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9P :FEEFI DLIG?P E\nj <[`kfi Four members of Eradicate Boston College Racism have received sanctions from the University for their participation in an unregistered protest held on Nov. 14, 2016. The demonstration, held on O’Neill Plaza, was a response to the election of President Donald Trump. For their involvement in a Dec. 1 protest that called for BC to declare itself a sanctuary campus, three additional members of Eradicate are involved in ongoing disciplinary hearings. Eradicate declined on Wednesday to release the names of those who have been sanctioned. In December, it published a screenshot of an email to the Office of the Dean of Students on its Facebook page in

which it requested that all of the charges be dropped. It listed the students who received summons to hearings. Chad Olle, LGSOE ’17, sociology Ph.D. candidate Cedrick-Michael Simmons, Sriya Bhattacharyya, LGSOE ’16, and counseling psychology Ph.D. candidate Kimberly Ashby received summons to conduct hearings. Amelie Daigle, GMCAS ’18, Kevin Ferreira, GLSOE ’19, and Raquel Saenz, GSSW ’17, received requests for conversational hearings. Three of the four students who received sanctions were placed on disciplinary probation, while another student was given an administrative warning. Disciplinary probation is a lower-level probationary status, and can lead to the highest status of University probation if students commit more severe violations. BC’s student code of conduct specifies that students who receive further sanctions while on disciplinary probation are

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Boston College canceled classes today in response to the most serious snowstorm of this season, Winter Storm Niko. Harvard University, Boston University, Tufts University, Babson College, and Northeastern University also closed due to the weather, as well as Boston Public Schools and Newton Public Schools. According to the National Weather Service, Boston is forecasted to see between 8 and 14 inches of snow, and has issued a winter storm warning eﬀective from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. for most of Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, has announced a citywide snow emergency eﬀective starting 10 a.m. this morning. Winter storm warnings have been issued across New England, stretching from Maine to northern West Virginia. Blizzard warnings have been issued for Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket in Massachusetts as well as for parts of Long Island. School closings also stretch to the New York City area, including Fordham University and New York University.

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A large crowd of Newton residents flocked to the Newton City Hall last night. Many carried carefully-illustrated signs emblazoned with “Immigrants Built This Nation,” or “Love Thy Undocumented Neighbor,” while some wore the iconic pink-pussy hat or wrapped with rainbow flags. Newtonians all crowded into a large room on the second floor to attend the second city council meeting discussing the Newton Welcoming City Ordinance—an ongoing discussion that will cement Newton’s status as a sanctuary city. In Massachusetts, Cambridge, Somerville, Boston, Northampton, and Springfield are already sanctuary cities, and Salem and Newton may soon join them. For Newton, which houses part of Boston College’s Main Campus and the BC Law Campus, this issue came to a head on Jan. 18, when Newton city councilors held a meeting on a proposed ordinance. According to The Boston Globe, when Newton city officials first debated the issue in the form of the ‘Welcome City Ordinance’— which was supported by Newton Mayor Setti Warren along with other city councilors—citizens voiced their disagreement. People who attended the debate “could be heard bickering with each other and with speakers,” and

Newtonians protested outside of Newton City Hall, chanting about their displeasure and waving stark “No Sanctuary City” signs. For a reputedly liberal city where 75 percent of voters supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, this pushback created a surprising tension within Newton. Newton city councilors met for a second time yesterday to discuss the current version of the Welcoming City Ordinance, which was released to the public on Feb. 3. “I would like to make Newton safe for anyone who wants to come,” Khoudary said. As the meeting was called into session, Allan Ciccone Jr., Councilor at Large, spoke to the crowd, asking them to remain silent before addressing the importance of this ordinance. Former Newton Mayor David Cohen, who helped draft the ordinance, summarized the document and recent revisions that had been made, while also taking the time to explain the normal council protocols for the unusually large crowd. Cohen explained that, for Newton, passing this ordinance would be more of a formalization of practices that Newton already has in place, just in case the new presidential administration changes their policies. It was Ciccone’s final point that stood out. After confirming that this ordinance would not negatively impact the lives of residents, Ciccone expressed his surprise and disappointment that no fellow councilors had discussed the next steps that immigrants in Newton might face, and how Newtonians might help them gain legal citizenship once in Newton.

9P :FEEFI DLIG?P E\nj <[`kfi The three teams running for Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and executive vice president met in a diversity and inclusion-focused townhall debate last night. Moderated by Meredith McCaﬀrey, UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17, the event featured questions about BC’s approach to LGBTQ resources, institutional racism, and students of high ﬁnancial need. The three remaining teams are Akosua Achampong and Tt King, both MCAS ’18; Raymond Mancini and Matt Batsinelas, both CSOM ’19; and Daniel Wu and Jack Kelly, both MCAS ’18. Davis Pollino, CSOM ’19, and

Sebastian Biber, MCAS ’19, dropped out of the race this week after they decided to support Achampong and King. Biber said they would like to use the next year to gain some more experience with student politics, and then run as juniors. McCaffrey’s first question asked which community at BC the teams consider the most underresourced. Achampong and King said the disabled community, and highlighted UGBC’s Council for Students with Disabilities (CDS). “I think that oftentimes students with disabilities can become viewed as a homogenous group,” King said, calling for an expansion of how BC thinks about disabilities. Mancini said the first-generation student population is underserved, and also highlighted CSD, which he said is underfunded in UGBC’s budget. Asked by an audience member later in the debate whether he thought too much of UGBC’s budget went to events like

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interested in nutrition. She then worked as a senior outpatient dietitian at Brigham Women’s Hospital, where she managed the nutrition and wellness service. She always pictured herself working in an academic setting, so when she heard about the opening of a nutritionist position at BC, she jumped on the idea. “I have always been attracted to BC for its emphasis on students formation, volunteering, and engaging the community,” Sweeney said. Sweeney’s job entails developing nutritional menus with BC Dining, counseling students, and working on education and programming related to healthy eating at the Oﬃce of Health Promotion (OHP). Each week, she spends 10 hours at the OHP and 25 hours working with BC Dining and counseling students. At OHP, Sweeney helps to run the Health Coach Institute, educating stu-

dents about sleep, alcohol, stress, and nutrition and how they all play into the health of a college student. The students then educate the BC community with this knowledge through different programming. Sweeney specializes in eating disorders, sports nutrition, and wellness. She currently sees about 15 patients a week, but expects it to increase to nearly 30 patients later this year when she is at full capacity for appointments. Many students who see her have food allergies, suﬀer from an eating disorder, or have medical conditions like type 1 diabetes. BC Dining will also introduce a new menu item to McElroy Commons within the next few weeks. After the success of the açaí bowl, Dining will introduce pitaya bowls.

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the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC) Formal and the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC) Boat Cruise, Mancini said he would like to see the events become more cost-effective. He said a lot of his friends do not feel welcome at those events because they are aimed at specific populations. Wu also thinks the cost could become more efficient. His running mate, Kelly, said he thinks that for freshmen, these events are among the first times they are exposed to those groups, so he wants to continue them and ensure that the message welcomes all students. Achampong, the current chair of ALC, said that the reason these events exist on campus is because the communities that hold them did not feel heard. GLC negotiated at length with administrators in the mid-2000s to work out of the details of an off-campus gala event, which

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Boston College men’s mockey will be playing Merrimack College on Friday at 7 p.m. at Conte Forum. The game will be shown on NESN and streamed live on bceagles.com. Students with Gold Passes can get in for free. Ticket prices range from $15 to $30.

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The Campus Activities Board is sponsoring a trip to Pat’s Peak in New Hampshire on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. For a total of $180, students can purchase lift tickets, rental gear, snow tubing access, the slope side bonfire, live music, and transportation. The bus will leave Conte Forum at 11:30 a.m.

This year’s annual ALC Ball will be held on Saturday from 9 to 11:45 p.m. at the Westin Copley Hotel. Sponsored by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, the theme of the dance is Harlem Renaissance. There will be food, dancing, and entertainment. All are welcome.

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Gif]j% I\j\XiZ_ J`^_k# Jfle[ Adam Brasel, head of Boston College’s marketing department, and Brasel’s colleague, Henrik Hagtvedt, have discovered a way to direct our sight with different sound frequencies. This sightsound connection foreshadows future techniques that may be able to direct consumer perceptions and information retainment and influence purchases. Brasel connects recent findings to a field of psychology called “cross-modal correspondence,” where stimulus of one of the five senses “primes” people to receive stimulus of another sense. “So feeling a certain temperature might associate you more likely to see a certain color,” Brasel told WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station. The research started when Hagtvedt noticed that different sounds influenced his visual perception in different ways. “I personally associated high frequency with lighter colors and lower frequencies with darker colors, and I became curious about whether or not that was just me or if it was other people as well,” Hagtvedt told WBUR. The research began with a series of experiments using an eye tracker from Brasel’s visual perception lab. Paying BC students a few dollars to participate, the duo tracked and mapped students’ pupil movements on a screen while different sound frequencies were being played. The experiment reinforced what the researchers had initially hypothesized. “Indeed, when you hear these low tones your eyes are automatically drawn toward darker areas of the screen, versus when you hear the high tones your eyes are automatically drawn toward lighter areas of the screen,” Brasel said.

=lckfe ;\YXk\j Efi]fcb Gi`jfe Last summer, a handwritten note to John Katsulas, the director of debate for the Boston College Fulton Debating Society, invited the group to debate the Norfolk Prison Debating Society. The ﬁve members of the debate team headed to Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk and faced the Norfolk Prison Debating Society last semester. The Norfolk Prison Debating Society debated in the academic circuit. Pit against top universities, the Norfolk debate program had established a unique pedigree. By 1966, Norfolk had achieved a 144-8 record. The Norfolk team thought that the Fulton Debating Society was most closely matched in their favored style of debate, and upon resurrecting the debate program, decided to reach out to Katsulas. The debate ended with a Norfolk win by 0.6 points. After competing against the Norfolk team, the Fulton Debating Society members expressed conﬂicting emotions as they grappled with an intelligent, eloquent team made up of convicted criminals. “The guys who are involved in the debate program are exceptionally smart, they study very hard and apply themselves. It’s something they don’t take for granted,” Pires said to The Chronicle.

Gerhard Bowering, a professor of Islamic Studies at Yale, brought Boston College professors, Jesuits, graduate, and undergraduate students together this Wednesday for another installation of the Gasson Lecture Series, run by the Jesuit Institute. Bowering spoke about his personal understanding of Islam, breaking it down into two parts: the legal interpretation of obligations essential to the understanding of the faith and the personal spirituality of one’s connection to God. He started by explaining the ﬁve

obligatory pillars that most Muslims identify their religion by: the profession of faith through recitation of the Shahada, the daily prayer ritual of the Salat, the giving of alms through charitable acts, the act of fasting, and the completion of a pilgrimage to Mecca. Although these pillars hold equal weight in the practice of Islam, Bowering spends most of his time on three in particular that really catch the essence of the faith. While explaining the Salat, a recitation of the Qur’an completed ﬁve times a day in the direction of Mecca, Bowering emphasized the importance of the rhythm and sense of routine this practice gives to the life of Muslims.

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Bowering spoke about his personal understanding of Islam last night.

“You can do it at home, you can do it in the street, on the sidewalk, you can do it in a park,” he said. “I have seen it been done even in a plane, or in a train, or in a bus. A Muslim at prayer time can perform, and will perform, his prayer at that time.“ This dedication, he pointed out, is central to the faith. The prayer is preceded by a cleansing of the self, most often of the face and hands, before entering the space in which one directly connects to God by speaking his own words from memory, in the original Arabic. He argued that during the prayer, the kneeling and bowing to touch one’s forehead to the floor is important, because it reaches the core of Islam. “Islam does not mean peace as is often said,” he said. “Islam means submission, or submission to God. Surrender.” That being said, one ends the recitation with sharing peace to one’s prayer companion, whether the companion is in the same room or across the world. He moved on to discuss how fasting during the month of Ramadan is an integral part of the faith that requires sacriﬁce and dedication, especially in the hot summer months. “When I was living in a Muslim country in my youth in Pakistan … I tried to practice it for ﬁve days and

then I gave up, because I couldn’t do the work any longer,” Bowering said. “It was simply too hard to do and to put it into practice.” Bowering, although personally understanding of the difficulty of completing the act of fasting annually, recognized this as a requirement for one’s fulfillment of his or her duty toward God in the Islamic faith. He described the final of the five pillars, the two-day pilgrimage to Mecca during the season of Hajj, most symbolically. Bowering recalled how the pilgrims come from around the world to reach the Mecca and begin their preparation: men shave their heads, cleanse and perfume themselves, and put on the universal, white dress. He retold the journey of the pilgrims in their circling of Kaaba, touching of the black stone of Istilam, stoning of the Devil in Mina, drinking of water from the well that allowed the initial creation of Mecca, and honoring of God in multiple other ways throughout the trip. Bowering referenced a secondary purpose of the pilgrimage. “The ritual has deep significance for Islam … because it brought [the] international Muslim community together,” he said. “It was totally egalitarian. Everybody, whichever color or language he had, was in the same dress.”

After emphasizing this global community, Bowering closed the speech by shifting to the personal aspect of spirituality that is often forgotten when Islam comes to mind. He praised this half of the faith as the way an individual can bridge the divide between oneself, the created being, and the creator in a moment of enlightenment and ecstasy in a trance-like state. “You have annihilated your own self, and the divine self alone exists in you,” Bowering said. “You have become one with God.” Bowering explained that in this disappearance of self-consciousness, the individual achieves his or her ultimate calling in life. He described this as returning back to the time prior to human creation where all humans were only specks of light, without material existence, and one with God. While Bowering recognized that he will return to this relationship with God once his time on earth is complete, his current ability to spiritually travel back to this pre-existence to experience oneness with God allows him to tap into his own immortality while still on Earth. “It is not enough to simply say with your voice, ‘There is no God but God.’ … You have to experience it,” he said. “You have to experience oneness with God that is where the core of it is.”

GXe\c f] K_\fcf^`Xej KXcb I\c`^`fe è CXkè 8d\i`ZX 9P 9<IE8;<KK< ;8I:P For The Heights Three stories, two languages, and one theological tradition were center stage in Robsham Theater on Wednesday night during the panel discussion “Toward an Ibero-American Theology.” Cosponsored by the School of Theology and Ministry, Office of the University President, Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Boston College Department of Theology, Wednesday’s panel was part of a five day theological conference titled, “The Present and Future of an Ibero-American Theology in Times of Globalization, Interculturality, and Exclusion.” The conference brought together more than forty Latin American, Spanish, and American theologians to discuss the present status of Latin American theology in a globalized world. The panel’s focus was the role of liberation theology in past, present, and future. Thomas H. Groome, professor of theology and religious education in the School of Theology and

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Ministry, moderated the panel. “This is a historic moment [for Catholic theology],” Groome said. “Liberation theology, the stone which the builders first rejected, has now become the cornerstone. Liberation theology is rooted in late 20th-century Roman Catholicism. These theologians believe that God speaks particularly through the poor. They stress a heightened awareness of the “sinful” socioeconomic structures that initiate social inequities and actively participate in changing those structures through political activism and social reform. Originally centered in Latin America, liberation theology developed into a means for Catholics to apply their faith by aiding the poor and oppressed. Rev. Juan Carlos Scannone, S.J., one of the founders of the liberation theology movement, began the panel discussion. Scannone was born and raised in Argentina but received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munich in Germany. When he returned to Argentina, he came

into contact with the concepts that ground liberation theology, speciﬁcally under the instruction of theologian Lucio Gera. Scannone’s student and friend, Father Jorge Bergoglio—better known today as Pope Francis—encouraged him to attend the conference in the ﬁrst place. “That event changed my entire life,” Scannone said. At the conference, he met Gustavo Gutiérrez, a founder of liberation theology who introduced the preferential option for the poor to Catholic social teaching. Both Scannone and Gutiérrez realized “la importancia es en el diálogo,” or “the importance is in the dialogue.” From there, liberation theology began to spread across the globe. Rev. Carlos María Galli, S.T.D., a priest from the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires and a close theological adviser to Pope Francis, wrote his original dissertation in theology about the relations between the people of God and the people of the world. “Today, Pope Francis uses the same words without citing

him,” Scannone said. “He is calling for a dialogue between the people of God and the people of the earth.” The initiation of dialogue between the “people of God” and “people of earth” aims to bridge the gap between abstract theological discourse and the practical application of religious teachings—a mission at the core of liberation theology. Scannone emphasized that the people of earth includes the indigenous peoples of Latin America as well. In many ways, Olga Consuelo, professor of theology at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, is a product of Scannone’s pedagogy and dedication to the liberation theology movement. During her undergraduate and doctoral studies, Consuelo studied Scannone’s work and was inspired to apply his message to her native country. “As I advanced in my theology studies, Colombia was in the middle of an armed conﬂict,” Consuelo said. “This challenged the church and the larger society, and started a conversation in the church about

social justice and the causes of poverty in the country.” Because of the work of Scannone, Gutierrez, Gueras, and more liberation theologians, Consuelo was able to apply the practices of liberation theology to her home Additionally, Rev. Roberto Tomichá, O.F.M., professor at the Latin American Institute of Missiology in Bolivia has translated the teachings of liberation theology to the indigenous populations in Bolivia. Tomichá is of the indigenous Chiquitano Bolivian group, one of the nation’s thirty-six diﬀerent indigenous peoples. He comes from a very humble family, and was introduced to the Catholic religious order through Polish missionaries in Bolivia. Eventually, Tomichá traveled to Buenos Aires and learned the teachings and practices of liberation theology. After three years in Argentina, Tomichá returned to Bolivia and spread the message of liberation theology. “I realized that the vision of liberation theology was of a God who walked with the people,” he said.

