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Out of BC’s Patrol Zone, Uber Assault Unreported BCPD did not inform the community of the incident last fall.

BY CHRIS RUSSO Assoc. News Editor According to Director of Safety John King, BCPD did not warn the Boston College community about the alleged rape of a BC student by an Uber driver in September after it received the news directly from the student because the crime was not committed in BCPD’s patrol jurisdiction.

The student was allegedly raped three times by Uber driver Luis Baez on Sept. 29. She was then dropped off at BC and went directly to BCPD to report the assault.

BCPD has warned students of assaults near campus in the past, including when a woman who had no affiliation with BC was attacked while running around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in January. Reports then came out that the woman was hit by a falling tree branch and was not assaulted by another person.

Not reporting the rape is not a violation of the Clery Act, which requires universities to disclose information about crime on or near their campuses. Universities are only required to report crimes if they fall in their patrol jurisdictions.

“Institutions ... must consider campus, noncampus [sic], public property, and locations within the patrol jurisdiction of the campus police or

campus security department when recording crimes in the crime log,” the Clery Act reads. “[Patrol jurisdiction] refers to any property that is regularly patrolled by the campus public safety office.”

When BCPD received the report of the crime, they believed the crime took place outside of their patrol jurisdiction, somewhere else in Middlesex County, according to John King, chief of BCPD. “The trigger is whether there is an imminent danger to people on campus property,” Frank LoMonte, a lawyer and the director of the Student Press Law Center, said in an email.

“If the danger is not located on or immediately adjacent to the campus, then they aren’t legally obligated to report.”

It was at the discretion of BCPD to assess the imminence of the danger, and it believed that it was not worthwhile to report.

Several weeks later, BCPD learned the crime took place “on or near BC property,” according to King.

At this point, BCPD decided it would still not report the crime.

According to the Clery Act, BCPD should have gone back and updated the crime log to reflect that the crime took place in their jurisdiction. There is no online record of the update.

“Periodically we will post security advisories when we believe the information will be helpful and informative to our community,” King said in an email. “I believe this to be consistent with the practices of most universities.” 

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Simons and McCaffrey Close Term UGBC’s top execs took tangible steps toward a student center.

BY HEIDI DONG Asst. News Editor Russell Simons, MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, MCAS ’17, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s president and executive vice president, endured an unusually long election cycle to get to their offices on the first floor of Carney. In fact, Simons and McCaffrey had only entered the race after McCaffrey’s previous running mate dropped out of the race for personal reasons, and Simons, who had worked on McCaffrey’s old campaign, took center stage as a candidate.

“We got really lucky with each other,” McCaffrey said.

And they really did. Throughout a conversation about the past year, McCaffrey and Simons were on the same page, finishing each other’s sentences on more than one occasion, and adding to each other’s stories.

Part of Simons and McCaffrey’s campaign platform was pushing for a student center, and the team has taken tangible steps towards its construction.

“Certainly one of the things we are most proud of is our advocacy with the student center this year. And those efforts continue to be advancing, incremental at times, but there’s always momentum behind it,” Simons said.

UGBC’s push for a student center has manifested itself in an initiative to open up as much space for students as possible.

This has led to Hillside After Dark, which extends Hillside Café’s hours to midnight on Monday through Thursday nights for students to use. The extended hours came from a conversation with University President Fr. William P. Leahy, S.J., regarding the necessity for more student social spaces on campus.

Now, after a year of advocating for a student center, the UGBC administration is ready to put its money where its mouth is.

After announcing on stage at Showdown that a portion of the revenue from the event would go toward, a student center, Simons is excited to announce that plans are officially set. “$20,000 of funds from profits from showdown will be going towards a dedicated

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McElroy Community Remembers Longtime Manager Devoe Mac employees hung a board in dedication to the dining manager.

BY CHRIS RUSSO Assoc. News Editor Jim Devoe, a dining manager at McElroy Commons, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday at the age of 62. On Monday, a message board with his photo was set up in Mac with messages written from students and dining staff. A table with flow-

ers and a Boston College Superfan hat was placed next to the message board.

“On Sunday, a longtime manager of BC Dining, Jim Devoe passed away unexpectedly,” a sign on the table reads.

“Please keep him and his family in your thoughts & prayers. He will be greatly missed.”

Devoe worked as a manager for BC Dining for over 30 years. Many of his peers knew him as a talented guitar player and singer.

“Our team is still processing our loss today,” Director of BC Dining Elizabeth

Emery said in an email on Monday. “We enjoyed his music at our Christmas party in January, and he played in front of the fireplace at Corcoran Commons a number of times for students.”

On Sunday morning, Devoe, who was set to begin his shift in Mac at 11, was performing his usual morning rituals in his backyard and was talking to his neighbor. His wife, who was upstairs at the time, began to hear her dogs barking loudly, so she ran downstairs. Devoe had collapsed on the floor, and the neighbor had already called 911. He died before

the ambulances arrived. His wife called BC Dining shortly after to tell them the news.

Devoe was known to be a nice man by his peers—sometimes even too nice.

A month ago, a new student worker joined the dining staff who was not meeting expectations. He was a slow worker and was not communicating well with customers. One day, he showed up to work over an hour late while Devoe was the manager on duty. He could have easily sent the young man home and fired him, but he wanted to give him another

chance.

The next shift, the worker came back with his shirt encrusted with food—he had apparently not washed it since the shift before. Instead of yelling at him, Devoe went to his office where he kept a couple extra clean shirts and gave it to the worker to change into. He had a conversation with the worker and let him know that he wanted to keep him, but he had to make some changes.

Now, the worker is doing well at the

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As VPs Are Sworn In, Some Transition Hiccups Members of UGBC question Achampong, King’s hiring process

BY CONNOR MURPHY News Editor

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As part of the UGBC inauguration, Achampong and King, top, swear in all members of the organization for the upcoming year.

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The transition of Akosua Achampong and Tt King, both MCAS ’18, next year’s Undergraduate Government of Boston College president and executive vice president, has involved some controversy over personnel, according to two students with knowledge of the situation.

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positions had to be redone because it did not meet the requirements of UGBC’s constitution.

These problems are in addition to Sunday’s SA meeting, where Achampong and King’s pick for vice president of financial affairs, Brian Lee, MCAS ’18, was not confirmed over concerns that he was not qualified for the position.

“I think that there were a lot of issues with transparency in the whole process,” said Leah Nowak, CSOM ’18. “Nobody really knew what was going on the whole time, at least from my perspective.”

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Today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Campus Activities Board will host a Mud Volleyball Tournament in the Mod Lot. Sign ups for the tournament ended on April 28, and teams were selected by a lottery system on April 30.

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Today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. the Undergraduate Government of Boston College will host a pop-up thrift shop selling clothing donations from students throughout the past month. All money will be donated to an environmental organization.

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Today from 7 to 11 p.m. the Campus Activities Board will host a trip to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles.

Tickets were sold at $5 plus processing fees and have since sold out.

NEWS Hasselbecks Discuss Finding Faith, Love at BC BRIEFS

By Barrette Janney

Prof. Studies Forgiveness

Researchers from Boston College, Trieste University, and the University of Vienna recently found that the ability to forgive is linked to the size of a specific area of the brain. Among the researchers wa s neuroscientist Liane Young, an associate professor at BC’s psychology department.

The research, published early April in Scientific Reports, was based on a sample size of 50 brainimaging scans, so the findings are not yet definitive. The study does, however, point to a connection between how individuals assign blame and the size of their anterior superior temporal sulcus (aSTS).

The study was done through presenting participants with various scenarios and asking them how much blame the p e ople within the scenarios deserved, all while monitoring their brain activity with fMRI and MRI scans.

Participants were given information about the intentions of the agents and the consequences of their actions within the scenario.

The participants were then asked to rate, on a scale of one to seven, how morally acceptable the agent’s b ehavior wa s and how much blame they deserved.

A high correlation between how participants answered the two questions was observed, in which those who answered the first question with a high number, answered the second question with a low one. The rankings were added up and referred to as each participant’s “severity of moral condemnation.” Those with a high severe moral condemnation were more likely to blame an agent for their action regardless of their intent.

The brain scans indicated that the greater the gray matter volume in the left aSTS, the less likely someone was to condemn those who do harm unintentionally.

The research suggests that some people are predisposed to forgiveness.

Woods College Offers Program The Boston College Woods College of Advancing Studies is offering a new graduate online certificate in Data Analytics. The estimated tuition for the program is $12,960.

