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Dance Ensemble discusses its rich history and use of alumni in preparing for its show, “Masquerade.”

With a 6-0 win over St. Lawrence, women’s hockey has booked its seventh trip to the Frozen Four.

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Grad Student Employees Union Files for Election With NLRB For official status, half of the eligible graduate workers must vote yes.

BY CONNOR MURPHY News Editor

AND CHRIS RUSSO Assoc. News Editor On March 3, Boston College’s Graduate Employees Union – United Automobile Workers (BCGEU-UAW) served the office of University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. with a petition filing for an election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), taking the next step to become a unionized group.

BCGEU-UAW seeks to become a recognized student union to secure working conditions and procedures in a binding contract with the University. The first step to achieve unionization will be to hold an election on campus, in which at least 50 percent of eligible graduate workers need to vote in favor of being represented by BCGEU-UAW. Several voting stations would be set up around campus.

University Spokesman Jack Dunn said BC has received the petition and is reviewing it to determine next steps.

If the election is successful, the union will be able to bargain a contract with the University, which would be legally obligated to come to the table with the union. Jordan Theriault, GMCAS ’17, said

at a Graduate Students Association town hall on Monday that the union filed when it did in order to have the election before exams, when people are extremely busy or are leaving for the summer.

After Harvard University, the BCGEUUAW is the second graduate employees union in the Boston area to file for an election since August, when the NLRB ruled that graduate students at private universities are protected employees under the NLRB. Harvard’s election in December was not successful, although hundreds of votes remain in dispute because of voter eligibility concerns and objections from both union organizers and Harvard.

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Grad employees gathered near O’Neill Library on March 3 after they filed with the NLRB.

UCS Releases New Self-Help Program WellTrack’s online course helps students improve their moods.

BY HEIDI DONG Asst. News Editor

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Robinson Encourages BC to Divest Former Irish president focused talk on gov’t and human rights

BY JOSHUA HOLTZ Heights Staff Mary Robinson, who served as president of the Republic of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, addressed a standing-room-only crowd at Boston College’s Corcoran Commons on

Monday, and explained the ways in which her long humanitarian career has developed her view of the intersection of human rights and climate change.

After serving as the nation’s first female president, Robinson was appointed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, holding that post from 1997 to 2002.

She now heads the Mary Robinson Foundation — Climate Justice.

A transformative figure in Irish

politics, Robinson is notable for developing the office of the Irish presidency, which before her tenure was a largely ceremonial, “red-carpet” position, into a high-profile “moral platform” from which she advocated for a variety of global causes.

The foremost goal of her long career—and the subject of her address on Monday—was making the preservation of human rights into a

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Tuition Rises 4 Percent Again for 2017-18 Cost of attendance, aid rose at rates similar to past years

BY CONNOR MURPHY News Editor Undergraduate tuition at Boston College for the 2017-18 academic year has been set at $52,500, the Board of Trustees announced, part of a 3.6 percent overall rise in tuition, fees, and room and board for next year. Total cost of attendance will be $67,488.

The Board also voted to increase undergraduate financial aid 5.8 percent, to $120.5 million. Cost of attendance has risen from $62,820 in the 2014-15 school year to $65,114 for this school year, and the

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3.6 percent increase is routine over at least the last several years. Financial aid has also increased at similar rates—4.1 percent for this year, and 5.9 percent for the 2014-15 school year.

Combined tuition, fees, and room and board at private, four-year institutions increased by 3.6 percent for the 2016-17 school year, according to the College Board.

The College Board’s “Trends in College Pricing 2016” analysis reported that from the 2006-07 school year to the 2016-17 school year, private, four-year institutions increased cost of attendance by an average of 2.4 percent more than inflation every year.

More than 66 percent of BC undergraduates receive financial aid, according to a press release, and the average needbased financial aid package for 2017-18 is projected to be over $43,000.

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“We recognize that the high cost of higher education is a significant challenge, and we work tirelessly to ensure that resources are leveraged to enhance academic programs even as we work to operate as efficiently as we can,” said Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley.

BC is one of 19 private universities in the United States that is need-blind in admissions and meets the full demonstrated need of all admitted students.

“Each year, the administration devotes significant energy to producing a budget that balances growth in student-generated revenues, like tuition and fees, with growth in expenses that support and strengthen the unique student educational and formative experiences at Boston College,” Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead said in the press release. 

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University Counseling Services (UCS) introduced a new self-help program for students called WellTrack on Monday. With an access code, “BCWelltrack,” students can sign up, create a WellTrack account, and begin a personalized course to improve their moods through working on skills and exercises designed to address anxiety and depression.

Developed by Darren Piercy, a psychology professor at the University of New Brunswick, WellTrack is designed to be a platform that helps teach and practice skills that address anxiety, depression, and stress.

Along with Boston College, Georgia State University, Memorial University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, also use WellTrack. The Canada-based startup works to address the mental health challenges that one-in-five North Americans face.

Director of UCS Craig Burns said that anxiety and depression are the two primary concerns that students have regarding their mental health, and this self-help platform works to build healthy skills and habits surrounding both challenges.

“Not everyone needs one-on-one therapy,” Burns said. “I think one-on-one therapy

is a great asset, but sometimes something that can be accessed on your own schedule, at your own pace, is what is needed. It’s useful for students to have a wider range of choices about how they want to address their mental health concerns.”

Upon registration with the program, students are met with a 21-question initial survey that takes about a minute to complete. Within the app, students are asked to select emoji-style icons and fill in recent information regarding their mood, length of time between different moods, and activities that result in various moods.

After completion, the results detail various levels of depression, anxiety, and stress that students “have.”

Depression and anxiety are both symptoms of many psychological disorders.

Depression itself is a mood disorder, and there are many different anxiety disorders.

While the survey results state that students “have” various levels of anxiety, depression, and stress, Burns does not regard these statements as diagnoses, but rather said the results serve as a description of symptoms pointing in a direction that students should focus on within the app.

“Any diagnosis would need to be made through far more than just internet-based survey questions,” Burns said. “An actual diagnosis should require a more detailed in-person interview.”

Based on the survey results, the program will recommend a certain area that

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Since 2007-08, the Board of Trustees has raised BC’s tuition by a total of $17,350—a 49-percent increase.

It has risen by 4 percent each year since 2011.

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The Campus Activities Board (CAB) will hold a Wheel of Fortune night on Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Walsh Function Room. Students will compete in teams to play a game of Wheel of Fortune to win prizes. All students are welcome to the event.

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The Women’s and Gender Studies Program will screen a documentary, No Más Bébes (No More Babies), about Mexican immigrant mothers who sued doctors and the United States government after being sterilized while giving birth. The screening will take place on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. in McGuinn 121.

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CAB will host a St. Patrick’s Day-themed ice skating night on Friday in Conte Forum from 7 to 11 p.m. Students can check in at Conte, rent skates, get giveaways, and skate for an hour for free.

All students are welcome to the event and are encouraged to dress in St. Patrick’s Day colors.

NEWS Rolheiser Outlines Rules Vital to Healthy Self-Love BRIEFS

By Sophia Fox

BC Law Ranked No. 26

In the 2018 U.S. News and World Report rankings for “Best Graduate Schools,” Boston College’s graduate programs have all either improved or retained their rankings from previous years.

Boston College Law School is now ranked 26th, rising four spots overall from 30 last year. This is an eight-place improvement within the past two rankings.

“I am very pleased to see the effort and dedication of the entire BC Law community recognized in BC Law’s ongoing rise in the U.S. News and World Report rankings,” Dean of BC Law Vincent Rougeau said to The Chronicle. “Our approach to these rankings has been—and will continue to be—an emphasis on those things that are at the core of our mission.”

The Connell School of Nursing rose two spots, to 31 among nursing schools.

“The Connell School’s rise in the U.S. News and World Report ratings is a result of the excellent faculty, staff, and students we are blessed with at BC, but is also attributable to the resources provided as part of our move to Maloney Hall,” Dean of CSON Susan Gennaro said to The Chronicle.

The Lynch School of Education retained its No. 23 ranking, and remains the highest-ranked education school of any Jesuit or Catholic institution.

This year, social work schools were not ranked, meaning BC’s School of Social Work remains the No. 10 social work program in the nation. Many programs within the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences performed well. Most notably, economics was No. 25, history was ranked No. 41, English was ranked No. 51, and political science was No. 61.

Byrne Honored With Award Patrick Byrne, the founder of Boston College’s PULSE service learning program and a professor of philosophy, will be honored with a 2017 Madonna Della Strada Award presented by the Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC), New England Region.

The award is IVC New England’s highest honor and commends people who embody the Jesuit tradition of serving the poor and working for a more just society.

The award will be given to Byrne and two other honorees on April 30 at Boston College High School.

Other BC faculty who have won this honor in the past include David Manzo, a PULSE instructor, Rev. David Gill, S.J., chaplain/special assistant to the associate dean for student services at BC Law, and Fred Enman, S.J., founder of Matthew 25, a nonprofit that provides food and housing relief to people in need.

The PULSE Program, which combines philosophy and theology coursework with volunteer placement at social service sites across the Boston area, was founded by Byrne in 1969. PULSE has over 50 partners in which it sends students to that deal with social justice issues like marginalized groups, homelessness, hunger, and mental illness.

More than 13,000 BC students have participated in PULSE since its inception. “ Two maj or studie s of the PULSE program have documented how profoundly it has changed the lives of Boston College students for decades,” Byrne said to The Chronicle. “While I am honored to receive this award, it truly belongs to the many people besides myself who have made the program such a phenomenal success.”

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Rev. Ronald Rolheiser, S.J. has a set of commandments he thinks all good Christians should live by in order to maintain healthy self-love.

On Wednesday evening, the Church in the 21st Century Center hosted a talk given by Rolheiser titled “How to Truly Love Yourself: Carrying Solitude at a High Level.”

Throughout the talk, he presented his 10 commandments of healthy self-love.

The first commandment is to be grounded in something beyond this world.

Rolheiser said that mindlessly following crowd mentality and Western culture can lead to conflicts with personal identity.

“Crowds in Scripture are mindless and do stupid things—crowds crucified Christ,”

Rolheiser said. “In many ways Western secular culture is the most powerful narcotic the world has ever had … if we aren’t reflective it swallows us whole.”

Rolheiser believes that in order to be truly happy, people have to seek God, which requires adhering to something deeper than cultural norms. He suggests prayer, service, and a true examination of personal motivations to safeguard against the dangers of a mindless mob.

Rolheiser’s second commandment is to be free of ideology. He acknowledged that the current political climate in the United States makes this particular charge both extremely difficult to execute and deeply important.

In current Western culture, according to Rolheiser, ideologies have become “the air we breathe,” making it difficult to

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Rolheiser presented students with his ideas about how they can love themselves.

know when we are sincere in our beliefs and actions, even if we know how to think independently.

Rolheiser cited the importance of reflection in overcoming this challenge. He said it is impossible to know if Jesus was a liberal or a conservative.

He then explained his third commandment: making hope your horizon. Pivotal to this discussion was the idea of a meta narrative versus an egotistical worldview, as well as a discussion of what hope actually entails.

“We tend to confuse hope with two things that it is not,” he said. “We confuse hope with wishful thinking … or we oftentimes confuse hope with optimism.”

By falling into these two categories of false hope, it is easy to be caught up in self-centric forms of happiness that shift on a day-to-day basis. The solution to this, according to Rolheiser, is to focus instead on the salvation offered to Christians by Jesus.

“The end of your story is written, and it’s a happy ending,” he said.

The fourth subsection of Rolheiser’s talk was to have a “wide Catholic heart.” He was careful to describe the word “Catholic” as universal rather than in a religious tense. For this commandment, the key is to expand compassion and find a way to love others because, according to Rolheiser, the more you love, the more Catholic you are.

He then shifted to the idea that effective compassion is a collective action. He said people should always be on the side of

the poor. Much of Jesus’ teaching centered around the integration of the marginalized members of society. Rolheiser advocated for a return to those ideals of wide reaching compassion, especially as it pertains to helping the poor, in order to realign society with the message of Jesus.

Rolheiser also covered a more controversial topic within Catholic theology—the use of chastity as the ultimate form of non-violence.

“Chastity is not a sexual concept,” Rolheiser said. “It is three words: respect, reverence, and patience in every area, not just sex.”

Rolheiser insisted that, in spite of its less-than-favorable connotation in today’s society, chastity is still a vital virtue to possess. With an exercise of respect, reverence, and patience, people can come to see each other in a more human and a less objectifiable light.

Rolheiser ended his talk with three more individualized commandments: be idealistic, do not get too caught up in success, and keep a good sense of humor.

The latter two were described as simply self-explanatory.

Rolheiser stressed the importance of being idealistic because, especially as young people, he believes it is vastly important to have great aspirations and never settle for second best.

“Don’t sell yourself short … To all the young people in this room, invest in idealism,” Rolheiser said. “We need idealism.” n

U.S. Brought Trump Presidency Upon Itself, Prof. Says

By Mary Kate DiNorcia Heights Staff Questions of racial inequality, economic imbalance, and social responsibility filled Devlin 101 this Thursday as KeeangaYamahtta Taylor discussed how the United States has landed itself in a presidency led

by Donald Trump and where the Black Lives Matter movement stands in the Trump era.

Taylor, an assistant professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, began her talk by discussing the mindset that spread across America after Barack Obama was elected president.

After the 2008 inauguration, the possibility of an America without racism was in the minds of people across the country—a stark contrast from what Americans saw in the 2016 election.

“It is not a hyperbole to say that white supremacy sits at the heart of the American government,” Taylor said. “Donald Trump’s election has unleashed the beasts of racism and reaction.”

Taylor highlighted the hate crimes committed all over the country, citing them as evidence for the argument that a black president does not signify a postracial society.

In her effort to address multiple forms of inequality in her speech, Taylor also discussed the dangers of Trump’s cabinet for both racial and economic reasons.

She pointed out that while some cabinet members, like Steve Bannon, may be more blatant in expressing racist sentiments, all of Trump’s cabinet picks are individuals who have always benefited from inequality of wealth and power in society.

“We cannot actually understand the rise of Trump without taking into account the failure of Obama to deliver on his promises of hope and change,” Taylor said. “Trump’s rise is actually a story about who did not vote more than who did vote.”

Taylor turned to the tens of millions of voters who did not vote in the 2016 election to portray her message, claiming that the nature of America’s two-party system creates room for more indifference and less analysis when it comes to presidential candidates.

After the disappointment felt by much of the black community following Obama’s failure to fulfill many of his promises, whether by his own fault or not, many voters lost faith that their status quo would ever be changed.

According to Taylor, when work-

ing-class voters saw the two candidates they were choosing between in the 2016 election, they saw no possibility for improvement in their lives and lost faith in the system.

This, Taylor points out, was the key problem in the 2016 election. With only 60 million of 238 million eligible voters in America casting their ballots for Donald Trump, his win was attributed more to the voters who lost faith in the system than those who actually voted for him.

Taylor argued that while Democrats often blame Fox, the FBI, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, and Russian hackers for the loss of the election, many fail to consider that the party has neglected to represent the people for which it is supposed to stand.

“For millions of people in this country, it is the status quo that is increasingly intolerable,” Taylor said.

Taylor brought the focus back to the Democrats’ social responsibility to explain just how disappointed immigrants have been by both parties.

During Obama’s administration, 2.5 million undocumented immigrants were silently deported out of the country, uprooted from their lives and oftentimes families to be forced out of America.

The rise of shootings and murders in

Chicago is another dangerous status quo that is a reality for many of the city’s working class communities.

While the media and elected officials often turn to reasons like retaliation or parenting to explain these crime rates, Taylor turned to economic explanations like the high black unemployment rate in the city.

Taylor argued that any other explanation of the death tolls in Chicago related to retaliation or black on black crime are tools used by the administration to distract from the rampant police brutality present today.

This, she claimed, is why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important.

Social movements, Taylor pointed out, are key in bringing attention to misconduct, showing others how to react to issues such as police violence and fostering analysis regarding today’s political issues.

Taylor’s argument for the reason economic inequality and racial injustice work as a team is the same argument she used to explain the importance of solidarity among all different marginalized groups.

“We have to stop constraining our own political imagination into what is deemed pragmatic and possible,” Taylor said. “No social movement has begun with the question of what is realistic.” n

medical incident at 9 Lake St.

8:45 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Health Services.

POLICE BLOTTER: 3/13/17 – 3/15/17 Monday, March 13 10:14 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny at Lyons Hall.

1:08 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance at Maloney Hall.

10:35 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Health Services.

7:11 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a supicious circumstance at 2000 Comm.

Ave.

Tuesday, March 14 4:34 a.m. - A report was filed regarding breaking and entering at the Mods.

10:24 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a

12:42 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny at Corcoran Commons.

4:03 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at the Middle Lots.

5:04 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a drug law violation at Williams Hall.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS What did you do during the snow day?

“I studied the tyranny of the majority for political science.”

—Matt Ventrella, MCAS ’20

“I watched the How I Met Your Mother episode where Lily and Marshall got married.”

—Pimsiri Rojanaporn, MCAS ’20

“I made a snowman.”

—Alita Chumpitaz, CSOM ’20

“I work at Hillside and they closed so they sent me to Lower.

It was really fun to see how the food is made.”

—Connie Lee, MCAS ’19

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BC Holds First Cybersecurity Conference FBI’s Comey spoke, but didn’t address ongoing controversies.

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Jordan Theriault, a Ph.D. student in psychology, spoke at a town hall on Monday.

Union Hopes for Contract Grad Union, from A1 The union’s members hope to establish binding contracts with BC, rather than informal agreements.

Theriault said the goal for the union is to obtain and secure benefits, including health care, better parental leave policies, and a living wage.

Theriault said part of the rationale for holding the election now is that President Trump could fill the NLRB with picks who are unfriendly to private university students’ unionization rights—the NLRB ruled in favor just seven months ago, and new members of the board could flip the decision.

