The Heights February 20, 2017

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Men’s hockey tied Vermont twice this weekend, putting its Hockey East lead in jeopardy.

Family and tradition inspired eclectic displays of Korean and Chinese heritage.

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Leahy was previewing a talk he is sched-

uled to give next month at the Rappaport Center at Temple Beit HaYam in Stuart, Fla. The center was funded by Jerry Rappaport, the Boston real estate developer and philanthropist for whom the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School is named. University Spokesman Jack Dunn said Rappaport had asked Leahy to speak at this year’s talk, which is titled “Bridging Divides: Fostering Dialogue & Civic Engagement.” The interview was conducted by Eve Samples, a columnist for TCPalm, who will also moderate the talk next month.

The candid interview is a rare occurrence lately for Leahy, who declined an interview request this fall for a Heights ar-

ticle commemorating his 20th anniversary as University president. According to the same article, he declined similar requests from the Office of News and Public Affairs and Boston College Magazine. He also declined an interview request last March from The Boston Globe for an article about BC’s struggling for-profit sports that ran on the paper’s front page, providing a statement instead. It is unclear if this interview with TCPalm was conducted in person or via written responses to questions.

Leahy said in the interview that he agreed to speak at the event because he thinks there’s an intersection between religious beliefs and ongoing issues in the U.S. He said his university background makes

him optimistic about Americans’ ability to approach those issues with constructive dialogue.

Leahy brought up several areas of national controversy, some of which have also received considerable attention this year at BC. “People get emotional, whether it’s around race, foreign policy, free speech, sexual orientation,” he said. “Once you have a common ground, it’s easy to engage and look at the needs of the community.”

This fall, a few hundred students attended a “Silence is Violence” march through campus that specifically criticized Leahy’s lack of a response to an incident of homophobic vandalism on campus. Earlier

this semester, a group of graduate students involved in Eradicate BC Racism were sanctioned for their involvement in two unregistered protests that took place this fall. Leahy did not elaborate on specific incidents related to the issues he mentioned, but he did make several comments about general life on college campuses and how higher education has evolved.

He also thinks the Trump administration will move toward the middle, gradually becoming more moderate because Republicans and Democrats will be reluctant to enact extreme legislation. He thinks bipartisan action and compromise are for

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Achampong is the first African-American woman to be elected UGBC president, and she and King will be the first female duo to serve as president and EVP. The pair received 1,676 votes. Raymond

Mancini and Matt Batsinelas, both CSOM ’19, placed second with 450 votes, while Dan Wu and Jack Kelly, both MCAS ’18, placed third with 305 votes.

A total of 2,431 total votes were counted this year, down slightly from 2,592 last year and 3,411 in 2015. In total, 2,640 votes were cast this year, but due to campaign sanctions some were not counted.

The Elections Committee said in an email that Mancini and Batsinelas’s right to campaign on Newton was revoked due to negative campaigning on social media. They were also docked 50 votes for negative campaigning on social media. Achampong and King were docked 109 votes due to the use of

See Achampong and King, A3

Over 1,300 students—14.5 percent of the overall undergraduate population—responded to a survey sent out by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College last October. The survey’s purpose was to gauge student perception of UGBC, as well as what students would like to see more of from the organization. The survey was closed near the end of January.

UGBC met on Sunday evening for its general meeting to discuss, mainly, the results of the survey. Created by Chris Liu and Derek Xu, both MCAS ’19, it presented students with statements and asked if students “strongly agree,” “agree,” “remain neutral,” “disagree,” or “strongly disagree” on whether “UGBC actively addresses” the issue in the statement. There was also an option to participate in a one-on-one interview with a member of UGBC. The link to the survey was included in several of UGBC’s weekly email newsletters. Students who completed the survey were entered into a raffle for a $150 Uber Gift card.

The statements addressed 10 areas of student life: race and culture, religion and ideology, gender and sexual identity, disabilities, health promotion, club development and maintenance, transition to BC, communication with student body, awareness of UGBC

events and initiatives, as well as overall representation of the student body.

The survey garnered 1,315 responses. Freshmen made up 28.4 percent of total responses. Seniors made up 27.7 percent of the responses, sophomores made up 23 percent of the responses, and juniors accounted for 20.9 percent of the responses. The breakdown of respondents’ race, graduating year, and school closely mirrored the actual demographics of BC, which Liu and Xu believe means the results of the survey accurately portray the sentiment of the student body as a whole.

Liu and Xu started their presentation by stating that each of the questions was aimed at giving feedback to different committees of UGBC. Overall, the survey showed that students believe UGBC actively addresses many issues of student life. Of the 10 categories surveyed, disabilities and transitioning into the BC community were the only two categories that received “neutral” rankings by the majority of responders. How UGBC has been addressing disabilities on campus saw about 35 percent of respondents answer “neutral” while about 36 percent of respondents answered either “agree” or “strongly agree,” and about 29 percent of respondents answered either “disagree” or “strongly disagree.”

“I think a lot of people aren’t affected themselves, personally, and so they don’t see that apply to them as often, and so when they answered this question that kind of translates onto there,” Liu said.

After touching on the positives that the response data showed for the

issue of disabilities—general acceptance of disabled by the student body, willingness to help, and the existence of UGBC’s Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD)—Liu discussed the negative responses they received.

“There is not enough awareness of UGBC resources,” Liu said. “There is awareness of CSD and other resources on campus, however, it is also limited in serving populations. Some people just don’t know it exists.”

Within the category of UGBC’s role in transitioning students into the BC community, about 37 percent of respondents answered “neutral,” while about 36 percent of students answered either “agree” or “strongly agree,” and about 27 percent of students responded either “disagree” or “strongly disagree.”

Xu attributed the “neutral” responses to a general lack of awareness of what UGBC does during move-in for freshmen and transfer students.

“As the student government representing the student body, if we don’t have that initial connection and first impression with the new students that come in, then it’s only going to get harder when we ask for their opinion and input because they don’t necessarily feel integrated on the onset,” Xu said.

For the topic of gender and sexuality, about 71 percent of the student population either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “UGBC actively addresses gender and sexual identity issues and concerns at BC.” Liu acknowledged UGBC ’s successes in this area of student life, but

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Groups of ralliers flocked to the square shortly after 11 a.m. chanting, “Stand up for science,” and engaging in passionate discus-

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sions about the environment. Among a slew of anti-Trump posters, demonstrators held up signs reading “Science not silence” and “Science is real,” pleading for politicians to accept that science must be included in policy-making decisions.

The rally united environmental groups like ClimateTruth.org, Union of Concerned Scientists, and 500 Women Scientists, all with the common goal of defending the truth in science. The rally comes at a turbulent time in which many see the new administration as anti-science.

In the months following the election last November, protests and rallies erupted throughout Boston. From the Women’s March on Inauguration Day, to protests over the executive order, Bostonians have continued to exercise their right to free speech.

The crowd at the rally included students, professors, retirees, and scientists who donned

white lab coats. For spectator Annie Fuentes, concern over the current political climate and the denouncing of science brought her to the rally.

“I think it’s really important to keep this momentum going,” Fuentes said. “We need to keep up local efforts to make this known as much as possible.”

By noon, thousands of scientists, science advocates, and supporters had gathered in front of a small stage next to Trinity Church, and speeches commenced. Highly-respected and prominent scientists took to the stage to voice their concern that science is under attack.

Astrid Caldas, a Ph.D. Climate Scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, kicked the event off by advocating for the integration of science in the decision-making

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On Sunday, demonstrators held up signs such as “Science not silence” and “Science is real.”

NEWS: Concussions and Clicks

FEATURES: Super Man

New York Times sportswriter Ben Shpigel talks career covering pro football...............A3

RA and CSON student Nick Raposo goes against the grain at BC with a smile...........A5

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things to do on campus this week

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The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship will host a Startup and Entrepreneurship Fair on Tuesday from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. The fair is for students who are looking to become part of a growing enterprise where they can make a significant contribution. There is no dress code for the event.

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Author Eileen Markey will discuss her book A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in McGuinn 121. The book follows the life of Sister Maura Clarke, one of four U.S. churchwomen murdered by a Salvadoran death squad during the Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s.

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The Campus Activities Board will hold a trivia night on Wednesday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room. Students can form teams and compete in the contest, which has categories including history, sports, current events, and pop culture. Pizza and prizes will be available.

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Lynch was the first continuing education director in GSSW in 1986 and created focus groups to foster discussion about what issues were most relevant. HIV/AIDS was the most prevalent issue to most people at the time.

“It was just becoming clear how extensive and challenging this problem was for social work,” Lynch said to The Chronicle. “HIV/ AIDS affected a number of the populations with whom social workers engaged. The solution was to have a conference where everyone could compare notes, share experiences and come up with practices and ideas to enable social workers to meet their clients’ needs.”

In 2004, when the clergy sexual abuse scandal emerged, Lynch organized a conference in collaboration with the Church in the 21st Century Center and the Archdiocese of Boston, with workshops and talks on family relationships, treatment for abuse-related conditions, and the theological and psychological role of priests.

Lynch will work at St. John’s Seminary as a consultant on social work-related issues.

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by Indian think tank Center for Economic and Social Studies. The group Yadama is part of is tasked with advising on an impact study of Mission Bhagiratha, which is a program aimed at providing treated drinking water to Telangana, a southern state in India.

“If a key resource—like water— is a shared one, then communities have to be mobilized to govern water as a shared resource,” Yadama said to The Chronicle. “In the absence of a local or state authority, the physical investments to provide critical services must be maintained by social or civic organizations.”

The Center for Economic and Social Studies chose to approach Yadama with this study because of his research on how communities self-govern, allocate resources, and how government and nongovernmental organizations can engage and collaborate with communities.

Yadama has studied the social and environmental challenges of rural South Asia and China, finding that social and ecological interactions have a heavy influence on how the implementation of household and community interventions are sustained.

Yadama hopes that other BC researchers will take an interest in becoming part of the study, and thinks there could also be roles for graduate and undergraduate students.

“BC’s mission is to train students to address the great issues confronting humanity, especially those in need,” he said. “We want them to have a front-row seat to examine complex problems and the challenges of intervention.”

Tom Jennings, Boston College ’95, has an unusual story of success as a businessman.

He attended the Carroll School of Management for just a year before deciding to switch to the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences to pursue a degree in the liberal arts. Jennings said that this switch has helped him become the manager of a $20 billion venture capital firm.

Jennings spoke to students as a part of the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship’s “Lunch with an Entrepreneur” event series on Wednesday afternoon. Jennings, a managing director at Summit Partners, switched into the CSOM after his freshman year, then switched out only one year later. He said that the CSOM curriculum was not teaching him to read and write, and he wanted to embrace the full Jesuit educational tradition through a liberal arts curriculum.

The best advice Jennings said he got at BC was that the best professors are Jesuits—many of whom teach theology. Thus, he became a double major in economics and theology. Economics gave him the math skills he needed for business, while theology made him an excellent critical reader and writer.

Jennings said that his gradu-

ating class had only eight theology majors, but 25 tenured theology professors. Because of the small ration, each class was practically one-on-one, giving him tremendous access to the University’s best teachers. That amount of attention, however, meant his teachers could spend more time grading his assignments. And they were not always so lenient.

“It looked like someone had vomited red ink,” he said. “There was nothing left. I thought right there that I was going to flunk out of BC.” Jennings worked with that professor, Rev. Robert Daly, S.J., for two more years in the Scholar of the College program.

He was unsure if Daly would pass or fail him until the end of the semester.

Ultimately, Jennings left with a good grade, and he said that the skills he gained in the strict environment helped him become a better critical reader and writer.

His job at Summit Partners constantly utilizes these skills, and he feels that his liberal arts background gives him an advantage over many of his colleagues, including many from top business schools like Harvard University and Stanford University.

Before working at Summit, Jennings worked as a consultant at Andersen Consulting, now known as Accenture. He

loved the people he worked with and enjoyed his job, but the hectic lifestyle of a consultant eventually drove him to find a new position—Jennings said it seemed unhealthy to do long term. The pay was great, but he recognized a pattern among the older employees: they were out of shape, often divorced, and rarely saw their families. He also did not enjoy the temporary nature of consulting. He wanted a job where he could see the results of his work, rather than simply moving quickly from project to project without seeing his results.

Speaking with his friend Peter, a fellow Andersen employee and BC alumnus, Jennings decided that, rather than fixing companies, he wanted to use his experience with software and technology to invest in companies. The two thought that they had to go to Harvard or Stanford to get their master’s degrees before working in investments, but Peter heard of an opening at Summit Partners, one of the only venture capital firms that hired pre-MBA candidates.

Peter had already scheduled an interview, and Jennings spent week s helping him prepare.

In the pre-internet era, they spent hours at the public library, compiling a research binder on Summit Partners and the work of venture capital.

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Jennings discussed how his theology degree helped in the corporate world.

“Pete went into that interview and blew them away,” Jennings said.

Two months later, Summit’s best associate left, and Peter told Jennings to submit his résumé. He endured 30 hours of interviews—during the last one, he told them he would accept any offer on the spot. He did this without discussing salary, as Pete had told him that in venture capital, anything less direct wouldn’t work.

Jennings got the job—and a pay cut of 25 percent—from his position at Andersen. Six months into his job, however, he found a $40 million investment for Summit. It was the second largest in firm history.

In the 20 years he has spent at

Summit since then, Jennings has risen from an associate, to vice president, and now to managing director.

When he joined, the firm was 20 people managing $1.8 billion.

Today, it is 180 people managing more than $20 billion.

“My entrepreneurial story is Summit,” Jennings said. “We invest in entrepreneurs, we work with entrepreneurs, and I love entrepreneurs.”

Jennings ended the talk by advising students pursue their passions. His passion for technology led him on a path to success, so he encouraged students to find their paths to success through their interests.

“Do what you love, and the money will follow,” he said.

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In his book The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood, David Montgomery analyzes the truth in the Biblical story of God’s mass extinction of His creation. Montgomery’s book tells the story through religious and geological viewpoints, following the history of the Earth. On Thursday, during an event hosted by the environmental studies department, Montgomery spoke to students about his book.

Montgomery, a geomorphologist, studies the physical structure of Earth to interpret the past.

He was inspired to research the ancient-flood legend when doing fieldwork in Tibet, where he found evidence in the rocks of the Namcha Barwa mountain range of a massive

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flood.

When Montgomery told the locals they were living on the site of a catastrophe, he was surprised to hear that they already knew. The lamas at the local temple had an oral legend describing the event in detail.

The revelation that a local story he probably would have dismissed as myth earlier was rooted in truth was astonishing, and inspired him to look for truth in other stories.

People ranging from 16th century theologians to modern creationists have been on the same quest as Montgomery for centuries. Youngearth creationism—believing in a literal interpretation of the Bible and a young, 6,000-year-old Earth—is a growing phenomenon, he said.

Proving Noah’s Flood has been a cornerstone of the creationist argument for centuries. There were an abundance of different theories from where such a catastrophe could come, but most disproved by the clergy-scientists centuries ago. Most of science is trying to disprove people’s theories,

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looking at nature, and it conflicts with something you interpret and read in the Bible, maybe you should be reconsidering that interpretation as opposed to what you’ve learned from nature,” he said.

Science and religion aren’t inherently incompatible, but work together to explain the world, according to Montgomery.

The Bible often contradicts itself within the stories themselves, he said. These inconsistencies were explained in 1872 when George Smith translated Assyrian tablets excavated from the remains of an ancient library. He discovered that the crumbling tablets contained a story similar to the Biblical flood story. The Genesis story is actually a composite of ancient pagan legends, rooted in true stories of localized, but still devastating floods. To the ancient people living in the affected area, a massive flood would have wiped out their entire known world, leading to the misconception of a global flood.

Modern creationists, however, have abandoned the history of Aquinas and Augustine in favor of a willing blindness that confirms their own ideas, according to Montgomery. This is a pattern throughout history, on the sides of theologians and scientists alike.

“There is a long history of interpreting evidence through the filter of the theory that you’re trained to see things through,” Montgomery said.

Now, the resurgence of modern, young-Earth creationism is based on a cherry-picking of facts to support an argument that was rejected by church officials centuries ago. Montgomery’s book is an attempt to share the true history of modern fundamentalism and science and show how science and religion can work—and have worked—together.

“The war between science and religion is better viewed as a conflict within religion over how to view science,” he said.

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Montgomery said.

“That’s what geologists like to do—we like to shoot holes in each other’s theories, argue about things, [and] try to find new evidence and data,” he said.

It’s the hypothesis that stands up through vigorous scrutiny that can eventually be considered truth, according to Montgomery. All theories based on a literal reading of the Bible quickly crumbled when probed.

In the early history of the Church, before science and religion were seen as inherently incompatible, theologians like Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine dismissed a literal reading of the Bible and attempting to bend reason to fit a certain interpretation.

Aquinas saw nature as “God’s other book” that they came from the same author, and so must tell the same history.

Montgomery explained the view of changing interpretation to fit facts, instead of the other way around.

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CORRECTIONS In Thursday’s issue, the A1 story “Achampong Wins MLK Scholarship” was credited to Connor Murphy, but it was actually written by Joshua Holtz.

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Shpigel began reporting for The Times in 2005, as a beat reporter for the New York Mets. He switched to the crosstown Yankees in 2010, and has covered the New York Jets since 2011. In November, Shpigel shadowed Terence Newman, a 38-year-old cornerback in the NFL, as part of the “Limitless” series, documenting the secret behind Newman’s unusual longevity in a contact sport. “[Terence Newman] has this fastidious dedication to his body and his mind [in] trying to go ahead and prevent all these other [cornerbacks] from taking his job,” Shpigel said about the NFL veteran.

Shpigel had the rare opportunity to look behind the curtain of secrecy associated with training in the NFL, and discovered how crucial the mind is for a sustained career in professional sports. Newman trains the same way as any successful player—he gets plenty of sleep, eats healthily, and uses acupuncture and “cupping” to rebound each week from the physical beating of the previous game. Though Newman has been fortunate not to receive a major injury in 14 seasons, the general wear on his body over time has limited his ability, even with careful management of his physique.

Ultimately, Newman’s football IQ, sharpened by his dedication to watching game film every day of the week leading up to a game, allows him to outsmart opposing wide receivers. Shpigel found it was this feature of Newman’s prep that allowed the cornerback to play at his highest level, despite a habit for “lots of red wine.”