The curriculum consists of four courses: Data Analysis, Econometrics, Big Data Econometrics, and Predictive Analytics/Forecasting. The courses are each eight weeks long and will cover topics including data analysis, complex modeling, big data techniques, and predictive modeling.

The Data Analytics certificate is meant to provide managers and professionals with the necessary skills to analyze data, understand analytic reports, and to use data to make impactful decisions , among other things.

Those interested in the program are required to have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, with a minimum GPA of 3.0, although applicants with an undergraduate GPA under 3.0 will still be considered for admission. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

According to Aleksandar Tomic, the director of the master’s degree in applied economics program at Woods, no more than 20 students will be accepted for the fall to ensure full faculty engagement with each student.

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Former National Football League quarterback Matt Hasselbeck and his wife, Sarah, both BC ’97, found love and God while at Boston College.

The couple were the featured speakers for the final Agape Latte talk of the year this past Tuesday night in Hillside Cafe.

Preceded by a packed opening performance by student band Juice and a plug for donating to the senior gift, the couple seized the attention of over 100 attendees, conversationally explaining the story of their lives and how their faith played an inseparable role in it.

The Hasselbecks met during their freshman orientation here on the Heights. Sarah joked that her first impression of Matt wasn’t immediate love, admitting that he was cocky.

He had good reason to be, too. He was the new freshman quarterback with high prospects in a professional career beyond college football, and he had some seriously admired hair as well.

Regardless of Sarah’s initial hesitation, the budding relationship between the two seemed fated when they ended up residing on the same floor in Gonzaga and realized their shared religious upbringing and aspirations.

Matt in particular struggled with merging his longing to be a servant of God with his desire to uphold his quarterback persona.

“How do I follow Christ and be the tough football player on the field?”

Matt said.

He attributes his experiences at BC as pivotal moments in fostering his ability to remain on the path to faith, including one-on-one conversations in the Conte weight room with his train-

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Matt Hasselbeck and Sarah Hasselbeck, both BC ’97, spoke to students about the importance of God in their lives. ing coach and serving as an orientation leader. A service program he was skeptical of participating in particularly struck a religious chord for him, as it placed him in direct contact with a leper whose hope-filled strength inspired him to seek strength and trust in God. “I wish I had what this guy had,” Matt said In the early days of their marriage and the dawn of Matt’s time with the Green Bay Packers, the couple began to realize something special about couples with faith. Teammate Danny Wuerffel and his wife quickly became role models for each, as he taught Matt the importance of knowing why he believed what he believed, and she inspired Sarah with her selflessness and pure generosity.

“This aroma of Christ ... I knew I wanted what she had,” Sarah said.

God’s plan interceded in their lives with Matt’s trade to the Seattle Se-

ahawks. The couple began forming their own community there, parenting three children and adapting to the Pacific Northwest. While Matt notes that this segment of their lives called his attention to remaining humble like Jesus, Sarah attributes her growth in possessing a positive attitude to her kids.

The NFL lockout presented a new obstacle the couple would overcome, as it resulted in Matt’s trade to the Tennessee Titans. The move to the south evoked a change in culture that cultivated a deeper appreciation for God, as they were inhabiting Nashville, the home of Christian music.

The couple’s new relationships with warm new people motivated their growth in caring for others, Sarah said.

Their involvement in charity work was another major addition to their lives in Tennessee, producing a passion

for such organizations as Charity Water that carried into the last years of Matt’s career with the Indianapolis Colts.

This passion was imbedded in their children when the couple decided to embark on a family service trip to South Africa. One of their daughters crafted a short film about the charity’s efforts to increase clean drinking water that sparked a movement at her school, ultimately resulting in over twenty-three thousand dollars raised.

The couple closed the discussion of their life journey together with the message of trusting God’s plan. While they didn’t expect or even want many of these different adventures and challenges, God’s plan prevailed and allowed growth in self and faith unachievable without divine guidance.

“We don’t know what the game plan is but we know who our caller is,” Sarah said. n

What Teaching at BC Law Taught Martin O’Malley

By Connor Murphy News Editor Martin O’Malley decided to stay close to home for college, attending Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., but he thinks that if he’d wanted to leave the area, he might’ve come to Boston College.

O’Malley spent the semester at BC Law School teaching a course on performance management in the information age, specifically the way the internet has made leadership a more collaborative process. Leaders no longer know everything six months before their constituents.

“When everybody knows everything at the same time, leaders have to constantly put themselves at the center of that emerging truth,” the former Democratic presidential candidate said in a phone interview on Monday.

They looked at climate change, including a case study on water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and how, as governor of Maryland, O’Malley went about managing the situation. They also talked about health care and efforts to align profit motives with wellness rather than “paying hospitals as if they were hotels.”

“I came to Boston College thinking 10 percent of effective governance was policy and 90 percent is follow-up,” he said. “And I came to understand because of the students in my class and their insights that actually 10 percent of effective governance is policy, 40 percent is follow-up, and 50 percent is leadership.”

Without leadership, one of his students wrote in a reaction paper, performance management “doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.” O’Malley said his student had half the course: without perfor-

mance management, leadership doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, either.

O’Malley thinks that in the Trump era, the Democratic Party has an opportunity to return to its first principles: to take actions that create a stronger middle class. He thinks Democrats will remake themselves from the ground up, and said it will potentially become more distributive and less focused on insider politics.

“I believe that darkness makes a great canvas,” he said.

O’Malley is back in Baltimore, where he plans to do an undergraduate version of the course he taught this semester at the University of Maryland, College Park in the fall. He’ll also continue traveling the country talking to Democrats.

Beyond that, he said he hasn’t decided what to do yet.

One of his students said that because of O’Malley’s class, he refuses to view

the current political landscape with despair. O’Malley thinks the actions of the Trump administration will make Democratic policies stand out in sharp relief.

“It seems like it’s been more than 100 days, but it’s only been 100 days, and in the fullness of time people will see that what Donald Trump is proposing for our country is not the set of actions and choices that are going to allow us all to be able to get ahead when we work hard,” he said.

He added that one of the things he saw teaching at BC was that not many young people deny climate change or are willing to deny rights to gay couples.

“All of that tells me that this is a detour, this is an aberration,” he said.

“Where America’s headed is a much more compassionate, generous, connected, and prosperous place.” n

6:30 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Boston College police headquarters.

6:41 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a well-being check at an off-campus location.

a well-being check at Stayer Hall.

Thursday, May 2

8:05 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an elevator entrapment at Fulton Hall.

POLICE BLOTTER: 5/1/17 – 5/3/17 Wednesday, May 1 9:55 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person at an off-campus location.

10:49 a.m. - A report was filed regarding larceny from a residence at Walsh Hall.

12:01 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Health Services.

7:19 p.m. - A report was filed regarding

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS What was your reaction to Louis the Child headlining Modstock?

“I didn’t really know who that was, but I looked them up and they seem pretty good.”

—Kristi Fecarotta, MCAS ’20

“I was content with it.”— Katie Diasti, CSOM ’19

“I didn’t know who it was.”

—Bryce Cutrino, CSOM ’18

“I’ve heard them once. Not sure if they’re that good.”

—Kyle Donohue, MCAS ’17

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job, according to Michael Forcier, general manager at Mac. Because Devoe trusted in the worker and gave him an extra chance, the worker has shaped up.

“That was Jim,” Forcier said. “He was such a great guy. He has made an impact

on people’s lives.”

Devoe’s son, Tom, graduated from BC in 2011. Tom was able to attend BC tuition-free because his father worked here.

Devoe worked at BC for all of Tom’s life and always had season tickets to BC football and hockey games. He even handed his son his diploma at graduation.

“The same passion he had for BC he had for everything in life—for his family, for his friends, [and] for playing guitar,” Tom said.

Calling hours will be held on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. with a service at the Tighe Hamilton Funeral Home at 6:30 p.m. in Hudson, Mass. n

Transition Controversies Simons, McCaffrey Reflect on 2016-17 New VPs, from A1

For VP of student organizations, Achampong and King selected Chris Kim, CSOM ’18, over Nowak, who served on the board of student organizations for two years. Kim had not been on the board previously. Nowak said she did not receive any indication of why she was not selected.

Kim declined to comment for this story.

Nowak said that UGBC’s constitution stipulates that applicants for vice president positions must be interviewed by the incoming president, vice president, and the vice president for diversity and inclusion. When Nowak showed up in the UGBC office for her interview, however, she was told that Achampong had just left for the mall. King later came in and interviewed her, asking why Nowak wanted the position and what she hated most about UGBC and why. That was on a Thursday night in late March. On Saturday morning, she received an email that she had not gotten the position.