The justification for pre venting graduate students from unionizing had previously been that they were students first and employees second.

BCGEU-UAW worked for two years to acquire signed authorization cards from at least 30 percent of BC’s eligible graduate employees, the requirement for filing election papers.

David Sessions, GMCAS ’22, said the group had its 30 percent last year.

Theriault estimated that over 600 cards had been submitted, which is between 50 and 60 percent of graduate student employees.

“We’re less concerned with the percentage than with making sure we have conversations in every department and have support from everyone so that we can best represent the

whole range of issues people have,” Sessions said in an email.

There is no listing of students employed by the University, so the union had to go department by department and reach out to any people they could find. Theriault said that even with that arduous process, they might have missed some graduate student employees, so the University is legally obligated to give the union of list of people along with their contact information, in order to allow the union to talk to the employees before the official unionization vote.

Theriault said they consider the union to have broader goals than securing a raise for its members.

It’s about students interests—the bargaining power of the union can be leveraged for other student initiatives, including all-gender bathrooms, or the inclusion of gender identity in the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination.

The union would elect representatives who would negotiate with the University, and then the union’s members would vote on the contract they produce. The union would also have access to lawyers from the United Auto Workers.

“What this union is about is sort of students building a community that can act on its own behalf as grad student workers,” said Peter Berard, GMCAS ’17, a member of the union. n

Robinson Talks Rights Irish President, from A1 “compass” that guides all government activities, Robinson said.

Robinson began her remarks by lauding the work of Rev. Dan Finn and the the Irish Pastoral Centre of the Archdiocese of Boston, a Dorchester-based Catholic charitable organization serving Irish immigrants, with whom she visited earlier that day. She also offered a special greeting to any undocumented immigrants, Irish or otherwise, present at the event.

Robinson said that Article I of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which declares that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” is the clearest distillation of the moral principles directing her every action.

Robinson related the story of Josie Airey, an Irish woman who sought legal separation from her abusive husband, but was unable to do so due to her inability to hire private legal counsel. After appealing to the European Commission of Human Rights for assistance, the woman was awarded a fund for legal aid, to which Robinson’s legal services were attached.

At the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, Robinson won the woman’s case against the government of Ireland. Today, all Irish citizens of low income are provided free legal aid in both criminal and civil cases.

Robinson said her early work as a barrister caused her to realize that “law is, and should be, an instrument of social justice,” it wasn’t until after her tenure as U.N. High Commissioner that she appreciated the nuances—and urgency—of the global effort to preserve human rights.

“Quite often [in developing countries],” Robinson said, “you would find very bad leaders—autocratic leaders—who were abusing their citizens and pilfering their country, but within the country itself you would find people

working—doctors, lawyers, trade unionists—on the ground, in a civil-society way, to try to advance their country, and to try to have better human rights in their country.”

Robinson served as U.N. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region of Africa from 2013 to 2014.

Her experiences prompted Robinson to found Realizing Rights, a New York-based charitable organization dedicated to advancing the global causes of fair trade, health care access, women’s leadership, and corporate responsibility, which was focused in particular on the furthering of economic and social rights in African countries.

“There was a great emphasis in Western countries on civil and political rights—rights to freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom from torture—but there was an underestimation of the importance of access to food, safe water, healthcare, education, and shelter,” Robinson said.

Robinson, who also served as U.N. Special Envoy on Climate Change from 2014 to 2015, said the phenomenon of climate change is not only an environmental issue, but an urgent human rights issue disproportionately impacting developing countries.

“I know that [in the United States] there is a strange phenomenon of climate denial going on—happily, it’s really not going on anywhere else in the world anymore,” Robinson said.

Remarking upon the importance of recognizing, and minimizing, one’s carbon footprint, Robinson expressed a hope that the Boston College administration will divest from all holdings in corporations using fossil fuels or whose activities harm the environment.

“It is an incredibly unjust world where those countries and communities that are most vulnerable to [the dangers posed by] climate disruption are the countries that are least responsible,” Robinson said. n

FBI Director James Comey spoke last week at the Boston Conference on Cybersecurity, hosted by Boston College’s Woods College of Advancing Studies. It was the inaugural edition of what the Woods College—which launched a cybersecurity policy and governance master’s program last fall—hopes will become an annual event.

Comey started his talk by saying he thought BC was the perfect place for the conference.

“You’re stuck with me for about another six and a half years, and so I’d love to be invited back again,” Comey said.

It’s a somewhat bold statement from Comey, who was widely criticized for his decision at the end of the 2016 United States presidential campaign to tell Congress the FBI had reopened an inquiry into Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails. Former Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a Washington Post op-ed arguing Comey had broken with Justice Department precedent on discussing investigations during elections. Lawmakers, including Senator Bernie Sanders, have called for his resignation. In a conference call with donors and Democratic operatives in the days after the election, Clinton singled out Comey’s disclosure as the reason she lost.

Comey did not address either that controversy or allegations about President Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia, though he seemed to acknowledge the elephant in the room toward the end of his talk. He said the FBI had not talked much about encryption of data and communications over the last six months because it had

been “distracted by other things.”

Comey thinks of cybersecurity threats as a stack of groups with different levels of danger. The second-to-last group in the stack are hacktivists, a “motley crew,” according to Comey, and at the very bottom are terrorists, who he said use the internet to proselytize and recruit but have not yet developed strategies for conducting mass destruction online.

Comey said the weakest link in the cybersecurity world is human beings. No matter how good the security infrastructure is, humans still staff that infrastructure and are therefore targeted by cyber threats. He said the FBI is especially worried about the corruption of information, giving the example of a blood bank potentially having its blood types changed.

The FBI has five ways it is trying to address cybersecurity. The first is focus—assigning cyber cases is difficult because “where they happened” does not always provide the most accurate answer. The FBI therefore is assigning cybersecurity work to field offices that are proving their ability to fight threats. That creates competition among FBI offices.

The FBI has developed “fly teams” of experts in counter-terrorism—expertise surges based on needs. One struggle for the FBI has been attracting the kind of computer science talent that private firms have the resources for.

“You don’t come to the FBI for a living and if you did we lied to you during the recruiting process,” Comey said. “The pitch we make to people is: come be part of this mission.”

And the FBI has tiny turnover—just 0.5 percent, so very few people leave. Comey called it an “addictive” lifestyle. His goal is to attract people of high integrity, physicality, and intelligence.

The second strategy is to “shrink the world.”

“Belarus and Boston are next-door

neighbors on the internet,” Comey said.

Echoing President Barack Obama, Comey said the FBI’s job is to identify the bad guys and respond appropriately. He added that after Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has improved on communication among crime agencies. No matter who information is reported to, it gets to where it needs to be.

Third, Comey wants to impose costs on cyber criminals—to lock them up, even if they’re halfway around the world. That can help agencies to establish “norms” of behavior.

“We want to make sure that when a bad actor sits at a keyboard, they feel our breath on their neck,” he said.

The fourth goal is to help the FBI’s state and local partners be more digitally literate.

Search warrants today often have to apply to laptops, drives, and other digital devices, so law enforcement needs better training and better equipment.

“I’m told that people get emails from me saying that I’m in Nigeria and need you to wire me money,” Comey said. “I’m not in Nigeria, and I don’t ever need you to wire me money.”

Lastly, the FBI works on protecting the private sector because it has the money.

The majority of intrusions in the U.S. are not reported to law enforcement, Comey said, because companies want to avoid entanglement with the government, preferring to just deal with problems or even pay ransoms demanded by cyber criminals. The FBI’s goal is to convince the private sector to use its services.

Comey said that widespread, default encryption shatters a bargain Americans made at the founding—nothing is so private as to be beyond judicial reach.

“If we are going to move to a place where wide swaths of American life are off-limits to judicial authority, that’s a different way to live,” he said. “Maybe it’s a good thing, maybe it’s a bad thing, but it is not something in my view that we should drift to.” n

WellTrack App Offers Mental Health Help WellTrack, from A1 the student should begin working on. The platform features three “courses” focusing on anxiety and stress, depression, and phobia.

The anxiety and stress course is a fiveweek program aimed at improving students’ thoughts, behaviors, and moods. The depression course is a six-week program.

The phobia course teaches students about anxiety and provides practice for relaxation while viewing 3D simulations of the students’ phobias.

UCS partnered with the Office of Health Promotion to release WellTrack to students.

WellTrack was the app of choice because of its option to involve clinicians as well as be used independently, Burns said. Students can use this as a part of their therapy and use the app as a mood tracker or progress indicator that therapists and students can work on together.

Burns said that the launch of this selfhelp program may slow the increase in demand for individual and in-person services, and clarified that this is not a goal, but rather a possible side-effect.

“We are and want to continue to be avail-

able to every BC student in a range of ways, and we recognize that not every problem necessarily needs ongoing therapy,” Burns said. “We don’t want to provide a single solution to a range of problems.”

According to Andrew Ferrante, a licensed mental health counselor, psychotherapist, and behavioral analyst who specializes in anxiety and depression, selfreporting through platforms like self-help apps can be an effective way to address depression and anxiety for more subtle issues. For functional issues, however, it can be less helpful. Functional issues include an inability to get out of bed in the morning, skipping class due to social anxiety, or not wanting to leave the dorm due to anxiety or depression.

“Nothing is a substitute for talk therapy,” he said.

A growing number of students have expressed a need for UCS resources, and student visits have increased this year. Two years ago, a report within UCS indicated a 25 percent increase in student demand for UCS programs. Just this year, there was an 8 to 11 percent increase in student visits to UCS when compared to previous years.

This year, two new staff members

started work at UCS: a full-time staff psychologist and a full-time clinical postdoctoral fellow. Burns said that UCS is very thankful to have increased its staff size, and has been able to offer a range of new services as a result. “[The two hires is] nice, but it’s still not enough,” Thomas McGuiness, a former director of UCS, said last March. “You could double the staff and they’d still be busy.”

Burns said that there are no current plans for increasing staff at UCS in light of the recent hires. Currently, UCS has a staff composed of 12 full-time psychologists, four full-time postdoctoral fellows, three part-time psychiatrists, and two weekend emergency-response clinicians.

“Last year we saw 1,794 students at UCS, a number which we expect to be slightly higher this year, given our increased staff,” Burns said in an email.

With a total of 21 staff, two more than last year, handling 1,794 students would result in an 85:1 staff-to-student ratio.

“If we had more staff, I’m sure we would continue to be fully utilized,” Burns said.

“But, it is of course an additional cost, and I think the University has to be wise about how they allocate resources.” n

Job-Hunt Apps Help BC Students Network

By Chris Russo Assoc. News Editor The Boston College Career Center has introduced two apps, both created by third-party companies, to make it easier for students to access career information.

The first app, Careers by Symplicity, was created a year and a half ago and is the mobile version of EagleLink, an online portal that allows students to search for jobs, connect with alumni, and sign up for events. The second app, LinkedIn Students, was created in last April and was offered to BC students in the fall based on a partnership between the University and LinkedIn. The Career Center will increase its marketing efforts for the apps this spring by advertising it to students at career fairs.

Careers by Symplicity is a mobile app that allows students to access EagleLink on the go. Based on students’ information, the app suggests jobs, internships, and alumni with whom to connect, as well as providing general career tips.

The app allows students to do everything they could on the EagleLink

website. Students can sign up for appointments with career counselors or RSVP for networking events. It will also give students notifications to remind them of an event they signed up for. The app is useful during career fairs, when students can easily look up an employer or the specifics of what a job entails.

The app also displays hundreds of potential internships for students to apply for based on their majors and interests. It gives information on the company, due dates for applications, and contact information.

Released this past fall, the LinkedIn Students app is only available to students at 13 pilot schools, of which BC is one. The app is for students who are interested in LinkedIn and the professional world but do not want to be under pressure to create a profile.

“It’s meant to be exploratory,” said Lisa White, the associate director of engagement at the Career Center. “Before you even want to create a LinkedIn profile, you can download this app so you can get specific advice that is tailored to you based off of what you’re studying.”

To pick the 13 pilot schools, LinkedIn looked at a number of factors, including how many students on campus use LinkedIn, how well the university uses it, and the number of members the university has on its LinkedIn career community page. The Career Center has approximately 13,000 members on the page and expressed interest in piloting the beta version of the app with LinkedIn. Another app that the Career Center wants students to utilize is Interview Stream. The app contains practice interview technology in which students can record themselves through their own computer webcam and be prompted with questions. Students can then save recordings of their responses and review them with a Career Center counselor.

This app helps students prepare for video and Skype interviews.

“These apps make it easier for students to access our career information and resources from wherever they are and at any time of day, any day of the week,” said Rachel Greenberg, director of career education and strategy at the Career Center. n

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Alternative Space Provides Musicians With Practice Rooms

By Madeleine D’Angelo Metro Editor

One might imagine that the biggest challenge an artist faces is finding inspiration, but in Boston, that challenge might just be finding space. Musicians need rehearsal rooms, painters need studios, and performance artists need practice stages—just to name a few.

And although this roadblock might seem surprisingly practical, in a vibrant city like Boston, where rent continues to rise and the demand for living and working spaces increases proportionally, it happens to be one that artists of all disciplines face together.

But with the launch of their Alternative Space Project, Boston City officials hope to confront the issue head on in an effort to make Boston a city where artists can find the support—and the space—to continue innovating and creating.

The Alternative Space Program aims to connect artists with local businesses and institutions that might have a little extra room—maybe enough to fit a trio of musicians, or perhaps a painter or two.

The project falls under the umbrella

of the Boston Creates initiative, a 10year city planning process from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.

With Boston Creates, Boston officials hope to revitalize the city’s creative and cultural sector, outlining five goals that will make Boston a more hospitable environment for artists and preserve important cultural traditions within the city, as well as continue attracting new artistic minds to Boston.

While outlining the Boston Creates plan, Boston artists brought many specific issues to the forefront of officials’ attention, and, as the Office of Arts and Culture’s director of planning and policy Kara Elliott-Ortega said in an email to The Heights, finding affordable rehearsal space was one of the most pressing.

“While responding to this need on a systemic level will require strong partners, more research (which we are currently completing in a Performing Arts Facilities Assessment), and identifying new funding sources, we also wondered if there weren’t creative ways to find excess space around the city,” Elliott-Ortega said.

One of the creative ideas that arose from this question was the Alternative

Space Project, which launched to the Boston public in late November last year.

The Alternative Space Initiative connects Boston artists with local businesses that have unused space, and provides them with a valuable area where they can practice and create without paying any rent. This first pilot space, which is located on the second floor of the AT&T flagship Boston store on Boylston Street, was specifically geared toward providing an individual musician, or a small musical group, with a rehearsal space.

For city officials, AT&T, which has partnered with the city in the past, seemed like a “natural partner” when organizers of the pilot began the search for the perfect space. Elliott-Ortega explained that this pilot space, which is still a part of the AT&T store’s retail area, is simple, straightforward—with available storage, but no outlets or fancy speakers—and large enough to fit three or four musicians and a few chairs. Signs on the first floor alert customers wandering through the store of the rehearsal taking place above them, and invite them to quietly visit the space upstairs and enjoy the music.

When the project first launched, Boston-area musicians were asked to apply online for a chance to use the space for a three-hour time slot each week. Musical groups were then selected based upon their need for the space, their history of sharing their work and contributing to the Boston arts world, and whether the space matched the actual needs of the group. And from the pool that applied, the musical groups Equilibrium Ensemble and Castle of Our Skins, a group “dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music,” were selected to use the space for the coming year.

And on March 3, the Alternative Space Pilot kicked off as Castle of Our Skins began their first rehearsal in the AT&T space. Elliott-Ortega explained that this first rehearsal was a success where spectators were “moved by the performances of the artists,” also noting that city officials have received a “positive” response regarding the pilot thus far.

Even though the success of the pilot suggests a bright future for more alternative spaces, organizing them is not an undertaking that comes without challenges. Elliott-Ortega pointed

toward the fact that modifying an area intended for business and meetings to the very specific special needs and “irregular schedules” of artists requires a certain amount of creativity and attention that officials have certainly put into the next alternative space, which will launch its call for artists in the coming months.

This space, which will be located within the Massachusetts Eye and Ear building on Charles Street, has been developed as a space where performing artists—including dancers—could rehearse. This second space is just one of the many that Elliott-Ortega hopes to see in the future as city officials continue striving to best support art and artists within Boston.

But just as artists must learn how to best navigate the Boston cultural landscape, city officials must learn how to best support them—although they seem to have hit upon an extremely successful answer.

“This is a learning experience for the City and for the partners,” ElliottOrtega said. “We are learning what works and what doesn’t, and if this is a program that can be sustained to make a lasting impact.” n

Finding Kindness at TD Garden

William Batchelor The second-to-last row of TD Garden’s upper deck wasn’t where I imagined I’d be watching my first live NBA game.

I could barely hear the screeching noises or the ball bouncing from the court. From that far up, I felt disconnected from the game as the players looked more like action figures than professional athletes.

I tried to get into the game, cheering when the Boston Celtics scored and booing when the Atlanta Hawks’ Dwight Howard stepped onto the free-throw line. I couldn’t, however, get over the fact that I was so far from all the action. I wondered whether I’d rather be watching the game on TV. Instead of being fixated with my seat at the game, I tried to turn my attention to what I thought would be my highlight of the night: food.

My meal for the game—piping-hot crispy chicken tenders and skinny fries accompanied by a selection of dipping sauces—washed down with a fizzy cup of Coke.

With a full stomach, my mood began to change and I slowly started to enjoy the experience. The first two quarters of the game were neck and neck and the atmosphere inside the arena was electric.

While I don’t follow the NBA closely, I’ve always had an appreciation for professional sports.

I grew up going to sporting events with my family and watching an NBA basketball game was something I had always wanted to do.

During my summer vacations in Australia, I would wake up to the NBA Finals on TV and would watch it with my brother and grandpa.