2/6/17 - 2/8/17 5:33 p.m. - A report was ﬁled regarding a medical incident at Walsh Hall.

11:32 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation at 6:08 p.m. - A report was filed Stuart Hall. regarding a medical incident at Shaw House. 6:26 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic crash at Hillsides Parking Area 11:18 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a cruiser repair at Boston College Police Headquarters.

Tuesday, Feb. 7 4:38 p.m. - A report was ﬁled regarding a traﬃc crash at Main Gate.

8:52 p.m. - A report was ﬁled regarding a firearm at Rubenstein Hall.

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The next question aske d whether institutional racism exists at BC, which all of the teams affirmed does exist. King said that the fact that she thinks that having racist structures in a community does not mean every person in the community is racist. Mancini said discrimination does exist at BC, and that to say otherwise would be false. There was some confusion during Mancini’s answer to a question about whether organized protest has a place at BC. He began his response by voicing support for students’ free speech rights, but then, apparently connecting inclusion to support for student athletes, suddenly criticized UGBC for holding its election campaign kickoff last Saturday during men’s basketball’s game against Louisville. “I believe that it would be remiss of me not to be confused about athletics being introduced into the last question,” Achampong said. “I’m not really sure how that goes with movements and protests.” Mancini later resp onde d

during his answer to the next question, which asked for an accessibility issue the candidates had noticed on campus. “Part of BC’s diverse identity is the fact that we have great, tremendous, smart athletes,” he said. “To say that they should not be included in this debate is disgraceful.” Mancini referenced the number of stairs on campus as a challenge to students with disabilities. Achampong and King’s platform calls for a BC app, which they said they did not expect to achieve in one year but which could include accessibility routes on campus. Achampong also is calling for all signs to include translations in braille. Wu called for a more streamlined communication between groups that are built around diversity on campus, including heritage organizations. “I think it’s all great that they’re there, but not all of them are a cohesive unit,” he said. “Along with education you can learn about people, their heritage, and their culture.”

<iX[`ZXk\ D\dY\ij fe GifYXk`fe Sanctions, from A1 subject to University probation, loss of privileges, and/or housing suspension. The members who received probation had previously been sanctioned for participation in other unregistered demonstrations, and so received a higher level of sanction than the fourth member. “There’s been different understandings about who can register and how they can register,” Ferreira said in an interview Tuesday night. Initially, according to Ferreira , the group was told it could not register anything that included its name, then it was told it could register with other groups, then that individuals could register. He said they are looking into contacting the office to clarify the exact options available. Dean of Students Thomas Mogan provided a statement and granted an interview to The Heights regarding the sanctions. BC’s policy on demonstrations is that they must be registered with Mogan’s office. Eradicate maintains that its rights to freedom of speech and assembly are violated by the policy, and wrote in a letter to the editor in The Heights in December that after working with BC, it had decided it could operate most effectively as an extra-institutional organization. Mogan wrote in his statement that on seven separate occasions before and since the unregistered demonstrations in November, including formal and informal conversations in person and over email, he had indicated to members of Eradicate his willingness to work to register events in accordance with BC’s guidelines.

“I can’t in good conscience selectively apply the policy,” he said. Eradicate sent out a press release on Monday detailing the results of hearings and accusing the Office of the Dean of Students of arbitrarily targeting which attendees of the protest to summon to hearings. Eradicate made similar claims before Winter Break. A petition supporting those sanctioned and requesting the same punishment for participation in the protests had been signed by about 230 students, faculty, and staff as of Wednesday night. He wrote in the statement that the members who received summons were selected based on the observations of several staff members, who concluded that “[the students] were clearly directing the activities and/or acknowledged their role in leading the demonstrations.” Mogan wrote that these actions included welcoming people to the rally and leading chants and cheers, as well as organizing the list of people. He also cited The Gavel and The Heights, which mentioned six of the seven students, as evidence that they were engaging in behavior that suggested that they were leading the rally. Eradicate wrote in its press release that students had been selected for things such as “using a clipboard” and past involvement in the group, which has a non-hierarchical structure, as evidence of their leadership. Ferreira said Eradicate will now renew an effort to update BC’s free speech policy. In 2015, the Undergraduate G overnment of BC worked with several student groups to compile a proposal and present it to

administrators. It included an idea for a Committee for Free Expression, but progress stalled at the beginning of the 2015-16 school year. The new proposal would be based on the previous one. Mogan said he is willing to work with students on the new proposal, though he thinks there will inevitably be some disagreement due to competing interests. “It’s absolutely ridiculous, especially in the historical time that we’re in, if people want to peacefully protest, that they’re not able to,” Ferreira said. Eradicate contacted a lawyer at the ACLU in December, who said BC could face legal action if students were sanctioned. Mogan wrote in the statement that as a private university, BC reserves the right to require registration, and that given the high-profile incidents of violence that have occurred on other campuses, including recent protests at the University of California, Berkeley, safety is a major concern. “The free expression of our students is an important part of the campus, but it must be done in a way that does not interrupt the business of the University,” he wrote. One rule currently in place is that the use of a megaphone around academic buildings is not permitted before 4:30 p.m. to prevent the sound from disrupting ongoing classes. Mogan said the registration process allows his office to talk to students about actions at demonstrations that could be disruptive to University operations. “The right of a student to express their opinion can’t impinge upon the right of students to have an academic environment free of disruptions,” he said.

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9fpc\ KXcbj 9`Yc\ Xe[ ?`j ?fd`\j GifîXd `j nfic[Ëj cXi^\jk ]fi ^Xe^ èk\im\ek`fe 9P >@9I8E :8IFC@E< 9FP:< For The Heights Greg Boyle, founder of Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, spoke to students on Tuesday at Robsham Theater about his journey running his organization, the experiences he has had, and the people that he has helped. Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world. The program has helped supply to gang members free services such as employment, educational, mental health, and legal services. Boyle received his Master’s of Divinity at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry. He then joined the Society of Jesus in 1982. From 1986 until 1992, Boyle served as pastor of a mission church in one of the poorest areas of Los Angeles. In L.A., he witnessed the devastating effects of gang violence on the community. He noticed that law enforcement only suppressed or incarcerated gang members, which is what inspired him to come up with an alterna-

tive approach, mainly, he said, to treat gang members like human beings—with respect, dignity, rights, and potential. In addition to authoring the 2010 The New York Times bestseller Tattoos on the Heart, Boyle received a California Peace Prize and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, the White House named Boyle a “champion of change.” “It is the privilege of my life how my own heart has been altered and shaped and how the homies [to the members of Homeboy Industries] have endlessly helped me move beyond the mind that I have,” Boyle said. Throughout his speech, Boyle made se veral biblical references and consciously used a language that allowed his words to truly hit home for many audience members. He discussed Mother Teresa’s diagnosis of what was wrong with the world and explaining that we “had just forgotten that we belong to each other.” Boyle also shared anecdotes from his experiences , often including humor. Boyle talked about his visit to hold mass at the San Fernando Juvenile Hall, which incarcerates approximately 300 minors, mostly all gang members. “A kid gets up and is doing

the Psalm and with an overabundance of confidence, he says, ‘the Lord is exhausted’—he meant ‘the Lord is exalted,’” Boyle said. Then Boyle took a moment to share with his audience the significance of what was said. “When you think about the word ‘exalted’ … it is far, glorified, distant, it is separate,” Boyle said. “But if you think about the God who is exhausted … it is self-emptying, it is all out, it is for you, it is close, it is intimate. It is way better than exalted.” Boyle then discussed what it means to truly have compassion for others. “The measure of our compassion lies not in our service to those on the margins, but only in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship with them,” Boyle said. “If we do not welcome our own wounds, we will be tempted to despise the wounded.” When asked whether he ever feels desolation because of the amount of time that goes into Homeboy Industries, Boyle explained that the only time someone burns out is if they think they are setting out to save the world or rescue someone. “If you are in the present moment and delight in the person in front of you, it is only consolation,” Boyle said. “If you love being loving, it is only consolation.”

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pitaya bowl came about when a dietician approached Michael Forcier, general manager of McElroy Commons, with the the idea. Forcier began to research pitaya and came across a company that sells pitaya powder. The company, Pitaya Plus, creates jobs for poverty-stricken areas in Central America where the dragon fruit comes from. Forcier was inspired by the company’s story and called the founder of the company. Forcier will order the powder from Pitaya Plus to create the bowls. Forcier and other members of BC Dining have spent the last few weeks testing ingredients to see which combinations would create the best-tasting pitaya bowl. The recipe for the bowl

is finished, and they will spend the next week inputting the ingredients into a database to determine its nutritional value. They will then adjust the bowl to maximize taste and nutritional value. After that is finalized, the bowl will be ready to make its debut in Mac. On the day of the launch, representatives from Pitaya Plus will bring T-shirts and other marketing materials to the dining hall. Forcier and other members of BC Dining will hand out samples and listen to student feedback. They will also pass out comment cards for students to provide additional feedback. “We want to have an event for this because it is pretty cuttingedge,” Forcier said.

THE HEIGHTS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017

D=8 Le`k\j :lckli\j K_ifl^_ CleXi E\n P\Xi :\c\YiXk`fe 9P C8LI8 >8CC@>8E =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj For the fourth year in a row, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) celebrated the Lunar New Year through a combination of free admission, shows, talks, and community building. This year’s celebration was the most successful thus far, bringing in 31 percent more visitors than last year’s event. The idea for the celebration began when the MFA organizers decided that they wanted to bring in more cultures, according to Linda Apple, the director of volunteer and community engagement. Apple explained that the MFA had numerous free days throughout the year, including Columbus Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Memorial Day. Eventually Apple and her colleagues raised enough funding to add free museum days and events for the Lunar New Year, celebrated on Saturday, and the Persian New Year in March. “We wanted to try and expand to make the museum more relevant to the Boston area,” Apple said. This year ’s celebration brought the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (B C N C ), Chinese Culture Connection, VietAid, and the Korean Cultural Society of Boston to the MFA to collaborate on many different types of events. Children created works of art for the Community Arts Initiative, and museum-goers of all ages watched demonstrations, attended guided walks around the museum, and listened to talks about different cultural traditions. Apple particularly enjoyed the Lion Dance and Vietnamese martial art dem-

onstration, which were new this year. “It was so lively and active and cool to watch,” Apple said. Carolyn Muller, MCAS ’18 and frequent MFA patron, watched the Vietnamese martial arts demonstration for the first time at the MFA this year. “It was surreal to experience in person,” Muller said. “I enjoyed trying to understand the meanings of different dances, among men and women themselves and as separate groups. The fastpaced change of hands between each performance was seamless, and overall it was absolutely breathtaking.” Due to the high number of attendees, some events, such as the Lion Dance and “Celebrating Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year” talk required free tickets. The Tet talk featured Boston College School of Social Work’s Tran V. Thanh, who spoke about how Tet is celebrated across generations and from coast to coast in an interactive roundtable discussion, according to MFA.org. Apple also enjoyed that the museum featured the option to practice meditation if museum goers were looking for a quiet space, which was difficult to find at such a popular celebration. Visitors of all ages attended the events, including a high number of children who enthusiastically engaged in activities such as SaeBae, where they participated in traditional Korean bowing, and a greeting ceremony practiced in Korea during the New Year, which was hosted by the Korean Cultural Society, according to MFA.org. The goal of the day, according to Apple, is to make events available to multigenerational audiences.

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On Saturday, the MFA hosted its fourth annual Lunar New Year Celebration to draw together visitors of different cultural backgrounds. Although less interactive, the museum did offer some more educationstyle talks throughout the day, hosted by VietAid. Apple credits the work of the partner organizations to the day’s ultimate success. “Our success is due to their hard work and dedication,” Apple said. “We can only do so much on our own. We really have to work with others to make this thing happen. We do a fantastic job of social media but we rely on our partners to help spread the word. That’s why [the event] has grown.”

Apple noted that the events of the day bring together people who celebrate the holiday, and people who simply want to learn more about the culture. But even with a straightforward goal, this process takes months to plan. Pamphlets, for example, must get translated into different languages so that patrons of all cultures are able to participate in the events. Some of the events, according to the museum’s website, were available in American Sign Language. “The hardest part was managing

crowds and expectations,” Apple said. “We never have enough staff. We need people to work and volunteer.” Apple and her team’s ultimate goal is to equally represent Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean cultures equally for the Lunar New Year. If the museum is able to acquire adequate funding, they hope to expand beyond Boston and bring in performers from other cities such as New York. “We want to do more programming,” Apple said. “We want to give ourselves time.”

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E\n <Xk\ip Jgi\X[j Cfm\ Xe[ Jlj_` 9P D8;@JFE J<D8IA@8E =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Hop off the Green Line at Hynes Convention Center, walk for about two minutes, and end up at an exposed-brick foodie gold mine that will add one more item to the growing list of foods that can be found in a customizable bowl: sushi. Located just around the corner from the Berklee College of Music, Love Art Sushi, an Asian-fusion gem in the heart of Boston, holds true to the popular fastcasual build-your-own-rice-or-salad-bowl concept, but in Japanese and Hawaiian fashion. Immediately after entering the bright, clean-lined space, customers will notice the bold Asian-inspired paintings, custom hanging lanterns, and quote wall created by the managing partner, Jessica Chiep. But their attention will be drawn to the large counter in the center of the the store where the skillful staff prepares these innovative bowls. Head over to the food counter and ask your stomach how it’s feeling. Just looking for a light bite? Get the snack size. Ravenous? The large bowl is for you. Now it’s time to choose your base—greens or sushi rice (or a little bit of both). Next, pick your veggies. Love Art Sushi has the typical Sweet Green selections, like grape tomatoes, sweet corn, onions, etc., but stays true to its Asian roots and suggest options like shiitake mushrooms, pickled ginger, and kimchi. Then, cap it off with a dressing and one of its signature toppings, like marinated ahi poke tuna or wild salmon. For those wary of raw fish, Love

Art Sushi offers toppings such as tangy seaweed salad, fresh avocado, and hardboiled egg. Watch them take a culinary torch to your creation and enjoy. Customers on-the-go can also stop for a refreshing drink and get creative by mixing their many flavors of house-made bubble tea. Chiep recommends mango and strawberry basil, her personal favorite. Although the idea of a sushi bowl might seem obvious given the modern popularity of customizable options, Chiep and fellow creator/managing partner Ronald Liu developed the concept by accident. It was a product of supply and demand. Liu explained that, after opening H. A. Café, a small tea and sushi shop at the University of Connecticut, they struggled to keep up with the rushes of students who would come into the shop for their sushi fix. One afternoon in particular, the traditional sushi rolling method seemed so impractical that Liu asked the customers if he could just through the normal sushi ingredients into a bowl instead. The customers got more food for the same price, and Liu dramatically cut down on production time—it was a win-win that quickly became their most popular menu item. As their UConn café began to grow in popularity, Liu and Chiep rebranded their original shop, and decided to head back home to Boston to open another location dedicated solely to these customizable sushi bowls. For Lui and Chiep, the return was a kind of homecoming, for they were eager to reenter the Boston community. “The community here, and the openness and willingness for food was here,” Liu said. “In Boston, you find something, you

like something, and you appreciate it.” When asked if they planned on expanding to a chain level, Liu and Chiep made it clear that they will not sacriﬁce quality for quantity. Liu explained that, although they hope to open up many more Love Art Sushi locations, they want each storefront to “have the feel of a mom-and-pop restaurant.” “We want to get to know the regulars and have each location stand on its own,” Liu said. While the locally sourced food is to die for, Liu stressed that the true charm of Love Art Sushi is in the culture. Liu hopes to attract the local community and artists by creating a space known not only for its food, but also as a comfortable spot where a student could go to study, or where a group of friends could come to catch up. “It’s just not food,” Liu said. “We want you to feel you are a part of us.” For Liu, this ethos is evident from the shop’s name, which places the value on love and art just as much as sushi. In the future, Chiep and Liu mentioned Love Art Sushi engaging with the Boston community through events and collaborations with local artists—they even plan to launch an apparel line. In the meantime, however, Love Art Sushi is in a soft opening and is experimenting with the menu and architecture to get it just right for its customers. Nonetheless, Love Art Sushi is still open for business. So for customers eager to build their ﬁrst sushi bowl, maybe even documenting the event at the restaurant’s Instagram station, Love Art Sushi is just a short trip down the Green Line.

