighton, which was the most popular place by a margin of 25.9 percent. The survey also showed that nearly 45 percent of respondents did not take the shuttle because the shuttle is too far from where they lived.

After compiling all of the data from the survey, Tansey put together three routes that students showed interest in having—to Allston-Brighton, to Coolidge Corner, and to Kenmore Station.

Tansey thinks the Allston-Brighton route would be extremely useful for graduate and undergraduate students living off campus, as Brighton was the most popular location for graduate students to live, and 40 percent of graduate respondents indicated that Brighton Center was their most desired shuttle destination.

Over 50 percent of undergraduates indicated that a shuttle to Coolidge Corner was the most desirable, and graduate students agreed, with Coolidge Corner being the

fourth-most desired shuttle destination (with 30 percent of graduate respondents wanting the shuttle).

Lastly, Tansey indicated that a route to Kenmore Station would open up the city of Boston to students. He also mentioned that these new shuttle routes, especially the Kenmore Station route, could be selling points for the BC administration.

“Over the summer, in August, there was a pretty good chance that this might go through—like a pretty probable chance,” Tansey said. “But more recently, the administration wants to see more student interest before they get behind this.”

Tansey expressed frustration over this roadblock, as he felt his survey communicated student interest in these proposed shuttle routes.

“I got the impression that the momentum had stalled,” Tansey said Tansey had worked with the Undergraduate Government of BC last year, and hopes to see UGBC push the initiative more, as the University is more receptive to undergraduate initiatives. Currently, the GSA has been busy with another initiative—an event to be held next month on racial oppression—and has put the shuttle project on the back burner.

“This project was like my baby. I put a ton of work into it last year,” Tansey said. “I think it would be a great service for both undergraduate and graduate students for different reasons. But I think it could do a lot for students.”

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At BC, fear and confusion sparked a rally held by the Muslim Student Association on Friday, and senior-level administrators at BC, including University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., sent out an email to all students last Sunday openly objecting to the directive, and affirming the University’s commitment to “educate the children of immigrants.”

The SA’s resolution calls for the University to provide free housing to members of BC’s community who are affected by the travel ban, and continue to accept students with refugee status in the U.S. The sponsors of the resolution recognized Leahy’s letter, the United Nation’s Convention Against Torture—signed by the U.S. The resolution had originally called for a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) or the Interna-

tional Rescue Committee (IRC) using the revenue of the Diversity and Inclusion Programming Board (DIP) of UGBC. But the sponsors of the resolution had not reached out to DIP before presenting the resolution, and it was established that UGBC can only donate up to $1,000 to an external organization. It also must be approved by BC to ensure that the organization upholds Jesuit values.

Hagop Toghramadjian, MCAS ’17, brought up the fact that the ACLU is invested in many social issues, including abortion, and that donating to the ACLU would be taking a definitive stance on all of the issues ACLU is invested in.

The SA ultimately decided against the donation portion of the resolution and deleted it.

During the questioning period, a senator asked why the sponsors decided to title the resolution with “Muslim ban” instead of “travel ban,” which is what the order is officially called.

The questioner noted that former President Barack Obama’s administration had put lighter limitations on the same seven countries that Trump has banned travel from.

“It was rhetorical in nature,” Proi-

etta said. “It certainly isn’t simply a Muslim ban, there were certainly Christians who were affected by this travel ban. But, because much of it was directed, in terms of hostility towards the Muslim community, I think it was more direct and rhetorically effective to call it a ‘Muslim ban’ instead of merely a ‘travel ban.’”

Sheikh added that there is an abundance of evidence that the travel ban is in fact a Muslim ban, as Trump announced on the campaign trail that he would look to enact a Muslim ban.

Trump even looked to legal counsel to see if a Muslim ban could be enacted.

Russell Simons, UGBC president and MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17, will meet with Vice President for Student Affairs Barbara Jones to further discuss the free-housing aspect of the resolution. According to a senator at the meeting, Jones was very receptive to the suggestion of providing accommodations to those affected by the order.

“This is certainly a moral imperative, because to truly be a free nation, we must support all individuals, and not bring to the state of terror, to the state of violence, in which this executive ban is promoting,” Proietta said.

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The posters advertised an egg donation service specifically targeting young Asian women. It promised a payment of $7,000 to $12,000 to women willing to donate their eggs.

All fliers posted on campus must be approved by OSI and receive a stamp to prove their validity. Posters with an OSI stamp also have an expiration date and are required to be removed from the

walls by that date.

On Wednesday afternoon, Gus Burkett, the director of OSI, received a call from somebody who had come across an egg donation poster in a women’s bathroom in Gasson and felt offended by it. Burkett instructed the student to take down that poster and any others she came across.

Burkett then asked female student workers in OSI to check the women’s bathrooms in other academic buildings for these posters.

More posters were found in Stokes and McElroy shortly after. Burkett immediately sent an email to members of the Office of Residential Life, asking them to keep an eye out for these posters and take them down if they come across them.

Asked if ResLife found any posters, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs George Arey was not yet able to comment at press time.

Burkett called the number on the poster of a brand representative. The number went straight to voicemail, so he searched the company online and called its 800 number.

Burkett warned the person on the other end of the line not to place any more posters on BC’s campus. The person apologized for the incident.

“They have to follow our policies like everyone else,” Burkett said.

Burkett said he has not seen a poster breach to this scale in his five years of working at BC. He believes that the posters were put up by someone who works at the company, not by a student, but he isn’t sure.

OSI will continue to monitor posters across campus and make sure that only ones that have been approved are on the walls of academic buildings.

“We do the best we can to make sure they’re not out there without approval,” Burkett said.

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Several hundred members of the Boston College community gathered on O’Neill Plaza at noon Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s controversial week-old executive order on immigration. The order bans travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, prevents all refugees from entering the United States for 120 days, and bans Syrian refugees indefinitely. The protest was organized by the Muslim Students Association (MSA) after a member, Sara Elzeini, MCAS ’18, had the idea last weekend. Over 30 student groups reached out to her asking to partner in the event.

Elzeini started off the event, titled “Together We Stand,” with a moment of silence while she recited Al Fatihah, the prayer that opens the Quran. Elzeini’s mother was detained in Egypt for all of last year, which she said was the hardest time she has ever had. “[Trump] has offended every single person living on this earth, on this planet, in this country, and the only way to fight back is with our strength, and with our solidarity, and with our motivation and our hearts, because he doesn’t have one,” Elzeini said. “So let’s show him ours.”

Stephen Pope, a theology professor, said the executive order takes people who are the most needy and scapegoats them for other problems and worries facing the U.S. Pope read a line from the Old Testament: “You shall treat the stranger in your midst as a native among you, as one of your own … for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”

“The present regime only got into power because it was supported by Christians,” he said. “They have forgotten this line.”

Earlier this week, University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead, and Provost David Quigley sent an email statement to the BC community denouncing the executive order as un-Christian and offering resources to people affected. They advised citizens of the seven Muslim-majority countries to remain in the U.S. because they might be prevented from returning.

BC was also among 598 colleges that signed a letter sent on Friday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly through the American Council on Education. The letter highlights international exchange as “a core value and strength of American higher edu-

cation,” and encourages the U.S. to welcome foreign scholars and students.

Bryn Spielvogel, a member of Eradicate BC Racism and LGSOE ’20, and Maheen Haider, GMCAS ’21, also spoke at the rally.

Spielvogel mentioned a petition launched by several students last semester in the wake of Trump’s election.

The petition calls on the University to take several steps to become a sanctuary campus for undocumented immigrants and other marginalized communities, including making BC’s churches physical refuges for those who need shelter, and providing housing during school vacations for students who are concerned about returning to their home countries. Eradicate posted on its Facebook page after the administrators’ email was sent out on Sunday encouraging further action from the University.

As his office is not directly involved in those decisions, Dean of Students Thomas Mogan declined to comment specifically on the petition. Associate Director of Campus Ministry Chris Darcy said campus ministers will put themselves out there to be available to students who are affected by the executive order, most likely on an informal basis.

“But after something like this,” Darcy said, referencing the demonstration, “we’ll see where this moves us on whatever we need to do.”

Ali Banuazizi, a political science professor who immigrated to the U.S. when he was 17, also spoke. His research focuses on politics, religion, and society in the Middle East, and he said he condemns the terrorism the policies are purported to target.

“But these policies don’t have anything to do with these threats,” he said. “They’re directed at the wrong targets.”

Aneeb Sheikh, MCAS ’20, who immigrated from Pakistan to Dallas last August, referenced statements made last weekend by a Muslim community leader named Omar Suleiman, speaking at a protest at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

“Dehumanization is to speak of Muslims only in the context of national security, and not as people who have families, careers, and dreams, just like you and me,” Sheikh said.

On Sunday at a meeting of the Undergraduate Government of BC’s Student Assembly, Sheikh sponsored a resolution calling on the University to provide free housing to students and staff who are affected over Spring Break and the summer.

“Donald Trump is creating his own worst nightmare,” Sheikh said. “He has forced us out of our comfort zones and brought all of us here … because we will not allow our country to go down this path.”

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L>9: K\Xdj Gi\j\ek >fXcj UGBC Campaign, from A1 helps run the Bystander Intervention Program in the Women’s Center, has never been involved with UGBC before. Their platform is “Embracing We Through UGBC.” “We understand UGBC, the undergraduate government, as an organization, to be a means to an end,” Achampong said.

They have six main platform points, including health and wellness, campus improvements, and sustainability. Achampong highlighted that BC is the only top-30 university in the country without a student center, an initiative that has been a focus this year for Russell Simons, UGBC president, and Meredith McCaffrey, UGBC executive vice president, both MCAS ’17, who presented to the Board of Trustees about a student center last

fall. Their ideas also include having a UGBC app and eventually a BC app to have a central location for all events and information.

Wu and Kelly presented last, with the slogan “Let Us Empower You.” They are focused on school spirit and encouraging attendance at athletic events, as well as making health services resources more visible to students.

It is unclear how those efforts would differ from the Office of Health Promotion. Wu, a computer science major, wants to use technology to streamline communication between students and UGBC and to highlight off-campus events that BC students might not hear about.

“As a social media person, I know about the things around BC and the surrounding towns, and I think there’s a lot of untapped potential,” Wu said.

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A section is devoted exclusively to toppings: gummy bears, rainbow sprinkles, and chopped up Reese’s cups, among others.

The student employee shovels a pile of Oreos on a large scoop. Another pumps a stream of thick hot fudge over another. Whatever the flavor, the size, or the toppings, the same expression follows when the cup or cone is handed over to its purchaser—a large smile, eyes widened with excitement. It’s a feeling that only White Mountain can provide to Boston College students, a Comm. Ave. mainstay for more than 30 years.

Peter Coufos, the owner and manager, shared how the beloved and quaint ice cream shop came about.

The first White Mountain Creamery in the country opened up in 1985 on Comm. Ave. right across from BC. The original owner of the franchise chose to open all the shops near college campuses to entice a younger customer base. Eight years after its opening, Coufos bought the BC location from the original owner.

“I was working in the computer industry back in the late ’80s but I also had experience in the food industry and grew up working in various food establishments,” Coufos, who has lived in Boston his whole life, said in an email. “I really wasn’t happy working

in an office environment and knew that I needed the freedom and feeling of being my own boss.”

After always being a big fan of ice cream, Coufos didn’t hesitate to purchase White Mountain Creamery at BC in 1993.

Behind the scenes of production, White Mountain’s ice cream is produced three to four times a week during slow times, and five to seven days a week during busy influxes of customers.

As customers increased over the years, the staff switched from handcranked ice cream makers to batch ice cream freezers to meet demand.

“We keep a fresh rotation of our product and order quality ingredients to complement our premium ice cream,” Coufos said.

With more snow imminent and bitterly cold weather already creeping across campus, Coufos acknowledged that winter time is always a slow season in terms of sales for the business.

Despite this, New England remains the region with the highest ice cream consumption level all year round, possibly because of our familiarity with the cold and refusal to sacrifice something as good as ice cream in the process.

The “freshman 15” seems justifiable when it comes to staying warm during the winter, and with White Mountain only a short walk away, students simply cannot resist.

Coufos described how the staff keeps a list of regular flavors on hand at all times along with a list of special flavors that is changed daily or weekly.

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White Mountain Creamery, located on Commonwealth Avenue directly across from St. Ignatius, is a convenient stop for BC students.

Such special flavors are made according to customer requests and general popularity of certain flavors. Coufos cites Mocha Fudge Chip as his favorite ice cream flavor.

“My favorite part of being in the ice cream business is the challenge in keeping the business successful, creating new ice cream flavors and providing a high level of customer service that hopefully gives customers a great

experience,” he said.

Anna Gallagher, a White Mountain employee and MCAS ’20, shared her experience as well.

“Working there is so fun because all the student workers are so nice and funny, and I get to meet people across grades and majors who I would not have met otherwise,” Gallagher said.

“The owner is a great guy and the business is family-run so I feel special as a

worker there.”

Whether it be for first dates, birthday treats, or post-athletic and academic celebrations, White Mountain’s ice cream has become the cherry on top for BC students. BC’s dedication to the beloved creamery as well as the handwork put in by Coufos and all those involved in working at the store prove that it’s never too cold outside for ice cream.

K_\ Dlij[Xp <]]\Zk :_Xgk\i *1 9li`\[ 9\e\Xk_ k_\ <Xik_ 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 instalment in the serial will appear in each Monday issue of The Heights. It can also be found online with the previous chapters.

Upon breaking the heavy silence between Retrograde and his newfound friend, George reached his hand out, examining his hair in the reflection of Retrograde’s aviator shades.

“George,” he whispered.

“Bridget,” the girl said, finally mentioning her name after spending a substantial amount of time with a person she’s never met and not thinking an introduction was pertinent information. “Bridget Jones. Like the book. It came out the year I was born.

My mom is the worst.”

Retrograde looked at her in disgust, then shook his head.

“No matter. I need to bring you both up to speed on what’s happening. As you’ve noted, something strange is afoot.

We need to bring you to HQ,” he said.

The two students exchanged glances, a term often overused in novel writing that means they looked at each other in a manner that showed they were on the same page, and in this case, suspicious.

“Where’s that?” Bridget asked.

“The Service Building,” Retrograde replied, now tapping his foot anxiously.

“We need to hurry.”

“What the hell is the Service Building?”

George said, somehow implying in his voice that it was not just any service building and deserved to be capitalized per Associated Press Stylebook Rules™.

The three headed out of McGuinn as the sky grew overcast with another impending snowstorm. Bridget picked up her pace when the wind started flapping her sleeping bag of a coat in her face. The furry fringe on its hood made its way into her mouth, causing her to splutter out the short brown hairs.

“Are we going somewhere far? This Canada Goose jacket is really being a pain today,” Bridget said.

“The Service Building, you young, naive children, has been hiding in plain sight for your entire time at Boston College,” Retrograde said, in a tone that was sincere but also patronizing, like he had been sitting on this line for five minutes and finally had the chance to say it (He had been, and he nailed the delivery). “It’s even listed on the official BC map, a blue L-shaped building marked ‘service.’ It really couldn’t be clearer.”

As they walked closer, George pointed out what he must have been talking

about—a gray building, nestled near Campion and Cushing. It jumped out at him for the first time, despite passing it often on his way to Merkert, where he did not study chemistry but rather sat in the back of a large lecture on evolution for his science core. Boxy maroon vans were parked in a line outside the building. Retrograde latched onto one of the heavy doors and swung it open, positioning his legs on the driver’s seat.