The health of the brain is critical for Newman and any NFL player, so the potential for concussions to break players makes it a prominent topic in modern analysis of the game.

For example, the debilitating effects of CTE,

a brain disease contracted by taking repeated impacts to the head, have become a topic of great concern within the media and the sport as a whole. But Shpigel has witnessed a sense of apathy toward the issue from players for whom football has been their life’s work, and greatest achievement.

“They might trade a concussion here [or there] for the sake of earning a couple million dollars and retaining a roster spot,” Shpigel said.

Knowing the risks and choosing to ignore them is one thing, but ignorance of the problem in the past has hurt countless players.

In his coverage of the Jets, Shpigel met with now-retired offensive lineman D’Brickashaw Ferguson, who conveyed his incomplete understanding of the concussion crisis.

“He had presumed that you only sustain injury by these big, cataclysmic hits, instead of all the little collisions play-to-play he endured as a lineman,” Shpigel said.

The NFL has made efforts to curtail the concussion epidemic, but past players had little defense, especially with the lack of evidence. Sports media has been instrumental in disseminating new evidence and stories about the problem.

“I am much more careful now not to glorify [a big hit] itself,” Shpigel said.

He believes that football does not need an over-emphasis on its physical brutality, especially with its long-term damage to players, to remain entertaining.

As the NFL has been reforming with respect to this problem, however, sports reporting has also transformed with the advent of social media and the prevalence of video sharing sites. Misleading headlines, “hot takes,” and an overall priority for reporters to obtain the highest viewership possible leads them to follow the controversial rather than the meaningful.

This can lead to a betrayal of trust between the media and the players. Shpigel mediates potential distrust by respecting his access to the players, and by reporting what they would prefer to be said about them.

“What I normally do if I [am publishing] something sensitive or that can be very critical, I may give that person a heads up … and if [they] want a chance to respond, I’m happy to listen to anything that [they] have to say,” Shpigel said.

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These new types of interactions need standards of law to operate under, and these standards are often referred to as transnational law.

Peer Zumbansen, a professor of transnational law at King’s College London and founding director of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute, spoke at the Barat House Thursday in an event sponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. Transnational law is a relatively new introduction to the legal field and has not yet been strictly defined.

“Some people call it a field of research and some refer to it as a legal field as such, but I think we can all agree that it’s not a proper legal field,” Zumbansen said. “I explain transnational law as more of an approach to reflect on law as such and it’s all about

contextualizing law.”

Zumbansen explained that regardless of the type of the law, all law has the same purpose, which is to “regulate, govern, to provide a defense as an armor or a shield, and a place everyone can call their own.”

Law and justice are not seen as the same thing now, Zumbansen explained.

He said that justice is often seen as more “optimistic” than how law is practiced in reality.

Globalization and modernization has led to changes in the way the legal and political system are seen and how they operate.

Zumbansen explained how a few changes in terminology signals bigger, broader changes. He explained that instead of talking about “forms” of government or law, now people reference “experiments.”

The world has changed in ways that have led to new institutions not being set in stone but instead more dependent on their success.

The transition between “municipal” and “global” was another important shift in legal speech that Zumbansen pointed out. Compared to 50 years ago, many more institutions operate on a global scale. Today, a government wouldn’t be able to extricate itself from the international system without completely falling apart.

Transnational law has the same foundations as every other type of law, which Zumbansen identified as actors, norms, and processes.

In basic domestic law, the actor is strictly the state, but in transnational law there are far more groups that can be considered actors, such as multinational organizations, human rights groups, and global organizations such as the United Nations.

Norms have transitioned from being set strictly by the laws of a nation to also include treaties, accords, and codes, which do not have a strict definition of what they are or what they govern.

The processes through which laws are made have also expanded, he explained, from democracy and simple voting to include being instituted as problem fixes or a response to a paradigm shift, which is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a discipline. “ Transnational law describes a distinct space of legal ordering itself,” Zumbansen said.

To end his presentation, Zumbansen gave an example of where the idea of transnational law would be important and needed: the recent 2015 FIFA controversy involving the exploitation of migrant workers in Qatar. He explained that transnational law is needed to identify who is at fault in that kind of situation, and by what laws or standards that group can be punished.

“There’s a difference between domestic, municipal law on the group but that law now we cannot understand anymore if we don’t see it in its connections between international law and to soft law,” Zumbansen said.

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Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of Paleoecology at the University of Maine and host of the “Warm Regards” podcast, followed by criticizing the influence of corporate greed in environmental decision making, claiming that, “Science has been silent”. Gill went on to emphasize the importance pf upholding and defending the rights of scientists with a government that is threatening to censor climate change research.

The rally occurred simultaneously with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.

This coincidence brought together thousands of other scientists from outside the Boston

area, many of whom were in the crowds Sunday morning.

Chiamaka Abilo impressed the crowd as the only high school-aged speaker, but her message was as important. She spoke about how climate change can transcend generations, becoming a problem for young and old alike. Abilo explained that younger generations need to be “equipped to confront this challenge.” She argued that in this political landscape with alternative facts being presented by the highest form of government, it cannot expected for science to stand alone.

Not everyone who attended the rally, however, came with preconceived notions. Tiffany Hui, an undergraduate at Boston University, attended the rally to gain information about the industry she hopes to work in.

“As an undergrad studying biochemistry, I’m interested in what the people in the field of science have to say about this,” Hui said.

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He also said that the majority of respondents identified as being heterosexual, which he said could be a source of bias.

Xu and Liu are now working to formalize a report of the findings. ”People think we’re doing our jobs,” Xu said. “I definitely think that, as a whole, one of the things that we can work on is figuring out how to best run the events best and how to allocate our resources to make sure that we’re doing the best job that we can.

Because I know we’re all trying hard, and that we want them to see it too.”

the good of all, but does worry that Trump is a liability in areas that have fewer checks and balances.

“My concern is more on foreign policy with Trump, where he’s got a lot of latitude,” he said. “Sometimes he makes decisions or statements that seem rash, then he walks them back.”

Leahy added that he sees “painful” contradictions between his personal views on morality and religion and Trump’s rise to power. In November, Leahy signed two statements affirming BC’s commitment to upholding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama administration program that provides protections for undocumented students. Last month, Leahy and other senior administrators issued a statement condemning Trump’s executive order banning travel for seven Muslim-majority nations.

“Here’s the president of the United States saying and doing things that I think

are counter to how a mature, moral person should live,” he said.

Asked if he supports the concept of “safe spaces” or trigger warnings designed to protect students from potentially offensive speech, Leahy said he does not.

Instead, he thinks “we have to help young people live with realities.”

“I don’t want anybody being harassed or called names—but I think there’s a softness in the American segment of the population aged 18 to 22, where some people don’t want anybody to disagree with them,” he said. “And parents, in so many instances, have protected their children. Life has some tough moments.

I think there’s a value in having moments where there’s some irritation, and it’s got to be handled correctly. But I don’t believe in trigger warnings. I think challenge is a good thing.”

Parents sometimes ask Leahy what they can do to instill responsibility in their teenagers. He said he tells them to make sure their kids get jobs that require them

to show up on time, put in eight hours, and “experience the joy of accomplishment.”

That stems, he said, from his experience growing up on a farm in Iowa, taking care of animals and tending crops.

Leahy compared today’s political climate with that of the 1820s. Andrew Jackson called the election of 1824 a “corrupt bargain” when it was won by John Quincy Adams after a vote in the House of Representatives. When Jackson won in 1828, it was a similar change to Trump’s election this November.

“People feared we had this buffoon coming in from the backwoods,” Leahy said. “America survived the big transition.”

Leahy, who got his Ph.D. in U.S. history at Stanford University, said he “would certainly not hold Jackson up as a paragon of virtue,” but he thinks history has its ups and downs.

“When you take the long view, the pendulum swings and comes back to the middle,” he said.

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Achampong is the current chair of the AHANA Leadership Council in UGBC, and King, who works in the Women’s Center in addition to several other commitments on campus, has never been directly involved in UGBC before. Their campaign platform highlighted five main points: student experience, health and wellness, intersectional community, transparency, and campus improvements and sustainability.

Their win follows a shortened but packed UGBC election schedule. Last

year’s election dragged on as multiple teams dropped out and the nomination deadline was extended. This year, the Elections Committee made a conscious effort to shorten the election, sticking to a 12-day schedule.

It started out with an initial nomination deadline on Feb. 3, when Mancini and Batsinelas were the only team to get in the election. Citing a need to make the election competitive, the EC decided to extend the deadline a week, without altering its schedule, and Achampong and King, Wu and Kelly, and Davis Pollino, CSOM ’19, and Sebastian Biber, MCAS ’19, all jumped in. Pollino and Biber dropped out two weeks ago after deciding to support

the Achampong-King campaign and run next year.

Mancini and Batsinelas built their campaign around the idea that UGBC is ineffective and inefficient, which included criticisms of the way its budget is allocated.

Wu and Kelly advocated for UGBC to focus on technology and developing apps to improve student life.

“As mentioned during the campaign, we aim to address the concerns of all students to foster a more holistic and cohesive living and learning environment,” Achampong and King said in an email. “The rest of our semester will be spent gearing up for next academic year and continuing conversations with administrators.”

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Bridget and George exchanged glances again, a thing they kept doing because of their older companion’s odd behaviors. The mercenaries were encroaching toward them in a slow marching way, like they were about to start snapping and singing “The Jet Song” from West Side Story.

Nonetheless, it was still terrifying.

Bridget swiftly kicked at a Nantucket red-clad leg, bringing the guy’s perfectly-coiffed wall of hair to the ground.

Retrograde threw punches at two of their enemies, using his recoil to elbow another in the face. George stood in the middle and thought about how to get into the fight without feeling awkward. His question was answered for him when a man in all black swiped at his face, like a cat.

“Okay, what the hell? That was my face. You want me to end up looking like Owen Wilson, with his nose all messed up? It’s on,” George shouted to the man, who had already moved on to punching him in the shoulder. George grabbed the man’s leg and hoisted it into the air, waving him around like a doll.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Put

me down!” the man cried.

“Just because I’m a coxswain for the club rowing team doesn’t mean I’m not strong,” George said through his clenched jaw. “Everybody thinks that, and I don’t know why.” He looked into the distance and sighed. The sound of jeers in Mod parties sounded in his ears, overwhelming his brain.

“Alright, that’s enough.

You’re supposed to be fighting.

No one wants to hear about your insecurities,” Retrograde yelled, taking on three mercenaries at a time. He banged two of their heads together, the CTE practically bursting from their brains. Retrograde flashed a satisfied smile.

“Can you all hurry up?

There’s a spot over here that’s completely open! We can make a break for it,” Bridget said, perched on a pile of unconscious preppy men and security guards. She earned her expert level five patch in Krav Maga at the age of 16, so all of this was below her.

Retrograde dropped his hands.

“Uh, okay. Yeah, let’s go,” he said.

The three snuck out of the circle and proceeded down Beacon Street.

“That was some real good fighting,” George said, wiping sweat from his hairline. “That was worse than the 5k I did in the fall.”

“Shut up, George, you didn’t do anything,” Retrograde muttered, shaking his head.

“But do any of us ever really do anything?” said a voice from behind them. “Like, what do any of us do? Doesn’t that

make you think?”

“Who the hell are you?”

Retrograde said, shooting major side eye at his two student companions.

“Oh gosh, I know this kid,” Bridget said. “His name is Darren MalientePedo Ringtck. He was in my first-year writing seminar. His favorite thing to write about was living on a houseboat for a week in Turks and Caicos. Needless to say, he was insufferable.”

“You’re just not opening your eyes to the actual, like, experiences out there,” Darren huffed, rolling his eyes at his peers who clearly just did not get it.

“Yeah ... well, anyway, we’re doing something, so you should go,” George said.

He smiled as he thought how important he must sound.

“Oh, are you doing that thing with Athena? Yeah, that’s a ride. It’s no Turks and Caicos, though. Did I tell you guys that I lived on a houseb—” Darren began, but was interrupted.

“Wait a minute. Darren, are you involved with Athena Wilson?” Retrograde said. He raised his eyebrow, indicating that something was afoot.

“Yeah, but are any of us really involved? We’re all just dust in the wind, yaknow?”

Darren said wistfully as the other two students sighed exasperatedly.

“I swear to God, Darren, I’m a nice person, but if you don’t stop saying absolutely nothing relevant I will tie you to a lamppost,” Bridget said.

“Yeah, you’re really annoying,” George said, hoping to finally break out of his role of

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Donnah Canavan wants us to think happier. On a stool in her office stacked high with books and lined with eccentric items—an eight-foot tall twine giraffe, a finger-painted rocking chair, and 10 open Diet Cherry Coke cans scattered across the room, to name a few—Canavan explained that her signature course, Positive Psychology, attempts to get her students to practice positivity in a world that can often be negative and cynical.

She begins the course with a simple metric created to help frame when a person is actually healthy and happy. At the top of this mental health formula is flourishing, a level of health that is resilient to detriments. Much like a Teflon coating, a person who is flourishing is not only healthy, but stays that way when facing setbacks.

“When I begin the course, I ask ‘How many of you have ever used the word flourishing?’ and not many of them raise their hands,” she said. “But it really is a great term.”

Normally, she says, when students are learning about virtue, it tends to be boring and depressing.

It doesn’t have to be, and Positive Psychology uses its two-and-ahalf-hour, once-a-week seminar to dissect how learning about the concept of virtue does not have to be Aristotelian. To counteract this, Canavan uses engaging literature, such as Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson’s Character Strengths and Virtues. Despite its heavy title, Canavan says this book is actually fun to teach. It provides students with a framework that can be easily processed, using contemporary phrasing and thinking.

The course not only further

impresses upon the students the value of positivity, but facilitates real-world job skills as well. Twice a semester, each student is required to present an in-depth examination of a psychological topic for the entirety of the seminar.

“I had a student ask me for a letter of recommendation so I had them send me a résumé,” she said.

“When I saw it, it said ‘I became an expert on a topic and gave two, two-and-a-half-hour presentations,’ and I realized how valuable that could be to an employer.”

One of the key themes of the course is mindfulness, the idea of focusing completely on the present and nothing else. While mindfulness is often associated with monks and meditation, Canavan emphasizes that mindfulness can be practiced by anyone. When done with a positive attitude, it can lead a student to flourish.

The course also stresses elements of cognitive dissonance theory, which states, in short, that behaviors and attitudes are intricately tied and that the repeated performance of certain behaviors can lead to changes in attitude.

With this in mind, Canavan says, positive behavior and mindfulness can lead to a positive attitude. This is the core of Canavan’s course—that a positive outlook coupled with mindfulness, positive behavior, and the practice of job skills leads to happy students and people.

Canavan also calls on students to question the core of why things are the way they are if they make people miserable. Citing Michael Moore’s documentary Where to Invade Next, which examines the various the social structures of various nations to determine how differing methods affect success and happiness, Canavan challenges her students and the people with whom she works to

ask the most basic of questions, including, “How can we be happier while we do this?”

One example of the benefits of positivity that she gives is education. Finland and the United States used to have comparablyexcellent education programs. Yet Finland is now number one in the world while the U.S. sits at about 30th. The difference? The Finnish abolished homework, encouraging students to spend time skiing, making art, and doing other alternative activities, according to Krista Kiuru, Finland’s Minister of Education. The Finnish have far more fun and are much happier in their studies while also achieving more. This strange dichotomy causes Moore to ask: Why haven’t more places adopted a ‘fun first’ educational strategy?

Canavan says prisons represent another effect of a negative attitude. In Sweden, prisoners are treated far better than in the U.S., serving shorter sentences in nicer prisons. The percentage of prisoners who return for another sentence in Sweden is practically null, while the recidivism rate for federal prisons in the U.S. is 44.7 percent within five years.

“In the United States, we think the best way to treat prisoners is to beat the hell out of them in solitary confinement,” Canavan said.

“Sweden does it differently and the results speak for themselves.”

All of these aspects of her class, along with her eclectic collection of tchotchkes, lamps of every shape and size, and enough books on every topic to keep one occupied for years, make up Canavan’s continuing exploration of the ideal positive attitude.

“Ever since I started teaching this class,” she said, sitting next to her multiple portraits of Marilyn Monroe, “I realized that being happy was fun.”

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being the annoying one of the group.

“Darren, come with me. You two, stay here for a bit,” Retrograde said, putting his hand on Darren’s shoulder and ambling down the block with him.

“I really hope he’s not bringing him with us to Nova Scotia,” George said. “He seems like the worst.”

“He is,” Bridget responded, keeping an eye on the two conversing.

“Great news, folks!” Retrograde exclaimed in a more chipper voice than usual. “Darren will be journeying with us to Nova Scotia.”

There was a collective groan, even from Darren. The original three stared at him, cocking their heads to the side.

“What? It’s so cold there.

And you know what Aquinas said about that: it’s too cold outside for angels to fly,” Darren said, his voice dripping with an air of importance.

“That’s Ed Sheeran,” Bridget said. “I hate you.”

“Now, now, kids, let’s go.

It’ll be fine,” Retrograde said, feeling more and more like a parent as the minutes went by.

“I’ll get an Uber to the airport,” George said as he whipped out his phone.

“Ubers are just vehicles, literally, for the man to take us all down and keep us submissive,” Darren drawled.

“I don’t care how big this car is, you’re sitting in the trunk all the way to Logan,” Bridget said, clearly at the end of her rope.

Minutes later, the Nissan Altima arrived, and our heroes piled in.

“Departures. International.

Terminal B,” Retrograde said hurriedly.

“Sir, this is an Uber. Your destination was already input before you even got in the car,” the driver said.

“Okay,” Retrograde said.

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According to UrbanDictionary.com, Boston College is “a place with gothic architecture, where Jesuits and other freakishly intelligent people try to teach collar-popping, Plex-obsessed, hopelessly drunk and self-centered rich folks’ kids.”

As unflattering as that depiction is, there is a grain of truth hidden in it.

Yet, amid this campus culture, exceptions can be found. One such exception is junior nursing student Nick Raposo.

A native of Fall River, Mass., Raposo exudes friendliness and has a profound dedication to serving others. It was this dedication that determined his path at BC. Raposo defies BC’s sometimes cold and unfriendly culture by being its

complete antithesis. He walks through the crowded Chocolate Bar smiling at everyone he passes, not allowing the early morning exhaustion of those around him dampen his mood. His small talk carries a heavy undercurrent of genuine interest, and it seems as if there is no place Raposo would rather be than exactly where he is.