Now there I was, watching what is arguably the NBA’s most successful team ever, the Boston Celtics.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the friends I was sitting with noticed a few empty seats nearer to the court.

Desperate to get a closer view, we made our way down several flights of stairs to the loge section of the stadium where all the good seats are and stood in the walkway looking out onto the court.

When I got there though, I didn’t have the guts to walk to an empty seat and sit down.

What if the person came back to their seat to find me in it?

I didn’t want to be kicked out of TD Garden at my first NBA game.

So I just stood where I was, getting a little taste of what it’s like watching a game up close.

A little while later a lady walked up to where I was standing, and I noticed that she was looking at me and my friends in a peculiar way. I thought she was going to tell us that we couldn’t stand where we were.

The lady walked up to me and said, “Do you want to sit up close?” and handed me two tickets. It

seemed like she and her husband were leaving.

Before I could even say thank you, the couple walked away and I looked down at the tickets which said row one. I couldn’t believe my luck.

Without wasting any time, my friend and I confidently walked down the stand to the first row and took our seats right behind the Celtics bench.

I could see the sweat dripping down the players arms and heard the Celtics coach yelling at his players.

Up close I noticed how tall and athletic the players are and marvelled at how they shot the ball with such ease.

Toward the end of the fourth quarter, the Celtics were falling behind and frustrated fans began leaving the arena before the final buzzer.

I happily stayed the entire time, taking pictures with my phone and sending them on WhatsApp to my parents and brother who all couldn’t believe my luck.

What started out as a slightly disappointing evening turned out to be a moment I will never forget—all thanks to one lady who wanted to do something nice for a couple of students.

While the Celtics may have lost the game, it didn’t really matter. I certainly felt like a winner at the end of the night.

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

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Infinity Lines Madeleine D’Angelo Buried within the second floor of the Museum of Fine Art’s contemporary wing is a giant mirrored cube. The structure, Josiah McElheny’s “Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism,” is just one of those objects that seems to have a gravitational pull all its own, probably because its gleaming chrome sides make it look like something out of a science fiction novel, or maybe even some strange messenger from the future.

And oddly, McElherney’s very specific cube was the first thing I thought about when my mom and I made our way to the Yayio Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, an exhibit briefly being housed in Washington, D.C’s Hirshhorn Museum. The exhibit focused on the well-known work of Kusama, a Japanese artist who skyrocketed to fame in the ’60s and ’70s and has stayed there ever since. Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms are amongst her most recognizable innovations.

In these Infinity Rooms, the viewer steps inside a white box—large enough to be an actual room, but still small enough to make the claustrophobic among us nervous just looking at it. But once the door swings shut behind the viewer, they find themselves immersed in a mesmerizing never-ending world, like if you stepped inside McElherney’s cube and covered the windows with more mirrors. But instead of chrome vases, these Infinity Rooms are filled with objects like softly glowing pumpkins, dangling lantern, multicolored fairy lights, or small white forms covered in bright red dots.

Each infinty room is surreal in a completely unique way. Some of the rooms, like the pumpkins or the red dots, are more whimsical, while the others, particularly the dark rooms with the dangling lights, are entrancing. You feel like you’re just floating in a sea of light and color, and it’s probably the closest experience you will ever have to flying through space.

The rooms are a complete escape, each one a rare otherworldly experience, and so you might feel the urge to stay in one of the rooms forever and forgo the harsh, noisy world outside entirely. Expect you can’t.

You only get 20 seconds in each room.

You see, this exhibit happens to be unbelievably popular, as Kusama is somewhat of a pop-culture phenomenon, and these rooms happen to be extremely photogenic—a very appealing quality in the Instagram age.

Getting tickets to see exhibit was a feat in and of itself, but I assumed that once we had the tickets the exhibit would be like any other: a leisurely stroll through art-filled rooms. I did not anticipate the incredibly long lines that visitors must wait in to see each room, and the frantic feeling that accompanies any attempt to avoid these lines.

There was, however, no avoiding any of the lines, and so my mom and I gamely filed into the back of the first line, watching people quickly ushered in and out of the rooms as gallery attendees with a stopwatch in hand kept watch outside once each door closed. We watched people mentally prepare themselves (and their cameras) for their short moment in the room. My mom noted that instead of infinity rooms, the exhibit should be renamed ‘infinity lines,’ an observation that I not only found hysterical by our third line, but also more to the point. The rooms were amazing, but the true masterpiece was the throng of people all waiting in line. Many were dressed to the nines, a refreshing sight in the modern world, and nobody screamed or shoved or pushed or cried. We all waited patiently, quietly chatting and committed to the fact that the 120 seconds that we would get to spend inside the six rooms was worth over two hours of waiting in line.

So you can experience the feeling of infinity by peering into a mirrored cube, or by stepping into a glorious room, but you also experience this endless moment whenever you find yourself waiting for something.

And in a moment of my life where I feel like there are never enough hours in a day, and where life just blurs by, I find this accessibility of infinity just shocking.

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

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AirFox Hopes to Revolutionize Telecommunication

By Nathan Xie Heights Staff According to Victor Santos, co-founder and CEO of AirFox, it is time for wireless carriers to enter the 21st century. And AirFox is just the startup to help them.

Santos and Sara Choi, co-founder and COO, explained how smartphones have transformed the telecommunications industry, and all of its carriers. Cell phone and data plans, however, have been relatively constant and slow-paced since the rise of smartphones. Carriers have begun to sell data plans similarly to how they used to sell talk and text plans presmartphone era. Choi and Santos aim to transform the telecom carrier industry, and help wireless carriers become digital and agile by launching different types of data plans that are not as rigid.

The idea for AirFox blossomed as Santos and Choi watched many challenges unfold in the telecom industry. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, with concentrations in business and economics, Santos worked as the cofounder and COO of Ciao Telecom. That was where he saw the industry as a slowmoving dinosaur. Despite widespread innovation to the mobile department of the industry, Santos believed the telecom sphere lacked modernization.

After working at Ciao, a telecom company, Santos moved to Google’s marketing department—that was where he met Choi, who was also working as a marketing manager on the same project.

Choi, who graduated from Harvard University in 2010 with a concentration in biology, entered the advertising world.

After leaving Google in the summer 2016, Choi and Santos seized the opportunity to transform the telecom industry.

Choi and Santos decided to move to Boston to begin their startup. Santos explained how Massachusetts was a hub for telecom companies and they believed that their adtech venture would thrive in it.

“For what we are doing, Boston is better [than San Francisco or Silicon Valley] because there’s a lot of telecel influence and enterprise focus,” Santos said.

Moreover, Boston allowed Santos

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In a departure from a ridgid and outdated industry, AirFox allows users to tailor his or her phone plans to individual needs and uses. and Choi to hire a veteran in the telecom industry—Dan Powdermaker, their current executive vice president. Powdermaker had worked with both iBasis and AT&T. In addition, Choi’s mentor from her alma mater was a local venture capitalist, Wan Li Zhu, of Fairhaven Capital. While speaking to Bostinno, Choi explained that Zhu emphasized the Boston tech world’s strong network of mentors and advisors.

So after setting up their operation in Boston, Santos and Choi began finessing the Airfox technology, which works by integrating itself with a carrier’s network.

On a fundamental level, AirFox intervenes between the carrier’s network and the 3G, 4G, or LTE on the user’s phone— and places its software in between the network.

By putting its software in the middle, AirFox can examine a subscriber’s, usage and pinpoint which applications are used most. On the technical level, AirFox operates in between with deep-packet inspections (DPIs), which unpack each section of data used, and determines what it is.

Utilizing its technology, AirFox has devised three innovative types of plans.

The first is application plans. Most

smartphone owners predominantly spend their time within a few apps in their phone.

With this plan, Santos and Choi aim to provide carriers with the ability to target subscribers with the right app plan to flexibly purchase data for any app in the Google Play store. Essentially, these app plans compress data, and prevent data consumption by background services in different apps, other advertisements, or caching activities. For instance, these app-specific data plans tailor to the subscribers—users could purchase an hour of Snapchat or Facebook data usage.

Sponsored plans are another type AirFox offers to carriers and subscribers.

These plans enable brands to pay the carrier and its subscribers through data sponsorship.

Santos noted the benefits of sponsored plans, explaining that advertisers receive engagement, subscribers pay less, and carriers earn extra revenue. Santos detailed the sponsorship plans as either nonincentivized or incentivized. The nonincentivized sponsorship assumes that the advertising will be paid for regardless of user engagement, whereas incentivized sponsorship presents incentive-based

offers that hinge on user action.

The final plan is a zero-rate plan, which allows carriers or third parties sourced by AirFox to sponsor an application’s data usage for a specific period of time. Some suggested forms of this plan are a $30 2GB plan with WhatsApp zero-rated.

Through these three plans, the creators of AirFox intend to enable the right plan for every smartphone subscriber through transforming wireless carriers into more agile service providers. With AirFox, Santos and Choi envision carriers to have data sponsorship, control, efficiency, and personalization. Santos explained how 85 percent of the world is under the umbrella of a restrictive pay-as-you-go plan. He also detailed how 2.5 billion people are unbanked and that 4.4 billion have yet to come online.

Currently, AirFox is headquartered in the Harvard Innovation Launch Lab, and its core team comprises of nine individuals, ranging across different disciplines from engineering and software to business and economics. But as the group’s looks toward the future, Santos and Choi envision AirFox as the enabler of mobile data access for all in the future. n

Date Seat Helps Users Plan the Perfect Night Out

By Mary Kate DiNorcia Heights Staff

Many Bostonians can now have access to an app that will solve all of their foodie nightmares. From bringing your crush on a first date in an uncomfortably noisy bar to joining your colleague for a business meeting in a weirdly dark and romantic restaurant, Date Seat can prevent any unwelcome dining surprises.

Date Seat, a phone application cofounded by Mike Laskowski and Jake Hajec, aims to fulfill the needs of anyone looking for just the right restaurant in Boston.

With a system that organizes eateries by atmosphere and ambiance, Date Seat allows users to choose from categories such as First Date, Sunday Funday, Coffee, Live Music, and even the seasonal NFL Sunday to find the appropriate destination for their next outing.

Sitting in his car unable to figure out somewhere to eat, Laskowski was reminded of his and Hajec’s past frustrations with the difficulty of finding new eateries in Boston.

After calling Hajec and explaining his idea for an app that bypasses Yelp to make restaurant searching easier and more personalized, the two began the creation process in Feb. 2016. With the help of their friend and iOS app developer, Nick Servidio, Hajec and Laskowski began drafting the app and eventually launched it five months later.

The two founders dined at each of the restaurants featured in the app, walking up and down streets with surveys that they completed for each place entered into their system.

According to Hajec, the data collection part of the process turned out to be the most time-consuming because of their individual involvement in the search. But the time that the process required was well worth it, as the data collected was essential in creating the categories that make Date Seat so unique.

By dividing restaurants up based on their atmosphere and ambiance, Laskowski and Hajec created an application that acts as a friend giving you advice. Date Seat is almost personified when it is used, presenting each category clearly to show the user what his or her best options are for any event—like where to take a significant other on a first date, or where to watch the final Beanpot game.

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Developed by Mike Laskowski and Jake Hajec, Date Seat directs users toward the ideal setting for his or her special occasion.

There are more than enough categories on Date Seat for every user to find at least one particularly appealing option. While Hajec is particularly fond of the NFL Sunday category, which connects fans with viewing venues during the NFL season, Laskowski admitted to frequently using the Classy Date category for planning his weekends out.

Some categories, however, seem to be widely appealing for all users throughout Boston, like Outdoor Seating or After-Work Drinks.

Laskowski and Hajec felt that Boston was the perfect place to center their application around, not only because they live in the city, but also because Boston has a particular diversity and openness that fosters growth.

The foodies that dine in Boston each night include countless unique people of all ages, each with different tastes in food and atmosphere. The founders felt that because of this range of potential users, the app received productive feedback from all various demographics, ultimately helping it reach out to a broader audience.

Boston is also considered a hub of innovation in the startup world, making it an exciting and helpful place to create and launch Date Seat. Many of the conventions that take place in the Boston area for startup owners have helped the co-founders connect

with people already involved in the industry.

By gaining advice from some of the older players in the game, Hajec and Laskowski were able to improve their app.

“There is no way we would be where we are right now if we hadn’t networked throughout the city,” Hajec said.

According to Laskowski, foodies and restaurant owners in the Boston area have also welcomed the Date Seat app with open arms, which has made the process of introducing their creation to Boston even better.

“We’re pretty happy with the results in Boston,” Laskowski said. “But we’re looking forward to expanding to other cities as well.”

By this June, the app will expand to three new cities: Freeport, Mass., Portsmouth, N.H., and Manchester, N.H. As these expansions are being made, Date Seat will also be released for Android devices, allowing users of any phone to access the application.

As the application continues to grow, the founders are looking for partnerships with dating-focused platforms, like Bumble or Match.com, to help make the process of online dating easier.

While this deal has not been solidified yet, Laskowski and Hajec have just finalized a new partnership with OpenTable, which will allow users to make reservations at restau-

rants directly through Date Seat.

While this new feature appeals to all demographics, there are many college-centric aspects of Date Seat as well. The College Bar category, for example, was created for students attending any of the large number of universities in the Boston area. The Club and Live Music categories have proven popular among younger Boston crowds as well.

The Date Seat Blog, a laidback online platform used to discuss anything food related in the Greater Boston Area, is also geared towards younger audiences.

With posts written in a candid, almost snarky voice about topics ranging from Hotel Bars to the Best Brunch locations, the Date Seat Blog has a Barstool-esque vibe that is sure to enlighten and entertain users all at once.

From a blog that can help a direct a college student toward the best bar for a visiting friend to categories that can help a naïve dater select the ideal restaurant for a first date date, the founders of Date Seat hope to provide their current Boston users with all of the resources needed to choose the ideal place for his or her next meal.

“So far, people have been super welcoming and open to this new idea, and I think for us, choosing Boston was a great choice,” Laskowski said. n

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WellTrack Must Revise Presentation of Survey Results University Counseling Services (UCS) released a new self-help program Monday for students called WellTrack. Students can make an account on the website and mobile application with the access code “BCWelltrack.”

Through the program, students can track their daily moods and work on skills and exercises to help manage anxiety, depression, and stress.

UCS introduced WellTrack in order to provide Boston College students with an alternative platform to help address mental health issues. Director of UCS Craig Burns acknowledged that anxiety and depression are two of the most prominent concerns that students have regarding mental health on campus, and he believes that the app will help students to develop healthy approaches to dealing with these struggles.

While UCS has good intentions in implementing the app and introducing additional resources to assess mental health, the wording within the app seems too much like a medical diagnosis. After students log in to the app, they are prompted to take a 21-question quiz that only takes about a minute in order to assess their mental state. Students are then presented with varying levels of anxiety, depression, and stress that they “have,” based on their results.

Burns said that WellTrack is by no means meant to provide diagnoses to students, but that fact is not made clear when someone uses the app.

If a student were to indicate symptoms of severe depression or

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anxiety in the survey, based on a trial, the results could read, “You have a Severe level of depression” and “You have a Extremely Severe level of anxiety.” The app also suggests that such a student “should consider seeking professional help” and “In case of emergency, please call 911 immediately.”

While these statements do not necessarily represent diagnoses, the definitive wording of the app’s conclusions could easily be misconstrued by someone without a background in psychology. This creates the potential for the escalation of student alarm in regard to mental health.

To prevent confusion from users regarding a false diagnosis, the developers of WellTrack should reconsider the way that a user’s survey results are presented.

Upon completion of the survey, it should be made abundantly clear that the user should seek professional, in-person help if they desire an official diagnosis.

In addition, UCS should work with the third party to make BCspecific resources available to students within the app. Given the trend of popular on-campus apps at BC, UCS also might consider commissioning the creation of its own app.

While WellTrack can serve as a useful tool for addressing mental health issues such as stress, depression, and anxiety, it under no circumstances can be a substitute for personal conversation and diagnosis with a professional. The app in its current state should not be viewed as a replacement for counseling, but as a complement or additional method for dealing with the day-to-day challenges of

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”

- Jim Rohn

mental illness.

To accomplish this, the app uses students’ survey results to suggest programs that can be used to improve their mental health. WellTrack has created three different “courses” that deal with anxiety and stress, depression, and phobia. The anxiety and stress program is a five-week commitment, while the depression course is six weeks. The phobia course presents students with 3-D simulations of their phobias while helping them to practice relaxation.

It is commendable that UCS is attempting to improve and provide a variety of resources available to students struggling with mental health issues. UCS has seen a sharp increase in the number of student visits made over the last few years, and many students feel that the University should do more to accommodate the mental health needs of students on campus.

By providing students with an easily accessible and personalizable resource such as WellTrack that they can use to improve their everyday mental condition, UCS is making strides in the right direction.

The conclusions the app reaches regarding a student’s mentality do not carry the same weight as a personal diagnosis. Assessing the mental condition of a participating student is essential to WellTrack’s functionality, but the app should not be viewed as a source of definitive answers, and rather as a useful tool for students to find new ways to deal with issues of stress, depression, and anxiety.

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Defending Planned Parenthood

A New Experience - If someone came to you, and asked you to get on a bus full of people you’ve never met, to drive through the night to a place you’ve never been, only to stay in a place you’ve never seen, and to do things you’ve never been asked to do, would you? Probably not. But this Spring Break, hundreds of Boston College students did, and go ahead and ask any of them how their experience on Appalachia was. You’ll probably find a common theme: they loved it. It’s one thing to give up one’s vacation time in order to serve others, but it’s totally another to do so with a group of strangers, and far away from the luxury of Chestnut Hill.

Nonetheless, hundreds of eager Eagles climbed aboard a row of Academy coaches lining the street in front of Corcoran Commons one morning, unaware of the perspective-changing experience on which they were about to embark. Though the marks of paint and stains from peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on our clothes will fade, the memories made and bonds formed on our trips won’t. As the Eagles returned home by land and air, a formerly silent ride transformed into a graduation party. Final reflections became buzzing family reunions of groups of students that had awkwardly avoided eye contact at meetings only a month or so prior. If you’re free on Sunday nights, do yourself a favor and drop in to Eagle’s Nest next year. You won’t regret it.

