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Visa Rule Changes Could Impact Hiring, International Students The fast-tracking of H-1B visas will be suspended April 3. BY CONNOR MURPHY News Editor Two recent changes to federal rules on granting visas could impact international students and faculty at Boston College, two administrators said Wednesday. Earlier this month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced it would suspend fast-track processing of H-1B visas starting April 3. The government said the

suspension could be in place for up to six months. H-1B visas are provided to foreign workers in specialty fields, which at BC usually applies to tenure-track faculty and sometimes to administrators, according to Adrienne Nussbaum, the director of the Office of International Students and Scholars. Fast-track—also called premium-processed—H-1B applications are normally processed within a matter of weeks, Nussbaum said, but starting next week, the process could take months. The suspension affects BC’s hiring plans, potentially making it difficult for the University to bring in a

foreign national hired at the last minute who it would like to start soon. Some schools, like Harvard University, process the applications in-house, but BC uses a third-party law firm. BC processes J-1 visas, designed for shorter-term stays, internally. This year, BC had 62 international faculty or research scholars in the country on H-1B visas. Nussbaum was not sure how many of those went through premium processing rather than the months-long process. A department looking to hire a new faculty member for fall 2017 would still have time to apply for and obtain a normal H-1B. Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo said

BC has been putting new hires on premiumprocessing applications, which he needs to sign and get in the pipeline before the new rule goes into effect next week. BC plans to hire 55 faculty this year, and eight are international faculty who have been affected by the premium-processing change. Further changes to the visa process could also be problematic. “If that goes away, so that either they take it away or it introduces an element of uncertainty—because if there are fewer visas, the next question is how do they determine who gets those visas—we could potentially lose those eight people,” Soo said. In that case, it would be difficult to

schedule classes for these hires due to the uncertainty surrounding their status. Another new regulation that requires visa applications to be made in person could impact the 700 new international students BC brings in each year, Nussbaum said. Visitors could previously apply online or through a third party, but now the concern is that in-person interviews might create a backlog at U.S. consulates that could stretch into the summer. Some continuing students also have to renew their visas when they travel. “They probably spend only four minutes

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‘Delta’ Advances ITS BY ALEC GREANEY A1 Editor This is the second part in a three-part series about technology at Boston College, in part following up on a 2005 story on the evolution of course registration titled ‘Getting into your classes’ and a 2006 series titled ‘BC gets wired: technology through the decades.’

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Three of nearly 20 monitors that sit in the control room of the Brighton computer center, which resides in a renovated chapel.

In the winter of 1999, Boston College was amid an internal battle. The administration was three years into implementing ‘Project Delta,’ a radical effort intended to make the University more efficient, both in providing better services for students and cutting costs to curb a rising tuition. In the words of former Executive Vice President Frank Campanella in 1996, who helped save BC from bankruptcy in the 1970s and initiated this effort in his second term as EVP, “Project Delta is an effort on the part of the University to dramatically change many of the ways that we do business.” Not everyone approved of such a change—or even in thinking of BC as a busi-

ness. There was a rising rift between those calling for greater financial efficiency to slow the soaring tuition, which had spiked over $30,000, and those supporting the Jesuit university’s mission to protect jobs. Campanella and the team faced harsh blowback from some ideas suggested along the way, including having departments hypothesize 40 percent cuts and suggesting that restructuring “might come to layoffs.” As one 1996 letter to the editor by Michael Eversman, GSSW ’97, read in reaction to the latter statement, “Though no one will disagree that higher education costs must be reeled in … heed the warning that slashing jobs in the name of profits is endemic to society and - sadly - all too common!” Campanella admitted along the way that it was a harder project to carry out than he had expected, but the team trudged forward, determined to make it work. One main aspect involved creating Student Services, and forming it into the model of “one-stop shopping” it is today, rather than the medley of offices scattered around campus at

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Mass. Dems Chair Reﬂects on Election Gus Bickford remains hopeful for his party after 2016 election. BY SOPHIA FOX Heights Staff In a way, Gus Bickford, chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, is happy about the 2016 election. He spoke in Gasson Hall on Wednesday night in an event hosted by the College Democrats of Boston College as part of their “Politics Outside of the BC Bubble” series. Bickford, a Brown University graduate who has worked on the presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, became chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party this fall, though his career in politics has been both extensive and unexpected. After bussing tables for a few months, Bickford’s father put him in touch with a candidate for city council in a Massachusetts town. Although his focus in college was mostly on computer science, Bickford agreed to manage the campaign and fell in love with politics. “I sat in that chair and had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and it worked out,” he said. Bickford has worked on a variety of

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campaigns from local to national levels. Eventually he was able to merge his computer knowledge with his political career during the recount in the 2000 Bush-Gore election. Bickford rebuilt the entire voter file in Florida in order to accurately re-tally votes and later advocated for the construction of a national voter file. His efforts resulted in Votebuilder, a program that he helped design, which has been used by both the Clinton and Obama campaigns. In addition to building the database for the national voter file, Bickford worked specifically on Senator Elizabeth Warren’s 2012 campaign as a vote targeter. In his opinion, the best candidate is the one who can most connect with the voters. A majority of Bickford’s talk focused not on his political career, but rather on the 2016 presidential election and the resulting improvements needed within the Democratic Party. “I really wouldn’t want to be in any other place,” Bickford said. “[The presidential election] has given me a reason to watch the news, a reason to resist, a reason to fight back, a reason to keep doing what I love to do, which is spread the fairness doctrine.” Bickford is a harsh critic of President Donald Trump and believes that Trump will not remain in office long enough to run in the 2020 election.

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Likening the Trump administration’s connections to Russia to the Watergate scandal, Bickford expressed his hope that there will be a strong investigation conducted by the Senate. Bickford believes that the Democratic Party used wrong strategies to nominate Clinton. “We ran a campaign to elect a black man, and we needed to run a campaign to elect a white woman,” he said. Having previously worked with several members of the Clinton team, Bickford recognized its overreliance on a minority turnout at the poles that ultimately did not deliver in favor of the Democrats. The narrow margin of the campaign confused Democratic efforts late in the game, but the overall strategy used proved much more effective for Obama than Clinton. “Women do not fall in line behind a female candidate,” he said. “You can’t rely on women’s vote so you have to find some other way to put it together … it is always amazing to me how tough women can be on each other.” Bickford cited two further concerns he had about the overall results of the election: losing Michigan and underplaying the animosity against Clinton. He explained that, based on the

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Advocates Gather to Hear Experiences of Survivors The event provided a safe space for people to tell their stories. BY BERNADETTE DARCY Heights Staff Taking a stand against sexual assault and violence, survivors, students, and faculty gathered in solidarity Wednesday night on O’Neill Plaza during the Boston College Women’s Center’s annual “Take Back the Night” event. The event was the centerpiece of Concerned About Rape Education (CARE) Week, an awareness and advocacy campaign held by the

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Women’s Center each year. The event created a safe space for survivors to reclaim their experiences while surrounded by people exhibiting solidarity. Four survivors told four very different stories, underscoring that no two sexual assaults or acts of violence are the same. Lisa Edouard, the graduate assistant for the Sexual Assault Network (SANet) at the Women’s Center, opened the event. She described Take Back the Night as an opportunity “to reflect, heal, and advocate for change.” Edouard spoke about the history and

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things to do on campus this week

The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship will host another event in its “Lunch with an Entrepreneur” series today from 12 to 1 p.m. in Cushing 208. The featured entrepreneur will be Matthew Rowe, the general counsel for Shoobx, which manages equity, human resources, and financing for startups.

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Peter Krause, an assistant professor of political science, will lead a panel titled “The Future of Governance in the Middle East” tonight at 6 p.m. in Devlin 101. The panel will feature Melani Cammett, professor at Harvard University, and Eva Bellin, professor at Brandeis University.

The Campus Activities Board will hold a screening of Moana at the Plex pool on Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. Students will be able to attend the “dive in” movie free of charge. Students will be able to float on tubes in the Plex pool while watching the movie.

NEWS Odedes Find Love Through Service, Start Foundation BRIEFS By Katie Murphy

Trump Names Alum Judge

Amul Thapar, BC ’91, was nominated by President Donald Trump last week to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, a federal court with appellate jurisdiction in districts of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. His nomination is now pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was also on Trump’s Supreme Court short list during the campaign. After working as a law clerk, a corporate attorney, an adjunct professor, and assistant to a U.S. attorney, Thapar was nominated to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky by former president George W. Bush in May 2007. He was the country’s first federal district judge of South Asian descent. While on the bench, Thapar has served as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, and Northern Kentucky University. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement last week supporting Thapar’s nomination and calling him a friend. “Throughout his already impressive career of public service, Amul has shown an incredible intellect and an unshakable dedication to the law,” McConnell said in the statement. “He has earned the respect of his colleagues, and I know that he will bring to the Sixth Circuit the same wisdom, fairness, and ability that he has shown on the District Court.”

Study Links Wealth, Carbon According to a new study by two Boston College sociology professors, state carbon emission levels are higher where income among the wealthiest residents is highly concentrated. Andrew Jorgenson and Juliet Schor found a positive association between the state-level carbon emissions between 1997 and 2012, and the income share of the top 10 percent of the state’s population. While the relationship between national wealth and carbon emissions has been well documented on a global level, Jorgenson and Schor are the first to link income inequality and carbon emissions on a state level. “We think it is safe to say that, in terms of environmental policy and action, it is going to be much more active at the state level than the federal level,” Jorgenson said to The Chronicle. “Given the uncertainty of the regulatory environment at the federal level, states like California are saying they will not move away from their policies even if the federal agenda on climate change makes a 180-degree turn from the prior administration.” According to their findings, using state data for carbon emissions from 2012, a 1-percent increase in the income share of the top 10 percent of the population in Texas saw an additional 812,325 to 934,174 metric tons of carbon emissions. The District of Columbia saw the lowest increase in carbon emissions for each 1percent increase in wealth, and South Carolina was the median in the analysis. “First, income concentration leads to concentrated political power and the ability to prevent regulations on carbon emissions,” said Schor, a professor of sociology. “Second, high-income consumers are disproportionate carbon polluters.”

Echoing Green Fellowship. Kibera is about the size of Central Park and is home to between 500,000 and1,000,000 people living in poverty. Kennedy’s parents moved from the countryside of Kenya to Nairobi with the hope of being able to find better jobs and a better life with it. Jobs were hard to come by and his parents were forced to make a life in Kibera, where Kennedy was born. Kennedy explained by the time he was 10 years old, his father had still not been able to find a job that would pay enough to bring them out of poverty. His father had turned to alcohol and begun to abuse his mother. His family did not have the funds to support him, and his home life was miserable. Because of this he ran away and lived on the streets. While he was homeless, he became hopeless. “It was while I was living on the street that I realized that the world is divided

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Kennedy and Jessica Odede have a love story that is not so classic. The couple met while in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, through a service program. The Odedes eventually got married and became cofounders of the organization Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). As part of the Brennan Symposium, through the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics, the Odedes spoke about the founding and growth of their organization on Tuesday, Kennedy has been named a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, won a Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award, and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Jessica was named “America’s Top World Changer 25 and Under,” won the Do Something Award in 2010, and received the

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On Tuesday, Kennedy and Jessica Odede shared their story of beginning SHOFCO.

between those who have and those who do not have,” he said. At the age of 15, Kennedy was given a book written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that changed his life. He was inspired by King’s writing to take the anger and resentment that he felt toward the inequality he and so many others faced and use it to make change. Kennedy bought a $0.20 soccer ball and began his movement. “A movement comes when you push harder and say enough is enough,” he said. Kennedy began a community soccer team, which branched out into many different community programs. These programs were the beginning of SHOFCO. During her junior year of college, Jessica, born in Denver, decided she wanted to experience a part of the world completely different from what she had seen so far. She decided on Kenya and contacted Kennedy to be a part of his program and if she could live with his family during her semester abroad. At first Kennedy refused, but Jessica was determined and solidified her plans to travel to Kenya. Jessica was the first outsider ever to live in Kibera for an extended period of time. Neighbors would come knocking on the door everyday when Jessica first arrived to see if she was still alive. Jessica fell in love with Kennedy and with the work they were doing during her initial stay in Kibera. When her semester ended Jessica returned to Wesleyan and with her help, Kennedy won a full scholarship and began his freshman year at

Wesleyan the next fall. After his freshman and her senior year, Kennedy and Jessica returned to Kibera, continued their work with SHOFCO, and opened the Kibera School for Girls. They believe that the change that is needed in Kibera starts with young female education. Kennedy went on to graduate with honors and was the speaker at his own commencement. Since graduating, Kennedy and Jessica have moved back to Kibera, where they live primarily. Along with the school in Kibera, SHOFCO has a multitude of projects and initiatives helping people. They have a health clinic that served over 100,000 individuals last year. SHOFCO has brought clean water to Kibera, provides education, especially for women, on how to start their own small businesses, and opened libraries. Recently, they have began to expand their work to other poor areas of Kenya, like Mathare. This year will bring the first graduating class of the school in Kibera and the girls are going to continue their education not only across Kenya, but across the world. SHOFCO wants to empower the community and give them the tools to make the changes they want to see. “What I want it to be is a movement, a movement is excitement with the ability to change and how do you turn that into an institution with structures so that it can continue on after you,” Kennedy said. “SHOFCO is now turning into an institution.” n

Orenstein Gives Sex Advice Through Pizza Toppings By Abigail Druhot

accept the gender rules that typically disadvantage women, in exchange for whatever power you can extract from the system. So it benefits an individual, but it leaves the system intact.” Orenstein also discussed the extensive research she has done with young women. A conversation arose with one girl who felt “liberated” by dressing in what many would view as a provocative way. Orenstein called on the audience to ask important questions about their perceptions on this topic. “You have to ask, ‘Who gets to be proud of which body?” she said. “‘And under what circumstances? And who decides? And how liberating is that really when the fear of humiliation lurks right around the corner?’” Questions like this led Orenstein to one of her main points, which was that conversations need to take place with young women about sex, sexual culture, and the lies media and power structures sell them about self-objectification. Sara McClelland from the University of Michigan coined “intimate justice,” a term Orenstein said is one of the most important terms in framing these issues. It communicates the political ramifications of sex as well as the personal ones. “Intimate justice encourages us to ask, ‘Who is entitled to engage in sexual behavior? Who is entitled to enjoy it?

Heights Staff Sex is like pizza, and it’s our responsibility to negotiate the toppings, according to New York Times bestselling author Peggy Orenstein. The “pizza metaphor” describes a mutually beneficial sexual encounter that Orenstein wants couples to have. Orenstein spoke to students on Monday night about the need for conversation around sexual culture. She opened her presentation by discussing the inspiration for her new book, Girls and Sex. “Obviously, for young people to understand the ground rules for consent is absolutely crucial,” she said. “But at the same time, I felt like that was where the conversation about sex was ending. We weren’t talking about what was happening after ‘yes.’” This theme of “after the yes” was what drove the rest of Orenstein’s talk as she hit the highlights of her new book. She started her analysis of the sexual culture among young girls with some hot topic issues—namely Kim Kardashian and the controversiality of her feminism (or lack thereof). Orenstein presented a two-sided explanation for some of Kardashian’s most provocative photos. “Kim has made a patriarchal bargain,” Orenstein said. “This is the decision to

Who is the primary beneficiary, and how does each partner define ‘good enough?’” she asked. One problem Orenstein has encountered in this fight for intimate justice is the discrepancies between how males and females define “good” sex. She resented the “deceptive findings” some studies suggest where females and males report equal satisfaction in sexual encounters. She said females typically base their levels of satisfaction on the perceived satisfaction of their partner, but males typically base their levels of satisfaction on their individual pleasure. Her take on the hookup culture was centered on the “perception-reality gap” or “pluralistic ignorance” so many young people face. She said that 75 percent of young men and women believed their classmates were only interested in a hookup, but 75 percent said they would actually prefer to go on a date. “It’s not that I think the hookup culture should go away, but what I challenge you to think about is how it can be conducted with benevolence,” she said. Orenstein also spoke about consent, and she discussed the “baseball metaphor” that accompanies sex she feels needs to be replaced. “Girls are not even the losing team when using the baseball metaphor, they

are actually the field on which the game is played,” she said. To eliminate the idea that there would be a “losing” side in sex, Orenstein instead suggested the pizza metaphor that is better for both sides in a consensual encounter. She said sex is like pizza. “If you decide you want to go out for pizza, you negotiate the toppings,” she said. “Maybe I want mushrooms and you want pepperoni, so we go halfsies ... Or maybe if you keep insisting on pepperoni, and I am kosher, I am not going to go out to pizza with you anymore. It’s all about the shared experience,” she explained. She ended her talk calling on girls to take action into their own hands and demand change. “Girls tend to go along to get along … If you don’t express which toppings you want, you’re going to end up with green pepper—and nobody wants green pepper,” she said. In a personal case with her own daughter, she said she realized talking about contraception, disease protection, or consent was simply not enough. “We have raised a generation of girls to have a voice and to expect egalitarian treatment in the home, in the classroom, and in the workplace,” she said. “Now, it’s time to demand intimate justice in your personal lives as well.” n

Sunday, March 26

Tuesday, March 28

1:07 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an assault and battery at 2150 Comm. Ave.

6:12 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an elevator entrapment at 2000 Comm. Ave.