“Follow me,” he said to the two, who now saw a large hole seemingly cut through the entire front seat of the vehicle in a perfect circle. Bridget climbed down next, discovering a ladder that seemed to go on for a half a mile. George looked down at her, then at a man who walked through the front door of the building. He wondered why there was such an elaborate process to getting down to this secret area since it appeared anyone could go into the building just by walking in, but he only raised an eyebrow and continued down the tunnel. He was, and still is, a bit more of a follower than a leader.

Arriving at the bottom of the seemingly endless ladder, the youths collected their breaths as Retrograde dusted off his pork pie hat. He stood in front of a sign marked “REPLACEMENT LOFTING EQUIPMENT” in maroon lettering with a gold trim, so as to appear on-brand.

“Well, here we are,” he said, fiddling with an old corncob pipe in his jacket pocket. “HQ.” Instead of gasping in awe as he jiggled several buttons and opened the door, the two were slightly underwhelmed. Several CCTV monitors lined the walls, projecting live images of the campus. They were hoping for more hustle and bustle, and maybe a F’real machine. But there were only the TVs, a large filing cabinet, and a sizable pile of Wham! memorabilia in one corner.

“What’s with all the Wham!?” Bridget asked.

“Previous director. No idea,” Retrograde said, clearing the control center in front of the TVs of errant papers. “Now, there’s one screen in particular that you should keep your eyes on.” He pointed toward the bottom right.

2051 Commonwealth Avenue, commonly known as Greycliff Hall, appeared on the screen. Suddenly, its outer columns folded in on themselves, and the front window shattered. A sleek, yet traditional brick building grew in its place, spiraling up toward the sky until it reached a reasonable six floors.

“So … that was something,” George said, always cutting the dramatic tension out of the air and ruining things.

“You know, you’re kind of annoying,” Bridget said, and she was right. But as Ret-

rograde would remind them minutes later, the universe had chosen them so they would just have to deal with each other.

“Entire swaths of campus are being altered by Mursday,” Retrograde said.

“This must be from one of the universes in which an old 10-Year Plan actually came to fruition. Honestly, Greycliff has never looked better. But that’s beside the point.

We have to stop this.”

“How?” Bridget asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

“Far away from here, there is a land, Bridget, that you are not familiar with. It’s called abroad. There holds the key to shutting out these other universes.”

“Abroad? Could you be any more vague? Abroad can mean anywhere,” Bridget remarked, remembering all of the times people told her they were going abroad but didn’t bother saying where exactly.

“I was getting to that,” Retrograde huffed. “It’s Nova Scotia. It’s no Perth or Parma, but it’ll have to do. Remember, the universe has chosen you two, so you will just have to deal with each other.”

George, who hadn’t said much in a bit and could use a line, smiled broadly, which is just a regular smile but more descriptive.

“Well,” he said. “Let’s go to Nova Scotia.”

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Last fall, in the wake of the historic presidential election, the inaugural issue of Colloquium: The Political Science Journal of Boston College was released to the general public.

The first edition of the publication, which focuses on climate change policy, is now available at various locations throughout campus. Conner Coles, a member of the editorial board and MCAS ’20, discussed the newly created journal and its pertinence to the BC community.

“With all of the fake news circulating in the wake of the election, I think it is important that Colloquium is focused on objective analysis,” Coles said, who is also a member of Boston College Democrats and Fulton Debate Society.

“Having a publication like this serves a civic purpose, as people can look to it as a reliable source for factual, academic

analysis.”

The journal includes a wide array of pieces about topics ranging from the historical coverage of the Iran Hostage Scandal to the relationship between elected representatives and their constituents. Moreover, writers and editors for the journal come from all walks of life at BC. “You would imagine that a lot of the individuals on our editorial board would be political science majors, but we actually have people from a lot of different backgrounds and interests,” Coles said.

The journal does not restrict its submissions to articles related to the field of political science. The staff of Colloquium considers research pieces that students may write for a history or sociology class, for example, that are not purely political in nature. In fact, the journal strives to promote academic work in an unbiased, open, and detailed manner. According to

Coles, the first edition represents that diversity of topics.

Cesar Garcia, the editor-in-chief of the publication and MCAS ’17, and Anna Olcott, the managing editor and MCAS ’17, were instrumental in establishing the journal, acquiring the appropriate funding for the publication and making all of the other necessary arrangements for Colloquium.

The publication’s primary mission is to enhance the liberal arts education provided at BC. “I think Colloquium is a really good outlet because it is able to highlight the professional work that students are doing in and out of class in a format that is easily accessible to other students interested in political science,” Coles said. “Even if you’re not a political science major, I think that the articles that we’ve chosen for the journal are relevant to anyone who is interested in politics, history, and current events.”

Colloquium now joins the ranks of

several other social science publications at BC, such as Kaleidoscope, the University’s international journal, and Al Noor, the undergraduate Middle Eastern studies journal. The publication team is currently planning to release new editions on a biannual basis.

The first edition will be made available on the BC Library Open Journal System beginning in late February.

The editorial board of the journal is currently considering accepting submissions from graduate students at BC as well as undergraduate students currently enrolled at other universities. The percentage of submissions accepted from these sources would likely be very low, however, because the editorial board would like to keep the journal focused on undergraduate students at BC. While the theme of the inaugural edition of Colloquium is climate change policy, the editorial board did not originally intend for this to be the case.

In fact, the publication was originally conceived without any planned theme for its first issue. Once student submissions began to roll in, however, the publication reconsidered.

“We originally didn’t go into this with a theme in mind,” Coles said. “The theme was dictated by the large volume of climate-related submissions that we received. We thought that climate change was something that is often talked about hyperbolically in the media, and agreed that it is one of the most pressing issues of our time.”

The theme for the next issue will depend on the next round of submissions, if there is even a theme at all.

As of now, with the first edition of the journal not yet released, future editions of Colloquium might be organized in many different ways and look different from this inaugural issue. But for now, by the end of the month, BC will have its first official glance at the newest journal on campus.

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BC’s debate organization, the Fulton Debating Society, has a history spanning more than 150 years. In 1863, the Society was founded and Rev. Robert Fulton S.J. led the group, which was initially called the “Senior Debating Society” before its name was changed to Fulton Debating Society in 1890. During its existence, the debate society has transformed multiple times to reflect the changing atmosphere of collegiate debate. As Katsulas frames it, “debate mirrors the changes in the academy—30 years ago it was public policyoriented arguments grounded in political science. Now [debate] has veered off into philosophical arguments.”

In today’s competitive debating scene, there is a vast array of possible angles of attack and defense, making each debate an unpredictable and fascinating intellectual battle, both for the observer and the participant. Traditional competitive debate often incorporates speeches that are designed to fit in as many facts as possible in an allotted timeframe, and there are also public debates which often include large crowds and impassioned speeches. The Fulton Debating Society participates in competitions and debates at universities across the country, allowing its members to travel throughout the semester.

Debaters must work on improving their research and speech skill, as they prepare to make their cases. In today’s collegiate and post-graduation landscape, these skills have high value. It should come as no surprise then that in previous years, the majority of debate club members went on to study law or originally came from a

political science background. In the most recent years, however, Katsulas has seen an influx of students from other areas of study.

“Now, virtually none of [the students] go to law school,” he said. “The vast majority of [the students] are actually school of management majors; which has been a big change.”

Since the debate club is a demanding time commitment, with multiple meetings a week and numerous hours spent researching and perfecting arguments, the club sees a high turnover rate of newcomer debaters. But despite that, some students commit themselves to the rigor of the Debate Society and participate every year.

Sean MacDonald, a senior student leader in the Debate Society and a two time winner of the Fulton Prize, which is awarded each year to the winner of the Fulton Prize Debate, has been involved in the organization since his freshman year.

“Overall it’s been a great experience, it gives you the opportunity to engage with students from other schools,” MacDonald Said. “[The debate club] has taught me how to think effectively.”

MacDonald functions as both a student leader and a member of the varsity team on the debate club.

Throughout the course of the debate club’s history, the organization has routinely won prestigious awards and competitions, most recently winning the West Point tournament as well as winning the University Club Championship. Through the guidance of faculty like Katsulas and the experience and leadership of students like MacDonald, the club continues to experience competitive success. The club also survives on the influx of new students at the beginning of each debate season, which includes both seasoned high school debaters and those who have not debated before, called novices within the club.

Whether new or old, each member brings strong argumentation to the Fulton Debating Society. Together they continue to pursue success in competition, while also developing important skills. With over 150 years of history, the society is still going strong and building on its long-standing tradition.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN KATSULAS

Most recently, Boston College’s Fulton Debate Society won the West Point tournament as well as the University Club Championship.

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Le`m\ij`kp J_flc[ Gifm`[\ ?flj`e^ ]fi 8]]\Zk\[ Jkl[\ekj The Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s Student Assembly passed a resolution on Sunday that formally establishes UGBC’s support for Muslim students in the wake of President Donald Trump’s divisive executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. The resolution also called upon the University to provide free housing for students affected by the ban during academic break periods.

UGBC is meant to serve as a voice for the student body in administrative affairs. The emergency meeting of the SA on Sunday and the passing of this resolution was a prompt and necessary response to the concern and uncertainty within the student body following Trump’s executive order.

The Muslim Students Association hosted one of the most attended protests of the year on O’Neill Plaza on Friday, with hundreds of students gathering together. Student and faculty speakers alike moved the crowd with their passionate words condemning Trump’s directive and emphasized unison in a time of stark division.

Multiple students in the past week have posted messages in class Facebook groups offering to host students during break periods who are afraid to travel home. There is staunch student support for maintaining the safety and comfort of Muslim students on campus, and the University ought to take the tangible steps that it can to further contribute to this goal.

Last Sunday, University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., along with Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead, and Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley, sent an email to students denouncing Trump’s executive order and expressing support for affected students.

Prior to this, Leahy also made an effort to address student concerns during the early stages of Trump’s presidency by signing a pair of statements supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama administration executive order that provides legal protections to immigrant students.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2017

“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head.

Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

While these are commendable actions on behalf of the administration, the University must follow them with more concrete action. The proposition of providing housing for students who are afraid to travel home represents the perfect opportunity. In this testing time, it is imperative that the University acknowledges and acts upon UGBC’s demands.

It is also important that if the University should offer housing for affected students that it be provided free of charge. Muslim and non-Muslim students alike already pay hefty tuition and room-and-board fees, and the University should not seek to capitalize on the needs of a marginalized portion of its students for monetary gain.

“It is imperative that the University acknowledges and acts upon UGBC’s demands.”

In reality, the rooms will just be sitting empty for the duration of break periods regardless. To a University sitting on billions of dollars, allowing a group of students to live on campus for an extra week or two will not represent too much of a financial burden.

In the email sent to students, Leahy, Lochhead, and Quigley echoed Pope Francis’s sentiment that Trump’s Muslim ban is antithesis to Christian values. “It’s hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help,” Francis said in a statement included in the email.

If the University truly holds Judeo-Christian values at its core, then it will choose to provide housing for these students, in order to not turn away members of its community seeking assistance.

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<DD8 >I<:F THE TURKEYS ARE ALIVE - The tragic disappearance of the Upper Campus turkeys put a damper on the beginning of second semester.

Students bemoaned exiting their dorms without their favorite holiday birds there to greet them. The barren patches of dead grass where the turkeys used to roam peacefully among bustling students reminded them of the friends they had lost. How were they meant to focus on school and other responsibilities now that their turkey friends were somewhere out there, lost and alone, potentially road kill, or worse, stuck between two slices of bread? Students need not fret, however, because the turkeys are alive and well. They were spotted recently close to Mac, having migrated to the other side of Beacon Street. Why the turkeys decided to abandon their on-campus habitat is unclear, but news of their safety brought some light to a relatively dreary day.

KEEPING IT MELLO - An EDM concert in a gym doesn’t really sound like a fun proposition. Especially in one without air conditioning.

But the faceless DJ dressed in all white at the helm of this function didn’t care. Students clad in neon and sports jerseys and neon sports jerseys descended upon the Plex carrying water bottles far more conspicuous than they realized.

Regardless, the Jesuit mosh pit grew and grew until it was sufficiently large enough to make St. Ignatius roll over in his grave.

With the Academy Awards approaching at the end of this month, it is a time to celebrate the excellent movies that entertained and moved us last year. We all love the movies, and we all know what to expect from the most-watched award show. If a film is nominated for any important awards, we have learned to assume that it stars male actors or it is directed and produced by men.

Across the nine films nominated for Best Picture in this year’s Academy Awards, there are a total of 30 producers who have the chance to win the prestigious award. Of these 30, only eight are women. Of the five directors nominated for Best Director, exactly zero are women.

These are not necessarily examples of bias against women in award shows, but rather illuminating statistics of just how few women are involved in the blockbuster movies that have the opportunity to win big at the Oscars. It is a little disappointing to see the nominees for these awards and realize that such a small amount of women worked in the highest behind-the-scenes positions. This issue exists as much in front of the camera as behind it.

Geena Davis, actress, film producer, and gender equality advocate, founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which has conducted copious amounts of research on women in the industry. According to this research, male characters were afforded double the amount of screen time as female characters in 2015. Even in films that feature a female lead character, supporting male characters are given almost the exact same amount of time on-screen. When a male character is the lead, however, he appears almost three times as much as any female characters in the film.

On average, male characters in movies with women in central roles speak

twice as much as female ones, and the difference is again greater when a male is the lead character.

This disparity is a little difficult to wrap my head around. Are women less entertaining than men, even in femaleled movies? What possible reason can there be for women speaking less than men in films with lead characters of both genders?

Interestingly, the Institute’s study presents the statistic that films with both a male and female lead earn more at the box office than films with just a male or female lead. Furthermore, films with a female lead earn 15.8 percent more on average at the box office than films with exclusively a male lead, which completely disproves the argument that films with female leads are not palatable or marketable to the public.

Based on this evidence, it is indeed strange that women receive less onscreen and speaking time than their male counterparts when their presence actually brings in more revenue. Is this just a somewhat sexist holdover from decades past—the idea that women cannot do what men can do? After all, it makes little sense otherwise to continuously give women smaller roles and fewer lines in films when doing the opposite would make the film gross higher.

It must be acknowledged that some stories told in film necessitate more male characters than female, and sometimes the opposite is true, but for the most part there should be little difficulty in representing both genders equally on the big screen.

The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University reported similar research on women behind the camera. According to their study, only 17 percent of the top 250 grossing films in the United States in 2016 were directed, written, or produced by women. No less than 92 percent of films made last year were directed by men.

What does this say about the Hollywood industry now approaching its centennial? Perhaps that it is an industry designed for men to succeed and dominate the field. I find it hard to believe that

there would be no female directors capable of helming any of those 92 percent of male-led films had they been presented with the opportunities afforded to their male counterparts.

The inequality of representation on and off-screen are not the only issues faced by women in Hollywood. Famously last year, Jennifer Aniston wrote a Huffington Post essay in which she attacked the “sport-like scrutiny and body shaming that occurs daily under the guise of ‘journalism,’” which celebrity women must put up with constantly. A woman’s physicality seemingly matters far more than a man’s in relation to the work that she puts forth. As Renée Zellweger put it, “a woman’s worth has historically been measured by her appearance,” rather than her work.

Mila Kunis told a story in which a film producer referred to her in an email as “Ashton’s wife and baby momma,” lessening her own personal achievements and value in favor of describing her by her relationship to a man. These are just a few of the most powerful examples of Hollywood women coming forward with the way they have been treated by the industry and how disappointed and angry it makes them feel.

It’s hard to disagree with them. There is absolutely no reason to judge a woman by her body rather than by her body of work, especially when men’s bodies are not scrutinized and torn apart in the same way.

Hollywood has a long history of sexism, especially in terms of women not being afforded the same opportunities as men in the same positions, and this has not changed in the past few years.