Even to the casual observer, it is clear that Raposo has every quality that makes a good nurse. His blatant warmth, attention to detail, and passion for the profession all form a path upon which he almost did not stumble.

Deciding to take a risk, Raposo enrolled in a nursing vocational program offered by his high school.

One teacher, Ms. Pittman, blew Raposo away with her incredible selflessness. She inspired him to dive into the profession.

“To see that someone could take all of this that they have and continually give, give, give,” Raposo said. “I was like, ‘I wanna do that. I want to be like Ms. Pittman.’”

When Raposo applied to college, all that he was sure of was his desire to study nursing—everything else he had to figure out along the way. He eventually settled on the Connell School of Nursing because of BC’s Jesuit values and a desire to serve that the University endorses. So, in the fall of 2014, Raposo and his fearlessly sunny disposition began to defy every BC stereotype.

As with most new students, Raposo had some difficulties adjusting his freshman year, especially as one of only 10 male nursing students in his class.

“I think more toward the beginning it felt weird because I felt that I had to, somehow, maintain this idea of masculinity, this mask of masculinity,” Raposo said.

By the end of his first year, Raposo had developed strong relationships with his fellow nursing students and hallmates.

This, however, was not enough for Raposo. The desire to serve was still burning brightly within him, and suddenly he felt drawn toward a new role—he wanted to become a resident assistant. In many

ways, it was similar to his chosen future career.

“I think some of the reasons why I was called to nursing, nursing is very much a helping role,” Raposo said. “It’s recognizing where you can insert yourself into another’s life and make a difference and that is probably also why I was called toward the RA role.”

Over the past two years, Raposo has been the RA for Gonzaga 1 and Fitzpatrick 1. Although balancing RA duties and the nursing school workload can sometimes be difficult for him, Raposo says that his residents make juggling it all worth it.

“To recognize that my residents, in turn, give me such a great sense of purpose and meaning, that they allow me to be a part of their lives and their first year experience, that gives me meaning,” he said.

During freshman orientation, new students are all given the same piece of advice: make BC a little bit smaller, and find a community within the community where you can thrive. For Raposo, the intersection of nursing and being an RA

is that sweet spot.

Raposo marries these roles with his insatiable appetite to give back, be more, and contribute to his community. It is from this unadulterated selflessness that Raposo has transcended the collar-popping, Plex-going mold and form his own unique identity.

As Raposo looks toward the next big step in his life, he plans to continue what he has started here at BC. “I’m just looking for more of that community-based care,” he said. “The idea will be that I go wherever the need is, and we’ll see where that is.”

For now, Raposo continues to look for the need wherever it can be found.

Whether that is helping freshmen find their way, learning as much as he can during his clinical rotations, or insisting that having an article written about him gives him chills, Raposo gives a bit of his kindness to anyone who will accept it.

While this constant giving might leave others feeling depraived, it is exactly the life Raposo wants, and he shows no signs of changing anytime soon.

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David DiPasquale has devoted his career to confronting difficult and often unanswered questions. In his work as a professor in the Boston College political science department, his research and teaching often extend outside of the classroom. His many intersecting philosophical interests inspire both students and colleagues to examine those same difficult questions.

Fueled by his fascination with the unknown, DiPasquale pursued a double major in political science and philosophy as an undergraduate at Kenyon College.

“At a very young age I was interested in the question of reason versus revelation and how I should live my life,” DiPasquale said.

With the adult world on the horizon, DiPasquale decided to pursue graduate school at BC, where he completed his master’s degree in political science. His interest in his studies continued to simmer, especially while working with Rev. Ernest Fortin in a class called Theology and Medieval Political Philosophy. He studied medieval philosophers, who he says first began questioning the idea of philosophy’s legitimacy in the face of divine revelation.

Though he has studied the Jewish and Christian traditions, DiPasquale continued to come back to Islam throughout his career. In his course, Islamic Civilizations, DiPasquale tries to get his students to understand the rich culture that the religion has developed while dismantling stereotypes.

“Islam is not a monolith, but an excitingly diverse intellectual civilization,” he said. “There’s an embarrassment of riches and I think too often people focus on this or that aspect.”

Noticing DiPasquale’s avid interest in Islam, Fortin urged him to contact his friend and colleague at Harvard, Muhsin

Mahdi. DiPasquale began auditing Mahdi’s classes and eventually, upon Mahdi’s suggestion, applied and was admitted into a doctoral program at Harvard.

There, he studied the tradition of Islam and the political philosophy of Al-Farabi, a seminal Arabic philosopher of the 9th and 10th centuries. Upon completing his doctorate at Harvard, DiPasquale came to teach at BC. “I take advantage of my students’ interests coming into the class,” he said. “I know that a good number of them choose to take my courses because they want to know what’s going on in the world.”

His courses, including Islamic Political Philosophy and Introduction to Modern Politics, often focus on the interaction between the Muslim and Western worlds. DiPasquale prompts his students to collect articles that they encounter and bring them to class so that he can incorporate contemporary news items into the classroom discussion.

“I want my students to realize that what I am doing does not merely have antiquarian interest,” he said. “I teach classes that are meant to be relevant to

contemporary discussion.”

In the future, DiPasquale would like to incorporate more of his intellectual background in Arabic language and literature, as well as Islamic law, into his classes, much of which is experiential.

Throughout his 20 years of teaching, he has lectured in various Muslim countries, including Kuwait and Egypt. The heart of his scholarship, however, takes place in libraries between the pages of the ancient texts that he spends countless hours translating from Arabic to English.

Most recently, he has completed a book with Cambridge University Press on AlFarabi’s work from the 10th century.

When translating, DiPasquale explained that he tries to be literal above all else and additionally tries to walk that very fine line between accuracy and readability.

“What’s remarkable about Arabic is that it’s a beautiful tool able to be used to compose poetry and epic literature,” he said. “It’s the language of Allah and also a language of philosophy. I appreciate that flexibility, and it certainly took me a great deal of time to master it.”

DiPasquale stresses how the ancient traditions of text are still so relevant in modern society, which is why it is imperative to teach about such traditions in the classroom.

As students of philosophy, it is easy for people like DiPasquale to get bogged down with research or stuck down an unending hole of existential questions.

Fortunately, DiPasquale has found several outlets in his non-academic life that take the pressure off finding the answers to life’s biggest mysteries. When he is not translating or teaching, DiPasquale enjoys fishing, running 5k and 10k road races, and hiking with his wife.

“I like being in a natural environment and appreciating the beauty of the natural world,” he said. “Being in nature helps to clear the mind and rejuvenate the soul.”

In his continued study of ancient texts, his diligent attempts to broaden his students’ minds, and his probing examination of the world around us, DiPasquale continues his search for the answers to those timeless questions by his understanding of an often misunderstood faith.

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L>9: Jlim\p I\jlckj J_fn 8[d`iXYc\ Gif^i\jj The Undergraduate Government of Boston College presented the results of its student body survey on Sunday. The organization created the survey to gain a better understanding of students’ perceptions of UGBC and gauge what campus issues need the most attention.

The survey indicates that a majority of students believe that UGBC is doing a good job of addressing issues of race and gender on campus. The survey received 1,315 responses, or 14.5 percent of the undergraduate population. The overall results of the survey reflected a generally positive view of UGBC from the student body. The data indicate that students believe that UGBC is moving in the right direction on pertinent issues such as those of race and gender on campus.

This is a commendable response rate, and it is laudable that UGBC is being perceived as a productive organization.

Moving for ward, it is important for UGBC to find ways to connect with undergraduates at the University who may not have responded to the survey.

UGBC also offered to hold individual interviews with students in the survey.

This is a constructive way for the organization to better understand the concerns and desires of students, and is a practice they should continue in the future. Exploring new ways to increase attendance at UGBC town hall meetings is another way in which the institution could help promote student involvement with the organization.

UGBC should try new avenues for communicating and promoting initiatives like the survey. Including a link to the survey at the top of its weekly newsletter allowed the questionnaire to reach students who most likely already care about or are involved with UGBC. If it had wanted the

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largest possible reach, the organization should have sent standalone email reminders about the survey, especially because the survey has been open for a number of months. An extra email or two from UGBC would most likely not be considered superfluous.

The class Facebook pages are a direct way to interact with nearly every member of the student body. UGBC should be more active in posting in the groups in order to take advantage of this valuable and free resource. Posting election updates and reminders about events such as candidate debates could serve as a way to improve student participation in UGBC elections as well. If UGBC wants to gauge an accurate representation of the student body on these issues, it must provide as many opportunities as possible for students to respond.

One of the issues revealed by the results of the survey was that students are generally unaware of the resources offered by UGBC. This should indicate to the organization that it needs new strategies for promoting the work that it does in the future. If UGBC is to truly be an effective and representative organization that improves the lives of students at BC, then it needs to more actively promote itself and its actions.

It is notable that 35 percent of responders answered “neutral,” while 29 percent answered “disagree” or “strongly disagree,” that UGBC is effectively addressing disability issues on campus. BC was cited by a state agency in May of last year for disability discrimination, and though UGBC advocates for students with disabilities through its Council for Students with Disabilities, it evidently could do a better job of making students aware of the services available to them concerning this pertinent issue.

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“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR An Open Letter From Campus Ministry to Students In response to Carolyn Freeman’s Heights article this past Monday, Feb. 12, 2017, “University Must Support Student Activists”, Campus Ministry would like to share the resources it’s making available to students affected by recent political events, especially in this time of angst, uncertainty, and even, sadly, ongoing threat of personal safety.

Recognizing these circumstances, and with a passionate grounding in the Ignatian ideal of cura personalis ( or “care of the whole person”), Campus Ministry is fiercely committed to ensuring, as the Jan. 30 letter to the Boston College community from University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead, and Provost David Quigley states, that “all ... feel safe and valued.”

This year Campus Ministry has created the dedicated position of a pastoral counseling campus minister.

I’m privileged to hold this role, which adds another way for any student at BC to access counseling services, with general respect to BC’s Jesuit faith context, and with specific respect to each person’s unique spirituality, faith tradition, or other ways of meaning-making.

Our common efforts to live side-by-side and affirm each other’s experiences happens at a University that has Gospel compassion and societal contribution woven into its culture. It’s with this in mind that Campus Ministry offers this counseling service to all students with concerns for both an “outer” world of justice and an “inner” world of peace. We all need and deserve both.

As always, all 12 Campus Ministers are also available to talk with students individually in their offices during the day, as well as around campus. Anyone can drop in to Campus Ministry or make an appointment

by contacting the main office, or any of us individually. The same goes for Resident Ministers in various Residence Halls.

Campus Ministry also supports students on a programmatic and organizational level. On the first Sunday after the election, Rev. Michael Davidson, S.J., on behalf of Campus Ministry, organized “Infinite Hope: A PostElection Debrief.” Campus Ministry also supported the Muslim Student Association’s Feb. 3 event in protest of the recent executive order on immigration. These creative, collaborative, student-centered events are examples of the kind of organizationally responsive and proactive support Campus Ministry is committed to.

Campus Ministry is possibly most widely associated with its ongoing student programming, from retreats and student groups to service/immersion experiences.

Especially now, Campus Ministry encourages students involved in its programming to talk with peers to listen, share, and understand each other’s unique experiences and perspectives. So while institutional support in the form of programming and mentors is important, students supporting each other is the real foundation.

It may be that in the encouragement to prayer, both communal and individual, that Campus Ministry offers the greatest support. In prayer, we remind ourselves that we stand for a vision of love, which puts us inevitably against any visions of discrimination.

Ms. Freeman rightfully points out the uniqueness of our time, and that in our response, we shouldn’t have to stand alone. Together, let us see that at BC, we don’t.

Campus Ministry looks forward to hearing from you.

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The sun has finally decided to do its job, and the snow has begun to melt away, littering the sidewalks of Chestnut Hill with patches of puddles that force freshmen to wear their Duck Boots seemingly every day. Then again, they do that anyway, so maybe now it actually just makes sense.

A MOONLIT SOIRÉE - A wise person once told me: “Music isn’t good unless it makes you feel something.” Toploader’s version of this classic song begins with a speculative and warm melody that sets the stage for the music’s powerful spell. Listeners are transported to a warm summer evening, and suddenly, they’re on a patio lit by lanterns overhead, surrounded by their best friends. It’s a wedding reception. It’s a graduation celebration. Or it’s just a party. Regardless, carefree vibes dominate the outdoor scene as the friends dance together. They’ve come free of inhibitions, without drama, and for the sole reason of having a good time. Toploader arrives out of nowhere, and immediately begins to play everyone’s favorite song. Life moves slower for a little while.

Most liberals, and in fact quite a few conservatives, are worried about the recent appointment of Betsy DeVos as the new Secretary of Education. Some see this appointment as a serious blow to the educational welfare of America’s students. They fear that policies enacted by the Department of Education will have recurring impacts on how our students learn, what they learn, and the way they will think in the future. Those fears are justified, but before we draw any conclusions about the future, let’s look at the Department as a whole.

This appointment has caused old concerns about the effectiveness of the Department to reappear, and it’s time to take a look at what it actually does. Like all government institutions, it was created for a purpose, specifically to ensure the adequate education of America’s citizens. Since 1979, the Department has been trying to do just that, an honorable pursuit. But that pursuit has become diluted, and there are a few key problems with the Department and a few reasons why DeVos’ appointment doesn’t foreshadow a failure in American education.

First, the Department is not representative of the entire American educational system. Regardless of what political beliefs you have, education still isn’t an explicit federal power, and the vast majority of education in America is run by individual states and by private entities. As long as states continue to accredit schools using their own jurisdiction, the power of the Department of Education is limited.

I hesitate to call the current administration “truly Republican,” but it certainly has proposed limiting federal power, so the impact of DeVos’ actions will probably be limited anyway, allowing more leeway for states to navigate their own educational obstacles.

It’s also important to remember the importance of local roles in education. Getting involved in a local school board or by participating in county elections can often im-

I’M NOT EVEN CLOSE TO YOU - There is a door-holding, pseudo-kindness culture at Boston College that burdens many well-meaning people. From the Chocolate Bar to Lower Campus and e ver ywhere in between, the tendency of students to wait needlessly to hold a door open for someone walking far behind them leads to minute yet tragic incidents everyday. The pressure to pick up your gait because someone you don’t know is 30 yards ahead waiting patiently for you to exit is annoying, especially because once you do he or she will forget you exist.

If you’re bent on being my servant, feel free, but I’m not changing my walking speed to accommodate your kindness.

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the Department has the financial power to enact reform.

The problem isn’t that Americans are against education. The issue is that liberals and conservatives disagree on the best ways to spend money to facilitate that education. And when conservatives try to make more effective use of funds, they’re unjustly attacked and said to be against education in general.

Liberals benefit from programs that an enormous government provides while disregarding both the fact that their success is due to massive funding and the problems that come with it, particularly the administrative cost and the extra tax burden that it puts on local counties that could be investing locally.

Perhaps the most pervasive problem with centralized education, however, is with the teachers’ unions. Even those on the far-left have issues with the government-bending strength of teachers’ unions, but those unions wouldn’t have been able to establish themselves on K Street if there wasn’t money and power in the government to influence.

Money attracts people—simple as that.

These unions help teachers, but they also restrict the abilities of schools to incentivize success and encourage sub-par teaching by guaranteeing teacher employment. That’s a problem.

By analyzing, and yes, sometimes cutting funding, conservatives aren’t trying to deprive teachers of their jobs by weakening unions, and they’re not out to strip students of their education. With ideas like educational devolution or school vouchers, they’re trying to make more effective use of our money.

If the Department of Education is to survive, it needs to make fundamental changes.

It should stop generalizing education and should understand that each student learns differently. We need regulations to ensure that our students are adequately informed and educated, but we have to allow for individuality in the classroom, for freedom in school choice, and most importantly, less ad-hominem dialogue in discussing that reform.

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KNOWING IT WON’T LAST - The phrase “All good things must come to an end” is perhaps one of the most frustrating indisputable realities of life. In particular, when it applies to good weather. A 60-degree day in February in Massachusetts only breeds false hope. The many freshmen seen wearing salmon shorts around campus are only lying to themselves and their Snapchat friends. This is New England, and it is still winter.

pact students more than a sweeping federal Department of Education. The education of our nation’s children is not dependent on one woman sitting in Washington, D.C. At the same time, we should realize that the Department of Education doesn’t actually do all that much educating. It simply distributes funds to allow access to education.

The Department uses much of its budget to fund student loan programs that help students pay for higher learning. This assistance helps, but in the long run, it can drive up college tuition. Universities understand that if they raise prices, the government will fund loans to meet those prices, and they will receive even more money for their own education objectives.

In this scenario, the Department of Education isn’t actually directly controlling education, only subsidizing student loans. It provides some students access to college in the short term, while perpetuating astronomic tuition price increases in the long term.

The Department has other issues as well, especially in its bloated bureaucracy—the same structure that conservatives always complain about, and for good reason. Money that could be used effectively is instead thrown around at the wrong objectives.

Despite having clear flaws, most criticism of the Department of Education is unfounded. Many people fail to differentiate between the proper noun, Department of Education, and the abstract idea of education. Some conservatives call for the abolishment of the Department of Education, but are often heard as saying “I want to abolish education.”

People that are fundamentally against educating the population are few and far between. Education is not a partisan issue, but how we provide that education is. Those who defend the Department of Education will point to the millions of people that it helps, and this is undeniable.

Conservatives should understand that doing away with the Department is definitely going to hurt people. People benefit from the Department of Education, as it provides services for upwards of 55 million students.

Even so, liberals shouldn’t tout these benefits as a victory. A federal department supplied with $200 billion to help educate people is, of course, inherently going to accomplish its goal to an extent. With that much funding,

When I think about love, I think about the vegetable soup my grandmother ladles into my grandfather’s bowl each night. I think about the plate of scrambled eggs my father made for me every morning in high school. And when I think about romance, about dating and courtship, I think about potato skins.

When my parents were dating, they liked to meet up for fried potato skins and Long Island iced teas at TGI Fridays.

They both lived at home, an hour apart, and these dates were a respite from their parents’ watchful eyes. I imagine them sitting close together in a vinyl booth, the salty smell of potato skins wafting up at them, their hands curved shyly around frosty glasses.