POLICE BLOTTER: 3/24/17 – 3/29/17 Saturday, March 25

3:23 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a drug law violation at Walsh Hall.

12:03 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny at Fulton Hall. 12:06 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person at Maloney Hall.

6:25 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an ejection from an event due to an alcohol policy violation at Conte Forum. 8:42 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person at Conte Forum.

2:18 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a drug law violation at Gonzaga Hall.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS What do you remember about your first cell phone? “I broke it because it was one that flipped up with the sliding keyboard, and it snapped.” —Shaye Ellard, MCAS ’19

“It was a flip phone, white and small. I got it because I liked the appearance.” —Xoxo Zhang, MCAS ’18

“It was definitely a flip phone, a used Samsung from my mom, circa 2006 or 2007, when I was about 11.” —Michael Paiva, CSOM ’17 “It was a flip phone. It was red. That’s all I remember.” —Deniz Demirci, MCAS ’19

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Belfast Project Cases Stall By Connor Murphy News Editor At least two cases with ties to Boston College’s controversial Belfast Project have stalled in court in Northern Ireland, news reports indicate. On Monday, Winston Rea’s case was adjourned for the week after a dispute between his lawyers and the prosecution. According to The Belfast Telegraph, Rea is refusing to sign an undertaking that would allow documents containing information from the United States to be admitted in the case. According to John O’Neill, the Northern Ireland prosecutor in the case, the documents contain information covered by U.S. treaties that must be verified by Rea to ensure proper handling in the case. Rea’s defense team denies that it is contributing to the delay in the case. Rea was charged in June 2016 with two killings and two attempted murders dating back to the mid-1980s. Another case has been delayed amid questions about the defendant’s health. Earlier this month, Ivor Bell’s case was adjourned until April because he has dementia and requires medical records to determine whether he can stand trial, according to The Belfast Telegraph. Bell is charged with two counts of soliciting the 1972 death of Jean McConnville. His arrest resulted from the release of Belfast Project tapes subpoenaed in 2011, according to The Irish Times. It is unclear if the U.S.-connected information in the documents is the same information collected on Rea

in the project, a series of interviews conducted at BC between 2001 and 2006 that sought to document the experiences of former members of the Irish Republican Army during “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, which began in the 1960s and ended in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement. The interviews in the project, which was directed by Irish journalist Ed Maloney, were conducted under the understanding that the participants’ identities and testimonies would not be released until after they had all died. The tapes were first subpoenaed in May 2011 as part of a Northern Ireland investigation into the death of McConnville, who was killed by a group of people after being falsely accused of passing secrets to the British. The subpoena was enabled by a mutual legal assistance treaty that requires the countries to share information that could be used in criminal investigations. In Dec. 2011, BC was ordered to release the interviews of former IRA members Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes. It filed a motion to close the case in 2013, and that May 2013, according to The Boston Globe, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that only 11 of the 85 subpoenaed tapes had to be released. In May 2014, the Globe reported that BC would return original recordings of interviews to any participants who requested them. In Jan. 2015, Rea secured a temporary injunction against the release of the tapes implicating him in the killings and attempted murders, but the next month the tapes were obtained by the police. He was charged in June 2016. n

DiBella Talks Identity, Sex By MaryKate DiNorcia Heights Staff The Boston College Women’s Center wants students to understand that identity is not created entirely by oneself—it is often projected by society onto an individual through stereotypes, assumptions, and stigmas. On Monday, the Women’s Center worked with various other organizations on campus to kick off CARE Week with an interactive event built around the intersection of identity and surviving sexual violence. Rachel DiBella, the assistant director of the Women’s Center, along with multiple members of FACES and the LGBTQ Leadership Council, opened the discussion by reminding students of the main goals of the event: self-care and community improvement. Students, split into different tables, engaged in small-group discussion throughout the entirety of the event on multiple topics. The discussion began with a question about the meaning of the word “identity.” Students were invited to discuss with one another what groups they most strongly identify with, what aspects of themselves define their perception of the world, and what challenges they face because of the different parts of their identity. “Some of our identity we get to choose, and some of it we don’t,” DiBella said. Students also discussed intersectionality and its origins. They shared their personal definitions of intersectionality with the rest of the room. One response was that intersectionality is the intertwined nature of multiple aspects of identity. Another definition of the word is the acceptance of people from different identities in an environment of empathy and inclusion. DiBella pointed out that the word’s origin had to do more so with the latter definition, mentioning Kimberlé Crenshaw’s work to bring to light the issue of black women having a lesser voice and representation in both feminist movements and civil rights movements in 1989. Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and leading scholar in critical race theory. After creating an awareness of how different identities cause different experiences and laying the groundwork for an understanding the role of intersectionality in an individual’s experience, DiBella turned toward the concept of placing an identity on another as a way to assert power over them. Some identities, DiBella pointed out, were created simply to place a label

on an “other” as a way to diminish that group’s voice. This is the first example used to display the importance of language in discourse. Another important language distinction is the tendency for individuals to place blame on an identity rather than an “-ism” or institution, as DiBella put it. “I struggle a lot with listening to folks say that a person may have faced discrimination because they are a women,” DiBella said. “No, they faced discrimination because of sexism.” With an understanding of how different labels and narratives can be created to instill power in one group and take power from another, DiBella turned the conversation toward sexual violence. BC defines sexual violence as “any sexual contact or sexual penetration with another individual without consent.” DiBella prompted students to consider how an individual’s experience might be affected by their identity as a survivor of sexual violence. Each table was given a different aspect of identity to consider such as sexual orientation, religion, or socioeconomic status. Students questioned what challenges individuals may face when seeking help after experiencing sexual violence. The exercise allowed students to see past the narratives created by society and assumptions they may individually hold to understand the challenges experienced by others. “In order to exist in an empowered way either as survivors, or allies, or activists within certain communities, I think it is important to deconstruct the predominant narratives that have always been placed at the center of conversation,” DiBella said. As the conversation drew to a close, DiBella asked students to consider what assumptions they have challenged throughout the event, what these questions made them feel, and how they will change their actions in the future to make BC’s environment the best it can be for all identities. DiBella reminded students of the reality the activity was not able to display and how the diversity of identities that exists within one individual creates an even greater need for intersectionality and inclusion on campus. “What would it mean to take identities like this and know that they don’t get split off into tables or groups?” DiBella said. “People aren’t able to, nor should they have to, compartmentalize the diversity of identities that they all hold and walk with.” n

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Bickford Analyzes Democratic Party Bickford, from B1 issues and especially recent efforts to clean the water in Flint, the Democrats should have easily won Michigan. Bickford also said that, although the Democrats knew there was some resistance to Clinton’s record, the scale of that anger was not fully realized until after the election. Bickford rebuffed the claim that the Republican Party used big data more effectively than the Democrats. “In the end, I think their strengths were more the snippets of media that they had,” Bickford said. “There was no substance to their message but it was

a message people ate up.” In spite of the faults made clear by the past election cycle, Bickford still has immense hope for the Democratic Party going forward. He said the strengths of the Democratic Party lie in its economic policies. Balanced budgets, low unemployment, and not adding to the national debt were all mentioned as hallmarks of Democratic policy. Bickford also used his years of experience to predict the major issues for both the 2018 and 2020 elections— health care reform, environmental policy, and, at the state level, improvements in public transportation.

Overall, in light of technological breakthroughs and changing social attitudes, the political veteran has hope for positive change in the coming years. Bickford said he believes that transparency will change everything and resistance is making a difference. “[The women’s march] was the most impressive thing I’ve seen in my lifetime,” he said. What is most important to Bickford, however, is the next generation of voters and elected officials. “We have a history in Massachusetts of college kids running for city or state council and winning,” he said. “So, who’s it going to be next?” n

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Students Gather to Reclaim the Night Take Back the Night, from B1 impact of the Take Back the Night organization, which is rooted in international protests against sexual violence. Started in Europe, Take Back the Night began holding events in the United States throughout the late 1960s, and has since held hundreds of walks, conferences, and educational events around the world. “In this moment, we are enacting change,” Edouard said. Following Edouard’s opening remarks, Erin Doolin, the graduate assistant for the Bystander Intervention Program, delivered the graduate address. Doolin highlighted the importance of looking beyond statistics of sexual assault and recognizing individuals. “These survivors are whole people who also happen to be survivors of sexual violence,” Doolin said. As the graduate assistant for the Bystander Intervention Program, Doolin works with BC undergrads on a daily basis.

The Bystander Program focuses on the importance of prosocial, bystander behaviors in preventing sexual assault. “Sexual violence is an epidemic that often goes undetected in our community, and affects the individual lives of our classmates, friends, and family members,” Doolin said. Doolin went on to explain concrete ways in which people can support survivors on their healing journeys. First, she emphasized the importance of believing victims when they come forward—the simple act of trusting a story and listening to a survivor can help them feel supported. Next, Doolin highlighted asking survivors about their needs, refraining from pushing them to do or say anything they are uncomfortable doing. “There is no perfect guidebook about how to support a survivor, but listening to what they need and showing up is a good way to start,” Doolin said. Furthermore, Doolin explained that no two healing journeys are the same, and that healing journeys are often non-linear.

She stressed the importance of showing survivors that they are not burdens, and instead, are loved. After Doolin’s address, the evening’s first student speaker took the podium. She recalled the horror of her rape and the lasting psychological trauma she has since suffered as a result. “But what happened to me did not break me,” she said. Between student speakers, the BC Sharps, the only all-female a cappella group on campus, sang renditions of songs known for their empowering lyrics. The event concluded with a solidarity walk across campus, which incorporated spoken reflections and moments of pause. All attendees were given tea-light candles to place on campus in spots they wanted to reclaim. “The power of the individual may seem small, but the day-to-day acts of support and bravery will reverberate through our community and result in great social change” Doolin said. n

Change in Visa Policies to Affect Faculty Visas, from B1 with somebody on an interview, and then decide if they can come to the U.S.,” Nussbaum said. “If you’re trying to do extreme vetting in four minutes, you’re going to err on the cautious side … we are concerned about there being visa denials or things like that.” Under U.S. immigration law, applicants are actually assumed guilty rather than innocent—the point of the interview process is for applicants to prove their “innocence,” or qualifications for entry. In the past couple of years, she

said, visa wait times have typically been days or a week. That could increase as people wait to get interview slots. “If those go from a couple of days to a week to weeks or months, there’s a possibility our students might not get here by the end of August,” she said. Nussbaum added that Iranian faculty are concerned about leaving the country for fear that the now-defunct travel ban instituted by President Donald Trump in January could be reinstated. Soo said that when the travel ban went into effect, several department chairpersons interested in making hires

from the seven countries affected called him asking how they should proceed. He didn’t wanted to tell them not to hire from those countries, but wanted them to understand the risks involved. Other concerns over changes to regulations are, as of now, just rumors, including a fear that H-1 visas could become more restricted, or that STEM field visas could be changed. “There’s just a very heightened anxiety and uncertainty, justifiably so, in our entire international student population, because nobody knows what’s coming next,” Nussbaum said. n

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With New Gardner Exhibit, Visitors Explore the Sound of Art By Gao Liu Heights Staff In 1990, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was the victim of an art heist that resulted in the loss of 13 precious works from the Dutch Room, marking the largest-value theft of private property in history. Among the various pieces stolen was the The Concert, a work by Johannes Vermeer valued at over $200 million. As with all 13 stolen works, an empty frame resides in the original location of The Concert as a solemn reminder of the theft. Although visitors no longer have the option of viewing The Concert in its original state, the museum has recently released a way for guests to experience the work in a completely novel fashion. “Undertone,” the new installation, is a sonic evocation of Vermeer’s brush strokes. Situated right in front of the painting’s former location, the sound piece reconstructs The Concert in audio form, editing together sound clips and noises to depict the scene as it may have sounded back in Vermeer’s day. Standing in place, viewers hear the sounds of a large echoing concert hall, footsteps, a soft harpsichord, and faint opera singing all projected from a speaker 20 feet directly above them which simulates real life hearing. “You listen to what you should be seeing,” museum staff Sarah Whitling said. The piece was designed by Moritz Fehr—a German sound artist and experimental filmmaker—and serves as one of 10 total installations as part of the museum’s audio exhibition Listen

Hear: The Art of Sound. The sound art exhibition, open from March 8 through Sept. 5, is the first of its kind and explores various forms of active listening, pushing the viewer—or in this case, the listener—to be attentive and more aware of how sound affects him or her. Pieranna Cavalchini, the curator of the exhibition, explained that the exhibition “delves into acoustic mapping and real-time projections of sound across spaces.” Each of the 10 works, eight of which reside inside the museum with the remaining two set outdoors, find themselves situated in deliberately evocative spaces. Each installation is not a new work on its own, but rather an illumination of the qualities of the space in which it resides. The courtyard, a green recess in the middle of the four-story museum, houses exotic plants and a running water fountain in efforts to recreate the museum as it was in its original state. In Gardner’s day, however, the courtyard also contained wildlife which completed the simulated experience of indoor nature. And though the birds, frogs, insects are no longer a part of the contemporary experience for the safety of the artwork, viewers may once again experience their sounds. Newly installed surround-sound speakers in the courtyard play artist Lee Mingwei’s piece, “Small Conversation,” which features insect sounds and amphibian night calls, ranging from cicada noises to frog croaks, made up entirely by the artist’s own voice. The exhibition extends as well to realms of abstract with the addition of Sublimated Music, a work that creates a sonic atmosphere out of notes

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The Gardner Museum’s newest experience has already drawn large crowds by merging artwork with an auditory experience. from Claude Debussy’s Bells through the Leaves. Appropriately situated in the museum’s contemporary wing, a completely empty white gallery holds two rows of colored lamps, each color associated with a projected note. On the church-high walls lie 56 speakers which play one note each in a predetermined choreography. The output is not melodic by design. Artist Philippe Rahm focuses on the deconstruction of sounds and only plays through one single line of the Debussy piece, over and over in hundreds of different ways. According to Whitling, Rahm be-

lieves “the individual pieces are more interesting than the whole.” Guests can listen to sounds of the inner city, cars, honks, the banging of construction, the embodied hustle bustle of pedestrians in Calderwood Hall, the museum’s concert hall which, unlike most of its kind, places the stage in the middle of the room, surrounded on all four sides by seats that go up four stories. “The sounds that are played here are those that we typically try to shut out in places like concert halls,” Whitling said. “[Helen] Mirra wants to bring them into

a place where people normally wouldn’t hear such noises.” Listen Hear is a play on our typical approaches to spaces of art, an amalgamation of the act, hear, and the adverb, “in, at, or to this place or position.” It is an exhibit as much focused on the sounds experienced by the viewer, as it is on their preconceived ideas about space and time. Sound art, surprisingly to the uninitiated, is neither vague nor esoteric. Although to many, the only type of sonic art is music, Listen Hear reveals that what music cannot accomplish, noise can. n

Lovepop Transforms Greeting Cards Into Magical Works of Art By Nathan Xie Heights Staff After doubling its workforce to 30 in the last year, Lovepop, a fledgling name in the greeting card industry, is coming to fruition. The startup is an imagination and engineering company that complements everyday life with 3-D popup cards for a multitude of purposes, occasions, and emotions—any form of romance, sympathy, and many more. Co-founder and CEO Wombi Rose met co-founder John Wise when they were both undergraduates concentrating on naval architecture at the Webb Institute in Glen Cove, N.Y. Wise went on to build boats at Metal Shark for the Coast Guard, while Rose entered the consulting industry. A few years later, however, they reunited when both enrolled at Harvard Business School. For a school trip in Vietnam, the duo discovered magical, hand-crafted paper cards—an extremely popular item in the region. With these cards as inspiration, Rose and Wise saw the endless creative approaches that they could manipulate and construct with paper. Soon after, they founded Lovepop in Feb. 2014.