A Day of Procrastination - Students were again fortunate enough to have a day off of school. In an appropriate fashion, a freshman who was president of his high school’s drama club ran out of his hall on Tuesday morning and fell to his knees in the middle of the snowfall.

“STELLA!,” he screamed, in true cinematic agony. He thought he was hilarious.

Emma Greco President Donald Trump made headlines recently for informing Planned Parenthood that the organization could retain federal funding if it agreed to cease all abortion services. In true Planned Parenthood form of staunchly protecting women’s health care rights, the group refused. It is imperative that Planned Parenthood continue to be allowed to provide the services that it currently offers to women and men alike. The federal government cannot be allowed to interfere with the personal health rights of American women.

The proposal that was made to Planned Parenthood is based on the fallacy that federal funding pays for its abortion services, which is completely erroneous. The organization does receive almost $500 million a year in federal funds, but these dollars all go toward women’s health care, none of them paying for abortion services.

Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, spoke out and confirmed this, saying, “Let’s be clear: Federal funds already do not pay for abortions …

Providing critical health care services for millions of American women is non-negotiable.” Indeed, Planned Parenthood is a necessary part of American society, as it provides much-needed health care to many women who could not get it elsewhere. Abortion is hardly the point.

According to Planned Parenthood, a miniscule 3 percent of the services it provides in any given year are abortion services. The remaining 97 percent include prenatal care, contraception, adoption referrals, STD testing, and cancer screenings. This is not an entirely precise figure, as women who receive multiple services are counted separately for each one, but the fact remains that Planned Parenthood provides far less abortions than it does other services.

Slippin’ and Slidin’ - Although summertime feels far away, students slipped and stumbled through BC’s treacherous campus today as if they were trying to walk intoxicated on an inflatable water toy in July. Tuesday night’s freezing temperatures turned students’ commute to their 9 a.m. classes into a comedic spectacle in which those without proper footwear could be seen falling over themselves along every sidewalk and walkway. Many waddled like penguins down the ramp by Mac, doing everything in their power to not eat pavement on their way to their lecture. Maybe a little more salt next time, BC.

pro-life and also “deeply committed to investing in women’s health … while not providing abortion services.” But is abortion not also women’s health? Planned Parenthood believes so, according to the group’s president Cecile Richards, who called abortion a “necessary service that’s as vital to our mission as birth control or cancer screenings.” In a different statement, Richards said that this demand to stop abortions is “part of the longstanding effort to end women’s access to safe, legal abortion.”

Being invested in women’s health, as the president phrased his commitment, is not something that can be half-done.

Picking and choosing what kinds of health care to provide is simply wrong. Maintaining access to “safe and legal” abortions is just as vital to women’s health as guaranteeing other health services such as STD testing and cancer screenings.

Women have a right to effective and supportive health care, as well as the privacy to receive what care they need without being penalized. The misunderstanding and defunding of Planned Parenthood could have incredibly harmful repercussions on women throughout the U.S. The White House’s proposal shows either an ignorance of what Planned Parenthood’s federal funds are actually used for, or an intentional misleading of the American people to believe that their taxpayer dollars are being used to fund abortions. Either way, the proposition that the organization stops abortion services in order to retain federal funding would not end abortions, and would accomplish nothing but the halting of funds used to pay for non-abortion services that save many lives.

Planned Parenthood’s refusal underscores their commitment to providing women with the essential health care they need. This indispensable institution, rather than the current White House administration, appears to have the best interests of the health of America’s women in mind.

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

A Taste of Southern Charm

Valerie Cherbero

Not Being Irish - On Friday, Boston College’s Irish heritage will erupt in full force, spilling waves o f green all over campus and the city of Boston.

Those caught in the wake of this celebration will be inevitably swept away in the ensuing festivities, dawning clever t-shirts and raising their BAC until the sun comes up the next day. For some of us, however, the awesomeness of St. Patrick’s Day is short lived. Many of us only get to embody the carefree and fun attitude of the Irish for a single day.

We can sing along to the lyrics of Ed Sheeran’s “Galway Girl,” but in reality, we will never experience a magical night in a pub on Ireland’s western coast. We can whistle the tune of the upbeat fiddle, and try to imitate the chanting at the song’s end, but really, we’re all just imposters, wishing we could be as fun as we pretend to be on March 17 every other day of the year.

It seems important to reiterate that absolutely no taxpayer dollars pay for abortions provided by Planned Parenthood, and that such taxpayers, including the president, should not have a say in the health services provided for other Americans.

This is intrinsically connected to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which is largely about a woman’s right to privacy. Laws criminalizing abortion were determined to violate constitutional rights, and the Supreme Court decided that a “zone of privacy [is] broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” This privacy and the right of a woman to make her own decision were thereby protected by the Constitution.

If Planned Parenthood provides general health services with federal funds and abortion services with private funds, the debate over its funding should not really be an issue of pro-life or pro-choice.

Women have the constitutional right to privately do as they will with their own bodies, and Planned Parenthood allows them to do so.

Asking Planned Parenthood to discontinue any abortion services in order to keep federal funding violates the private health care rights of half the American population. Had Planned Parenthood not refused to comply with the Trump administration’s proposition, the health of many women throughout the country would have been adversely affected.

People may object to abortion on moral grounds, and of course it is their right to do so. But is it their right to impose those moral beliefs on others and attempt to remove their health care? No. For anyone who believes in protecting the rights of their fellow citizens, it should seem a natural conclusion to support women’s rights to all forms of health care. Yet, for some, this is not a simple situation. The morality of protecting universal health care rights often just vanishes when abortion enters the equation, even though it is just one more form of women’s health care that women ought to have the right to.

As President Trump stated regarding the Planned Parenthood proposal, he is

Growing up, I never understood the phrase “Southern charm.” Everything I knew about the South came from episodes of Duck Dynasty or progressive history lessons on the Civil War. Not to be dismissive, but the South didn’t come out looking so hot. By the time I graduated high school, I had developed a damning mental picture of the South: old plantation homes, segregation, and angry preachers jabbing their fingers in the air.

If I didn’t understand the South, I certainly didn’t want to understand Southern cooking. I come from San Francisco, home to farm-to-table restaurants and hipster startups. It’s a hotbed for food snobbery, and as an avid eater and cook, I learned to appreciate certain foods: those that were fresh, local, trendy, and dear god, not fried. With these culinary blinders up, I wrote off all southern cooking as greasy and overdone. I watched Trisha’s Southern Kitchen with a smirk. I rolled my eyes as Paula Deen added another stick of butter to the pan. When ChickFil-A opened a restaurant in my town, I bristled.

Despite this Southern aversion, I couldn’t avoid the South. Jetblue’s travel deals beckoned, and before I could say “Anchor Down,” I had booked a plane ticket to Nashville for Spring Break.

To be clear, I didn’t intend on having my world cracked open. I came for the live music and Tennessee sunshine. But I had underestimated Nashville and the slow magic of Southern cooking.

I knew I was in foreign territory as soon as the plane landed. Country music boomed from the airport speakers, and Jason Aldean’s voice welcomed us to Music City. On our second night in Nashville, we ate at Party Fowl, a res-

taurant famous for hot chicken. While fried chicken is gospel in the South, hot chicken is a Nashville original.

It’s pretty simple. You take fried chicken and coat it in cayenne, brown sugar, chili powder, garlic powder, and paprika. Restaurants such as Prince’s, Hattie B’s, and Party Fowl serve it atop a thick slice of white bread. As a girl raised on grilled chicken and sourdough bread, I was dubious. But I was also hungry. I ordered the chicken tenders, medium heat. Our server, Jake, had a red Party Fowl cap perched atop a flowing mullet. He told us we were in for a treat.

When I bit down on my hot chicken, I nearly cried. Whether it was the quick burn of cayenne pepper or the crunch of the fried chicken, I’m not sure. Either way, I was hooked. The meat was tender and juicy, as fresh as chicken can be beneath a layer of grease and flour. I cried my way through four more chicken tenders, waving Jake on as he refilled my water glass every three minutes.

“I may not have decoded the South, but I came out of the trip with a clearer picture of a complicated place.”

“How are y’all doing?” he drawled out, a concerned look on his face.

Clearly not all Party Fowl guests cried over their chicken.

My eyes brimmed with tears. I wiped them away with burnt-red hands, covered in hot sauce, and smiled up at him. Maybe southern charm came from this very restaurant, covered in flour and deep-fried to a golden crisp.

The next night, we ate at Peg Leg Porkers, a barbecue restaurant that specializes in everything pork. After Party Fowl, I was ready for another revelatory experience. I ordered a half-rack of ribs, dry rubbed and slow roasted, and a side

of smoked green beans and mac and cheese.

As I gnawed on each glorious rib, I thought of summer barbecues in California and my dad’s homemade ribs.

I breathed in the smoky aroma, more alluring than any perfume. If food can transport you, then this dinner brought me home, filling me with a sense of comfort and warmth. While I finished up my rack, a man in a camouflage baseball hat and faded jeans walked by.

He caught my eye and gave me a solemn nod. I saluted the rack of ribs on his plate and bore back down on mine.

I came back from Nashville a changed woman. I still like my roasted veggies, my sushi, and my arugula salad, but now I dream of smoky pork, hot grits, and a biscuit on the side. I can still hear Jake’s slow, reassuring drawl asking, “How are y’all doing?”

I may not have decoded the South, but I came out of the trip with a clearer picture of a complicated place. And I learned a hidden truth: for every angry preacher, there’s a server like Jake; for every Paula Deen, there’s a Peg Leg Porker. We aren’t so different, Southerners and I. We want our chicken hot and our pork falling off the bone, and we wouldn’t mind a little sweet tea, thank you very much.

Spring Break has come and gone.

We have sat in airports and on beaches.

Our Spring Break bods have been destroyed by mixed drinks and fried chicken. I hope we all came back a little humbled, a little kinder, or maybe just a little tanner. And when we plan our next trip (summer is just a few months away), I hope we choose somewhere new. Somewhere that challenges our preconceived notions. Somewhere below the Mason-Dixon line.

Who knows? You might just find yourself crying in Party Fowl and praying to have an ounce of Southern charm.

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

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An Efficient Government Garrett Reynolds The conservative argument about biggovernment inefficiency is repeated time and time again. Conservatives argue that an expansive government leads to a bloated bureaucracy that incurs unnecessary administrative costs, taking away funds that could be used for more practical matters. The left has made valid rebuttals, and yet conservatives often buckle down on the same old claims. At this point, most of us disregard the conservative approach as partisan canon.

The left’s common rebuttal to the classic conservative argument is that, though some policies might not be completely efficient, those policies are moral, and the moral benefits exceed the practical costs. For example, this argument applies to social service programs. As I’ve said in previous columns, it’s correct and moral for the government to provide for those who can’t provide for themselves, such as the elderly, the unemployed, and the mentally ill. These demographics consume more resources than they produce. It’s not the most efficient way to regulate our economy, but it has a moral basis.

This issue between the parties is now simply an argument over to what degree the government should provide welfare assistance. While this dispute is one of the foundations of the modern political debate that we see today, there’s another, older reason why we can’t avoid some government inefficiency. Sometimes, we actually need it.

The classic Western government, like we see in France, is heavily centralized, reducing conflict between the overarching government and smaller municipal governments. When citizens vote, their vote is expressed nationally. This kind of government is, on paper, an extraordinarily efficient kind of government. Yet France has been riddled with problems throughout its history. Over the course of the French Revolution(s), we saw an efficient national power abuse minorities and become filled with tyrants attracted to power alone. Today, we see that administrative mistakes made in Paris radiate throughout the country, and local communities have trouble fixing those problems themselves.

This transition never happened in the U.S. We have always had a federal government with powers split between branches, separate state governments, and local municipalities. We have what most of us learned about in our high school classes: federalism. The upside to federalism is that problems don’t radiate throughout the government, and the American people are less susceptible to oppression and tyranny. All we have to do is sacrifice some efficiency.

But, there’s another, less talked about reason why smaller government is better. A smaller government with enough strength to regulate business can facilitate the efficiency of the free market while preventing that market from taking advantage of the people. We should replace government influence with market activity.

Some worry that these new companies might then just turn into the classic “corporate monster” that liberals worry about.

Then, instead of the government being tyrannical against its citizens, we have corporations terrorizing their consumers. As long as we ensure, however, that the government, both state and federal, have the power to regulate—though they should regulate judiciously—these businesses, we can combine the efficiency that we complain about not having with the freedom from tyranny the founding fathers sought.

This is where the conservative idea of a smaller government comes into play.

It’s not that inefficiency is always bad; sometimes, as we see, it’s good. What we should do, however, is pull back the influence of the government and the avoidable inefficiency that comes with it, and replace it with the private market. Individual businesses must be effective, else they fail.

While it’s close to impossible to create or end a federal program, businesses open and close every day, leading to a gradually better marketplace. Therefore, decreasing the size and influence of the government will in turn allow the country to naturally improve.

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

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Brighton’s Emerging Underground Spot Bandita Brighton keeps a low profile—literally—in the basement of Article 24. But the secret seems to be getting out.

BY LAUREN TALIO For The Heights From the outside, Bandita Brighton might not look like much. The San Diego-style taco and tequila bar is located in the basement of another restaurant: Article 24, an Americanstyle place owned by the Neighborhood Restaurant Group. Bandita, the group’s latest concept restaurant, features a space that is as dark and sexy as it is colorful and cozy.

It is one of those spots that is so underground—aside from quite literally being underground—that when you find it, you are stuck somewhere between wanting to be the first to tell all of your friends about your discovery, and wanting to keep the secret all to yourself. According to general manager Michael Keenan, it’s a “diamond in the rough.”

But the secret seems to be getting out. This restaurant-within-a-restaurant has been gaining traction since its opening in June 2016, even though all of the marketing has been in-house.

Keenan explained that most of the guests come for Article—the spot they

know and love—and upon discovering the hand-painted Mexican skulls at the host stand, decide to switch things up a little. Instead of taking a seat at the artistic, garage-like restaurant upstairs, they venture down to a dimmer, quieter space with a slightly unconventional allure.

Situated on Western Ave., right before hopping on Soldiers Field Road toward downtown Boston, the location of Bandita is deceiving at best. Amid some medical buildings and an auto shop, a new visitor cannot help but ask him or herself: a Mexican restaurant, here?

Keenan explained that Henry Pariseau, founder of the Neighborhood Restaurant Group and a selfmade millionaire from real estate, not only considers what a neighborhood is missing when he designs a restaurant, but anticipates how he can get ahead to create a unique physical space that will come to define the fledgling restaurant.

“This is the last unpainted palate in the Brighton-Allston area,” Keenan said. “Establishing ourselves before we are at volume is a huge opportunity because it allows us to get our feet wet.

Competition breeds buzz. In five years there is potential for this to be a trending spot. The area itself will become the destination.”

And by the looks of it, Pariseau and the rest of the Neighborhood Restaurant Group are onto something. Bandita alone is already about more than just food and beverages.

The restaurant hosts a wide range of events in an honest effort to attract a diverse audience. Keenan works with a promoter to bring in local bands and comedians. He also has events where even guests can highlight their hidden hobbies. These events include everything from trivia night to open

Taco Tuesday, which honors the restaurant’s true speciality.

When it comes to the fare, there’s no junk at Bandita—a true differentiator among taco bars in Boston.

In addition to smaller plates, such as decadent nachos, or a filling rice and bean bowl topped with lobster, Bandita offers eight tacos, sold individually and which can all be made into quesadillas. The tacos range from the more traditional options such as Al Pastor, a grilled meat topped with the bright flavors of pickled onions and grilled pineapple, to unusual f lavors , such as the Thai Chicken taco topped with a crunchy housemade slaw, creamy av o c a d o , a n d a spicy soy-chili s au ce . A n o t h e r popular choice in the restaurant is the Carne Asada fries loaded with beer cheese, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream and scallions sprinkled on top—a perfect side for cheap, Mexican beer.

Even the tequila that Bandita serves offers an equivalent amount of transparency. Each item on the restaurant’s long list of tequila is 100 percent Blue Agave liquor, an authentic choice that is environmentally sustainable.

Keenan obviously spends the majority of his days in Bandita, but it is obvious that he never tires of being there.

“This is the last unpainted palate in the Brighton-Allston area.”

- Michael Keenan, the general manager of Bandita Brighton mic Karaoke—an occurrence which supposedly garners a legitimate singing crowd, where nine out of every ten performers are quite pleasant to listen to. And on the second Monday of April, Bandita will resume hosting its cornhole tournament during dinner service, an extravaganza where a local brewery puts their beers on tap and comes with prizes for guests. For guests in need of even more excitement, Bandita also houses an industry night, an EDM brunch, and of course

“I am lucky to have the freedom to express myself through the restaurant,” Keenan said. “I am encouraged to come up with ideas and run with them.”

His creativity and enthusiasm is apparent, as Keenan has created many mini communities through the inclusion of diverse forms of entertainment at Bandita. His industry knowledge stretches far beyond the kitchen, and speaks to what it means to be a gracious host overall: hands on, and creative ways to ensure that everyone around is completely satisfied and content.

He has clearly led by example. Preparing brunch at 8 a.m. on a Saturday, the wait staff, bartenders and “super talented” chefs—many who have been cooking Hispanic style food their whole lives—revealed the innate drive Keenan seeks to exemplify. Everyone was smiling and hustling to prepare for brunch. Keenan appeared confident that his team would take care of guests, make guests have fun, and have a good time while they are at it. 

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Most patrons on Western Ave. don’t plan to spend their night at Bandita Brighton. But upon following the hand-painted skulls at the host stand inside, they discover a space that is as dark and sexy as it is colorful and cozy.