On Feb. 25, 2015, the 35th annual homeless census ran by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, found 7,663 men, women, and children living in shelters or on the streets of Boston. Th e p r e d i c a m e nt o f B o s t o n’s homeless population, which includes f a m i l i e s a n d t h e e l d e r l y, co m e s into sharp focus during the winter months when the average winter temperature hovers between 22 and 30 degrees—without taking wind chill into account. So Paul English, a local entrepreneur and philanthropist, conceived the idea of the Winter Walk, in which members of the Greater Boston area would come together to experience a small part of what the homeless experience every day in the winter—the freezing cold—in an attempt to raise awareness. English’s vision has become reality, and the first Winter Walk will take place on Sunday, Feb. 12. English developed the idea of the Winter Walk in the summer of 2016, after explaining to The Boston Globe that he wanted to develop an event conveying the physical discomfort of homelessness. “I want people to feel the pain of how bad it is outside,” English told The Globe. “It’s kind of like walking in someone else’s shoes, literally.” English then organized a small team of leaders committed to preparing for the Winter Walk, both in marketing and funding. The y will donate the mone y raised by the Winter Walk to five organizations that address the varied needs of the homeless in the area: Boston Health Care for the Homeless P ro g r a m , B r i d g e O v e r Tro u b l e d Waters, Brookview House, Pine Street Inn, and Y2Y Harvard Square. These groups span the scope of demographics and situations represented by the homeless community in the area. The inaug ural Winter Walk is the epitome of a community event. Ari Barbanell, the director and cofounder of the Winter Walk, explained that the leaders worked with the Mayor’s Initiative to End Chronic Homelessness, as well as many city departments to create a poignant event that will draw positive attention to a worthy cause. Many local service organizations h av e p i tc h e d i n w i th th e e v e nt , dedicating their time and effort to

support the Winter Walk. In addition, a wide array of local businesses, such as Newbury Comics and the Kraft Group, have sponsored the Winter Walk. And it has certainly kept its organizers busy. “Planning [the Winter Walk] has been a wonderful whirlwind,” Barnabell said. In preparing for the walk, organizers met with many of those who make use of the services for which they raised money. Barbanell said that those they have met so far have been “willing to open up [and] share stories with kindness and honesty in the hopes that it will make an impact.” Barbanell noted one such man, Mickel, a patient at Boston Health Care for the Homeless, who wrote a particularly moving poem about his experiences with homelessness and what he wishes to convey to those who might judge him based on this single factor. The poem, entitled “I am,”speaks eloquently about contradicting emotions and where he is coming from on his “life’s journey.” He asks readers, should they come across him on this journey, to “smile at me, talk to me, or simply be still.” Mickel’s call for understanding will be shared at the Winter Walk in a video of him reading his poem. In addition to Mickel’s poetry, Dr. Jim O’Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless, will be addressing the crowd at the event. The organizers are expecting 500 to 1,000 people to participate in the event in some way. The route takes participants on a two-mile walk , running in a loop from Copley Square, up Boylston Street, through Boston Common, and back down the other side of the Public Garden. After the walk, the participants will participate in a community breakfast at which O’Connell will speak, and will share stories and learn from the experiences of others. The Winter Walk is shaping up to be a yearly event. The organizers hope to foster a better understanding of the stories within the homeless community. They strive for the eradication of homelessness in Boston and to be “a catalyst for action and awareness.” T h r o u g h t h e Wi n t e r Wa l k , philanthropy and activism will come together to help members of the community see the homeless in a new light, and to work toward making a positive change together.

THE HEIGHTS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017

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of maple syrup being poured, and even the starchy tang of the dough being prepared and cooked—and that is just the perfume arising from one donut in the shop. But Union Square Donuts is more than just a delicious-smelling donut bakery—it’s a one-of-a-kind tasting experience. After you walk into the single door entrance, you are welcomed not only by the smells, but also by the sight of a large shining Italian cappuccino machine seated in front of racks and racks of freshly-made donuts. If you get in before the crowd, you see the flavors of the day laid out behind a clear glass display next to a large colorful wall mural. Relaxing into the comfortable space, you can then focus on the choices of filled donuts, vegan donuts, cake donuts, yeast donuts, and donut holes. What exactly is the difference between donuts? Customers craving the classic “American” donut should order a dense and filling cake donut, but if they want a lighter option, then the airy yeast donut is the ideal choice. After selecting the type of donut comes the choice of flavor. Because of their executive board, which researched and created the flavors rotating through the shop, Union Square Donuts has a variety of ever-changing flavors. Whether you like a classic chocolate donut, really want to feed your inner Bostonian with a Boston Crème, or want to have some fun and eat a birthday cake donut, this bakery has everything. Even with the plethora of donut options, Union Square Donut’s maple bacon donut is the “bread and butter” of this eatery. Matt Olsen, the acting general manager at the Brookline Union Square Donuts, said that this donut has become so popular that for every

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Last month, Union Square Donuts welcomed long lines of eager donut lovers at the grand opening of their second location in Brookline. other donut this shop sells, two maple bacon donuts are sold. Once you order, you can sit down with your coffee or your milk in one of the tables off to the side of the store. There you can read your newspaper or tablet while enjoying the aromatic smell of freshly brewed coffee and sweet baking dough. After carefully choosing your donuts, you can select a cold, refreshing glass of milk, or order a specialty coffee to complete the Union Square Donut

experience. Olsen gave some advice to people who want to experience this thrilling adventure ﬁrst hand, explaining that while this community’s new staple is an experience for all, you do not need to wait for a group to try it out. “You do not necessarily have to come here with a group like many other restaurants, sometimes it’s actually more of a pain,” Olsen said. “Coming alone is very common here because you can sit down, eat your donuts,

drink your coﬀee, and read the paper before you start work.” When asked, “Why Brookline?” employees mentioned the sense of community as well as the vibrant Harvard Avenue location. The storefront was designed not only to feed people, but also to make them feel relaxed and excited before a day of work. And with a Union Square Donut confection sitting in front of you, feeling relaxed is really the only possible option.

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Hamilton agree on the effectiveness and convenience of this location. Not only is it at the tip of their home state, it’s easily accessible to the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where Hamilton is finishing his electrical engineering degree as a senior, and where Abdelaziz earned concentrations in computer science and electrical engineering. The technology behind the startup relies on Bluetooth Low Energy (LE). The battery lasts for a year, and connects via Bluetooth to the InvisaWear mobile application on the user’s smartphone device, functioning up to 30 feet away. Bluetooth LE is fairly new technology and the lowenergy aspect allows for lower-power applications to run effectively behind the scenes. “Imagine the cell phone as the brains with accurate GPS locations and phones connecting to a car,” Hamilton said. On a fundamental level, Abdelaziz parallels InvisaWear’s technology and services to Apple’s Find My iPhone. Coincidentally, part of the startup’s motivation came from Abdelaziz’s experience in an Apple Store. While getting assistance at a local Apple Store, Abdelaziz put down her keys and accompanying items on the glass

counter right beside her. One item was her asymmetrical and unaesthetic pepper spray—her main mechanism of defense against strangers. A stranger approached her and grabbed her key ring, questioning if the pepper spray container was an inhaler. With her defenses breached, Abdelaziz realized the uncomfortable and frightening nature of her situation. “What would stop them from attacking [me] with my own weapon?” Abdelaziz said. Moreover, during her undergraduate career at UMass Lowell, Abdelaziz was president of the Society of Women in Engineering. She noticed a lower attendance rate at club meetings because they were held after dark. Many students felt uncomfortable and scared walking back to their dorms or apartments. Hamilton also added that the engineering and computer science courses usually ﬁnished at night, and that many students were on edge walking back. In fact, these nighttime walks were one of the reasons that Abdelaziz originally began carrying pepper spray. These uncomfortable experiences from friends and late engineering classes led Abdelaziz and Hamilton to start what

would become InvisaWear in her senior design project. They entered the project into new competitions, and applied for UMass Lowell’s $50,000 innovation-entrepreneurship grant, DifferenceMaker. After winning the competition, the two networked and noticed the potential of their product. Over the summer, they decided to put it out on the market. Just a month ago, they launched on social media. Nonetheless, they faced numerous challenges along the way. Abdelaziz and Hamilton detailed the intricacies and technicalities of figuring out how to utilize Bluetooth LE, on top of financial difficulties and finding the right individuals to help with specific Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Currently, InvisaWear has a board of eight advisers with experience ranging from finance to communications—individuals committed to bringing InvisaWear to fruition. InvisaWear envisions a safer world—its mission is to give people peace of mind. In five years, Abdelaziz and Hamilton intend to incorporate a variety of styles so that everyone can wear InvisaWear’s products. They want to appeal to multiple

styles and build partnerships with big name brands such as Alex and Ani. In addition, they look to expand overseas. For instance, Abdelaziz proposed looking into developing countries, such as Egypt. She notes how their policing systems are very slow and ineﬀective—if an emergency situation was to arise, the arrival of ﬁrst responders would be far too late and the emergency would have already occurred. Abdelaziz highlighted the importance of having family and friends to aid in emergency situations—people that will promptly come to your help. Dating back to a 1987 article in The New York Times, 83 percent of 12-yearold children in the United States will be victimized at least once in their lifetime. Additionally, Abdelaziz referenced that one in five women face assault before graduating from college to highlight the importance of staying safe and protective measures for those you love. With the advent of such sophisticated technology, InvisaWear hopes to join the forefront of this innovative and technological age. Soon, life-saving jewelry and fashion could become as commonplace as a can of pepper spray.

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Simplicity meets functionality at Newbury Street’s newest store, MUJI. The Japanese retail chain’s first Boston location, which opened to the public last Friday, might just be ﬁlled with every product one would ever need. The store’s interior maintains the minimalist aesthetic that is consistent with each of MUJI’s 700 locations worldwide. The wide variety of products are displayed with overwhelming precision, so shoppers passing through the store will not ﬁnd a single item of

clothing or bottle of soap out of place. Founded in 1980, MUJI set out to redefine everyday essentials. With the marketplace full of over-embellished products, MUJI saw the opportunity to rationalize the manufacturing process by creating simple, affordable, and quality goods. MUJI’s wide selection of products range from cosmetics to home furniture. What makes MUJI unique is that it’s a store where one can purchase all their everyday essentials in one place. The company is credited for being resource saving, affordable, and natureoriented while still producing goods of the highest quality.

Ichigo Sugiura, a marketing and public relations associate for MUJI U.S.A., has already supervised the opening of various MUJI stores in New York and California. According to Sugiura, the company spent two years scouting for the best location in Boston to open its second ﬂagship store in the U.S. Newbury Street’s bustling atmosphere caught its eye and, after careful analysis of the markets, the company decided to build a presence in Boston’s lively shopping district. The store is MUJI’s ﬁrst shop on the East Coast outside of New York City. Sugiura explained that a large percentage MUJI’s online sales were coming from Boston, signaling a

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Famous for its minimalistic and functional everyday products, MUJI opened its second East Coast flagship store on Newbury Street last Friday.

need for a physical store. “We carefully analyze and listen to what our customers want,” Sugiura said. “From there we knew Boston was an important area for us.” Ahead of its anticipated launch last month, MUJI opened a pop-up shop just down the road to give Bostonians a taste for their products. The pop-up allowed those unfamiliar with the MUJI phenomenon to test and view its products before its flagship opening. MUJI’s products have been reexamined through its material selection, inspection process, and packaging simplification. What results are products that are remarkably pure and fresh. Its company ideology hasn’t changed since its inception, as MUJI innovators continue focusing themselves on the universality of daily life, and the essential products that consumers require to navigate this life. Its minimalistic packaging and labels have become a trademark of the brand. Sugiura described that by omitting the bleaching process of the pulp when producing paper, the result is a light-beige color which provides a clean and refined look. The new flagship store offers visitors exclusive services which MUJI hopes will help attract residents of the Boston community. Customers can create personalized scents and diffusers at the aroma bar, or customize MUJI products at the embroidering station. In addition the store features Found MUJI, a range of recovered products refurbished to fit MUJI’s aesthetic, and MUJI LABO, a simple and practical line of clothing made from organic materials.

With the opening of the new store, the company hopes to spread their concept of lifestyle to help ease the daily life of Bostonians. “MUJI is unlike any other store on Newbury Street, where you can shop for apparel and food items in one store,” Sugiura said. The store is sure to make an impact on the thousands of college students living in Boston, who may choose to spruce up their dorm rooms with MUJI products instead of items from more conventional stores. Its straightforward and reliable stationary, and their sleek storage items, are expected to be a hit among students in the Boston area. MUJI’s most popular product is the aroma diffuser. Steam is released from the diffuser, scented with MUJI’s aromatic essential oils. The diffuser’s simple design fits with the decor of any home interior. The product features three different light settings which can be altered depending on the mood of the room. Worldwide, MUJI’s other popular items include the body-fit cushion and their skincare products. The body-fit cushion serves as a versatile beanbag and can bring a little minimalistic flair into any room. MUJI’s renowned skincare products help to nourish skin while evading the many factors contributing to skin damage While it is too early to tell whether MUJI will open another location in Boston, Sugiura’s focus is on the store’s opening and making sure the staff are providing the same standard customer service as their other stores. So in the meantime, Bostonians can flock to Newbury St. and explore the fresh aesthetic that MUJI has to offer.

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E\nkfe :fddle`kp Gi\j\ekj Fggfikle`kp ]fi 9: Jkl[\ekj The Newton City Council held a meeting Wednesday night at City Hall to consider making Newton a sanctuary city. A sanctuary city pledges to offer protection to immigrants who might otherwise be deported by the federal government. This was the second meeting that the council had held on the matter, and they voted to bring the proposition to a third meeting before the entire city council in order to vote it into law. Much of the discussion at the council meeting was centered around self-concern. Multiple council members were initially apprehensive of Newton becoming a sanctuary city due to concerns for the personal safety of themselves and their constituents. A number of Newton residents protested outside of the first meeting to express their disapproval for the legislation. Despite these qualms, the council members acknowledged at the meeting on Wednesday that the second draft of the bill was satisfactory, and each member threw his or her support behind the movement. It was voted unanimously in favor, 6-0. In the past, The Heights has suggested that students who are participating in oncampus demonstrations and protests within the city of Boston seek to take concrete action regarding the causes they are supporting or speaking out against. The upcoming meeting of the Newton City Council on Feb. 21 represents a tangible step toward protecting immigrants within the local community, a goal for which multiple student groups on campus have expressed support. Attending the next meeting to endorse the measure is one way that BC students can contribute to the protection of immigrants within the community. While supporting the rights and freedoms of immigrant students on campus is

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inherently important, it is imperative that students recognize that our campus does not exist inside of a bubble. There are immigrant residents within Newton that could benefit from the support and energy that BC students have shown in recent protests and demonstrations. Many students and faculty speaking at these demonstrations have placed an emphasis on the importance of coming together to combat oppression and discrimination, and one way to achieve this is for BC students to work with Newton. For student activism to have a greater impact, it should be extended beyond the barriers of Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue. Many of the goals of student groups on campus call directly for changes that can only be made by the University administration—in particular, a recent campus protest called for BC to become a sanctuary campus. It is worth noting that if Newton becomes a sanctuary city, the administration may be more inclined to act on student demands. Therefore, it is essential that those looking to bring change to BC also support activism in the local community and beyond at the national level. At the meeting , the Ne w ton City Council epitomized American politics when it works. Legislators on the council with different political philosophies and backgrounds worked together to create a piece of legislation that works for everyone, depicting the value of cooperation and collaboration. Newton politicians deserve recognition for coming and working together on this important piece of legislation in this critical time. In this period of uncertainty, it is comforting to know that Newton’s government stands with its immigrant residents and opposes discrimination.