In light of the recent Women’s Marches for equal rights, it is an opportune time for women to demand equality in one of the biggest, most lucrative, and most publically influential industries in the country and the world. To paraphrase the maxim, women can do anything men can do—and women should be given the opportunities to do so.

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K_\ <o\Zlk`m\ Jkfip Jf =Xi NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT “THE WORLD” MEANS - Last night, we crowned the “champions of the world”, following their running around and throwing of a few balls to the delight of millions. Each year, those in this country most skilled at swinging wooden rods compete in the “World Series.”

Ironically, however, and probably contrary to popular belief, most of the world doesn’t really care. The coronation of an American football team as “world champions” after winning a league in which only American football teams compete is pretty narcissistic, and a little ridiculous. We should probably cut it out.

“WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG” - What an ignorant phrase. This forsaken combination of words literally beckons disaster. How can one possibly ignore the endless multitude of potential consequences , mishaps , dangers , tragedies, explosions, implosions, fires, etc. that the universe is capable of conjuring up at will. To utter these words is to ignore the supreme unpredictability of the world and to declare one’s actions immune to the volatility of the earth’s turning. Don’t be that guy.

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>8II<KK I<PEFC;J Understandably, the public is outraged yet again at President Donald Trump’s assertive agenda. After issuing early executive orders to begin the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), start logistics for his border wall, and strip sanctuary cities of federal funds, Trump has now restricted immigration more extensively. The moral and constitutional justifications of these actions are worthy of papers of debate, but that’s not what this column is about.

While the immigration ban has had an enormous international impact, arguably the most domestically influential is the repeal of the ACA. Trump emphasized his goal to repeal the ACA as one of the main points of his presidential campaign. The order gives the executive branch the power to “minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of the Act” in order to “afford the States more flexibility and control to create a more free and open healthcare market.”

We shouldn’t be shocked that this was one of Trump’s first actions. Although I personally don’t see Trump as a true member and supporter of the Republican Party, much of his campaign addressed a number of the concerns of the Party from recent years.

Whether or not you agree with the long-term practicality and effectiveness of the ACA, the truth is that select people have indeed benefited, and one common fear of this new order is that these people will lose vital access to health care. This particular order, however, does not immediately strip the benefits of the ACA from its benefactors, as some might claim.

The long-term debate on healthcare has yet to be resolved, but remember that the duty of America’s chief executive is to execute, and a key phrase of this particular

order is “in the meantime, pending such repeal, it is imperative for the executive branch to ensure that the law is being efficiently implemented.” Trump should not, and likely will not, repeal the act without a proper replacement or solution.

There is plenty of evidence that can be used to criticize our new president—his misogynistic behavior, questionable work ethics, and disrespectful attitude—but this particular order doesn’t warrant criticism directly.

Perhaps the most divisive executive order thus far, Order 13769 heavily restricts immigration from seven countries—Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia. Critics of the order nationwide argue that people from these Muslim-majority countries are being banned from the U.S. due to a miniscule population of extremists whose practices aren’t representative of Islam, just as the Aryan Nations aren’t symbolic of Christianity.

This, however, might not be the reason why these particular countries are facing immigration blocks. Out of the 50 or so Muslim-majority nations, why has Trump only blocked seven? The reason isn’t because they’re Muslim-majority, it’s because the U.S. simply can’t trust their government’s paperwork.

The central governments in countries like Syria and Somalia, though they do indeed exist contrary to popular belief, are chronically weak. One symptom of this weakness is the unreliability of their records. If a citizen from a stable country wants to enter the U.S., we can verify from that government who that citizen is and what his or her background is with relative certainty before continuing the vetting process.

We cannot be as certain with the countries on the list. The Somali central government doesn’t have enough reach and authority to maintain accurate, extensive records. Other countries, like Iran, that do have strong central governments are still banned because Iran is a self-proclaimed enemy of the U.S. and of Western interests, as the phrase “death to America,” has been supported by Iranian

officials since the revolution and recently repeated by Iranian leadership. Because of this animosity, it’s difficult for us to verify Iranian records, representing the rationale for the ban.

In my view, the move toward repealing the ACA makes sense. It’s a logical progression in Republican politics, and conservatives have a strong argument against it. After all, the law is meant to provide more coverage to the public, but it doesn’t actually create more doctors, improve health technology, or fund research. Much of that work is already done privately, and with more practical steps forward, we can create a more sustainable healthcare system that doesn’t just provide coverage, but increases the quantity and quality of medical care itself.

On the other hand, Trump’s ban on immigration, especially toward Syrians, is not a step in the right direction. I understand the conservative fear of terror entering the U.S., but Syrian lives aren’t worth less than those of any other person. Donald Trump, Jr.’s “If you had to eat bag of Skittles with a couple poisoned, would you eat it” argument is unfounded, and frankly, ignorant.

If I choose not to eat the skittles, the skittles face no more strife. If I choose not to let in Syrian refugees, I subject the Syrians to continued fear and danger. Syrians aren’t Skittles.

The case with Iran is more difficult.

American people should realize that it’s not the Iranian people who are against the U.S., it’s the government. Now especially, Americans should understand that distinction because we can see it at home.

Governments do not always represent the interests of the people. The average Iranian citizen probably wants what most of us want—a strong family, a sense of community, and a stable life.

Though the right has valid concerns, the benefits—social, economic, political, and moral—to accepting immigrants, especially refugees, far outweigh the costs.

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M8C<I@< :?<I9<IF Close your eyes. When I say “Aleppo”, what do you think of? Piles of rubble?

Bomb-shattered homes and burning cars? Do you think of the young boy sitting in an ambulance, all ashy skin and deadened eyes?

Maybe you see a dance of insurgents and government forces, each grasping at a city that has no more to give.

Maybe you see a political knot that needs American hands to untie it, and what better hands than a man who has proven himself to be both unapologetic and brutish.

Last week, I was wandering through Brookline Booksmith when a cookbook caught my eye. The cover was a sea of pomegranates, shining red with a wash of yellow. I gasped when I read the title: The Aleppo Cookbook. I could picture the piles of rubble as I pulled the book off the shelf and gingerly thumbed through the pages.

Later that week, Trump issued an executive order banning all incoming refugees from Syria. As I read over the order, I thought of The Aleppo Cookbook.

I thought of the matte images of Syrian foods and the Syrian families who might have inspired them.

What would happen if one of these families invited Trump to their table?

They might tell him stories of their city while feeding him deep purple baba ghanouj and mhammara (a red pepper and walnut dip with pomegranate molasses). They might pour him another glass of arak as he gazes in awe at the tendrils of steam rising off of the stuffed eggplants, and then serve him another heaping spoonful of semolina and butter pudding, even as he shakes his head no, no, I have had enough.

When we sit down to eat with somebody, we open ourselves up to their humanity. We confront our common desires: for bread, for fulfillment, for comfort, for love. As we eat and talk and sigh with delight, we light a small candle against the darkness of hate, loneliness, and fear. We build a safe space, where our only concern is whether we can have another plate of this or whether our neighbor has gotten a spoon of that.

In the midst of all these conversations about Syria, I wonder about this fundamental truth. How many kitchen tables lie underneath the rubble of Aleppo?

How many singed dishrags and shattered serving platters? How many lights of hope have been blown out?

As I read through The Aleppo Cookbook, mentally rebuilding the city through its culinary traditions, I wondered how much space we had at our table. Trump would like us to believe that every seat is filled. We have only enough space for ourselves. There are no extra dinner rolls, no extra ladle of soup to be spooned into a crying woman’s bowl.

But what if these refugees, these tired, denigrated people, have more to offer than an empty bowl? Flip through the pages of The Aleppo Cookbook and you can see all that they do have to offer.

They bring recipes and ingredients, brilliant chefs and dazzling dining companions. When we close off our borders to these things, we limit the potential of our own kitchen tables. We deny ourselves that magical exchange that happens over a hot meal and a glass of wine.

Think back to that Syrian family. I asked what would happen if they invited Trump to their table, but what if we invited them to ours? What if we stopped the dehumanization and distancing, the complicated excuses that allow us to forget a simple connection, and actually sat down with them to eat? In the midst of warfare in Aleppo, this family’s kitchen table is at risk. It has probably already been destroyed.

But our table has not. As we discuss these complicated political situations, let’s not forget the simple humanity that lies beneath them. Let’s take up books like The Aleppo Cookbook, books that celebrate Syrian culture and the people who created it, and let’s remember our enormous responsibility to invite them to our table.

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8I:?<I G8IHL<KK< For once, I am not going to lie to you.

I want to convey a point through a real, legitimate, actually-happened-not-makingthis-up experience of mine. The following story occurred as it is written and is not the product of my compulsive need to openly deceive readers and then explain that deceit and then explain the explanation of that deceit until the sentence is way too long.

At the end of Winter Break, a few short days before my flight back to Boston, I needed to wake up at 5:30 in the morning.

I knew this because at 5:30 in the morning someone stood over my bed and yelled, “YOU NEED TO WAKE UP,” directly at my sleeping face.

Wrenched from my dreams of dentalfloss-wrapped heads, gushing stomach wounds, and apocalyptic fire, I struggled to open my eyes.

“TIME TO GO,” he repeated, apparently seeing no reason to lower the volume.

“WAKE UP.” In that moment, in a sleepy fog, I knew where I was, back home in my bed, but somehow couldn’t pinpoint when. Was I a sophomore in high school being woken up to search for a lost cell phone in the dark, snowy backyard? Was I a funny-looking middle schooler who almost slept through mass or maybe a shockingly-handsome first-grader about to fly out to Massachusetts? That same voice had been yelling at me to get out of bed since before I could remember.

But, as I pushed myself out from under the sheets using a maneuver that can only be accurately referred to as a sckwrimsh, I figured it out: I was a junior in college who needed to get a haircut. I was also a renowned columnist of great renown, known for my great columnizing skills, awe-inspiring humility, and total lack of syntactic redundancy. So maybe I could squeeze a little column-juice out of this particular moment.

Minutes later, I was sporting my patented grey-hoodie-under-black-jacket/ vaguely-sad-and-ugly look (the latter of which remains a permanent part of my wardrobe). The car was already started and idling in the driveway when I jogged out into the freezing Wisconsin morning.

The man who had woken me up a few minutes earlier sat in the driver’s seat.

When I looked at him, I was sure he would not want to be directly named in a column and might prefer to be called simply “man,” even though anyone with basic reasoning capabilities could figure out who he was in relation to me.

We didn’t talk much during the drive.

Decades ago, this man had not been voted “Quietest” in his senior class, because he didn’t talk enough for his classmates to know who he was. I’ve made it through entire days only speaking four sentences aloud, three of which involved pointing at food and asking for it. We’ve always made great conversation.

The same nearly-silent drive with the same man every few months since I was a child made it possible to see each difference between us through the progressing intervals, miniscule at first, but undeniable after nearly two decades. Not even my move halfway across the country could change the repetition.

The drive took 45 minutes, per usual.

Leaving the car and walking out into the cold, I realized how starkly our physicality had been reversed. I wasn’t supposed to be taller than the man driving the car. I wasn’t supposed to be faster, wasn’t supposed to slow down so he could keep up with me as we walked toward the door. I was supposed to rush to catch up with him, to barely come up to his shoulders, to see no flaws, only a permanent strength. Neither of us were supposed to be thinking about another impending goodbye, followed by another, and another, and another, and another. I wasn’t supposed to walk into the barber shop with nothing but the end on my mind.

But there we were.

I turned 20 half a year ago, I still have youthful energy, both physically and mentally, and hopefully my future will be, in some ways, an improvement on my present. But all the while, I watch the opposite happening to those around me, and it turns the good of all that bitter.

“Archer goes back soon?” said the barber, the only person to ever cut my hair since I was a baby (blame the unwashed greasiness on him).

“Yup,” said the man I’ve known for my entire life.

That was all.

Leaning heavily on the armrests, he lowered himself into a chair, and I walked over to the barber’s seat to get my haircut. I considered why we were both here, why we always came to get our haircuts at 7:00 on a Saturday morning at a barber shop almost an hour away from where we lived. When I look beyond all the practical, real, stupid reasons like late scheduling and stubbornness, I think it’s because we share some of the same aspects of a weird mind that enjoys waking up obscenely early, running out into the cold, driving down an empty interstate, and getting a haircut at a small Irish barber shop down the road from a seminary. It’s a nice thought, to consider a bizarre, almost nonsensical, bond, but that same thought, like everything else, is poisoned by my growing understanding of decay, loss, and the end.

While these idea ran, or at least lightly jogged, through my head, the barber walked to the back of the shop and flicked on the radio: “Dust in the wind / All they are is dust in the wind / Same old song / Just a drop of water in an endless sea / All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see.”

God, that’s a little on-the-nose, isn’t it?

When I looked over, the still-unnamed man was suppressing a laugh. I bit my tongue to avoid an attack of manly giggling.

Another example of that weird, genetic connection of minds. The sadness didn’t go away, I’m struggling to think about it as a write this column, but it was numbed a little bit by the unspoken joke.

Nothing clears the air more than laughing about death. Because instead of crying about it or desperately avoiding even the thought of it, you’re quietly shaking with laughter at that cliché Kansas song, picturing some iron-jawed, oatmeal-brained movie star gazing at the sunset while the chords play in the background. It’s the best way I’ve figured to deal with this kind of stupid, sentimental, overdone, inescapable crap.

So next time I dump a smelly poop joke on this column, just know it comes from a place of love.

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Wishmakers has been a service organization at BC since 2013. Based on the organization Make-AWish, which aims to “grant the wish of children with life-threatening illnesses” as stated on its website, Wishmakers brings the national nonprofit closer to campus.

Wishmakers was created by Chelsea Healey and Lauren Gray, both BC ’14. Healey had a peer in high school that was granted a wish, which got her interested in the organization. Gray interned at the Make-A-Wish office in New York the summer after her freshman year. Both Healey and Gray went to the Office of Student Involvement with hopes of starting a club that will bring Make-A-Wish closer to campus and started Wishmakers.

Later in the year that she joined the club, Perrotti became a freshman representative. She explained that her little sister was granted a wish through Starlight, a very similar organization to Make-A-Wish, after discovering she had a congenital heart disease when she was born. This is perhaps what drew Perrotti to Wishmakers: the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others for a similar organization that had made all the difference in her own life.

“Make-A-Wish was really involved in the children’s hospital my sister was at,” she said.

Perrotti will be graduating with a major in business analytics and a minor in peace, faith, and justice.

Oftentimes there is a misconception among BC students that CSOM churns out only finance majors, but Perrotti has proven to be more about giving back than anything else. In addition to being very involved in Wishmakers, Perrotti was also a PULSE council member last year.

Perrotti explained that Wishmakers is categorized

by BC as a service organization, but she likes to think of the club as more of an avenue for fundraising and awareness through events on campus. Members are allowed to come and spend as much time as they can helping to plan events that are inspired by Make-A-

Wish.

“We’ll try to have different groups of students planning the event,” Perrotti said. “The process to plan an event starts pretty early.”

Perrotti had a lot to say when talking about some of her favorite things about the club. “I’ve met some really good friends through the club,” she said, including her current roommate and Annie Belgrade, Wishmakers’ vice president and MCAS ’17. “It’s a good way to give back since my family was helped by the organization.”

Complaining about waking up for 8 a.m. lectures is fairly ubiquitous on campus—for Wishmakers, waking up at 5 a.m. last year was easy given the cause. One of the greatest experiences Perrotti remembers was in 2014 when the Massachusetts-Rhode Island branch of Make-A-Wish was having their 1,000th anniversary wish. A little girl was going to Disney, so club members woke up at 5 a.m., rode to Logan Airport, and cheered with Disney-themed signs. Perrotti recalls seeing the little girl wearing a princess costume and her face lighting up when she saw all of the people there just for her.