Juicy Spot Cafe Brings Stir-Fried Ice Cream to Chinatown Boston’s location serves a variety of Thai ice cream rolls.

BY SHERRY HSIAO

Heights Staff

Even temperatures as low as 20 degrees will not stop ice-cream lovers from visiting the newly-opened Juicy Spot Cafe on 16 Tyler St. in Chinatown—mostly because it gets a lot colder inside. On a frigid day like this, a customer might take multiple photos of her order from various angles to post on social media, embracing the saying, ‘Camera eats first.’

Children often stick their faces up against the window that separates the customer from the counter to watch the ice cream being made. Lori Eng, the cafe’s owner, controls the whole operation from behind the counter, helping her employees by pouring the base onto the metal plates as the words “Hello! Welcome!” guide customers to the back of the store.

“We get way more customers in the summertime,” Eng said. “But Boston has been definitely showing us love since we’ve been open.”

Freshly made on sub-zero anti-griddles that can get as cold as -22 degrees, the ice cream shop serves Thai ice cream rolls, also known as stir-fried ice cream.

The process begins when the server pours a liquid ice-cream base onto the ice-cold metal plate. Juicy Spot Cafe offers four kinds of bases: original, yogurt, green tea, and chocolate.

Using a pair of wide spatulas, the server then chops up the fresh ingredi-

ents that will give the ice cream its flavor.

The quick, thumping noise of metal clashing fills the air of the ice cream shop as the ingredients are completely blended with the creamy base. At Juicy Spot Cafe, a multitude of different flavors are available, including traditional favorites such as strawberry, Oreo, and mango. But the menu also includes more exotic ingredients such as kiwi, lychee, and papaya. The shop prides itself on introducing Asian ingredients—ones that are not easily found in America—to its customers.

Displayed in a refrigerator in a corner of the shop is the dragon fruit, one of the store’s most popular ingredients. In addition to fruit flavors, Juicy Spot Cafe also offers flavors such as red bean and black sesame.

Once the mixture has been completely blended and crystallized, it is spread out onto the cold plate and scraped up to form rolls. Each cup includes five ice cream rolls with toppings placed in the center, like a flower with spirals as petals.

The selection of toppings at Juicy Spot Cafe includes a long list of 31 items, including Asian favorites like mochi, grass jelly, and Pocky sticks. Some topping options overlap with the ingredients used for the flavor of the ice cream, allowing the same flavor to be experienced in two different kinds of textures. Finally, syrup is drizzled onto the ice cream. Syrup options include caramel, chocolate, condensed milk, cookie butter, Nutella, and raspberry. Whipped cream is also available free of charge.

Boston’s location, which opened on March 2 following two cafes in New York City, currently offers a menu with 10 of

Juicy Spot Cafe’s signature rolls. Eng and her team invented these various combinations. The options available in Boston include Chocolate Chip Espresso, Cookie Butter, Unique Dragon, Ferre-Roll Rocher, Watermelon Lychee, Good Crazy Matcha, Razzle Dazzle, and Cookies ‘n Cream. Even without the Create-YourOwn option that is available in New York, visitors at the ice cream shop can often be found straining their necks trying to decide which option to order. Throughout the store, it’s not uncommon to see customers ask one another what they got to help speed up the process of finding the tastiest treat.

Two of the most popular orders at the store are the Black Sesame and the Fire Cracker. The Black Sesame is made with the original base with black sesame, and topped with black sesame seeds, grass jelly, mochi, and a condensed milk drizzle. In just one bite, a variety of flavors and textures flood the palate.

The ice cream rolls contain a texture that is harder than the typical scoop of ice cream, preventing an immediate brain freeze as the required chewing delays the coldness. This unique texture mediates the softness of the grass jelly and the chewiness of the mochi. The rolls maintain this texture for a while before the distinct layers of the rolls begin to melt into one.

The Fire Cracker is made with a yogurt base with strawberry, topped with strawberry chunks, pop rock candy, and condensed milk drizzle. As the ice cream begins to melt in the mouth, the pop rock candy reveals itself and begins to jump around like tiny firecrackers.

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The menu at the Boston cafe features 10 signature roll options, such as Black Sesame.

Buried in ice cream, the pop rock candy creates a tingly feeling that is less harsh on the mouth than eating the candy directly. The Fire Cracker encourages experimentation, as the effects of the pop rock candy vary with each bite depending on factors such as the melting speed and the amount of candy balls that one discovers in each bite. Chew or press the tongue down on the ice cream, and the popping occurs faster. The Fire Cracker captures one’s curiosity and keeps one digging for the next spoonful to experience the popping again, so much that the freshly-chopped strawberry chunks are almost forgotten. The strawberry chunks are slightly frozen, blending per-

fectly with the cold temperature of the ice cream. The green-colored pop rock candy also adds a nice aesthetic touch to the pinkness of the strawberry ice cream and chunks.

Eng said the concept of Thai ice cream rolls is still unfamiliar to many eaters. In the future once everything gets settled down and people are more familiar with the concept, Eng hopes that the restaurant will continue across the country.

“Hopefully we can expand even larger, and not only just in New York City or in Boston, but also from the East Coast to the West Coast to even maybe to another country,” Eng said. 

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UNMASQUED Dance Ensemble pulls from a rich history to put on some of the most visually stunning performances on campus.

BY CALEB GRIEGO

Arts & Review Editor A foot hovers just above the floor.

Descending to embrace the stage, it meets the ground, bolstering the person upright. A foundation, a stride.

So much of our nature rests on a step—standing with grace. The step vitalizes the human spirit, giving us movement and grace.

Whether in a brisk outburst of energy or as a slow, docile kiss to the floor, the step remains the building block of dance. With purpose and poise, the step deposits security in the dancer, freeing her to loosen that stored energy of a single step into a flurry of grace and movement throughout her body. The Boston College Dance Ensemble harnesses that simple power in all of its performances to create some of the most compelling and visually captivating displays on Robsham stage. Dance Ensemble has championed progression and tradition. From the jaunty romps of jazz to the dreamy adroitness of ballet, this troupe embraces an eclectic skillset. Though the group steps toward the future as it prepares for its latest show, Masquerade, Dance Ensemble keeps a deft foot on the pulse of its artistic bedrock.

Dance Ensemble is steeped in a rich, 37-year tradition at BC—the dance group is the University’s oldest still in operation. As such, the organization has inherited a wealth of knowledge and tradition from prior iterations of the team. Passing on leadership within the organization is a responsibility that keeps the organization thriving both on and off the stage.

“We have a strong history. This is a well-established, well-run dance group,” said Emily Durkin, the group’s director and MCAS ’17. “If I could show you what was handed down to us, it’s just pages and pages of what to do that upholds institutional continuity.”

Part of that continuity is brought to life through the ties to its alumni, who make themselves available to critique the ensemble pre-performance. As Durkin explained, their advice gives feedback during the critical polishing period of performances. This kind of unique and invaluable exchange allows for the networking of Dance Ensemble to pay dividends, allowing for previous generations to influence

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the group in its current incarnation.

This desire and commitment that alumni be a part of this organization outside of of their own tenure speaks volumes of the integrity of the troupe. Dance Ensemble represents a sort of ensemble of dancing abilities that transcends BC and her campus proper.

The organization does not only dip into the creative wells of seasoned dancers and alumni, but also into those of its current members. Dance Ensemble performances are tailored to the vision of an individual choreographer. That vision is brought to life through an intimate knowledge of technical skills and creative dexterity.

Tapping into reservoirs of past dance experiences, choreographers are wellequipped to translate their own skills into a collective dance setting.

“Most of us have been training in dance, jazz, ballet, lyrical, or tap, since we could walk,” Durkin said.

Around half of the girls within the troupe fall into strong jazz or ballet foundations. But the ability of dancers to pick up new skills and sharpen others is routine within the organization.With that high level of skill, Dance Ensemble can fruitfully convert individual talents into collective creative energy.

“Each one of the members brings to the table, her own level of creativity,” Kelly Sangster, assistant director and MCAS ’17, said. “When you combine that with someone else’s you are able to produce these visual pieces, and I think that speaks to how we succeed as a group and not just as individuals.”

Dance Ensemble practices upward of 20 hours a week to ensure that each dancer can remain as sharp and brilliant as the one next to her. Often, Sangster explained, the group hires professionals to come in and instruct in their expertise to sharpen the skills of each member of Dance Ensemble.

“We’re not only focused on producing the pieces to perform all throughout campus, but we also really focus on keeping up on our training and keeping up the quality of all our dancer on the team,” Sangster said.

This is not to suggest that there is no place for the individuals to bring

out a unique voice within the ensemble. In the craft of choreography, members can find ways to bring out their personal ideas and visions. The result is often something personal and intimate, even if two people are choreographing the same type of dance.

This idea is manifested through the musings of the choreographer, enveloped in personal circumstances and fueled by their own vision. Choreographers can hand off ideas to their dancers, to which the dancers interpret the vision through their individual performance.

“A lot of choreographers will specify an emotion for their dance, and you can take that wherever you want,” Durkin said.

In this way, the end performance is fueled by the overarching vision of the choreographer, made real through the collective interpretation by the danc-

that you can’t with just your face or just your voice,” Sangster said. “Or a song even, adding that instrumental background, because you are not borrowing the emotion from the song you’re dancing to, you are adding that emotion with your face and combining that with your body.”

That kind of emotion is not monotone, however, as each style elicits a different sentiment. Durkin explained that the possibilities are endless and multifaceted in and between pieces.

From happy jazz to sad contemporary or simply beautiful ballet and tap, the emotional range allowed by dance is astounding, and Durkin explained just how malleable the artform truly is.

The execution, on the part of Dance Ensemble, is imperative to conveying emotion through the artistry.

“Everytime you move sharply, you get different emotion than if you move smoothly, and I feel that really speaks to the differentiation between all the styles that we do,” Sangster said.

But such emotional affectation is lost if it is not shared, which is why, especially for the artform, the audience remains a crucial and inseparable component. Without the audience, the visual beauty is never witnessed and the intellectual challenge is lost for many dancers.

“There is a limitation without the audience.” Sangster said. “I think the audience brings a lot out of each individual member when they are performing.”

For Durkin and Sangster, knowing that someone is bearing witness to the performance, regardless of the size of the crowd, creates a kind of unspoken energy on stage. It is the fuel that creates more meaning in the moments between movements, connecting one pose to another—connecting the audience to the dancers.

“Dance is really about the connection between moments,” Sanger said.

Dance Ensemble knows that these moments, as evidenced by its history, are but a few marks on a page of a larger story. As such, it invests much of their time in the future of those within

“We find that movement that is motivated by an emotion or a story is more compelling for the audience and the dancers.”

—Emily Durkin, BC ’17 ers. A reticent ballet performance is seen through the waning movements and stern faces of its dancers, while a blithesome contemporary piece will adopt a more free-spirited display.

For Durkin and Sangster, this kind of emotional backbone is more artistically fulfilling than a purely technical display.

“We find that movement that is motivated by an emotion or a story is more compelling for the audience and the dancers,” Durkin said.

This, Durkin explains, keeps the dancers, literally, and the audience, figuratively, on their toes.

And it is precisely this movement that makes many of Dance Ensemble’s performances overtly or quietly stirring.

“By combining your body, you are able to express levels of emotion

and outside the organization.

Friendship and love are the munitions on which the organization thrives. Dance Ensemble gives all of its ticket sales to the Campus School.

On the inside, it invests in a future of achievement and progress through its rigorous maintenance of quality and popularity of its shows.

Durkin and Sangster explain that it is important to continually gain recognition for students within the group to reach new people to keep the cycle of members going and to encourage those without friends in BC’s dance community to engage in its vibrance.

Dance Ensemble had only six weeks to prepare for Masquerade, but its efficiency makes it ready for this Friday and Saturday. Its poise, given such a challenge, attests to the deep and hearty roots staked out on this campus. But in this challenge comes some of the sweetest rewards leading up to a performance.

“During this week, when it’s insane there is a million things going on, we are pulling every string to make this show happen and make it run smoothly,” Sangster said. “That’s when you make the best memories. That’s when you have the most fun with your 30 best friends.”

When watching Dance Ensemble, one thing remains clear—that these were not simply individuals, but a collective entity of friends coalescing to form something more grand than any one performer could on her own. Many performance aspects of the group are reminiscent of that of a school of fish—a collective sentience.

Overarching, unified motion is captured through the small refined contributions of each dancer. When beneath the lights on stage, as if moving beneath rays of sun piercing the ocean’s surface, the majesty of such movements capture a raw, bodily beauty not unlike those enshrined in the machinations of nature.

Movement is crucial to humankind as a whole—without it we risk stagnation. When looking at such stunning images, one must be open to transcend our seats in the audience and step into a deeper state of passion with those on stage.

“Watch for the emotion. Be open to the piece that you are seeing and be moved by it.” Sangster said. “Be open to being moved by it.” 

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Dance Ensemble utilizes its dedicated alumni to critique and hone its members in the days leading up to performances, a kind of commitment that attests to the strong institutional ties the group fosters.

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Fantasy or Frustrating Flop

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‘Minos’ Exhibit Thoughtfully Injects Myth Into Scenes of Modern Tragedy

By Caleb Griego Arts & Review Editor Inside many ancient myths, monsters are not created, but born. King Minos of Crete disobeyed Poseidon by failing to slaughter a bull in his name. As is customary when dealing with vain gods, this king was punished severely for his lack of fervor.

Spitefully, the god of the sea vexed Pasiphae, Minos’ wife, to fall in love with a bull, spawning an unholy cross between man and beast: the minotaur. To spare the world from its gaze and lust for human flesh, the minotaur was cast into the vast labyrinth to imprison the creature, stopping it from terrorizing the people of Crete.

Classically, the minotaur is viewed, as the myth presents, as a monster—a being rightfully ostracized and displaced for its horrid, tortuous construction. In the photo exhibit, Minos: Tribulations of a Fantastical (or Not) Creature, by Sammy Chong, S.J., of the fine arts department, is integrated the minotaur into modern scenarios to examine large societal paradigms related to grouping and exclusion. Minos explore ideas of alienation and what it means to be a monster through the lens of one mythic beast.

“The Minotaur’s alienation is rooted in the fact that he is reviled by others,” the exhibit’s description stated. “To be a monster is not the essence of the Minotaur’s being rather, it is imposed on him by the mainstream.”

In other words, though some monsters are born, others are merely fabricated.

The exhibit catalogues various moments in the life of the minotaur. From its onset the exhibit makes clear that the emotional

isolation of the minotaur is unfettered by time, each snapshot of this misunderstood beast’s life wades deeper into the waters of sequestration and abandonment. Each photo is an attempt to escape the labyrinth of isolation.

The first photo, “Nativity,” depicts a minotaur as a baby, left on the doorstep of a fire station in a box. Given the mythic origins of the minotaur and his subsequent removal from his mother, this image details the isolation from family. The minotaur does not belong to the family of men, but neither does he belong in the realm of beasts. As such, he is put away. Orphaned, the minotaur is without home from birth.

The next, “Breaking Bread,” depicts a lively cafeteria scene with children sipping juice boxes and relishing in the collective liberties of lunchtime. But off at the end of a table, alone, a minotaur eats his lunch. His alienation from peers due to his appearance sets him apart, unaccepted by even the kinder eyes of children.

Onward into high school years, “Friends Forever” finds a minotaur opening his locker as others look on and stare with unempathetic eyes. He is rejected, solemnly keeping his head down, hiding from others, and possibly, from himself. Pushed away from all and rejected by mainstream grounds of success and fulfillment, another minotaur turns to drugs in “Dropped Out.” The next portion of the exhibit sees different types of minotaurs working for subsistence. They survive on through methods outside the mainstream making them denizens—monsters of one sort or another. One collects cans in “Green,” another sells her body in “Profession.”

One recurring element in all these distinct pieces is the inclusion of a maze.

Whether a simple swirl or a more elaborate depiction of a medieval labyrinth, the image haunts every photograph. It looms on the bed sheets. It adorns the clothes of the minotaur, or tattooed on the skin.

It is on a lunchbox and a napkin. It is an invasive element that seems to challenge the minotaur, confining the minotaur in one way or another. This image in the photos brings a deeper sense of the alienation of pervasive isolation into light. The maze is physically present, but also metaphorically sewn into the fabric of the minotaur’s life throughout drugs, homelessness, jail, and the unsympathetic eyes of others.

The only photo that does not contain the maze is the last, “Epilogue.” Stylized like a classic desert image, a bull skull is scene amid tumbleweeds and cacti. But behind it are the bones of a human body. The resting place of the minotaur. In death, there is no maze to traverse. Though a melancholy note, it is a powerful reminder of the end of all hardships.

Minos is a stunning display that challenges viewers to look deeper into the consequences of social convention and their ultimate end. The photos are beautiful, but seeing the unsettling combination of man and beast set in our world truly brings Chong’s message to the forefront of thought.

Though founded in a mythic perspective, the reality of the minotaur is sorely felt in this world. The nature of monsters is tied to the nature of men as one truly cannot exist without the other to contrast, separate, and relegate to a maze of social desolation. n

I fear for fantasy films. After Seventh Son and a milieu of other failures, I have become less confident in the abilities of studios to spice in fantasy in large doses. I hope that all movies are good. I can’t imagine anyone who would want movies to flop horribly.

Unless it’s an Adam Sandler movie—those people seem to enjoy burning $12. When I sit down in a dark theater all alone with a few other people I hope for two things: the beautiful, unabashed roar of silence from fellow patrons and that the picture will be worth my time.

Fantasy of historical reimaginings never cease to sketch me out when I see them in the years release line up.

That’s how I feel about King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword.

Watching the trailer, I can imagine a film that really captures the idea of divine providence and heroism.

As Led Zeppelin’s “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You” whips forward, that kind of legendary power seems within the grasp of this live action imagining.