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I8:?<C CFFJ A WHITE, PULVERULENT CASCADE Canada Goose jacket on, Duck Boots laced, and fleece-lined khakis donned, the freshman gazed up at the mystical scene above him. Standing at the top of the Upper stairs, he looked out at where the skyline of Boston normally sits, barely visible through the opaque snowfall. The onslaught of powder mystified the distance between near and far, reducing the size of the world to the immediately recognizable. He traipsed on, disregarding the sting of cold as the individual flakes hit his face, taking in the uncanny silence that accompanies a snowstorm. Nature ensured that the trek to Mac would be a treacherous one, but it also forced him to ponder. The abounding blizzard rescinded abruptly as he swung open the door. He sat at the end of one of the long tables, peering out the window. Inside, the everyday worries of campus life were overwhelming. Outside, however, the snow would keep falling. AN UNDERGROUND CULT - In the underbelly of Lyons Hall, the bottom dwellers of Boston College find their home. In masses they scurry across the brick tile, in pursuit most commonly of mac and cheese, short lines, and coffee that doesn’t suck. These proud rodents prefer a tranquil atmosphere to the traditional hustle and bustle of other on-campus dining halls. Here, the rush slows down, and the wooden accents adorning the walls allow for an escape from the contemporary. Grilled chicken breasts and faux wooden tables make way for newspaper reading, coffee, and contemplation. A sewer for equanimity.

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I was recently reminded of my freshman year Courage to Know class and the infamous “dating assignment.” Since Kerry Cronin first presented this assignment to a small seminar several years ago, many professors of freshman courses have added variations to their syllabi. In my class, we were instructed to ask someone on a date in person to a location off campus where we would consume no alcohol and engage in no physical contact. Afterward, we would write a reflection on our experience. The alternative was to watch and discuss the riveting film Love Actually, a compilation of heteronormative on-screen love stories with sexist undertones that portrays a childlike understanding of romantic love. I chose to write about Love Actually because, if you can’t tell, I passionately hate everything about that movie, so writing a critical paper would come easily. I also passed on the “dating assignment” because I thought the whole thing was pretty … weird. In researching this topic, I listened to several of Cronin’s talks online, and her prevailing message seems to be that the “hookup culture,” the trend in social behavior of college students that features casual sexual encounters with minimal commitment and bonding, is harmful to the emotional development of the students at Boston College. According to Cronin, college kids want to have deep connections with other people, but revert to hooking up because it is easier than traditional dating. And because hooking up requires detachment, separating our feelings from our physical selves, it supposedly makes us incredibly lonely and emotionally unfulfilled, even while we achieve in other aspects of our lives. Anyone who has taken a philosophy class at BC has heard this before. To some members of the BC community, the “dating assignment” seems like a fun and creative way of helping students engage differently with their peers and broaden their understanding of how relationships are

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monogamous relationship, I remember hooking up with people I shared minimal emotional intimacy with. Sometimes I felt empty and dissatisfied afterwards. But there were also times that I felt empowered, brave, and confident. I’d just had sex! Cronin ignores the benefits that the “hookup culture” has offered our generation, female-identifying individuals especially. The “dating assignment” assumes that the “hookup culture” is objectively bad for our generation, focusing on what has been lost rather than what has been gained. Some have pointed out that this trend in casual sex among young people might be a result of the times. According to Hanna Roisin, correspondent for The Atlantic, the hookup culture is a manifestation of sexual liberation. Young women are now attending college in greater numbers than before, and having temporary relationships allows them to delay marriage and to preserve their education and career goals. In this “hookup culture,” women are given control over their lives and their bodies, and may have significant power over men. From this viewpoint, the “hookup culture” is just a phase in life that young people pass through before forming more serious relationships. Cronin may consider these people “lonely,” when really they are discovering themselves, their sexualities, and their emotions. So, if physical contact can help with emotional fulfillment and hooking up can actually develop one’s self realization and confidence, why are some professors so against the “hookup culture?” It’s possible that they just don’t recognize the benefits of this lifestyle. It could be that the “dating assignment” is simply designed to get people out of their comfort zones and make them think critically about their personal relationships. That is the Jesuit goal of educating the whole person, right? I believe that the “dating assignment” is a desperate scramble to reestablish the archaic forms of romantic relationships, the ones our professors consider valid and normal. The assignment is not a lesson in emotional growth, but a way for the older generation to control young peoples’ lives.

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NO BARK, NO BITE - Eagles and Terriers alike descended upon TD Garden on Monday to witness what many humorously referred to as “The Pot of Beans.” The two student sections, towering high above the ice below, engaged in banter typical of the storied rivalry. One school in particular, however, chose to drop the ball on this matter. The Boston University students in attendance apparently decided that they would find the most irrelevant and corny jokes possible to scream that night. Upon hearing chants of “B-C Chipot-le!” ring out from the notably smaller sea of red and white across the stadium, those dressed in maroon and gold couldn’t help but chuckle at the sheer irrelevancy pervading the air. Cheers of “B-C Ho-ckey!” reminded everyone of the identity of one of the teams playing in the game, as if the audience had suddenly forgotten. Jealous of our storied alumni, the Terriers cried “F—k Matt Ryan!” forgetting that they’ve never had a quarterback play in the Super Bowl. It’s probably because they don’t have a football team. Sucks to suck.

formed. But to me, the “dating assignment” reveals professors’ genuine misunderstanding of their students, and constitutes an overreach of the Jesuit style of education that emphasizes emotional growth along with intellectual. For one thing, Cronin and other professors create a dichotomy between dating and hooking up that is not as clearly defined in real life as they believe. They argue that traditional dating and romantic, monogamous relationships lead to emotional fulfillment, while hooking up leads to loneliness. Besides excluding individuals who identify as asexual, aromantic, or polyamorous, and implying that one must be in a relationship to be truly fulfilled, this mindset ignores the vast gray area between hooking up and dating in which many college relationships exist. And it problematically assumes that emotional and sexual growth cannot occur side by side. At last February’s “Save the Date” talk, Cronin described the mechanics of an ideal first date, and the requirements of the students for her assignment. Like my assignment, the date must have no physical interaction (except for an A-frame hug). Cronin clearly establishes that physical contact determines whether an interaction is a date or a hookup. While it can be sexual, physical affection is often an expression of care and love, and can help strengthen emotional bonding and fulfillment (what Cronin says students are missing). Even simple gestures, like hugging our friends, can make us feel good. Within the gray area between hooking up and dating, many decide not to postpone physical contact until after they have established an emotional connection with their partner. In this way, couples can develop both emotional and physical attachment at the same time. Perhaps what Cronin refers to as “hooking up” is really just our way of exploring and growing emotionally and physically. This hookup-relationship hybrid is certainly not everyone’s experience, nor is it everyone’s goal to become emotionally invested in another person at this point in their lives. There certainly are individuals who engage in casual sex without emotional commitment, and Cronin and other professors would be quick to point out the disadvantages of such sexual experiences. And they aren’t wrong. Before I was in a

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has been absent from so many recent protests that many people have started to ask the question: “Where is he?” Baker wasn’t at the Boston Women’s March, and he has not gone out to protest President Donald Trump’s ridiculous Muslim ban. He hasn’t visited a mosque like George W. Bush did after Sept. 11, 2001, and he hasn’t pledged to support Boston as a sanctuary city. Many might suspect that he is secretly a Trump supporter or some type of immigrant hater—a Republican insurgent, maybe. I disagree. I see Baker’s lack of protesting as an even more powerful protest against the polarizing current of modern society. In today’s age, you’re either on the left or the right. There’s Trump’s inauguration one day, a progressive Women’s March the next, and the day after that the conservative March For Life. People on Facebook and all over the internet are sounding the alarm within their personal bubbles, unfriending people who disagree with them and subscribing to whichever media outlets tell them what they want to hear Former President Bill Clinton acknowledged this in a recent interview with Daily Show host Trevor Noah: “America has come so far ... we have one remaining bigotry: We don’t want to be around anyone who disagrees with us.” It is disappointing to see a strong nation torn apart by polarizing political parties. People are isolated within their own little groups, and the moderate middle, which is the nation’s greatest defense against further polarization, is disappearing. Beacon Hill, however, is a completely diﬀerent world than Washington, D.C. As an intern at the Massachusetts State House in 2014, I got to hear from a lot of diﬀerent state senators, state representatives, former governors, and even Baker himself. These

were Democrats and Republicans alike. What I noticed among all of them was a spirit of collaboration. Democrats told me to look past the liberal media and try reading a conservative magazine once in a while. Republicans told me about how important it was to make friends across the aisle, and that no one was too worried about party lines because, otherwise, the government could come to a standstill. When the government doesn’t work, politicians cannot help the people in their respective communities, which is why they were elected in the first place. I could hardly believe that I was witnessing American politics. Today, I think of Massachusetts politics as one of the last holdouts of compromise and togetherness in an increasingly divided nation. Baker is the epitome of such a system, which is exactly why he seldom says a word about national politics. He didn’t vote for a presidential candidate, and he won’t attend any anti-Trump rallies. He is completely put-off by American polarization, and that’s okay because he is the governor, not a senator. Massachusetts voters made him the governor of their state, not their representative to the nation. He doesn’t want to fight with Washington, and it’s not his job to do so. This strategy is extremely effective. Baker has made sweeping progress on transgender rights, closed a $1 billion budget gap, made Massachusetts the No. 1 state for innovation, and began the “Commonwealth Commitment,” which cut the cost of state schools in half. Announcing all of these accomplishments in his State of the Commonwealth address, Baker took none of the credit for himself. Instead, he gave a personal thank you to seemingly everyone in the room. He has increased government efficiency while also providing important civil liberties to marginalized groups of people, appeasing both Democrats and Republicans. His approval rating is 70 percent, tied for second highest in the nation among governors. However successful and popular he may be, I can understand that it is frustrating to not see the governor by your side when taking a stand on something that is especially

important to you. But that does not always mean the governor is against you. In mid-April 2016, Baker took the time to go to a rally for an LGBTQ organization to express his support for the community. At the time, a transgender rights bill was working its way through the legislature. Baker didn’t want to commit to signing the bill at that time because he wanted to have further discussions with all the people involved. Passionate advocates were screaming at him, yelling “Trans rights now!,” and at least one person even started crying. It was seen as a betrayal. Nevertheless, in July, when the bill was finalized and put on his desk, he signed it into law. Baker was not and is not against transgender rights or the interests of their community. He showed that he cared not with his words, but with his actions. What is commendable and unique about Baker is that he also took the time to talk to the people who opposed the bill before making his final decision. Instead of taking up the banner for one side, he included everyone in the conversation. Baker doesn’t burn bridges, which has allowed him to be so effective even with a Democrat supermajority in both chambers of the legislature. The consequences of polarization are especially apparent at the national level. The most clear example of this was when the government shut down a few years ago because Republicans and Democrats were unable to come up with a budget. This past election was another result of polarization. Both major party candidates had well over 50 percent disapproval ratings. This stark division is not in the best interest of anyone. Baker is a governor. He is not an activist, and he is not a senator. He is a compassionate listener. He hardly ever hits the streets, unless an issue is going to directly affect his job as governor, like expanding local charter schools and legalizing marijuana. To not see our governor out protesting injustices is a disappointment, but it is a worthy trade-off to have a thoughtful and competent head of the Commonwealth.

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We may be 26 years past the Cold War, but United States relations with Russia today are still far from warm, to say the least. With allegations of Russian cyber hacking, its invasion of Crimea, its withdrawal from nuclear non-proliferation agreements, and its increasing influence in the Syrian conflict, America’s relationship with Russia is at its lowest point. It seems that if the U.S. doesn’t assert itself soon, the balance of power will keep shifting in Russia’s favor, egging on a Vladimir Putin now emboldened by American hesitance. We already know the Russian president (and strongman) is tough enough to ride horses shirtless through the Siberian mountains, tranquilize a tiger, and even fly alongside migratory birds in a motorized hang glider, as evidenced by his various photo-ops. Now he’s trying to prove Russia can pose a serious challenge to the U.S.’ position on the world’s stage. Although Russian military and economic strength definitively pales in comparison to that of the U.S., its nuclear arsenal is just as large as the U.S.’s, and may actually surpass it. This is the angle Putin will abuse to achieve his policy goals and exert Russian influence in the future. In recent months, Russia has become an increasingly unreliable non-proliferation partner. In October 2016, Putin suspended two nuclear security agreements with Washington, most likely in response to U.S. condemnation of Russian actions in Syria, and to American and European sanctions imposed after Russia’s annexation of Crimea. It seems that Putin is trying to use non-proliferation cooperation as leverage to have his way in Ukraine and Syria, which is not good at all. Collectively, the U.S. and Russia own 93 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads, making these signs of Russian belligerence especially problematic. This recent hostility has the potential of devolving into a full-blown nuclear arms race between the U.S. and Russia, encouraging other countries to strengthen or develop their own nuclear arsenals, and possibly leading to nuclear war. This is the worst-case scenario, and we must tread carefully here to avoid a global conflict. Putin recently pledged to strengthen and modernize Russia’s nuclear arsenal, only hours after which President Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.” While we can’t let Russia develop new weapons systems able to overcome U.S. missile defenses, we don’t want to precipitate an arms race either. The fewer nukes there are on Earth, the better. The U.S. must exploit all diplomatic avenues to mend its relationship with Russia, while standing its ground as a decisive actor on the global stage. Just recently, in an unlikely alliance, Russia and Turkey brokered a ceasefire in Syria, sidelining the U.S. and assuming the driver’s seat in a conflict in which American involvement has been criticized as a failure at worst, and half-hearted at best. Russia and Turkey, whose relationship was only recently quite contentious, are now working side-by-side as the dominant forces in the Syrian conflict, both as “honest brokers” in negotiations and military allies against ISIS. Putin appears to be attempting to draw Turkey even further from the West while increasing Russia’s influence in the Middle East, diminishing the U.S.’ credibility in the region. According to recent reports by intelligence agencies it seems that Russia may have tried to undermine the U.S. in the domestic sphere by meddling with its presidential election through hacking, another sore spot contributing to recent tensions. How the U.S.’ relationship with Russia will develop under the new administration remains something of a mystery. In a world where a lot of political dealings occur behind the curtains, it’s hard to distinguish public sensationalism from fact. Perhaps if the buzz in the press about Trump’s pseudobromance with Putin were true, it wouldn’t be such a disaster after all. In the best-case scenario, it could work as an unpolished form of diplomacy to keep Russia in check. Either way, curbing Russian advances and avoiding the escalation of conflict are goals this administration will have to strive to achieve for the sake of international stability.

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unusually friendly weather. With winter months light on rain and snow, Olson acknowledged his luck. When drafting “Evo,” Olsen was inInstead of a large, blank, white expanse trigued by the ever-changing nature of facing the street, 395 Western Avenue in Allston itself. Originally a hub for railways Allston has become a riot of color. Strong and stockyard-based shipping, the neighblocks of bright blues, purples, pinks, and borhood took on a drastically different feel greens interspersed with sections of delicate after both industries declined. Now, it’s a monochromatic illustrations jump out of hub for innovation and commercial activity. those who walk by on the street. The mural, Olsen named the mural after the concept of which will debut on Feb. 18, is the work of social and historical evolution because “it David Teng Olsen, a current assistant profestries to capture the short amount of time sor of art at Wellesley College. when past and present collide.” Titled “Evo,” this 170-foot-long piece In dealing with the community of people is colorful, asymmetric, and eclectic. It surrounding the mural, Olsen praised them is thought-provoking, both an evolution as one of the most active, involved, and and a departure from Olsen’s previous, memorable groups with whom he has ever more illustrative murals. “Evo” was comworked. missioned and supported by a number of “I always like to incorporate and include large community initiatives. Among them the community into my artwas Isenberg Projects, a comwork in some way,” Olsen said. mercial real-estate group that “After all, I’m doing them a is a “creatively-driven marketservice in the end. And everying company with a primary one I worked with and worked focus on attracting people to for were just fantastic.” places.” Olsen explained that In some of his previous Emily Isenberg, the founder pieces, Olsen took requests of Isenberg Projects, was the from passersby and painted first to contact him about the them straight into the work. project, asking last November For “Evo,” he worked with if he would be willing to paint a - David Teng Olsen, painter of the “Evo” mural Isenberg Projects to meet local mural for them. schoolchildren and teach an “Evo” is hardly Olsen’s first afterschool arts workshop. With them, he rodeo. An accomplished painter and digital number of firsts for him. “For one, the process went by really shared his experiences as an artist, talked media artist with experience painting larger projects, Olsen’s previous mural works in- quickly,” Olsen said. “From the time they about the creative process, and led coloring clude “Rain Shadow,” a large freehand mural first reached out to me to the last day of book activities. “I was really impressed with some of at Peninsula College, “Explosions in the painting, it took, what? Three months?” He Sky” at Wellesley, and “Prince Myshkin,” at recalled his other projects taking twice as those kids,” he said, “and they were all really interested and engaged.” the Montserrat Gallery. His style is defined long to set up. In addition to working with Isenberg Olsen originally planned for “Evo” to be by bold geometric shapes, selective, and attention-grabbing use of color, and themes completed over the summer of 2017, but Projects, Olsen was also contacted by the grappling with modernity, philosophy, and both Isenberg and Zone 3—a creative urban Zone 3 Initiative for the mural. Zone 3’s mission has thus far maniplanning program run through Harvard society. The themes come, in large part, from University and Graffito SP that “explores fested itself in art exhibitions, temporary Olsen’s life experiences. He originally gradu- experimental programs, events, and retail storefronts, movie screenings, and comated from the University of Washington with along Western Ave” in Allston—requested munity-centered classes. “Evo” wouldn’t a degree in biology, and spent several years that the work be finished sooner. What was have been possible at all, Olsen said, if not working in laboratories as a bioengineer and supposed to be a six-month project was, ef- for Zone 3. “They were great to work with, and textbook illustrator. Tasked with drawing fectively, condensed into half the time. “It’s not easy, painting a mural in Janu- [Zone 3] was a huge part of helping me out complex experiments and concepts, Olsen found the work fulfilling, even if it ary,” Olsen said. “It’s a whole new challenge connect with the people the mural would be in freezing temperatures because you have impacting on a daily basis,” Olsen said. lacked a certain element of creativity. If “Evo” is anything to go by, let us hope “The research we were doing tackled to keep the paint warm.” To solve the problem, Olsen relied on a that it is not the last we see from David some very important social issues,” Olsen said. “I felt like I was doing good, meaning- jerry-rigged set of covers and heaters and Teng Olsen. ful work.” Olsen explained that although he enjoyed his work, he noticed that he enjoyed the creative side much more than the scientific side. Olsen’s father was an artist, and Olsen himself had studied art as an undergraduate, so he left science for art and received a B.F.A. from Washington and an M.F.A from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. That change, Olsen says, was one of the best decisions of his life. But he hasn’t abandoned his biology background. Instead, Olsen leverages it to improve and inspire his art, as many of the themes apparent in his pieces are connected to those he examined while working as a bioengineer. While “Evo” shares some of its artistic inspirations and themes with Olsen’s previous work as a bioengineer, it represents a

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An assistant professor of art at Wellesley, David Teng Olsen has created murals before “Evo,” including “Rain Shadow” and “Prince Myshkin.”