“When we applied our engineering background and state of the art laser cutters to this ancient art form, we developed a new technique which we call Slicegami,” Rose said in an email. This interdisciplinary combination of arts and sciences in Lovepop’s card designs incorporates an ancient sliceform structure. This sliceform structure—in which small, flat pieces of paper are used to construct a 3-D object—was originally used in ship design with the paper-cutting art of kirigami. When Lovepop was founded, Rose and Wise first sold their cards in a basement apartment in Boston. But they had big plans, and hoped that Lovepop’s captivating product would reinvent the greeting card industry. “Standard cards from the local drug store or paper store with pre-written messages often lack thoughtfulness,” Rose said. “With Lovepop, we want to bring meaning back to giving a card.” Rose and Wise have since expanded their products beyond their basement apartment to kiosks in New York and Boston, offering hundreds of designs and new releases every week. Their office is located in Faneuil Hall, a perfect walking distance

from kiosks in the heart of one of Boston’s main tourist hubs: Quincy Market. Rose detailed how the great location provides access to real customers and genuine feedback. In addition, it makes it feasible for the headquarters team to work a couple shifts in retail in Quincy Market, providing the team with more interaction and understanding of their customers for improvements and feedback. When Lovepop was in its early stages, however, Rose and Wise faced many challenges. They opened too many retail locations, some of which were not optimally placed. From this bump in the road, Rose and Wise learned the company’s best chance at growth came from an online focus. So, the duo concentrated on constructing and furthering their online consumer model. From there, Rose and Wise thought that customers could transcend typical card-buying consumer behavior to customize and select specific cards that would fit their intentions. With more than two hundred 3-D cards to select from, customers can personalize the card with their own special touch for those important in their lives—every one of the cards is blank because Lovepop believes that only the

Getting a View From the Outskirts Madeleine D’Angelo Standing on the outskirts of something gives you a unique view of the world. This vantage point, although sometimes difficult to maintain, allows the rest of the world to forget your existence. You can just observe the goings on, and imagine what the world might look like if you didn’t exist in it. Strangely enough, this vantage point strikes me most powerfully when I am on the aboveground sections of the T, an area where I feel sharply integrated into the world, as I often share a small space with lots of other people, but also completely separated from the world outside of the car. For anyone who grew up in the Boston area—probably stitching together their childhood memories from journeys into the city, and buried beneath feet of Boston snow—the quality that I find most charming about this area’s public transportation system might seem odd: I like that it spends a good chunk of its time aboveground. In many cities, the public transportation system, including the metro that

runs through my own hometown of Washington, D.C., inhabits the bowels of the earth, the damp underground spaces where no one really wants to go. When I think back to my childhood experiences on the metro, I often imagined that as I slowly rode the eternal escalators down to the platform I was descending into some kind of mythical underworld. This might sound like a frightening thought for a child, but it really wasn’t. I would turn around as the escalators carried me down, and stare at the portal of daylight that was quickly fading into the distance. Then I would look to the dark area where I was headed and listen the cool automatic voice making announcements overhead and the loud rushes of wind that the metro made as it flew through the station. Honestly, I found the underground journey more exciting than terrifying, like a visit to another world where everything was just slightly damp, dramatic, and dimly lit. But shortly into freshman year, I discovered the D line—the ideal form of public transportation. Not only does this line of the T mostly run aboveground, but it stays on the outskirts of the city. From this location, it gets you downtown fast, but more importantly, it offers you a completely new way of seeing at the world.

As you head downtown on the D line, your view out the (sometimes) sunlit window is one of real houses, but not their fronts. In the blink of an eye you glimpse real life, the backyards, and the sheds. Instead of being presented with the carefully designed facades and perfectly manicured lawns, the view from this kind of outskirt let you in past the font that people put up. From the windows of the aboveground T, you can see failed gardens and works in progress that are hidden from the public. This is where the toys are scattered across the yard after a day spent playing outside ultimately, and where you grill on a summer day. And even though I’m sectioned off within the T, this vantage point makes me feel closer to the rest of the world than ever feel before. But the interesting questions arise when you admit that people aren’t really so different from houses. Especially in college, everyone has their front, that carefully manicured image that they present to the rest of the world. So how do you get that view from the outskirts and understand who they really are?

Madeleine D’Angelo is the metro editor for The Heights. She can be reached on Twitter @mads_805.

person writing the card can express it best. But for those unable to write their own notes, Lovepop offers a note service. For an additional $5, employees will handwrite the message of the customer’s choice onto a chosen card—in either English or Spanish—and ship it directly to the recipient. Lovepop’s current customer base spans across all genders and ages. The company has a “happiness team” that interacts with customers on a regular basis to help with designs and ensure satisfaction with the personalization of the cards. Although these teams often find that the cards serve their traditional function for customers—Rose noted how the happiness team has discovered that they have just as many men buying cards for their wives and girlfriends as they have for women buying cards for their husbands and boyfriends—in some cases they become more of a decoration “We know our cards are used to cheer up loved ones in a nursing home or as a nightstand collection by a toddler’s bed,” Rose said. But Lovepop’s founders not only focus on building their business, they also ensure that the startup interacts with the

community around it. Lovepop’s team partners with and works alongside with The Possible Project, a Boston-area entrepreneurship-focused afterschool program that fosters the untapped potential in students with personalized career planning and other opportunities. Embracing innovative business and underscoring engineering and creativity, Lovepop and The Possible Project encourage bringing great entrepreneurial ideas to fruition. The Lovepop team trains students on advanced 3-D modeling software, as well as launching exclusive designs by students for future inspirations for greeting cards. And this community interaction even extends to Chestnut Hill. Rose explained how Lovepop exemplifies the possibility for college student involvement in the startup scene. An “invaluable” member of the Lovepop intern team is, in fact, a Boston College student. Looking toward the future, Rose noted the countless plans Lovepop intends to implement and pursue. These plans include a unique option for customers to create his or her own wedding invitations, an initiative that will begin sometime this spring. n

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Embrace the Cold

William Batchelor When I moved to Boston, I knew the winters were going to be brutal. I did everything to prepare, buying thermal underwear, thick coats, and snow boots. When winter came, I was ready. Getting dressed in the morning was like gearing up for battle, and I treated my clothes like armor. Coming from a tropical country where the weather is hot year round, I have fared well against the bitterly cold New England winter. I’ve learned to maneuver myself through several inches of snow, and survived the blizzards and snowstorms that rocked the Northeast. There were even times when I did enjoy the cold. The picturesque sight of powdery, white snow covering the roofs of Stokes hall allowed me to appreciate the beauty of Boston College. I got to experiment with my style, layering different shirts and sweaters while donning colorful socks. By the end of February, however, I had enough of the cold and was ready for warm weather. I started getting desperate and asked local Massachusetts natives when the weather would change. Their replies varied but mostly centered around the same sentiment: “This weather is so unpredictable.” And they’re right. There are days when I put on my parka and look like an eskimo. But there are other days when I check the weather and think, “Can I wear just two layers today?” That’s an exciting feeling. But one thing I wasn’t warned about was the wind. Growing up in a tropical country I thought I had experienced the wrath of strong winds during hurricanes. In Boston, the wind turns my face numb, and my thin hair flies in all directions, covering my face. It’s not a pretty sight. I started to get a glimpse of hope the week before Spring Break, when the weather drastically changed, resulting in two glorious days of sunshine. On Upper Campus, swarms of freshmen emerged from their dorms to take in the warmth. They threw around a football, played spikeball, and laid on hammocks. All of a sudden, everyone’s mood changed. It seemed like a shame to stay indoors, so I slipped on a pair of running shorts and a t-shirt and headed for the Reservoir. On my way out, I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and was shocked at the unfamiliar sight of my bare arms and legs. I assumed it was the end of winter. I parted ways with my fur-trimmed parka and put it in its garment bag for next winter. I unloaded my t-shirts and laid them out in my drawers for easy access when I returned. Spring Break came and went, but I expected to return to Boston and the cold to be gone. Instead it was back in full force with snow and temperatures in the low 30s. The winter clothes came back out, and my parka reemerged from its garment bag. Like many freshmen, I’m convinced the heater in my room is faulty. I find myself shivering and putting on layers of clothes just to keep warm. Desperate, I try to find a knob of some sort and turn it vigorously, hoping it will do something. When my dorm room does warm up, it’s hard to get me to leave. There have been times when I’ve chosen the warmth of my bed over the walk over to the dining hall. While I am still freezing half the time, I have noticed the weather has warmed up a touch. I now know, however, that I’m not going to get blue skies and 80-degree weather right away. I have to remind myself that there is a season in between winter and summer and it’s not going to warm up immediately. I have been told that it’s the April showers which are coming next. Over the last few days, we have surely gotten a preview of what is to come.

William Batchelor is the asst. metro editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @williambatch.

With Flower Show, Spring Arrives in Boston `

By Sherry Hsiao Heights Staff The sound of tropical waterfalls greeted visitors as they entered Commonwealth Hall at the Seaport World Trade Center last week for the 2017 Boston Flower & Garden Show. Running from March 22 to 26, the fiveday event celebrated New England’s gardening scene by transforming the 118,000 square feet convention space into New England’s largest greenhouse. The smell of dozens of different kinds of flowers, plants, and fertilizers emanated from the various booths, merging to create a fragrance resembling that of herbal medicine. The scent changed as guests walked through the facility—the largest of its kind in Boston. Farther down the hall, the air filled with the smell of essential oils, the kinds used in massages and spas. The setup of the Boston Flower & Garden Show created an experience that involved all five senses of the body. The show’s highlights included garden displays, a marketplace for gardenrelated products and services, floral designs, competitions for amateur floral arrangers and horticulturists, and hourly lectures and demonstrations. The garden displays created a woodsy effect in the indoor space, bringing visitors closer to nature than the city outside the walls would normally allow. In one design, water spewed out of a statue that looked similar to the iconic Easter Island Moai heads. An artificial pond surrounded the fountain, and was embedded in a landscape covered with rocks, pink and yellow flowers, and even a medieval knight statue. The display looked like the set of a Shakespearean play. In some displays, such as Bryce Studio’s painted garden installation, the creation process was ongoing. Based in Pawtucket, R.I., the artist Mike Bryce spends his time at the show producing landscape paintings on site. Supporting his canvas with his left arm, he wore a black Nike hat and a serious expression. Bryce sat in the middle of a garden display, surrounded by dirt, plants,

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Despite the frigid temperatures outside, the Flower & Garden show gave Bostonians an unexpected taste of spring. and his canvases. His open paint tubes covered his table, while dirty brushes of various sizes were spread out all over the floor around him. Water flowed out of a pot in front of him, and the installation smelled strongly of fertilizer—a scent familiar to all Boston College students who have walked across campus in the spring months. Despite the strong odor, the painter remained undistracted. Studio displayed his finished pieces, all versions of the same scene, around the workspace. The repetition across dozens of mini canvases created a Hockney effect that was strengthened by the fact that every painting was created with the same color palette: the color of fall foliage in New England. To the side of Studio and his work, tiny goldfish swam in a gradient blue bowl with a ceramic lotus floating on the surface. Accompanied by her mother, a toddler used markers to draw on a sketchbook on a wooden chair with a sign that read, “My fairy field journal: please add to it!” The Boston Flower & Garden Show was a space that brought art and gardening together. The Hudson Valley Seed Company, an organization

committed to protecting independent, open-pollinated, heirloom, and nonGMO seeds, hosted a small art exhibition named The Art of the Seed. The gallery displayed works of art that were created on non-traditional mediums, including pyrographic painting, thread painting, digital illustration, hand-cut paper, and painted porcelain tile. Ken Greene, the co-founder and creative director of Hudson Valley Seed Company, commissioned the artworks displayed at The Art of the Seed gallery for the company’s seed packs. His idea of decorating the seed packs with artwork was inspired by the antique seed catalogues that he collected when first starting the business and was researching the varieties of seeds that grew in the region 60 to 100 years ago. Greene loved the feeling of the old catalogues—which were decorated with artwork because there was no photography—and wanted to continue that tradition. Although the project was inspired with the past, Greene works with contemporary artists to develop the art. “I also really believe in the power of art, and the importance of artists,”

Greene said. “Artists help us understand who we are—they help us understand the meaning of things beyond the commodity of it or what it’s going to produce. Seeds are cultures, and they have stories. So when I work with an artist, I’m telling the artist the story of that seed and they’re interpreting a story through their art.” The company has a small farm in Accord, N.Y., and sells varieties of seeds for the Northeast, which has a shorter season. Resisting the urge to pick up gardening and adopt an organic lifestyle proved difficult for many who attended he Boston Flower & Garden Show. The convention space, with controlled temperatures to protect the plants and flowers, felt like a traditional public market in the spring. Crowds of people lined up to look at the display rooms, while others talked about plans for their homes with their families. As an annual celebration in March, the Boston Flower & Garden Show is a collaboration of gardeners, artists, and vendors—a perfect event to gather New Englanders together to welcome the spring. n

Bakery Fills Newton With Matzah, Tradition By Molly Duggan Heights Staff

The Model Matzah Bakery was held on Sunday at Beth Menachem Chabad of Newton, hosted by Rabbi Shalom Ber Prus and Itty Prus. This event brought children together for a hands-on educational experience exploring the history and significance of Passover, and of matzah. Matzah, or matzo, is an unleavened flatbread that plays an important role in the celebration of Passover, an eight-day festival that is celebrated from the 15th through the 22nd of the Hebrew month of Nissan. This holiday commemorates the emancipation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt. This year, Passover begins on Monday, April 10 at sundown and will continue through the evening of Tuesday, April 18. As the event began, Prus explained that the eating of matzah originated from the Jews having to leave Egypt in such a hurry that they could not wait for their bread dough to rise. Matzah also plays an important role in the Passover Seder. The focal points of the Passover Seder are eating matzah and bitter herbs; drinking four cups of wine or grape juice; and the recitation of the Haggadah, which is a liturgy that describes the story of the Exodus from Egypt. In Hebrew, this holiday is known as Pesach, which means “to pass over.” The festival is divided into two parts. The first two days and the last two days are fullfledged holidays where observers do not go to work, drive, write, or switch on or off electronic devices. The middle four days are intermediate days where most forms of work are allowed. The first step in making the matzah was grinding up wheat kernels to get flour. To do this, the wheat needed to be broken off its stem and rubbed until the kernels loosened. Once enough kernels were separated they were all combined into a large bowl that was passed around. The children then each took a try turning the hand grinder, which ground up the wheat kernels into flour. The next step in making matzah was adding water to the flour. The matzah needed to be baked within 18 minutes of the water contacting the flour, and Prus explained how, in real-life matzah baker-

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On Sunday morning, the Model Matzah Bakery filled Beth Menachem Chabad to educated participants on Passover history.

ies, there are two separate rooms for the water and the flour so they don’t accidentally mix. This 18-minute rule stems from the idea that dough begins to enter the leavening process eighteen minutes after it gets wet. Once the dough was made by combining the water and flour, the kids were each given a piece of dough that they could then roll flat to make their matzah. Once the dough was flat, holes were poked in the dough to prevent it from rising, and the dough was then put into the oven to bake until it turned brown. While the kids waited for the matzah to bake, they had fun decorating their own puzzles and en-

velopes that would be used to hide matzah during Passover. The kids also drank grape juice as Prus explained how at the seder, either four cups of wine or four cups of grape juice are the traditional drink. Another Passover observance is the eating of the horseradish root. The root is so bitter that it brings tears to the eyes when it is smelled or eaten. According to Jewish tradition, this bitterness is important because it reminds each participant in the seder of the great affliction that the Jewish people endured while in Egypt. The kids took turns helping Prus peel the root, and once it was peeled

it was then cut up and ground in a food processor. The kids then had the opportunity to eat their matzah while finishing their Passover crafts. The flat, unflavored matzah is seen as the embodiment of humility, which is why it is so important in the celebration of Passover. “The Matzah Bakery provides children with a very fun experience but also helps develop a profound appreciation for the holiday,” Prus said. “Today, more than ever, parents appreciate opportunities like this to share their Jewish heritage and tradition with the next generation.” n

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BC Must Promote Diversity Amid Changing Visa Policies U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCIS) announced this month that, as of next week, it will introduce changes to the procedure for acquiring H-1B visas. This documentation is what allows international students and faculty to study and teach at Boston College. Currently, professors from overseas are hired through the fast-track processing of H-1B visas, which UCIS said it will be discontinuing on April 3. The University plans to make 55 hires from abroad in the coming year, and eight of these hires have been affected by the changes, said Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo. Another polic y requiring in-person visa application interviews could impact international students coming to BC. Prospective students would have to schedule meetings at U.S. embassies and consulates overseas in order to obtain a visa. If the interview queue at these agencies becomes backlogged, then it may become difficult or even impossible for international students to make it to BC by late-August. This new policy might pose serious roadblocks for members of the international community seeking to participate in American higher education. The action comes at a time in which immigration has been under intense scrutiny by the government, evident in the Trump administration’s initial travel ban, which specifically prohibited immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. BC has an academic culture

that is enriched by its diverse faculty and students. This year, the University had 62 international faculty and research scholars on H-1B visas. Around 700 new international students come to BC each year. These members of the University are an integral part of what makes this school a great institution. Any legal action that makes it harder for these valuable contributors to our country to live, study, and teach in America would harm the BC community as a whole. This is not to mention the larger effect of the policy on higher education in general. The U.S. is an essential participant in global affairs, and programs in international issues, policy, and relations are found in many academic curriculums at colleges and universities across the country. BC has an International Studies Program that is growing in stature, as well as other interdisciplinary programs n such as Islamic Civilization and Societies and Latin American Studies. In recent years, BC has made an effort to diversify its faculty to better reflect the changing country and world. The advancement of these important areas of study will be inhibited if diverse faculty and students are unable to come to BC and other colleges in the U.S. in the future. Study abroad is a part of the college experience of many American students. About 50 percent of undergraduates at BC will spend time studying overseas during their education, according to the Office of Inter-

national Programs. If the U.S. government continues to take a hardline stance on immigration, this might have adverse effects on the perception of students that choose to study abroad. If those in foreign countries see that America does not value their culture, why would they be inclined to accept American students into their homelands? The Ignatian message of “setting the world aflame” is a central component of a BC education. Students are encouraged to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it in the real world in order to make a difference. Many graduates go on to join organizations such as the Peace Corps or to work for international nonprofits. The University’s indispensable global perspective and mission is under threat with changing approaches to immigration and diplomacy within the current U.S. government. During this testing time, it is imperative that BC remain committed to addressing the world’s most pressing issues and continue to further develop institutional diversity. If new policies impede the traditional methods of hiring and admitting international faculty and students, then the University must do all that it can to find new ways in which to make these practices possible. Trump has stated that he wants to “Make America great again.” Regardless of what this administration believes, diversity is what already does, and always will, make this country great.