My mother sometimes slips into reveries about these dates, always with a sly smile and moony-eyes. As she recounts her courtship with my father, I wonder about the magic of eating and talking with someone you love, or even someone you really, really like, someone who makes you giddy and nervous and crazy in the most wonderful way. When my mother talks about TGI Fridays, I get a glimpse of who she was at my age. A young woman in love: with potato skins, with my father, and with the intoxicating elixir that is Long Island iced tea.

Around this time every year, dating seems to be on everyone’s mind. Kerry Cronin gives her famed “Save the Date” talk, in which she condemns the hookup culture at Boston College. According to Cronin, students have forgotten how to date. Instead, they hook up in dark Mods, with music blaring out of nearby speakers and strawberry-flavored Rubinoff still on their lips. Although casual sex is nothing new, it seems to have eclipsed romance and relationships on campus.

As a student, I don’t have much to say about hookup culture, but as a food writer, I have a lot to say about dates. After all, a date is more than just a time to get to know someone and develop a relationship.

It’s also a time to eat and share great food.

So, what’s at stake with the disappearing date? Maybe students will become emotionally stunted. Maybe they’ll forget how to build healthy, fulfilling, romantic relationships. Maybe they’ll have more casual sex and scare their parents and their priests.

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But I do care. I care about the potato skins. I care about the intimacy and vulnerability of sharing a meal with somebody you like, and the wonderful connections we make over food. I care about the memories that aren’t being made when romance is limited to drunken hookups.

Think of your favorite family memories. How many of them were made in the kitchen or in your neighborhood? Do they evoke a certain taste or smell? When I think of my childhood Sundays, I can still smell the fresh pot of vegetable soup left on the stove to simmer all afternoon.

When I think of my first date, I can still taste the mint chocolate chip ice cream and feel the dancing nerves in my stomach.

Memories of food are interwoven with the emotions we feel while eating and the people we eat with. These sensory recollections stick with us, even when the feelings and the people are gone. They can strike us suddenly and plunge us back into cherished moments. The smell of chocolate-chip cookies or the taste of apple pie can serve as a culinary time machine. Our memories of food move us, transport us, and allow us to relive the past.

When my mother thinks of potato skins, she steps back into 1982. My father isn’t a 50-year-old man with too-tight bike shorts and outdated jokes. He’s 21, and he’s sliding into the booth next to her at TGI Fridays.

With so many college students shrugging off the dating lifestyle, I wonder what will happen to the indelible link between food and romance. How will our generation ever form those evocative memories of first dates and anniversary dinners when all we ever do is hook up? Will we even know what we’ve lost?

At her yearly talk, Cronin challenges the audience members to ask somebody on a date. Some people laugh off this challenge, while others are too terrified to even consider it. Dating is a leap into vulnerability, and it’s easy to hide behind ambiguous phrases like “we’re talking” or “we’re hanging out.” Taking up Cronin’s challenge means having to confess something scary: I like you, I want to spend time with you, and I’ll even fight over the check to prove it. Are you sweating just thinking about it?

I hope you, reader, consider the challenge. Because beyond sexual empowerment and the other contentious notions of hookup culture, there’s the simple magic of going to dinner with someone you love and building memories out of a plate of fried potato skins.

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In early 2016, then-Governor Pence and the Indiana state legislature passed House Bill 1337, a law that, had it not been blocked by a federal judge, would have enacted a number of controversial and intrusive restrictions on abortion. Abortions sought because of a fetus’s gender, race, or disability diagnosis would have been made illegal. The use of fetal tissue for research would also have been prohibited. Luckily, this bill was struck down, and Pence was not allowed to meddle with the bodily rights of the gender to which he does not belong.

In response to this restrictive bill, Indiana women began the “Periods for Pence” Facebook campaign, which rallied women to call or tweet Pence the details of their menstrual cycles, since he had made his interest in their reproductive systems overtly clear. If Pence is so interested in regulating women’s reproductive rights, then he certainly would also be interested in learning the details about women participating in Periods for Pence had to share with him.

“I’m pro-life and I don’t apologize for it,” Pence said to supporters on the campaign trail, promising that he and President Donald Trump would “send Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history where it belongs.”

While I accept his right to be unapologetically anti-abortion, I want to know what Pence thinks that gives him the right to impose his personal beliefs and opinions on American women. His ideas are dangerous if they propel him to limit bodily rights of women. If Pence chooses to use his position of power to translate his beliefs into abortion laws that will affect and even harm many women, especially since the main idea behind Roe v. Wade was the right to privacy, he has crossed a line.

Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, remarked during the 2016 presidential campaign that Pence would not make a better candidate than Trump.

“Trading Trump’s violent language for Pence’s devastating policy proposals is a horrifying substitution,” Richards said.

Indeed, Pence’s goal of limiting or eliminating federal funding for Planned Parenthood would certainly be devastating.

Abortions are only one of the numerous services that Planned Parenthood offers women, including cancer screenings, STD testing, flu vaccines, anemia testing, physical exams, and more. Cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood would, in turn, limit the health care services on which a multitude of women. Yet this proposition does not seem morally wrong to anti-abortion Pence, even though his actions may harm many women, again because of his personal beliefs.

Pence’s election as the nation’s secondin-command has emboldened the anti-abortion movement, as seen last week with the passing of a bill in Oklahoma that would require a woman seeking an abortion to first obtain the written consent of the fetus’s father. The author of this bill, Representative Justin Humphrey, made a statement that “one of the breakdowns in our society is that we have excluded the man out of all of these types of decisions.” He said that women are the “hosts” of fetuses that they have “invited in.” This is an absurdly demeaning and insulting piece of legislation that has provoked outrage from all over the country. Women have objected to being called “hosts” for fetuses, and reproductive rights groups have expressed concern that women in domestically abusive situations would be forced to seek the consent of their spouse to receive an abortion.

Men like Pence and Humphrey are empowered to make decisions regarding women’s bodies and health based on their personal beliefs rather than what would actually be beneficial for women. The patriarchy’s controlling of women’s lives is becoming more prevalent than ever in the current administration, and this trend will continue unless it is challenged at every turn. Laws should not be passed because of the personal views of those in power if they will negatively affect a large part of the population.

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To establish guilt, prosecutors must demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant violated the law and committed the crime. Yet, every year in the U.S., an estimated 10,000 innocent people are wrongfully convicted of crimes. Many of them spend their lives behind bars.

Since the discovery of DNA, however, exonerations of wrongfully convicted citizens are on the rise. In 1989, the first DNA exoneration took place in Illinois, where a court overturned Gary Dotson’s conviction for rape and aggravated kidnapping. DNA tests performed on biological evidence contained in the original rape kit excluded him as the perpetrator. Yet, by the time Dotson was exonerated, he had already spent 10 years of his life in prison.

Founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project works to free the unjustly incarcerated. Since its inception, the Innocence Project has grown into a network of over 68 organizations dedicated to providing legal and investigative services to those seeking exoneration.

At Boston College Law School, Sharon Beckman directs the BC Innocence Program (BCIP) in addition to her 22-year career as a law professor at the University. Inspired by the work of the New England Innocence Project (NEIP), Beckman founded BC’s program in the hopes of fighting injustice.

hands-on work with convicted prisoners.

BCIP tends to take on cases in which DNA alone cannot prove innocence. Thus, all cases begin with a search for evidence that demonstrates factual innocence. Once factual innocence is apparent, students work to gather evidence. Students review legal records and court documents, looking for the “risk factors” most often associated with wrongful conviction.

The most prevalent factor in wrongful convictions is eyewitness misidentification. When she was 22 years old, Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint. During the attack, she fought valiantly and studied every detail of her rapist’s face, determined to bring him to justice. Eventually, Thompson escaped.

Several days later, Thompson went to the police station and picked Ronald Cotton’s photo out of a lineup. Later, she picked Cotton out of a physical lineup, and identified him as her assailant at his 1985 trial. Cotton was convicted.

In prison, while watching the O.J. Simpson trial on television, Cotton heard about a new type of scientific evidence that could prove innocence. He asked to have his DNA tested.

The DNA results proved Cotton was innocent.

“Still, Jennifer Thompson was telling the truth,” Beckman said. “She wholeheartedly believed Ronald Cotton was her rapist.”

Cases like Cotton’s are not uncommon. In fact, for 71 percent of exonerated prisoners, witness misidentification played a role in their conviction.

Another leading factor in wrongful conviction cases is confirmation bias, or the tendency of investigators or prosecutors to interpret new evidence as confirmation of an existing theory.

“At times, people truly believe they have the right person, so they don’t see the evidence pointing toward someone else,” Beckman said.

“They have tunnel vision.

“Junk science” is a recurring factor in wrongful convictions, as it was in the conviction of Victor Rosario.

Rosario was accused of starting the 1982 Lowell fire that killed eight people, including five children. He spent over three decades in prison.

During Rosario’s original trial, arson investigators who provided an expert testimony claimed they could tell from marks within the building that the blaze was ignited by multiple Molotov cocktails. Modern-day experts, however, explained that there is no way a person could know Molotov cocktails started the fire—the blaze could have been ignited by a variety of fire hazards.

In 2016, BCIP, NEIP, and the Innocence Project,

freed prisoners who had a witness misidentify them

71%

“The innocence movement is the most important criminal justice movement of our generation,” Beckman said. “If there’s one thing the system can’t tolerate, its wrongful conviction.”

BCIP began as a small, independent study clinic, and grew into a comprehensive program that includes externships with the NEIP and the Massachusetts Public Defender’s Office Committee for Public Counsel Services. All law students involved with BCIP take a Wrongful Convictions Seminar, in which students study erroneous convictions from a multidisciplinary perspective, preparing them for

Inc., filed an amicus brief urging Massachusetts’ highest court to affirm the Middlesex Superior Court order vacating Rosario’s conviction. The amicus presented scientific evidence that contradicted the arson investigators’ initial claims. Moreover, the same arson investigators who presented the evidence prepared a “confession” for Rosario to sign using interrogation techniques now known to produce false confessions.

“The investigators’ claims were far from expert testimony,” Beckman said.

The other most common cause of wrongful conviction is “bad lawyering.”

Many of the wrongfully convicted were represented either by incompetent and unprofessional lawyers, or by overworked and under-resourced public defenders.

Without proper legal defense, the accused are less likely to be acquitted—even if they are innocent.

After gathering evidence and establishing grounds for an appeal, law students visit clients in prison to discuss case logistics.

“For the law students working in our clinic, one of the most eye-opening and educational moments is when they go to the prison for the first time,” Beckman said.

Eva Rasho, BC Law ’18, has experienced the challenges of gathering evidence, filing briefs, and visiting clients in prison as a member of BCIP’s clinic.

“It’s easy to get frustrated with how slowly the cases are moving, but it’s even more frustrating to see how slowly things move in prison,” Rasho said.

The first time she and her case partner went to visit their client in prison, they were refused entry, despite following the protocol of the prison. Rasho and her partner spent four hours working with the prison in an attempt to meet with their client. Rasho felt discouraged, but often thinks of the resilience of her clients to remind herself how important the work is.

“When our students leave the prison after their first visit, and the doors close behind them, they realize this is what it means to have freedom,” Beckman said.

Charlotte Whitmore, the supervising attorney of BCIP and an adjunct professor at BC Law, has seen what freedom means to the innocent who have suffered in prison for years. Whitmore began working with the Innocence Project in Pennsylvania and spent hundreds of hours working on the case of Eugene Gilyard. Gilyard was convicted of murder and was serving a life sentence in prison. In collaboration with Innocence Project investigators and law student volunteers, Whitmore established Gilyard’s innocence and identified the true perpetrators of the crime.

Within three weeks of his release, Gilyard got a

job, and has since been promoted several times. He is happily married and has three children.

“Eugene is a devout Muslim, and his faith helped him have a positive attitude and remain hopeful in prison,” Whitmore said. “He’s a remarkable success story.”

Many exonerees, however, struggle to reintegrate into society after their release. When he was 16, Jeff Deskovic falsely confessed to raping a woman. Deskovic was exonerated after 16 years in prison, after postconviction DNA testing proved his innocence.

10,000

people wrongly convicted in the U.S. each year

Upon his release from prison, Deskovic suffered from intense anxiety, depression, and financial stress.

As time passed and Deskovic readjusted to freedom, he founded the Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice, a nonprofit focused on helping the wrongly convicted manage the financial and emotional struggles many exonerees face after release.

William Lopez, an exoneree who benefited from Deskovic’s foundation, still struggled to integrate into society after receiving help and forming close bonds with other exonerees. About a year after his release from prison, Lopez was caught shoplifting at a CVS in New York City. Lopez explained that he was confused when he took the items.

Lopez told Deskovic, however, that he shoplifted in order to be re-incarcerated on his own terms. After falling victim to a flawed justice system, Lopez was convinced he would be put in jail again. Ultimately, he did not go to jail for his shoplifting. Yet a few months after his name was cleared, Lopez died of an asthma attack—stress degraded his health after he left prison.

The Innocence Network is working to establish resources to help exonerees better integrate back into society, from mental health treatment and housing assistance to financial and job counseling. As the Innocence Network continues to grow, understandings of the judiciary system and legal processes are beginning to change.

“The notion that convictions are final is being undermined by the innocence movement,” Beckman said. “If there’s even a risk of wrongful conviction, a verdict can never be final.”’

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One winter day, I walked into my house soaked in sweat, panting madly, and carrying a large shovel. Before you jump to conclusions, this was nothing like the “Silver Casket” incident of ’02. This time, I was carrying a snow shovel and I wasn’t covered in splinters, maggots, and confetti. I had just finished shoveling the sidewalk and driveway, successfully fulfilling my sacred civic duty to maintain a cleanly and presentable yard. Washington would be proud.

The events that followed would soon be a defining moment in the fictional, columnized life of a man named Archer Parquette.

That man was me.

Which makes sense because we have the same name.

A momentous struggle would soon occur, a struggle between a man and the world, between existence and temporality, between overwrought prose and excessive clauses. That man, Archer “The Papoose Goose” Parquette, was about to face his

personal Myth of Sisyphus, except without the eloquence, philosophical weight, or Frenchiness.

To celebrate my shoveling success, I blasted Carrie & Lowell over my “TinnitusSwaag” brand speakers, brewed a cup of cold black coffee, and stared out the window, quietly weeping. This was all usual stuff for me, but then I saw something coming down the street.

A monstrosity rolled around the corner, a gigantic plow. Mounds of deeply-packed snow rolled in front of the plow, huge chunks of ice scraping against the street.

I saw my driveway entrance, the first one on the block, and knew what was going to happen.

Like the stoic, Gary Cooper-type that I am, I clenched my jaw and stared firmly out the window, facing the cruel world head-on.

Then I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the glass and saw that I looked like a constipated goblin, so I stopped.

The plow plowed straight past my driveway, dumping a wall of ice and snow all over the freshly-shoveled cement.

That was when the self-pity hit. I had spent the past hour breaking up the encrusted ice like a young Ferdinand von Wrangel and tossing it on the curb with my shovel like the big man himself, Étienne Desmarteau. Now it was all piled up again,

even worse than before. My life was clearly the hardest of all the lives. Starvation, repression, disease: nothing stacked up to this injustice.

I walked back outside and got to it. The new blockade of ice and snow was only up to my calves, allowing me to chip away away it and clear the drive within a half hour.

Another victory in the ol’ Archer Victory Catalog.

Back inside I turned the tunes back on, crossed my arms, and introspected to “Blue Bucket of Gold.” I had finally achieved what needed to be achieved. I was satisfied.

My accomplishment was complete and happiness was about to flood into my life.

The only thing that could ruin this was if the snow situation turned into an extended metaphor for futility and— Eight more plows rolled down the street, one after another, and dumped ice and snow at the foot of my driveway. I stood shell-shocked at my living room window, unable to stop staring at this new monstrous wall of ice.

The song playing on my speakers ended and “Let It Be” by a little-known throwback band (from like the ’30s or something) came on.

I stumbled outside and looked at the colossal task ahead of me. Everything I had just done was pointless. I was nowhere close

to my ultimate goal. Actually, it seemed as though I was ever farther behind than when I started.

“Hey Fartcher.”

I turned to see my neighbor Boris Karloff (no relation) standing on his porch, laughing and waving a large, foam middle finger at me. My feud with Boris goes back years, all the way to the South-Central New Hampshire National Pastry Day Massacre (dear God, the Bruttiboni).

“Have fun cleaning up,” Boris yelled.

“Or should I say farting farts fart farter … because you’re a fart.”

I couldn’t even muster up the strength to toss a snappy comeback his way. The neighborhood association had agreed to shovel Boris’ sidewalk for him after he broke both his legs falling down the stairs at his girlfriend’s funeral last week, that lucky son of a biscuit. All I could do was walk back inside.

Sitting in a living room of my own fictional, columnized creation, trapped behind a wall of ice and snow, I knew that now was the point in the column where I was expected to break it down, to hit you over the noodle with a lesson. Something easily digestible and snappy would make all these weird happenings and vague lies worthwhile, because the reader would come away with an improved outlook, an optimistic

sense of the way forward.

I looked out the window again at the ice and snow.

I was going to be here for a damn while, and wasn’t going to spend every day sitting here quietly. They could send a million damn plows down my street, but I couldn’t let them stop me from hacking my way through the ice and achieving what I wanted to achieve. It was time to finish the job.

I stood up from my couch just as the drums on “Let It Be” kicked in and picked up my shovel. Scrunching up my pale orc face, I pushed open the front door and walked straight for the wall of ice at the end of my driveway.Not hesitating a second, I reached my obstacle, lifted the shovel over my shoulder, and swung the end straight into the icy mess, breaking a chunk off the middle of the wall. Standing over the broken ice, I felt myself faintly smile. Then I lifted my shovel again and got back to work.

And then I slipped on the ice, threw the shovel out into the street, slammed my elbow on the wall, tripped back the other way, kicked myself in the arm somehow, and fell flat on my back.

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Fe J\e`fi ;Xp# 9: 9fleZ\j 9XZb kf Jgc`k J\i`\j 8^X`ejk =i`Xij 9P E@:FC< GC8 ?\`^_kj JkX]] Before the puck dropped on Senior Day, Boston College women’s hockey recognized its graduating players and managers for 1 Providence th e i r a cco m Boston College 3 plishments and contributions. Following a tough loss at Providence on Saturday, BC looked to give its seniors something to celebrate in the second game of the weekend

series. In its last game of the regular season, the Eagles skated past the Friars, 3-1 for a final win heading into the Hockey East Quarterfinals.