“It was just very odd—they were like, ‘You should stay because of your organizational capabilities,’” she said.

Nowak said the last question on the application was about intersectionality, which she speculated was the most important to Achampong and King.

One issue also came up in the selection process for the VP of communications. At first, Tyng Pan and Joon Park, both MCAS ’18, were selected to be co-VPs of communications, but Achampong and King were informed that that decision would require an amendment to the UGBC constitution.

Pan was put forward as their pick and was confirmed on Sunday. Park did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

King said in an email that she and Achampong decided to leave the current communications department structure as is so they can better assess the growing pains of restructuring.

“The process included many conversations between the two candidates we had had in mind, our team, and Russell and Meredith’s team,” she said.

On the day after Nowak was told she did not get the position, she sent an email to Achampong and King raising some concerns about the process, including the fact that neither Achampong nor the vice president for diversity and inclusion was at the interview. A VP of diversity and inclusion had actually not been chosen yet. On Wednesday night, Achampong and King emailed all the applicants for VP positions saying that they were going to be re-interviewed.

“Overall, the interview and selection

process is much more complicated than it may seem on the surface, and is a process that develops as time and candidates go through the experience with us,” King said in the email. “Our VPDI was not in the first round of interviews as we wanted to start the process as soon as possible to ensure that candidates would have sufficient time to build their teams; the intention was to have our VPDI interview candidates after Akosua and I.” Nowak was interviewed again, with Achampong, King, and Josh Frazier, MCAS ’20, who they had selected as VP of diversity and inclusion.

It was more legitimate, Nowak said, although she didn’t expect to get the position, and after the second round was notified that she hadn’t been picked. Nowak, who will not be involved with UGBC next year, thinks Kim does not have the knowledge of precedent required to be VP of student organizations.

After each of the applicants was reinterviewed, one of the directors of the UGBC Leadership Academy, Tino Todorovic, MCAS ’18, was replaced with Dustin Thomas, MCAS ’18.

Molly Newcomb, MCAS ’18, managed Achampong and King’s campaign. She applied to be the VP of financial affairs, but was passed over for Lee, who she said Achampong and King felt had more knowledge of the department. Newcomb was also applying for a major leadership role in the Appalachia Volunteers Program, so her understanding is that Achampong and King thought that she could serve UGBC better elsewhere. Newcomb chose not to re-interview for VP of finance because she had already gotten the Appa position at the time.

“This was all happening at the end of March and the beginning of April, and knowing that they would have to flesh out the whole organization by May 1 I think they were just on a tighter timeline than they realized at first,” Newcomb said.

This year is the third time that Newcomb has watched this transition happen.

Last year’s was hectic because of a lengthy election season, but two years ago, she said, the executive council was picked by the start of April.

“I managed their campaign for a reason, because I really believe that Akosua and Tt are the right direction for UGBC to go in next year,” Newcomb said. “I just kind of hope that knowing that this transition process have been a little frenetic and a little chaotic, I’m just hoping that doesn’t hinder their administration and their tenure going forward, and that as summer gets started things can kind of smooth out a bit and people can get to work.” n

Russ & Mere, from A1 UGBC student center fund that will work to finance projects related to the student center—student spaces—and will hopefully help the construction of a student center,” Simons said.

Future UGBC administrations can add to it and people may be able to donate to it. McCaffrey said that they wanted to get behind the ball and commit money to the future student center.

Simons said that their year together leading UGBC has been focused on improving the organization’s connection to the general student body, furthering relationships with administration members, and best representing student perspectives in University conversations, especially as this year was a strategic planning year.

The two groups the organization is tasked to bridge, however, are very different. While there is a small group of administrators who oversee student affairs and student life, there are around 9,000 undergraduate students preoccupied with their own classes, jobs, clubs, and relationships.

“It’s much easier to have a one-onone conversation with administrators, but we can’t have a one-on-one conversation with every student,” said McCaffrey.

UGBC did try to meet, individually, with as many students as possible through the UGBC survey, which was launched last October with the goal of gauging both student perception of the organization.

The survey was just one part of UGBC’s communications department’s emphasis on outreach.

“We really took a holistic look at our communications department this year and said ‘what can we be doing better?” Simmons said. “One of those things was outreach.”

The Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD) has also made significant progress, especially this semester, in advocating for students with disabilities and starting conversations across campus. A branch of UGBC that was started just last year, CSD hosted its first annual Ability Awareness Week in late April, and has pushed the conversation around improving Eagle Escort through the Student Assembly and onto the agenda for administrators to discuss.

In exploring gender identity, UGBC’s Women and Gender division

Students Sound Off on Louis the Child

By Chris Russo Assoc. News Editor This week, the Campus Activities Board (CAB) distributed tickets for Modstock 2017, which will be headlined by Louis the Child. There are just under 300 tickets that have not been claimed by students, which CAB does not plan to distribute.

C AB gave away a majority of its 5,000 tickets during its two-day distribution period on Friday and Saturday. It had several hundred tickets left, however, and decided to distribute them in McElroy Commons on Monday.

CAB was able to give away all but about 300 tickets by Wednesday afternoon, according to Kelsey Golden, CAB’s director of live entertainment and CSOM ’18.

Last year, when T-Pain headlined Modstock, tickets sold out just minutes into the second day of ticket distribution.

CAB began its search for an artist for Modstock in November, when an agent provided the group a list of artists who would be available in the spring. CAB’s live entertainment team worked through the list over the course of several months and

ultimately picked Louis the Child as the headliner.

“Many students are excited for Louis the Child,” Golden said in an email. “We have received numerous Facebook messages and emails from BC students who are excited and happy with our choice.”

Students on campus sounded a different tone.

“I don’t know who they are honestly,” said Madison Semarijan, MCAS ’19. “I thought they were Louis the Giant until a couple hours ago.”

“Louis the Child is an odd pick for Modstock, which I’ve only ever known as a rap/hip-hop concert,” said Audra Hampsch, MCAS ’17. “I don’t think they’re the most popular band for a spring show at BC, but I still think regardless of who performs, the student body will always make the day enjoyable.”

Many students were also surprised that the artist wasn’t Jason Derulo, as rumors of him as a headliner ran rampant across campus just days before the announcement.

“The issue was that there were lots of rumors floating around saying that bigger artists like Jason Derulo were the ones that CAB got, so I think people might have felt a little let down

when it was Louis the Child,” said Pat McGrath, CSOM ’20.

The student responsible for starting this rumor was Will Hennessey, CSOM ’17.

The idea came to Hennesse y while he was studying with a friend in O’Neill Library. They were listening to “Watcha Say,” one of Derulo’s biggest hits, when it suddenly hit them—they wanted Derulo to headline Modstock.

“We hoped that if we started the hype he would eventually come,” he said.

The rumor began when Hennessey sent a text to a few friends saying he heard Derulo would be the artist at Modstock. The rumor came back to him through other friends in about an hour.

Hennessey then decided to create a video announcing Derulo would headline Modstock and posted it on his Facebook account. He created it as a joke, but the video was good enough that some people believed it was real, he said.

“This was definitely a senior bucket list item to see if we could spread a rumor on campus.” he said.

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launched a new social media campaign last November exploring and challenging traditional views of masculinity, something that both Simons and McCaffrey have wanted to focus on for some time.

“That project, to me at least, was a groundbreaking moment in which we were able to get many different student perspectives through a representative campaigns and say ‘what does it mean to be masculine at Boston College?’” Simons said.

On the issue of gender, the Student Assembly has also recently passed a resolution calling for gender-neutral signage on single-stall bathrooms.

“We’re always trying to strive to be better at representing the student body, and to do that we always have to be finding innovative ways to reach those students, and we can always be doing a better job,” Simons said.

With the administration, McCaffrey said that she and Simons went into the year trying to be intentional about transparency—building a relationship of honest conversation and honest disagreement.

Constant communication with administrators about what UGBC is doing has been foundational to the development of an open and honest relationship. Students, however, do not usually feel the open stream of communication that UGBC executives do.

“This semester there has been communication from top-level administrators. Maybe not to the full extent that students want, but to the extent that we haven’t seen in the past few year,” McCaffrey said.

The past year has been characterized by a time of historical divide within the nation, and this national sentiment has pierced through the BC Bubble. More than ever, students looked to the administration for comment.

Eradicate BC Racism, an unregistered student group with the mission of eradicating racism on campus, held two unregistered rallies in response to the national affairs—the election of Trump, and the subsequent threat to undocumented students.

“You had this grassroots student effort to develop a petition for a sanctuary campus, which itself came from a larger national conversation about sanctuary campuses. Our feedback as student representatives was quickly solicited by members of the adminis-

tration,” Simons said.