Last year club members also had the opportunity to volunteer at Franciscan Children’s. Perrotti explained, however, that they typically do not get to work with wish kids directly too much, mainly because of confidentiality reasons. But she noted the importance of the bigger reason behind it. Being able to use her skills to give back is something she has really enjoyed while being part of the club.

Perrotti detailed some of her favorite events that have been held on campus in prior years. Last year they held a Wish Panel where they brought in students from BC who have had a wish granted or students with siblings who did so they could talk about their experiences.

“Some of the events we’ve done have been really rewarding,” she said. “It’s always amazing seeing how the organization brings people together. You can really see the joy that the organization brings for people.”

This is likely the most important thing to Perrotti and the other Wishmakers. The amount of joy that is brought to these children and their families just from the events that these students hold has proven to be life-changing both for the Wishmakers and the wish kids.

“Doctors say a lot of the time that it’s the wish that will give the kids a little more spirit to get well which is what Wishmakers aims to do,” Perotti said. “It’s clubs on campus like Wishmakers that really holds BC and the Jesuit education true to its motto of ‘men and women for others.’”

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His schedule fluctuates from week to week, but he hardly seems bothered by the balancing act of living and working in two separate cities. For Wagner, his current pace is due to his desire to blend two separate careers, but this was not always the case.

Wagner traces his current career path back to his parents.

“I ended up compiling what my parents do,” he said. “My dad’s an economist but not an academic, my mom’s not an economist but an academic.”

At BC, Wagner teaches Economics of

Refugees and Migrants to undergraduates, and Labor Economics I to Ph.D candidates, while also serving as a graduate student advisor. For the World Bank, Wagner focuses primarily on projects concerning the effects of migrants on national economies.

Growing up in Austria, Wagner witnessed the influx of migrants into his home country after the end of the Cold War. This experience piqued an interest for him, and he began his research on the topic in tTo date, his most pertinent research has been about Indonesian migrants in Malaysia and Syrian refugees in Turkey. For the latter, he produced one of the first academic papers written on the topic, which was something he began working on before it came into the popular consciousness.

In the past few years, migration has become a politically and socially perti-

nent topic— something Wagner did not anticipate.

“The pace of academic work means that you’re only kinda very current by accident … Two years is actually relatively fast to get anything published, and often it takes longer than that, so it’s very hard to be really current,” he said.

The clients Wagner works for at the World Bank are often sovereign governments, many times with a desired result in mind. Because of this, Wagner and the World Bank work to insulate the integrity of his work from any political pressure. This practice follows through into the professor’s classroom dynamic as well.

“I think the best contribution I can make to any of these debates is to try to have a dispassionate, kind of factual based view,” he said. “I’m not an advocate at all, I try to keep those things quite

distinct” Wagner says that his clients, although skeptical at times, have been largely receptive to his findings. Uninterested in political flashpoints, he focuses his work on data and prefers to leave the larger lessons for others to conclude.

Some of his research has produced somewhat unexpected results that carry political significance. In Malaysia, he found the Indonesian migrants to be beneficial to the nation’s labor economy by filling many unwanted low-skill jobs.

Syrian refugees, too, do not appear to have an outright negative effect in Turkey. Because they do not have work permits, refugees tend to cause movement within the labor market rather than displacement.

Wagner has a rather refreshing way of viewing his work as a whole. He does not

pretend to have any of the answers, or hold the key to much-needed solutions.

He does what interests him, and does not try to plan too far ahead of himself.

In many ways, his current trajectory was an unexpected opportunity that joined international expertise with the classroom experience. Wagner’s work at the World Bank feeds his research interests and affords him the opportunity to continue to publish, all while enriching the courses he teaches at BC. To the casual observer, his office may be bare and his schedule frantic, but Wagner does not appear to want to change that anytime soon. He is an advocate for taking smart risks and seeing where they lead.

“Try lots of stuff, and then cut your losses if it doesn’t work out, but try … just doing is really important,” he said.

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rivals to become the kings of Boston. But for Boston University, playing under this banner will remind the team of the heartbreaking 1-0 loss in overtime to BC. For one, a chance to defend its crown—for another, an opportunity for redemption.

The No. 8 Eagles (18-9-2, 13-3-1 Hockey East) are set to take on the No. 3 Terriers (18-7-2, 11-4-2) this Monday evening at TD Garden. Since last playing the Terriers, BC has put together an impressive four-game win streak over Hockey East opponents Massachusetts, Connecticut, Notre Dame, and New Hampshire. Over the course of the

season, the Eagles have outscored their opponents, 99-69. Their offense comes into the Beanpot hot—BC has scored six goals in each of its previous two games.

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fore. The Terriers are led by goaltender Jake Oettinger and freshman Clayton Keller, the No. 7 overall pick in the NHL Draft, who is averaging a little over a point and a half a game in Hockey East play. BU can put the puck in the net, but are built as a defense-first team, as it is top-five in the nation in goals against average. The Terriers do not want to play this game from behind, so it is in the best interest of BC to attack early and often to try to gain an edge and take the lead early in this game.

Last Time They Played: The last time these rivals encountered one another was

during two low scoring home-and-home games on Martin Luther King Weekend. The Terriers took the first match, 2-1, at Agganis Arena, and then came to Chestnut Hill and beat BC 3-0. The more recent match at Conte Forum was much closer than the score implies, as BU scored once on the power play in the second period and put an exclamation point on its win by scoring twice more on the power play with under a minute left in the game. The Eagles outshot the Terriers 34-32, but none of their attempts could light

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“The king stay the king” - D’Angelo Barksdale, The Wire *** Future college athletes across the country got their first taste of a system riddled with contradictions when they signed their National Letters of Intent (NLIs) on Wednesday morning. The contract, created by the NCAA and for the NCAA, grants signees one year of financial aid, but little else.

NLIs clearly elevate the rights of administrators and coaches—namely, the groups profiting from the labor of players.

If a coach decides he wants to jump ship and take an offer at another school after National Signing Day—or any day, for that matter—he is at liberty to do so. But his recruits don’t have the same luxury.

It’s actually quite common for recruits to officially commit to a program, only to see the coach who recruited them take a job at another program soon after. But even if coaches break promises to players, that doesn’t change the fact that signees who want to change their mind are required to sit out the next season as a penalty and lose a year of eligibility.

The contract doesn’t offer any amenities typically included in a labor agreement. Players don’t receive health benefits, or any long-term job security, for that matter. Financial aid is offered in just one-year deals without any room for negotiation.

So why do high school seniors sign NLIs? Well, unless they’re an All-American who’s impossible for a program to pass up on, they don’t have much bargaining power. If they refuse to sign the contract, they risk forfeiting their college careers altogether. Coaches can easily back out of verbal agreements or, more discreetly, opt not to lobby for that player to gain admission into the school. All it takes is a subjective “You didn’t meet our academic standards” to cut ties with a recruit who hasn’t signed a NLI. *** “This game is rigged, man. We like the little b——es on a chessboard.” -Preston “Bodie” Broadus, The Wire

Scott Savage stared in confusion. Then, he had to let out a laugh. It’s not every day you hear college hockey’s most legendary head coach call you his “terrific beacon of light.”

“What is that even supposed mean?” Savage said, still chuckling at the quote from his 71-year old skipper, Jerry York, after Boston College men’s hockey’s game against Connecticut on Jan. 24.

And, when asked, York had trouble finding reason for why he described his senior defenseman in such terms.

“Well, that’s a hard phrase to put in the paper perfectly,” York said.

But it didn’t take long for him to decipher his own coded meanings.

“Every year, he’s gotten better,” York said.

“Now, he’s

an elite defenseman for us.”

So why has it taken four full seasons for everyone to notice?

For Savage, a man whose funky last name matches his tenacity and fire behind the blue line, his playing career is the story of being the underdog, the forgotten one. He’s one of the new breed of Southern California hockey players—a Lake Arrowhead native who moved to San Clemente when he was 4 years old. Savage picked up roller hockey because of the family from whom his parents bought the new house. They had sons who played roller hockey, so Savage did too.

Soon, he graduated to the ice. Though only dawdling in growth throughout the American Southwest—Savage recalled that only four or five high schools in the region hosted a team in his elementary school days—hockey was still his chosen path to stardom. He joined the Yorba Linda Blackhawks for squirt, before moving up to the L.A. Selects for midget and U16 hockey.

The Selects, one of the state’s premier club programs, had a deal with the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, making that path even clearer. But, as part of a marketing deal with the Kings, the Selects moved their practice facility to Lakewood, Calif. That put practice an hour drive away from the Savage house, a trip they’d mae several times a week—and that doesn’t even take

games into account. While he’d miss some of the typical perks of being a kid, Savage never let the dream stray from sight.

“I didn’t always get to do the things I wanted to, like friends’ birthdays or whatever it was when I was little,” Savage said. “But I always knew in the back of my mind that it would be worth it to play college hockey.”

Savage had 24 points in 31 games with the Selects. And his hard work didn’t go unnoticed.

Savage caught the eye of the United States National Team Development Program, and packed his bags for Michigan in 2011-12 to join the U-17 team. There, he’d join former SoCal rivals and soon-to-be teammates Thatcher Demko and Steve Santini. Those two guys had shown their interest in BC, and Savage wanted to follow suit.

Fortunately for Savage, York and associate head coach Greg Brown wanted him, too. In Savage, York and Brown saw a puck-moving defenseman with good feet. He wasn’t one that showed off blazing speed, nor did he have superb lateral movement. But Savage accelerated and transitioned well, especially when helping out the forwards. And boy did he bring the physicality.

It helped that they saw a significant change in his game. According to Brown, Savage had already grown into a 6-foot-1, 180-pound frame by the time they scouted him as a 15-year-old.

But as guys around Savage continued to get bigger—both taller and heavier—Brown wanted to see if the young recruit would adjust his playing style. Sure enough, that transition to becoming a player that relied on skills and smarts, along with some toughness sprinkled in, convinced York and Brown to take him on. And that ability to keep adjusting has continued to help him at the college level.

“He had to change his game to a cerebral game since he couldn’t overpower guys anymore,” Brown said. “He did a great job at figuring out that, when you’re 180 pounds at 15, you can play a lot

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Following a brief one-game pit stop at the KFC Yum! Center, No. 6 Louisville men’s basketball hit the road again—a trip that would consist of two 90 Louisville games in three Boston College 67 days. The tough turnaround is just one of the many tests that the Cardinals’ schedule presents. According to RPI’s Feb. 1 rankings, Louisville has the nation’s second-hardest schedule.

But if you look at the Cardinals’ recent performances, it is obvious that head coach Rick Pitino is not using the statistic as an excuse. The last time that Louisville flew out east, Donovan Mitchell exploded for a career-

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high 29 points in a 55-point smothering of Pittsburgh.

On Saturday, Louisville traveled to Chestnut Hill to take on another conference bottom dweller—Boston College. It took 26 minutes of game time for the Cardinals to pull away from BC. But as soon as Mitchell got going, the Eagles couldn’t buy a stop. Louisville went on to score 51 points in the second half, capping off a 90-67 victory.

Right from the start, things weren’t looking up for head coach Jim Christian’s crew. Of late, BC’s (9-15, 2-9 Atlantic Coast) offense has been led by Jerome Robinson, Ky Bowman, and Jordan Chatman. All three of them missed their first shots.

Robinson and Bowman’s misses carried a lot more meaning than just a dent in the

box score. Both underclassmen guards were rejected at the rim by Anas Mahmoud and Deng Adel respectively. Louisville (19-4, 7-3) was sending a message: it owned the paint.

That, it did. Mahmoud (7-foot), Mangok Mathiang (6-foot-10), Ray Spalding (6-foot10), and Jaylen Johnson (6-foot-9) dominated the interior on both ends of the court. Defensively, they disrupted BC’s inside penetration.

And offensively, they had no trouble bullying BC’s undersized frontcourt, ultimately combining for 36 points. Collectively, Louisville outscored the Eagles 40-28 in the paint.

The Cardinals’ first-half success was largely due to the play of Adel. The sophomore forward was showcasing a lethal inside-out game.

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Alexis Peterson caught the ball at the top of the arc. She paused and considered her next action.

Then, 72 Syracuse Boston College 45 gracefully, she launched a perfect 3-pointer, yet another early nail in the coffin for Boston College women’s basketball. Just five minutes into play, Syracuse University held a 15-2 lead over the Eagles.

It didn’t get any prettier for BC after that. The Eagles had to play catch-up all game, weighed down by the slowest of slow starts, and never managed to make the game competitive. Peterson, Briana Day, and Brittney Sykes dominated the scoresheet, while Georgia Pineau was the only Eagle to finish with double digits in scoring. Syracuse extended BC’s losing streak to 10 consecutive games after dominating the Eagles for a 72-45 win.

Syracuse (17-7, 8-3 Atlantic Coast) controlled the game from the very beginning, jumping out to a quick 10-0 lead before the Eagles (8-16, 1-10) could find the basket.

BC finally broke into the game more than three minutes into play when Mariella Fasoula laid the ball into the hoop.

But Fasoula’s basket did not spark an offensive flurry for the Eagles. Syracuse went on another run, outscoring BC 12-4 over a four minute period. Peterson contributed seven of the Orange’s 12 points over this stretch, knocking down a three, a layup, and a couple of free throws.

TOM TERRIFIC  Objectively, Tom Brady warrants respect. Before Sunday, no team had ever come back from a 15-point deficit after the third quarter to win a postseason game. And Brady did it with guys like Amendola, Hogan, and White. It’s no longer an argument. Brady is the best quarterback of all time.

UPSET ALERT  Three of the topfive teams in college basketball lost on Saturday—the second time this has happened in the past two weeks. Not to mention that five additional top-25 teams, including three in the top-10, also dropped games to unranked or lowerranked opponents.

HEAT CHECK - On Saturday, the Miami Heat blew out the Sixers by 23 points. The win not only extended Miami’s winning streak, but it also moved the Heat to within two games back of Detroit for the eight seed in the Eastern Conference. The now-10-game winning streak is the second-longest for a team under .500 in NBA history.

At the end of the first quarter, BC trailed 26-9. Already the Eagles had allowed the Orange to collect eight offensive rebounds and score nine second-chance points—a tendency that would follow BC throughout the rest of the game.

“Syracuse’s ferocity on the boards, I thought was the difference [in the game],” head coach Erik Johnson said after the game.

The second quarter was the most competitive part of the game for the Eagles. Syracuse entered the quarter holding onto a 17-point lead, but BC managed to cut into the deficit early in the quarter as the Orange struggled to score for three and a half minutes. Pineau, who finished as the Eagles’ leading scorer, opened up the quarter by shooting 2-for-2 from the charity stripe. Fasoula scored next for BC, followed by another couple of free throws for Pineau. Emma Guy’s layup officially brought the Eagles back to trailing by single digits.

But after that, Day and Peterson contributed a layup and a three, respectively, to break Syracuse’s scoring drought and cushion its lead. Over the remainder of the second quarter, the Orange outscored the Eagles 11-4, bolstered by accurate 3-point shooting from Peterson and Julia Chandler. Heading into the locker rooms, Syracuse led 40-22.

At halftime, Peterson’s statistics were already impressive. She was perfect from beyond the arc and from the free-throw line. She had 17 points, four assists, six steals, and four rebounds. None of her teammates had scored more

than six points in the quarter. All together, the Orange hauled in 24 rebounds in the half, including 10 offensive boards for 11 secondchance points.

In the second half, Syracuse began to break away in earnest.

Sykes, Day, and Peterson scored all of the points for the Orange in the third frame. Syracuse showed off its offensive rebounding prowess throughout the third quarter, including one possession that saw four-straight offensive rebounds from Sykes, Day, and Peterson.

With four minutes to go, the Orange had jumped out to a 5230 lead.