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different, there is that genuinely wild card element about it,” Lewis said. “I’ve never had a job like it.” There’s not much of an imaginary “fourth wall” to separate the actors from audience either, especially after Romeo walks onstage. He’s been selected to get drunk for tonight’s performance and, after eight beers and an inch-and-a-half of Gosling’s dark rum, he’s starting to feel it. He looks and sounds like a drunk Michael Cera, with the same sleepy, unfocused eyes and reedy voice. The alcohol almost makes him more believable as Romeo, amplifying and exaggerating the character’s lovestruck dreaminess. The four other actors perform alongside their tipsy comrade with the deft skill of teammates on a professional sports team, gently steering Romeo back onstage when he veers into the audience or spinning his drunken ramblings into the story. “You basically have to justify or build into the world of the play almost anything the drunk is doing,” Ironside said. “It’s definitely more difficult to be the sober performers — the drunk is a real holiday.” But thanks to their skill, it’s not jarring when the fourth wall breaks—it’s part of the fun. One Shit-faced Shakespeare cast member, who prefers not to be named, described the sober actors as the “bridge between the audience and the drunk actor.” It’s the most compelling part of the production, they say. Ironside would agree. “People will laugh at a drunk person for about 10 minutes, and after that it’s really not funny,” Ironside said. “What you need are those sober actors reacting to that in order to make it funny.” The hour-long performance is perfectly timed: just enough Shakespeare and alcohol to complement each other before the gimmick gets stale. And in another balancing act, the play manages to satisfy both die-hard Shakespeare fans and those who are completely baffled by iambic pentameter. “It’s partially poking fun at what Shakespeare’s done, but also with a deep love,” Ironside said. For theatergoers who expected drunken farce, Ironside notes that this performance actually highlights the actors’ nuance and skill. Instead of a straightforward production, each performer must cope with the “impossible problem” of ensuring that the show goes on when one of their colleagues is drunk. It’s an impossible problem that this group manages with skill and humor. By the end of the play, you’ll be cheering and raising your glass to poor Romeo, as he says with a lopsided grin, “It’s better shit-faced, don’t you think?”

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The chain-link fence is also home to a number of small padlocks that have been ﬁrmly looped through the rusted wire of the fence. Some of the locks are shining and new, as if someone had just purchased them from their local hardware store before directly sticking them onto the fencizng. Others look like they have been there for decades, their once gleaming metal now dulled by a thick layer of coppery rust and dirt. While most of the locks are square or round (like the padlocks that you would use to secure your locker in middle school), some stand out, like the lock in the shape of a heart, or the antiquelooking lock with a frayed red ribbon tied around it. Regardless of the shape, almost every single lock features a pair of initials or names. The permanence of these markings ranges from MAC+CONNOR scrawled across the metal in thick black marker, to professional engravings done in curling script inside a heart. Despite the diﬀerence in their shapes or the relative level of fanciness of their engraving, these locks all mean one thing: love.

They are love locks, a globally-recognized symbol of a couple’s love for, and commitment to, each other. The tradition began in Paris, when couples began attaching locks to the famous Pont Des Arts as a sign of their love for each other, and the tradition caught on so quickly that the bridge became structurally unsound because of the sheer weight of all the locks. Paris oﬃcials had to start clipping oﬀ locks with wire cutters, but more were put back in their place. So somewhere along the way, an intrepid Boston couple decided to bring the tradition back to their hometown. Boston might not have quite the reputation that Paris does regarding happy couples in love, but when you look around the Boston Public Garden on a sunny day, there’s no arguing that this city has its fair share of lovebirds. Most of the time, when I walk past these locks, I’m not actually thinking about the happy couples eager to demonstrate their love for each other. Instead I’m thinking about the tricky business of inspiration. Just as these Boston locks were obviously inspired by the ones hanging from a

bridge across the Atlantic Ocean, much of our lives are inspired by modern and past people and ideas that surround us. But what is the line between inspiration and copying? You see, this question has been bothering me for a couple years now, ever since I processed that people have been around for long enough that no ideas are really new ideas anymore. And I don’t think it’s necessarily an uncommon realization—it’s just a factor of being a member of the human race. But until I read a piece in The New York Times a few days ago explaining that we, the people of the 21st century, are living in a copycat culture, I hadn’t been able to put a name to this phenomenon. As I read the piece, I felt a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach—for the issue suddenly seemed much more worrisome than I had thought. We have reached the point in society where we just recycle our ideas. Burned out and unsure of what the future holds, we reach back into the past not only for inspiration, but also for comfort. So when I walked past the love locks

most recently, I almost glared at the physical evidence of the dried-up well of human creativity. Then I felt bad about glaring. It just felt wrong. It is impossible to go through our lives without drawing from the world around us. Trying to shut oneself off from the value that different perspective brings breeds a dangerous kind of individualistic mindset—one that would have our society believe that only the ideas it comes up with are worthy of attention and try to shut out those who might intimidate us by appearing different or challenging to our preconceptions. Sometimes copying results in beautiful things, like Boston’s budding love bridge. Doesn’t every city deserve a bridge where people can try to quietly demonstrate their undying love for each other, even if it is mimicking one from across the world? I guess that I would rather be a copycat than someone closed off from the world around me.

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‘FIST FIGHT’

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FUNKY GIANT

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017

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Few groups at Boston Colleges drip with the kind of indelible, odorous passion that Funky Giant does. Channeling its passion for aural pleasure into the hearts and minds of its audience, Funky Giant was a pervasive force in the music scene at BC. The alternative funkbased jam band took the University by storm when it won

Battle of the Bands in 2016. Marked by its unique funk rock sound and lack of vocals, Funky Giant headlined for T-Pain at Modstock. Such successes were met with praise and recognition for its contributions to the arts community, as well as its instantaneously recognizable stage presence. For this band, they see their sound as the embodiment of their name—big, groovy, and chill all at the same time. But, just as many friends in college experience, the trio was soon separated by land and sea. As members went abroad in subsequent semesters, Funky Giant seemed fractured, but astute in regards to its future. For this band, however, such barriers do not spell an end for its run—rather, they serve as a period of growth. The future of Funky Giant is bright. Looking to this intermittent period to hone its skills, Funky Giant aims to return fresh, rested, and more, well, funkier than ever. Comprised of bassist Nick RocchioGiordano, MCAS ’18; drummer Mario Borges, MCAS ’18; and guitarist Henry Ricciardi, CSOM ’18, Funky Giant possesses a spirit and synergy like no other. And, despite miles of distance, the band brims with excitement over its everlasting chemistry. “The biggest thing is the energy we have as Funky Giant,” Rocchio-Giordano said. “Mario is ripping on the drums, Henry is just playing his heart out, and I am yelling into the microphone and slapping the bass.” This kind of simple view about what makes the band great—the interpersonal relationships between its members—is refreshing in an age of overly complex notions about what makes bands objectively good. And Funky Giant’s harmony is inarguable to any person who has ever seen the band, in fiery, charismatic fashion, take the stage. Speaking further on the band’s es-

sence, Borges described that they did not coalesce into a singular entity. They are individuals, but they foster a deep connection between one another through a shared passion of musical beauty. “If you just have pure individuals that do not connect with each other, it is not going to function,” he said.

This kind of connection is important to Funky Giant, as it is through this that their individual talents can create the sounds that make the stage theirs. Each pluck of a string and hit on the drumkit is not enough to garner them success. Their individual musical stylings are varied and compelling, but when brought together, they reach their fullest potential. “When you put ketchup on french fries—they just go together,” Borges said. In an interjection indicative of the kind of free-flowing energy at the heart of the band, Rocchio-Giordano furthered the analogy saying, “Like butter on lobster.” But such high spirit and charismatic funk do not come about unless the band behind the noise knows how to carry itself as musicians. Their excited, unrestricted, and free-spirited manner of speaking may fool some into thinking this band is not serious. But where there is passion, there is also a penchant for execution. In the conversation held with Rocchio-Giordano and Borges, it was clear that they possess a considerable amount of technical prowess. In describing how they come up with songs, they show a considerable level of aptitude regarding the musical process. But, as also would be expected of a band like Funky Giant, the songwriting process adopts a manner of ebb and flow. “Typically, it follows that we, especially with Henry, play till we hear something we like, then put it on the board, then play till we hear something we like,” Rocchio-Giordano said. The songwriting process never resembles a strict narrow-minded vision, but an organic progression of distinct musical ideas that fuse to form an overall song. Fitting the pieces of the puzzle, these smaller musical licks become the technical task and the band uses its wits

as the glue to do so. “Henry brings the riff, I see the strumming and flesh out the hits,” Borges said. “If there are hits or emphasis on chords or certain notes, I feel like those bring out the sound and make it sound really cool.” Rocchio-Giordano described the process in more poetic terms, as looking at a collection of structures and reforming them into useful shapes. Morphing ideas and welding them into one another in song form is fueled by a forge of passion for music and things that sound cool in general. One would be remiss if not to mention a large part of the band’s creative process. One of the greatest deposits in their musical coffer comes from its jam session, which, again, demands a free-form heart to strings to sound approach. In fact, Rocchio-Giordano said that some of the band’s earliest songs come solely from this process. The band will just go out in a jam session, get pumped about a song’s sound, and memorize it. Mu c h o f t h e o nu s w i t h i n Funky Giant is put on the instrumental aspects of its performance. Though the band is open to the idea of a singer, Funky Giant feels that it would have to be an individual who embodies the same kind of kindred spirit the band already possesses. But in many ways the band does not need a singer as they fill the space that would otherwise house lyrics with more earthy notes and tantalizing grooves. “There might be this idea among people that an instrumental band is not a legit band, because you think of a frontman,” Borges said. “I think we play in such a way that we don’t need singer.” The two described how they compensate for this

void by filling the space with heightened instrumental movement, audience interaction, and more upbeat sections in their songs. But, as may be felt this year on campus, Funky Giant has been noticeably absent. As Rocchio-Giordano went abroad to Ecuador in the fall and

Ricciardi is currently away in Vienna, Funky Giant finds itself separated by space. Though the band members have been supportive of the choices to experience life abroad, the band has sorely felt the effects. “It does mean we don’t have the sauce with us anymore” Rocchio-Giordano said of Ricciardi’s departure. “It just means that we have to be legit about it and think hard about what we want to do [as a band].” This kind of roadblock was slightly frustrating, but, as with most things for Funky Giant, positivity overwhelms the negative. “We had this momentum going,” Borges said of 2016. “But we just make up our minds, and will come back more powerful than ever senior year.” This intermittent period serves to beef up personal abilities and continue to explore new musical pathways. Referencing the Music Guild at BC, its members found there were many opportunities to collaborate with other BC bands and continue to build a rapport with the community. Though this is all for the express benefit of a triumphant Funky Giant return, members found that the infrastructure and networking in place kept the artist dream alive. “Funky Giant still exists and Funky Giant is coming back,” RocchioGiordano said with a fiery gaze. Quipping that last semester they went under the name ‘Oh,’ Borges suggested that this semester they may adopt the name ‘Eh.’ Collaborating with Juice’s Chris Vu, MCAS ’17, and Matt Chilton, CSOM ’18, Borges and Rocchio-Giordano will perform at up coming shows this semester in the place of Funky Giant. Whatever name they adopt, and whoever they share the stage with, it will represent a piece of a funky giant on the horizon—of the things to come for this band in the coming semesters. In any case, Funky Giant is fondly remembered, missed, and will most likely be the talk of the campus come a fateful senior year reunion. During an autumn day, not so long from now, emanating from the practice rooms about campus, the undulating rhythms of chipper beats and soulful solos will shake the campus. Like a TRex jolting a glass of water, like a roll of thunder in the sky... Can you hear that? Funky Giant is coming.

It’s weird how watching movies can make you think of things. Raiders of the Lost Ark makes me think of the Friday night my best friend and I ordered Pizza Hut and watched it. The Sword in the Stone reminds me of the time when I was stuck in the house because of Hurricane Charley and I watched the movie on a battery-powered DVD player. The movie Antz makes me think of Frosted Flakes, but with no milk. I have no idea why. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3D reminds me of food poisoning. I’ve never had food poisoning, but I imagine it’s similar to watching that movie. I recently rewatched Pulp Fiction for the … I don’t know how many times it’s been. Man, that’s a great movie. If you haven’t seen it, go watch it. Anyway, every time I watch that movie, the quality of the dialogue astounds me. Tarantino movies in general all have that incredible dialogue that makes his characters so unique. For whatever reason, a certain scene always prompts a thought process in my head. This scene is the infamous “Do you know what they call a Big Mac in France?” line. Everyone and their mother loves to quote that scene, even if they haven’t watched the movie. It’s gotten to the point where I have seen a burger called the “Royale with cheese” on multiple restaurant menus. But watching it makes me think about the naming of different foods and drinks. It reminds me of the greatest tragedy that exists in the beverage industry. That is, the nomenclature of brewed leaf-extract beverages (i.e. tea). How passionate can one really be about tea? That’s a dumb question. We live in Boston for God’s sake! They threw some big party about tea here a few years ago (and from what I’ve heard it was quite the rager). I feel justified in my utter contempt for the way this country treats tea and I think the Sons of Liberty would have my back. Allow me to set the scene. I walk into a restaurant and I’m seated. The server comes over to ask me for my drink order. I say, “Iced tea, please,” and I am immediately assaulted with the travesty that is the following question: “Sweet or unsweet?” This question does not make sense. I repeat, it does not make sense. “Sweet.” Yes, that is a word and it is a possible modifier for “iced tea.” Moving on. “Or.” Alright, yes conjunction junction I know your function. But not this atrocious perversion of the English language. “Unsweet,” short for “unsweetened.” No. Wrong. This is not a word and it has nothing to do with my desired beverage. “But Jacob, clearly the server just means tea with or without sugar.” I know that, but it’s the principle of the thing. The word “unsweetened” means that someone would have to put sugar in the tea (sweetening it) and then use some sort of device to then remove the sugar (unsweetening it). This is obviously not what is happening here. The addition of modifying words is only required when there is a higher level of specification. “Tea” implies hot water with leaf extract in it—nothing else. “Iced tea” means that the aforementioned brew is served cold. “Sweet iced tea” should be the longest name for tea available. You cannot do anything else to the tea at this point. “Unsweetened iced tea” is not only incorrect, it takes longer to say. This word confers no benefit. Not on the speaker, not on the listener, and not on society. But circling back, the point of this column is to discuss how movies can make you think of things that have almost nothing to do with the movie. Perhaps it was where you first watched the movie, or who you watched it with. Maybe it just conjures a sensation or thought. For me, a lot of movies have a unique memory or feeling associated with them. Happiness, serenity, blistering fury (looking at you Sharkboy), and every emotion in between. Pulp Fiction just happens to make me think of the crushing disappointment I feel when, in order to get what I want, I have to say “unsweetened, please.” I feel like Alice, trapped in Wonderland. I’m the only one who isn’t mad. But Alice said it best. “Of all the silly nonsense, this is the stupidest tea party I’ve ever been to in my entire life.”