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” - C. S. Lewis

Letter to the Editor A Response to “A Taste of Southern Charm” “A Taste of Southern Charm”, published by The Heights on March 16, may be regarded as simply an interesting take on an adventure to another world. However, this article briefly brings to light an underlying issue I have faced at Boston College and ultimately one all people face in different ways. The author of this piece acknowledged se veral stereotypes many people have about the South. The author states: “everything I knew about the South came from episodes of Duck Dynasty or progressive history lessons on the Civil War. Not to be dismissive, but the South didn’t come out looking so hot.” An area should not be defined, for example, by one show centered around one family working in one industry. During my first six months of college here in the Northeast, I have been exposed to similar statements regarding my home state of Kansas. While I take little to no offense, it is shocking to me how misrepresented and lack of knowledge there is about a large part of the country. Many BC students view certain areas of the United States by the stereotypes attached to them. Some of the claims are indeed true, but others can be an exaggeration of the truth. Also, the accusations often focus on the negative qualities of the area. No one should have to feel ashamed of where they are from due to stereotypes. At the beginning of the year, I

would preface my answer to the question “Where are you from?” with the statement “Don’t judge me but …” I would do this because I knew the initially shocked face would be followed by a joke regarding farms. I found myself laughing with the person, but I usually wanted to correct them. It is interesting to hear what other people think about a place and then how they view it differently after a visit. While the article focused on food, it gave me hope that people will learn some truth through a journey to a new place; that one would then be able to see the exaggerations and false claims some stereotypes have. The author ’s exp erience wa s summed up with the statement: “I may not have decoded the South, but I came out of the trip with a clearer picture of a complicated place.” The acknowledgement of a place being different from its stereotypes is a great start. I commend the author for encouraging a trip to a new place to overcome preconceived views. This continued encouragement to question stereotypes and seek the truth is the way to break down the common misrepresentations in our world. We all become susceptible to believing the stereotypes that surround us. Instead of judging a place, person, race, or religion by labels society has given them, we should expand our knowledge by questioning the problematic ideas.

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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Mending Attitudes and the Wage Gap Stuck in a Food Rut Emma Greco Rediscovering the Old - The party in the Mod was burning out. The crowded housing unit had been the site of festivities since 3 p.m., and it was now approaching 2 in the morning. The residents of the dwelling were well past the point of a safe level of intoxication, and thus could not come to their senses to kick everyone out of their house. And so the dancing and liver-poisoning took on a tired and lethargic style, full of drunken stumbles and passed out party-goers abound. One of the residents, the designated DJ for the night, returned to his iPhone by the speaker and gazed through the glare of his bright screen through a buzzed blur. In his impaired state, he accidentally hit shuffle on the wrong playlist. While he meant to que up his “Mod Get Lit” soundtrack, he accidentally pressed play on “Adam’s Seventh Birthday,” which his mom had refused to delete from their shared iTunes account. The unsuspecting senior perked up his ears in horror as P!nk’s “Get This Party Started” began to reverberate through the trashed room. He stood frozen, expecting ridicule and a rescinding of his future aux cord privileges. To his surprise, however, the music seemingly cast a spell over the room. The fallen celebrants reawakened, rising together and singing along in uniscent. One by one their spirits were rejuvenated. They disregarded the turned-over furniture and beer bottles that littered the floor, and took to dancing again. Truly, they were coming up, and they were going to get this party started. Gettin’ Fancy - If you’ve been to Eagle’s Nest to get a sandwich in the last week or so, you’ve probably noticed the new bread option that appears every so often. This artisan loaf is fantastic, and represents an improvement to the already best place to eat on campus. Tuscan Chickens are given a more authentic taste, while Turkey Avocados are made all the more delicious. Even if you’re a presser or a salad-liner, it is worth your while to defect for at least one day, and to try this newfound treasure before it’s gone.

Fake News - In Trump’s America, in which adhering to morality seems as inconsequential of a question as what color underwear one should wear on any given day, the dissemination of fake news is a serious and pressing issue. The Heights has received multiple reports that a new publication, oddly titled The Depths, has established an office in the basement of Carney Hall, and have begun spreading their publication around campus. The slanderous and falsified stories in The Depths could only have been written by a group of scallywags who are sick in the mind. Who would even think to mislead the student body in such a manner? Those that disgrace the news by creating fabricated stories are surely twisted and maniacal individuals who should never be trusted. Be wary if you see a member of The Depths around campus, they just might tell you that Eagle’s Nest is open on the weekend. It’s not. Can we fix that?

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One of the most prominent and controversial issues surrounding the feminist movement is the gender pay gap. This is a phrase that has become somewhat contentious, with one side of the debate insisting that the concept is a myth, and the other presenting statistics that it is, in fact, very much a reality. This inequality is real, and it is harmful and insulting to half of the American population, a half that works just as hard as the other. The gender pay gap is the relationship between what women earn and what men do. In a sense, it is a measure of gender discrimination in the workplace. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), this ratio is generally reported as women earning 80 cents for every one dollar earned by men, or any number relatively close to that, as it has remained almost constant for the past several years. Part of the controversy, however, stems from the different data that is presented from numerous sources concerning the issue. Many of these sources research various types of job positions, economic situations, and education levels to discuss the disparity in wages, or the lack thereof. As the EPI states, “Different measures don’t mean the data [is] unreliable.” Naturally, the research and results presented by one source will differ from another based on which determining factor is used. There is undeniably a lack of consistency in how much of a gender pay gap exists from one career to another, but there can be no doubt that a gap does exist. It is a fact that on average, American women earn less than American men. This fact is bolstered by a logical compilation of evidence. Women comprise a little more than half of the United States population, according to the most recent census. The Institute for Women’s Policy and Research reports that women represent almost half of the workforce in the country, and half of American families with

children have women as either the sole or co-provider of the family. This immediately debunks any claim that women make less than men simply because fewer women work. Clearly, women are not underrepresented in the workplace. They are, however, underpaid. How is it fair that the children in families for which women provide live on 80 percent of what the children in families for which men provide do? There are two different types of pay gaps that exist, both of which leave women earning less than men, and therefore less able to provide for their families: uncontrolled and controlled. The controlled gender pay gap exists between women and men who work the same jobs, yet do not receive the same pay. In this scenario, the gap ranges from below the median of 80 cents for every dollar to almost 98 cents, depending on the job, but rarely ever a one dollar equal pay. The uncontrolled gender pay gap is what comes to mind for many who wave an impatient hand at feminists and slander the wage gap as a myth. This is a disparity created by opportunity, in which women are less likely to have higher-paying, higherlevel jobs than men are. This inequality is created by the fact that fewer women are hired for these positions than men, and therefore never even have the opportunity to earn as much as their counterparts. I have heard many proponents of the pay-gap-is-a-myth mentality say that these pay differences are generated by women simply being less qualified or experienced than men, or that women merely choose to work lower-level jobs. Not only is this a misunderstanding of the different types of gaps that exist and ignorance of the controlled pay gap, but this is also a complete falsification, as studies by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) have shown that level of education and experience have no effect on the gap. Yes, having a higher level of education and experience will increase a woman’s salary just as it would a man’s, but a gap still exists between women and men working the same job with the same degree of education and the same amount of experience. According to the AAUW, women could once expect to reach equal pay with

men in the year 2059. At least, that’s what studies said before the closing of the pay ratio began to slow in recent years. Due to this stagnation, the AAUW reports that women might be looking to the year 2152 to achieve fully equal pay. This is a ludicrously long time for women to have to wait to finally be able to earn as much as men do. This remnant of America’s sexist past needs to be fixed. Equality for all is what America strives for, is it not? To close the gap, it is necessary to change the mentality that created this issue in the first place—the belief that women do not work as hard as men or have as much experience as men. This ideology is a painful reminder of just how comparatively new women are in the workforce and just how poorly they have been received by the men who used to exclusively dominate it. President Barack Obama took some steps in the right direction while in office, including signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 and creating the National Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force. While these measures did not completely close the pay gap as many had hoped, the show of support from the government was encouraging to feminists. Judging by the lack of women in President Trump’s current cabinet and his administration’s stance on women’s rights, the same level of support cannot be expected again anytime soon. Legal action, however, would not be necessary to ensure equal pay for women if the country’s mentality evolved to support equal pay for equal work. This would require an acceptance that women are an indisputable pillar of America’s workforce and will continue to be in the future, not to mention the fact that it would be morally decent to pay people the same wages as anyone else doing the same job, regardless of their gender. Women do not want to earn more than men. Women want to earn the same as men. I fail to see a problem with that. One day, in a few decades, this dream will be realized, and wage equality in America will finally have been achieved.

Emma Greco is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

Know the Money, Make the Money

Garrett Reynolds When I was looking at colleges, I didn’t know if I wanted to be a complete business student or to explore the arts and sciences, but I did know that I wanted to apply to Boston College. When the time came to apply to schools, I had to decide between applying to the Carroll School of Management or the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. I sat down and gave it some thought. BC’s business school is one of the best in the country, and I was interested in working in the field. Yet, on the other hand, I wasn’t sure if I could actually get into CSOM. I had heard that it was more competitive, and part of me wasn’t willing to take the risk of not getting into BC at all. Eventually, I applied to MCAS. I decided to major in economics and political science, two subjects that I loved and that were somewhat business-oriented. Once I stepped onto campus as an MCAS student, I took part in the subtle roasting of CSOM. I joked about CSOM “bros,” the homogenous culture, and the pretentious attitude that seems to walk hand in hand with management and finance. Most of the time, all of this is a joke, but on a larger scale, there is an active dislike for those in finance. Politicians score points for degrading those in the Wall Street class. While some may believe that this class sits on a pedestal of pretentiousness and unemotionally oppresses the poor, we can’t let that view take us away from finance. Any field can be pretentious or looked down upon, whether it’s political, musical, theatrical, or business-oriented. These seemingly pretentious fields aren’t actually all that obnoxious, but certain members of each field perpetuate stereotypes that cause them to appear that way. It’s not the fault of the field itself, it’s the fault of the select few that represent the discipline.

I can understand why people write off finance because of its bad reputation. Wall Street, and the stock market in and of itself, can be jealous, manipulative, and selfish. The solution to this attitude, however, is not to ignore or disregard Wall Street, which can actually hurt a society more than help it. Like it or not, buying and selling stocks, loaning funds, paying interest rates, etc … help an economy to flourish. Finance is not like other fields. Even without theatre, literature, or music— three fields that can sometimes be flagged as pretentious—I can live at a high standard. Yes, I might miss out on amazing plays, fascinating books, and life-changing instrumental pieces. Those artistic pursuits I will live without, but that doesn’t stop me from paying my mortgage, buying groceries, or saving for retirement. I can live comfortably while not knowing the intricacies of Shakespeare. I can’t say the same for not understanding a 401k or basic investment. On the other hand, if I ignore finance, and fall in love with literature and become a successful teacher or author, that doesn’t mean finance will no longer be part of my life. In the modern world, very few of us can retreat to wooded cabins like Henry David Thoreau did and ponder the nature of life. We have things to do. Though we can live our passions and love our fields, we still need to understand how to become involved in finance. By teaching and learning the basics of finance in school, the field can become less pretentious, and those businesspeople who take advantage of others will lose their leverage, because the financial playing ground will be leveled. When the average member of the economy understands the basics of the financial markets, both that member, as well as the economy as a whole, benefit. The more inclusive an economy is, the more assets it taps into. The market depends on participation, and when we walk away from the financial sector, it’s not an act of righteousness, but a misunderstanding, and a harmful one at that. Certain financial crises in history

could have been avoided if the majority of the public had a basic understanding of finance. During the 2008 worldwide recession, a grasp of how a market crash can become a self-fulfilling prophecy or a perception of market bubbles could’ve prevented the masses from taking a financial hit, and might’ve prevented a select few from taking advantage of the situation. I would recommend that individual states ensure that financial instruction becomes a required part of public and private education. Individual municipalities can then identify the classes that they can replace with financial education. This replacement is going to anger people, especially because schools would likely have to take away from artistic programs because they are often seen as the most expendable. There are ways, however, to preserve these programs while initiating fiscal education by adding financial literacy courses and changing the way specific classes are taught. In math classes, teachers could spend less time on working on the memorization of say, the quadratic formula, and instead help students understand how a tax bracket works, or how to understand the significance between a million and a billion, or a billion and a trillion. Society often groups these numbers together, but there exists a massive chasm in value, and by teaching that difference, students can better understand the national budget and debt. For another discipline, social studies, teachers should put an emphasis on the different governmental institutions that interact with society daily instead of, say, the significance of ancient pottery. Even if artistic programs have to take an initial hit, if we understand finance, we can better fund the arts and support artists in the long run, helping the economy and providing support for intellectual and imaginative pursuits.

Garrett Reynolds is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Valerie Cherbero

If you are what you eat, then I am a series of predictable choices. I have always been a creature of habit, but a recent project forced me to confront my repetitive nature in the kitchen. Two weeks ago, I started taking a photo of each meal I eat. I post all of the photos on Instagram, where I have cultivated a visual food diary, capturing a foodstagram of each breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When I began this project, I hoped that sharing all of my meals would force me to shake up my food patterns. I thought I would discover new ingredients and challenge myself to try unfamiliar recipes. I envisioned a year of experimentation and growth, and at the very least, the possibility to dazzle my followers with my culinary dexterity. So far, this hasn’t been the case. Scrolling through my Instagram, what amazes me the most is my relentless repetition. My page reads like a chessboard, a zigzagging pattern of avocado toast and eggs, grilled cheese sandwiches, and tacos. The only dazzling thing about it is the near perfection of my eating pattern. In the beginning, I scrolled through my homepage and felt queasy. Did I really eat oatmeal that often? When had my pasta dishes become so tired and predictable? Is it possible to eat too many eggs in one week? For someone who talks a big talk about eating adventurously, I had dug myself into a well-worn food rut. So what’s the problem with a food rut? We all have habits, why are they so much more egregious in the kitchen? When I googled “food rut”, I found dozens of articles about how to avoid one. Everyone from Bon Appétit to Psychology Today has something to say about shaking up food routines. Try new spices, they say. Go vegetarian. Read some new cookbooks. Or throw out all your cookbooks. All of these sources have a similar thesis: a food rut is a bad place to be, and you’d better get the hell out if you want to be creative and have fun in the kitchen. Reading through these articles, I had a few misgivings. Sure, I had once despised my own predictability, but now, two weeks later, I’ve come to appreciate the familiar grooves of my food rut and the shelter it provides. When I was growing up, my parents made a pot of soup every Sunday afternoon. Vegetable soup, split pea, lentil, leek and potato, it didn’t matter. We ate a bowl of soup before every dinner, sometimes adding water to the pot to make it last the week. I used to complain about our nightly bowls of soup. “Can’t we have something else?” I’d ask. I didn’t know it at the time, but I saw through the repetition and knew it for what it was: a well-developed food rut. Now, I look back at those bowls of soup and think of the warmth and stability they provided. They ushered in a time when we would all be together, even if just for an hour, and now I can’t smell soup without thinking of my parents. In some ways, I think the contention over food ruts stems from the larger debate over tradition. Eating repetitively invokes a sense of tradition, like going to church on Sundays or opening presents on Christmas. Think of the turkey and mashed potatoes you eat every Thanksgiving. We call that tradition, but could it also be a long-standing food rut? One so delicious that we never thought to question it? Tradition is a prickly thing. It can comfort in one breath and damage in another. And it’s most dangerous when it goes unquestioned, like the plate of avocado toast and eggs I eat every morning. But when you boil it down, tradition gives us something to depend on. Something unchanging amid a tumultuous world full of uncertainty. So what if you ate spaghetti and meatballs for dinner three times this week? I bet you enjoyed each heaping plate, the smell of garlic and tomatoes no less comforting because you’d smelled it before. Be an adventurous eater and a fearless chef. Sample challenging recipes and conquer unknown ingredients. But if you find yourself in a food rut, don’t fret. There’s comfort on familiar paths and even more on a familiar plate.