The final four minutes of the quarter were slow as both teams struggled to score. Sykes and Peterson contributed a three and a jumper, respectively, and Pineau drove through the lane for a layup,

but that was the total offensive output from both teams in the final minutes of the quarter. Despite Syracuse’s relatively slow stretch, the game was already far out of reach for BC. Heading into the final quarter of play, the Orange led 57-32.

Nothing changed for the Eagles in the fourth quarter. Chandler made two-straight 3-pointers early in the quarter to boost Syracuse’s momentum even further and put BC in even bigger of a hole. Pineau continued to be the lone bright spot for the Eagles in the period, but her efforts could not make the game competitive again. As time expired, trailing by 27 points, Martina Mosetti attempted a 3pointer that didn’t fall. The buzzer went off, and mercifully BC was spared from any more time playing against Peterson and Co.

Peterson finished as unquestionably the game’s best player.

She scored 26 points, dished out eight assists, grabbed eight rebounds, and recorded six steals.

Day finished with a double-double, scoring 11 points and recording 11 rebounds. As a whole, Syracuse finished with 44 rebounds, including 20 offensive boards.

While BC looked lost on the court against the Orange, it’s important to note that the Eagles actually outperformed some of Syracuse’s past opponents. Syracuse leads the nation in forced turnovers, averaging 23 per game.

The Eagles’ ball-handlers protected the rock well, finishing with just 16 turnovers. Regardless, it wasn’t a pretty game for the Eagles.

“Syracuse showed why they are a legitimate top-20 team,” Johnson said.

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After averaging 18.4 points in the previous seven games, Mariella Fasoula (left) only managed seven against ’Cuse.

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The Eagles had their work cut out for them on Thursday night as the No. 5 Seminoles took the trip up to Chest85 Florida State nut Hill.

Boston College 53 Entering the night on a seven-game winning streak, Florida State had no intention of slowing down. With spectacular performances by guards Leticia Romero, Imani Wright, and Brittany Brown, the Noles put on a show Thursday night. None, however, were as spectacular as forward Shakayla Thomas, who recorded five rebounds, five steals, and a game-high 20 points on just 12 shots.

Dominating in nearly every category, FSU outrebounded Boston College women’s basketball 43–25, pulling down 13 offensive boards in the first half alone. Also winning the turnover battle, the Eagles doubled Florida State’s turnover total (18-9) by the end of the game. Shooting a clean 50 percent from the field, as opposed to BC’s 39.6 percent, the feisty Noles came away with a resounding 85–53 victory at Conte Forum for their 21st win of the year.

As hot as anyone in women’s college basketball right now, Thomas set the tempo early for Florida State (212, 9-1 Atlantic Coast), winning the opening tipoff and shooting 3-for-3

HALL OF SNUBS - Once again, Redskins offensive lineman Joe Jacoby was snubbed by the Hall of Fame voters. If five NFC championship appearances, four Super Bowl appearances, and three Super Bowl wins—with three different quarterbacks and running backs—isn’t enough to get in the Hall, what is?

BE KERRFUL WHAT YOU SAY - Steve Kerr was not happy when Draymond Green got a technical foul in the Warriors’ overtime loss to the Kings. Kerr let the ref have a piece of his mind, which included some extremely profane language, and ended up getting ejected himself, Oops!

TIME TO GET DEFENSIVE - Boston College men’s basketball gave up 90 points in its loss to No. 6 Louisville. This is the seventh time this season that the Eagles have allowed at least 80 points.

Of those seven games, BC only won once.

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from the field in the opening quarter.

Unfortunately for BC (8-15, 1-9), the Eagles had little success getting their stars hot to open the game.

Shooting a mere 2-for-10 in the first half, BC star Mariella Fasoula was not having the offensive night the Eagles are used to from her.

More importantly, neither she nor her teammates managed the kind of offensive first half necessary to hang with the ACC-leading Seminoles, shooting only 37.5 percent from the field in the first half.

Managing their own 5–0 run in the opening minutes of the game, the Eagles found themselves tied at 7 apiece after an early five-point deficit. Regrettably, this would be as close as the Eagles got to their opponents atop the conference.

Closing out the first quarter with five-straight points, the Noles continued into the second at a tearing pace. Extending its scoring run, Florida State managed nine additional points—14 unanswered total—before BC found the basket.

Trading baskets for most of the second, FSU found its second wind with five minutes left. Closing out the half on a 12-4 run and outscoring BC 18-8 in the period, FSU brought a comfortable 22-point lead into the locker room.

Despite opening the scoring in the third, two quick BC turnovers in the period ensured that the flaming hot Seminoles kept right on their

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Georgia Pineau finished with a mere four points for the second straight game in BC’s 85-53 loss to Florida State.

roll. Outscoring the Eagles 25-16 in the quarter while Fasoula sat with four fouls, Florida State pulled out to a 32-point lead which the team wouldn’t relinquish.

Head coach Sue Semrau’s seniors, with the win tonight, became the winningest class of FSU women’s basketball players in school history, and it’s not difficult to see why.

Boasting their best rank in program history, the Noles have the most wins against AP-ranked opponents this year with eight. With seven players scoring eight or more points on the night and an average margin of victory over the last seven games of 22.3 points, FSU is clearly establishing

NUMBERS TO KNOW

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7

Number of games that men’s basketball has conceded at least 80 points this season.

17

Number of consecutive games that men’s and women’s basketball have dropped, collectively.

20

Number of goals that men’s hockey has recorded in the past four games.

itself this season as one of the best women’s college basketball programs in the country.

BC, meanwhile, entered the contest under more humbling circumstances. In the midst of what is now extended to a nine-game losing streak, the Eagles were reeling as their strong inside game met the brick wall of FSU’s defense who managed five blocks and 13 steals.

The Eagles are searching for consistency among their young lineup, but the loss to FSU did have its bright spots. Kelly Hughes lit up the court, shooting 3-for-6 from beyond the arc and leading the Eagles to 6-for-11 shooting from 3-point range, their

best percentage yet this year. These shooting numbers are positive for the Eagles, which actually scored more efficiently from deep than FSU but could not match the consistency of the Noles.

“We couldn’t play quality offense for enough of our possessions,” head coach Erik Johnson said. “When we finally get that inside-outside ball movement, those possessions are really quality for us.”

With a rare off-game for Fasoula, BC’s improved shooting performance offers hope for its upcoming game Sunday against Syracuse, as long as the Eagles can cut down the turnovers.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“[BC] has played almost everybody tough. They are getting the most, every ounce of their talent.”

— Rick Pitino

discussing the current state of BC men’s basketball.

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Yet, over the beginning of his career at BC, Savage got lost in the shuffle. On the scoring chart, Savage put up numbers that contributed, but didn’t “wow.” He tallied four goals and 14 assists in his freshman year, before falling down to no goals and six assists in an injury-marred sophomore campaign. Savage rebounded to the 18-point mark he had in his freshman year (one goal, 17 assists) as a junior.

Even for his defensive skills, Savage didn’t stand among the nation’s best. There’s not many advanced college hockey statistics readily available that we can run by, so instead, we’ll rely on plus/ minus among blue liners. As a sophomore, Savage didn’t appear in the top 100. In his freshman and junior campaigns, Savage finished at +13 and +14, good for 37th and 41st in the country, respectively. Yet those totals only finished fifth and sixth on BC, the latter of which he tied with Josh Couturier, who is no longer with the program.

The forgotten part isn’t entirely Savage’s own doing. During his first three seasons, the Eagles sported several premier defensemen who caught the eyes of the NHL. Guys like Santini, Ian McCoshen, Mike Matheson, and Noah Hanifin—all first or second-round picks—routinely destroyed Hockey East’s best forwards while dazzling with

SportsCenter Top-10 Plays every night. Each induced ire from general managers toward scouts who didn’t wise up on the reports and suggest using a draft pick on one of BC’s best.

But now, those days of being overshadowed are over.

As a senior, Savage has elevated his play to an entirely new level. In only 28 games, Savage has matched his single-season best, notching five goals and 13 assists. He habitually inserts himself into the offensive gameplan, though he insists that he has no intention of being a “fifth forward.” Despite that, the results have come—Savage earned his first three-point game (two assists, one goal) in a win over Massachusetts on Jan. 20.

Defensively, there has been a jump, too. Among blue liners and as of Monday morning, Savage has a +19 plus/minus. That total is not just best among BC’s nowyoung defensive corps. That’s the best total in the nation.

Of course, there has been improvement in Savage’s play.

Yet he now gets the spotlight all to himself. And his coaches are pleased that the country can see what they’ve seen since he got to Chestnut Hill.

“Early on, in his first couple of years … he was always very good for us, but his stuff went unappreciated because you saw something that, for example, Noah did, and you were like, oh my gosh,” Brown said. “Now, without those guys, it’s a more prominent role ice time wise, and you just notice what he

does more.”

More importantly, Savage’s status as the elder statesman of BC’s defensive unit has elevated the play of those around him. He has more career games than BC’s other six primary defensemen combined. Though Savage has the help of two sophomores—Michael Kim and Casey Fitzgerald, the latter of whom is a Buffalo Sabres draftee—he primarily leads a raw group of freshmen, not to mention two tag-teaming in net.

In fact, he’s paired with one— Luke McInnis—whom Savage believes is getting stronger every day. Though Savage doesn’t have a captaincy letter on his shirt, he has no shame in acting as a stoic leader for the younger guys.

To show how committed he is to helping his companions out there, Savage plays on the wrong side. This switch is partially due to necessity. York has five lefties and two righties to play with behind the blue line. To create three pairings of two, someone had to switch. And Savage stepped up.

According to Brown, that has made him even better.

“Scotty’s very comfortable playing the off-side,” Brown said.

“It’s not that easy for everyone.”

Savage attempts to impart his wisdom to BC’s young defensemen with a simple motto: Have A Purpose. It’s the mantra of a former teammate, Ian Jenkins. When he was 15 years old, Jenkins, a goaltender, tragically passed away in a car accident in Milan, Mich.

He had just been drafted by the OHL’s London Knights, and, ac-

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Scott Savage celebrates with goaltender Joe Woll during the Eagles’ win over Connecticut last week. cording to Savage, there was no doubt Jenkins would make it to the bigs one day.

Savage survives Jenkins’ fighting spirit in two ways. First, he, along with Demko and 20 other former teammates, are part of Athletes With A Purpose. This group is under the Big “E” Foundation, which supports amateur hockey leagues. These 22 players help by fundraising in an annual tournament every year back in Southern California. And if you look hard, you’ll be likely to find a “H.A.P. #35” sticker somewhere on Savage’s uniform.

The second, and more inspiring, way Savage reminds himself of Jenkins’ message is living every moment as he would, and telling his teammates to do the same.

“I try not to waste any days, whether on the ice or in the rink,” Savage said of his teammate. “I want to complete every day like he would’ve.”

So maybe there’s no simple way to define what York means when he breaks out one of his hilarious York-isms to describe Savage. But one thing is for certain: the Eagles wouldn’t be where they are without him.

“Everyone is surprised where we are in the league at this juncture,” York said. “When you look at the reasons why, Scotty’s right up there at the top.”

There’s plenty of hockey left to play in the 2016-17 season, and Savage is ready to savor all of it.

He’s fortunate that he’ll have his SoCal parents in attendance to

see most of it: the Savages are renting an apartment near the vaunted Mike’s Pastry to catch the final two months of his BC career. It’s likely not the end of his hockey career. Though Savage isn’t drafted, there’s no doubt that some NHL scout is keeping tabs on him—perhaps one that struck out on McCoshen, Santini, Matheson, or Hanifin earlier. But with trophy season beginning Monday night with the Beanpot opener, Savage is hungry to hold another one at center ice.

And, to add another trophy to their overly-crowded shelf, the Eagles will need Savage—York’s terrific beacon of light—just as much as he needs them, to shine brighter than ever.

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8^X`ejk 9LËj ;\]\ej\# <X^c\j ?Xm\ Nfib :lk flk ]fi K_\d Beanpot Preview, from B1 the lamp. After these back-to-back losses to their archrival, the Eagles should be out for revenge.

Keys to the Game Dominate Special Teams: BU scored three power-play goals in its last game against BC, so it will try to capitalize on the man advantage if BC loses a player to a penalty. The penalty kill has been an Achilles’ heel for the Eagles all year as they rank second-to-last in penalty-kill percentage in Hockey East and average the most penalty minutes a game.

Head coach Jerry York’s squad will have to show discipline by staying out of the box, and take advantage of any power play that the Terriers gift it. On the man advantage, puck movement needs to be stressed to open up shooting lanes, and the Eagles should try to take as many shots as possible on the power play.

This is a tall task, as BU has the best penalty-kill percentage in the Hockey East, but if anyone can find a way to pot a goal, it’s the powerful BC offense.

Win the Battle Between the Pipes: The Eagles outshot the Ter-

riers a total of 67-65 over the course of both matchups, but BU outscored them 5-1, with the only BC goal coming on a power play of its own.

The main reason for this was BU’s phenom freshman netminder, Oettinger. The expected early-round draft pick has been an impenetrable barrier that has kept BC from gaining much momentum in the previous contests. York’s team needs to keep peppering Oettinger with shots and try to pounce on opportunities early. BC leads Hockey East in most goals scored, but BU sits atop the rankings in goals against average,

so the BC offense vs. Oettinger will be fun to watch. Joseph Woll has been fantastic for the Eagles, and will need to keep up his strong play again against BU. If BC does not find a way to put the puck in the net early, he may need to stand on his head to ensure that the Eagles can stay in the game.

Own the Moment: Experience could be the deciding factor in this game, and if it is, that bodes well for BC. Although Woll, like Oettinger is a freshman who has never experienced playing in the Beanpot, many of Woll’s surrounding cast has played

under these bright lights before, including captain Chris Calnan, Colin White, and the Fitzgerald brothers to name a few. Not only have these players played in the Beanpot before, they have won it—some players even twice—so they’ll know what it will take to raise the Maroon and Gold to the rafters again. Also, the Eagles have the winningest coach in NCAA history standing behind their bench to cap off their seasoned corps. BC cannot be dazzled by the shining lights, coming out flat-footed could give BU the advantage. If the Eagles can continue to compete at the level

they have since the Notre Dame win recently, they will be well on their way to yet another Beanpot victory over BU under York.

BU has been playing some good hockey this year, but so have the Eagles. A win here for BC would be huge, not only in competing for the Beanpot, but also to extend its winning streak and boost its ranking.

The Terriers are far from unbeatable, and if BC can jump on them early and continue playing at a high level for 60 minutes, it will be in a great position to head on to the Beanpot final.

E:88 Dljk DXb\ JXZi`ÔZ\j kf Gi\m\ek X :fdgc\k\ C\^Xc @dgcfj`fe Kessler & Co., from B1 There probably wouldn’t be much outrage over these one-sided contracts if they were the only black mark on the NCAA’s record.

But they are part of a much larger web of rules and regulations that aim to limit the rights of studentathletes and maximize the profits of the NCAA, which rakes in $1 billion of revenue annually.

It’s a slippery slope. What starts with the NLI can turn into thousands of hours of unpaid labor without employee benefits and eventually become post-athletic careers beset by injury and debt.

Because of the NCAA’s outdated obsession with amateurism, the belief that money spoils the sanctity of a college education, college athletes don’t have worker’s compensation or limits on the length of their workweek. And when uber-competitive programs aren’t held to any restrictions on time or intensity of their workouts, the result can be deadly for some players. What’s worse, student-athletes remain powerless to change anything because they’re barred from unionizing and negotiating for better working conditions.

“College athletes are not slaves,” civil rights historian Taylor Branch wrote. “Yet to survey the scene— corporations and universities enriching themselves on the backs of uncompensated young men, whose status as ‘student-athletes’ deprives them of the right to due process guaranteed by the Constitution—is to catch an unmistakable whiff of the plantation.”