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DZ>`ee LegXZbj Dpjk`Z Gifj\ 9P 89@>8@C ;IL?FK =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Bernard McGinn, a professor at the University of Chicago, discussed his upcoming book Mysticism in the Reformation as a part of the Lowell Humanities S eries on We dnesday night . His upcoming work kept the audience engaged, but it was his previous work, The Foundations of Mysticism, that drew the crowd there in the first place. M c G i n n’s w o rk o n mysticism, Christianity, and the interconne cte dness betwe en the two has led many to follow his work since the 1990s. For decades, McGinn has studied Christian mysticism and the consciousness of the spiritual presence of God. During his presentation, he discussed the poet and prose writer, John of the Cross, and the influence of the Bible on John’s work. McGinn began his talk about the origins of mysticism. “Origen, the father of Christian mysticism, thought of the mind’s journey to God as taking place within the act of reading, meditating upon, and contemplating the meaning of the Bible,” McGinn said. Th i s c o r e f o u n d a t i o n o f mysticism was woven throughout the rest of McGinn’s argument about John of the Cross, as he contended that John was not denouncing the Bible, as many thought, but was instead being a “strong reader” and interpreting

the Bible in new and spiritual ways. McGinn pointed out that John was suspicious of taking the Bible at face value. He explained that after God’s promise to save Jacob in Egypt, Jacob died. This was unexpected to many since they took God’s promise literally, and this incident went against their faith in the literal interpretation of the Bible. John of the Cross, however, warned the people of this. “Historically a promise was made, historically on a literal level it was not fulfilled, and that makes [ John’s] point that you shouldn’t interpret them on a literal level historically,” McGinn said. McGinn emphasized John’s respect for history and how he interpreted it in a way most would not, which is how his work results in mystic views. He further explained the mystic ’s resp e ct for the Bible, joined with a spiritual interpretation, referencing John’s work s on the importance of experience. “The book of experience does not replace the book of the Bible, rather…[ John] is inviting his readers to place themselves as it were both within and between the two books, in an intertextual s i tu at i o n , w h i c h m a k e s u s e of both books in a mutually illuminating way to further the soul’s progress,” McGinn said. John of the Cross went a step further when he said that

God actually insists the Bible is read spiritually, according to McGinn. “God does indeed communicate spiritual goods to us by means of the senses, but his intention—his divine intention—is to gradually wean souls to a spiritual communion with him,” McGinn said. McGinn ended his talk by referencing critics who find John’s work “deeply disappointing” in that it does not adhere to the “true” meaning of the Bible. He accuses the critics of misreading John. “John ne ver intende d his explanations to substitute for or exhaust the meanings of his poems,” he said. “He realized that the poems had an inherent surplus that would always allow new significations to be drawn from them for the spiritual profit of later readers.” J o h n o f t h e C r o s s ’s a n d McGinn’s works are unique in that the y enhance the Bible in a way some may consider denouncing it. McGinn’s final words end on a positive note about the future examination of Christian mysticism and specifically the further study of John the Cross. “In the Christian mystical discourse … there remains fountains of inexhaustible meaning and examples of profound mystical wisdom,” he said. “And today, we’re still being invited to draw water from these deep wells.”

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Drawing from the poetry of Saint John of the Cross, Bernard McGinn connected the art with the faith.

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Sankyo speaks from the heart and lives to continue the life of this artform. Even through a language barrier, his cognizant movements and clever voices reflected a masterful rendition of a historical Japanese story. With a slight tilt of the head, Sankyo entered into the dialogues of the old tale of Ikuyomochi. This story chronicles a young working-class individual, Seizou, who falls in love with a beautiful woman of the highest rank , Oiran, after seeing an image of her on a woodblock print. Seizou proceeds to work for an entire year for a chance to meet Oiran, but he must lie to her to appear affluent and worthy. When Oiran asks him when he will return, however, Seizou proceeds to tell her the truth about his life in the working class. Oiran promises herself to Seizou, and the two go on to live a happy life after she is released from her courtesan rank.

Unlike traditional American stories that value courage in streng th, this Japanese tale r e f l e c t s t h e i mp o r t a n ce o f courage in honor. Seizou is not rewarded for his natural-born abilities , but instead for his commitment to truth. Oiran points out a valuable truth, that the world is filled with lies and love is thinner than a piece of paper. There is no one like you. Even for Seizou, the honorable man, it was easier to deceive and manipulate than expand upon truth. Deception led Seizou to royalty but failed to bring him love and happiness. Only truth brought him his one desire, and with truth he found love. Simple and compelling, the e vent c apture d the e ssence of this mode of stor ytelling. Emotionally stirring and charged, the intimacy and passion of the stories are sure to resonate with viewers.

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M<IFE@:8 >FI;F There are some trends that just need to die. Whether these patterns in fashion were picked up by the masses through social circles or style magazines, they have been long since abandoned by the fashion elite. That khaki-colored Longchamp Le Pliage bag you’re holding? Dead. Your normcore outﬁt that resembles an asexual Jerry Seinfeld get-up? Dead. Your slip “casually” thrown over a t-shirt that you think makes you look like Alicia Silverstone? Dead. As we make our way into the

second month of 2017, it isn’t diﬃcult to see what trends, along with the aforementioned, are ready to hit the chopping block. But the fade-out period seems to last forever. This is due in part to that fact that people desperately cling to their “new” look and insist it still has stylistic value. Usually, it’s because they caught the trend late and have just made their fatal purchases. Either way, there is always an expiration date for a trend. For example, some may see the guillotining of the Adidas Superstar and suede thigh-high boots looming over the horizon while banker-striped apparel (a la Spring 2017 New York Fashion Week) is just making a resurgence. The trouble with determining a trend’s death sentence is due to the fact that trends come in waves. When

a trend may seem to be fading out, it can come back even stronger right before it disappears. So, just as all seems safe and you buy your new monster-faced Fendi bag, you notice the extreme price markdown and the severe scowl and eyebrow raise from those with the new Balenciaga shopper tote. In that way, fashion is a perpetual cycle of do’s and don’ts, axing the old and reviving the new—all of which eventually come back full circle. This cycle is usually dictated by a fashionable hierarchy—whether they be the editor-in-chiefs of magazines or the group of girls at your school that seem to know every trend months before you do. Granted, there are some sacred, eternal pieces: a good pair of blue jeans, a Burberry trench coat, a basic

white t-shirt, etc. These pieces are timeless and will never go out of style. But what happens if you defy the unspoken trend mandates? Well, nothing really. That’s the true beauty of style and fashion. While women have generally not worn boot cut jeans since 2008, if you happened to pick a pair of wide-legged Levis and called them retro, no one would stop you. While attaining validation from your fashionable peers is exhilarating, personal expression is the most important component of style. So trends must die and always will, but your love for one does not have to. You will not be praised for your perseverance. You will not be admired for your originality because the mourning period is not over yet.

Just as many viewed Steve Jobs’ 2013 biopic too hasty in its creation, released just two years after his death, wearing your mom jeans a couple months or years after they’re pronounced dead will not win you any brownie points. No one will stop you. No one will heckle you. But you will not be unique or original. You will be behind. “It’s always about timing,” British-American journalist and current editor-in-chief of Vogue, Anna Wintour once said. “If it’s soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.” This concept of well-timed action and eﬀort can be applied to other aspects of life as well. Life itself is full of opportunities and moments in which good timing is required, if not absolutely neces-

sary. Familial experiences, job opportunities, picking your class schedule on UIS—you name it—requires a level of self-awareness as well as external vigilance in order to best reach your goals. Fashion must be viewed in this way as well. For those who relish in what each year’s seasonal fashion will bring and monitor which brand is producing what, the timing of joining a new trend is important. It is just as important as knowing when to move on from that trend and embrace the new ones to come.

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John Wick: Chapter 2 is a just and welcomed sequel to the 2014 original. This installment finds Wick up against the wall as more associates from his past attempt to drag him back into the hellish criminal underworld he sought to leave forever. Unfortunately for his foes, Wick does not take kindly to being stabbed in the back.This film appears more bloody and unapologetically brutal than the first, while finding new ways to bring to light the human side of the boogeyman. Keanu Reeves hits another action-packed stride in a film that is sure to cement his legacy as an action hero for all ages.

Big Sean’s fourth studio album, I Decided, is a narrative discussing love, faith, sucess, and regret. The album plays upon the idea of a future self reflecting on his past life wondering if everything he has done was warranted and right. Featuring artists such as Jeremih, Eminem, and Starrah, Big Sean continues his lyrical journey in self-exploration. The album is nothing terribly new for him. There are plenty of superficial and tired tracks that could be tossed but this fact seems to be redeemed by the rest of the songs. Although Big Sean needs to dig deeper, what he has is pretty good.

Grappling into theaters this Friday is The Lego Batman Movie. This movie is a spin-off from the beloved The LEGO Movie. I got to see this movie in an early screening and its amazing. There is humor for children, adults, and lots of references to tiny bits of DC comic lore. Will Arnett kills it as Batman, alongside Zach Galifinakis as the Joker. This is the best Batman movie as well as the best DC comics movie since The Dark Knight in 2008. The LEGO-based movies are shaping up to be one of the best kids movie franchises of the decade so be sure to check out the latest addition.

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keen criminal civility on the part of an old business partner, Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio), turn Wick back into the harbinger of death with which his name has become synonymous. But, as his adversaries are quick to learn, when dragging this incarnate devil back to hell, the penalty is your soul as much as it is your life. Reeves kills it—and everyone around him—as Wick. He is as viewers left him in the ﬁrst installment. Though outwardly unemotive, Wick is a fascinating individual as much of his character is built up in slight, almost unnoticeable cracks in his stern facial poses, or in the

recounting of his lore from those who fear him. In this way, there appears to be an undercurrent of a deeper character yet to be fleshed out. In numerous scenes, sound was used to convey the internal strife of Wick. Whether it be the faint ringing of a flatline, apt self-reflective commentary from the inside of an art museum, or the quips made by men trying to kill him, Wick’s internal disposition is brought to light through these cues in his surroundings. Though canonical facts about his being are not expanded on too much in Chapter 2, Wick’s story, should there be future films in the series, will likely follow the

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heart of the hit-man, rather than his trigger finger. When walking into this film with knowledge of its primary installment, one may wonder if this kind of flick can stand on its own. At first glance, the answer might appear to be no. Within the first act of the film, the ties to the original are marked and easily identifiable to fans. Wick’s exploits of the previous film are immediately established into the mythos of his character and mentioned in subtle and explicit ways throughout. These nods, though welcome to fans, likely will fall on the deaf ears of the uninitiated. Though there is more to Chapter 2 than references to the original. It is apparent that there is little fat in the story’s narrative. Each scene serves a purpose to add to character and build out the infrastructure of the criminal enterprise Wick finds himself a part of again. It finds a way to humanize and satirize the character of Wick and the entirety of the ludicrous crime syndicate. That being said, this is no Shakespearean endeavor. Wick and his adversaries are just as dry, ruthless, and cunning as in the previous installment. The genre of the film—neo-noir action thriller—lies heavily in the last two words. The action in this film starts and does not stop. Wick’s mechanistic execution of foes is stunning, comical, and

impressive all at the same time. His eyes house no notion of mercy as he guns down, evicerates, and, quite literally, blinds his foes on numerous occasions. And yet, it is in this grotesquely enjoyable slaughter that Chapter 2 digresses from the success of the original. Though this violence is welcomed and well established, it feels relatively hollow in comparison to the high stakes of the first film. Though it is strange to say, as if to condone the violence, the emotional imperative for the killing in the first was much more wholesome. The recent loss of his wife, dog, and car seemed plenty of fuel to bring this monster among men back into the shadows. But in Chapter 2, it truly relies on the events of the first film, as we are seeing the repercussions for its happenings. Those unfamiliar may not know what to expect and be turned away because of the unforgiving nature of Wick. For fans of the first film, there is more to love in this film. Laugh at the eyes of those who fear him, feel for the pain that motivates him, and relish in the gore he leaves behind. John Wick: Chapter 2 will satiate audience’s bloodlust. Like Wick himself, if there is more in store for this series, we will all be interested to see what the writers can do with a pencil. We already know what he is capable of.

Ê=`]kp J_X[\j ;Xib\iË ;\c`m\ij fe Jlckip# J\ejlXc Efk\j 9P 98II<KK< A8EE<P ?\`^_kj JkX]] Tenser, steamier, and altogether darker, the newest installment in the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, Fifty Shades Darker, will immerse you even further into the eccentrically beguiling world of Ms. Steele and her unconventionally impassioned suitor. Produced by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, Fifty Shades Darker is the film adaptation of the second novel in E.L. James’ infamously erotic romance trilogy, featuring a merge of the Twilight-style, girl-meets-extraordinary-boy love affair with the antics of sadomasochism. The two stars of the first film are Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, freshly popular and properly bred for a glittering return to the big screen under the direction of James Foley. The film picks up where the last cryptically concluded, with a witty and altogether enchanting Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) painfully separated from her dreamy yet troubled ex-boyfriend, billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). While Anastasia begins her post-graduate life in her dream job at a literary publishing company under her foxy boss Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), she cannot seem to escape Christian’s many tokens of apology for their sexually violent last encounter or the memory of the brief but wistful time spent together.

The purchase of a series of portraits grandly bearing Anastasia’s face, photographed by her forever-inthe-friendzone admirer Jose (Victor Rasuk), by a mysterious buyer shocks her, but we know better. The suspense of a Christian Grey-less Fifty Shades at last concludes as he confronts Anastasia, begging for her presence in his life again. While Anastasia of course is not able to resist the unignorable magnetism they posses for each other, she has some new conditions for Christian this time around the block—she needs equality rather than submission as well as more insight into why Christian is the unhinged dominant he is. As the entirety of the ﬁlm battles with achieving these two terms, several subplots involving arguably more unhinged individuals complicate the budding relationship. Boss Jack turns out to be less of a “Jack” and more of an “ass”, with his gradually creepier disposition toward Anastasia venturing into non HR-approved territory, culminating in an attempt at assault that is handled with fury by a notoriously protective Christian. Old guests from Christian’s shadowy past also emerge as threats to the sanity of Anastasia. A strangely despondent young girl Leila (Bella Heathcote), who was once a submissive to Christian, continually lurks

in the background, finally revealing herself in a dangerous breakdown to Anastasia over her obsession with Christian. His original dominant who introduced him to the BDSM lifestyle, Elena Lincoln (Kim Basinger), makes multiple appearances as well, intimidating Anastasia and constantly reminding her that Christian is incapable of a stable, real relationship. Fifty Shades Darker amplifies the drama, the appeal, and the striking visuals of the Steele-Grey dynamic. More insight into the origins of Christian and his bizarre yearnings finally elevates the story and provides

audiences with a clearer vantage point than the first film. Well, “storyline” isn’t exactly the correct term. Fifty Shades Darker doesn’t really follow any linear plot, only really providing a string of vignettes that, while entertaining, don’t flow appropriately from one to the other. This results in an audience constantly questioning whether or not the conclusion of one snippet is the film’s ending, causing the actual closing to lack anticipation and a fully captivated reception. What the film lacks in developed plot it compensates for in mostly

convincing performances, stunning visuals, and hit-worthy music. Johnson is the ultimate standout, enacting believability in all she executes, even in the most absurd circumstances and settings, like the red room of sexual doom. This continuation of Fifty Shades ultimately accomplishes its goals of next-level sultry and danger, so if Valentine’s Day this year isn’t exactly turning out the way you hoped, head down to the local AMC with some friends to experience and, naturally, giggle at the intriguing obscenity that is Fifty Shades Darker.