Valerie Cherbero is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

The Heights

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Kaki Lima Is a Pop-Up Burst of Indonesian Flavor

Peter Gelling, a former correspondent with ‘The New York Times,’ started the restaurant to bring Indonesian food to Boston. By William Batchelor Asst. Metro Editor Walk through a heavy black door, enter into the hidden speakeasy bar Wink & Nod, and be instantly transported to the the prohibition era of the ’20s. You will be greeted by a chic stewardess who will show you to your seat in front of vast bar displaying topshelf bottles of premium liquor. The bar’s plush interiors make it the perfect setting to sit back and enjoy a gastronomic culinary experience. First comes the Batagor—fried shrimp dumplings with tofu and spicy peanut sauce—creating an explosion of flavors and textures with every bite. Then comes the Gulai—seared

duck breast and charred brussels sprouts in a lemongrass-coconut curry—which will have you grabbing for your glass of water and diving back in for more. Hungry foodies begin to fill every seat in the bar, eager to get a taste for the much talked about Indonesian pop-up restaurant Kaki Lima. The dishes are beautifully presented and are bursting with sweet, sour, and spicy flavors. Kaki Lima founder Peter Gelling makes the rounds, greeting guests and serving up mouth-watering plates. Prior to the pop-up restaurant, Gelling served as a correspondent for The New York Times based in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2004 to 2010. In need of an interpreter, Gelling met Indonesian native Rento

Pratiwi. Eventually, the pair began dating and travelled around Indonesia together as a journalism duo, tasting the exotic food from different regions of the country along the way. Noticing a complete lack of Indonesian restaurants in Boston, Gelling left behind his career in journalism to take on the city’s culinary scene. Gelling and Pratiwi moved to Boston after they married, inspired to introduce Indonesian cuisine to American audiences. Utilizing Pratiwi’s culinary experience, the pair began selling food at the annual Indonesian Festival in Copley Square. Astonished by the large turnout, Gelling realized there was a market for Indonesian

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The main dish was Gulai, a seared duck served over charred brussels sprouts in a lemongrass curry that makes your eyes water.

food in Boston. In 2013, the couple officially started Kaki Lima, an Indonesian pop-up restaurant with Pratiwi serving as the head chef. Kaki Lima translates from Indonesian to ‘street vendor,’ wordplay that ties the business into the pop-up concept that has the duo serving their authentic Indonesian cuisine in many locations around Boston. “For people who are just getting started out in the restaurant industry, a pop-up is ideal,” Gelling said. “It has been a great learning process for us.” Gelling explained that launching a pop-up instead of a restaurant has allowed his team to take risks and experiment with different dishes, seeing what works and what does not. Their pop-up has been a way for Gelling and Pratiwi to reach a point where they now have enough knowledge of the industry to potentially open their own restaurant. Most recently, Kaki Lima has poppedup at KO Pies in East Boston, and Tavern Road in Fort Point. In both instances, their fare sold out almost instantaneously. Overtime, the pop-up eatery grew in popularity, and Boston Nightlife Ventures took notice. The restaurant group reached out to Gelling and offered Kaki Lima a residency for six months at the trendy South Boston bar Wink & Nod. Gelling expressed that the offer was a no-brainer. For six months, he and Pratiwi would have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of running a restaurant without risk. Many other pop-up restaurants who have done residencies at Wink & Nod, like Doretta Taverna and Brassica Kitchen, have gone on to open successful restaurants around Boston. After opening in 2014, Wink & Nod has become renowned for its specially crafted

cocktails and rotating-kitchen concept. The award-winning bartenders have worked with Kaki Lima to create innovative cocktails infused with Indonesian flavors. Flavors unique to Kaki Lima’s dishes include lime leaves, galangal—an aromatic similar to ginger but spicier—tamarind, and salam leaf. According to Gelling, the process of cooking Indonesian food is extremely labour intensive, but the resulting dishes are layered with complex flavors. “Indonesian food is bold and in your face, as opposed to French cuisine which is subtle and nuanced,” Gelling said. For just one dish that offers an authentic Indonesian food experience, Gelling recommended the House Special Beef Rendang. The beef is coated in dozens of species from the West Sumatra region of Indonesia, and is then braised for 12 hours until tender. Being one of Indonesia’s most famous dishes, Gelling explained that many customers see the rendang on the menu and go straight for it. Another popular menu item is the Terong Banda, grilled eggplant with a macadamia-coconut sauce. This dish holds special significance for Gelling and Pratiwi who were taught the recipe by a family in a remote region of Indonesia called the Banda Islands. While a permanent Kaki Lima restaurant is not currently in the works, Gelling insisted that it is the pair’s ultimate goal. Gelling explained his ideal location would be East Boston, where he and Pratiwi reside. Meanwhile, Boston foodies will have to wait in anticipation to see if a Kaki Lima brick and mortar will pop up in the future. “Our mission is not just to open up a restaurant but to popularize Indonesian cuisine and educate people about Indonesia,” Gelling said. n

After ‘Project Delta,’ ITS Finds a Contemporary Footing ITS, from B1 the time. “It was very difficult at first because people’s jobs changed,” recalled Louise Lonabocker, the first and current director of Student Services and one of the members working with the redesign at the time. “So they had to learn a lot in order to do the new job … It was a time when a lot of schools went through the same thing. We were one of the first, but there were a couple before us.” While Lonabocker’s side focused on making in-person service more efficient, Information Technology Services (ITS) pushed to maximize opportunities for selfservice. That meant continuing to capitalize on BC’s technological prowess and recent history of innovation in the early 1990s. That winter in ’99, Kathleen Warner, the newly-named Vice President of Information Technology at BC, gave an interview to The Heights. It was a relatively casual line of questions, in which the interviewers asked about how she was fitting in at BC and her goals for the department. They also asked if she agreed with a statement from University Spokesman Jack Dunn, who had announced a new round of funding was in part going to “maintain the school’s standing as a leading technological university.” “I think that the school right now, from what I’ve observed and learned about the infrastructure, is very progressive,” Warner responded. “I think it has an opportunity to be a leader in information technology among other institutions in higher education. I think we have a little ways to go.” It was a positive message at a time that remained somewhat rocky for BC. The jury was still out on Project Delta, which had planned to end on June 6, 2000 with a hopeful savings of $25 million out of the budget by 2003. Things on the ITS side didn’t exactly go as planned. On July 28, just about a year and a half after she started, Warner resigned. The move from the private sector to a college setting had been a difficult one for her. A couple of the goals she set early on came to fruition—including upgrading the campus infrastructure and preparing to make BC wireless—but she did not manage to deliver to a level the University had hoped. “Even though I thoroughly enjoyed all of the challenges and rewards BC had to offer, I was a technologist at heart and anxious to continue working with those who shared the same vision I had for the future,” Warner said in an email a few weeks ago. Warner acknowledged that the adminis-

tration supported ITS and its advances at the time, but said that a balancing of the budget led to a decrease in staff. “IT was one of them,” she said. “This resulted in IT reworking its strategic plan with the realization that it could not achieve the planned goal of being a leading technology university in the near future.” While the number of positions in ITS had been on the rise since the early 1990s, it dropped down from 105 in the fall of 2000 to 99 in the fall of 2002, according to the BC Fact Books. (No fact book was published in 2001.) According to Jim Kreinbring, the project manager of Project Delta and the current director of administration, these types of changes weren’t uncommon in ITS departments around 2000-02, especially with the severe drops in the stock market stemming from the fallout of the dot-com bubble. Project Delta did not result in any layoffs, however, and would not have been a cause of such cuts. “It was always clear that the primary way to reduce cost was through the deployment of better technology -- putting information online and moving services to the web, making them accessible and available 24/7, rather than from 9:00 to 5:00,” Kreinbring said in an email. “As a result, ITS was not seen as a place to reduce budgets.” In fact, Project Delta inspired lasting

the web for several years. “It has been discussed, it’s on our list of IT requests,” Lonabocker told The Heights that spring. “But at this point it hasn’t been targeted for an implementation date.” The black UIS screen wasn’t considered outdated at this point, but Lonabocker knew that day would come. The terminal U-VIEW PLUS was still an alternative method for students to use besides over-the-phone registration with U-DIAL. Internet speeds at the time also weren’t what they are today, meaning that, while a web application in 2002 would have already been more userfriendly, it wouldn’t necessarily have been as efficient. So the “University Information System,” then over 10 years old to the student body and decades-old to ITS, was still going strong. Not everything in ITS was. When Marian Moore, the eventual replacement for Turner as VP of ITS, assumed the role in 2002, she found a campus with technological weaknesses: namely, the University’s main computer center. Over the prior couple decades, it had moved back and forth between Gasson Hall and O’Neill Library, and by the mid-2000s its location in O’Neill had outlasted its expected life by about 10 years. So, she brought Michael Bourque on board as the executive director of information technology. “When I first came to BC in 2003, we realized we had a lot of infrastructure challenges,” said Bourque, who rose to associate vice president for information technology in 2005 and vice president following Moore’s retirement in 2010. “The first thing was we had to get the computer center stable … We strengthened - Jim Kreinbring, the director of our staff and we got the administration at BC computer center modernized and stable to address improvements for ITS, including the so- some serious reliability issues.” lidification of the Agora system, which has For example, the facility in O’Neill been a main portal for students to access a lacked a backup power generator, meaning growing variety of information for the past a power outage could leave the system down 20 years. Not only that, but the passage of for eight to 12 hours. Some parts of it were at time showed Delta was a success, saving risk to not be fully recovered at all. The lack the University upwards of $50 million in of space also meant a lack of satisfactory air operating costs by 2011. conditioning units, which led to a growing But ITS also invested a good deal of concern about the processors overheating. time and money around that period to That all changed following a longbe Y2K-ready on top of the stock market awaited transition, when ITS moved to St. downturn. With two co-directors running Clements Hall on Brighton in the fall of ITS in the interim after Warner’s departure, 2006. The machine room today is home to the department did not approach the lofty all of BC’s data, which sits on nearly 1,800 hopes she had once promised. Unix and Windows servers and miles of By this time, in 2002, Student Services cables in a secure area that is staffed 24/7, had already been talking to ITS about the complete with 150 tons of air conditioning possibility of getting course registration on to keep them from running hot. It has an

“It was always clear that the primary way to reduce cost was through the deployment of better technology.”

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The St. Clements data center holds 1.1 petabytes of storage—that’s a million gigabytes. advanced backup system with a generator, backup copies at a remote location, and consistent data recovery drills. And on top of that, it all resides in an old chapel, with stained glass windows of different saints—including St. Isidore, the patron saint of computers—staring down at the state-of-the-art technology. Now sitting comfortable on a solid base, ITS had the chance to take a step back and see which systems needed the most immediate attention. After all, UIS isn’t one of just a few systems—it’s one of about 300 that ITS upkeeps for every other function of the University, not to mention infrastructure, security, and more. And when Bernie Gleason, the leader of Information Technology during its formative days, had written it all those years ago, he had done a pretty good job. Good enough, in fact, that when most schools were ready to get on-board with a computerized self-service course registration system in the mid to late-1990s, BC didn’t have to bother—it already had one that worked well. During that next decade, through the dot-com bubble and all, technology companies changed hands rapidly. The two main vendors that had come out with student information systems in the ’90s, at one time named Oracle and Ellucian, respectively, were no exception. In fact, as Bourque explains, marketing a student information system is very difficult. Where financial and human resource systems are a must-have for nearly every company, there are only a few thousand colleges in the United States, meaning those organizations in need of a student system are far more limited—and many of those institutions are satisfied riding out old systems until they are in dire need of a fix.

That means these vendors haven’t invested much to upgrade them. The result: in the mid-2000s, when BC was finally ready to look at upgrading students information systems like UIS, the big, popular vendors were pretty much still offering 1990s technology. Still, in 2008, Bourque says his department was looking very seriously at software from PeopleSoft—a subset of Oracle since 2005—as an option for its new student system. Then the financial crisis struck, and everything was put on hold. When BC had returned to a position where it could afford to act, ITS didn’t like what it saw. “Come back a few years later, and what happened was, that system that we’re looking at hadn’t been improved,” Bourque said. “It’s just a couple years older and its future looks less positive.” So BC switched gears. In 2012, it became involved with a consortium of other schools who were working together on developing an open-source system, which would provide more technological and financial flexibility than going solely with one of the vendors. It also let ITS take incremental steps in replacing systems, allowing them to focus their attention on doing each step right. And then, unexpectedly, personnel changes and budget issues arose with the other schools involved. The consortium broke down. That left BC ITS with a decision to make. It could finally compromise and make the jump to a relatively modern vendor product and away from the system that The Heights called “borderline archaic” as early as 2007. Or it could it return back to its innovative roots and develop a new, in-house system itself. Meanwhile, UIS kept on chugging. n

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Freshman Tonye Ikoni came away as the Sing it to the Heights champion, through hard work, dedication, and practice. By Isabella Dow

Asst. Arts & Review Editor For as long as he can remember, Tonye Ikoli, MCAS ’20, has been a singer. Originally hailing from Nigeria, the psychology major developed his interest in and talent for music from an early age. Ikoli considers singing to be a transformative experience, one that gives him the profound joy of allowing the music to affect both him and his audience. “I feel like I’m in my own world when I sing,” he said. “I like being able to control the way it sounds, and make others feel the emotions I want with the tones and riffs I sing.” Ikoli did just that at the 13th annual Sing It to the Heights competition that was hosted at Robsham Theater earlier this month. The event showcased the talents of 10 singers as they clashed for the coveted title. But while the competition was fierce, Ikoli came out on top with his rendition of Nathan Sykes’ song “Famous.” Sing it to the Heights offers singers the unique opportunity to establish their talents in an individual context on campus, which is especially important for a freshman winner like Ikoli. BC students may not find a linear path to showcase themselves as individual artists within a sea of a cappella and choral groups. Ikoli defied that struggle and secured his presence as an artistic force on campus early in his BC career, continuing the freshman victory streak of past winners Will Supple, MCAS ’19, and Wynnm Murphy, MCAS ’18, of 2016 and 2015, respectively. In middle school, Ikoli competed in a few talent shows, which fostered his love of performative events. Ikoli joined an a cappella group in high school, and had such a positive experience that he knew it was something he wanted to continue when he arrived at BC. After considering a couple different a cappella groups, Ikoli joined the BC Acoustics this past fall, which has allowed him to carve out his place on campus. Since then, he has found some

of his closest friends in the group and has built a fulfilling social network. Ikoli heard about Sing it to the Heights through his connection to the campus music world. Ikoli heard numerous opinions that the competition was a popularity contest and that the upperclassmen would steal the show, and became concerned that the competition wouldn’t be a rewarding endeavor. In the end, his friends in Acoustics urged him to try out, and Ikoli overcame his mixed perceptions about the competition and decided to go for it. While many artists fret over artistic choices at length, “Famous” seemed to be a natural choice for Ikoli. “I had been singing it a lot … it was stuck in my head,” he said. “I felt like I had to get it out there.” Through the interplay of Sykes’ soaring vocals and the song’s wistful lyrics about striving to move on from the past, Ikoli believes the song develops an abundance of emotion. The lyrics examine a breakup with a past love, and ponder whether the singer’s fame would be enough to make them see his worth. But the song notes the superficiality of fame and diamonds, and suggests that the real value of love stems not from chasing glittering emptiness, but from a more soulful connection. Ikoli took these lyrics and expanded their meaning to a full and compelling interpretation. “The song suggests that an ex can hold you back, and the lyrics deal with a lot of the emotions and personal growth that can come from moving on from that,” Ikoli said. “Feelings of overcoming something bad and looking back on that from a place of success can be really powerful.” Ikoli explained that he takes his

musical inspiration from the world around him, but has taken a special interest in the music of other artists. One of his biggest influences is British singer-songwriter Sam Smith, whose vulnerable vocals and precise falsetto tones have touched the hearts of fans everywhere. “I love the way he can control his voice,” Ikoli said. About his artistic approach, Ikoli further attends to the unique qualities

as Drake, who tends to blend rap and melodies into unconventional songs. Ikoli’s musically diverse background and inspiration enhances the scope of emotion and musical style that he can draw from in order to develop multidimensional performances. On the night of the competition, Ikoli was fairly unfazed by the atmosphere of a performance venue. Some performers wrestle with stage fright, while others resort to visualizing the audience in their underwear in an attempt to distract themselves from their nerves. While the efficacy of that tactic remains dubious in the minds of many, it seems Ikoli doesn’t fit seamlessly into either of those categories. Ikoli aims to take their presence with a grain of salt instead of becoming intimidated or distracted by them. He used to get moderately nervous before going onstage, but luckily that tendency has subsided as he’s grown as a performer and musician. “I see the audience, but to me they look like a still picture,” he said. “I definitely listen for their reactions and bring them into the song, but I don’t pay attention to what they’re doing specifically.” In addition to maintaining awareness of the audience, the artist must overcome the internal feat of staying in the moment and keeping command of their own performance. For many artists, performing onstage can elicit a number of thoughts and reactions as they present the fruits of their efforts to an audience. While Ikoli develops composed and soulful performances, at times some aspects of his stage presence seem to be involuntary. Ikoli explained that for some curious reason, a different part of his body starts to

“It was nice to know I won the competition even as a freshman. I felt like I won it for them.” —Tonye Ikoli, MCAS ’20

of each song. In his performances, Ikoli hones the emotion that arises organically from the song—the concept of imposing a feeling or theme onto a song seemed counterproductive to him. “I tend to pick songs that I can see myself singing. I’ll try it out, and if I feel like my voice matches the quality of the song, then I’ll continue with it. If it doesn’t feel right, then I’ll move on to something else.” Ikoli stressed that precision in creating emotionally nuanced vocals is one of features he most admires in other artists, and strives for himself. Ikoli explores the genre of R&B and soul music for his pursuits, which are often known for their impassioned and well-appreciated embellishments. Not one to pigeonhole himself, Ikoli also noted the influence of musicians such

shake when he goes onstage. Even so, Ikoli maintains that the best course of action is to zone out of anything outside the music. “I tend to focus on the lyrics and attend to how everything sounds as I sing it,” he said. “But sometimes I just want to tell my leg to stop vibrating like that.” The amount of thought and emotion Ikoli brings to his art manifested itself in his competitive performance, and the compelling impact of that helped Ikoli win over the audience at Sing it to the Heights. At the conclusion of the competition, Ikoli graciously received the win. Though the victory wasn’t the be-all-end-all form of validation or measure of success for his music, he took the win with humility and gratitude. “It was nice to know that I won the competition even as a freshman,” he said. “I felt like I won it for them.” Ikoli is dedicated to building on the momentum garnered through his win, and continues to refine his musical talents through regular rehearsals and experimentation with different vocal techniques. Often, Ikoli sets aside time in his busy schedule to visit the practice rooms on campus and try out various riffs or vocal styles. The steady pursuit of vocal excellence remains a priority and source of joy for Ikoli, and strengthens his artistic presence within the Acoustics and the greater music community. Ikoli expects that singing and the Acoustics will remain an integral part of his life on campus throughout the rest of his time at BC. And while he hasn’t planned out the entirety of his life at this point, his musical inclinations and his means of expressing them will remain important to him as time goes on. “Singing will always be a part of my life,” he said. Undoubtedly, Ikoli has carried the joy of singing with him from Nigeria to the U.S., and a love that crosses an ocean is sure to last for years to come. n

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Slayers and Vampires That Walk the Earth

Isabella Dow

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“Buffy” uses the power of fictional television to reveal personal attitudes about reality.