On the other hand, I can see the film death spiraling into a misguided torrent of farce that attempts to mystify, combining the beloved lore of King Arthur with hapless fantasy nonsense. This could be a Huntsman-stylized garbage fire. I hope not, but it could be.

During several moments of the trailer we see fantasy elements appear for very brief moments. One is a sprite emerging from a tree and another sees a woman, possibly a mermaid, reclaiming Excalibur from the depths of the ocean after Arthur rejects it.

If these elements are used supernaturally within the context of the story, in that they are only seen by the audience and not the characters, we could have an enchanting story.

For the characters, moments of divine intervention would seem explicit to viewers while remaining innocuous to Arthur and his constituents.

This distinction between what we see and what the characters understand would add to that legendary nature of such a famed tale. I rarely see movies with this kind of split diegetically in film.

This is the reason moments like those found in Inception are so powerful because we are seeing things that characters are not, leaving us to think, “Wait, is this sequence a dream too?”

Alternatively, the impact of this tale would be considerably sullied if fantasy was actively present in the world. It is uninteresting as it is a fact that we have to accept—fantasy stuff is happening, I guess. That’s the end of analysis.

This is not the same as fantasy elements in Lord of the Rings because the intrigue of that piece lies in the relationship between its characters rather than its setting.

King Arthur was (debatably) a real guy and a more grounded telling of his “history” would be more welcome in the market inundated (maybe apart from The Hobbit) with bad fantasy over the last several years.

A lot of stories nowadays try to shoehorn in fantasy to add in layers of costuming and CGI at the detriment to story and intrigue.

Films like Huntsman do this the most heinously and have virtually no redeeming qualities in either department of fantasy or plot. Its classic story is lost on an overly complicated musing into the realms of rather dull reimaginings.

Sometimes the story of a king can be told as is. No embellishment required.

If I have to waste money, my upper echelons of tolerability is 10 dollars. If a movie is bad, I waste at least $12.

Not only is that a whole $2 over my limit, but it always wastes my time as well. It is moments like this, when I sit the the Schrodinger zone of this film, I am hopeful and fearful.

For King Arthur, let’s hope we will be cheering for him to pull the sword from the stone, rather than fall on it.

Caleb Griego is the arts & review editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

Raising the Age of Concert: Why Older Music Is Better Played Live

Jacob Schick My Spring Break was spent back in my homeland—Orlando, (well Winter Park specifically but Orlando is close enough) Fla. The weather was great, and it reminded me of my incredulity at New Englander’s desire to live where the air hurts your face. While I was back in the Sunshine State, I went to a concert in Daytona Beach (#sprangbreak). The concert was for two lesser-known classic rock bands who reached the peak of their popularity in the late ’70s—Orleans and Firefall. Most people have heard a song or two by them, but couldn’t name the bands off the top of their head (i.e. “Still The One” and “Just Remember I

Love You”). Anyway, I’m a big fan of old music and so I snagged some tickets for my dad and me.

We arrived at the Peabody Auditorium after some pizza at the original Stavro’s Pizza House (try the Greek salad!) and walked on in.

At this venue, there was no general admission area where people stood for hours on end, tumbling over each other as they tried to record the entire concert on their phone, and also grind on their significant other at the same time. Instead, the entire space was full of auditoriumstyle seating. Everyone would have their own seat for the entirety of the show.

As my father and I looked around, we noticed that I was clearly the youngest person at this show by about three decades. But given that these bands aren’t attracting any people other than those fans who sought them out, we weren’t surprised. The bands came on one after

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another and both played for about an hour and a half each. My favorite part of the concert was when Firefall played my favorite song, “Strange Way.” David Muse, who plays flute, keyboard, and saxophone for the band absolutely shredded a flute solo in the song. I had a great time, and I would see them again if I ever get the chance. But on the way home from the concert, my dad and I talked about other concerts we had been to and which bands or artists we would like to see in the future.

This conversation made me think about the disparity between some of the bands and artists I’ve seen when compared to one another. My first concert was in seventh grade. My friend Gordon, his parents, and I went to see James Taylor at the Bob Carr Theater in Orlando. Much like this most recent concert, everyone had their own seats and sat back to enjoy the music.

I then reflected on the time my

friend Nick and I saw the Imagine Dragons at the CFE Arena at the University of Central Florida when I was a high school freshman (ah ... memories). We stood for hours, trying to get a glimpse of this band (who I wasn’t even a fan of ), while some drunk lady spilled appletinis on us all night.

I’ve decided that, while concerts by new, more popular bands can be a lot of fun, I prefer seeing older bands on stage. I want to go to a concert to see a band whose music I enjoy listening to live.

I find that the individual seating, with a relatively older crowd, affords me this luxury. I don’t have to crane my neck and stand on the tips of my toes (I’m not very tall) to see the stage, I don’t go home with beer stains all over my clothes because people want to jump up and down while holding an open cup, and I really don’t need to worry about anything when I just want to listen

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Assoc. Arts & Review Editor This is probably one of the very few times I will recommend a horror-ish movie, but this weekend, The Belko Experiment is set to be released. The movie focuses on a cruel social experiment in which 80 people are trapped in a high rise office building. A voice comes over the intercom throughout the building and informs the hapless victims that they must either kill each other or be killed. The Belko Experiment is written by James Gunn, who also wrote Guardians of the Galaxy, Super, and Movie 43. Essentially, this movie could go either way.

to the music.

Another good thing about old bands is that when they say the show starts at 7:00, the show starts at 7:00. It isn’t 8:30 when the opening band comes out, and 10:00 when the main act appears. They show up, they play the music everyone has come to hear (their hits) and then they call it a day. Get up, buy a t-shirt, go catch a late movie.

Reading this to myself, I realize I sound really lame. “That’s like part of the experience mannnn! You gotta just roll with it dude-bro.”

Don’t get me wrong, you should go to the concerts you like. Enjoy what you enjoy. I just find that I would rather listen to the music than fight someone (i.e. get punched in the face and call my mom) in a mosh pit.

Jacob Schick is the assoc. arts & review editor for The Heights. He can be reached at schickja@bc.edu.

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Asst. Arts & Review Editor After announcing the eagerly anticipated June 2017 release date of her second album, Melodrama, Lorde released two new singles that highlight her musical growth since her 2013 album Pure Heroine. She performed her songs “Liability” and “Green Light” last week on Saturday Night Live, which presented the raw vocals and frenetic dance moves that characterize her edgy signature style. Singing of the trials of fame and the difficulties of letting go of the past, Lorde’s new tracks convey boundless emotion and expand her pop style into intriguing territory.

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‘Personal Shopper’ Provides Paranormal Provocation

BY JACOB SCHICK

Assoc. Arts & Review Editor Sporting what is perhaps one of the oddest combination of professions outside of Bruce Wayne’s roles as billionaire-philanthropist-playboy-vigilante-detective, Personal Shopper’s Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is the wardrobe buyer for a rich model by day and a medium on the search for a sign from her dead twin brother by night. And business is good.

Personal Shopper is French director Olivier Assayas’ latest movie, which won him the award for Best Director at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. This is especially interesting considering the film was booed at its initial screening at the very same festival.

Watching Personal Shopper, it’s easy to see why it garnered an award on the one hand and was booed by audience members on the other.

Simply put, this movie is weird. Personal Shopper begins as what feels like a story about the difficulty of letting go. Maureen is living and working in Paris, shopping for a petulant and capricious woman. The clothes she buys are gorgeous, but Maureen is not allowed to try anything on, as per her employer’s draconian instructions. Her boyfriend Gary (Ty Olwin), a technical specialist working in the Middle East, pleads with her to leave the city behind and stay with him.

Maureen grapples with the idea, but feels that she must stay. “I’m still waiting” becomes a pseudo-mantra for her. She and her

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twin brother Lewis, who was also a medium, suffered from the same heart malformation and they swore to each other that the sibling who died first would send the other a sign.

For the first 40 minutes of Personal Shopper, the audience is lulled into the sense that this film is a somber reflection on mourning and loss, with Maureen struggling to come to grips with the death of someone she was close to. Maureen believes in spirits or ghosts or some sort of paranormal entities, but the audience isn’t so sure.

Out of left field, Maureen begins to receive texts from an unknown number.

These messages appear to know her every thought and move. Maureen and the audience are pushed to think that the sender is in fact a ghost, especially after Maureen sees an actual ghost in the house her brother died in. The tone of Personal Shopper changes jarringly into a paranormal thriller, as the tension between Maureen and this mystery texter grows palpable. Throughout this part of the movie, there is an aspect of their written conversation that begins as a tiny annoyance, but grows and grows until it is pulling the viewer out of the movie every time it happens. Every time Maureen, or Kristen Stewart, sends a text with a question mark, she puts a space between the last letter and the question mark. Granted, this habit seems minor, but whether this is a directorial choice or it’s just something Stewart does, it’s glaringly obvious because Personal Shopper does a close-up of her iPhone at every text she sends.

Aside from unintelligible punctuation choices and multiple shifts in tone through-

out the film, Personal Shopper is a very good movie. The film is protean, leaving no edges or handholds for the audience to cling to as it flows between genres. Yet, there is something about Personal Shopper that is truly artistic. The movie is gorgeous to watch.

For example, midway through the film, Maureen is shown giving in to her desires and trying on the clothes of her employer.

The cinematography throughout the scene is stunning. Maureen walks from one edge of the screen to the other, disappearing behind a wall in the middle and appearing on each side with an additional article of clothing.

The transformation from her usually bland wardrobe to the artistic and expensive outfit of her employer is mesmerizing. Stewart as Maureen is probably the perfect casting choice. Assayas handpicked her after her work on his previous project Clouds of Sils Maria. Stewart is a talented and often underrated actress. She is usually dismissed because of her stoic portrayal as Bella in the Twilight series. In Personal Shopper, she is able to emote through the full range of feelings, keeping the audience aware of her inner thoughts and desires through expression sans words.

Personal Shopper is far and away not the movie for everyone. The film doesn’t make any attempts to ingratiate itself to anyone beyond a very niche audience type. There are no concessions in Personal Shopper—it is exactly what Assayas intended it to be strange, artful, and mysterious. Like quicksilver, just when you think you’ve got a grip on it, Personal Shopper slips through your fingers. 

Sheeran’s ‘Divide’ Brings Hearts Together With Pop

BY CAROLINE MCCORMACK Heights Staff

Already the No. 1 album on the iTunes store, Divide is taking the world by storm.

In his latest album, Ed Sheeran displays his talent through his writing and musicianship within each song on the album.

Exploring different techniques and some rapping, the singer puts a new spin on the style so many fans love. Using an interesting mix of fast, slow, playful, serious, and heartfelt beats, he narrows in on the perfect tone to communicate his stories.

Beginning with “Eraser,” Sheeran sets a cool, effortless tone with his rapping and matter-of-fact lyrics. He raps about everything from his experience with religion in the past to his current relationship with fame and how he has been managing it.

Fans will love to hear a further insight into the life of the singer and how he grapples with success and struggle.

Following the song of personal discovery is Sheeran’s nostalgic take on his home and the people that shaped him.

“Castle on the Hill” has been out for quite a while, but still holds a special place in the hearts of fans. As the singer is departing for home he recounts the tales this place held for him and the impact the place and the people had on his life.

“These people raised me and I can’t wait to go home.”

The album takes a jaunty “Dive” as it embraces slow drums and electric guitar. Articulating Sheeran’s love for someone special, he wants to be sure

that he will have a future with the person before diving in right away. He displays a hesitation because he knows once things start down this road, he will always have these feelings.

“Shape of You” is another hit that came before the album’s release. Sitting at No. 1 on iTunes charts, the song has left an impression on listeners. Featuring a fast-paced beat with an electric feel, it is no surprise how the single has resonated with so many. Its simple fusion of dance house and tropical music surely lends to its success.

Originally an older Irish tune, “Galway Girl” is one of Sheeran’s best songs on the album. The singer-songwriter decided to spice it up a bit adding his own flair, diverting from the older, slower interpretation, unique lyrics and excitement to the classic tune. The song already has quite a following and the track has even brought on a stream of memes since it’s release.

Opening with a slow guitar and somber voice, “Happier” takes the album on a much more serious tone. Seeing a lost love with another, Sheeran grapples with the idea of her life and happiness without him, creating one of the most touching pieces on the album. He sings, “Cause baby you look happier, you do/My friends told me one day I’ll feel it too.”

“What Do I Know?” reflects on the voice and influence of the singer. While other people are focused on exponential growth and the stock market, he focuses on filling the world with what he knows.

“Love can change the world in a moment / But what do I know?” This remains one of the more pensive tracks as Sheeran attempts to grasp at larger ideas pertaining to love.

Holding the second to last spot album, “Nancy Mulligan” picks the pace back up. Sheeran tells the love story of his grandparents and the challenges they faced when they wanted to be together.

The love story has a timeless element that will resonate with listeners of all ages.

This kind of interjection with personal elements is a common theme throughout much of Sheeran’s music and allows for him to connect with fans more than

just through the superficial enjoyment of his sound, but also with tales from his own life.

Every song he plays has its own individual story and could stand alone as a single apart from the album. He displays a fearlessness in his storytelling and it comes across to the audience.

His rapping sets him apart by giving his words a certain directness and vulnerability. Just as powerful are his longing notes in “Dive” as he pleads, “Don’t call me baby unless you mean it.” Sheeran is a master wordsmith and vocalist and his latest album puts his talent and creativity on display. 

Assoc. Arts & Review Editor Mickey Dobbs (Gillian Jacobs) and Gus Cruikshank (Paul Rust) really don’t want to sleep with each other. They acknowledge that it appears simple enough to accomplish, just don’t do it. They avoid doing things that would lead to sex—and each other. But it seems like fate has conspired against them. After the events of the first season of the Netflix original series, Love’s Mickey has decided that it would be best if she and Gus took a break.

She tells him this, while also confiding

in him that she is an addict of alcohol, drugs, sex, and, most importantly, love.

In return, Gus kisses her, and she returns the affection.

But it only gets more difficult for them from here. Mickey and Gus keep trying to go back to their respective houses for the night, and it’s very amusing to see the two move from scene to scene without really getting anywhere. Gus asks Mickey if they can go somewhere to talk about their separation.

Mickey takes Gus back to his apartment complex to drop him off, but when she mentions her growing urge to use the bathroom, Gus offers her the use of his.

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1 Shape Of You Ed Sheeran 2 Bad And Boujee Migos ft. Lil Uzi Vert 3 That’s What I Like Bruno Mars 4 Don’t Wanna Live Zayn / Taylor Swift 5 Love On The Brain Rihanna 6 Tunnel Vision Kodak Black 7 Paris The Chainsmokers 8 Bounce Back Big Sean

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The characters even seem to realize their apparently fruitless attempt to bring the night to a close. Mickey says “Alright, but only to use your bathroom. Then I will go home.” After Mickey finishes, they hear wailing sirens outside. Evidently, the police have cordoned off the entire complex in order to catch a criminal. Mickey and Gus are stuck together for the rest of the night. Throughout the evening, the sexual tension between them has been almost visible. Other characters even comment on it.

But so far, so good. Mickey and Gus have successfully avoided doing the deed.

Love is one of the most realistic depictions of people in television so far. Mickey and Gus talk just like people actually talk.

Throughout the show, Gus speaks like a real person. A common phrase of his is “yeah yeah yeah, no no no.” He uses this to acknowledge something someone else said while also negating it. Sometimes he even appears to think through what has just been said while he speaks the extra words—the repetition giving him time to process the meaning of the words he has heard.

The characters even look like real people. They aren’t models of beauty and fitness, some of them are out of shape or have weird personality quirks—they’re just people pursuing their own romantic desires, like everyone else.

Love also raises interesting and tough questions. As she has stated, to Gus and others, Mickey is a sex/love addict. The first

and second episode of the season contain a multitude of moments that, in a traditional romantic comedy setting, would have the audience rooting for them to kiss and the like. Even in Love, viewers can easily find themselves hoping that the characters will be together. They seem like they go well together. Yet, Mickey is actively trying to take things slowly. The second episode ends with the two sleeping together, and while the act is consensual on both parts, something feels off. Love seems to be asking the audience if what is happening on screen is really a good thing. Mickey told us she is addicted to love and sex, and they end up having sex. Is he taking advantage of her addiction? Is this different because the audience knows they should be together? The start of the second season of Love doesn’t provide any immediate answers to these difficult questions.

Besides bringing more somber topics to the forefront, Love does a great job at achieving its alternative goal of humor.

There are multiple laugh-out-loud moments in each episode, and the jokes help to mix the weighty pieces into something much more palatable for the audience.

The humor is witty, yet thoughtful, and altogether enjoyable. Love, while very different from other serial comedies, manages to hold its own quite well. Love explores, through the medium of serialized episodes, the idea that while everyone wants to find love, it might not be the best thing for them at the moment. 

In Imagine Dragons’ latest music video for their hit “Believer,” the famous Dolph Lundgren or Ivan Drago fights the lead singer of the band, Dan Reynolds.

The two fought with all the strength they could muster in the ring and appeared to hold nothing back. The lead singer looks quite a bit like the famous fighter. This could be coincidence, but it could also be a representation of the singer as the other fighter, fighting himself instead of believing in himself.

Employing striking visuals and making use of bright colors and flashing lights, the video is a lively, colorful interpretation of the track.

In addition to the colorful atmosphere, there is a highly advanced technology at work throughout the video. Displaying the DNA structure and the outline of the human body, there appears to be a scientific undertone to the fight that is about to take place.

The video appears to take place in some type of dreamlike or outer space location, which adds to the futuristic feel.

The video also features members from the band performing on their instruments in the background surrounded by flashing colors.

Although equally strong and meaningful, the band and the music stand as a backdrop to the storyline of the fight. These parts offer a narration to the struggle displayed in the boxing match and are a supportive force to the struggling singer in the fight.

The music video will demand that audiences watch and pay attention. There are so many nuances with the visuals and the acting that there is more to the story than meets the eye that come to light after watching the video a few times.