The first period started off shaky, as the Eagles (23-5-5, 17-4-3 Hockey East) had trouble connecting with passes in front of Providence (16-17-3, 11-10-3) goaltender Madison Myers. Multiple missed passes turned into dangerous turnovers that led the Friars toward Katie Burt with little to no opposition.

BC got its first big scoring opportunity

when Kali Flanagan intercepted a pass and headed toward Myers with only one defender in her way to give the Eagles a chance at an early lead. Her shot went wide, and the Friars corralled the rebound and moved the puck back into BC territory.

The Eagles had another opportunity to get on the board when Lauren Klein was called for slashing when trying to force a turnover in the circle halfway through the first. After a flurry of shots on Myers, BC failed to capitalize on

the power play. Providence was given a chance to echo the previous afternoon’s early success when Megan Keller was called for hooking. But Burt stopped the Providence power-play attack, making a narrow save by deflecting the puck with her glove.

While the second period started pretty similarly to the first, it didn’t stay that way for long. Delaney Belinskas was penalized early into the period, as she tried to recover the puck in Friar territory. But even with an extra player on

the ice, Providence could not connect.

Midway through the period, Andie Anastos approached Myers with no one between her and the goaltender. Before Anastos could get her shot off, Cassidy MacPherson caught up to her and stuck her stick between Anastos’ legs. The play sent MacPherson into the box for two minutes, but disrupted Anastos’ shot nonetheless. Less than a minute into the BC power play, Brooke Boquist

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On Saturday, the Wildcats’ energy level was off the charts. After a quiet top of the first, BC starter Brian Rapp allowed two quick walks and committed the team’s first error of the season. Palomaki, the Eagles’ sure-handed second baseman, followed with an error of his own, resulting in two unearned runs for the BCU in the bottom of the first.

Minimizing the damage to a threerun deficit through three innings, BC tried to claw back on the road. An RBI double to right by catcher Gian Martellini got the scoring going for the Eagles.

Continuing the rally, BC drew two walks

Alex Trezza may have the toughest job on campus this spring.

The first-year associate head coach in charge of pitchers and catchers for Boston College doesn’t have the same staff that his predecessor, Jim Foster, developed during the team’s 2016 campaign. First off, he’ll be missing Justin Dunn and his 97 m.p.h. fastball on Saturdays, as the right-hander was taken 19th overall by the New York Mets back in June. Dunn began the season in the bullpen before transitioning into the starting role, where he became the fire that fueled Birdball’s Super Regional run.

Trezza will also be without Mike King, who went 8-4 last season with a 3.04 ERA, enough to earn a 12thround selection by the Miami Marlins.

King’s precise command was reflected in his ability to maintain a low pitch count and consistently eat up innings.

Additionally, Jesse Adams and John Nicklas both graduated, with Adams joining the Cincinnati Reds organization in the 14th round of the MLB Draft. Together, those four veteran arms combined for more than half of the Eagles’ 35 wins last year.

To make matters worse, the team announced the year-long suspension of sophomore relief pitcher Thomas Lane for a violation of team rules last week. As a mid-week starter from last year, Lane was perhaps best-prepared to fill these vacancies in the rotation.

What they left behind was a young pitching rotation with only one certainty: Jacob “Bear” Stevens, the bonafide ace of the staff who needs no introduction. As a freshman, Stevens ascended to the Friday night starter role after leading the nation in ERA for much of the season. Showing no signs of regression this year, the 6foot-3 right-hander made the opening day start for BC on Friday against Bethune-Cookman, tossing six shutout innings and striking out seven.

Questions still remain, however, about the No. 2 and No. 3 options for Trezza’s crew. During BethuneCookman season-opening sweep of Birdball over the weekend, sophomore Brian Rapp and junior Dan Metzdorf started the Saturday and Sunday games, respectively. Rapp lasted just 2 2/3 innings, allowing three runs and throwing away three wild pitches, one of which proved costly in the 6-5 loss.

Metzdorf, a lefty submarine pitcher, fared slightly better on Sunday, conceding seven hits, three walks, and three earned runs in 4 2/3 innings of work.

Last year, Rapp (5.67 ERA) and Metzdorf (8.00 ERA) started only one game each, making them interesting candidates for the weekend starting roles this season. And their shaky performances against the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference school did little to erase doubts about their ability to take the mound against elite ACC programs.

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9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E <[`kfi$`e$:_`\] Stefanos Lekkas stood up, screaming at the referees. The Vermont goaltender felt that Boston College men’s hockey 2 Vermont s t a r f o rBoston College 2 ward Colin White had interfered with him. But as always in overtime, even Hockey East’s dastardly devils in black and white refused to touch their lips to the whistles. Knowing this, White, alongside linemates J.D. Dudek and David Cotton, had to put up a flurry in Saturday’s waning seconds, praying for a goal. Julius Mattila almost answered those prayers with an attempt

to go shortside high on Lekkas for his second goal of the game.

But Mattila’s shot went wide. And, unfortunately for the Eagles, the only unpleasant sound that blared was from the final horn. It could be one of the final horns on their season too.

On Senior Night, the Eagles tied with the Catamounts, 2-2. After Friday’s 3-3 tie with Vermont (17-105, 9-7-4 Hockey East), it’s the first time that BC (18-12-4, 13-4-3) has tied in back-to-back games since Jan. 19 and 25, 2008. But while picking up a point is typically a positive for a team, it makes life a little more tenuous for the Eagles.

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9P D@:?8<C ?F== ?\`^_kj JkX]] Boston College men’s hockey didn’t have much margin for error heading into Friday’s game against Vermont. But the Eagles 3 Vermont racke d up Boston College 3 three goals in the first 10 minutes and gave themselves some breathing room. By the end of the night, though, they returned to needing an oxygen mask on standby.

The No. 16 Catamounts clawed back from down 3-0—including trailing 3-1 halfway into the third period—to tie the game, ultimately splitting the point with No. 11 BC, 3-3.

The Eagles (18-12-3, 13-4-2 Hockey

East) had some chances to snatch a victory from the jaws of stalemate in overtime, but Ryan and Casey Fitzgerald both couldn’t quite convert on prime looks at UVM goalie Stefanos Lekkas.

Despite being up three points on Boston University in the Hockey East regular season standings, BC now sits at No. 16 in the PairWise Rankings—right at the cutoff point—with another game against Vermont (19-7-4, 9-7-3) on Saturday and two against Massachusetts Lowell next week. And though head coach Jerry York is pleased with the overall position of his teams right now, he is not happy with the errors and blown lead.

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Traveling down to Florida to take on Bethune-Cookman in the seasonopening series, Boston College baseball wasn’t quite ready for what Daytona Beach had in store. Despite strong overall pitching, a lack of timely offense resulted in three disappointing one-run losses, leaving the Eagles on the wrong side of a three-game sweep.

As the series closed out in Florida on Sunday, the host Wildcats seemed to have BC’s number. Riding the momentum from the victories on Friday and Saturday, BCU’s Kyle Corbin quickly

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jumped on Eagles starting pitcher Dan Metzdorf, singling and eventually scoring on a wild pitch to give the Wildcats an early 1-0 lead.

They scored again in the bottom of the third and once more in the fifth to chase Metzdorf from the game. Even more impressive, however, was BCU starter Anthony Maldonado. Recording 10 strikeouts and only four hits over 5 1/3 scoreless innings, the Wildcats’ bullpen was in prime position to finish out the game as the righty took the bench.

But the Eagles refused to roll over.

After both bullpens pitched scoreless sixth, seventh, and eighth innings, BC entered the ninth facing a 3-0 deficit

against lefty Joseph Calamita. Two quick pop-up outs by Mitch Bigras and Dante Baldelli left the Eagles clinging to their last at-bat.

But three straight righties would prove more challenging to Calamita.

After a two-out single by Jake Palomaki, Johnny Adams, and Michael Strem went for back-to-back doubles to right and left field, respectively, chasing Calamita from the game and cutting the lead to just one.

But it was again too little, too late for the Eagles’ comeback, as closer Alexis Herrera came in for the Wildcats and iced the game for his second save of the series.

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Birdball vs BCU, from B1 from BCU starter Donte Lindsay and chased him from the game, scoring twice more in the top of the fourth to tie the game behind RBI singles from Scott Braren, Bigras, and Palomaki.

The big innings weren’t over though. With the help of three walks, the Wildcats responded with three runs of their own in the bottom of the fifth—all with two outs—to retake a commanding 6-3 lead.

Eager to answer, Bigras set the tone for the Eagles in the top of the sixth by reaching first on a wild-pitch strikeout by T.J. Densmore. A double later in the inning by center fielder Michael Strem drove in two runs to bring the Eagles back within one.

But that would be as close as the Eagles would come. Both bullpens were lights out in the final three and half innings.

Allowing only two hits combined and no runs in that span,

HOCKEY EAST STANDINGS - With one week remaining in the regular season, four points separate the top-four teams in the Hockey East. Theoretically, each of these teams has a chance at the No. 1 seed and regular-season title. BC is right in the thick of it, needing three points to clinch the top seed and league title.

UNICORNS ARE REAL - Kristaps Porzingis beat out Gordon Hayward and Isaiah Thomas for the NBA Skills Challenge, marking the second-straight year a 7-footer has won the competition. For Knicks fans, the Latvian’s victory is something to celebrate, considering the recent controversy surrounding the organization.

Densmore and BCU picked up its second-straight win over the Eagles, 6-5.

Friday’s season-opening game featured a true pitchers duel between BC ’s Jacob Stevens and Bethune-Cookman’s Tyler Norris. Each tossing six shutout innings, the two starters combined to allow six total hits, two walks, and zero runs. Even more impressively, Stevens and Norris combined for 20 strikeouts—nine and 11, respectively.

The Eagles smelled an opportunity, however, as Norris was replaced by Herrera. Stepping up to the plate with one out, Martellini saw his pitch and didn’t hesitate, ripping a double to the left-center gap. Seeing an opportunity to take the lead, head coach Mike Gambino pinch hit a righty, Brian Dempsey, for left-handed hitting third baseman Anthony Maselli.

It was the matchup he was looking for, as Dempsey dropped one into shallow center field for a single, scoring Martellini and

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Jacob Stevens struck out nine batters in six scoreless innings of the season opener against Bethune-Cookman.

giving the Eagles their first lead of the day.

Despite having runners on second and third with one out in top of the ninth, the Eagles were unable to generate any more offense in the face of an ardent BCU staff. In the bottom of the frame, the Wildcats capitalized.

Despite a single by first baseman Danny Rodriguez, the Eagles still recorded two outs as shortstop Demetrius Sims stepped to the plate.

With one man on base and two outs, Demetrius Sims stepped up to the plate with a chance to tie the game. Against closer

Bobby Skogsbergh, Sims tripled to right center, tying the game and putting the Wildcats in prime position to steal a season-opening win. Second basemen Nate Sterijevski finished the job and singled home Sims to give BCU a season-opening win, 2-1, over the dismayed Eagles.

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HE’S STILL YOUNG - It’s official.

Vince Young is attempting an NFL comeback. The two-time Pro Bowler hasn’t taken a snap since 2011, but is 33 years young—six years younger than Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady. Anything’s possible. After all, he was 31-19 as starter.

9P D8KK G<K<IJFE =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Head coach Erik Johnson’s squad came out firing on all cylinders on Thursday night as Boston College women’s 70 NC State basketball Boston College 58 hosted No. 15 North Carolina State in its annual “PlayforKay” game.

On a night sponsored by the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, which is dedicated to advancing research for all cancers affecting women, Johnson couldn’t have asked for a better first half than what he got out of his Eagles. Unfortunately, like its male counterparts, BC couldn’t hang on to a halftime lead against a ranked opponent, ultimately falling to the Wolfpack, 70-58.

But there are more than a few positives that Johnson can take away from the disappointing defeat. Starting the game on a 6-0 run, BC (9-18,

THUMBS DOWN THAR SHE BLOWS - This past week, BC blew two substantial leads in Conte Forum. Men’s basketball let a 10-point halftime lead slip to Notre Dame. And three days later, men’s hockey coughed up a three-goal advantage to Vermont, ultimately tying the Catamounts 3-3.

2-12 Atlantic Coast) really spread out the offense, managing to have four players score its first 10 points.

The Eagles kept their foot on the gas against NC State (20-6, 10-3), managing six assists on 10 made shots to post one of their best 10-minute stints of the year.

Even more impressive, BC outrebounded the Wolfpack—currently ranked fifth in the ACC in rebounding as a team—by a 13-4 margin, including four offensive boards.

An 8-0 run in the last six minutes of the first was led by Fasoula, who totaled eight points and three rebounds in the quarter. Despite a waived off buzzer-beater 3-pointer by Emilee Daley to end the period, the Eagles shot a crisp 59 percent from the field while holding the Wolfpack to a meager 17 percent, jumping out to an early 19–8 lead.

Still on top throughout the entire first half by as many as 13, the Eagles were in a prime position as they

headed into the locker room with a 33-31 advantage.

But the ACC’s fourth-place Wolfpack wouldn’t be denied for long.

Shaking off its dismal 2-for-12 shooting to start the game, NC State knew the game plan for the second quarter: feed Dominique Wilson.

Led by Wilson, the Wolfpack managed a much more recognizable 50 percent from the field in the second quarter. Knocking down 7-of-8 shots from the line, Wilson scored an additional eight from the field for a game-high 16 points at the half.

But the Eagles had a few offensive weapons of their own, namely Fasoula and Taylor Ortlepp. Recording a team-high 20 points to go along with eight rebounds and five assists, Fasoula couldn’t be stopped by one-on-one defense. In a breakout night, Ortlepp dropped a gamehigh six assists to complement her 18 points, as the Australian guard settled more comfortably into her

ACC starting role.

On its second shot of the second half, NC State took its first lead of the game, but the Eagles would punch back. After a hotly-contested third quarter that saw seven lead changes and six BC fouls, the Wolfpack entered the fourth with a six-point lead, their largest of the night—one they never relinquished.

Continuing her spectacular performance, Wilson added seven second-half points to record a game high 23 points. NC State’s shooters also came alive in the second half, with Ashley Williams and Jennifer Mathurin combining to drain some timely three balls.

NC State used stifling defense to hold the Eagles to nine points in the fourth quarter and outscored them by 14 in the second half. As BC got into foul trouble late, NC State capitalized on what turned into a startling discrepancy. With guard Miah Spencer shooting 8-for-

8 from the line in the second half, the Wolfpack went a spectacular 20-for-23 from the line to put the Eagles away.

In what was ultimately a strong performance against an elite NC State team—which boasts wins against the likes of Florida State, Louisville, and Duke—BC continued to struggle with turnovers, committing 21 to NC State’s 10.

But tonight revealed a glimmer of hope for a young Eagles team, both individually and as a whole.

“I was really proud of my kids, of how they fought the entire game,” Johnson said. “The future is really, really bright … [and] I really believe this group is close, that they’re starting to see the team that we want to be.”

Now BC begins a much-needed bye week in Chestnut Hill to recuperate and practice before traveling to South Bend next week to take on rival Notre Dame.

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Pitching Questions, from B1 about the talent of a rotation as it is how cleverly and effectively it is used. Foster and head coach Mike Gambino were constantly tinkering with the rotation and bullpen until they finally achieved the right balance last year. Dunn abandoned the closer job in favor of starting duties, Adams moved to the bullpen as a middle reliever, and Stevens changed from Sundays to Fridays in an attempt to give BC an advantage in conference series.

If the Eagles want to reach the same level of success as last season, they need to be equally flexible about their roles—and even more willing to make risky adjustments when they hit rough patches. After an 0-3 start, that

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time may come sooner than expected. And Trezza may not have the same weapons at his disposal that Foster was gifted.

Keep away from the panic button, though. Last year, Stevens emerged from relative obscurity to piece together one of the best freshman seasons in the country. Could Birdball be hiding another Bear who might come out of hibernation this spring?

Unlikely. But there are some intriguing arms who could fill the void left after Stevens on Fridays.

Sophomore Zach Stromberg has been steadily improving since joining the bullpen unit, showing flashes of starting potential along the way. As a freshman, the Lafayette, Calif.-native made three starts in 17 appearances, posting a 0.84 ERA in six ACC outings.

On Saturday, he started the 2017 season on the right foot, striking out a pair of Wildcats in two scoreless innings of relief.

Bobby Skogsbergh, Birdball’s junior captain, will undoubtedly be an X-factor for the Eagles this year—the question is in what role. Last year’s team leader in innings pitched, Skogsbergh is currently the closer, but that could change soon. If he plays like he did last season, when he led all relievers with a 2.64 ERA, he could be considered for a promotion to the starting role, like Dunn last year. On the other hand, nothing in the closer’s role is guaranteed. The position can be emotionally taxing, as carrying the hopes of the team on your shoulders in the final inning is

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more of a burden than a blessing. On Friday, the pressure showed for Skogsbergh, who allowed two runs in the bottom of the ninth and blew his first save opportunity of the season.

The most Stevens-esque prospect, though, is freshman Matt Gill. The 6-foot-5 righthander garnered rave reviews over the offseason and appears poised for a breakout season.

The son of an All-American pitcher, Gill earned All-USA Connecticut First Team honors in high school after amassing a 7-1 record with a sub-1.00 ERA. Trezza should test Gill early in the season with midweek starts against nonconference opponents to see how quickly he can adjust to the pace of Division-I baseball. If he passes with flying

colors, he’ll likely be a frontrunner for a weekend starting job come ACC play.

Knowing who to plug in, when, and for how long is certainly not easy. Plus, Trezza’s task is complicated by the surplus of underclassmen on his hands. But if he can develop talent like Foster and tweak the bullpen until everything clicks just right, Birdball can have a serviceable rotation before the conference slate arrives. Otherwise, the Eagles’ fundamental identity of having consistently strong pitching is at risk of extinction.

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“We’re a better team now than we were when we started on Friday.”

— Jerry York,

on his team’s weekend series performance against Vermont.

THE HEIGHTS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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Perhaps more importantly, BC now sits on the outside looking in for the all-important PairWise Rankings. The Eagles are No. 17, just beyond the 16-team cut line for who makes the NCAA Tournament. Yet head coach Jerry York isn’t worried one bit. In fact, he’s surprised his team is in this position at all.