I have tragic news for you today, and it may as well signal the end of the world. The Hellmouth has opened, the demons are out to devour us all, and the immortal dead will descend to suck the lifeblood out the world as we know it. That’s right, the beloved television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer will be leaving Netflix this coming weekend, and some of us are more horrified of this fact than others. Yes, I know the show ended in 2003, and that likely makes this a dated pop culture reference. There are always brand new shows available to consume faster than the speed of light, which to some might render older shows irrelevant. But this is no ordinary show. And it’s not about vampires per se, because that would just be obnoxious. Although I don’t think powerful television heroines will ever go out of style, I fear the younger masses will never grow to appreciate a well-made installment in the tradition of vampire lore beyond the unfortunate curiosity that is The Twilight Saga. But one of the crazy things about my irrational attachment to this show is the fact that its episodes are scary and dark sometimes, and I’m someone that can convince myself that a bump in the night is really a deranged serial killer storming into my house. I used to detest the horror genre. I saw a few episodes of The

Walking Dead once and proceeded to stay up till sunrise several nights in a row, because there was just no way I was going to risk being consumed by zombies in the dead of night. Nevermind the fact that a zombie apocalypse was not actually in the midst of unfolding outside the realm of fiction. The show drew upon visceral fears relating to threats to survival and disgusting deformations of the human form, and effectively turned me into a sleep-deprived zombie myself. And Buffy doesn’t shy away from accosting the viewer with vengeful monsters and horrific plotlines that somehow manage to wreak havoc on Sunnydale High School students to a comical extent. What compelled me to keep watching a show that occasionally made me jump out of my skin was that there was something refreshing amidst elements of the grotesque. You can feel the desperate fear and frustration of Buffy as she angrily crushes what’s left of a vampire that almost single-handedly destroyed the world. You feel the blistering irritation when Xander impulsively pursues situations that are out of his depth on the basis of protecting his pride. Viewers saw common familial or coming of age scenarios appear in the context of witchcraft and evil, and as such enticed them to receive the show’s interpretation of these common phenomena that made sense in their own way. The appealing quality of Buffy made it feasible to keep up with the show’s personable characters and adventurous world, even though I had to creep around corners to make sure no psycho vampires were lurking nearby.

There’s something quite satisfying about taking one’s own emotions out on a leash, which is very often possible through thoughtful storytelling. In their own lives, people sometimes find emotions to be inconvenient or exasperating, because no one wants to sift through that mess to come up with a coherent ordering of those pests that doesn’t involve a lot of self-deception or selective acknowledgement of fact. But fiction can simulate aspects of the real world and present characters and storylines that are familiar enough to our own world that we gravitate toward them. While it may seem like a story imposes a set of ideas or emotions onto the viewer, more often than not it actually just draws out the viewer’s personal response to it. There doesn’t seem to be anything at stake when viewers get mad at a fictional character, or laugh with them at their amusing conversations, or become agitated as the characters are put through the wringer. After all, the viewer’s reactions are just inconsequential responses to a TV show, not uncovered glimpses into their own attitudes and beliefs, right? Viewers may think those reactions are firmly under their thumbs. But in actuality, fiction may just draw our attention to those responses and make us confront them. And letting those emotional and ideological responses free allows them to take on a life of their own, which makes them very powerful indeed.

Isabella Dow is the asst. arts & review editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

How to Get the Most Out of Showdown

Jacob Schick I am proud to say that last weekend I attended my very first AHANA Leadership Council (ALC) Showdown, and it was great. My attendance, along with the fact that I am a second-semester freshman at Boston College, gives me all of the qualification I need to immediately begin telling people what they should do. Note-taking, while not required, is strongly recommended for this lecture. There are a few things with which I take issue. The first is the division of categories. Showdown is divided into three competition categories. The first is the overall competitive dance competition, the second is the cultural dance competition, and the third is the showcase groups. The first two categories have a monetary prize that the winner of each group can donate to the charity of its choice. The showcase teams are not competing for anything, they are just there to dance. But I don’t think the showcase category should exist. If you didn’t go on the nearly impossible-to-find ALC Showdown 2017 Facebook page, you wouldn’t know there was any such distinction at the competition. I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t lived and breathed Showdown for the last two weeks while The Heights has been covering it. The showcase category only serves to confuse the audience and to narrow down the talent competing. Full Swing put on an incredible Star Warsthemed performance. This performance

won them the People’s Choice Award. Clearly, the crowd at Showdown loved them. Yet, they were ineligible for the prize as they were a showcase team. The showcase category exists officially as a way for dance teams who didn’t quite make the arbitrary cut for competition to still be featured in the show. I don’t think this distinction needs to be made. If they are good enough to be in the show, they should be good enough to compete. The cultural and competitive distinctions can remain, but not the showcase category. My other gripe is that I think Showdown should include more dance teams. This year, there were 15 dance groups, and the show ran about three hours long. That’s a long show. But, I think it should be even longer. TI think clubs like BC Ballroom Dance and Conspiracy Theory, along with the people who dance at the various club-sponsored culture shows throughout the year, should get to perform at Showdown. I don’t know the schedule for Conte Forum off the top of my head, but I imagine Athletics doesn’t have anything else planned in the rink for the night of Showdown, so it’s not like the event would run up against anything else. The obvious counterpoint would be that people would start leaving the show and going home if it ran so long. It doesn’t matter. They already bought a ticket, so there’s no financial incentive to keep the show short, plus people started leaving after two hours—or mostly after BC Irish Dance (BCID) performed—this year anyway. It didn’t seem to matter much then. Those who want to stay can stay, those who want to leave will leave anyway, regardless of length. Start the show at 6 p.m., include any team that wants to be in it,

CALEB GRIEGO Arts & Review Editor The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company at the Sorenson Center for the Arts is putting on Our American Hamlet. The play details the story of prolific Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth, brother to assassin John Wilkes Booth. Often overshadowed by his brother’s crime, this story looks into whether the crowds gathering at his performances are there for the drama or to exact their revenge on the brother of a renowned murderer. Our American Hamlet is just that, as it truly analyzes the public perception of a man caught up in harsh times.

and give everyone the full eight minutes to perform. You could even cut out some unnecessary showtime by removing or shortening the intermission. It doesn’t need to be nearly that long. I don’t mean all of this to sound like I hated Showdown. I think Showdown 2017 was fantastic. Every group did a phenomenal job and, while I haven’t seen past year’s performances, I am told that this year was way better. In particular, I really liked the Dance Organization of BC’s Bachelor performance in the competitive category, as well as Masti’s poignant critique of big oil tainting water in India in the cultural category. My personal and entirely unprofessional opinion was that those two teams should have won their respective competitions. Regardless, the winners both gave stunning performances, so I’m happy. What I do mean to say is that there are ways to make something that is already a huge BC tradition, and a whole lot of fun, even better. The event would have more talent, more potential for display, and an ever wider draw for attendance than it has already. I’m aware that this would be more work for ALC and the other organizations that give their time to make Showdown possible, and would probably be even more of a logistical nightmare than the event already is. But if the goal is to give people as much enjoyment as possible, and also to apparently pay for a student center (don’t even get me started on that), I think that my ideas have a good deal of merit. Fix these things, and we’ll end my showdown with Showdown.

Jacob Schick is the assoc. arts & review editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Assoc. Arts & Review Editor American singer-songwriter-cultural icon Bob Dylan will release his new album Triplicate this Friday. It is a threedisc studio album that is full of 30 new recordings. Each of the songs on the three-part compilation is Dylan’s modern version of a classic American song. One of the more famous. or at least more recognizable songs to modern ears is “As Time Goes By.” Cinephiles might remember this as the song that Ilsa Lund says to Sam the piano player in Casablanca. “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’”

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Asst. Arts & Review Editor Animated comedy The Boss Baby opens this Friday, and with it the preposterous tale of a child and his infant brother as they embark on a mission to investigate a complicated situation between puppies and babies. The film features voice acting of big names like Alec Baldwin, Lisa Kudrow, and Jimmy Kimmel, which might make it more intriguing to audiences over the age of 6. Who knows, maybe dressing an infant in business formal attire and relying on a plot driven by sibling rivalry will deliver a film that is more entertaining than it is insufferable.

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Narrow Scope Limits Impact of ‘Sense of an Ending’ BY JACOB SCHICK

Assoc. Arts & Review Editor The Sense of an Ending was made to be watched early on a Tuesday afternoon, in a small independent theater, seated next to your bridge partners, right before a 5:30 dinner reservation at Red Lobster. In other words, The Sense of an Ending makes it abundantly clear that it has a target audience. If the viewer isn’t a cinephile, an anglophile, or a member of this older intended audience, The Sense of an Ending probably won’t be very enjoyable. For those who fit these categories, however, you’ll find a good movie in The Sense of an Ending. The film plays

with the nature of time and truth, jumping forward and backward in the life of Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent), an elderly Londoner who owns a tiny camera shop squished between an alley and a real store. In the present, Tony leads a lonely and quiet life. He meets with his exwife Margaret (Harriet Walter) on occasion, as well as stopping in to see his pregnant daughter Susie (Michelle Dockery). His quiet and relatively peaceful existence is disturbed when Tony receives a letter willed to him by an old friend,. The Sense of an Ending begins to jump backward in time, to Tony’s days as a schoolboy. The object willed to him turns out to be a diary,

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written by a woman he had been close with, Sarah Ford (Emily Mortimer). When he goes to the office that manages her estate, he finds that the diary is being withheld from him by Sarah’s daughter Veronica (Charlotte Rampling). Veronica is Tony’s age, and a woman he had a relationship with in his youth, before marrying his now ex-wife. Tony resolves to seek out Veronica, so that he may claim the possession that was legally given to him. Here, The Sense of an Ending splits into what almost feels like two separate films. The audience follows present-day Tony, trying to track down present-day Veronica and understand why she has been keeping her mother’s diary from him. At almost the same time, it follows young Tony (Billy Howle) in his college days, as he meets young Veronica (Freya Mayor) for the first time and falls almost immediately in love with the beautiful and mysterious girl obsessed with cameras. The parts of The Sense of an Ending set in the past are shown to the audience as Tony’s recounting of events to his patient and yet slightlyunconvenienced ex-wife. The audience learns the truth of the events that occurred, and the reasons for Veronica’s refusal to give Tony her mother’s diary, along with Tony himself. The Sense of an Ending plays through the same few past scenes repeatedly throughout the entire movie, and yet they change each time as Tony learns more and more about the other side of

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the story. In his old age and bitterness, Tony’s mind had twisted the events to suit his fancy. In this way, The Sense of an Ending explores the idea of bias and its exacerbation with time. Tony only ever knew his side of the story, and with time, these memories were coated and smoothed like a pearl to be more palatable to the man in his retirement. While none of these characters are particularly complex, all of the actors excel in portraying them. Every character seems to merely circle Tony, as he weaves a path of annoyance through the rest of their lives. Jim Broadbent, who might be better known as Prof. Slughorn from the Harry Potter movies, plays the crotchety British Tony quite well, especially as Tony begins to realize that he was viewing his own past with very rose-colored glasses. While The Sense of an Ending isn’t action-packed, mystery-filled, or a barrel of laughs. Some of it is really quite depressing. Tony is a jerk for almost the entirety of the film, and his eventual redemption isn’t quite as satisfying as one might like. While the actors do well, there aren’t any groundbreaking performances, and the story is intriguing, but not riveting. The Sense of an Ending is a good movie, but it’s not a great movie. If you don’t fit the narrow audience that The Sense of an Ending is intended for, the film probably won’t be much fun. Maybe return to The Sense of an Ending in 60 years, after you get your AARP card. 

‘Most Hated Woman’ Muddied by Technical Faults BY CHRIS FULLER

Heights Senior Staff Upon first seeing the title of Netflix’s latest film, The Most Hated Woman in America, a few names come to mind regarding who the titular woman in question might possibly be. Could this film be about Hillary Clinton and the trials she faced in the latest election season? Maybe the film is about Elizabeth Taylor and her seemingly endless tales of Hollywood home-wrecking throughout her life. That would be a little more out there, but it might still work. No, according to Netflix, the most hated woman in America is Madalyn Murray O’Hair. “Who is Madalyn Murray O’Hair?” one might ask. Though the name might not be familiar with younger viewers, Murray O’Hair is probably most recognized as the woman behind landmark Supreme Court case Murray v. Curlett, which brought an official end to Bible-reading in public schools across the U.S. in 1963. That year, Murray O’Hair went on to found American Atheists, a nonprofit activist group dedicated to protecting the political and social rights of atheists. Murray O’Hair was president of the organization from 1963 until her kidnapping and murder in 1995. In August 1995, Murray O’Hair, her son Jon, and her granddaughter Robin were all kidnapped and subsequently robbed by former American Atheists office manager David Waters and two other accomplices. This is where the film begins. From here, the film shifts back in forth in time, chronicling Murray

O’Hair’s life from a couple years before the Supreme Court case all the way until her family’s kidnapping. While The Most Hated Woman in America doesn’t really suffer from any pacing problems in flipping between the kidnapping story in 1995 and episodes and moments from Murray O’Hair’s career over the previous three decades, underwhelming, clichéd writing and tropes, melodramatic acting, and tonal and aesthetic inconsistencies plague this docudrama. Academy Award-winning actress Melissa Leo brings a lot of emotion to her role as Murray O’Hair and subtly evokes empathy from the viewer for this egotistical, yet troubled and determined woman. She is by far the most captivating aspect of the film. Though she was seriously devoted to championing the rights of atheists, Murray O’Hair did not restrain herself from using her infamy and undermining the legitimacy of her nonprofit organization to make a pretty penny for herself. Neither did she fret about hurting people that were close to her. Though this two-sided nature is seen through the film’s dialogue and Murray O’Hair’s real actions, Leo exudes this sense, through her constantly wandering gaze and firm soft-spoken tone, that Murray O’Hair is conniving and always watching her back carefully. If anything good can be said about this film, it is that it’s an interesting character analysis of a woman that’s been reduced to a history textbook glossary over the last couple of decades. Other than that, this film is grossly devoid of noteworthy acting and characters

or impressive technical quality. Some of the dialogue is excruciatingly corny or poorlydelivered. This boringly conventional TV-biopic takes a clunky turn for Sopranos-esque grit and violence in its last 10 minutes. The variations in make-up that Leo goes through to convey Murray O’Hair’s aging are horribly unconvincing—Leo does not look like she’s in her mid-40s when Murray O’Hair is supposed to be in her mid-40s and Leo does not look like she’s 70-something years old when Murray O’Hair is kidnapped. All of these and other technical and substantive setbacks constantly pull the viewer out of the events that they’re watching unfold and focus one’s attention on what’s wrong with

the movie rather than on the story that the movie’s trying to tell. The Most Hated Woman in America isn’t saying much that hasn’t already been said a thousand times over: people are messy. Audiences know that politicians and humanitarian organizations sometimes take advantage of the people that they serve. We know that families and friendships are torn apart by greed. This movie doesn’t do anything to really tell these stories or flesh out these themes in any new way. The most it is able to do is paint a picture of a woman that high school students will always be forced to remember was “that lady in that one Supreme Court case about religion.” 

Asst. Arts & Review Editor The notion that history resides in the collective consciousness of society is a powerful one, and one that director Trisha Ziff explores in her documentary film, The Mexican Suitcase (2011). Presented by Wan Sonya Tang, an assistant professor of Hispanic studies, and sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the film was screened on campus and shared the inspiring and heartbreaking stories of the war photographers and refugees of the Spanish Civil War.