You can see contradictions everywhere in the NCAA’s system if you look hard enough. At the crux, though, is the idea that an education is fair compensation for student-athletes, even when that education becomes significantly devalued by the time commitment required for collegiate sports.

Men’s basketball head coach Bob Huggins didn’t graduate a single player during his four-year tenure at Cincinnati. Now at West Virginia, Huggins, who makes $3.25 million per year, recently cashed in a $25,000 bonus for beating Kansas.

Even as scrutiny has piled on the NCAA, the organization seems increasingly unwilling to budge on even the pettiest of issues. College athletes are punished for eating excessive pasta at team banquets or accepting “gifts” like sandwiches. A decade ago, NCAA officials entertained the idea of including a clause in the NLI that allowed for recruits to decommit from a program and go elsewhere without penalties if their college coaches did the same. Now, the NCAA quickly shuts down talk of such an amenity. That’s because, after years of skyrocketing inequity in college sports, the NCAA realizes its way of life is being threatened.

But how seriously? Do the players really stand a chance against one of the most powerful institutions in America and its court-affirmed definition of amateurism? *** “They shouldn’t even call this a war.” - Carver “Why?” - Herc

“War’s end.” - Carver, The Wire *** Perhaps the war would never end if it were only disorganized college athletes (well, former college athletes) up against the NCAA’s trial-tested team of lawyers. But the players have help from a legal superhero of sorts: Jeffrey Kessler.

Time and again, Kessler has fought on behalf of players to ensure free trade laws are being followed in sports markets. Kessler is the Omar Little of this story (apologies to non-Wire watchers out there), an expert in his field who reaps the benefits of his clients’ issues, but always seems to be stealing from the right people.

In 1992, Kessler convinced a federal court jury that the NFL was violating antitrust laws with its Plan B system, forming the foundation for the system of free agency we know today. More recently, he helped end the lockout and develop a collective bargaining agreement. He even represented Saints’ players in Bountygate and Tom Brady in Deflategate.

This time, he’s taking on the NCAA with restraint of trade allegations in Jenkins v. NCAA. I’ve talked before about Kessler, and spoke to one of his assistant attorneys on the case about its potential ramifications. Unlike the O’Bannon v. NCAA case that recently was rejected by the Supreme Court, the Jenkins case has the potential to blow up the NCAA’s entire methodology. O’Bannon merely resulted in $5,000 stipends to cover the

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full cost of attendance for college athletes, while the Jenkins case is calling to replace the current system with a free market.

Kessler’s vision would finally put in place fair labor laws for student-athletes, but at what cost?

According to athletic directors, paying college athletes would come at the expense of the notfor-profit sports (all except men’s basketball, women’s basketball, football, and men’s hockey). Not even the staunchest of athlete activists would wish for schools to cut countless programs in order to pay men’s basketball and football stars their fair share.

With the impending asteroid

that is the Jenkins case looming over the NCAA’s head, the solution seems simple. Top NCAA officials and player advocates, like Kessler, need to get together in a room and make some sacrifices before the whole structure of college sports implodes. For the NCAA, that means allowing student-athletes the same basic services as any other employee.

Namely, medical benefits, the right to collectively bargain, and the ability to profit off their name, image, and likeness.

The NCAA needs to be flexible for the sake of its own self-preservation. If the organization can somehow come to a

mutual agreement with college athletes, it would be exempt from Kessler’s restraint of trade claims because the deal was collectively bargained.

An asteroid is fast-approaching, and the NCAA can bet on it barely missing the target if it wants. But in the world of sports law, it’s never smart to bet against Kessler. And upon impact, the NCAA will immediately regret not resolving the issue earlier outside of a courtroom.

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<X^c\j I\Zfi[ ;fd`eXek M`Zkfip Fm\i ?fcp :ifjj `e J\Xjfe Fg\e\i 9P M@:KFI@8 AF?EJFE ?\`^_kj JkX]] With snow piled up at each end of the field, the maroon jerseys stepped onto the field ready to take Boston College 19 on the Holy Cross 8 home team. Every player was in position and each breath of anticipation created clouds of fog in front of them. With a temperature of 29 degrees, both teams were ready to heat things up. Both goalies hit their sticks against the frozen goalposts causing the pipes to ring. The players crouched down, ready to pounce. And with a swift blow of the ref ’s whistle, the 2017

season began.

No. 17 Boston College lacrosse headed out to Worcester to take on Holy Cross in the season opener. The Eagles came out strong early and never gave up the lead.

While the Crusaders successfully tied the game early on, they failed to catch up to BC once it broke away. Although HC tried to slow down the Eagles, BC ultimately prevailed with a 19-8 victory.

BC could not wait to get the first goal of the season. After Christina Walsh won the opening face-off, the Eagles stormed down the field.

Sam Apuzzo took possession and wrapped around the back of the net. She found Kate Weeks

wide open in front of the net and fed her the ball. Weeks sent one past Julia Maloney in order to give BC the lead just 30 seconds into the game.

Te ss Chandler and Kayla O’Connor tallied two goals of their own, allowing the Eagles to hold a three-goal advantage. But the Crusaders finally answered when Maddie Ward tallied two goals within 29 seconds. Both teams went on to split goals, making it a 4-3 game with 13 minutes left in the half.

After Bryn Carroll knotted the game at four goals apiece, the Eagles decided to take a timeout.

With 11 minutes left in the half, they turned up the intensity. For

the remainder of the half, BC held the Crusaders scoreless.

Mary Kate O’Neill broke the tie and began a scoring spree for the Eagles. With goals from Weeks, Apuzzo, Kaileen Hart, Taylor Walker, and Chandler, BC headed into halftime with a commanding 10-4 lead. Zoe Ochoa’s six saves in the first half allowed her to move up to seventh all-time on the career list for BC. With Lauren Daly now in goal, the Eagles flew out of the gates once again. Only 21 seconds into the half, Emma Schurr rocketed a shot past Maloney. O’Neill tallied another, giving BC a 12-4 lead.

HC did not hesitate and quickly answered. Three Crusaders

found gaps in the Eagles defense and charged toward the net. They all successfully got past Daly, making it a 12-7 game.

Weeks took matters into her own hands. With 23 minutes left in the game, she completed her hat trick to curb the Crusaders’ scoring streak. Three minutes later, Weeks scored another, making it a 14-7 game.

Anna Pusey scored on a freeposition goal to cut the Eagles’ lead to six. This would be the last goal to get past Daly.

Even with a commanding lead, the Eagles continued to fire shots at Maloney. Chandler scored and Weeks followed with a free position goal to give BC a 16-8 lead

with 15 minutes to play.

The Crusaders managed to take four shots in the remainder of the half, but failed to capitalize on any of those attempts. The Eagles did not let up and scored three more goals, including a goal that completed Chandler’s hat trick and a man-up goal by O’Connor after HC’s Connors received a yellow card.

Even though it was below freezing at Kuzniewski Field, passion and enthusiasm radiated from the BC squad throughout the entire game. This drove the Eagle’s fiery performance and allowed them to open up the season with a dominating 19-8 victory.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

9: 9cfne Flk Yp Cfl`jm`cc\ Xk :fek\ =fild ]fi J\m\ek_$JkiX`^_k Cfjj MBB vs. LOU, from B1 The team’s third-leading scorer sunk both of his 3-point attempts and didn’t hesitate to take ball inside. While, Mitchell was having a relatively quiet opening half, Adel was carrying Louisville.

BC found itself trailing by double digits nearing intermission.

But suddenly, the Eagles strung together a hopeful offensive run.

Bowman and Robinson scored on back-to-back possessions, and Ervins Meznieks, who hadn’t scored all season, drilled a 3-pointer from the wing. Soon, the Eagles pulled within just four points of Louisville.

That’s as close they’d get. The Cardinals scored the final five points of the half and would continue to extend their lead in the second half.

Entering the latter portion of play, BC was shooting just a bit over 30 percent from the field, including 28.6 percent from 3-point land—not much of a surprise, considering that

Louisville ranks fifth in the country in 3-point defense.

Statistically, the Eagles improved. But so did their opponent.

The backcourt duo of Bowman and Robinson—which combined for 31 on the day—kept the contest close until the 14-minute mark. BC trailed by 10 points, and it was beginning to find its scoring rhythm.

At least it appeared that way.

For the next nine or so minutes, the Eagles struggled mightily to put points on the board. Perhaps they were tuckered out from Louisville’s consistent press defense. Regardless, the Cardinals weren’t waiting for BC to find its groove. In that time frame, they outscored the Eagles 27-9.

Mitchell complemented Adel, creating an effective one-two punch. The reigning ACC Player of the Week poured in 15 second-half points, giving him 19 on the day.

Without him putting up numbers, the Cardinals were winning. With him, they were steam-rolling.

As time wound down, BC coun-

tered with garbage-time points.

Chatman, who was held scoreless in the first, tallied 10 points in the final portion of play. Reserve Mike Sagay chipped in six points, three of which came on an and-one conversion.

But, for the Eagles, those baskets were trivial.

Saturday marked the seventh time the Eagles conceded 80 or more points—of those seven games, BC has only won once.

If you ask Pitino, the Eagles’ path to winning runs through recruiting.

“No matter how well they [BC] overachieve as they are, they’ve got to get players as good as Louisville, as good as Duke, as good as North Carolina, and then they’ll be ready to compete,” Pitino said. “And it just takes a little time.”

As far as Christian is concerned, it’s much simpler.

“If you want to be good, that’s the level [Louisville’s], the effort level, we need to play with,” he said.

“We didn’t play nearly hard enough to compete with Louisville.”

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Jordan Chatman (above) and Connar Tava (below) fought to create opportunities against the Cardinals.

9P ;A I<:EP <o\Zlk`m\ 8jj`jkXek Not unexpectedly, No. 6 Louisville came into Conte Forum on Saturday and beat Boston College in a dominating fashion. The Cardinals (19-4, 7-3 Atlantic Coast) entered the matinee affair with the best 3-point defense in the ACC, and managed to use both a powerful (and very tall) front court coupled with timely baskets from beyond the arc to rout the Eagles (9-15, 2-9), 90-67.

The Good Creating Opportunities with Penetration: Playing against an aggressive and talented squad of athletes like those in Louisville’s lineup can create challenges for a shooting team like BC. The Eagles have become known for their ability to rain down pain from beyond the arc, something they had little opportunity to do against the Cardinals.

Thus, they were forced to create opportunities by driving to the inside, penetrating the wall of hard-hustling athletes and get to the basket.

With about seven and a half minutes remaining in the first half, Robinson was roaming in his usual stomping ground. Hovering just inside the 3-point arc, the North Carolina native cut suddenly to the inside. Connar Tava fed him chest-high pass that Robinson simply had to convert into a basket.

Easy points for the 6-foot-7 forward, and this type of penetration would later open up opportunities from beyond the arc that the Eagles were lacking at the start of the contest.

With about three and a half minutes left in the first half, BC was in desperate need of a jump start if they wanted to hold the deficit to less than 12.

A drop pass to a driving Robinson left Ervins Meznieks wide open to receive an inside-out pass in the corner. Meznieks subsequently drained the high-arc bomb to bring the Eagles back within eight.

This kind of penetration from Eagles forwards was crucial to many of the points they were able to put up against Louisville, and

provides a framework for how to score points on athletically talented teams.

Heart: “This team has played almost everybody tough,” said Louisville head coach Rick Pitino.

“They are getting the most out of every ounce of their talent.”

This team plays hard, and that is something to applaud. This is noticeable in the speed that it develops on its fast-breaks, or the looks of frustration on the faces of the players when a call doesn’t go their way. Popovic, upon fouling out, whipped his towel into his chair and sat down forcefully as an expression of his dissatisfaction with his own play.

Undoubtedly this could be said about any athlete at the college level, but it should be said that this team has a passion that was not overshadowed despite the fact that it was outmatched in almost every facet of the game.

“Our guys learned a valuable lesson today,” Christian said. “And that’s how hard you have to play to be a good team.”

The Bad Communication: Although not necessarily a true indicator of a good basketball team, team chemistry and good communication are factors that show the type of work that a team puts in in practice.

Particularly on inbound passes, Louisville gave the Eagles fits.

With the exception of some Matt Ryan-esque heaves by Tava, BC’s inbound passing was filled with frustration against the Cardinal’s press.

Multiple times passes (both inbound and not) simply weren’t to anyone, leading to unnecessary turnovers. BC gave up 14 turnovers, which to Louisville isn’t terrible, but isn’t fantastic either. Better communication and chemistry as a team are a must against Pittsburgh and other future teams.

Occasional brilliance would emerge in the form of a beautifully orchestrated swing pass to an open man in the corner or in the now-signature Popovic left hook, but as a whole the passing and movement lacked cohesiveness.

The Ugly 3-point Shooting: BC is or-

dinarily a good 3-point shooting team. Bowman, Robinson, and A.J. Turner all have the potential to be lethal in the backcourt, but showed practically none of that potential on Saturday. Combined, they were 3 of 11 from behind the arc, which is indicative of two things—one, the Eagles’ recent slide in 3-point shooting percentage. Since the Eagles’ first game against Syracuse, Turner and Robinson are a measly 22-90 from three. And two, Louisville’s ACC-leading 3-point defense—a defense that Christian says comes from their hustle and athleticism.

“The reason why any team is good at defending the three is because they play hard,” he said.

“They’re a team that plays with alertness and quickness that makes you make another play.”

Against the Cardinals, the Eagles shot a poor 33.3 percent compared to Louisville’s 42.9 percent. Yes, Popovic hit a three in his second consecutive game, but everyone else, including Bowman and Robinson, tossed up bricks.

Af ter draining his f irst , Meznieks missed three in a row from deep. Robinson went 0-of-5, which is poor for anyone, but is particularly disappointing for the sophomore guard. Going forward, if the Eagles are looking to score enough points to win, draining the three-point opportunities that they have will be crucially important.

“If you don’t guard the 3-point line on [BC], you’re gonna have a bad time,” Pitino said.

Louisville did just that, but the Eagles still had 24 attempts from deep, which was almost half of all their field-goal attempts. If they had drained a comparable percentage to Louisville’s of their three-point shots, they could have scored as many as nine more points on three-point attempts alone.

This, obviously, would not have been enough to win, but it’s a point of emphasis. BC also lost the rebound game against the towering Cardinals, meaning that missed 3-point shots not only led to a points deficit, but turnovers in the form of rebounds as well.

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Cfe\i^Xe >fXc :fdgc\k\j :fd\YXZb IXccp Xj 9: K`\j :fee\Zk`Zlk 9P E@:FC< GC8 ?\`^_kj JkX]] B o s to n C o l l e g e w o m e n’s hockey hasn’t lost a game at Kelley Rink since Oct. 19, 2013. With a strong 4 openConnecticut Boston College 4 ing by the University of Connecticut, the Eagles’ NCAA record continues. After a strong first quarter by the Huskies, BC tied the game 4-4, winning its fourth consecutive Hockey East regular-season championship title.

In the Skating Strides game that honors the fight against breast cancer, the Eagles (20-35, 15-2-3 Hockey East) donned special black and pink jerseys but they had a hard time getting past UConn (12-13-3, 7-10-1), causing

them to skate away in defeat.

The first period was tough for the Eagles, as they couldn’t seem to get past the Husky defense.

The first goal of the night went to UConn’s Catherine Crawley, when she took a shot that Katie Burt initially saved, but she couldn’t keep the puck in her glove and it slipped over the goal line.

Less than 30 seconds later, the Eagles fell even farther behind the Huskies. Kayla Mee snuck past the Eagles’ defense and swept the puck over Burt’s leg, giving UConn an early twogoal lead.