“I’m not concerned about PairWise Rankings,” York said. “I’m concerned about winning a trophy … If you had asked me in July if we’d be playing in the national tournament, I’d be saying that’s a stretch.”

Overall, York saw improvement from his club when compared to Friday night’s blown three-goal lead. That began on Saturday with the play of Mattila, the freshman center from Finland. He jumpstarted the Eagles with a goal only two minutes into the first period.

After receiving a nice feed from Graham McPhee around a Vermont defender, Mattila skated up the bench side and chucked the puck at Lekkas. Mattila’s one-time wrister went high past Lekkas’ right shoul-

der to give the Eagles another early lead. The center’s strong play hasn’t been lost on his head coach.

“I thought Julius was outstanding for us tonight as a player,” York said. “He became a dominating player at this level for us tonight.”

BC escaped the first period following a couple of sharp penalty kills. But in the second, the Eagles couldn’t build any momentum offensively. Their anemic play allowed Vermont to keep the pressure on Joseph Woll in net, and Brian Bowen took advantage. After multiple miscues from Luke McInnis, and a questionable no-call from the zebras, Derek Lodermeier broke away on a 2-on-1. Instead of ripping a shot at Woll point-blank, Lodermeier dished it to Bowen for the wraparound, left-to-right, taking advantage of a sold-out Woll.

BC’s seniors nearly gave York’s crew the momentum it needed to open the third. An interference call on Ori Abramson just 1:19 into the frame gave the Eagles a power play. Their superstar senior line of Austin Cangelosi, Ryan Fitzgerald, and Matthew Gaudreau delivered, with some help from White. BC put up a flurry on Lekkas before White blasted a shot from between the circles. As he often has been this season, Cangelosi was ready between in front of the net for a tip-in goal—and a 2-1 BC lead.

Cangelosi’s goal was the brightest spot on the night for the graduating Class of 2017. With the departures of Steve Santini, Ian McCoshen, and Thatcher Demko to the NHL last year, the class is just down to five: R. Fitzgerald, Cangelosi, Gaudreau, Chris Calnan, and Scott Savage. The quintet has combined for 414 points, 95 wins, two

Beanpots, two Hockey East regularseason titles, and two Frozen Fours.

And York believes they’re the only reason his team is still in the hunt for the postseason.

“As a senior class, I think they’ve done an outstanding job keeping our team in this pennant race,” York said. “I’ve never had that before.”

But under a minute after Cangelosi’s goal, Bowen responded with his second of the night, the final scoring tally of the evening. It wasn’t a pretty one—Bowen squeezed it past Woll’s right, causing the goalie to throw his head back in exasperation. And, in turn, it sucked the air out of a then-jubilant crowd at Kelley Rink.

The overall takeaway from the 2016-17 season, as York emphasized in the press conference, may be positive. The fact that this freshman- and sophomore-laden crew has enough talent to compete with the rest of the conference when no one else thought it could is a fantastic sign for BC moving forward. But despite the good feels of Senior Night moments like Cangelosi’s, Bowen’s goal reminded the Eagles—and their fans—of what they don’t have.

They don’t have a shutdown defense that can protect Woll—or worse, can mask his mistakes.

They don’t have enough offensive mojo behind the Fitzgerald-Cangelosi-Gaudreau line to create consistent offense during the team’s dry spells.

They don’t have momentum after an 0-3-2 stretch has dropped them from a playoff lock to verging on the end of their season in early March.

And they don’t have enough time to make it up.

MHOK Fri, from B1 “If you would tell me in July that we would be battling for first place in Hockey East, I don’t think that would have gotten by too many people, because we were picked sixth or seventh in the league,” York said. “We always want to be a mistake free-team, but mistakes happen in hockey.”

The game turned early in the second period, even if the ultimate effects weren’t felt until later. Connor Moore blocked a shot and immediately fell to the ice. It’s impressive that he even got off the ice because he couldn’t put any weight on his leg as he hopped down the tunnel to the locker room.

Consequently, BC had to play just five defensemen, and it showed. Fortunately for the Eagles, Moore’s injury wasn’t too serious.

“He took a bruise on a shot from the point,” York said. “[The trainer] said hopefully he’ll get back tomorrow.”

Brian Bowen’s breakaway brought the Catamounts within one with 11 minutes left, the result of an egregious

turnover in the neutral zone by Casey Fitzgerald. Senior blue liner Scott Savage couldn’t catch up with the 224pound Bowen as he lumbered toward goaltender Joseph Woll before putting a backhander top shelf.

“An unforced error in the neutral zone,” York said of the sequence leading to Vermont’s second goal. “We had full puck possession. Offensive line turnovers, that’s a number one priority in hockey is to stay away from those. We gave them one and they went right down and scored a goal.”

York didn’t want Moore’s injury to be an excuse for blowing the lead, but it was definitely a reason. About eight minutes after Bowen’s breakaway, Savage and his partner, Luke McInnis, were hemmed in their own zone for almost a minute on the game-tying goal. No one was near Catamounts defenseman Rob Hamilton as he lined up a half-open net for his second goal of the night.

Until Vermont completed its comeback, the story of the game was Senior Day at Conte Forum, which came a day early. Fourth-year

forwards Austin Cangelosi, Ryan Fitzgerald and Matthew Gaudreau pressured Vermont all evening and immediately distanced the Eagles from the Catamounts with two early goals.

The trio’s first goal came at the start of a long period for Vermont’s senior defense pairing of Jake Massie and Ori Abramson. Early in the scoring shift, Fitzgerald got behind the backline for a clean look at Lekkas, but couldn’t convert. Soon after, BC’s first line returned to the Catamounts’ zone and Fitzgerald outmuscled their blue liners to bang in the opener. The goal stood after a long review for goaltender interference, and Massie and Abramson were on the ice for BC’s next two tallies, as well.

The Catamounts did complete that comeback, though, and Vermont head coach Kevin Sneddon had a different perspective on the game than York, despite experiencing the exact same result.

“In terms of good tie or bad tie, I would say for us, that was a good point to earn,” Sneddon said.

LIZZY BARRETT / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Julius Mattila (26) looks down at the ice as Liam Coughlin (13) celebrates a Catamount goal on Friday.

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But it also came in fresh off embarrassment.

After blowing a three-goal lead to the Catamounts the night before, ultimately settling for a tie, BC had something to prove. Judging by the Eagles’ opening goal, it appeared that they would succeed in doing so.

Yet, once again, Vermont found a way to equalize—this time coming back from a couple of one-goal deficits—and the two sides tied for the second straight night.

Three Up 1) Fast Start For the second consecutive game, the Eagles stormed out of the gate, scoring within the first three minutes.

Students were still piling into Conte Forum when Graham McPhee found Julius Mattila for a one-time, wrist-

shot goal. As soon as the freshman center received the puck, he flung it past goaltender Stefanos Lekkas, locating the the back-left corner of the net.

While BC may have lit the lamp 32 seconds later than it did on Friday, Mattila’s goal set the tone in the first period—one that consisted of seven shots, eight blocks, and stellar play from Joseph Woll.

But, just like the first game of the weekend series, starting out fast didn’t mean anything in the end. Only this time, the Eagles conceded a pair of one-goal leads—a step up from the three-goal advantage it gave up to the Catamounts (17-10-5, 9-7-4) on Friday.

2) Physicality Six penalties were called on Saturday night—and there could have been plenty more. Vermont head coach Kevin Sneddon summed up Kelley Rink’s atmosphere in just a few words.

“It sure felt like playoffs,” he said.

Although both sides struggled

from time to time on offense, this game was entertaining as any.

Close to the 13-minute mark in the third period, Ori Abramson slammed star forward Colin White into the bench-side boards. Fellow linesman, J.D. Dudek spotted White falling to the ice and avenged Abramson’s hit with a decking of his own. Dudek laid out Brady Shaw, drawing a kneeing penalty in the process.

The physicality continued up until the final horn—something that is sure to happen come postseason.

3) Austin Cangelosi Austin Cangelosi was all over the ice on Saturday night. The 5-foot-8 speedy senior was on the receiving end of several scoring chances. On two separate occasions in the second period, Cangelosi darted down the left side of the ice, creating space in the Vermont zone. Both times, he was set up off of Lekkas’ left flank, but could not cash in.

That didn’t stop BC’s leading-goal scorer from finding his way into the box score, especially on Senior Night.

Thanks to a Ross Colton interference call to begin the third period, BC got its second power play of the game.

Matthew Gaudreau located White, and the sophomore whipped up a shot. Lekkas made the save, but White corralled the rebound and gave it another go. This time, Cangelosi was there to tip it in.

Three Down 1) Penalties Collectively, the Eagles accounted for 10 penalties in their two games against the Catamounts this weekend. Even though BC killed every Vermont power play, the damage was done—over the span of Friday and Saturday, the Eagles were forced to play shorthanded for a total of 20 minutes.

An entire period.

Luckily for York’s crew, the Catamounts were not on their game.

“Our power play just had trouble with the breakout,” Sneddon said.

“We certainly worked on it this week, but I didn’t think we executed very well.”

Regardless, while a handful of

BC’s finest were sitting in the box, the Catamounts were applying pressure on the defense and Woll. It may not show in the box score, but every possession takes a toll on a team that is one man down.

The same is true for the Eagles, which could potentially explain their recent lackluster, late-game defense.

2) Playing With the Lead For the first few minutes of the game, BC kept the puck on Vermont ice. But as soon as Matilla scored, the offensive pressure seemed to ease up a bit. Eventually, the Catamounts began to capitalize, capturing a large majority of faceoffs and outshooting the Eagles. Before long, a Brian Bowen wraparound goal knotted it all up at one.

It was even worse following Cangelosi’s goal. The scoring play gave the Eagles a one-goal lead—one that would exist for all of 100 seconds.

Soon after Cangelosi was officially credited with the goal, Colton ripped a shot at Woll. The freshman batted the puck away, but Bowen was there for the rebound score. Prior ju-

bilation was greeted with a silencing replay of Bowen’s second goal.

3) Missed Chances Vermont held the Eagles to two goals on Saturday, in part because of physicality, but largely due to the fact that BC could not finish scoring opportunities.

Early in the first period, White and Dudek had numbers in transition. White found his fellow sophomore near the left zone, but the wide-open Dudek failed to handle the puck and consequently whiffed his shot attempt.

With time winding down in the third, Gaudreau intercepted a Catamount pass, setting himself up for an open shot in front of Lekkas.

Gaudreau launched one, but the Vermont netminder came through in the clutch, recording the save.

Lastly was Mattila’s act of desperation. Seconds remained in overtime when the Finland native eyed up the game-winning goal.

But his attempt to go shortside high failed, and the Eagles were left with the draw.

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The overarching themes of Friday night’s game were often overshadowed by the result, which was that BC blew a 3-0 lead (3-1 in the third period, notably) to the also recently struggling Catamounts. The overall tenor of the game was fast, physical, and chippy, and there were flashes of brilliance marred by mental errors that ended up costing the Eagles a win.

That said, here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly of last night’s bout with the No. 16 Catamounts.

The Good Pressure on the Forecheck: The immediacy of the pressure on the

forecheck was key to the Eagles’ early lead. It is no easy feat to score three goals in just over 10 minutes of hockey, especially in the first 10 minutes of the first period when everyone is fresh. This highlights the ability of BC’s forwards to bury the puck, but it also exemplifies the importance of pressure on the forecheck for a comparably undersized team like the Eagles. This pressure had UVM reeling in its defensive and neutral zones, giving up turnovers that would eventually lead to goal-scoring rushes.

The pressure remained when men were taken to the penalty box for various offenses as well. UVM had six power plays on the night, unable to convert on any of them. Speedy forwards like sophomore Colin White and senior Austin Cangelosi gave the Catamounts fits in their own zone, meaning that even if they could set up a rush, it was haphazard and easily defendable.

Blue Line Passing: Like their female counterparts Makenna Newkirk and Megan Keller, the Eagles’ passing on the blue line was firm and deliber-

ate. Whether even strength, down a man, on the power play, or 4-on-4, BC’s passing at the point created shooting lanes by spinning pressuring UVM forwards out of their skates.

This also wears down defending players, meaning that UVM’s subsequent rushes resulted in a dump to get a change as opposed to a bull-rush on net. The Eagles’ defensemen poured in clappers from the point all night, one of which found its way to the twine via the tip of freshman forward David Cotton.

On Fitzgerald’s eventual goal, Kim unleashed a howitzer off a drop-pass that, quite literally, blew UVM netminder Stefanos Lekkas backward when it hit his chest protector. Good passing and continued blue line offensive production will be critical to getting the Eagles back on their feet in the rush for the playoffs.

Joe Woll, Sometimes: The freshman goaltender showed flashes of brilliance on tough, situational saves.

Woll was able to make some razorclose saves on account of his flexibility and pipe-to-pipe skating ability,

including on a wraparound attempt from Derek Lodermeier.

He sees the puck, plants his skate, and stretches out to seal the whole crease with his pads. Woll’s ability to recognize the play and use every inch of his 6-foot-3 frame to mitigate the opportunity is what the Eagles need from him, but his occasional brilliance is often paired with skating errors that can leave the net completely unguarded.

Two of the goals really were not Woll’s fault. On the first, his forwards left Hamilton all alone in the slot with the rebound after Woll made a lunging pad save on an odd-man rush. The other was a breakaway.

Both times the Eagles hung him out to dry, something that you cannot blame a goaltender for.

The Bad Pressure Breakdowns and Physicality: Unfortunately for the Eagles, breakdowns in the defensive zone allowed UVM to claw its way back.

Its second goal, a breakaway backhander by sophomore forward Brian Bowen, was the result of a turnover

in the neutral zone by Casey Fitzgerald. Because the other players were pressuring, there was nothing but Woll between Bowen and a goal, an opportunity he would convert into his ninth goal of the year.

Especially with the loss of Connor Moore early in the second period, leaving the Eagles with five defensemen, the early pressure began to show later in the game. Whereas in the first period BC seemed to get to every loose puck and win every physical battle, the Catamounts rebounded to do the same in the third period.

The Eagles have shown that they are willing to be a physical team despite their usual size disadvantage.

As the team did against BU in its first Beanpot game, BC came out swinging, throwing heavy hits at every opportunity. This worked well in conjunction with the forecheck pressure, but would eventually cost them goals both directly and indirectly.

The Ugly Discipline, Discipline, Discipline: There are three main areas in which

the Eagles need to become more disciplined: getting shots on net, penalties, and post-whistle. Although there have been worse games, the Eagles need to understand that six penalties is not acceptable. Even after Hockey East officials called the team to apologize for the poor officiating, this is no excuse to take foolish penalties that can negatively affect the result of the game.

The Eagles racked up 58 shot attempts, yet only walked away with 33 shots on goal. BC missed the mark 14 times (15, if you include one off the iron), which is simply too many.

Blocked shots happen, but you can’t score if your shots aren’t on target.

The Eagles have been chippy and aggressive lately after the whistle has blown. Although it’s necessary to protect your goaltender and stand up for your team, the unnecessary shoving after the whistle is buying the Eagles no favors with Hockey East’s infamous officiating crews.

All of these areas are simply matters of discipline, which can easily be improved upon going forward.

THE HEIGHTS

B4

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2017

LACROSSE

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The Boston College 12 No. 17 Virginia Tech 18 Eagles were looking to get their first ACC win of the season against Virginia Tech, who they had defeated in their previous seven-straight games. A strong start to the second half, however, powered the Hokies over the Eagles, 18-12.

The Eagles (3-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) became the first team on the board when Kaileen Hart scored less than five minutes into the opening period. The goal was the sixth of the young season for Hart, who had totaled six goals in her first two collegiate seasons.

The Eagles would have little time to enjoy this lead, as Taylor Caskey managed to even the score less than 30 seconds later, putting one past BC goaltender Zoe Ochoa.

The Hokies (3-1, 1-0) claimed the lead less than a minute later when Kristine Loscalzo capitalized on a free-position shot. BC was given a similar opportunity a little over a minute later, but VT goaltender Meagh Graham made the save. Minutes later, the Eagles tied the game with a goal from Kate Weeks. She scored again three minutes later to give the Eagles the lead. Once again, the lead was short-lived, as Tristan McGinley tied it up exactly one minute later.

The score remained tied until Weeks added another, her third goal in eight minutes, to give BC

the lead again. This game was an important offensive outing for Weeks, who finished last season with 45 points in 19 games and started this year with 14 points in two games, but has struggled in the previous two games, managing only one goal. Shortly after, the Eagles were given another free position shot, but Graham managed to turn away Sam Apuzzo’s attempt. But the Eagles still managed to take advantage of the penalties, as Apuzzo scored only 15 seconds later with BC still up one player.

Emma Harden scored shortly after to cut the Eagles lead, but Apuzzo added another goal only a minute later to expand the lead again. Twenty-nine seconds later, the Eagles finally scored on a free-position shot as Laura Frankenfield made it a three-goal lead.

The Eagles would prove unable to maintain this lead going into the half. With less than three minutes to go, Harden scored her second of the game. She then scored off a free-position shot with a little over a minute left in the half to complete her hat trick, and cut the Eagles’ lead to just one after the first half.

The second half would not be as close as the first. The Hokies struck fast and early, with the first goal coming from McGinley a little over one minute into the half.

Only 12 seconds later, Loscalzo scored her second of the day to give the Hokies the lead again.

The Hokies would not lose that lead for the rest of the game. They added another two goals in the next three minutes to give them a 10-7 lead over the Eagles.

A free-position goal from

Dempsey Arsenault brought the Eagles closer, but McGinley scored her third of the game a minute later to bring the Hokies’ lead back to three. Zan Biedenharn scored 30 seconds later on a free-position shot to further expand BC’s deficit to four. The Eagles, however, were not ready to give up. In a span of less than two minutes, Weeks added her fourth goal of the game, and Hart scored two more to complete her hat trick and bring BC back to within one.

Apparently, a comeback was not in the works—McGinley and Loscalzo each notched their fourth goals of the game for VT shortly after, bringing the score to 14-11. Kayla O’Connor added another goal for the Eagles, but the Hokies added four more goals in the final seven minutes to seal

the loss for BC. It was a rough outing defensively for the Eagles, who gave up 18 goals for the second time this season. Shots were close through the first half, with the Hokies taking a slight 16-14 advantage In the second half, however, the Eagles couldn’t keep up, allowing 25 shots while managing only 11 There were offensive bright spots such as Weeks, who tallied four goals and an assist, giving her 18 goals and two assists—the latter of which ties her career-high—so far this season. Hart also played an important offensive role by putting up three goals and an assist. The Eagles, however, also allowed two players—McGinley and Loscalzo—to each score four goals. They will need to work on limiting their opponents’ top players in future games.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

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The shorthanded goal didn’t faze the Eagles. Just two minutes following the Providence goal, Anastos passed the puck to Kenzie Kent, and while Myers still had her focus on Anastos, Kent twirled the puck around Myers and push it to the back of the net. Yet BC wasn’t satisfied with a tie.