McCaffrey feels fortunate to be in a position to explain why student groups, such as Eradicate, are doing what they are doing to administrators, and explaining to student groups why administrators are taking the action, or not, that they chose.

As student representatives, Simons and McCaffrey were asked, by members of the administration, what Eradicate’s walkout was a result of, what it was asking for, how the administration could engage in the dialogue, and ultimately what were students seeking from administrators.

“At the end of the day administrators also want what is best for BC, and sometimes we have a difference of opinion of what is best, but we’re all working toward the same things,” McCaffrey said.

Coming out of a year of advocating for student needs to administrators and translating administrative action, or lack thereof, for students, Simons says that he has become “more chill.”

“The person I am now is more comfortable with chaos,” he said.

McCaffrey added that the year has made her accept that she can never please everyone. A challenge that she has faced, like much of the UGBC leadership before her, is the difference of timelines that students and administrators work on. While students are looking for deliverables within months, administrators are planning the future of the University decades in advance.

“Institutions do move slowly, and timelines are not always agreeable with a one year term, so we’ve been very interested in finding conversations where we can have an immediate impact,” Simons said.

As for post-graduate plans, McCaffrey has committed to BC Law School, and Simons plans to attend medical school at the University of Chicago.

“I really feel that BC has given so much to me that I can’t leave that yet,” McCaffrey said.

Serving as president of UGBC has influenced Simons to explore more how he can incorporate medicine into public service, whether through policy or otherwise.

“This position, for me, has been the best part of my Boston College experience,” Simons said. “It’s made me a better person, I think.” n

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Sound Sculpture Makes the Audible a Physical Experience

By Madeleine D’Angelo Metro Editor

When the sun set on the Boston Innovation and Design Building this weekend, and the daylight receded from the huge windows of the building’s Dock 21 space, a different kind of glow took its place.

Large plastic cubes—like adult sized versions of a child’s set of building blocks—began emitting colored light of their own as the Sound Sculpture installation began.

As visitors watched, the cubes lit up one after another, filling the wide, industrial space with a gentle wash of light that changed from blue to green to red.

Ethereal, almost hypnotic, music echoed throughout the space and accompanied the lights, and visitors drew closer to the cubes, fascinated by what they were seeing. Before long, the visitors began to play.

Created by Ryan Edwards and Andrew Hlynsky, Sound Sculpture took over the Innovation Building’s Dock 21 space on Friday and Saturday, creating an interactive work of art made something as ephemeral as sound, a physical experience.

Consisting of 25 large cubes made from a softly fogged plastic, the installation invited the public bridged the divide between music and physical art, creating their own pieces of

music by moving the blocks around the space. But such an innovative concept was a long time in the making.

The idea originated with Edwards, a Boston-based artist with a background in West African music.

For Edwards, this fascination with the connection between music and movement began in his youth, when he had the opportunity to play an instrument during one of his high school dances.

Delighted by the people dancing to the music that he played, Edwards realized that “this is why [he is] on the planet,” and became determined to understand “that secret ingredient or recipe” that makes a piece of music “danceable.”

When he was 19, this curiosity led Edwards to sell his possessions and travel to Guinea.

There he lead travel tours and studied the area’s traditional song and dance—a genre that Edwards explained the “original interdisciplinary.”

Unlike European song and dance, where music is often set to music, Edwards found that the two entities were truly one entity in Africa’s traditional, folkloric song and dance—a realization that played an important part of Edwards’s formation as an artist.

After about 10 years, Edwards

returned, coming to Boston to study Musical Performance and Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music, working as a composer and artist in the area following his graduation.

Slightly unorthodox in his approach, Edwards would begin a piece with paint, clay, or even Legos, building a physical structure that the music he created ultimately stemmed from.

In this way, Edwards prepared himself for Sound Sculpture, building the skeleton concept before he even knew what he was doing.

But once the idea of making music physical became concrete, Edwards toyed with the concept, reaching out to friends and colleagues, and applying for grants. Edwards also recruited Hlynsky, a fellow drummer whom he had met at Berklee, to become the technical director of Sound Sculpture.

Although Hlynsky and Edwards had vastly different backgrounds, Hlynsky had more experience in instrument development and sound design, they made an excellent team.

Together, the two artists finessed the details of the piece, ensuring that the piece would be accessible to the public—making music intriguing and enjoyable even for those who hadn’t been lucky enough to have musical training—and ironing out its appearance.

But as Hlynsky explained, the technology behind Sound Sculpture required “a lot of trial and error.”

Facing the challenge of how to bring what Hlynsky called an “interactive, musical building blocks set” to life, the duo turned to Belgian developers, and used their own experience in coding software, to unravel the complicated world of indoor positioning technology—something that, despite the reliance many have upon their phone’s GPS, is still nascent in the tech world.

Eventually Edwards and Hlynsky developed a system where four electronic anchors, each placed in a corner of the exhibition space, make a giant, invisible grid in the room.

Inside each cube lies a chip allowing the block to register as a point on the grid which corresponds to a set of coordinates.

A computer, located toward the back of the space, sends out a signal to the cube to determine its location within the room, triggering a specific sound and color of light based upon the cube’s location.

The music would come from visitors moving the blocks around, something that slowly dawned on people as they interacted with the blocks each night.

This “emergent understanding of the environment” delighted Hlynsky, as well as Edwards who was

entranced by the delight that people expressed while playing with the blocks.

“I was pleasantly surprised, you know it’s kind of like how simple can you make something [that] people can just love,” Edwards said.

“And playing with blocks is just plain fun.”

But Edwards explained that the fun of giving adults the license to play with blocks came within the “parameters” of “other people,” making each night unique and exciting.

When one person built a tower, another might alter or disassemble it completely.

Some visitors built up, but others built diagonally, and every single arrangement resulted in a new composition of both light and sound.

For Edwards, this unpredictability is part of the fun.

“In public art, you can’t finish it in the studio, you can only get it ready,” Edwards said. “It gets finished in the wild, you can only make it durable, premeditate a few things, and see what happens.”

And even though Sound Sculpture has left the Innovation Building, Edwards and Hlynsky plan to continue sharing it with the public, and already have invitations to present the work within the coming months.

Who knows what shape it will take by then. n

From Chevy 200 to TD Garden: A Journey Through Time

William Batchelor One night last week while I organized my plane tickets for the summer, I decided to open up the calendar app on my phone to count exactly how many weeks of vacation I had ahead of me.

To my surprise, I counted 15 weeks. Thats 105 days of minimal responsibilities and maximum relaxation.

Despite the relief of having no midterms or papers to stress over for three and a half months, I struggled when thinking about the ways I’ll fill my time. “What am I going to do all summer?” I thought.

I realized that the impending

summer will be the longest time I’ve ever been away from school.

This notion was slightly overwhelming, but also fairly exciting.

Each year, it seems as though time goes by faster and faster.

I look back on those grueling days as a junior year in high school, going from exhausting tennis practices to hours of tedious SAT prep.

It’s hard for me to comprehend that my freshman year is over when it feels like just yesterday I was finishing my last high school exam and throwing my graduation cap in the air.

My first year of college has been a rollercoaster of an experience. But I’ve valued every minute of being on this prestigious campus.

I discovered new passions and formed lasting friendships with people from all walks of life.

By mid-April, however, with summer feeling so near, I began to

constantly think about the comforts of home. There was nothing I longed for more than a home-cooked meal and a snuggle session with my slightly overweight dog, Jack.

Unlike many Boston College students whose families are only a short drive or plane ride away, my family is on a totally different time zone.

I couldn’t go home on long weekends or week-long breaks. Getting home would take over 20 hours of travel time. So I found my own thing to do.

I remember arriving in Los Angeles from Boston for spring break with my friends.

The flight was packed with college kids returning home to California for the week. At the airport, teary-eyed parents embraced their children.

It was hard for me to watch, as it wouldn’t be for another few months that I would have that emotional

reunion with my parents.

Regardless of a few little struggles, this year has left me with many more good memories than bad.

I sat courtside at TD Garden, experienced my first snowstorm, viewed the awe-inspiring work of Monet and Van Gogh at the MFA, and interviewed Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09.

When I board the plane bound for Hong Kong in less than two weeks, there are things I will miss about my life in Boston.

At home I’ll be living under my parents’ roof, and will have to abide by their rules. I can no longer wander around town without texting my every move to my mom.

I will miss the independence of college life, with the city of Boston at my fingertips.