There are so many meanings that can be pulled from the video and will be relatable to a wide audience. Imagine Dragons and Rocky fans alike will be intrigued and captivated. 

SINGLE REVIEWS BY TOMAS GUARNA MATOMA & MAGIC! FT. D.R.A.M. “Girl At Coachella” “Girl At Coachella” is an incredibly catchy song by Norwegian DJ Matoma and one-hit wonder MAGIC!, featuring an obscene rap interlude by D.R.A.M. Despite the poor lyrics, Matoma’s style blends well with MAGIC!’s reggae, producing a solid spring tune.

LORDE “Liability”

DADDY YANKEE “Hula Hoop” Lovers of perreo will rejoice at the new song of the genre’s biggest name. “Hula Hoop” is a tribute to perreo, even including dog barks in the beginning so you know what’s going to come. The words flow perfectly, and the king of reggaeton even manages to fit in some weirdly erudite references.

“Liability” is the confirmation that Lorde is back for good. It is a soft ballad about feeling like you use up other people’s lives, and that at the end of the day all you have is yourself.

Produced and written Jack Antonoff, the collaboration results in beautiful songwriting that does a lot with just piano and vocals.

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With Blowout of St. Lawrence, Eagles Return to Frozen Four WHOK vs. SLU, from B8 Harrison, an Auckland, New Zealand native, failed to cover the puck in the crease.

While Lonergan skated away, assuming the puck was covered, Capizzano kept pressing. She pushed home the puck in the empty net for BC’s second goal.

Even when St. Lawrence got its own breaks, BC didn’t let up. The Saints received two power-play opportunities in the middle of the second period. The Eagles scored on both of them.

After Keller went to the box for tripping, Kent’s strong forecheck forced a breakaway attempt around Kirsten Padalis. Anastos, whose two overtime goals last week helped clinch a Hockey East title for BC, joined her on the right side. She pushed the puck into the net past the left post for a 3-0 lead.

Less than four minutes later, during a Serena Sommerfield penalty, Haley McLean flipped the puck at the net, looking just to clear. Fortunately for the senior walk-on, Harrison wasn’t paying attention, and the puck floated past her

high.

That misplay on the McLean goal caused St. Lawrence head coach Chris Wells to switch to backup goaltender Sonjia Shelly. But it made no difference to the Eagles.

With 1.8 seconds remaining in the first, McLean worked behind the net to find Keller. The defenseman notched her 10th goal of the season, squeezing the puck through a tight angle under Shelly’s right arm. Midway through the third period, Kent returned the favor to Newkirk with a sharp pass from the far boards.

And after the game, Kent declared her determination to keep BC’s three seniors’ careers alive.

“Last game, we went into the double overtime, and my dad had mentioned to me after the game, ‘You know, that could’ve been Andie and the seniors’ last game ever,’” Kent said. “So going into this game, that was in the back of my head the entire time. I wanted to do it for our team and especially Andie, Haley, and Capi.”

The idea that BC wasn’t going to rebound smoothly from the 2015-16 cam-

paign in which the team was the national runner-up was very real in Crowley’s mind. After all, the Eagles graduated six seniors, none of whom were slouches.

That group included a strong defensive pair in Kaliya Johnson and Lexi Bender, as well as the program’s top-two scorers, Haley Skarupa and 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award winner, Alex Carpenter. In addition, BC lost second-line center Tori Sullivan and Keller’s defensive partner, Toni Ann Miano, over the course of this season.

Yet with the Eagles’ strong leadership, and the fact that their young players got a lot of playing time because of the departures, they’re back in the same spot as they have been six of the last seven years.

“I’m not saying I expected to be back here, because it’s a long road, but I’m not surprised that this team was able to get back here,” Crowley said.

And for a team that had been written off by many, the Eagles are streaking right now at the one time when no one would want to play them.

“I think we’re hitting the perfect stride at the perfect moment,” Kent said. n

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Six different players netted goals in BC’s shutout victory over St. Lawrence on Saturday.

Anastos Nets Game-Winning Goal to Clinch Hockey East Title

By Shannon Kelly Asst. Features Editor

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Captain Andie Anastos (N.P.) scored in overtime in both of BC’s games last weekend.

Boston College women’s hockey waited with bated breath. Katie Burt, usually strong on her own, held on to her teammates. Head coach Katie Crowley spoke to her fellow coaches on the bench, her face showing flashes of anger. Off by themselves, Kenzie Kent and Andie Anastos stood close, looking toward the penalty box. Just one minute before, the Eagles threw off their gloves and flung their helmets to the ice, celebrating yet another overtime goal by Anastos to put BC up 2-1 to win the Hockey East Championship.

But the celebration would have to wait.

The referees reviewed the play, and after several minutes, returned to the ice. The goal would stand. Everyone could breathe again—and hug, and cry, and sigh in relief.

It was an uphill battle for the Eagles (26-5-5, 17-4-3)—Northeastern University (22-12-3, 14-8-2) got the best of them at the end of a stagnant first period. Following a shot by Ryan Little on goalie Brittany Bugalski, Kasidy Anderson took the puck up the middle of the ice. Though Serena Sommerfield and Megan Keller provided defense in the back, Anderson outskated Sommerfield

and Keller on her left, the latter attempting to slow her down with her stick as she fell to the ice. From there, all Anderson had to do was fake out Burt. A well-placed shot above Burt’s stick side zoomed into the net from between the faceoff circles, and the impact sent Anderson careening into Burt.

After a breather, BC skated into the second period with vengeance. BC failed to connect on the power play immediately following Northeastern’s goal. But a tripping call on Halle Silva gave the Eagles another special teams scoring opportunity.

This time around, it took just 11 seconds for the Eagles to convert on the power play, as Kali Flanagan blasted the puck from the point, and Bugalski could not get her bearings.

With the score tied, both teams faltered in gaining an advantage. For the remainder of the second period and the entirety of the third, both the Eagles and Huskies each notched two power plays, but to no avail.

For the second time in as many games and the eighth one this season, BC was headed to overtime.

Five minutes in, however, captain Anastos struck again. While Newkirk and Kent made their way up to Northeastern’s defensive zone, Newkirk was taken out by

Hayley Scamurra, losing the puck in the process. Kent waited by the goal as Anastos retrieved the puck and shifted to shooting position. Her shot weaved between Kent and Northeastern defensemen, ultimately skimming past Bugalski’s glove side. For both BC and Bugalski, it seemed like a lock—the goalie looked down and shook her head following the play, and Kent and Newkirk leapt into Anastos’ arms. Once the review was cleared up, the Eagles went on to celebrate—for sure this time.

Cameras already on the ice captured the madness that ensued, and Crowley was noticeably excited about the win.

Following the victory, awards were given out for outstanding players in the tournament. Four Eagles—Burt, Keller, Anastos, and Kent—were named to the All-Tournament Team, and Anastos was named its Most Valuable Player. Once she was given her small glass plaque, however, she promptly handed it off to someone else—she needed her hands free so that she could hoist up the Bertagna Trophy a few moments later.

As of now, the luck hasn’t run out for the Eagles—and with Anastos’ recent offensive surge, it may only have just begun. n

BASEBALL

Birdball Steals One, But Suffers Two Blowouts in Series Loss

By Riley Overend Sports Editor In the first ACC series of the season, Boston College baseball saw one of its dreams come to fruition and one of its worst fears realized against No. 2 Florida State.

On Friday night, sophomore ace Jacob Stevens outdueled Seminole starter Cole Sands, helping the Eagles to their first win in Tallahassee since 2009. Along the way, Stevens surpassed the 100-inning mark for his career, making him eligible for Birdball’s program record for earned run average—a list on which he now sits first with a 2.34 ERA. But during Saturday’s doubleheader, FSU’s bats woke up against the back end of BC’s rotation, which, at times, has struggled in the wake of Justin Dunn and Mike King’s departures in the MLB Draft.

In the latter of Saturday’s games, the Seminoles put up seven runs on starter

Dan Metzdorf in just 4 1/3 innings pitched.

The Eagles’ bullpen didn’t fare much better, as their next three relievers allowed two runs each. At the plate, Jake Palomaki was the only BC batter to record multiple hits.

The result was a 13-0 blowout in the series finale, the most runs allowed to a conference opponent since April 2015.

The first game of the doubleheader was nearly as lopsided as the second. Freshman Matt Gill made his third career start for Birdball and lasted only one inning. Gill walked FSU leadoff man Taylor Walls on four pitches, and then Dylan Busby reached on an error by right fielder Donovan Casey.

That set the table for Quincy Nieporte, who singled into left field to bring in Walls from second. After picking off Busby on the basepaths, Gill surrendered a double and a walk to load the bases. The 6-foot-5 righty walked his third batter of the inning before escaping the jam with his team in an early 2-0 hole.

Birdball chipped into the deficit in the second inning thanks to a pair of walks and an error. With the bases juiced and one out, first baseman Mitch Bigras pulled one into right field, plating Gian Martellini and cutting the Seminole lead to 2-1. But that’s all the Eagles would get, as Dante Baldelli and Jake Palomaki both struck out swinging to end the inning.

In the bottom of the frame, Gill continued to miss the zone against a dangerous FSU lineup. Following his fourth and fifth walks of the game, he gave up an RBI double which ended up driving in two runs due to a Michael Strem throwing error. Brian Rapp came on to relieve Gill, inducing two ground balls and an infield pop out to end the threat.

While the BC bats went quiet for the next few innings, the Seminoles’ lineup only continued to heat up. FSU tallied two runs in the fourth off Rapp and added five more in the sixth to chase him from the game. With

the Eagles down 11-1 and the game out of reach, head coach Mike Gambino turned to an unconventional duo to pitch the eighth and ninth innings. Freshman Jack Cunningham tossed a scoreless eighth and Bigras made his first career appearance on the mound in the ninth. Interestingly, he threw the only 1-2-3 inning of the day for BC. Friday night’s victory had significantly more bright spots than both games on Saturday combined. Stevens pitching line was marked by his usual consistency, going six strong innings and allowing only two runs and four hits.

Casey had a big night on the mound and at the plate, notching two hits, two RBIs, and his first save of the season. Strem and Bigras also posted two RBIs each, helping fuel a five-run third inning that gave Stevens a comfortable cushion in his first ACC start of the year. A two-run home run by Busby in the bottom of the inning made it a 5-2 game, but Stevens ultimately escaped after

his infield turned one of four double plays on the evening.

Second baseman Jake Palomaki sparked a two-run seventh inning for Birdball that provided some much-needed insurance runs. The junior led off with a double and later scorewd off of a Casey single. Bigras later plated a run with a sac fly to extend the advantage to 7-2. The Eagles ultimately held on for a 8-5 win, their first road win of the season. It was also the first victory at FSU since Gambino took over.

But the performance on Saturday left Birdball with more questions than answers moving forward. BC pitchers gave up 11 walks in the first game of the double header and hit six batters in the second. Gambino needs to keep tinkering with starters and relievers for the Saturday and Sunday roles until there are viable options after Stevens on Friday. With a slew of nationally-ranked opponents around the corner, though, time is running out. n

LACROSSE

Weeks Notches 100th Career Point in Win Over Monmouth

By Andy Backstrom Asst. Sports Editor For just the second time this season, Boston College lacrosse only tallied three goals in the first half of Wednesday’s nonconference matchup against Monmouth.

One game removed from netting seven first-half goals against No. 1 Maryland, the Eagles offense struggled to string together scoring opportunities.

But the same was true for the Hawks.

Head coach Acacia Walker’s group forced six Monmouth turnovers in the opening 30 minutes, disrupting the Hawks’ attack. And goaltender Zoe Ochoa saved 7-of-9 shots sent her way.

At intermission, the Eagles held a onegoal lead. But it was only a matter of time

before their 17th-ranked offense broke free. Less than two minutes into the second half, BC’s scoring spree began. Led by Kate Weeks, Kayla O’Connor, and Sam Apuzzo, the Eagles recorded 11 second-half goals, en route to a 14-5 victory.

It only took BC (7-3, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) one minute to get on the board. After O’Connor won a draw control, Laura Frankenfield launched a shot past Riley Brager.

But soon after, Monmouth (2-6) knotted it up. Amanda Miller scooped up a ground ball and cleared it out of Hawk territory.

Nicole Ceraso then found Alexa Smith for her eighth goal of the year.

But the high-octane scoring would flounder. Eventually, BC regained the lead. Emma Schurr received a feed from Kate Taylor and cashed in for the Eagles’

second goal, as the game neared the 10minute mark.

Later, BC extended its lead, thanks to the duo of Weeks and Apuzzo. Coming into Wednesday, the pair of attackers had combined for a total of 87 points—close to half of the team’s production. Their dominance would only continue. Here, Apuzzo located Weeks, who ripped one by Brager.

A Caroline Corbliss goal narrowed the Monmouth deficit to one as halftime approached. The five-combined first-half goals were the fewest that BC and its opponents have notched this season.

Then, everything changed. At least for the Eagles.

About two minutes in, Taylor found the back of the net. Corbliss countered with a score of her own. But from that

moment forward, the Newton Lacrosse Field served as an offensive showcase for BC. The Eagles rattled off seven-straight goals, essentially putting the game out of Monmouth’s reach.

The first two came from Apuzzo. The sophomore was assisted by Dempsey Arsenault and Kaileen Hart, respectively, on the two scoring plays. Not too long after that, Frankenfield took a Weeks pass and netted her second goal of the game. Weeks’ assist marked her 100th collegiate point—she now joins teammate Tess Chandler and 20 others in program history to reach the milestone.

But it was time for the ACC’s thirdleading scorer to get into the scoring mix.

Weeks and O’Connor accounted for the remaining four goals during this stretch.

The two senior attackers traded unassisted goals and free-position goals, extending the BC lead to eight.

Claudia Lamarca sent one past Lauren Daly, but a comeback was implausible—especially after Weeks responded with another goal. Monmouth would go on to score one more, but it was outweighed by O’Connor and Ally Mayle’s final touches on the Eagles’ 14-goal outing.

With the win, BC moves to 4-1 in its past five games. While non-conference victories pad the win column, the Eagles’ season will be determined by their performance within the ACC. So far, BC is 0-2 in conference action. We’ll see if the team has really made a jump from last year when the Eagles host No. 15 Louisville on Saturday. n

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Eagles Ride Power-Play Success to Series Win MHOK Saturday, from B8 for interference less than a minute after Dudek’s goal. The Eagles didn’t score on the man advantage, but sustained pressure in the Vermont offensive zone. Connor Moore capitalized with a blast from the top of the left circle that went bar down. Initially, Moore’s shot didn’t light the lamp, but the linesman immediately signaled for a goal. After a quick review, it was good enough for the first of Moore’s college career. Dudek then took advantage of a Brady Shaw elbowing call with a snipe low on Lekkas’ left, assisted by Cangelosi. York praised his team’s change in strategy on the power play—after not doing so throughout February, the coaches reinstalled Dudek at the point on special teams.

And because of that change, just like Friday, the Eagles led Vermont 3-0 in the first period.

“We got off to another good start, which I envisioned, to see if we could get off to a quick start to see if we can demoralize Vermont,” York said.

“But geez, there’s no quit in the Catamounts.”

York was certainly correct about that. With Tampa Bay Lightning prospect Ross Colton back in the lineup, the Catamounts came storming back following a series of BC penalties.

Colton got the first one after a David Cotton interference call, going top shelf past Joseph Woll. Then, with 18 seconds remaining in the first, Rob Hamilton launched a power-play goal from the blue line. Suddenly, another surefire BC blowout became a sweat fest for the 3,102 in Kelley Rink.

Yet, as they have done all season, the Eagles turned back to their MVP: Cangelosi.

With Chris Muscoby in the box for a double minor, White found Cotton slamming his stick in front of Lekkas.

He fired and Cotton had it tip off his stick right to Cangelosi, who redirected it home. Four minutes later, White flipped another one over the head of a

defenseman to Cangelosi on a power play caused by a slash from Anthony Petruzzelli. The senior center skirted easily past Jake Massie to go top shelf on Lekkas. The goals, his 19th and 20th of the season, moved him into a tie with Matthew Gaudreau for the team lead.

“Austin is having a career year as a senior,” York said. “He willed us to get to that Thursday night [Hockey East awards] banquet with the team.”

Hamilton got one back for Vermont to close the second, but the Eagles kept on pushing. Controlling the puck for much of the third, the senior duo of Chris Calnan and Ryan Fitzgerald gave BC all the insurance it would need.

“I don’t think we were great defensively, and that includes the kill,” Vermont head coach Kevin Sneddon said. “They played much better than we did this weekend. The better team is advancing right now.”

And on the Eagles march toward TD Garden. Obviously, the safest way to get back in the NCAA Tournament is to get that autobid with a Hockey East title. But, based on the way the PairWise Rankings will shake out, BC is all but certain to need to win on Friday to earn one of the coveted 16 spots. With his team finally clicking, York feels good about the Eagles’ chances.

“Offensively, we’ve gotten our mojo back,” York said. “When you get more goals, you get more confident about getting more goals.”

There’s only two problems. First, the Eagles aren’t in control of their own destiny. Either Penn State or Ohio State must lose in the Big Ten Semifinals on Friday against heavy underdogs, Michigan and Michigan State, respectively, for BC to get the one-win berth.

To make matters worse, BC will have to play its most-hated rival, a team it hasn’t beaten this year: Boston University. And York wouldn’t want it any other way. n

MHOK Friday, from B8 season while also picking up three assists.

“Beautiful,” Cangelosi said of McInnis’ passing. “He was alert, he was ready to go from the puck drop. When we needed him he stepped up, made some great passes that led to goals. It was awesome to see.”

Just as White was heating up, though, he left the BC bench for the locker room later in the game with what looked like a lower-body injury. York said the team would know more in the morning regarding the injury.