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Fist Fight has been done before. It’s Three O’Clock High or Joe Somebody, but with teachers fighting instead of students or employees. The concept of a weakling pushover standing up to the big, bad, neighborhood bully in an empowering ﬁnal scene has been done so many times in ﬁlm that you could spend all day naming movies in which that

occurs. So, the jokes really needed to hit and the ﬁght sequences really needed to register for this movie to resonate. While Fist Fight connected with a few of its punches, it ultimately fanned on its knockout blow. The tired concept was too much to overcome, many of the jokes didn’t land with the audience, and some of the parts seemed too out of place. Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), an old-school, no-nonsense history

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teacher at a struggling public school, tries to show his students a documentary on the last day of class. But his senior pupils, less than enthused about learning in their final hours of high school, prank him by repeatedly turning off the television with a wireless remote. Strickland violently lashes out at them in front of English teacher Andy Campbell (Charlie Day), forcing them each to report to the principal on a day the school had planned faculty cuts. In an effort

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to save his own job for his pregnant wife and child, Campbell rats out Strickland and gets him fired. In a typically angry fashion that only Ice Cube can portray, Strickland challenges Campbell to a fight in the school parking lot at the end of the day. Campbell goes to great lengths to avoid the fight—bribing students to change their stories of the incident, trying to get Strickland arrested before 3:00—but to no avail. The fight had to happen. Fist Fight represents a number of firsts—it is director Richie Keen’s first feature-length film, and it is Day’s first leading role in a movie. The two worked together previously on television’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, on which Day is a main character and Keen directed a number of episodes from 2012 to 2015. The pair emphasized that they signed on for Fist Fight to explore new challenges that their television careers lacked, like intricate character depth (for Day) and control over the whole storyline (for Keen). At the same time, though, much of the movie was not a surprise at all. Ice Cube was Ice Cube—loud, violent, incendiary, and intimidating. Day, with his high-pitched rants

and unpredictable impulsiveness, was like the Day we know from Sunny—minus the illiteracy, of course. There was the faculty member from the “streets,” played by Tracy Morgan, charged with training Day’s character how to fight. One of the most compelling storylines ended up being one only loosely tied to the main plotline—the one involving Campbell and his interactions with his family. Campbell’s daughter Ally, played by Alexa Nisenson, was charming and funny as she dealt with a middle school bully of her own. In the end, Fist Fight bit off more than it could chew. In muddling the plot by exploring a number of “fights” towards the conclusion—is it Campbell v. Strickland? Is it teachers v. administration? Is it both? Is it neither?—the film never really reached a definitive end point with an explanation behind any of the issues it explored. “Nobody’s being held accountable anymore,” Strickland exclaims to Campbell at one especially dramatic point in the movie. Well then, let’s start now— who shall we hold accountable for Fist Fight?

Ansel Elgort may have stole our hearts on the big screen, but his performance in his music video “Thief” just doesn’t match up. Elgort initially entered the music scene through his original dance singles and remixes under the stage name Ansolo in 2014, layering a thick vibrance to such tracks as “Runaway (U & I)” by Galantis and “Clarity” by Zedd. After acting in films The Fault in Our Stars and Divergent, he released his single “Home Alone,” in 2016. He followed this successful hit with another of equal reception, dropping “Thief” on Jan. 27 and its music video on Feb. 2. The video opens with a sultry Elgort viewing a colorful projection on a wall. The screen shifts to him sauntering into a wooden mansion in a black turtleneck and coat, before giving way to what can only be described as an outlandish enigma. Clips include some pseudo-sexy but primarily awkward dance moves and hand movements reminiscent of Ralph Macchio’s Karate Kid, alternating between snippets of Elgort seducing his always ill-clad damsel. While the snapshots of the heartthrob doing push-ups and strutting shirtless may thrill his tween fanbase, they don’t supplement any end for his music career. The neon blue and pink illumination of his dark ensemble during the dance sequences does offer a visually pleasant contrast, but it seems to act as over-embellishment for the underdeveloped concept supporting the entire video. The savior of the piece is the quality of the song, which is high in both vocal ability and catchiness. Elgort’s tone is a delicious amount of provocative, intriguing viewers despite the video’s obvious flaws. So while there might be some faults in this up-and-coming star’s first music video, we have high hopes that his vocal talent will manage to surpass the bizarre hiccups in his music video debut.

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RAG’N’BONE MAN “Odetta” Little Big Town exudes a light and carefree nature in its latest song, “Happy People.” The single gives the audience a meaningful reminder about what makes a happy person happy. “Happy people don’t fail / Happy people just learn / Don’t think that we’re above the push and shove / They just wait their turn.”

Rag’n’Bone wows with his latest song “Odetta.” The British singer-songwriter has a voice that resonates with listeners to their core. The winner of the Brits Critics’ Choice Awards 2017 is gaining more recognition for his powerful voice and lyrics and is up for the Best British Breakthrough Act in the Brit Awards.

Blondie’s new single “Fun” is the first glimpse at their upcoming album Pollinator. “Fun” is a decent disco-punk song, but unfortunately it doesn’t really showcase lead singer Debbie Harry’s full vocal range. Hopefully the rest of the album will allow for the band’s talent to shine through.

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score seven unanswered goals en route to a commanding 1810 win. The Eagles (2-0) found the back of the net first, with senior Kate Weeks scoring the first goal of the game after an assist from sophomore Caroline Zaffino just 2:18 into the game. However, this lead was quickly neutralized after Hannah Palau scored UMass’ (0-1) first goal of the game almost exactly two minutes later. Holly Turner scored the second goal of the game for the Minutewomen to put them up ahead early after consecutive fouls from BC. Turner scored her second goal four minutes later to

give UMass a two-goal lead with more than half of the game still left to play. The Minutewomen scored another goal around the halfway mark of the first half, but the Eagles responded quickly and did not let the game get out of hand. Kaileen Hart scored an unassisted goal with 9:40 left to cut the lead in half. Laura Frankenfield found the net with a free-position goal, and less than a minute later BC captain Tess Chandler scored to tie the game. Thirty seconds later Weeks scored her second goal of the game to give BC its first lead in over 20 minutes. Just before

the end of the first half, Emma Schurr scored BC’s fifth unanswered goal, and the Eagles went into halftime up by two. BC carried its strong momentum into the second half. Weeks scored 90 seconds into the second half, her third goal of the game, and her second consecutive hat trick of the season. Not satisfied with just three goals, Weeks immediately scored her fourth goal—this one assisted by Sam Apuzzo. Turner briefly stopped the Eagles’ onslaught with her third goal of the game, but Apuzzo answered right back and got herself on the scorers’ card with a free-position goal

after a UMass foul. Lauren Daly made her first save of the half to stop a Minutewomen attack, and Chandler scored her second goal of the day in transition. Capping off three goals in two minutes, Apuzzo scored her second goal and tied her career-high of six points still with 23 minutes left in the game. UMass, however, would not go down quietly, and fought to score back-to-back goals—one by Cassidy Doster, and one by Hannah Murphy after a foul on Zaffino that brought the score to 12-7, Eagles. This did not bother BC, as Weeks again came through to push the momentum

back on the side of the Eagles with her fifth goal of the day. Weeks went on to score three more goals over the final 11 minutes, matching UMass’ total over the same amount of time. Apuzzo also recorded a hat trick of her own, as BC won decisively 18-10. It was a career-high in goals scored for Weeks, and a performance that will surely have her on many of the scouting reports going forward. Apuzzo will also be joining her on a list of Eagles to watch, and both will be key players if BC hopes to return to the NCAA Tournament this spring.

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WHOK vs. NU, from B8 capped it off when the horn sounded, punching each other as players began trickling off the ice. The two had to be broken up by fellow players and the referees. The zebras issued a penalty after the fact for the two for hitting after the whistle. Down to 4-on-4, Keller continued her stellar play in the second period, offering up more shots for the Eagles and coming in clutch on defense. Toward the end of the period, Burt faced a staredown from a Husky, and Keller streaked down the ice in time to block the shot. Keller had eight blocks total in the game, three more than her previous high, which took place during the opening game of the Beanpot Tournament against Boston University. When the Eagles emerged from the tunnel for the third period, the tension was thick in the air. All 800plus fans were on their feet as music blared through Matthews Arena. Though the game was generally quick—the first 20 minutes flew by with little interruption—the last 20 seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. Both teams moved fast up and down the ice, taking their chances on each other. The Huskies took advantage of the speed, notching the first goal of the contest only one minute into the third period. Kasidy Anderson streaked through the Northeastern defensive zone, evading the Eagles. As Keller gained on her, she laid out to strip the puck from her, but Anderson had a clear shot in the top shelf. The puck clanged off the post and into the back of the net as the crowd

erupted. For a moment, the Huskies seemed untouchable, impenetrable to any BC shots—a ﬁrst goal that late spelled trouble for the Eagles. But just for a moment. Seven minutes later, lucky No. 7 Kristyn Capizzano shifted into overdrive. Capizzano had been playing an excellent game thus far, speeding past defensemen yet still taking time to focus her shot. Always the fastest on the ice, she ﬁnally got her due as she scorched up the ice like a Road Runner cartoon. Even with two Huskies on her right side blocking the goal, she angled herself out far enough to get a clear view of Bugalski. She launched the puck in a tiny space between Bugalski’s head and the pipe, and it whizzed past her ear and into the twine. Bugalski looked back at it as the puck passed by and hung her head. That hard-fought lead was now down the drain. After the goal, the Eagles dominated the Northeastern defensive zone for a bit, with Serena Sommerfield offering good looks in front of the net. Four minutes after Capizzano’s mind-bending goal, South Boston native Erin Connolly was rewarded for her hustle. Following another penalty for Mottau for holding, the Eagles were on the power play for the second time on the night. Andie Anastos passed the puck up to Kenzie Kent, who was waiting behind the Huskies’ goal. The feed distracted Maddie Hartman, who lunged for Kent as she passed the puck to Connolly at the crease. From there, all Connolly had to do was poke it in, and the Eagles were back on top. BC has been a comeback team

recently, especially in its last three games. The Eagles came back from a 3-0 deficit to tie with the University of Connecticut in a four-goal effort, and returned to win against BU on Jan. 31 after a 2-1 lapse. “[Northeastern] came out and scored first in that third period, but again, for the last couple of games we’ve been pretty good at coming from behind,” head coach Katie Crowley said. The final minutes of the period did not wind down without drama, however. The puck found its way to the back of the Eagles’ net, but the referees waved it off, saying that play had ended before the puck went in. Immediately following the play, Burt and Anderson got into a scuffle, with the two both given penalties for roughing. Burt was served by Bridget McCarthy as she continued to protect the net. With one minute left, Northeastern tried to salvage the game by calling a timeout, but the Eagles managed to keep the puck away from their goal. Following the win, Connolly was named MVP of the tournament, and Bugalski was given the Bertagna Award, which is given to the best goaltender in the Beanpot. Northeastern is stiff competition for BC—it is right behind the Eagles in the standings for Hockey East. The two teams will face each other again this Friday, Feb. 10, but this season is no longer just about conference rivals. Now that BC has won its second Beanpot in a row, and Trophy Season has begun, every Frozen Four frontrunner should be put on notice.

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Oettinger in the second. The BU goaltender consistently gave up rebound after rebound, leaving plenty of opportunities for the Eagles to get back in the game. Yet as each puck fluttered off Oettinger’s pads, it landed into open space instead of a B C stick. “We know that we’re not going to get many, so when we do get our opportunities, we can’t pass them up,” Cangelosi said. “We’ve to bear down and find a way to score.” Yet in the third, the Eagles reverted to their first-period ways. In total, BC had a mere four shots in the game’s final frame. A huge part of that was because of several penalties. McInnis, White, and Gaudreau (twice) each spent time in the box. WIth a man down for eight minutes, there was little hope for a comeback. Despite the nonconference Beanpot loss to BU, BC will remain on top of Hockey East. The

Eagles have a three-point lead on the second-place team—you guessed it, BU—and are in the driver’s seat. With five games to go, they have what should be a gimme home game against Merrimack, before they invite No. 15 Vermont for two and have a home-and-home with No. 9 Massachusetts Lowell. And, if things break well, they should have a stronghold on a good seed in the NCAA Tournament, as they’re up to No. 7 in the PairWise Rankings. But they’ll have to settle for a consolation showdown with Northeastern. And though York’s famed “Trophy Season” will get off to a poor start, the importance of next Monday’s game isn’t lost on BC. “If we want to make a run here, we have to find a way to win games,” Cangelosi said. “At the end of the day, we have to start winning games. We have to start winning big games.”

Beanpot Repeat, from B8 16-2-3 Hockey East) as the winner of the 39th annual Beanpot Tournament—a competition that the Eagles have now won twice in a row and seven out of the last 12 years. The game was not only the latest of BC’s comebacks, but it was also the 17th-straight contest, in which it has not lost. Three Up 1) Megan Keller The junior defensemen was everywhere on the ice. While her work may go unnoticed in the box score, she led a BC defensive unit that served as the team’s saving grace. Keller blocked eight shots against Northeastern, three more than any other play on the ice. By recording eight, she bettered her previous season-high of five, which came one week prior in the opening round. As soon as Keller checked in, she displayed an unrivaled ferocity. Whether she was diving on the ice, or battling for position among a sea of Huskies, Keller offered every inch of her 6-foot self for all three periods. She even had some scoring chances, too. 2) Limiting McKenna Brand For the most part, Northeastern has a two-dimensional offense. McKenna Brand and Denisa Krizova have accounted for 40 of the 96 Huskies’ goals this year. The two are the only Northeastern players that have reached double-digits in goal scoring, as well as the 30-point mark, this season. Brand leads the nation with 23 goals—three more than anyone else in the country. And Krizova is in the

top-10 in points scored. But on Tuesday, the Huskies didn’t have one of their lethal forwards at their disposal. Krizova had to pass up the final for Czech Republic national team play, as her native country is in the middle of qualifying rounds for the 2018 Winter Olympics. This shifted all of BC’s attention to Brand. As a result, the junior was held to just one shot on the night. The Eagles effectively took her out of the game, hampering Northeastern’s scoring efforts. 3) Third Period For the third-straight game, BC dominated its opponent in the final period of play. Following Kasidy Anderson’s one-on-one goal to start the period, the Eagles had to regroup. But once again, there were no signs of panic. The team just kept shooting away. And all it took was one deflection, for Capizzano to tie it all up. Shortly after, BC capitalized on the power play—its unexpected weakness against BU in the first round. On a five-on-four, Connolly received a feed from behind the Northeastern net, and quickly zipped a wrist shot, lighting the lamp for the game-winning goal. Then, it came to the kill. The Eagles, who are the third-best team in the nation on the penalty kill, had conceded two power play goals to the Terriers. But this time around, it looked as if Crowley made some mid-week adjustments. Three Down 1) Another Slow Start Even though the Eagles outshot Northeastern in the first frame, one could argue that the Huskies played a better 20 minutes—similar to BU’s

game plan last week, Northeastern skated in transition to provide constant pressure in the Eagles’ zones. And although it appeared that the momentum was shifting in the second, as BC threatened to take the lead, whipping up 11 shots, it was the Huskies who struck first blood. Of late, the Eagles have enjoyed an array of thrilling comebacks. But such a stretch can only last for so long. With Hockey East Tournament play nearing, it is imperative for BC to find itself in the first 20 minutes of games, not the last. 2) Misfires The Eagles entered Tuesday’s game, having recorded 39 shots in their 4-4 tie to UConn in their previous game. While BC didn’t come anywhere close to 40 shots against Northeastern, it was winning the shot battle throughout the entire game. Yet it was scoreless until the midway into the third period. Some shots soared high. Some went wide. Occasionally, players even tripped when shooting. With a little bit more accuracy, this game wouldn’t have even had to come down to the third. 3) Too Selfless Sometimes a team can be too selfless. On Tuesday night, it was BC—on a couple of different key scoring chances, a player passed up a shot for the extra pass. When the team is a on a threeon-one, like BC was, close to the halfway mark in the second period, it is absolutely necessary to get a shot off. In this case and a few others, the Eagles didn’t.

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Wake Forest on Jan. 3. Additionally, the Eagles got a season-high 14 points from center Mo Jeffers. The graduate transfer turned in what was probably his game of the season against the Panthers, as he connected on seven of nine of his shots from the floor. His touch around the rim was smooth, and his shot outside the paint seemed to be working for the first time all season. Though Jeffers played a strong game, few other Eagles could say the same. Ky Bowman shot well and scored 15 points, but his impact was limited because of

wasn’t enough passion to play,” Christian said. “It’s my team, so it’s on me, but in reality it’s on them. Coaches don’t do all that—players do that.” If there were any positives to take away for the Eagles, one was their responsibility with the ball on offense. Pittsburgh one of the worst teams in the country at forcing turnovers on defense, and the same was true on Wednesday night. BC only surrendered nine turnovers on the game, its lowest total since the Eagles’ loss to

foul trouble. Jerome Robinson struggled to get going in the first half, and by the time his shots started falling in the second, it was too little, too late. A.J. Turner has been mired in a multi-game slump, and he found himself bumped from the starting lineup against Pittsburgh. With Jordan Chatman taking his place, Turner struggled even in the limited action he saw against the Panthers. In 20 minutes, Turner took four shots and missed each of them, grabbing one rebound and assisting on two baskets. “ T h e r e ’s e a s y a n s w e r s

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for [why players go through slumps],” Christian said. “It happens. We just have to keep believing in him and keep working with him.” It might be tough for the Eagles to break out of their own slump, with road games against Clemson and G eorgia Tech as their only contests against teams from the bottom half of the ACC. Unless BC can tighten up its defense and prevent opposing teams from getting to the line so frequently, its eight-game losing streak might end up being a lot longer.