In just under two weeks I will leave Room 200 in Cheverus Hall for the final time, and likely never

return to the dorm I called home for nine months.

Despite my slightly resentful attitude toward the room, it’s the space where I formed some of my strongest friendships, and learned to live independently.

It’s where I witnessed the Patriots’ historic comeback at the Super Bowl, and watched as Donald Trump shocked the world by winning the presidential election.

But like every other summer, it will somehow fly by.

Soon enough, I’ll be back on the plane, making the grueling 20-hour journey back to Boston, wondering where those precious three and a half months of summer went.

But until then, I’ll see you in 15 weeks.

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

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Harvard-Based Tech Startup Veho Merges Uber With UPS

By Nathan Xie Heights Staff Itamar Zur and Matt Graham are reinventing package delivery.

The two developed Veho Technologies in Harvard Business School, where they both met very early on and attended with the same goal of starting a company.

Graham received his undergraduate chemical engineering degree at Stony Brook University. Then, he attended Columbia University for operations research, followed by four years of service in the Navy.

Currently, Graham and Zur are nearing graduation at Harvard.

“A lot of people go to HBS for banking, consulting, and other jobs, but not as many people go there with the sole purpose of starting a company,” Graham said. “Ita and I hit it off pretty early since we had the same values and goals.”

Graham explained that the pair wanted to employ their own culture of teamwork and no politics to create something that would help people to their maximum potential. Together, the following summer, they both decided to stay at school instead of pursuing internships—they intended to focus on actually building something, marking the beginning of what would come to fruition as Veho Technologies.

Graham explained how Zur had trouble getting his packages delivered to his apartment. They would consistently show up and get stolen before he could pick it up, and Zur couldn’t get in contact with the delivery service’s driver. This was how the motivation for the startup was born.

Veho Technologies harnesses the crowd-sourced economy of the package delivery space, using mobile technology

to create a platform where users can effectively track packages in real time, and contact their Veho driver directly.

“We’re building a platform that allows anyone in their own car to deliver packages,” Graham said. “The customers we target are not the consumers or recipients– our customers are actually the delivery companies. They give us the packages to deliver.”

Graham and Zur began with the idea that the packages could get delivered to their specified area—a local convenient 7-11—where the recipients would have to walk and retrieve their packages in a safe space, eliminating the of risk of theft.

They ran ads, attempting to see if anyone would hop on board with them. They spent the whole summer going door-to-door, distributing fliers and sending out feelers.

“We tested things on Facebook. We did interviews,” Graham said. “We literally walked around Boston for weeks actually just interviewing people and trying to find the best areas to test our initial idea of quick-and-collect.”

Graham and Zur ended up discovering a restaurant owner interested in running a trial with the burgeoning company. She agreed to have the packages delivered to her restaurant, where recipients would be sure that there was no risk of theft. In return, she hoped that these customers might buy food from her restaurant as they picked up the package. After going from apartment complex to complex nearby the restaurant, however, Graham and Zur discovered that nobody wanted to sign up.

Confused, Graham and Zur realized that no one wanted to walk to retrieve a package. People just wanted them delivered directly to their doors. It was these kinds

Photo Courtesy of Veho Technologies

With crowd-sourcing technology and mobile apps, Veho Technologies aims to revolutionize the delivery industry. of failures that taught the pair about the industry, logistics, and consumers, and they returned to the streets of Boston motivated to conduct their own research.

They followed delivery drivers, actually having police called on them in one instance, gaining valuable first-hand experiences.

Both Graham and Zur witnessed the industry, formulating the economics and how the models came together from within the delivery network.

Afterwards, they reached out to more than 90 executives via the Harvard Business School alumni network for consultation

regarding their idea and perspective.

Graham and Zur realized that the framework of the delivery space is a large market, but it lacks organization.

So Veho Technologies plans on expanding into that space, and widening its operations in Boston. They have already successfully delivered 3,700 packages. They intend to expand their network of drivers and accomplish a thousand deliveries weekly in Boston as they receive funding and near graduation. Graham emphasized that Veho Technologies intends to become the most driver-centric platform in the industry

in comparison to Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and many other driver-oriented mobile platform applications. Graham specified the uniqueness of Veho Technologies in their consumers—large delivery services that provide the packages that need to be delivered. Therefore, there is more attention directed toward the quality and development of the drivers and the driver network at Veho Technologies.

“We want to be the platform that dominates the last mile,” Graham said. “Any last-mile deliveries, we want them all to be happening on our platform.” n

Be Steady Like a Goose

Madeleine D’Angelo

Simran Brar / Heights Staff

Festival Illuminates Japanese Culture

By Simran Brar Heights Staff This past weekend, despite the dreary and cloudy weather, thousands of Boston locals flocked to Boston Common on Sunday for the annual Japanese Festival.

It was free to anyone interested.

Visitors, some dressed as anime characters, overtook the usual calm of the park as they bounced among the hundreds of booths that the festival boasted. Two stages on either side of the festival featured Japanese music, contests, and auctions.

Now in its sixth year, the Japanese Festival in Boston began in 2012 in response to the 100th anniversary of Seattle’s Cherry Blossom and Japanese Cultural Festival.

Previously held in Copley Square, the location of the festival moved to Boston Common last year when the festival attracted over 60,000 attendees—almost double than it had the year before.

In Boston, many different local Japanese societies organize the festival.

Starting in October, these societies get together to begin the foundational work for the festival in April.

“The operation of the festival is both unique and challenging because it is put on by a 100 percent volunteer effort, using no professional advertising or marketing companies either,” explained Keiko Isomura, one of the volunteers who deals mainly with the public relations aspects of the festival and also helps to coordinate the vendor booths.

A central group of 30 volunteers is devoted to the planning and execution of the event, and also double as the individuals who handle the bigger logistics of the festival. The total volunteer pool has increased from 200 to 400 people in the

last year alone.

But operating on a volunteer-only basis does have its challenges, Isomura explained.

Since most volunteers have jobs, no one solely focuses on the festival, and planning takes a backseat to daily life. Getting all the volunteers in the same place at the same time is no easy feat. Those visiting the festival had the chance to interact with various aspects of Japanese culture by not only seeing, but also by touching, feeling, and tasting the culture.

Booths featured Japanese arts and crafts, businesses, education, culture and life, food, and sports—providing an opportunity for visitors to immerse themselves in a little bit of everything.

Various workshops offered a more hands-on approach where attendees had the opportunity learn art forms like origami paper folding.

According to Isomura, the festival’s ability to share these unique qualities is what makes it essential to the Boston community.

“The goal of the festival is to share Japanese culture with our local community and to give back our appreciation to them,” Isomura said. “It is a continuous process of the sharing of ideas and culture.”

The festival’s importance, however, does not mean that organizers are exempt from challenges. This year, challenges took the form of the number of food vendors.

“Last year there was a lot of backlash with the food booths because people were waiting in ridiculously long lines for food or in some cases were not able to eat at all,” Isomura said. “We hoped that the increased number of food vendors this year will help fix the problem.”

Another option available to those

attendees who hoped to avoid long food lines, was the availability of a “fast-pass” that allowed people to skip lines if they donated $30 or more to the festival.

One of the biggest attractions of the festival was the Omikoshi, a portable Shinto shrine for thankfulness and celebration of the community.

In the afternoon, the shrine was carried around the park in its demonstration of thankfulness.

Isomura shared that in the near future, the festival committee is working closely with Harvard and MIT to upgrade the shrine to feature some technological aspects.

When visitors got tired and wanted to take a break, many chose to sit on the lawn in front of the stages to catch a glimpse of what was going on there.

The first stage featured live Japanese musical performances, dances, and samurai demonstration.

The second stage displayed “familyfriendly” acts such as kid’s dance, cartoon music, and anime contests where prizes were distributed to the best dressed.

No matter which stage you were viewing, both attempted to blend old and new Japanese culture, so that the community could show how smoothly they melded. An entire year’s worth of work and effort on the volunteers’ part culminates into this one day, as they create innovative ways to share Japanese culture.

While the festival continues to grow and gain more traction in the community, Isomura shared that organizers hope to attract more locals in the New England area outside of the Japanese population already involved.

“It is all about the continuous sharing of culture and creating a more connected community in the end,” Isomura said. n

It was a Thursday when the swans came back for the season. They had been missing for quite some time, perhaps their last appearance was in late fall.

As they floated there, picking at the green scum floating on the water’s surface, it seemed that the time away had done them some good.

The white of their feathers glowed a little more than it had the last time that I saw them, and the vivid orange of their beaks looked as if someone had freshly scrubbed them clean.