If the first goal was due to luck and the second was in large part due to Vermont forgetting about White as he snuck behind the Catamounts’ defense, then Cotton and McInnis really earned the third one. McInnis finished the first-period barrage by capitalizing on fellow freshman Cotton’s end-to-end rush with a blocker-side wrister from the point that beat Lekkas to the top corner to make it 3-0 less than 15 minutes in.

The Catamounts finished out the first period strong, though, and looked ready to attempt another comeback from down 3-0 in Chestnut Hill like they did a few weeks ago. Early in the second period, Woll had to stretch out to make a sprawling save on Brian Bowen, and that was after White and Cangelosi each prevented a couple prime Vermont looks at Woll from the slot with some timely backchecking. Yet soon after

Bowen couldn’t convert, Sneddon’s team lost track of another small senior forward as Matthew Gaudreau took a two line pass from Michael Kim and walked in on Lekkas, beating on a backhand-to-forehand move. Vermont forward Brady Shaw was back there calling for an offsides, but after a review the goal stood. That Shaw was the closest one to Gaudreau was emblematic of a sleepy defense.

“I don’t have answers right now,” Sneddon said. “I’ve gotta get our club to flush this down the toilet and get us ready to save our lives tomorrow night. Very, very careless.

We watched Boston College tonight. Offensively, defensively, we watched Boston College tonight.”

“I don’t think we’re safe yet,” Cangelosi said regarding the early 3-0 lead, and making reference to BC’s blown 3-0 lead in an earlier game against Vermont. “We knew we still had work to be done going into the second and I think we responded well.”

The Eagles learned their lesson from three weeks ago and responded by adding three more goals after Gaudreau’s. They even outshot Vermont in the second and third periods despite the big lead. York said the game was closer than the score, but either way, his Eagles came to play in the biggest game of the season—so far. They’ll need to do that again when the other team does, too. n

denly had a selling point for recruits and administrators who doubted his ability to build at BC. Bowman’s dynamic athleticism, pick-and-roll prowess, and ability to drain triples off the dribble perfectly complement Robinson’s midrange isolation attacks. He gives BC the ability to run the offense through one playmaker, bending the defense away from the other one playing off the ball and allowing him quick scoring opportunities against a scrambling defense. He gives Christian a second player capable of creating his own shot, shifting burden from Robinson, and serves as a jolt of energy to the team, with his explosive finishes above the rim in transition.

With Bowman in the fold, the Eagles averaged 71.8 points per game in conference play, dropping 82 on both North Carolina and Duke and eviscerating Jim Boeheim’s vaunted 2-3 zone to the tune of 96 points in a victory on New Year’s Day. Whereas last year’s team had an offensive efficiency of 85.5 in conference play, per kenpom.com, this year’s unit had an offensive efficiency of 100.3 in conference play. While still a bit below the national average, this massive improvement indicates that BC’s offense is no longer an eyesore and is capable of scoring points against the very best teams in the nation.

But to make any improvements in their continued poor record and tendency to get blown out, Christian and his team must prioritize growth on the defensive end of the floor. Last season, BC allowed 80 or more points seven times. This season, that number ballooned up to 13. While the increased pace of the team—the Eagles played at the nation’s 42nd ranked

pace this season, after ranking 253rd last season—certainly gave opponents extra possessions on which to score, this number is still inexcusable.

The most obvious issue is a glaring lack of size and rim protection.

Starting the 6-foot-6 Connar Tava and the 6-foot-9 Mo Jeffers left the Eagles with an interior size advantage most nights. Jeffers led the team with just 0.5 blocks per game and the 6-foot-11 Nik Popovic, the Eagles’ center of the future, blocked a paltry nine shots the entire season, three fewer than Robinson. Per hoop-math.com, BC allowed opponents to shoot 61.6 percent on field goals at the rim, 234th nationally.

By comparison, with physical 7-footer Dennis Clifford patrolling the paint last season, the team ranked 167th in the nation in the same category.

Popovic will need to improve his physicality and stamina to effectively defend in the post next season. In addition, he must learn to exercise verticality, leaping straight up to protect the rim, instead of lunging forward at shooters. The Bosnian freshman committed a whopping 7.1 fouls per 40 minutes this season, a mark that only human-foul machine Idy Diallo has topped in Christian’s three years in Chestnut Hill. Since he will enter next season as the team’s projected starting center—unless the team picks up a veteran on the graduate transfer market—improving his ability to stay on the court will be crucial to BC’s team defense.

Aside from rim protection, execution seems to be the biggest issue plaguing the Eagles. In Tuesday’s game, Wake attempted 43 free throws, the most the Eagles have allowed in a game since a contest in Nov. 2014 against UMass—a game where the Minutemen actually attempted more free throws than field goals. Many of

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Both teams are heading into Friday’s matchup blistering hot. While BC demolished St. Lawrence in a 6-0 win, Wisconsin beat Robert Morris by a score of 7-0. The Eagles have the talent to dethrone the nation’s No. 1 team: Of the 35 top goal scorers in the country, five of them are from BC. The Badgers will be hungry, though, in search of their first national title since 2011. It’ll be close, but Wisconsin netminder Renee Desbiens will be the difference in the end.

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Colin White skates up the ice with the puck during the series win against Vermont.

the freebies came courtesy of fouls incurred after missed rotations following double teams of the Demon Deacons’ star center, John Collins, in the post. While the Eagles rarely double team the post, in contrast to teams like Virginia or Louisville, this inability to execute the game plan highlights a larger trend over the course of the season.

After BC’s 91-75 loss to Virginia Tech on Senior Day at Conte Forum, a game in which the Eagles allowed the Hokies to shoot 75 percent from the field in the second half, Christian discussed reasons for the execution deficiencies he sees from his players. He attempted to explain the second-half swoons during home games—over its final five home games, BC allowed an average of 36.6 points in the first half and 50.0 points in the second half—by noting that in the second half, BC plays defense on the opposite end of the floor from the team bench, as opposed to playing in front of the bench in the first half, where coaches can yell at players to move them into position.

“When the ownership has to go to the team in the second half on the defensive end of the floor, we’re not doing it,” he admitted. “We don’t have any defensive leadership out there, we don’t have enough communication.”

Christian’s remarks are undoubtedly alarming. But at the same time, they do present an easy avenue for growth. Though his players won’t suddenly turn into the Monstars on the defensive end of the floor simply by executing a system and working off of one another, they can likely prevent a few baskets per game. With the offense’s sustainable improvement, eliminating miscommunications in ball screen coverage and minimizing blown switches could be worth a five

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On Friday night, the Eagles will square up against No. 1 Wisconsin in the Frozen Four. Will BC earn its second consecutive trip to the national championship game?

Or will the Badgers return for the first time since 2012?

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win improvement.

While that assumption seems to not be grounded in fact and mostly speculative, the Eagles lost six games this season by six points or fewer—a difference that could be created by two or three possessions. It’s not implausible that a more concerted execution of the team’s defensive scheme could’ve erased some of those deficits. Going forward, in addition to working on Popovic’s ability to protect the rim, the coaching staff must harp on strict adherence to the defensive game plan and stress active communication.

On the whole, though Christian doesn’t have many statistics to point to for his team’s progress, there is definitely a visible upward trend emerging, one that no longer requires the viewer to squint in order to see it.

The team might even leave the ACC cellar next season. In addition to the expected development of Bowman, the decline of Pittsburgh should help make this goal a reality for BC in the 2017-18 campaign. The Panthers, whose bench scored zero points in their ACC Tournament loss to UVA last Wednesday night, will lose four of their five starters to graduation, including Michael Young and Jamel Artis, two of the top six scorers in the conference.

After last season’s low point, the rebuild is finally beginning for Christian and his young nucleus. Spurred by the blossoming game of Bowman, the clouds of failure are receding.

And with any luck, Christian will have a bevy of tangible arguments to cite his team’s success at this point next year.

Chris Noyes is a staff writer for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @Chris_Noyes23.

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Last season’s national championship loss was heartbreaking for women’s hockey. While some predict an earlier exit this year, I believe the Eagles will upset the No. 1 Badgers and earn a repeat appearance in the national championship game.

It won’t be an easy victory, however. Expect a game coming down to the wire, possibly heading to overtime. Look for Katie Burt to have the game of her life as she stops almost every single one of Wisconsin’s opportunities.

PREDICTION BC 2 Wisconsin 1

ANDY BACKSTROM

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Head coach Katie Crowley’s crew has rode comebacks all season. It came from behind to win both the Beanpot and the Hockey East championship.

But against No. 1 Wisconsin, a team that has only conceded eight third-period goals all season, another slow start will finally cost the Eagles. The Badgers will find the back of the net early and often, and their 21game unbeaten streak will continue into the National Championship.

PREDICTION Wisconsin 5 BC 3

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Season in Review

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

CHRIS NOYES

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR | ABBY PAULSON / CREATIVE DIRECTOR

The Eagles punched their ticket to the Frozen Four in Missouri with a dominant 6-0 win over No. 5 St. Lawrence in the NCAA Quarterfinals.

BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN Editor-in-Chief Kennedy Marchment and Brooke Webster had Megan Keller on her heels.

The No. 5 St. Lawrence forwards finished in the top 10 for the Patty Kazmaier Award this season, the top honor in women’s college hockey. Throughout the first period in the NCAA Quarterfinals against No. 4 Boston College, that tandem—along with left wing Hannah Miller—bombarded the Eagles’ goaltender, Katie Burt, forcing turnovers and putting up shots. Even when matched up against Keller, BC’s own finalist, the Saints’ powerful first line had given them all the necessary momentum to pull off the upset.

But while the Saints flaunted their top-line power, BC came back with something more powerful: depth. That’s despite losing a top-flight defender and solid forward this year, and the nation’s two best players last year. The fact that the Eagles

can beat teams with so many different weapons isn’t lost on team captain Andie Anastos.

“It’s huge to know no matter what line or D pair you put out there, you have a chance to score,” Anastos said after Saturday’s game.

And with six different goalscorers, the Eagles got all the boost they would need to lift them to St. Charles, Mo. For the third-straight season, and seventh time overall, the Eagles are headed to the Frozen Four.

Behind a shutout from Burt—her eighth of the season—and a scoring outburst in the second period, BC handily defeated St. Lawrence, 6-0, at Kelley Rink. The Eagles will take on No. 1 Wisconsin in the National Semifinal on Friday at Lindenwood University’s Family Arena.

“Obviously I’m extremely happy,” head coach Katie Crowley said. “Our team has done everything that we’ve asked of them.”

In the first, the Eagles (28-5-5) received their first break from St. Lawrence (26-6-4) when Web-

ster headed to the box for cross checking toward the end of the frame. But throughout its first 90 seconds, BC, the nation’s top power-play unit, failed to get the puck even into the opposing offensive zone.

Marchment and Miller, meanwhile, put on strong pressure with a couple of breakaway chances.

But Makenna Newkirk flipped the script with a crisp pass from the near boards to Kenzie Kent.

The junior forward went wrister, top shelf past St. Lawrence goaltender, Grace Harrison to give BC a 1-0 lead into the locker room. Though the Saints had “won” the opening frame, the last-second goal

by Kent demoralized the team.

And St. Lawrence could never recover.

Two minutes into the second, the Eagles’ strong forecheck put pressure on Harrison. After tries from Delaney Belinskas and Caitrin Lonergan, Kristyn Capizzano made a backhanded, spinning attempt at the net. Her first shot was blocked, but

See WHOK vs. SLU, B6

MEN’S HOCKEY

BC Sweeps UVM, Advances to Hockey East Semis

BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN Editor-in-Chief For a whole month, Boston College men’s hockey floundered.

The Eagles kicked off February with a 6-4 win at New Hampshire. But after that, the team went on a sevengame winless streak that included a last-place finish in the Beanpot, both of which were firsts since Jerry York had been named head coach in 1994-95.

But once the calendar flipped to March, BC began to do what it has done better than any other program since York took over: win, and win big.

With their season uncharacteristically on the line in the Hockey East Tournament, the Eagles did it yet again.

For the second-straight night, No. 17 BC got the touchdown—complete with extra point—against No. 13 Vermont. This time, it came from an atypically successful performance from the power play—a whopping 4for-7. The 7-4 win caps off a sweep of

the Catamounts in the season’s final game at Kelley Rink and punches BC’s ticket to TD Garden for the Hockey East Semifinals. More importantly, it keeps the Eagles’ slim hopes for the NCAA Tournament alive for at least one more weekend.

“For all we knew, this could’ve been our last games,” said senior Austin Cangelosi of his grade’s performance in the game. “Knowing that, we’re on a roll, and it’s the same mindset.”

Though not as quick as Cangelosi’s goal at the 0:08 mark of Friday’s game, the Eagles (20-14-4) got off to a similarly fast start against Vermont (2013-5) on Saturday. A mere 14 seconds after Matt O’Donnell was put in the box for cross-checking, J.D. Dudek rocketed a shot from the blue line.

Helped by screens from Colin White and Scott Savage, Dudek’s shot flew past Stefanos Lekkas in net for an early 1-0 lead.

Brendan Bradley then got called

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BY MICHAEL HOFF Heights Staff Maybe Boston College men’s hockey really did need a break. What it definitely needed to do was score more goals to prolong its season.

The Eagles managed to do just that on Friday night, as they took advantage of some early puck luck and blown assignments by Vermont to jump out to an early lead and give goalie Joseph Woll more than enough of a cushion. Woll notched his first career shutout on the way to a 7-0 BC win in Game One of the Hockey East Quarterfinals.

“Quite frankly we didn’t have many players that performed to playoff standards for our hockey team,” Vermont head coach Kevin Sneddon said. “We certainly have to give credit to BC. They finished a lot of chances.”

BC’s first line of David Cotton, Austin Cangelosi, and Colin White, along with its first defensive pairing of Luke McInnis and Casey Fitzgerald, deserve much of that credit. The credit for the first tally, which Cangelosi scored just eight seconds into the

game, shouldn’t really go to anyone, though.

Cangelosi’s centering pass to Cotton snaked its way off a Catamount skate and through Stefanos Lekkas’ five-hole, the fastest goal in Hockey East playoff history. If anything, it’s on the Catamounts for giving up a 2-on-1 opportunity so early in the game, but regardless, it was a big goal for a lot of reasons.

“The early start generated a lot of enthusiasm for our bench,” head coach Jerry York said. “We’ve had difficulty scoring goals over the last number of games, so for us to get that early goal was a good catalyst for us.”

Casey Fitzgerald picked up the secondary assist on Cangelosi’s opener, but McInnis outdid him five minutes later with a multiple-line stretch pass that hit White as he streaked into Vermont’s zone. White, who also assisted on Cangelosi’s goal, roofed the puck past Lekkas from in close for his 12th of the season. With Jesper Matilla out, York needed the freshman McInnis more than he usually does. The Hingham, Mass. native delivered with one of the best games of his young career, potting his third goal of the

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The sports industry has become increasingly numbers-oriented. And for Boston College men’s basketball, this infatuation with quantifying all aspects of a team’s performance reveals what appears to be the smoldering remains of what was once a competitive Division I program.

There’s no way around the inherent ugliness of the results from the recently completed 2016-17 season.

Nine total wins. A season-ending, 15game losing streak. A third-straight season in the cellar of the ACC. But it’s hard to blame coach Jim Christian for gravitating toward intangibles as an explanation for the program’s upward trajectory.

“There are no miracles out here,” Christian told reporters after the Eagles’ 92-78 loss to Wake Forest on Tuesday at the ACC Tournament.

“You have to stay with your process, believe in what you’re doing. I do.”

A tangible argument could technically be made by comparing this season’s results with those generated

by Eli Carter’s 2015-16 team. That team only won seven games, ending the season on a 19-game losing streak, and secured a place in infamy by failing to win a single conference game. That team was outscored by an average of 17.0 points in conference play, compared to the 10.7-point margin of defeat posted by this season’s squad. This year’s team shot a slightly below average 44.8 percent from the floor in ACC play, compared to the unfathomably poor 39 percent mark posted by last year’s unit.

But this argument reeks heavily of the sentiment that this year should be considered progress simply because it didn’t fail as spectacularly as last year.

It sounds like a kid telling his parents that although he failed his midterm and got a 50, it was a success in comparison to that time he got a 35.

Discarding raw statistics, one sound from Tuesday afternoon’s loss serves as the most convincing argument for this season’s progress. Or to be more specific, the absence of a sound.

Late in the first half of Tuesday’s game, as Ky Bowman crumpled to the floor after tomahawk spiking the shot of Wake’s Bryant Crawford, writhing in pain and clutching at his right knee, a deathly silence shrouded the Barclay’s Center. And as Bowman was helped back to the locker room, unable to put any weight on his injured leg, the entire crowd in attendance watched with baited breath, hoping that BC’s ascendant superstar wasn’t seriously injured.

More than anything, this response marks the progress Christian has been struggling to find words to express. That silence marked a real fear that BC’s future growth would be curtailed. That fans and casual onlookers alike had the ability to project their thoughts about this team into the future is a huge step over last year’s team. And Bowman is the reason.

While Jerome Robinson showcased himself as a high-level ACC player last season, he was just one player tasked with shouldering the burden of an entire program. As Bowman joined him over the course of the season—morphing from a player who averaged 7.8 points per game over his first 11 contests to one who averaged 17.4 points per game and shot 47.2 percent on 3-pointers in games against teams from the nation’s deepest conference—the entire tenor of Christian’s program changed.

With a dynamic tandem, as talented of a backcourt as any in the conference, that would have two more years to grow together, Christian sud-

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The Eagles scored 14 goals over a two-game span in their sweep of Vermont, more than head coach Jerry York’s group scored in its previous seven games combined.

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LACROSSE: Weeks Reaches Milestone

Kate Weeks scored four goals and earned her 100th career point in BC’s victory over Monmouth...................................B6

BASEBALL: Diamond in the Rough

The Eagles suffered through a couple of blowout losses, but also earned their first win over FSU since 2009...................B6

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