With BC in unfamiliar territory, head coach Katie Crowley was forced to take a timeout. The bad luck continued, as Caroline Ross was sent into the box 11

minutes in for slashing . The Huskies couldn’t capitalize, but only one minute after the all the players returned to the ice, Mee skated down the ice with no opposition. While Burt was able to save her initial shot, Leah Lum got the rebound and bury the puck in the net.

When Nora Maclaine was called for tripping it seemed like the Eagles would get a point on the board, but they couldn’t convert on the power play. With a late penalty on Megan Keller just over 18 minutes into the period, the Eagles headed into the locker room in unfamiliar territory, three points down and one player short heading into the second period.

The second period started out slowly, with both teams

making sloppy passes and slipping on the ice. Seven minutes in, however, Keller was able to come back from her penalty.

With a large crowd in front of the goal, she got down on one knee and slid under the arms of the UConn defense to successfully slide the puck past Husky goaltender Annie Belanger.

A scuffle in front of the UConn goal caused Jaime Fox to be sent into the box for roughing, giving the Eagles another chance to catch up to the Huskies. BC couldn’t capitalize, and UConn was determined to increase its lead on the Eagles. Kelly Harris got the rebound and shot the puck past Burt to increase the Huskies’ lead 4-2.

The Eagles immediately responded as Makenna Newkirk

was able to fight through the tough defense in order to secure the Eagles a power-play goal, once again closing the gap on the Huskie lead.

BC was looking to close the gap even farther to head into the third period as Ross took a risky shot from the circle. The puck sailed through the legs of two UConn defensemen and Belanger, bringing the Eagles even closer to the Huskies as the period ended with BC only one goal behind UConn.

The third period was all business. Only 1:42 in, Keller whipped the puck at Belanger, but the goaltender blocked it with her pad. Caitrin Lonergan was right there to grab the rebound, and with a mostly open net took an easy shot and tied

the game. With no penalties and minimal calls, neither team was able to score for the rest of the period, however, and while Keller was sent into the box 14 and a half minutes in for hooking, the game ended in a tie and the game was sent into a five minute overtime. The extra five minutes were also scoreless, and the game ultimately ended in a tie.

“We put ourselves in a little bit of a hole there a couple times in the game, but I’m proud of our efforts and our fight back.

We were able to get that point though that we needed in order to secure the Hockey East Regular Season.” Crowley said. “It’s always nice to win a trophy, and it’s a tough way to do it, but overall it was a pretty good game.”

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Haven’t found the series that quite satisfies your dual craving for Game of Thrones violence and Hunger Games post apocalyptic drama? Look no further. The CW’s hit The 100 offers up intensity and ferocity that Khaleesi herself would admire—and that you won’t be able to stop watching.

The 100 depicts the remaining members of the human race who survived Earth’s nuclear breakdown nearly a century ago. They occupy twelve stations in space collectively called “The Ark” where their life support systems are dwindling. Consequently, the commanding adults of The Ark conduct a program called “The 100” in which 100 delinquents under the age of 18 will be sent back to Earth in an effort to discover if Earth is now habitable again.

Among these one hundred kids is Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor), who emerges as the group’s leader. Clarke is an unlikely heroine of each of the three seasons, where the surviving teens face violent encounters with other humans who managed to shelter themselves from the radiation and eventually are reunited

with the rest of The Ark after its crash-landing back to Earth.

The latest drama of this newly established community on a barren Earth is the invasion of “A.L.I.E.” into the minds of all who live there. A.L.I.E. is the artificial intelligence that caused the nuclear meltdown several years ago and aims to create the City of Light to save humanity. But her control causes civil war and spiraling devastation, so Clarke destroys her in the finale of season three. But she does so only after A.L.I.E. announces the worst possible oncoming dilemma: in six months, humanity will again be decimated by another ghastly nuclear meltdown.

Season four opens with a dichotomy of cheerfulness for the freedom from A.L.I.E’s mind control and despair for the large loss of life. Such losses incite anger from the now-polarized sectors of people living in and around Arkadia, and war seems to be lurking in the distance as the Ice Nation’s king lay injured and near fatality.

As Clarke’s people, including her mother Abigail (Paige Turco), ex-commander Thelonious (Isaiah Washington), love interest Bellamy (Bob Morley), ally Indra (Adine Porter),

and fiery friend Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) are about to prepare themselves for battle, she reveals A.L.I.E.’s last words to her and urges them that they must attend to the dying King Roan (Zach McGowan), as he is the only one they can align themselves with to generate some solution to the approaching threat of annihilation.

The group devises a rouse in which Bellamy feigns discussing terms of surrender while Thelonious sneaks Octavia into Ice Nation grounds in a body bag, who then allows Clarke and Abigail in. Abigail, a talented physician, saves the king, who spares their lives and joins their fight for survival only after Clarke presents him with the Flame, the transcendent symbol of power and holder of A.L.I.E.’s intelligence.

Anticipation permeates nearly every scene of this season opener, providing the proper balance of emotion and action that continually keeps your eyes fixed and seat clenched.

While the emotion is artfully performed by a seasoned, albeit large, cast, the action is even more appetizing, with a double-sworded knee slide into chopping off two guards’ legs and stabbing them in the heart as only the begin-

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ning of a chain of similarly badass stunts.

The atmosphere of the entire show communicates a rugged barbarism refreshing from the typically modern, cleancut portrayals of a futuristic dystopia. The tribal aesthetics and mentalities, equipped with constant skull imagery, dilapidated settlements, and blood seeping through dusty cobblestone, create a world we crave to watch but evade entering,

providing a bizarre yet pleasurable escape from the mundane.

With its definitive violence and highstake crises, The 100 never fails to intrigue.

And while we would never want to join this cataclysmic alternative Earth, we’re sure to have popcorn in one hand and the remote in the other every Wednesday night for this turbulent feast.

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It must be easy being Gotham’s police commissioner. All Jim Gordon (Héctor Elizondo) has to do is flick the switch to the Bat Signal and wait. Batman (Will Arnett) will be there to save the day.

But when Commissioner Gordon retires, he is replaced by his daughter, Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson).

She wants to lower the crime rate in Gotham using the law, not Batman. Batman believes that he can do everything by himself, and when the Joker (Zach Galifianakis) is captured by the police, he decides that the only way to keep the city safe is to imprison the Joker once and for all in the Phantom Zone. Comic book fans will remember that the Phantom Zone is a prison dimension where Zod was sent by Superman’s father, Jor-El and the rest of the Kryptonians.

In The Lego Batman Movie, the Phantom Zone contains the universe’s worst criminals. The Joker enlists the help of Voldemort (Eddie Izzard), the Eye of Sauron (Jemaine Clement), King Kong (Seth Green), Godzilla, the Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys, the shark from Jaws, gremlins, and daleks in order to beat Batman and destroy Gotham City.

Easily the best Batman movie since

The Dark Knight, The Lego Batman Movie swoops into theaters this Friday, Feb. 10. The movie focuses on Batman, a fan-favorite side character from The Lego Movie. Batman lives a life of solitude, his only source of happiness being the cheers and adoration from the citizens of Gotham City. He returns to Wayne Manor after nights spent fighting crime, the only other occupants being his butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes) and a few thousand bats. He has a routine, as much as any billionaire philanthropist who dresses up in a giant rubber bat suit and beats up themed bad guys can have a routine. He gets home, takes the suit off (while leaving the cowl on), puts on a robe, eats lobster thermidor, and watches Jerry Maguire.

Batman is almost childlike in his brooding personality, as Alfred has to take away his computer privileges (the secret password is Alfred the Buttler) in order to convince him to attend Commissioner Gordon’s retirement party as Bruce Wayne.

Batman is convinced he doesn’t need anyone else and refuses to form any kind of meaningful relationship. All of that changes when he accidentally adopts orphan Dick Grayson a.k.a. Robin (Michael Cera) as his son. Alfred lets the boy into the Batcave in order to force Batman to bring him into his life. When Batman

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takes Robin on a mission, he begins to see how much better it is to have someone he can rely on.

The plot of The Lego Batman Movie, when reduced to its essence, is a pretty by-the-books-main-character-learnsa-valuable-life-lesson children’s movie.

What makes The Lego Batman Movie so good is the comedy. There are jokes for every kind of audience member. Kids will laugh at the slapstick goofy humor, parents will catch the smarter jokes and the allusions to other movies, and Batman fans will adore all of the tiny references to other parts of the DC universe. For example, the ordinary Batman villains make an appearance in the movie (Two Face, Catwoman, The Riddler, etc.) but what helps The Lego Batman Movie go from good to great is the addition of the lesser known villains like Calendar Man, who commits holiday-themed crimes; Condiment King, who shoots ketchup and mustard from his gun; and Orca, who is just a whale. The Lego Batman Movie also throws a lot of shade at Suicide Squad. There is a scene in which Killer Croc swims over to a bomb and presses a button, exclaiming “I did something!”

Later in the movie, Batman says, “Bad guys teaming up to fight bad guys? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

The movie, aside from being very self-aware, has a lot of heart. Batman truly struggles with opening himself up to others. He can only remember the last time he had a family, and how it ended with the death of his parents.

He is afraid of allowing himself to be vulnerable again. His friends only want to help him, and they know that he can’t continue to do it all by himself. Batman is eventually confronted with the reality of his actions, when he is labelled a “bad guy” by the Phantom Zone.

The highlight of The Lego Batman Movie is definitely the voice acting.

Will Arnett knocks it out of the park as Batman. He has the comedic timing for the role while also providing a voice that sounds true to the character.

Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth is another great addition, adding the British sarcasm fans have come to love from the role.

As it is a movie for children, Batman’s character arc ends as expected and everything is wrapped up in a nice little bow. But, for a kids movie based on a toy made for children, The Lego Batman Movie is very good. Michael Bay should be taking notes.

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This is mainly because last year Kung Fu Panda 3 came out and made $41 million out the gate. This weekend was not blessed with anything as good as Kung Fu Panda 3, and Kung Fu Panda 3 was the weakest of the series.

The only new movies in the top 10 are Rings and The Space Between Us and both of these are not great. Split continues to lead the pack for the third week in a row. This movie isn’t really good enough to justify the amount of money it has made. The worst part of it is that this success might convince M. Night Shyamalan that he can direct movies again and audiences will be treated to movies like The Happening and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Also, the cameo by Bruce Willis doesn’t add to Split, it only detracts from Unbreakable, a movie that was actually good. Split deserves negative dollars for tainting a good movie. Rings, the fourth movie in The Ring franchise, was a fairly decent horror movie and $13 million is a very respectable opening for the first weekend of a low-budget horror film. A Dog’s Purpose has managed to hang on to its spot in the top 3, in spite of controversy and a really stupid story. But there are cute dogs in the movie, so all of the money it has made shouldn’t really be a surprise. The Lego Batman Movie and John Wick: Chapter 2 come out next weekend and those two movies deserve to split all of the money that these other bad movies are getting.

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This diet, however, isn’t about altering the way Santa Clarita residents look at food.

Rather it is about altering how one looks at a Santa Clarita resident. Is this resident merely a resident, or could this person serve as one’s next meal?

Santa Clarita Diet is Drew Barrymore’s first television show. The famous movie actress stars in this Netflix series as realtor Sheila Hammond, who becomes a vampire, unable to feel pain and with a strange new craving for people. Her husband Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and her daughter Abby (Liv Hewson) must cope with the changes it will put the family through and help Sheila through this uncharted territory.

On the surface, the show revolves around this vampiric conflict, but it is really based around the idea of love within a family. Sheila and Joel have a relationship that is tested

beyond their vows of “till death do us part.”

Living with an undead wife who has to eat people presents some challenges to say the least. Yet, even in the face of these obstacles, Joel reevaluates how he looks at the world in order to do what he can to stand by Sheila’s side. While this relationship takes place in supernatural terms, the idea of love, marriage, compromising for the sake of one’s partner, and growing together as individuals change still rings true.

The other aspect of family that presents itself is Sheila and Joel’s love for their daughter.

The parents have to puzzle through raising a daughter with healthy values while contending with Sheila’s own unnatural tendencies. It can be more difficult to set a good example when one has to kill for their next meal in order to survive. Although the challenges with raising their daughter may be a little different than the average family, they still deal with trying to do the best they can in raising her to be the best person she can be.

The show also puts the vampire craze on its head by exploring the phenomena in a different light. The Hammonds live in the middle of suburbia and trying to manage all that goes

along with a small town, while trying to keep Sheila’s transformation a secret. When constantly confronted with life and death, Joel and Sheila comment that it can be hard to make small talk and have superficial conversations.

It can also be difficult to sell a house when all one can think about is that great neckline on one’s client.

This diet, however, seems to cut out a few of the necessary nutrients to help it grow and thrive. While certain comical themes kept the show light, it lacked some of the protein that would have added more depth and meaning to the series. The gory scenes were a bit over the top and left little to the imagination. Although some of these scenes may have been left in for comedic effect, the viewers didn’t need to be given so much detail, with nothing open to the imagination. Additionally, the relationships between some of the characters only seem to hit the surface level. This could have been due to the limited 10-episode spot the show was given this season. If there are more episodes in store, fans will surely see the development of relationships within the family and with their friends. Another development audiences will hopefully see will be the progression of Sheila’s

vampire state. Audiences are left somewhat unclear about how her condition is going to impact her.

This twist on the classic vampire story separates it from the standard vampire genre.

What makes the show funny is the juxtaposition between what seems so routine and boring within neighborhood life and the wild, supernatural, violent world of the undead. The

real world comparison makes it easier for audiences to relate to such an unbelievable idea.

Perhaps it is a break from reality that everyone needs. When we are confronted with such a troubling time, sometimes it can be nice to get a reprieve from the seriousness of the situations around us, and Santa Clarita Diet has enough of a bite to keep the audience interested.

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Growing up, going to a doctor’s appointment was never a fun time.

Even to this day, it causes at least a little anxiety for many people.

Whether it is the needles, the strange devices, or the white lab coats, the experience of discomfort and unfamiliarity never fails to produce a slight shiver to the spine. The saving grace, however, was that you would always return home with a lollipop or sticker and simply forget about your terrible experience.

But what if you could never leave?

A Cure for Wellness centers around a successful young businessman, Mr. Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) and his visit to a mental hospital where he is ordered to retrieve his coworker and close a business deal. After visiting the institution, however, Lockhart slowly starts to realize that things may not all be what they seem. Once he realizes he is trapped there, a cryptic mystery unfolds.

Though the movie is not particularly compelling in any area, it does contain a few cinematic positives.

First, the technical aspects of

this movie are actually very solid.

The sterile, yet worn down, mental hospital set creates an atmosphere that is very creepy and off-putting.

As Lockhart goes to different rooms, each one adds to the disturbing tone.

For example, near the beginning, there is a scene in a bathhouse where the juxtaposition of peaceful yet blank faces and slow, drawing music creates an aura of dread.

Many elements early on in the film, particularly the score, are unsettling.

The costumes are also well done, as the white uniforms again contrast with the seemingly impure acts that might be occurring. Even the lighting and camera work is serviceable to the overall disturbing ambiance that our main character experiences.

The color grading of the film rests in an almost grayscale color palette throughout the whole film, adding to the feeling that the life is being drained out of Lockhart. In fact, the tension and mysteriousness built throughout this movie is quite creepy and effective.

Overall, by no means is this a poorly shot and directed movie. It is, however, overrun with shortcomings.

The most obvious of these faults is its runtime—at two hours, 26 minutes, it is far too long. Director Gore

Verbinski, the creator of movies such as The Lone Ranger and the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, again uses a lot of length without a lot of story with his latest installment. Although the pacing is not necessarily boring, once out of the theater, viewers may begin to realize just how much of the plot was unnecessary. This story could have been told in a much tighter fashion without losing any of its effective scares and ambiance.