Soon after, Belinskas skated around the net to get away from the Friars’ defense and found Caitrin Lonergan for the Eagles’ second goal.

Lonergan cashed in again when Myers

tripped and fell in front of the goal.

Belinskas dove to get the puck into position, and Lonergan was right there to light the lamp and give the Eagles a comfortable lead heading into the last period.

The four goals scored in the last 10 minutes of the second period were the only ones scored in the game. Kent was called only five minutes into the third period for holding, but none of the many shots Providence took found their way past Burt.

And the Eagles couldn’t connect on a power play of their own when Christina Putigna was called for cross checking. In a desperate attempt to catch up to BC, Providence pulled

Myers for the last three minutes of the game. When Belinskas was called for hooking, the Friars were left with a two-player advantage for the last minute of the game. Still, the Friars could not score.

In the last regular-season game of their careers, head coach Katie Crowley could only sing the praises of her graduating seniors.

“They all have brought so much to our program, and not just on the ice,” Crowley said. “I hope that these younger kids realize what those three seniors have been through, how hard they’ve had to work to get here, and what they’ve brought to our program.”

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The team had fared well in its second half, clinching the Beanpot after two hard-fought wins.

But the Eagles (22-5-5, 16-4-3 Hockey East) showed their defensive weaknesses Saturday, falling to Providence in a dismal 4-1 rout. The win proved to be substantial for the Friars (1614-3, 11-9-3), who defeated their nationally-ranked opponent on Senior Day in Rhode Island.

The Friars jetted off to a quick start against the Eagles, scoring the first goal against No. 6 in the country in just 54 seconds. Providence distracted BC in front of Katie Burt and moved the puck behind the goal to Kathleen McHugh. After evading Serena Sommerfield, McHugh passed it up to Christina Putigna, who wrapped around the other side of the crease and poked it past Burt on the right side.

Providence was BC’s kryptonite, refusing to give up any penalties and time in the box.

The Eagles, who boast a 27.21 percent success rate for power plays for No. 1 in the nation, did not find an opportunity to capitalize on until the second period. BC too played its hand

close to its chest, but still allowed another goal for the Friars with five minutes left in the first period.

As Kristyn Capizzano put pressure on Kate Friesen, she passed the puck up to Brooke Boquist between the boards and Capizzano. Boquist took no time to cross it over to a waiting McHugh, who was babysitting in front of the net. She launched a one-timer on Burt’s stick side, leaving a defeated Burt crouched on the ice.

The E agles were grante d a reprieve early in the second period, when Neve Van Pelt was sent to the penalty box for tripping. As the two minutes of the advantage drained, the Eagles struggled to get one back against the Friars. Delaney Belinskas got her due, providing an effortless goal with just 10 seconds left on the power play.

Belinskas weaved through several defensemen, flowing on the ice until she got into the Friars’ defensive zone. She moved farther out to the boards and curved in, winding up for her shot, which reverberated off the bottom of the goal.

BC held on to the one-goal deficit for several minutes, until the Friars struck again. Ariana Reid stripped the puck from a BC player, keeping it in the neutral zone. Carrie MacPherson picked it up where Reid left off, streaking back up toward Burt.

Meanwhile, Emily Landry made her way up to the goal, ramming herself into Kate Annese and

Burt. The collision left open an easy goal for MacPherson.

Since Burt appeared to be on the ground before the puck was in the net, the play was questioned

by BC coaches, but was not reviewed by the referees.

The Eagles received another power-play opportunity after Providence’s third goal, but failed to get anything out of it. Entering the third, the Eagles attempted to close the gap after Capizzano put one past Madison Myers, but the goal was called off by the referees for a high stick. In the middle of the third period, BC handed the Friars their own chance on a slashing call for Caitrin Lonergan, but they could not get past Burt. Just when the Eagles thought they would get out of the third unscathed, Providence gave it one last go to seal the victory at 4-1.

McHugh notched her third point of the game after a hasty shot to the right side of the goal.

The puck bounced off the pipe and landed into the goal, a stroke of luck that the Friars did not need. Though the Eagles have a 30-36-3 record against Providence, BC has proved dominant in its last few years. A win against the Friars would have continued its 16-game win streak against the team since 2012.

Just when it seemed the Eagles were on the up and up again, the Friars defeated them in a devastating effort. The verve that BC presented even last week against Northeastern during the Beanpot Final seems long gone.

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One day after surrendering four goals in a loss to Providence, the Eagles managed to split the series against the Friars with a victory thanks to goals from Caitrin Lonergan and Kenzie Kent on Senior Day. TENNIS

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Men’s Tennis Men’s tennis competed twice this weekend, earning a victor y over Boston University, but falling to the University of Louisville. On Sunday afternoon, the Eagles lost their second conference competition of the season when they fell 1-6 to Louisville. The Cardinals picked up the doubles point and five of

the singles matches, with Derek Austin earning the only victory for Boston College on the third singles court. One of the doubles matches went unfinished, with Louisville winning the other two.

Aidan McNulty, Hank Workman, Kent Mukai, Conor Mullins, and Alexander Chieffalo each lost their singles matches to guarantee a Louisville victory.

On Friday, the Eagles earned a 6-1 victory over crosstown rivals BU. BC earned the doubles point and won five of the six singles matches en route to the blowout victor y. The Eagles swept the doubles matches ,

highlighted by a dominant 6-0 victory on court three by Austin and Sean Mullins. On the singles side, McNulty, Workman, Mukai, Austin, and Sean Mullins each earned victories for the Eagles. The only match claimed

by BU in the entire competition was on the sixth singles court, where Mario Sandoval defeated Chieffalo.

Women’s Tennis Women’s tennis earned a victory over the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on Saturday afternoon, but fell to Brown University on Friday.

In BC’s match against Am-

herst, the Eagles swept the singles points, but dropped the doubles point, finishing with a 6-1 victory over the Minutewomen.

BC couldn’t earn a single doubles win against UMass. Asiya Dair and Jackie Urbinati kept it the closest, but the doubles pair of Brittany Collens and Laura Moreno emerged victorious with a 7-6 (7-3) victory over the Eagles. BC’s other doubles duos, Lexi Borr and Emily Saffron as well as Kylie Wilcox and Dasha Possokhova, managed to win a combined four games against their Minutewomen op-

ponents.

The singles matches were where the Eagles broke through.

On the first court, Dair cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 victory over her counterpart for her fourthstraight singles victory. Borr, Urbinati, and Elene Tsokilauri also enjoyed relatively easy victories in their singles matchups.

Possokhova’s match was closest—on the third court, she lost one set in a tiebreak, won one set in a tiebreak, then won the third set 6-3.

The Eagles weren’t quite as lucky against Brown on Friday.

Although they picked up the

doubles point against the Bears, they lost the overall competition, 2-4.

BC swept Brown in doubles, with all three matches going to the Eagles. Singles, however, was a different story. Dair earned a victory on the first court, but the Eagles dropped every other match. On court six, Urbinati’s match with her opponent, Taylor Cosme, went unfinished, although Urbinati led 7-5 at the match’s conclusion. Safron, Wilcox, Borr, and Possokhova each lost their matches, however, leading to the 4-2 loss for the Eagles.

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Bebe Rexha’s debut studio album, All Your Fault: Pt. 1, is short, semi-sweet, and to the point. In only six songs, the pop singersongwriter and record producer sings about every clichéd theme concerning love. But her musical misstep is somewhat redeemed by the album’s unique rhythms and sound.

Considering the way Rexha has with crafting hit singles, this should come as no surprise.

She has been dubbed the brains behind many top-40 favorites—she has written and/or produced music for artists such as Rihanna, David Guetta, Selena Gomez, and Tinashe.

Unsurprisingly, she takes that same approach when she writes for herself.

“Writing songs for my album is just like writing songs for other artists,” Rexha said in an interview with iHeartRadio. “I think when I did, whoever I might have written for, I always kind of write songs based on what I’m feeling like. I never think of the artist.”

The small number of tracks and title of the album indicate that Rexha is just getting started—All Your Fault, Pt. 2 is set to drop

in April 2017. Rexha decided to split the album into two parts because, wary of today’s streaming culture, she wanted to ensure that she was in control of when and how audiences are listening to her music. But, since the full album will be released this summer, Rexha may be using this as a marketing ploy to drag out the release and inherently force listeners to talk about her all spring.

Either way, the music must speak for itself—and it sends messages loud and clear. The first track, “Atmosphere,” is a tongue-twisting pop song that takes a stab at slight hip-hop.

Rexha discusses desperately trying to change the mind of an unrequited love singing, “There isn’t enough love in the atmosphere / To keep you here.” The song slows down by the chorus and, ultimately, struggles not to sound like her other tracks—on and off the album.

The album’s second track, “I Got You,” is one that listeners must have heard before as it was released on Oct. 28, 2016 as the lead single off this album. The song reinforces the idea that she’ll do anything for the person she loves while culminating in a slow building rhythm that explodes into a dance anthem.

The star of the album is the third song,

“Small Doses.” Opening with a Celtic rhythm, the sound is scenic and ethereal, fitting for her silky and emotional voice. The song is a slow-burner that relishes in setting a tone for the lyrics which explore the deadly depths of a toxic relationship and grappling with the difficulty of finding yourself when you’re lost in someone else.

Rexha collaborates with rapper G-Eazy on “F.F.F.,” which stands for “F—k Fake Friends.” The track discusses one of the unfortunate byproducts of fame: befriending people who use you and exploit your friendship. Both artists make sure to show that they appreciate their success and are not ungrateful for their fame, but want to stick a middle finger to those that try to rain on their parade.

The album’s fifth song, “Gateway Drug,” is mildly rhythmed and delves in the idea of love as a drug. This tired trope is one that can’t be ignored and is off-putting considering the amount of play it has gotten (see Kesha’s “Your Love is My Drug,” Kelly Clarkson’s “Addicted,” etc. upon etc. upon etc. till the beginning of time).

The album’s final song, “Bad Bitch ft. Ty

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Rexha knows a thing or two about securing a spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart—for herself as well as other artists. Her solo singles and her collaboration with Zedd both proved that she has the potential to become a household name. But she seems to be stuck, struggling to reach the greatness she seeks.

Hopefully the second part of this album will be the better half.

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Logan is the superhero movie that other superhero movies aspire to be.

Movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (i.e. The Avengers) are all polished into similarity, and movies in the DC Cinematic Universe (i.e. Batman v. Superman) are so “gritty” that they leave a bad taste in viewers’ mouths. Logan has action, heart, emotion, characters the audience can identify with, and a well-developed story while still remaining true to the main role. Logan is Hugh Jackman’s, along with Patrick Stewart’s, magnum opus as their X-Men characters.

When Logan begins, the year is 2029 and mutants have almost ceased to exist. The genes of normal people have stopped mutating—a new mutant hasn’t been born in 20 years. Logan (Jackman) a.k.a. Wolverine is grinding his way through life, living in Mexico.

He works as a glorified Uber driver, saving money to buy a boat. He wants this boat so that he and Charles Xavier (Stewart) a.k.a. Professor X can live out the rest of their days at sea, away from other people.

Logan is an alcoholic, cannot heal as fast as he used to, and has grown increasingly sick. In addition to be-

ing wheelchair bound, Charles has a degenerative brain disease which gives him seizures. His telepathy makes these seizures very dangerous for the people around him, freezing them in space and stopping their breathing. Their X-Men glory days are far behind them.

Logan is approached by a woman named Gabriela (Elizabeth Rodriguez) who offers him $50,000 to drive her and a young girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) to North Dakota. He refuses to help in traditional Wolverine fashion. He is then found by Pierce (Boyd Holbrook), an agent from a shadowy government organization. Pierce is looking for Laura, claiming that she belongs to the company for which he works. After Pierce leaves, Logan decides that, because he needs the money, he will drive Gabriela and Laura.

When he arrives to retrieve them, he finds Gabriela dead. Logan soon learns that Laura is not an ordinary girl—in fact, she is also a mutant, but one created by scientists instead of a mutation.

She has an adamantium skeleton, two retractable claws in her hands, and one longer claw that extends from each foot.

She also heals as fast as Logan once did. Agents from Pierce’s organization descend on the hideout where Logan has been keeping Charles. Logan and Laura, who hid in his car, proceed to

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tear into these men. Logan, Laura, and Charles escape and set out to get her to Eden, a safe place for mutant children like Laura, in North Dakota.

The quality of this action scene, along with every other action scene in Logan, is very high. They are drawnout, yet the intensity never wavers. The audience’s hearts continue to pound, as everyone sits on the edge of their seats as the characters literally fight for their lives on screen. The movie’s R-rating allows for the level of violence that a character like Wolverine deserves. In this way, the movie is very similar to Deadpool. While certainly lacking the humor and fourth-wall breaks of the Ryan Reynolds flick, there is no need to pull punches with violence and language.

Logan, however, is not all gore and swearing. There are a multitude of scenes throughout the movie that hit with a large amount of emotional impact, usually not seen in superhero or action films. The relationship between Charles and Logan is nothing like in previous X-Men movies. They both know that they are approaching the end, and that their lives aren’t going to get better. They bicker like an old married couple, and while their banter does bring humor to this somber movie, it doesn’t feel forced. Keen does a phenomenal job as Laura, displaying very good acting chops for such a young girl. She doesn’t speak for the first hour of Logan, yet the audience is never left wondering how she is feeling. Her facial expressions and body positions are on par with a seasoned actor. When she finally talks, she speaks in rapid Spanish, and also decent English. Her talent leaves the audience hoping for more.

At this point, it’s almost impossible to tell where in time and space Logan fits in with the other 20th Century Fox X-Men movies in light of all of the reboots, time travel, and non-canon films. But it really doesn’t matter. This movie is great on its own right. Logan might be the best superhero movie of the decade because it tells a story that matters outside of superpowers. The events are relatively small-scale, there isn’t an enormous cast, and the movie doesn’t care about setting up for a sequel or a franchise. It tells the story it sets out to tell, and it does so extremely well. At this point, it seems that superhero movies are definitely a mixed bag, but regardless of potential fatigue for the genre, give Logan a chance.

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For the uninitiated, Terrible Human Beings would seem an apt title to describe the shady contents of The Orwells’ latest album. Those familiar with the Chicagobased rock band will find themselves right at home from the first verse to the last, as the band harkens a cheeky and staunchly unapologetic album. Terrible Human Beings is fast, reeling, and fun.

“They Put a Body in the Bayou” opens the album with heady guitar and tasteful distortions that add to its strange lyrics.

The song details a melange of topics, including sex, politics, and drugs. Containing lines like, “Told me to act your age / That’s why she’s underage,” this song, like many others on the album, is meant to turn heads and do so with dastardly images and concepts. Its bridge leads into a compelling hook that has staying power in the minds of listeners.

From this opener, The Orwells put in place conceptual themes and ideas that will be carried throughout the 13-track album.

They put a body—and anything else they could find—in it.

“Heavy Head” grooves along smoothly until it breaks into the bridge, at which point the guitar switches to a screeching, repetitive rip. The waning guitar suggests panic and deliriousness as the song transitions into is chorus.

Lyrically, this song can be interpreted in different ways. The Orwells speak of a kidnapping, but the nature of the act and who it affects, is unclear. If one takes the line “Duct-taped in a big white van” to work in conjunction with images of wolves and dogs, this song could speak allegorically to the woes of a captured animal. If taken literally, one might think that the song is simply documenting a kidnapped person.

In both cases, the song adopts a strange and frantic tone.

The song “Black Francis” pays tribute to Pixies frontman Black Francis. The Orwells have cited the Pixies as a major influence, and this song full of hearty chords and fun, simple strumming emulates the stylings of the band. The influence can be felt throughout the album as the band adopts simple

riffs and melodies. On the influence of the Pixies, guitarist Matt O’Keefe spoke to how they attempted to mimic them.

“I think that’s where a lot of trying to make the songs and the guitar parts very simple was coming from, because the Pixies are kings of that,” he said.

Though the rustic and aged sound of the band is compelling, one of the most gripping components of the album remains its lyrical content.

With a churning baseline, “Fry” captures an idyllic garage-band sound. Remaining upbeat and fast, this song is a short and sweet jam that again slips in odd images of “something in the water” and “fascination with mass slaughter” between guitar reverberations. “Vacation” uses a punchy bass drum and guitar to slide into ideas about killing civilians, masturbation, and vacationing all contained in a jaunty riff.

“Creatures” whips together airy ideas about spinning, grinning, and looking for a soul.

“Buddy” conjures up notions of sexual exploits and adventure.

Many of these songs sound contrary to their lyrical content. Upon a hearty listen,

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one might be surprised to find what lies just beneath the surface. The Orwells seem to do so not to seem crude and abrasive, but truly to say something about the world as it exists. Many of these hedonistic or graphic images are ones, in today’s age, listeners are like to be familiar with.

Terrible Human Beings will challenge some listeners and bring others into a fold

of daring thoughts about everyday things.

Resembling rockers of the past, The Orwells sound like they have aged beyond their years, while spicing up their content with in-your-face, brash lyrics. While there does not appear to be a rock revolution laced between its tracks, the band has cut for itself a considerable piece of the market for sound and thought with this album.

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Ê<lip[`Z\Ë Dlj\j N`k_ D\dfip Eurydice, from B8 look back and see her following him up.

Eur ydice willfully calls Orpheus’ name as she steps behind him, causing him to turn around.

Both deliver emotional addresses to each other before turning away from each other and par ting , w ith Eur ydice walking back to her father and Orpheus journeying back to life alone.

While Eurydice surrendered life with Orpheus for time with her father, little did she know his sadness in losing her yet again drove him to wipe his memory completely.

Eur ydice se es no other solution but to do the same,

especially since the exquisitely devious lord of the underworld (Alex O’Connor, MCAS ’20) would have forced her to wed him otherwise.

The tragedy concludes with a later-perished Orpheus observing a sleeping Eurydice, unaware of who she is.