But looking refreshed was not the only characteristic that these two swans had going for them.

They were holding themselves differently than they had all those months ago when the winter temperatures crept in.

Instead of huddling toward the middle of the water as they had been prone to do in the earlier months, they bobbed at the water’s edge, staring passersby right in the eye.

As one swan grasped a particularly long strand of weed in its beak, it gave its head a little shake, as if to viciously subdue its botanical prey. A new energy and vibrancy seemed to exude from the swans, but maybe that’s just something that happens to most animals when the first signs of spring and warmer weather begin peeking through.

Even though the swans seemed different, an indicator of the change and time that had passed since the fall months, I still couldn’t fight the feeling that almost no time at all had gone by since they last graced the Reservoir with their presence.

It seemed like just yesterday that they were paddling in the middle of the Reservoir, and that my breath was beginning to make a cloud of steam in the crisp air.

But now the air was far from crisp—almost unseasonably muggy—and the swans were making quite the buzz among the runners and walkers circling the Reservoir.

Many would stop and stare, some pulling out their phone to snap a picture of the two graceful creatures. Some people even leaned in toward the water’s edge, risking the wrath of the swan in order to get a perfectly framed shot.

Fascinated by the reemergence of the swans, people appeared to give the small group of geese paddling around the water little thought.

But that wasn’t so unusual an occur-

rence. You see, the geese pretty much serve as permanent fixtures around the Reservoir.

Anyone who visits the area regularly will know the geese quite well, and be able to conjure up an immediate snapshot of the animals’ grey and white feathers and sometimes beady eyes. But unlike the swans, the attention that the geese attract usually isn’t of the positive variety.

You see, the geese are not glamorous like the swans. They look more like ash than like snow, and can be rather touchy at times.

I have seen them frighten young children and adults alike—anyone foolish enough to approach them at the wrong time runs the risk of a dramatic wing flap at the best, and a snap of the beak at the worst.

And even if the geese are in a relatively sedate mood, many people find the obstacles that they leave behind on the path—obstacles that take the form of numerous bright-green droppings—aggravating to say the least.

Despite their peculiarities, however, I wonder if the geese should be admired instead of considered a nuisance.

Because unlike the swans, who randomly come and go but receive attention upon their every appearance, these geese reliably stick it out through the winter.

The geese seemingly have habits and traditions that they uphold even when the water freezes over and the Boston sky turns a perpetual shade of grey.

And in a time when changeability serves as an exciting marketing strategy, when people receive praise for their ability to change things up and keep the world on its toes, we might need to recognize the virtue of the geese’s steadiness more than ever.

I consider myself a habit-driven person. I have little rituals and customs that I not only use to start and end each day, but also to get me through the day itself, kind of like a knotted rope that I pull myself along until it is time to go back to sleep. These habits get me from day to day with the semblance that I have some measure of control over an existence that flashes by.

Sometimes I worry that my repetitive nature makes me seem like a broken record, a person unfit to live in today’s world of spontaneity.

But then I think of the geese floating just downstream from the swans, and hope that while unpredictably is nice, steadiness has a place in this world as well.

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

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BCPD Should Have Reported Rape Incident Several news outlets recently reported that a Boston College student was allegedly raped by an Uber driver in September. Court tapes acquired by The Boston Herald revealed that Luis Baez, driving for Uber under a fake name, raped the student three times in a parking lot and at other sites before dropping her back at her dorm on campus. The student then immediately went to the BC Police Department station to report the incident.

BCPD chose not to notify students on the night of the crime because, at the time, the incident was believed to have taken place within the jurisdiction of the Middlesex County Police, not BCPD. In an email to The Heights, BC Chief of Police John King, executive director of public safety and chief of BCPD, stated that “several weeks after the occurrence, it was determined that the incident likely happened on or near BC property.” Despite this realization, BCPD still chose not to report the event to the student body.

The Clery Act, passed in 1990, requires colleges and universities that receive federal funding to provide yearly reports of crime that took place on or near their campuses. The law states that schools must issue “timely warnings” and “emergency notifications” when an incident occurs that falls under the Clery Act and represents a continual threat to a school community.

Because BCPD believed that the alleged assault did not take place within its jurisdiction at the time of reporting, it was not liable to report the incident. After learning that the event likely took place on or near BC’s campus, however, BCPD legally should have updated its police blotter to reflect the new information in compliance with Clery Act guidelines.

Moreover, it is undeniable that BCPD had a moral and ethical responsibility to make the student body aware of the incident as soon as possible after it was

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reported.

The fact that the BC community found out about the incident through court tapes and in the media, and not from its public safety organization, is deplorable. BCPD has a responsibility to make students aware of potential dangers to their safety, and the circumstances surrounding the incident make the department’s failure to release a warning especially alarming.

In particular, the crime took place in an Uber vehicle, which should have indicated that the incident warranted public reporting. This popular ride-hailing app is used by many BC students every weekend, and any danger associated with the service represents a danger to the BC community.

Although the University provides transportation on the Commonwealth Ave. buses to popular off-campus destinations, such as bars in Cleveland Circle like Agoro’s and Mary Ann’s, this service stops after 2 a.m. The T now closes at 12:30 a.m. as well. Students who want to stay out later should not have to restructure their evenings around public transportation, and often must rely on Uber to return to their dorms, houses, or apartments. This is not to mention the hundreds of student outings that take place outside the range of these buses in the city of Boston and other nearby areas.

The victim was trying to return back to campus, a situation that many BC students will find themselves in on any given Friday or Saturday. What occurred next, realistically, could have happened to any member of the student body, and therefore BCPD should have released an email or text message to students alerting them to the potential threat.

Following the crime, the alleged assailant drove the student back to BC’s campus. The fact that BCPD was made aware that a sexual predator had been

on University grounds and chose not to release a warning to the BC community is not only baffling, but extremely concerning.

BCPD has reported incidents to students in the past, such as a sexual assault outside of 2000 Commonwealth Ave. and an alleged assault of a woman at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. While these events are different because they occurred within BCPD’s jurisdiction, the threat posed to student safety remains the same.

BCPD’s “Procedures for Timely Warnings of Campus Crime” states that, “It shall be the responsibility of the Director of Public Safety for the Boston College Police, when a crime on or near the campus is reported, to promptly assess the potential danger or threat it presents to the campus community, or portions thereof.” If this is truly the procedure that was used when the incident in September was reported, then BCPD and King should have come to the conclusion that the safety of the student body was in jeopardy.

In light of the information currently available, and without knowing when the perpetrator was taken into custody, perhaps the only probable reason for BCPD not to release news of the incident was fear of bad publicity. If the department did not choose to alert students on the basis that the crime was committed outside its jurisdiction, certainly it should have informed the University community after it learned that the assault was most likely carried out on or near campus.

Rape is certainly still a taboo subject in today’s society, and news of the incident most likely would have spurred alarming headlines associated with the University. But if BCPD and the University administration fail to place the safety of students above BC’s public image, then they are failing not only in their jobs, but lacking in morality as well.

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Letter to the Editor In Support of Professor Aspen Brinton We are writing in support of Professor Aspen Brinton of the Philosophy Department and the International Studies Program, whose contract was not renewed by Boston College based on the decision of the Philosophy Department.

We as students have all had very positive experiences in her courses this semester.

She has helped us to grow intellectually and personally. We strongly believe she is a great teacher, scholar, and leader on campus who embodies the values of BC, including concern for social justice, an interdisciplinary approach, and presentation of difficult moral questions.

What makes BC distinct from other universities is its focus on student formation. As a Jesuit institution, BC strives to do this intellectually, socially, and spiritually.

BC helps students pay attention to their experiences, reflect on their meaning, and then decide how to act. We as students in her classes can attest to the fact that Professor Brinton has done just this in each of her classes and over the course of the semester.

Professor Brinton has had an immeasurable impact on our academic experience. She creates a stimulating intellectual, social, and emotional environment that propels innovative and critical thinking.

She engages students in thoughtful discussion by effectively framing debates. She provides structure and facts, while also allowing students to form and defend their own opinions.

Professor Brinton challenges us to find malleability within our thoughts as we approach difficult moral and political questions. The discussions and assignments are difficult and expose students to new perspectives. She is an effective teacher because our learning expands beyond the classroom. Her diverse scholarship is demonstrated by her proficiency in class topics as well as through her publication of a book, with another one on the way.

Professor Brinton displayed her outstanding commitment to her students through her accessibility. Unlike many professors, she responded quickly to her emails, and had a plethora of meeting times available upon request. Her doors were always open. Furthermore, she engaged all of her students in quality conversation about class and about their lives, which assuaged the social anxieties students normally fear when talking to

professors. Her conversations would draw from her expertise in both philosophy and international studies, presenting new and interesting ideas that still resonate with many of her students.