PICKS On Saturday evening, BC faces Georgia Tech on the road, where the team has struggled mightily this season. Will the Eagles take down a middle-of-the-pack ACC foe? Or will BC lose another conference heartbreaker?

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9P 8EE89<C JK<<C< 8jjfZ% Jgfikj <[`kfi BOSTON — The cheer swelled from Boston University’s fan section: “F—- Matt Ryan! F—- Matt Ryan!” Seconds later, Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson slid the puck past Joseph Woll into the net, lighting up the lamp and giving his fans something to cheer about besides Boston College’s highest-profile alum’s high-profile failure in Super Bowl LI. It was an early goal for the Terriers, putting BC men’s hockey in a hole just minutes into the first period. “Any time you get up 1-0, I think it really puts you at ease a little bit,” BU head coach David Quinn said after the game. “I thought we kind of built off that lead.” The hole never went away for the Eagles. After 60 minutes of sometimes exciting, mostly agonizing hockey, the Terriers left TD Garden with a 3-1 victory, their first over BC in the Beanpot since 2008. Here are three takeaways from the game. Polar Opposite Periods The Eagles (18-10-2, 13-3-1 Hockey East) looked vastly different at various points in the game. They opened up play with a slow, messy first period, outperformed BU (19-7-2, 11-4-2) in the second period, and damaged their own comeback chances with an overly physical third. BC came out looking flat-footed and, at times, just plain bad in the first period. It took almost 19 minutes for the Eagles to record a shot on goal—and during that stretch, the Terriers tested Woll time after time, with Forsbacka-Karlsson’s goal the only successful attempt in the game. At the end of the first period, BU had 12 shots on Woll, while the Eagles managed only two shots on Jake Oettinger, with one of them coming in the final 10 seconds of play.

Sports Editor

It’s been almost two years since the Eagles won a conference game on the road. There’s something about travelling that seaps the energy out of Jim Christian’s crew, and unless it can snap into form early, the Eagles are in for another close loss. BC has the backcourt necessary to hang with Georgia Tech, but it needs to play for the full 40 minutes. This season, there’s little that makes me confident that the team can do so.

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Casey Fitzgerald sprints down the ice with the puck in the first round of the Beanpot tournament on Monday. The second period was a different story entirely. Although BC conceded two goals in the period, it looked like a much stronger team than in the first, and even outplayed the Terriers for most of the 20 minutes. Chad Krys scored for BU, cushioning the Terriers’ lead, minutes into the period. But soon after this goal, BC seemed to wake up and regain all the game’s momentum. Woll faced only three shots all period, compared to 11 shots in both the first and third periods of the game. The culmination of the improved play came with BC’s only goal of the game, courtesy of Austin Cangelosi. Oettinger, who had been facing plenty more shots in the second period, blocked one but surrendered a rebound. Cangelosi, perfectly placed, knocked the rebound into the net to bring BC back into the game. The fans exploded with cheers as the Eagles celebrated. All of a sudden,

even with the painfully slow start, it looked as though BC might turn it into a competitive game. But then Clayton Keller scored a shorthanded goal for the Terriers, taking the wind out of BC’s sails. The Eagles might still have had a chance to come back in the third period, but shot themselves in the foot with penalties. BC played shorthanded for eight minutes in the period, with Luke McInnis and Colin White each taking a trip to the box and Matthew Gaudreau sitting twice. With so much time spent on the kill, the Eagles couldn’t mount an effective comeback effort. Although they avoided conceding another goal (Ryan Cloonan seemed to score at one point, but it was overturned), the Eagles did not allow themselves to pull off another thrilling comeback like the one against Notre Dame last month. Rebounds BC scored its lone goal of the night

oﬀ a rebound, but Cangelosi’s goal was not enough to carry the Eagles past the Terriers. Rebounds, however, may have been the key to victory had the Eagles been able to take advantage of them more often. Oettinger was excellent against the Eagles. He ﬁnished with 22 saves, including 16 in the second period alone. While Oettinger did a great job of blocking the shots and protecting the net, he frequently surrendered rebounds. With the exception of Cangelosi’s goal, BC failed to do any damage with the rebounds. Had the Eagles crowded the net to be ready for any possible rebounds, they might have been able to sneak the puck past Oettinger a few more times and escape with a victory. But BU managed to neutralize the threat of rebound goals and thus take away BC’s best chance at real damage.

ANNABEL STEELE

Assoc. Sports Editor

Georgia Tech has suffered through some tough conference losses, most recently falling to Clemson and Wake Forest. But the Yellow Jackets have kept it close against many ACC opponents. When the Eagles head down to Georgia, they’ll be in for a rude awakening. Georgia Tech will take its frustrations out on a struggling Eagles team who will provide an easy conference win and morale booster for the Yellow Jackets.

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:fd\ DXiZ_# QX^j Aljk 8efk_\i D`[$DXafi Tournament. And historically, are nowhere to be found within the top teams come March. It’s not misfortune. Over the past decade, the Bulldogs have captured nine West Coast Conference regularseason titles and seven conference tournament championships. For the most part, Gonzaga’s only challenger has been Saint Mary’s. And in the past ﬁve seasons (including this year’s 12-0 start), the Zags have only dropped seven conference games. Once the Bulldogs get through nonconference play, they eﬀectively cruise to the NCAA Tournament. The good news is that it makes them look good. Selection Sunday is all about a team’s resume—how the team fares within its conference, its strength of schedule, signature wins, and bad losses. Naturally, when the committee turns to the Zags, they are a fairly attractive mid-major team—hence their high-seeding in recent history. On the contrary, the lack of competition does little to nothing for a team striving for a national title. According to Lunardi’s in-season projections, only two West Coast Conference teams will earn bids to this year’s March Madness. Therefore, Gonzaga is playing 15-plus games against

Mid-Majors, from B8 one of which came in 2013, the year that the Zags entered the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed. Toward the tail end of that regular season, Gonzaga took over as the top team in the nation, showing no signs of dropping a game anytime soon (sound familiar?). Regardless, after one win in the tourney, it was bounced by ninth-seeded Wichita State. Somehow, fans insisted that this team was on the cusp of greatness. If greatness is another Elite Eight appearance, then, sure, it was. But the Bulldogs’ loss to Duke in the 2015 Regional Finals exposed the truth—no matter how well this team plays in the regular season, its chances to win the national title are just as good as any other mid-major bid. Some didn’t catch on, and many will continue to buy into the team’s December, January, and February success. Gonzaga has the second highest regular-season winning percentage (.825) in college basketball over the past 10 years, right above Duke (.815). But in that time span, the Zags are just 12-10 (.545) in the NCAA

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non-tournament teams leading up to the NCAA Tournament. But when you look at teams in the Power Five/Big East, they are surrounded by national title contenders. If you ask Lunardi, 38 of them will compete to cut down the nets in March. The ACC serves as the perfect case study. There may be discrepancies in wins and losses throughout the standings, but every team has the ability to down one another. At this point in the season, you can form a transitive circle showing that any one team is better than the other. That just doesn’t happen in the West Coast Conference. Nor does it happen in the Missouri Valley or the Horizon League. By the end of the regular season, schools like Duke and Notre Dame will have played 10 games against ranked opponents before playing in the Round of 64. Gonzaga will have played four. For the Power Five/Big East, NCAA Tournament-caliber opponents are the norm. For Gonzaga, they are a rarity. It’s not the Bulldogs’ fault. It’s merely reality. Don’t get me wrong, Gonzaga deserves the No. 1 ranking. After all, Few has done an admirable job creating a cohesive

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Georgia Tech is the epitome of a middle-of-the-pack ACC team. It has shown the ability to win or lose to anyone in the conference. Despite signature wins over North Carolina, Florida State, and Notre Dame, the Yellow Jackets have also fallen to Clemson and Wake Forest. Saturday will be another bad loss. A stellar first half shooting performance will launch the Eagles ahead of GT. Josh Okogie and the Yellow Jackets will narrow the deficit in the final portion of play, but the BC backcourt will do just enough to snap the 700-plus day road ACC losing streak.

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group of transfers—three of whom start—and underclassmen. To this day, its undefeated record reminds us of the teams before them that strung together comparable winning streaks. The 2014 Wichita State team, which recorded a 31-0 regular season, especially comes to mind. But we have to remember, despite snatching a one-seed, those Shockers fell in just the round of 32. All of these mid-major teams are the same. Some are more talented than others, but they are all restricted to the conﬁnes of their conferences. Come March, it’s a free for all. And often, experience is a team’s most valuable asset. For those who don’t have it, they just have to get hot. Hey, that’s what Butler did in 2010 and 2011. When March ﬁnally does arrive, Gonzaga will take another stab at the Final Four. It may be the No. 1 team in the nation. It may be a one-seed. But in my eyes, it’s just another mid-major.

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usually are the hockey boards. At first, it looked to be a serious injury, as Artis stayed down for an extended period of time and labored back to the bench. Thankfully, he wasn’t seriously hurt and returned to the game later in the half. Unfortunately for the Eagles, it only got better for Pittsburgh from there. The Panthers rode a 23-8 run spanning the end of the first half and the start of the second to rally for the easy victory against the Eagles by a score of 83-72. The loss bumps BC (9-16, 2-10 At-

lantic Coast) into last place in the conference, while Pittsburgh took over 14th place, right in front of the Eagles. Senior center Michael Young was unstoppable for the Panthers (13-11, 2-9), leading all players with 30 points on 11-of-19 shooting. He presented matchup problems for BC’s big men, each of whom were too slow or too small to keep up with Young. Generally, the best way to prevent Pittsburgh from winning is to limit their scoring (which sounds obvious). Whereas the Panthers have given up roughly the same amount of points in

their wins (76.6) as their losses (77.8), Pitt has averaged 21 more points per game in its victories. Though the Eagles played a strong first half defensively, BC couldn’t limit Pitt’s scoring in the second stanza as the Panthers exploded for 52 second-half points. The Panthers got to the free throw line 29 times compared to BC’s 14 free throw attempts. “In the beginning of the second half, we gave up two easy baskets and never really found the toughness we needed,” BC head coach Jim Christian said after the loss.

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In what represented BC’s last really good chance at a third ACC win (though BC was still a 2.5-point underdog entering the contest) the Eagles finished the game with a lackluster defensive performance against an offense that had struggled mightily in conference play. Christian took responsibility for his team’s woes on its eight-game losing streak, but also emphasized that the players have a responsibility to pick each other up. “There wasn’t enough motion, there

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“I thought the first period we played very tentative,” York said. “Not the way we’ve been playing the last month of the season.” Cangelosi, a senior center, offered a more biting indictment of his team’s performance to open the game. “They were winning pucks and we weren’t,” Cangelosi said. “The first period was unacceptable.” And in the second, the Eagles did find that magic they’d been hoping for. Just not soon enough. After a Chris Calnan roughing call, the Eagles’ penalty kill couldn’t keep up with BU’s tough defensemen. Krys rocketed a shot from the right circle. Aided by a screen from Harper and Patrick Curry, Woll was forced to the right, giving Krys the room to find space over his left shoulder.

We’re only one week into February, and it already feels like March. Over the past two weeks, the college basketball world has been granted its guilty pleasure: upsets. Top-10 teams have suffered a total of 16 losses during the 14-day stretch, 15 of which were to lower or unranked opponents. Not to mention that, for the second time this season, three top-five teams dropped games on the same night (Jan. 24 and Feb. 6). Recently, the AP Poll has been shifting teams around the top-25 like an anxious student second-guessing before handing in an exam—it’s simply chaotic. For instance, Kentucky—the preseason No. 2—has slid down to the No. 15 spot. Similarly, Florida State has plummeted eight spots, and now is at No. 14. Consequently, many are questioning if preseason contenders like Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, or even Villanova will piece it all together before tournament play. Needless to say, amateur bracketologists are panicking. And, no matter what he says, I’m confident ESPN’s expert Joe Lunardi is scratching his head, too. It seems like everyone is losing. Well, just about everyone. Gonzaga has slowly made its way to the No. 1 ranking, sitting at an unblemished 24-0. Head coach Mark Few’s group has silently climbed the polls to overtake the nation’s powerhouses, despite playing in the West Coast Conference—a group that sits ninth in the RPI rankings. The Bulldogs haven’t just been winning. They’ve been steamrolling over the opposition on a consistent basis. Gonzaga has been downing teams by an average of 23.7 points. It has shown an ability to both defend and score at will. Few’s crew has eclipsed the 90-point mark five times this season, including a pair of 100-plus point performances. By the same token, it has only conceded 80 or more points once this season. Following Gonzaga’s ascension to the top of the rankings, several media outlets immediately jumped on the mid-major’s bandwagon. Last week, I tuned into ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption. As usual, co-hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon ran down the day’s developments in sports. Not long after I began watching, they raised the question whether Gonzaga is “for real”. I wasn’t surprised. And you shouldn’t be either—this is merely an echo of recent history. Ever since the Bulldogs made their Cinderella run to the Elite Eight in 1999, people have been waiting for Gonzaga to win the National Championship. It’s much like how the Dallas Cowboys were pronounced “America’s Team” after three championships in the ’90s and are expected to live up to that brand ever since. Neither has lived up to expectations. Back in 2004, the Bulldogs entered the dance as a two-seed. Yet they were upset by Nevada by nearly 20 points in the Round of 32. Before the 2005 season, the Zags came into the year ranked No. 7. Still, the team only reached the Sweet Sixteen. Then came eight seasons in which Gonzaga, despite repeated regular-season success, was bounced in the Round of 64 twice and the Round of 32 five times

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Eagles’ victory over Boston University in the first round of Beanpot play. Then, later in the week, head coach Katie Crowley’s team went on to erase a three-goal deficit, drawing a tie against UConn. So when Northeastern took a 1-0 lead with less than 19 minutes remaining in Tuesday’s contest, it was almost expected that BC would respond. Right on cue, Kristyn Capizzano flung a deflected shot past the glove of Brittany Bugalski. And then less than five minutes later, Erin Connolly, the eventual tournament MVP, wristed a shot just inches away from the crease, giving the Eagles a one-goal advantage—all goaltender Katie Burt would need to close out the game. The 2-1 victory crowned BC (21-3-5,

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<X^c\j =X`c kf ;\]\e[ 9\Xegfk :ifne `e Cfjj kf 9L 9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E <[`kfi$`e$:_`\] BOSTON — Boston College men’s hockey reclaimed all the momentum it needed to continue its Beanpot title defense. And Clayton Keller took it all back. The Eagles opened their 273rd meeting against Boston University—this one in the opening round of the 65th Annual Beanpot Tournament—with an awful first period. They failed to notch a shot until Ryan Fitzgerald’s at the 18:50 mark. Thanks to a Chad Krys goal, not much changed to start the second. But, in an instant, the lights came on for BC. Forwards and defensemen alike began bombarding Jake Oettinger with shots, setting up rebounds begging to be put home. And Austin Cangelosi, at last, took advantage. The feisty center

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reeled in a deflection off Oettinger caused by Fitzgerald and screened by Matthew Gaudreau. Better yet, BC drew a power play after a holding call on the game’s first goal-scorer, Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson. But Keller broke away from Luke McInnis. And with it, several streaks fell apart. For the first time since 2008, the Terriers defeated the Eagles in a Beanpot game, a 3-1 final in the 273rd meeting between the storied programs. The loss is also the first regular-season sweep by BU of BC since head coach Jerry York’s inaugural season. Barring a showdown in the Hockey East or NCAA playoffs, the No. 7 Eagles (18-10-2, 13-3-1 Hockey East) will fail to grab a point from the No. 3 Terriers (19-7-2, 11-4-2) for the first time since 1994-95. “We’ve got to find a way to score

goals against BU,” York said. Forsbacka-Karlsson got the scoring started two minutes into the first frame. Patrick Harper tried a wraparound that caused Colin White to fall to the ice while attempting a hip-check. Somehow, Forsbacka-Karlsson firmly planted himself in front of Scott Savage, boxing out the senior defenseman in front of the net. JFK pushed the puck past Joseph Woll to give the Terriers a 1-0 lead. Led by Charlie MacAvoy, Doyle Somerby, and John MacLeod, the Terriers gave the the Eagles all they could handle defensively in the opening frame. They routinely pushed BC forwards out of the way or down onto the ice when planted in front of Oettinger. The Eagles were forced to the outside on shot after shot. And York wasn’t pleased with his team’s sense of urgency.

LACROSSE: Eagles Start Season Strong

MEN’S HOCKEY: BC Struggles Early

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Kate Weeks scored a program-record eight goals as BC downed No. 15 UMass in its second game this season......B6

The Eagles suﬀered a slow start against BU, killing their chances of victory with untimely penalties...........................B7

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