Each intricacy of Eurydice, from its powerful performances to its subtly suggestive light, costume, and sound design, c ulminate d in a splendidly eccentric yet poignant piece of art.

Strauss emboldened Eurydice with the intelligence, strength, and contra sting tenderness absent from the original myth, h u m a n i z i n g t h e c h a r a c t e r, O’Connor animated his roles with a fervor that nearly danced

in his eyes.

Ever y actor presente d c ap abilitie s suite d to their characters, shaping a dynamic ensemble.

Details saturated the entire play with honesty, with a wedding dress crafted from book pages to capture Eurydice’s love of reading and the echoey crackling of the underworld.

In her director’s note, Fucci declared, “Eurydice is a bold show.”

It i s t h i s b o l d n e s s t h a t motivated each aspect of the production and undoubtedly captured each member of the audience each night.

Given its content, Eurydice brings an impressive and considerable amount of power to the phrase “bold as love.”

Th e a u d i e n c e w a i t e d i n rapt attention as emcee Edgar Gonzalez walked onto the Robsham Theater stage. The evening’s event, Naciones Unidas: C o n Am o r To d o S e P u e d e , ser ved to display the wealth of culture from the entirety of Latin America. Gonzalez began, “Con amor todo se puede—with love, ever ything is possible.”

This message of acceptance and unity would ring true for the remainder of the showcase.

His words set the tone of the annual culture show presented

by Boston College’s Organization of L atin American Affairs (OLAA). The show made for an evening of celebration, but also of political positioning. In clear reference to the current p olitic al climate, G onz alez stated that the United States needs immigrants the same way any Latin American dish needs adobo, a spice always present in the region’s cuisine. OLAA presented a deep reflection of what it is to be an immigrant, and more importantly, what it means to the U.S. to be a nation of immigrants. The culture show was a clear call to stand against hate with the message of love, which is characteristic of the Latin American region.

The evening opened with a performance by “Picante,” an ensemble of 11 salsa performers.

Picante’s cheerful renditions of songs about heartbreak resonated with an excited audience. The group performed five songs, including a sterling rendition of “Oye Como Va.” In Picante’s

fourth number, dancers from the OLAA cumbia band, VIP, and Fuego del Corazón arrived on stage along with some of the more spontaneous audience members, cheered by a highly energetic crowd. The steps of BC’s Latino community, following Picante’s spirited tunes, set the bar high for the rest of the evening.

Next , the OL AA e-board read “Translation for Mamá,” a poem by Cuban immigrant Richard Blanco. The poem, which alternates between Spanish and English, is a letter from the author to his mother in Cuba.

It was delivered by the OLAA e-board with a dose of nostalgia for a homeland which supported their message of belonging to two distinct, but unified identities.

The y were followe d by the Dominican Association of BC, which performed the traditional Palo dance in customar y Dominican clothing.

After a brief intermission, BC Latin dance team Fuego del Corazón executed an impeccable number including complex steps which they performed skillfully.

The performance was a medley of salsa, reggaetón, and bachata, and featured both sensual and acrobatic moves which were re ceive d by an enthusia stic audience.

Later, poet Rusty Cosino read a moving piece that reflected on race, dignity, and humanity. He was followed by Sarah Clavijo who took the stage with her acoustic guitar. Her first performance was an emotional rendition of “Ódiame” by Ecuadorian singersongwriter Julio Jaramillo. Next, she performed “Ojos azules,” a traditional huayno song, and “Mi

Perú,” both from her mother’s homeland of Peru. Introducing her songs both in Spanish and English, Clavijo’s beautiful voice and soothing guitar delivered a te ar- j erk ing p er for mance that summed up the evening’s message: a feeling of Latino pride, but also of yearning toward the Latin American homeland.

Afterward, OLAA members, dressed in traditional Colombian clothing returned with a cumbia dance. The cheerful number was closed with a display of flags from the different countries of Latin America, emphasizing the message of a continent of united nations.

The concluding acts were led

by Vida de Intensa Pasión (VIP), a BC Latin dance team. The VIP guest performance was a short merengue of BC students trained

by VIP members.

The second dance was performed exclusively by VIP members, comprised of a medley of pop, reggaetón, salsa, and b achat a . V I P ’s p er for mance marked the peak of the evening with sensuous wardrobe and a breath-taking , energetic choreography, that was met with loud and resounding cheers from the audience.

OLAA’s show captured many of the different elements of what it means to be a Latino in today’s America.

While the culture show was a joyful celebration of L atin American culture, it remained nevertheless an emphatic message about the identity, values, and strength of Latinos.

In times of growing hatred, OL AA conveys a meaningful message of love.

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Dance, poetry, and song brought a slew of cultural contributions to one stage from all corners of the Latin world.

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9P :8C<9 >I@<>F 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi Rife with false endings, Beethoven’s Fifth continued on and on. Crescendos did not remain full and the finale was laced with an uncertain air. Once it had ended, in a style described as a dragon trying to escape a box, conductor John Finney’s hands fell to his sides. As Finney closed the music manuscript, the certainty of the end was understood by the audience, which loosed a hearty applause on the symphony.

Boston College’s Symphony Orchestra championed two pieces at their annual Winter Concert. The first, Camille Saint-Saens’ “Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33, “saw Monica Grady, MCAS ’17, take the spotlight as the co-

winner of the BC Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

The second, Beethoven’s infamous “Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, “was characterized by the glorious ascension from each of the four movements. The overall sentiment created left listeners in awe of these pieces canonized in time and in the souls of those with a penchant for classical staples.

For those unfamiliar with the many intricacies of these classical pieces, each performance was fronted by a brief taste and analysis of the music to come.

With regard to Concerto No. 1, Finney commented on the nature and repetition of the falling triplets.

This motif is repeated throughout for most of the instruments. The falling triplets were analogous to the

continuous, uninterrupted nature of the three movements within the piece itself. These triplets followed by a lick upwards brought to life ideas of strife within the piece. Additionally, Finney pointed out the use of mutes on several of the instruments used to veil the sound, allowing for other instruments, namely the centerpiece cello, to take the spotlight.

Grady’s fingers danced about her cello in a compelling and powerful showcase. Her agile digits visibly brought the shimmering nature of the other strings’ notes to life. She conveyed these feelings through her poise during the soft sections, in which she adopted a tender and warm demeanor about the instrument. Such developments were seen in part as an obvious call and answer between her cello and the

rest of orchestra.

As a prelude to Beethoven’s Fifth, Jeremiah McGrann, associate professor of the practice in the music department, described the overarching motifs within the famous Fifth. He first described the different outlooks on the piece. In the United States, those familiar with the piece generally recall the renown fournote progression that opens the symphony: GGGEb … FFFD. In France, however, the most recalled progression remains in the latter half. Part of the Fifth’s progression resembles the national anthem, La Marseillaise. This symphony adopts markedly different sentiments based on its context.

The historical context of the Fifth was manifest in its performance by the orchestra. Exploring sentiments

pertaining to mankind, this rendition highlighted on the struggle and perseverance of mankind.

In the first movement, the initial struggle and negativity of life took the form of a finite set of upward progression. This struggle was brought to a slightly timid progression upward in the second movement, but ultimately left whimpering as negativity squelched any meaningful ascension. The trumpets and winds try to break through but are left tethered to the strings drear and melancholy.

The third finds a ceiling met again as the strings pull the progression down. This time, in a quick progression to the fourth movement, a triumphant orchestra breaks through, culminating in its famous, jarring ending. As the ending

is met, symbolically, notions of an uncontainable positivity and lust for life are created.

As a conductor, Finney used reserved movements throughout, but this restraint brought emphasis to his more eccentric movements as the orchestra swelled and grew in sound.

This kind of command brought a visual complement to the already engrossing performance.

The orchestra performance brought history into Gasson Hall through thoughtful words and a sea of notes. Throughout all the movements, the room was transported to different places and times in a way that only classical music can. The combined talents of all these musicians attest to the fervor imbued by the medium and the timelessness of the notes of ancient composers.

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Robsham Theater reverberated with the good-natured whoops and yells from the audience, comprised almost entirely of students. It was abundantly clear that most of the audience were the friends and peers of those who were about to appear on stage. Two young men with microphones walked out, immediately met with applause. Some of the crowd even shouted their names, eliciting smiles and chuckles from the two on stage. The two introduced themselves and laid out the goals for “This Legacy of Ours,” the performance put on by the Korean Student Association and the Chinese Student Association. The objective would be to learn about traditional and modern Korean and Chinese culture, and, of course, to have fun.

The showcase would follow a family of four composed of a Chinese father, a Korean mother, and two teenage children, all played by members of the two associations.

This family would be attending the festival alongside the audience, watching the show from within the show itself.

As the two left the stage, the sound of banging drums and clashing cymbals washed across the theatre, beginning with the traditional Chinese Lion Dance. Joining the drummers and cymbalists on stage was the Dai To Fut, a man wearing a mask of the same name and translates to Big Laughing Buddha Head.

The masked man leapt across the stage, his movements a mixture of dance and traditional martial arts. This performer showed surprising dexterity and flexibility, kicking his leg high into the air as this performance began. While the Dai To Fut was moving around the stage, two Chinese lions manned by two performers each, appearing very similar to a shortened Chinese dragon, prowled around the drummers and cymbalists. One of the lions was “fed” a head of lettuce but apparently did not much like the taste, as the “feeder” was showered with a regurgitation of shredded lettuce, to the roaring applause of the crowd.

What was most impressive about the Lion Dance was when one of them “reared up.” The person playing the head of the lion climbed onto the shoulders of the person playing the body, allowing the lion to rise far above the crowd. After this scene ended, one of the introducers explained the meaning of the lettuce. The Chinese word for lettuce, at least in one dialect, is almost identical to the word for prosperity.

The lettuce was used to bring prosperity to the audience and the rest of the evening.

The family then appeared on stage, acting out a small scene in which the children were clearly more involved with their technology than the culture of their parents present at the festival. This skit was followed by a Samulnori. Samulnori is a kind of traditional Korean music performed with the janggu, kkwaenggwari,

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jing, and buk, all types of percussion instruments. A Korean Fan Dance, or buchaechum, followed the percussion. The Fan Dance was performed by dozens of young women in flowingpink dresses holding colorful pink and green fans coordinated to show stunning patterns and displays. Other highlights of the first act included a kung fu performance, which displayed the martial arts talents of selected performers through a series of choreographed fights. Another of note was the Chinese Ribbon Dance, comprised of a male and female version, each mesmerizing the crowd with their colorful and waving ribbons. The female ribbon dance was more traditional, but beautiful nonetheless. The women formed a line with their ribbons above their head, creating a tunnel of waving color.

The male ribbon dance was a more modern take on the art, with the performers waving glowing white ribbons in time with the beats of a more up-tempo modern song.

After a brief intermission, the high energy of those on stage and in the seats of Robsham brought the second half of the show to life, just as it had the first. A well-choreographed number by dance group Aero-K started the latter half of the showcase. Other scenes during this part of the show included the Dragon Lantern, a Chinese yo-yo display, as well as singing and dancing from Kpop and Cpop (Korean and Chinese pop music).

The Chinese yo-yo performance was especially mesmerizing. On a darkened stage, three performance spun their neon yo-yos faster and faster on the string between their two sticks, a device also known as a diabolo. After a brief display of the spinning neon lights, the lights were brought up and more performers entered with pastel-colored yo-yos for the second part of the performance. It was incredible to see the heights to which these yo-yoers could send their diabolos soaring. At one point, the performers paired up and began to juggle the yo-yos back and forth. The coordination required to catch these flying objects on thin strings while remaining in rhythm was apparent to those sitting in the audience.

Wrapping up the performances in the show was a display of modern acts. These were mainly comprised of dances to popular songs of today in English as well as Korean and Chinese. One of the more rousing parts of the modern acts was a rock performance by four young men. The rock song was in Chinese, but this didn’t stop the audience from getting involved. When one of the singers motioned, the crowd began clapping their hands and swaying back and forth without hesitation. Robsham shook with guitar chords, soaring voices, and reverberating claps. The ensemble performances were particularly astounding as there were a multitude of people on stage, spinning and moving in perfect organization.

Bringing the narrative of the show to a close, the family of four appeared once more on stage. By this time, the children had realized a new appreciation for the traditional culture of their parents, while the parents now understood that there was value in the more modern displays that their children enjoyed.

The family, as well as the audience, could now see the vast wealth that makes up these two cultures. The showcase left the audience with an incredible experience as well as a valuable lesson. While we should appreciate the past that our parents and ancestors have brought to us, there is always room for a more modern take on the culture.

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Those dwelling in the realm of Greek mythology, possessive of the power to navigate life and death, are especially indivisible.

Eurydice explores the story of a couple exemplary of these criteria—and a rather famous one at that. Sarah Ruhl penned the work in 2003, drawing inspiration from both the classical myth of Orpheus and her own experience with the passing of her father.

The Greek tale encompasses the world’s greatest musician Orpheus trekking down to the underworld to rescue his bride Eurydice who died on their wedding night, a mission which ultimately fails.

Ruhl’s unique approach to the myth

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includes a focus on the traditionally underdeveloped character of Eurydice, who surveys her emotional struggles w ith the lo ss of her f ather—and then, her own life—while bringing in contemporary, and, at times, eerie undertones.

Director Grace Fucci, MCAS ’17, accentuates such undertones with her spin on Eurydice, which played in the Bonn Studio from Feb. 16 to 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 19 at 2 p.m.

Hauntingly illuminated by delicate strings of lightbulbs and musical notes, the stage itself intrigued the audience, with actors meandering through the minimalistic, harp-like set structures.

The play opens by introducing the audience to the whimsical romanticism that permeates the relationship of Eurydice (Lauren Strauss, MCAS ’18) and Orpheus (Brett Murphy, MCAS ’18).

Their idealistic frolicking and joyous marital engagement soon evaporated

with a shift into the underworld, where Eur ydice’s father (Daniel Saillant, MCAS ’20) still grasps onto shreds of memories from his lifetime.

He continues to watch over his daughter and attempts to contact her through letters she has yet to receive.

This chain is broken, howe ver, when an interesting man (Alex O’Connor, MCAS ’20) lures Eurydice to his incomprehensibly high apartment during her wedding celebration on the pretense that he possesses a letter from her deceased father addressed to her.

When his act of kindness turns out to be malevolent, she tries to escape with the letter but trips and descends out of the apartment to her death.

Three unfriendly, albeit comedicallysynced, stones (Adrienne Vanderhooft, MCAS ’20; Lena Hymel, MCAS ’20; Nicholas Swancott, MCAS ’19) greet Eurydice upon her entrance into the underworld after her memory has been

wiped—as the dead are not allowed to remember their life.

This prompt s issues when her father welcomes her but she cannot remember his existence. The confusion relents when Eurydice eventually has a breakthrough in remembering Orpheus, helping her overcome her amnesia.

Throughout the show, Eur ydice and her father strengthen their bond and work to acclimate Eurydice to the afterlife. Intermittently, Orpheus attempts to reach her through letters, a book, and music.

Orpheus then decides that he cannot be without his true love any longer. He devises a plan to hold a singular musical note through a straw in his sleep.

In doing s o, he ar r ive s in the underworld as a living human. He can only bring Eurydice back to the living with him on one condition—he cannot

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Everyone has the right to say what they please and conduct themselves as they see fit. Celebrities at award ceremonies take advantage of this fact and end up proselytizing to people who just wanted to think about the merits of movies and music.

To be clear, celebrities are not special.

They are human beings like the rest of us and their opinions are worth just as much as yours or mine (nothing). When people put an undue amount of onus on what Katy Perry thinks, what Leonardo DiCaprio is doing about climate change, or how Ja Rule is making sense of all this, I think less of them.

To deconstruct the ceremonies themselves, they amount to little more than a bunch of millionaires giving each other trophies and fermenting in the collective stench of self-importance. Do we need to recognize people? I don’t think so. Their works of art will stand the test of time, not these ceremonies. Comedian T.J. Miller said it best at the 2015 Critics’ Choice Awards.

“I would say that awards are for children, because children need a tangible representation of their achievement,” Miller said. “Whereas adults should settle for the respect and admiration of their peers,” For most people, this grandiose orgy of ego is better left unseen. But for some of us, including myself, the horrid spectacle of it all remains alluring. Many stick around for the speeches. Most of this attraction rests in the potential for these artists to say something profound about art, or at least offer up a sense of humility in the face of exultation.

Instead of these things, award ceremonies nowadays resemble political rallies loosely veiled as an events of recognition.

Though they have every right to, artists choose to speak about the political divide, as if rational individuals could not surmise where they would fall. This is not to treat Hollywood as a monolith, but thinking generally about the views of its constituents is not absurd.

I am not critiquing the nature of what these people are saying, rather the forum in which they chose to express their ideas.

Happenings like Meryl Streep’s speech at the 2016 Golden Globes and David Harbour’s rant at the Screen Actors Guild are not shows of bravery or courage, but layups within these circles. At the events, they are met with applause and cheers. Everyone is on their side. Those who were interested in the event at home are left with nothing but confirmation to what they already thought were the opinions of the artist. What does that do for the common person interested in art? Have the purveyors of the art let us into the inner machinations of the craft?

Have they even thanked those to whom they owe gratitude? In many cases, no.

One might argue that the verbalization of certain virtues by the artist community may help propagate ideas and push for the ideas they hold in high esteem. I would contend that if there are individuals who have had their opinions swayed because of Streep, we have a bigger problem. Regardless of the content of the ideas, how fickle are people to drop or pick up ideas because a celebrity’s opinion?

There is no deliberation on art. We aren’t left to discuss anything within that realm. There is just more political discourse, and we are left with more people preaching in a world drowning in a sea of opinions.

Art is a way to escape from the everyday nonsense we encounter. We look to music, television, theatre, and film as a way to reflect on our lives. We risk losing interest in art if we are continually flogged with the obvious predilections of celebrity. Instead of furthering the arts and discussion thereof, we are subjected to an echo-chamber of thought we already knew. It would be offputting to hear a politician speak about the latest season of New Girl during an active session of Congress. It would be off-putting to hear a head coach rave about Selena Gomez’s new song during the Super Bowl.

It is just as off-putting for celebrities to get political at these events.

It would be refreshing to see an artist walk up to stage say “Thank you. Hi Mom.” and walk off stage without another word.

How humdrum, but also how humble.

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