We feel that Professor Brinton has not only been a phenomenal professor but a valuable role model for the principles of social justice. Her pedagogy has greatly emphasized class discussion and personal inquiry into topics that are pertinent to the issues of today. In true Jesuit fashion, she has consistently challenged us to critically assess our beliefs and understandings. We will deeply miss Professor Brinton’s contributions to the BC community. We are highly confident that she will continue to inspire through her teaching and in her future endeavors.

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Saving Love for the Weekend

Valerie Cherbero Something I’m Not - Before writing this, I looked back at the first ever Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down that I wrote back in December. I was new, and the glorious legacy of the previous thumbs made me feel as if I had to replicate their style. As I reflect on this semester, I’m coming to realize that this wasn’t the only thing I tried to copy during my freshman year.

Not copy as in the editing, but copy as in replicating, trying to become something I wasn’t. I rushed into the year thinking that I had to conform to every standard that was presented to me to be accepted at my new school. I was eager to be the cool kid, one that fit in more than I did in high school. I was never an outsider, but in college I wanted to make sure that I was never considered weird or different. For a while, I jumped in the river of homogeneity and let the current carry me far downstream. Later on, I hit some rough water, and found that my propensity toward conformity had pulled my head underwater, causing me to lose sight of who I was. Sinking to the bottom, I untied the weights from around my ankles and climbed to the shore, dazed, scared, and changed, but in control again nonetheless. I trekked along the bank back to where I started, exhausted from the journey, but determined to make things right. Along the way, friends on dry land helped hold me up, and taught me how to walk again. To all the incoming freshmen, I advise against getting pulled in by the tide. Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground, and find friends that will pull you out if you ever do happen to fall in. These aren’t always the people you think they are.

The King - Under the sunny sky on the streets of a city in Portugal, the young prince dribbles the ball past his friend in the alley behind his house. He fakes left, goes right, and slides the ball past the keeper. He runs out to the far side of the street, imagining thousands of screaming fans as he jumps and does a 180 degree turn in midair, shouting as he lands and throwing his arms down beside his body. His friends laugh, but little do they know his potential. Some 20 years later, the king has grown up, and after scoring his third goal in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal, he goes to celebrate with the sea of supporters packing the stands, his dream now a reality. His younger self knew he’d get there eventually, one alleyway goal at a time.

Time Moves Quickly - Being a freshman is by no means a desirable lifestyle. We’re hated on, rejected from parties, prone to making mistakes, annoyingly eager at times, and simply just less experienced in navigating the jungle that is college than our upperclassmen counterparts. But there’s a sort of freedom that comes with being a freshman, a sort of newbie pass that encourages us to realize that our mistakes are inevitable, whereas other slip-ups down the road might have greater consequences. The veil of freshman year is something I’ll gladly relinquish, but at the same time, it was a journey for which I’ll always be thankful.

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Last weekend I revisited my freshman dorm, and immediately spiraled into nostalgia. I found myself thinking fondly of Mac and O’Connell House, the white bricks that lined my room in Kostka, and the stained carpet we left behind. Within this sea of memories, I sought out a slip of paper given to me at orientation and kept in my wallet ever since. On the paper is a quote from Pedro Arrupe. He wrote: “What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination will affect everything.

It will decide what will get you out of bed in the mornings, What you will do with your evenings, How you spend your weekends, What you read, who you know, what breaks your heart.

And what amazes you with joy and gratitude.

Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”

As a freshman, this quote had me sold. I was determined to fall in love, and I believed (for a month) that that love would be political science. I imagined a life of justice and advocacy, all stemming from an introductory political science class called How to Rule the World.

I laugh now thinking about that.

After I received a whopping D- on my first paper, I realized that no love awaited me in the political science department. But I still hoped that someday I might fall in love, and that love would lead me to a major, then a job, and then a fulfilling career. I was a romantic, or as romantic as one can be about college courses. But then again, I had a lot to learn about love.

For some people, love smacks into them on a first date. They feel a stirring

in their chest and suddenly—this is it—they have found their person. Or maybe it hits them in a lecture hall, their mind abuzz with the things they’ll learn and the questions they’ll answer.

As for me, I fell in love more quietly.

It began in Mac, as I munched on early morning Special K and realized that a bowl of cereal, when eaten in a sun-drenched dining hall and with a book in hand, could calm my anxious mind. Later, when I moved into Edmond’s Hall and reclaimed control of my meals, I began a love affair with cooking.

During the day, as I sat in class and took notes about Shakespeare and Adam Smith, I secretly dreamed up my dinners. Sometimes I tried out new recipes, but mostly I cooked without them, focusing instead on the smell of garlic as it hisses in hot oil or the bright yellow of a just-cracked egg. I let myself linger on the details and lose myself in the process.

This love, felt so intensely in front of the stove or at the kitchen table, guided me through four years at Boston College, a semester abroad, and several summer internships. It met me for lunch dates and pre-exam breakfasts.

It introduced me to Chef ’s Table and M.F.K. Fisher, and earned me a sweet gig writing about food for The Heights.

But sadly, it never led me to a career.

After all, how do you find a fulfilling career when what gets you out of bed in the morning isn’t a new project or client, but rather the steam that rises from your coffee and the smell of sourdough bread as it toasts to a goldenbrown? What if your love, that thing that fills you with joy and gratitude, can’t be squeezed into a 9-to-5 job?

As my infatuation with food deepened, so did my lack of direction. I imagined myself in a million careers—could I be a lawyer? A writer?

A teacher?—and none instilled in me much love. Even the thought of shucking off my liberal arts degree and signing up for culinary school filled me with dread. After all, I didn’t want the pressure of working in a restaurant, I

wanted the satisfaction of discovering new flavors and sharing food with the people I loved. But that’s tough to find in a job description and even more difficult to explain to meddling relatives.

I felt swindled by the vocation gods.

Where was my calling?

It’s a well-kept secret, but not everybody finds their calling in life. Some people have careers they like, but not ones that consume them and inspire them. This reality hits me everyday when I think about graduation and the black hole that lies beyond it.

But within this reality is a little bit of hope. The truth is, most people leave their love for the mornings and the evenings. They sit at their desk and dream of a post-work run or their weekend camping trip. And those dreams are ultimately what define them, not some job title or their college major. They can feel the rush of love, the joy and gratitude, even if they still don’t know what they want to be when they grow up.

As BC students, we have a million doors open to us. We’re told to pick one, any one, but it must be prestigious and, most of all, it must be fulfilling.

What are we to do with that? Sometimes this opportunity feels more like a burden than a gift, and the weight on my shoulders becomes nearly too much to bear.

So what if we let that pressure go?

What if we stopped forcing ourselves to fall in love with a career, and instead sought out that love in the bits of our lives that don’t give us a paycheck? We might be surprised by what we find.

I still carry that slip of paper in my wallet. Now it’s soft and faded, folded up like an unwanted receipt, and the words are hard to read. But it reminds me to seek out love, even if I can’t see it in any job listings. Because it’s there every time I smell a pop of citrus or peer into a hot oven, watching magic unfold before my eyes.

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

The Judiciary Attacks Equal Pay

Emma Greco A society can only truly be successful and reach its fullest potential when all members play an active and productive role. Or should I say, when all members are allowed to play such a role? When sexist confines like the wage gap hold half of a country’s population back from achieving their full potential, something is inherently wrong, and the society is crippling itself. It turns out that not everyone sees it this way.

In the most recent United States Census, women comprised 50.3 percent of the American population.

According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, almost half of the country’s workforce is made up of female workers, who also account for half of family breadwinners in the U.S. And yet, women can expect to earn only roughly 80 percent of what their male counterparts will earn.

A gap still exists between women working lower-level jobs than men in higher positions, just as one can be found between men working lowerlevel jobs than other men. The problem here is that women with the same level of experience and value to a place of work are being paid less on average than what men are paid for doing the same exact job.

President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits wage discrimination on the basis of an employee’s gender. It does, however, allow for wage discrimination “based on any other factor other than sex,” which includes things like seniority and merit, as well as literally anything else an employer might decide is a reason for disparities in pay. While prohibiting outright discrimination

based on gender is wonderful, this law opens up other avenues for inequality that contribute to the 80 cents to a dollar ratio between women and men in the same jobs.

There should really be no discussion about whether a disparity in pay for the same job between two individuals is about gender or “any other factor” in situations when the only differing factor between the two people is gender.