Furthermore, the film lacks a well-rounded main character.

Our main protagonist, Lockhart, a successful jerk that is hard to relate to, is unlikable and has almost no real arc, making the ending feel unearned. He is introduced as an annoying character so it is hard to connect with him. Moreover, he does not develop as a character because of the story, and almost the entire plot is just him walking around and hearing expository stories. Furthermore, there are around four characters in this movie whose sole purpose is to tell the him more information.

It is hard to emotionally involve yourself in a film where none of the characters are likeable or act like real people. They do try to do add some depth to Lockhart, but end up being feeble and providing no weight to the

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overall plot.

Dane DeHaan’s performance is, for the most part, one note. While of course there are some outbursts, he keeps the same facial expression for the majority of this film. The confused/concerned look is so permanent throughout the movie that it’s not a stretch to believe that his furrowed eyebrows must have been killing him by the time he was done shooting.

The other characters in this movie, including the girl Hannah (Mia Goth) and the leader of the mental institution (Jason Isaacs) are serviceable, but they lack meaningful motivation and have little connection

with the audience.

While the suspense and thrills are built up, toward the third act of this movie, the story takes so many different “twists” that the audience couldn’t help but laugh. What could have been an interesting character study about insanity, the film Shutter Island comes to mind, turned out to be an incoherent and funny mess.

The greatest problem of the film was its needless forays into the disturbing. Almost every other scene has something to make viewers wince and squirm. It slowly becomes unwatchable. More detrimental to the movie, these moments do not further the plot along or are

just too long in general making the experience of watching this movie tortuous.

While technically impressive, A Cure for Wellness’s lack of character development holds it back. The idea of being “trapped” in a hospital by creepy doctors is intriguing and there are many moments that add to the horror/ thriller element of this film. The plot did not know if it wanted to be a gross out horror movie, a compelling character study about greed, or a mysterious detective thriller and ended up being a little bit of all of them, but a whole lot of none of them.

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He manned his equipment on stage with expert focus and precision, pausing momentarily at times to dance along with the crowd. Each swift movement of his hands would signal a

rise, drop, or larger change in the music. In this way, the figure donning all white was like a puppeteer, controlling the movement and emotion of the crowd that filled the plex with his hands.

In the case of last night, this fact allowed fans to get lost in his music and the excitement of the event rather than the star power of the figure on stage—though it was certainly an impressive feat on the part of CAB members to secure such an

exciting performer for this year’s Plexapalooza.

C l e a r l y , M a r s h m e l l o ’s image—or lack of one—has worked for him. In 2016 he released Joytime, a compilation of tracks that ranked number five on the US Billboard Dance/ Electronic Albums chart.

He departs Boston for his next performance on Feb. 8 in Vienna, leaving behind fond memories of 2017 Plexapalooza in the minds (and Snapchat stories) of BC students.

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the group’s elegance and simplicity over solemn piano music. The fluid choreography seemed to ripple across the stage as the stage and fluctuated between dynamic and unified formations, and an effortless split lift that surfed one of the dancers over the rest of them left the audience awe-struck. And “Stay” utilized artfully frenetic dancing that advanced toward the audience and settled into the stage gracefully.

The emotional numb er showed strength amid grace, and

was another beautiful moment in the show.

The whole dance group appeared in their dazzling conclusion number, “Shine,” which featured theme-appropriate music and high-energy dancing that ended the night with a glorious finish. SHINE lived up to its name with its command of all that glitters, but the dancers’ immense talent and love for their craft was what shined especially bright throughout every last dance of the performance.

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One of the first images presented in Mar tin D oblmeier ’s ne w documentary film, An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story, is of the title character’s face. The aged visage, however unrecognizable, is split down the middle by a dividing line. To the left, his face remains firm and confident, but on the right of the divide, are lines and lines from the man’s many books and essays. Niebuhr died in 1971 after devoting his entire life to being a prolific public theologian that not too many outside of the academic and theological community seem to remember. Niebuhr may be gone, but Doblmeier judiciously attempts, with his film, to remind people of his face by directing us toward his profound words.

The film screening, held in Simboli Hall on the Brighton Campus, featured a room packed tightly with students and professors eager to discover more about Niebuhr from Doblmeier’s film that utilizes talking heads, video clips, and photographs. Doblmeier constructed a straightforward narrative, arguing that Niebuhr’s prominence after World War II was prompted by a certain comfortable uncertainty that rested at the heart of American life and was a result of dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. In the years following the war, Doblmeier noted that there was a noticeable rise in church attendance, creating the perfect environment for a charismatic theologian to thrive in.

Secular and religious people alike flocked to Niebuhr, and he began gaining prominence for his pithy observations of human nature in the years marked by

post-war angst. As a Christian theologian, he held strongly to the idea of original sin, believing that while all humans are in err, we usually aspire to act for good. In his book, Moral Man and Immoral Society, Niebuhr contended that the fallibility of humans is often preyed upon and exploited by evil organizations. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Niebuhr strongly supported oppressed groups. He notably wrote about the plight of assembly-line workers and of the oppression of the black community in Detroit— asserting that oppressive wielders of power create injustice. Moreover, in his book, The Irony of American History, Niebuhr condemned the absolutist hatred of Communism during the Cold War, and the unabashedly jingoistic view of “perfect” American life. This documentary clearly observes that while Niebuhr undoubtedly loved his country, he was also not afraid to criticize it. By sharing the story of Niebuhr, Doblmeier winds up posing numerous questions that directly relate to American life in the 21st Century.

As the credits rolled, the lights in the room flashed on and the panelists made way to the front of the room for a discussion and Q&A. The panel was lead by Erik Owens, an associate professor of the practice in the theology department, and also consisted of Doblmeier, the director, and four theological scholars Lisa Cahill, professor and chair of the theology department, Andrew Finstuen, Rev. Mark Massa, S.J., and Jeremy Sabella. When asked about the importance of Niebuhr in contemporary life, Sabella responded that “he’s strikingly relevant,” which proved true as nearly every following question

a d d r e s s e d D o n a l d Tr u mp’s ascendance to power. Enraptured by the film, the panel and audience seemed to be looking to Niebuhr for answers as to how and why Trump was elected President. Rev. Massa contended that many people were seduced by Trump and the Republicans who wielded more power by constructing a stronger narrative than Democrats did in the 2016 election. Channeling Niebuhr, Sabella added that the “vast majority of us are foolish children of the light,” meaning that we almost always try to do good, but are sometimes tricked by people possessing power.

Nearing the end of the discussion, the moderator asked the panel if the U.S. lost anything over the last 50 years. After some discourse, Cahill asserted that the American people need to re co g ni ze what Niebuhr recognized: corrupt and evil organizations may exist, but we mustn’t give up and succumb to nihilistic tendencies. Disengaging with politics and faith is dangerous, as it leaves people uninformed, reinforcing the power of evil groups and organizations. Massa later added that in order for a person to reject an idea—be it Christianity or Trump—they must first understand it. Niebuhr often promoted activism, as engagement tends to lead to understanding. Everybody on the panel agreed that the enormous turnouts at the Women’s March and the Muslim Ban Protests are signs of hope, as people are standing up to their oppressors and regaining their American conscience. The film is pressingly rele vant , b e cause Niebuhr ’s writing and b eliefs se em to provide us with insight into contemporary life in America.

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I\Õ \Zk`fej `e =`cd :8C<9 >I@<>F Shortly after I passed my sister the Brussels sprouts and gave myself a hearty helping of mashed potatoes, the conversation between my mother and father transitioned into that of more serious stock. Turning to my brother, while chomping into a turkey breast, we engaged in our own conversation and it progressed to a familiar place—a place it often ended up—movies. Quoting lines, giving our best impressions, and laughing were the gateways into such discussions.

As the conversation progressed, my brother and I would shift into an analytical gear and speak about what this movie or that scene said about the world in general. Smiling and relishing in a moment of intellectual freedom, between biscuits and sips of water, made the dinner table an open forum for ideas big, small, and inconsequential.

Most times, my father would not take notice of such discourse. But this time he did. In accusatory fashion, with an air of contempt, he asked why my brother and I put so much stock into movies, things that do not matter. We spent so much time talking and debating over something so trivial when we could be investing energy and emotional vigor in a subject of more pertinence in the real world. These things did not matter. These things were a momentary distraction from the actual ongoings in our world.

My brother fired back. Films were part of the real world. Crafted by people: artists. They are not some independent entity, separate from the rest of the world.

They live within the world and are sometimes a concise, thoughtful, and intellectually stimulating way to commentate on the status of the world and its events. To ignore them is to ignore art, culture, and the relation these things have to shaping our world.

My brother usually was not the type to speak so angrily and passionately unless pushed to do so. In this instance, all at the table knew a nerve had been struck.

This small moment in my own life is emblematic of a larger current in society that trivializes the notion of film and movies. Looking solely at blockbusters and campy action adventures, one might wonder if the analytic nature of these films is of any considerable substance.

For those to whom films are dear, like my brother and I, this appears self-evident. But this is not the popular opinion.

People who frequent the theater once or twice a year might not see films in the same way, and have a diminished view of the mediums overall importance.

Film offers a concise commentary on life in general as it is directly influenced by the world in which it is produced. The content is always, in some part, reflective of a reality in society or a part of a larger social framework. Apart from the content of a film itself, the production, technology, and digital capabilities of the film are a reflection of the society that created it.

In this way, it sometimes becomes more real, more true, and more believable than the real world itself. There is purpose, direction, and stylistic choices that cement themselves as a fossil on a film reel—a remnant of a world as it was in a single moment.

The French New Wave director Francois Truffaut once said, “I have always prefered the reflection of the life to life itself.”

This is precisely what film does. It reflects a part of the world more succinctly and clearly than the real world otherwise does. Much like the Platonic idea of forms, film captures a shadow of the unintelligible reality that the world is.

The shadow we see is real, but a part—a simplified image of a greater idea.

Film is not reality. Film is a shadow of reality—a fleeting image of a moment that has already past. Film is something that was real, but might not be any longer.

Another French New Wave director, Jean Luc-Godard says it best, “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

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INSIDE

ARTS& REVIEW

Shine on Stage ;F9: glkj `kj dlck`]XZ\k\[ kXc\ekj kf `dgi\jj`m\ c\e^k_j `e X g\i]fidXeZ\ k_Xk iX[`Xk\j gXjj`fe Xk \m\ip jk\g# klie# Xe[ jg`e% 9P @J89<CC8 ;FN ?\`^_kj JkX]] Robsham theater was abuzz with anticipation of the Dance Organization of Boston College’s (DOBC) performance of SHINE. The immensely talented group delivered an evening of stunning dances. Showcasing everything from ballet to hip-hop, DOBC had a nearly-full audience overcome with continuous deafening cheers. The audience never knew what to expect next, and each dance was a surprise that created a beautiful and captivating show.

The show opened with glittering sequins and a well-synchronized dance entitled “Diamonds,” which set the tone for a night of fun and enjoyable performances. A number of dances were set to well-known, crowd pleasing pop songs, like Calvin Harris’s “How Deep Is Your Love,” that the audience embraced immediately.

With its dynamic and seamless formations and bold attitude, the dance cultivated an entertaining vibe, complete with the over-the-shoulder smiles they tossed to the crowd. “Cheap Thrills” was all fun and let the dancers shine individually with their special skills, which showcased the delightful array of talent of the group. Many of the dances started and ended with silhou-

ettes of the dancers in low, colorful lighting, which tied all of the numbers together amidst the extraordinar y variations.

The show als o fe ature d s ome especially emotional routines as well. “Ruin” was a dramatic, raw number that was well-attuned to the song’s wistful lyrics. Choreography featuring the sharp split, jump splice, and the powerful moment taken to stretch tall and look up to the ceiling created a shocking and awesome effect. In a similar vein, “Human” displayed a calm ferocity and a short lift section which demonstrated the group’s immense strength and flexibility. When the dancers exited and filtered back onto the stage with energetic choreography, they created a dramatic effect that the audience found stunning.

A striking number, “Retrograde” featured a tortured demeanor amidst artfully jarring, sparse choreography. As the dancing became increasingly agitated, the dancers twisted around each other in circles and embodied a chaos that gripped the audience. And in a totally different style, “Loosen Up” had a faster tempo and a series of fiery lifts that fit nicely with the number’s effortlessly disheveled aesthetic.

The show also had two guest performances

by Boston College Irish Dance and Synergy Hip-Hop Dance Company. Both groups brought well-executed and thrilling routines to the show, and the audience loved the artistic variations they added to the night.

The second half of the show brought even more stylistically diverse dancing, which opened with a hip-hop routine called “Team.” The dancers killed the routine with tough stances and a fearless attitude, and the result was nothing short of sensational. Another routine, “Salty Sweet,” was a rhythmic and sassy tap dancing number, whose intricate choreography was performed effortlessly. The dancers portrayed an easy confidence that was enhanced by stylized upper-body movement, and again surprised the audience with another amazing style of dance.

In yet another turn of events, “Dock of the Bay” served as a lovely tribute to summer. The nautical vibe of the song was accentuated by the cleverly constructed dock platform in the center of the stage, and it always featured someone dancing delicately on top of it. The number was playful yet mature, and was a uniquely themed moment in the show.

Another class of dances featured exceed-

See SHINE, B7

SAVANNA KIEFER / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

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So Marshmello, the EDM producer and DJ took the stage at Campus Activity Board’s (CAB) annual Plexapalooza, describes his genre of music on his Facebook page.

His eccentric, yet somehow intriguing words match the image he’s created as an anonymous artist who performs only behind a light up marshmallow-shaped mask.

Marshmello gained fame internationally remixing songs by Jack Ü and Zedd, and is currently on a world tour until June that spans from Brazil to Australia. Luckily for students at Boston College, he stopped by at the Flynn Recreation Complex on Saturday night to perform a show that sold out only six minutes after the tickets went on sale.

A wash of pulsating neon pinks, oranges, and purples replaced the harsh lighting of the Plex last night as students poured in—dressed to rave.

Soon equipped with glow sticks, strobelight foam rods that made for great selfies but inevitably ended up in the face of the nearest person in the crowd, and Plexapalooza tank tops, students lost no time in joining their friends in some highenergy dancing. Many braved the trip to the Plex in shorts despite the cold weather.

Though it was over an hour before Marshmello came on stage, the crowd maintained its excitement throughout the night, creating an atmosphere of wild, yet welcoming madness in which students

bonded in the packed, hot space.

The audience appeared wholly immersed in the music, which vibrated through the floor, and in each moment, dancing together with abandon and making for an exhilarating experience of connection and conviviality.

Marshmello’s style of music is different than the progressive style of EDM that famous artists such as Avicii and Martin Garrix adhere to.

His jumps and drops are far less predictable, and he relies on a more diverse range of melodic elements and more emphatic percussion to carry his music.

At Plexapalooza, the sheer energy and emotion in his music reverberated through the crowd as students jumped and threw their arms forward in unison.

Marshmello’s set list, dominated by synth and bass-heavy electronic sounds, included an array of remixed, recognizable tracks that satisfied EDM fans and casual partygoers alike.

Perhaps the most unexpected song was an upbeat version of Adele’s single “Hello,” which members of the crowd belted out in between some vigorous jumping and fist pumping. The lighting coordinated perfectly with each track, switching from colorful to flashing in time to drops in the bass.

The electric force of his performance extended to every wall of the Plex, yet Marshmello himself remained less of a presence than his music. He rarely called attention to himself on stage, addressing the

See Plexapalooza, B7

JOSH MENTZER / HEIGHTS STAFF

Enhanced by technically impressive accompaniments, Marshmello rocked the Plex.

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