Drawing attention to a painful stretch of Spanish history that shaped future generations and shocked the Western world, the film left its mark on the audience through its commentary on the impact of war and the power of visual media. The “mexican suitcase” refers to three boxes of photos filled with 4,500 negatives taken during the Spanish Civil War. The photos were taken by pioneering war photographers Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour, and as Spanish refugees fled to Mexico to escape the perilous situation in their homeland, the photos were lost to time for several decades. Ziff eventually recov-

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ered the photos from a closet in Mexico City, where they tragically remained obscured from history as their owner told no one of their location. Unfortunately, Ziff recovered these photos just months after some of the photographers and war survivors passed away, which left numerous questions about the photos and their history unanswered. Nevertheless, the film achieves a stellar presentation of these photos and their stories, and how they symbolize these people. The notion that a photo is just a snapshot in time was highlighted by the interviews of Spanish people that lived through the war or grew up in its aftermath. One woman described living in a state of constant fear and clinging to her mother’s side amid a war that was waged with little regard to preventing civilian casualties. Indeed, the photos showed graphic images of injured adults and children among the rubble of bomb attacks, as well as images of agitated crowds and children wearing battle helmets. The images had a viscerally upsetting impact on the viewer, and even with all their power, these moments offer haunting and incomplete accounts of the full horror of the situation. Even so, the atrocities of the war sticks with its survivors and their families to the present day, and demonstrates the role a photo can play in bringing those stories and emotions into the light. A whole generation of Spanish citizens knew little to nothing of the events that shaped their modern society,

and The Mexican Suitcase brought closure to these people. The film included footage of families visiting a mass grave in hopes of recovering the remains of their relatives, which was a bittersweet reminder of the healing that these photos were able to bring about in the aftermath of so much pain. Furthermore, the images tell the story of the photographers that risked their lives to preserve the war in the memory of history. Capa and his team felt the need to document the unfolding of the fight against fascism in Spain, and foster enthusiasm in the general public against the toxic ideology that would become so destructive as World War II started to take shape. The freelance photography team took the photos on the front lines of battle, and they demonstrate the photographers’ tendency to get dangerously close to the action to capture the gore-filled images. The documentary brilliantly preserved Taro’s valuable role as a contributor to The Mexican Suitcase, which prevented her work and role in the project from becoming absorbed by Capa.. The Mexican Suitcase provided a holistic look at the Spanish Civil War and helped bring closure to Spain and the families that live there. The film also gave viewers a living portrayal of these war stories and their impact on society. Though the film is about a period in history, the stories of the destructive and resilient powers of humanity ring true to the present day and live on in the collective consciousness of the world. 

Sometimes songs with simple repetitive messages can stir up emotions in meaningful ways. Mura Masa and Charli XCX certainly uphold that idea in the wistful lyrics of their electro-pop collaboration “1 Night.” Though made as an airy party tune, its contents are fully realized in its music video. The song speaks about ideas of missing a person, even after only spending one night with them. This message is made more intimate than it already is through the video as it shows the bittersweet feelings worn on the faces of people within the video. The visuals of the song are integrated well into the lyrical progression of the song. Opening with shots of several couples waking up, the video transitions to shots of individuals alone, looking into mirrors, bathing, or doing laundry. This change is marked by the song shifting to describe that, though they have enjoyed eachother’s company, ultimately, they must leave part. Whether walking alone outside an apartment or lighting a cigarette alone in a kitchen, the individuals harbor a sense of sadness in their eyes and on their lips. This visual directly contrasted the uppity vocal movements of Charli XCX during the chorus. The lines “It was only one night / But I wanna go back to where we were” are repeated throughout the song and harken to the probable thoughts of longing to rekindle a connection had in a single encounter. That kind of sentiment is sure to resonate with most people in one way or another. Whether it be thinking about love lost or in moments before one is reunited, this song will speak to strong feelings. Though the song itself is nothing special—it speaks of forlorn love—the manifestation of the idea is powerfully realized within the visuals of the video. Given Mura Masa’s track record thus far, and if “1 Night” is any indication, his upcoming album To Fall Out of Love To might just be aptly titled. 

SINGLE REVIEWS BY TOMAS GUARNA FONTAINE DE LAIT “Camille”

ZAYN FT. PARTYNEXTDOOR “Still Got Time” Parisian pop genius Camille is back with “Fontaine de Lait.” The song is a deep and unusual track that features great vocals led by puzzling lyrics. The instrumentation is also quite good. You probably didn’t know ﬂutes could sound so good—but you probably didn’t know Camille either.

Say hi to your new guilty pleasure. ZAYN’s new track reminds us why we prayed for him to leave One Direction (and also of Mario Kart, for some reason). “Still Got Time” is a happier tune than his usual work that conﬁrms us that, apparently, electric guitars are back in mainstream pop for good.

GORILLAZ FT. D.R.A.M. “Andromeda” “Andromeda” is a minimalist synth pop song that’s similar to what you would play if you partying in a space station, but that would probably bore your friends if you played it on Earth. Gorillaz and D.R.A.M. collaborate on a track that’s good enough, but not as good as we expected from these artists.

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Weeks, Eagles Overcome Early Deficit in Win Against Yale

By Annabel Steele

Assoc. Sports Editor

Boston College lacrosse outdueled Yale University for the win on Wednesday afternoon, rebounding from a tough weekend loss to the No. 2 University of North Carolina with a 19-12 win over the Bulldogs. The Eagles (9-4, 1-3 Atlantic Coast) actually fell behind early in the game, but recovered to earn the victory over Yale (5-5, 1-2 Ivy League). The Bulldogs struck first, scoring on Zoe Ochoa less than two minutes into play. Lily Smith tested a shot on Ochoa, who secured the save. The Eagles failed to clear the ball, however, and Hope Hanley scooped it up and fired it past Ochoa for the first goal of the game. BC refused to let itself become fazed— the Eagles then scored seven-straight goals to take a commanding lead over Yale. BC tied the game up several minutes after Yale’s tally when Kayla O’Connor netted her 27th goal of the season. Twelve seconds

of game time later, Sam Apuzzo connected with Kate Weeks for another goal on Yale goalie Sydney Marks. The two quick goals built momentum for the Eagles and reversed the score, boosting BC from a deficit to a one-goal lead over the Bulldogs. With just under 20 minutes to go in the first half, Marks saved another shot from O’Connor. Undaunted, O’Connor scooped the ball up and fired another shot past Marks, tallying her second goal of the game and cushioning BC’s lead to 3-1. O’Connor found the stat sheet again when she assisted Laura Frankenfield’s goal less than a minute later. Weeks continued the scoring frenzy by scoring two-straight goals, including one assisted by Kenzie Kent. BC’s scoring streak ended with Kent assisting Kaileen Hart on a goal, giving BC a 7-1 lead over the Bulldogs. Yale fought back, stealing two goals back from the Eagles to cut into the deficit. Hannah Hyatt committed a foul, giving the Bulldogs a free-position shot on Ochoa.

Madeleine Gramigna handled the shot and managed to find the back of the net, beating Ochoa on the attempt. Tess McEvoy then scored the first of her three goals, bringing the score to 7-3. With eight and a half minutes to go, Emily Granger committed a foul, giving BC a free-position shot opportunity. Apuzzo handled it with ease, sending the ball flying past Marks to disrupt Yale’s momentum and build up the lead. Minutes later, Emily Markham committed a foul, gifting the Eagles with another free-position shot chance. This time, it was Kent’s turn to find the back of the net and boost the Eagles’ lead to 9-3. Yale closed out the half by scoring two-straight goals to cut into the lead and control momentum heading into halftime. Kiwi Comizio scored both goals, with one coming off a free-position shot and the other just six seconds away from halftime. The Bulldogs maintained their momentum at the start of the second half,

testing second-half goalie Lauren Daly frequently and coming within one goal of BC. McEvoy started the rally for Yale after capitalizing on a busy period in front of Daly’s goal. Granger found herself with the ball and an open look at the net, but her shot sailed wide. Izzy Nixon took possession of the ball and shot on Daly, who saved it. The Eagles failed to clear the ball out, however, and when McEvoy found herself with possession, she didn’t waste her opportunity, sending it past Daly for the first goal of the second half. Several minutes later, Comizio scored again, securing a hat trick on the day and bringing the score to 9-7, BC. The Eagles finally scored their first goal of the second half, disrupting Yale’s momentum, with just under 19 minutes to go. Hart scored her 23rd goal of the year, an unassisted shot past Marks. The Bulldogs, unfazed, scored two quick goals thanks to McEvoy, coming within one goal of the Eagles. McEvoy first assisted Comizio before scoring a goal

herself, bringing the score to 10-9, BC. Fortunately for the Eagles, it was time for another period of total domination similar to the first-half seven-goal outburst. This time, BC scored six-straight to pull away and establish a multi-goal lead that would hold steady for the rest of the game. Frankenfield, O’Connor, Weeks, and Hart all tallied one goal each, with Apuzzo adding two, over a roughly four-minute period to cushion BC’s lead to 16-9. Gramigna stole one back, cutting into BC’s lead, but a yellow card on Yale’s Marisa Crensham gave BC an advantage for two minutes, and the Eagles capitalized on their greater numbers to boost their lead even more. Weeks and O’Connor each netted a goal during Crensham’s penalty minutes, with both goals assisted by Apuzzo. The final three and a half minutes of play saw Yale score twice—Barrett Carlson and Comizio each scored—and BC net one more goal courtesy of Caroline Zaffino. At the end of play, BC held a 19-12 lead. n

It Takes More Than Five Players to Create Winning Basketball Bench Much?, from C8 times per game this past season. While Christian’s group cut down on turnovers over the course of the season, a number of miscues persisted. It seems reasonable, but it is by no means inevitable. For instance, UCLA—the 19th-fastest team in the country—only coughed up three turnovers in its Sweet Sixteen victory over Cincinnati on March 19. For the Eagles, typical miscues consisted of errant passes and lack of ball control. This could have simply derived from nothing more than fatigue. BC’s reserves only took the court for 28.1 percent of the team’s total minutes. Consequently, the usual starters, Bowman, Robinson, Turner, Tava, and Jeffers, had to carry the load—not only in terms of minutes, but scoring too. Only 17.9 of the Eagles’ 72.5 points per game came from the bench. And if it wasn’t for Jordan Chatman, that number would be

even smaller. The rest of the production rested on the shoulders of the starting five. Bowman and Robinson, alone, were responsible for 33 points per game. There comes a point when scheduling takes a toll on every team. Multiple conference games each week mixed with lengthy road trips is a recipe for disaster. And it didn’t help that the Eagles were trying to reach mach-five speed on every possession. Usually, teams rely on depth and role players to step up when they need them the most. Excluding Chatman and Nik Popovic’s occasional outbursts, BC could not call on anything of the sort. The moment Robinson cracked the top-five in the ACC’s scoring ranks, and Bowman recorded his first 30-point game, fans expected the two to tack on 20 every time they suited up. And that simply wasn’t going to happen. Even the nation’s best have off

days. For instance, take Josh Jackson. The projected NBA lottery pick shot a dismal 3-of-8 from the field and tallied 10 points in Kansas’ Midwest Regional final loss. But at least for teams like the Jayhawks, there are other numbers to call. As far as BC was concerned, if Bowman and Robinson were struggling or gassed, the game was all but over. One of the worst cases of this was the Eagles’ 71-54 loss to Virginia on Jan. 18. Both of the underclassmen guards failed to reach double digits. And although the bench mustered 22 points, it wasn’t nearly enough to make the game competitive. The short-term effects of the run-and-gun offense can be just as costly. Several times this year, BC entered halftime with lead. But on five separate occasions, the Eagles let it slip. Right when Bowman and Robinson started to stutter from the field, all scoring came to a halt. And as its opponents continued to cut into its deficit, BC panicked.

Instead of taking time to develop a play or move the ball inside, the Eagles resorted to perimeter shots. Generally, BC proved efficient from deep, converting on 37.4 percent of its 3-point attempts. But like any team, it hit rough patches. And because its possessions were so short, it didn’t take long for the opposition to close the gap. It’s easy to fall in love with a fastpaced, shooting team. Look around your local sports apparel store. Wherever you’re from, you’ll find that it’s littered with Stephen Curry or James Harden advertisements and clothing. As fans, we are glued to quick and electric scoring possessions. Quite honestly, it caters to our attention spans. But what we tend to forget is that this kind of basketball fails more times than not. Three out of the top-five fastest scoring teams in the NBA (Brooklyn Nets, Phoenix Suns, and Philadelphia 76ers) are pretty much irrelevant at this point of the

season. The same is true at the collegiate level. Savannah State, The Citadel, Marshall, BYU, and Central Michigan rounded out the top-five. Seriously. I’ve never even heard of Savannah State. This style of play only works for teams that have depth—the Golden States and Houstons of the world, or in college terms, the UCLAs and Kentuckys. Many have suggested that BC’s frontcourt should be Christian’s next priority. But a 7-footer won’t fix everything. As long as the Eagles boast one of the fastest offenses in the nation, there will be the need for a strong supporting cast. If they don’t fill that void, some unsung hero in March, like Maye or Chiozza, will, once again, remind BC of what it’s missing.

Andy Backstrom is the asst. sports editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @AndyHeights.

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After NFL Career, Silva Thrives as Entrepreneur Jamie Silva, from C8 shoulders. “He’ll look like he’s dressing for a play sometimes,” then-head coach Frank Spaziani said back in 2007. During his time in Chestnut Hill, Silva got his hands on a rare, vintage BC hockey sweater that the coaches used to wear in the 1980s. “It was the only one that anyone had ever seen,” Silva said. “I would wear it and people would be like, ‘Where did you get that?’” That sweater became the model for the first product of his clothing line, Bells and Bain. After reaching a licensing agreement with BC, he began selling vintage items like hockey sweaters alongside more modern gear like maroon and gold leggings and tank tops. Silva has even worked with Le’Veon Bell, the star running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, to develop his own clothing line. Silva, who lives in Pittsburgh with his family, also deals with the Steelers as part of his job with the NFL. As a uniform official, Silva patrols the sidelines during games and alerts players if they’re violating league protocol with their attire. “They’ve gotten stricter over the past few years,” Silva said. “There’s a lot of money that brands like Nike put into it so [the NFL] wants to keep those relationships up with them.” In the offseason, his focus shifts away from the gridiron to movie sets. A few summers ago, he moved out to Los Angeles to work at the Warner Bros. Pictures studio in an intern-esque role. There, he assisted with the Godzilla remake and learned

many tricks of the trade that have helped him ascend to location manager and producer positions in recent years. Even as his imaginative spirit takes him down divergent career paths, his first true love remains constant: football. The studio lights on set for a shoot just don’t compare to the gleaming lights of a Super Bowl, and the thrill of selling a product pales in comparison to the rush one gets when intercepting a pass. “That opening kickoff,” Silva recollected about Super Bowl XLIV, “running down the field, it was like a lightning bolt from all the camera flashes.” Though his career was cut short by a nasty ACL and MCL tear in 2010, Silva had the privilege of playing with one of the greatest quarterbacks of his generation, Peyton Manning. Silva recalled one interaction with Manning that particularly stood out in his mind. The former teammates hadn’t seen each other in five years and had exchanged texts only a few times since Silva left the league. Nevertheless, when Manning recognized him from afar during his Super Bowl-winning season with the Denver Broncos, he didn’t hold back. The 39-year-old MVP busted through the door, jumped on Silva’s back, and hollered, “What are you doing here?” When Silva first signed on to the Colts as a rookie, he remembers the media hounding him with questions about the future Hall of Fame quarterback. “Have you ever seen someone with the approach of Peyton?” the reporters would ask. “Yeah,” Silva responded, meaning no

plications, wound up at Cresa Boston. Four years later, and he still works there today. Like they were at BC, Orpik’s days start early and leave little breathing room. He gets up before 6 a.m. and is in his desk by 7:30. For the next 11 or so hours, he’s calling, emailing, and meeting people. Being a former athlete comes in handy. Naturally, Orpik calls upon his time management skills. But even more so, he relies on his ability to turn a loss into a positive experience. As a broker, he is competing with firms, and the fact of the matter is, failure at some point or another is inevitable. Orpik finds that he can often rebound from a setback better than those in the business who never played a sport. But Orpik’s ties to the game of his youth extend further than the office. Along with Matt and Jeremy Price, he coaches the U18 Cape Cod Whalers—a team that White, Brian Boyle, Joe Rooney, Cory Schneider, and he all played for. It’s a voluntary, non profit gig that allows Orpik to play a role in the development of high schoolers, both as hockey players and as men. In a way, Orpik is repaying a self-proclaimed debt. And he pays it off in more ways than

one. Orpik also helps run the BC Hockey Mentoring Program. Originally founded by Peter Berlandi, the program consists of 15 to 20 business professionals—many of whom are BC alumni—that work in Boston and venture to campus three or four times a year to meet with BC hockey players. Each mentor discusses their career history and development, as well as preparation for the real world. The service debuted when Orpik was a freshman, and because of its personal influence, he wanted to share the similar insights that he once received. Although he may never benefit business- or career-wise from the program, Orpik sees it as a way to give back to his school, all while meeting the players of BC hockey’s future. That very gesture of giving back remains one of Orpik’s core beliefs. At 31 years old, he often reflects on how fortunate he was to attend a school like BC. He maintains that, as a student on the Heights, it is essential to take a step back and appreciate where you are and what you have. Not everyone has the same opportunities as BC students. “No matter what you have going on in your life, what your job is, whether it’s a professional athlete, or you’re working for real estate, or you’re working for a non profit, you have the time to give back to

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Jamie Silva poses in front of Boston College gear from his clothing line, Bells and Bain. disrespect. The media members were shocked, almost offended at the response. “What do you mean?” “Well,” Silva replied, “I’ve played with Matt Ryan for the past five years.” As teammates for half a decade, Silva had an inside look at Ryan’s meticulous approach and the success it brought on the Heights. “On the field and in the locker room, they’re very similar,” Silva said of Ryan and Manning. “They’re very likable and they get respect because of the way they carry themselves. They’re very professional, very appreciative of the people around them.” With Ryan leading the Eagles’ offense and Silva at the helm of the defense, the duo instilled a culture change that catapulted BC into the national spotlight. During their senior year, the team started 8-0 and rose to the No. 2 ranking in the country. The Eagles finished as the No. 10 team in the nation after beating Michigan

State in the Champs Sports Bowl, 24-21. Silva had a career day in his final game in a BC uniform, recording two interceptions and 10 tackles en route to winning MVP honors. At BC and beyond, coaches and players have raved about Silva as the ultimate competitor. So how does he satisfy his competitive edge now that sports have largely left his everyday life? “The ability to be creative and bring things to life—it brings out the competitive edge,” Silva said. “There’s nothing like going out there and playing football. But definitely being an entrepreneur and being creative and being able to display that is certainly helpful.” Another day, another business, another form of artistic expression for Silva. What’s next for this Renaissance man? Chances are, he doesn’t even know the answer himself, but you can bet that he won’t stop creating as long as the ideas keep coming. n

other people,” Orpik said. Because of his hockey schedule, Orpik could not take a semester abroad or go on service trips like many other BC students. But in time, he found his niche. In addition to coaching and mentoring, Orpik teamed up with Pat Mullane, BC ’10 and a hockey alum, to create the Commonwealth Avenue Charity Classic in 2015. With manager Justin Murphy, the two cultivated the Green Line rivalry and put it to good work. Orpik and Mullane developed an annual midsummer alumni game between BC and Boston University grads where all proceeds are directed to Compassionate Care ALS and the Travis Roy Foundation. Each year, BU’s Walter Brown Arena features past NHL and AHL talent. But, more importantly, it memorializes Jim Cotter, Ron Perryman, Richard Armstrong, and Dick Kelley, and honors Pete Frates—all of whom were/are victims of ALS. It also commemorates Travis Roy, the former BU hockey player who became paralyzed just 11 seconds into his collegiate career. What once started as an idea, has evolved into a prominent fundraiser—in its two years of existence, the event has raised over $100,000. Orpik thinks that someday the game will grow out of the confines of

Walter Brown Arena and find its way into Conte Forum. “It just goes to show you that with a little bit of effort and dedication, you can create something that’s so much bigger than yourself and so much bigger than you probably thought it ever would be,” Orpik said. Mentoring or not, Orpik keeps finding himself back at his alma mater. This past weekend, he ran through part of the Boston Marathon course in preparation for the April 17 race. Despite being quick on the ice, Orpik, admittingly, is not a runner. But nothing was going to stop him from another chance to give back—especially for a cause as close to home as this one. Unlike the typical Boston marathon participant, Orpik did not have to qualify. He will run for the Corey C. Griffin Foundation. This charity group memorializes Griffin, a childhood friend of Orpik, former BC student, and co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, who passed away in a freak accident on Nantucket island three years ago. It donates all funds toward children in less fortunate neighborhoods in the Boston area. Come Marathon Monday, you’ll have someone else to look out for. Someone who is doing everything he can to give back. n

BASEBALL

Casey Becomes First Since 2003 to Hit for Cycle Birdball vs. UMass, from C8 at the plate to build up an early lead. In his first at-bat of the day, Casey earned a lead-off triple against Connor Donahue, immediately putting a runner in scoring position and rattling the Minutemen’s confidence. Donahue then hit Johnny Adams with a pitch and walked Michael Strem, loading the bases. For a few minutes, it looked like Donahue would escape the jam without any lasting damage—he recorded two quick strikeouts. But then Jake Alu doubled to right field, driving Casey and Adams home for a 2-0 lead. Nelson began the top of the second with a quick strikeout, then forced the second batter into grounding out. He briefly faltered, walking Nolan Kessinger and Dylan Morris on nine total pitches. Nelson returned to top form, however, and the Eagles managed to avoid surrendering any runs. Matt Bare hit a hard grounder to Anthony Maselli at third

base, who sent it to Alu at second for the third out. Donahue stifled BC in the bottom of the second. Maselli and Dominic Hardaway each struck out, while Dante Baldelli popped out, ending the second without any runs scored for either team. The third proved to be the breakout inning for the Eagles, while the Minutemen continued to struggle offensively. Nelson dispatched UMass in short order, recording another strikeout in the process, to put BC back on the offensive. Casey started the bottom of the third with a bang for the Eagles. He checked another hit off the list by riding a pitch for a solo homer to left field, cushioning BC’s lead to 3-0. Adams then struck out, but Strem walked, placing one runner on base as Martellini went to the plate. Martinelli rattled Donahue for another homer, driving in two more runs to boost BC’s lead to 5-0. But the Eagles weren’t done scoring yet. Bigras and Alu walked,

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putting BC in a good position to build its lead up even more. Maselli doubled, driving both Bigras and Alu home and increasing the lead to 7-0. Nelson continued his hot streak in the top of the fourth. Although he gave up one walk, he recovered quickly and once again ended the inning without surrendering a run to the Minutemen. The bottom of the fourth saw Donahue replaced by Hovey, but the new UMass pitcher failed to cool down the Eagles’ hot bats. Casey recorded his single against Hovey and then scored thanks to Strem’s RBI double. Bigras singled to send Strem home, and then Alu sent Martinelli home, bringing the Eagles’ lead to 10-0. Zach Stromberg replaced Nelson on the mound for the Eagles in the fifth and continued to stifle the Minutemen, allowing just one hit in the inning and preserving the Eagles’ shutout. BC finally began to slow down offensively in the fifth, but the damage was

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already done. After reaching base thanks to his cycle-completing double, Casey advanced to third on a passed ball. Strem hit a sacrifice fly to send Casey home, rounding the score up to 11-0 in BC’s favor. The Minutemen finally mustered up offense in the sixth inning. Jack Cunningham replaced Stromberg on the mound. After recording an early out, he surrendered a solo homer to Mike Geannelis. Cunningham recovered quickly, however, and the BC defense recorded two quick outs with the next two batters, limiting the damage to just one run. In the bottom of the sixth, the Eagles scored the final runs of the day with an RBI single from Chris Balogh and a basesloaded walk from pitcher Casey Aubin. The 13-1 tally remained unchanged at the end of the game. It was a commanding victory for the Eagles, made even better by Casey’s cycle. The blowout win snapped BC’s threegame losing streak. n

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The Eagles are hungry to prove themselves in conference play. They were dealt a bad hand with their schedule, which pitted them against nationally ranked powerhouses in their first three ACC series of the season. Now, against Virginia Tech, which just got swept by Pittsburgh, BC has a good chance to rebound with a pair of victories. The pitching staff is finally getting into a groove, and the bats exploded for 13 runs against the Minutemen on Wednesday. Expect Birdball to stay hot in Blacksburg.

PREDICTION BC 2 VT 1

ANNABEL STEELE

Assoc. Sports Editor

The Eagles should look forward to this series against Virginia Tech. After a demoralizing series against Clemson, Birdball bounced back with a commanding win over UMass, including Donovan Casey hitting for the cycle. The Eagles will ride this momentum into their conference series, setting a dominant tone by winning Friday night’s series opener. Look for the pitching staff to falter on Saturday and the Hokies to earn a big win. But BC will close out the weekend with a win, earning its first conference series win of the year.

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ANDY BACKSTROM Asst. Sports Editor

Recently, BC’s starting pitching has shut down its opposition. Jack Nelson chipped in four scoreless innings, earning the win over Massachusetts on Wednesday. Before that, Brian Rapp and Dan Metzdorf posted near-perfect outings against No. 5 Clemson. That success will come to an end when Virginia Tech comes to town on Friday. The Hokies will tack on a number of runs in the Eagles’ first home series of the season. BC may steal a game, but remember, this is a VT team that churned out 30 runs in a span of two days against No. 12 Florida State.

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BY ANNABEL STEELE Assoc. Sports Editor

Donovan Casey knew the pitch was perfect when the ball left Scott Hovey’s hand. He swung, connected, and drove the ball into right center. Casey reached first, rounded first, and took off for second. He reached the bag safely, prompting raucous cheers from the BC dugout.

ANDY BACKSTROM On Monday morning, there was a new household name in the sports world: Luke Maye. After Malik Monk tied the South Regional final with just 7.2 seconds to go, the once walk-on got his chance at eternal glory. Theo Pinson drove the ball up the court, pushing by De’Aaron Fox. Isaiah Briscoe trailed Monk, but Maye was left open on the outside. For head coach John Calipari’s group, the sophomore bench player was probably an afterthought. After all, he only averaged a mere 5.8 points and 14.4 minutes this season. But to that point, Maye looked like a premier starter, recording 15 points—six of which came from beyond the arc—in 20 minutes of play. Maye received the ball and immediately released from right inside the 3-point line. The ball dropped through the net with 0.3 seconds left on the clock, and the Tar Heels were all but guaranteed a trip to Glendale. Just two days earlier, Florida guard Chris Chiozza enjoyed comparable fame. Despite averaging a bit over 20 minutes per game throughout the season, Chiozza found himself on the floor in overtime in the East Regional semifinal against Wisconsin. A pair of Nigel Hayes free throws gave the Badgers a two-point advantage with only four seconds remaining—exactly what the 6-foot guard needed. Chiozza took the inbound pass and sped down the court. Once he reached the 3-point line, the junior leapt, lunged forward, and fired away. The ball went in and Madison Square Garden erupted. Come March, top-notch bench performances always seem to come out of nowhere. But in reality, the best teams carry the kind of guys who have been making an impact long before brackets are being made. In fact, according to Kenpom.com, all but one of this year’s Final Four feature a group of reserves who account for at least 32 percent of the team’s minutes—a mark that betters the national average. Maye, Silas Melson, Maik Katsar, you name ’em. Getting through two and a half weeks of tournament play, let alone a 30-plus-game regular season is incredibly hard without a strong supporting cast. Especially when a team is trying to play into a system that requires depth. And that’s where Boston College goes wrong. Entering the 2016-17 season, head coach Jim Christian changed his offensive philosophy. With the loss of 7-foot-1 Dennis Clifford, the Eagles interior was severely depleted. The third-year coach turned to graduate transfers to head the frontcourt: Mo Jeffers (6-foot-9) at the five and Connar Tava (6-foot-6) at the four. Christian attempted to counteract the size disadvantage with tempo. If you think about it, the transition must have been tempting. Ky Bowman, a former Division I-caliber wide receiver was slotted to run the point. Not to mention that Bowman had Jerome Robinson and A.J. Turner, who had already shown that they could stretch the court in their first year with the team, at his side. The offense was molded like the high-octane UCLA and Kentucky teams of this year. Score on the break early and often. To a certain extent BC did just that. In terms of tempo rankings, it jumped 207 spots, rocketing to No. 46 in the nation. On average, an Eagles offensive possession lasted 16.1 seconds. But for Bowman and Co., that might have been too fast. BC turned the ball over 14.6

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INSIDE SPORTS

On its own, a double in the bottom of the fifth while the Eagles held a 10-0 lead wasn’t much to celebrate. But this wasn’t just any old double—this double completed Casey hitting for the cycle, the first time a Boston College baseball player had successfully hit for the cycle since Jason Delaney on April 27, 2003. Even more impressive, Casey hit for the cycle in his first four at-bats. After the game, Casey admitted that

it was a good day for him, but credited his teammates with helping BC earn the win. “The pitchers did their jobs, and I’m just happy for a team win,” he told BCEagles. com. Bolstered by Casey’s cycle and an especially productive third inning, Birdball earned a commanding 13-1 victory over the University of Massachusetts. BC (8-14, 1-8 Atlantic Coast) shut down

UMass (6-10, 1-2 Atlantic 10) from the very beginning. Jack Nelson started on the mound for the Eagles, and set a dominant tone from the start with a game-opening strikeout. He forced the next two batters into ground-outs, bringing the top of the first to a quick end. The Eagles used their first opportunity

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

SILVA AND ORPIK’S PRO CAREERS DIDN’T PAN OUT AS EXPECTED. BUT BOTH FIND THEMSELVES RIGHT WHERE THEY WANT TO BE. BY RILEY OVEREND Sports Editor There’s no doubt that Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate Renaissance man. As a painter, engineer, architect, and scientist, he epitomized nearly every bit of the term. But da Vinci never played in a Super Bowl. Jamie Silva, BC ’07, is a Renaissance man in his own right. The former AllAmerican safety at Boston College can rattle off his own long list of expertise that may not rival da Vinci’s—but you’d be hard-pressed to find another exNFLer with a resume like his. At just 32 years old, Silva has seen action in a Super Bowl for the Indianapolis Colts, designed his own clothing line, earned a job with the NFL as a uniform official, run social media marketing campaigns for companies, and broke into the film industry as an actor, producer, and location manager. Plus, he’s already a father of four children with his wife, whom he met at BC. The East Providence, R.I. native has always been an imaginative spirit who sees the world through a unique lens. It started with mastering his first art—and after talking to him, believe me, it is an art—the art of dumpster diving. He inherited the skill from his grandfather, who taught him literally that one man’s trash is another man’s

treasure. The key, Silva says, is to not waste time. He mapped out which wealthy neighborhoods around him would have trash pick-ups the next day, and then would drive around in search of valuable items that might be left outside. Sometimes, he would sift through dumpsters behind technology stores in search of working electronics and cell phones. At his peak, he made $2,000-3,000 per year selling off items he found in the garbage. That was enough to fund dates, movies, Spring Break trips, and other college shenanigans. Now, with so many other opportunities on his plate, he considers himself “out of the game.” “I don’t dumpster dive as much as I used to,” Silva chuckled. “But if I see something on the side of the road and it’s worth it—I got a good eye for it—then it’s mine.” Silva’s affinity for fashion came about in much the same way. He purchased most of his wardrobes in college from thrift shops and secondhand stores, showing off flamboyant outfits like his flannel, three-piece plaid suit after games in the locker room. In the hyper-masculine world of football, he became a unicorn of sorts when he decided to grow his hair down to his

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BY ANDY BACKSTROM Asst. Sports Editor Leaving early for a shot at the NHL has become more of a norm for Boston College men’s hockey players. After all, Colin White became the ninth underclassmen to depart for the league in the past two years alone when he agreed to an amateur tryout with the Ottawa Senators’ AHL affiliate in Binghamton. Eight years ago, Andrew Orpik, BC ’08—a senior at the time—was faced with a similar decision. He had the opportunity to sign with a farm league team and forego his final months at BC. But, Orpik, a three-time national finalist and 2008 National Champion, wanted to spend his spring like any other college student would. As soon as he graduated, Orpik turned pro. He signed with the Phoenix Coyotes’ AHL affiliate, landing him in San Antonio. The former Kelley Memorial Award winner played one year with the Rampage before moving to the East Coast league. Orpik spent most of the second year of his career with the Wheeling Nailers. But unlike his brother, Brooks—an already established Pittsburgh Penguin—Orpik couldn’t find his footing at the professional level. And eventually, he decided that it was time to leave the game and enter the

real world. So, Orpik left the small town of Wheeling, W. Va. and returned to Beantown. He began to network with his high school and college contacts, searching for career advice. But for Orpik, the transition wasn’t easy. Coming from BC—the best college hockey team of the 2000’s—Orpik was used to not only winning, but being pampered. Yet the minute he entered the workforce, he was no longer given special treatment. In fact, he wasn’t given anything. “All of a sudden, it doesn’t really matter if you won a National Championship or you won a Beanpot,” Orpik said. “You’re competing with people that are extremely intelligent, extremely driven, the same way you were athletically.” Orpik had his eyes set on commercial real estate, but was cautioned of its demanding commitment and was advised to take some time to weigh his options. As a result, the CSOM graduate and marketing major put off the dream and was hired by Merrill Lynch. Two years into working in the field of wealth management and financial services, he still yearned for a job as a real estate broker. Orpik left Merrill Lynch, and after three months of interviews and ap-

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Sophomore Mariella Fasoula to Transfer From BC BY RILEY OVEREND Sports Editor Mariella Fasoula, the leading scorer and rebounder for Boston College women’s basketball in 2016-17, will transfer at the end of the semester. Both Fasoula and BC Athletics confirmed the news to The Heights after a report emerged from Eurohoops.net on Wednesday morning. Fasoula said that she is looking at other colleges in the U.S. and is not considering options

back in Europe. She is expected to announce her decision next month. The Greek center’s decision comes after the Eagles finished with a 9-21 record this past season. The team’s shortcomings were certainly no fault of Fasoula’s, though. The 6-foot-4 Athens native averaged 16 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, reaching double-digit scoring in 24 of BC’s 29 games. Last year, as a freshman, Fasoula started the season on the bench and

ended up transforming the identity of the Eagles entirely. Within five games, she broke her way into the starting lineup and gave BC a legitimate post presence that the team had been lacking since the departure of the Seattle Storm’s Carolyn Swords. Fasoula became known across the ACC as a scoring threat in the paint and garnered particular attention for her signature “ice cream scoop” shot. She finished with season averages of 13.5 points and 5.4 rebounds, enough

to earn her a spot on the All-ACC Freshman Team. Her 54.4 percent shooting clip ranked fourth in the conference. Despite improving both her scoring and rebounding numbers this season, Fasoula was left off the All-ACC teams at the end of the year. To her fans back home in Greece, her success was no surprise considering her dad, Panagiotis Fasoulas, was a former NBA Draft Pick and gold medalist for the Greek national team. 

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