Yes, employers will sometimes seek to match someone’s former and higher salary, and this is a logical business policy.

But the issue is that, on average, women are paid less than men to begin with. Say there is a man and a woman entering the same job, both with the same levels of education and experience, but the man made more in his previous position because of the wage gap. He will continue to earn more than the female employee if they are both offered their former salaries, and thus the wage gap continues in a vicious cycle.

The Equal Pay Act could broaden its scope to better protect women in the workplace who might suffer from this commonplace business principle.

Last week, there was an upset in the enforcement of the Equal Pay Act in 21st-century America. A three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to overturn a 2015 decision by U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Seng. Seng ruled that differences in salary based on previous earning violated the Equal Pay Act of 1963 because the starting salaries for women are likely to be lower than those for men, which perpetuates the wage gap. What started as gender discrimination would be allowed to continue under the concessions made in the Equal Pay Act for other, legitimate determining factors.

The 9th Circuit Court stated that it is legal to pay women less than men based on their previous salaries if it is part of a “business policy,” effectively negating the prior ruling by Seng.

This decision makes sense when taken

out of context. If we consider only a business model in which a company seeks to attain an employee, it is a solid strategy to match their current salary.

The problem with this ruling is not in the business model, but rather it is in the scenario of the equally experienced man and woman. Women’s starting salaries after college graduation are reported to be lower than men’s, and so if employers offer pay based on former salaries, they will continue to pay women less.

Last week’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed by Fresno County school employee Aileen Rizo, who earned less than men in the same positions as her.

As her lawyer Dan Siegel put it, the decision is tantamount to “OK-ing a system that perpetuates the inequity in compensation for women.”

The wage gap has been a fact of life since women entered the American workforce in large numbers during World War II and in waves during the 1960s. In the ’60s, women made about 60 percent of what men in the same positions did. Of course, women were new to the workforce then and did not have the same experience as men.

The gap steadily decreased over the next few decades, but the decrease has stagnated since the early 2000s, leaving us at the current 80 cents to a dollar ratio that does not appear to be changing anytime soon. At least, not while factors like the 9th Circuit Court ruling open avenues for the gap to perpetuate and potentially even increase, taking us back into the past.

It is predicted that women will not receive equal pay for equal work until the year 2059 at the earliest. If we don’t look to the future instead of the past and broaden the Equal Pay Act’s protections, America will be holding back half its population for at least another 42 years.

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

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The French Election Garrett Reynolds The United States and France have been intertwined since the birth of the American Republic. This close relationship and shared western culture has brought both countries to the forefront of international politics, and this shared election season between the two states has seemed to bring them even closer together.

Here and abroad, the left-right conflict has been intruded upon by a new party, a sort of populist response to elite government. This new fervor culminated in the Donald Trump presidency in the U.S., and in France it shows itself in the notable support for French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of the National Front.

Le Pen’s proposals, for the most part, are reactionary, and will hurt France in the long run, especially her domestic policies. Perhaps the most extreme of these proposals, her plan to shut down especially “extremist” mosques, is an attack on religious liberty. Except for her views on French involvement with the rest of Europe, Le Pen’s programs are ill-advised.

The liberal-center candidate Emmanuel Macron of his new French political entity En Marche! has the best combination of both right and left wing policies to improve the wellbeing of the French state and its people. The main points of Macron’s policy involve deregulation, a tax cut, increased infrastructure spending, and a unification of the Eurozone.

As a center-right individual, I agree with Macron’s plan. Deregulation will help France even more than it would the U.S., and given France’s cumbersome system of rules in the economic sphere, a tax cut would incentivize investment. Better infrastructure helps almost every party in the French state. I would, however, disagree with the push toward a more unified Eurozone. This cross-spectrum of left and right policies has earned Macron the support of center-right candidate François Fillon and left-socialist voice Manuel Valls.

Meanwhile, Le Pen is advocating for a variety of populist policies, such immigration restrictions, creating a stronger national identity, and increasing tariffs, along with greater welfare benefits.

These proposals won’t help France.

Over-extensive immigration restriction will simply cultivate French intolerance toward foreigners and create a homogenous population. That’s not true French unity. A unified country does not consist of one demographic, but a variety of demographics united through a shared set of values.

An increase in tariffs will simply make it harder for France to export, further restricting the struggling French economy and appreciating the Euro. Increasing welfare benefits, reducing the hourly work week, and lowering the retirement age would also hurt France’s economy. All these policies do is incentivize short-termminded voters to support Le Pen, and it seems to be working, for now.

One of the only redeeming qualities about Le Pen’s program is her emphasis on France’s separation from the European Union. Most liberal-center minds support the E.U., as it links Europe economically and reduces transaction costs. Despite these advantages, it’s difficult for a sovereign state to exist without complete control of its central bank. France is at the whim of the highly bureaucratic European Central Bank.

Creating an independent currency will allow France to make quicker economic decisions to navigate the complex global marketplace, and Le Pen wants to do just this. This does not mean, however, that France should exclude itself from other facets of the E.U. Reduced trade barriers and a linked economy bring Europe together, and France should keep these benefits while regaining control over its economy.

In almost every election, the ideal politician holds a combination of different forms of policy. If Macron can bring populist energy combined with effective economic policy, and make France inclusive, yet not beholden to the whims of the E.U., then France, Europe, and the world in general will benefit.

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

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At Annual Event, a Taste of Italy, One Stall at a Time This year’s Taste of the North End brought an eclectic mix of the historic neighborhood’s best food and culture.

By William Batchelor Asst. Metro Editor Laughter and the tantalizing aroma of Italian cuisine filled the air inside the Steriti Memorial Rink in the North End Friday night. The occasion was the annual Taste of the North End event, where 35 of the neighborhood’s best restaurants gathered together for a worthy cause.

Classic Italian staples like risotto, meatballs, and cannoli’s were served alongside innovative dishes like truffled polenta and grilled octopus. An estimated 600 visitors were in attendance, making the rounds to their favorite North End restaurants and bidding in the silent auction.

The event was founded in 1993 by North End restaurateur Donato Frattaroli in order to raise money for Casa Monte Casino, a facility where families would stay while seeking treatment at hospitals. 24 years, Frattaroli got 15 North End restaurants together and hosted the first ever Taste of the North.

Fifteen years ago, Frattaroli partnered with North End Waterfront Health CEO James Luisi to allocate proceeds from the event to benefit the organization. The nonprofit organization offers healthcare services to the diverse populations living in and around the North End neighborhood.

As a government-funded health center, North End Waterfront Health doesn’t turn away any patients regardless of their ability to pay.

Zachary Goodale serves as the public affairs coordinator of North End Waterfront Health in addition to being the event coordinator for Taste of the North End. Goodale explained that the organization is unlike other healthcare centers in Boston.

“We offer a lot of things that typical other health centers wouldn’t like transportation services,” Goodale said. “We also do a lot of outreach projects for the youth and elderly in our neighborhood.”

Year after year the event grew more popular, eventually outgrowing the New England Aquarium in 2010

and moving to DCR’s Steriti Rink. This year, Goodale and his event committee began preparation for the event as early as November, sending out letters to North End restaurants and sponsors for donations.

The event is also known for auctioning one-of-a-kind sports memorabilia as the silent auction held as the center of the rink. The auction features signed jerseys and posters from Boston athletes and teams. The grand prize at the auction was an extravagant seven-day Italian getaway package to Abruzzo, Italy. Goodale suggested that it’s likely the event raised $100,000 from the auction, ticket sales, and sponsors.

According to Goodale, each year Neptune Oyster accumulates the longest line at the event. Goodale said that its booth is always positioned close to the door, so the piles of oyster shells can immediately be discarded.

Owner of Neptune Oyster Jeff Nace and his staff spent the night shucking fresh oysters to the delight of hungry guests. The oysters are best eaten raw with a light sprinkle of lemon, or a dab of tabasco for a kick.

“We have been part of the event for 12 years. It’s a great cause.” Nace said.

“My daughter grew up in the North End so we feel part of the community.”

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09 made an appearance late into the evening, shaking hands and embracing members of the North End community. In an interview with The Heights, Walsh expressed his affection for the annual event.

“It’s a great event supporting a great cause down in the North End of Boston,” Walsh said. “The best food in America is probably in this hockey rink tonight.”

Each year, the organizing committee comprised of Goodale, Frattaroli, Luisi, and more decide on two public figures from the North End to honor. Goodale explained that the committee likes to choose someone from outside the restaurant business, and someone inside the restaurant business to honor.

This year, former Massachusetts Speaker of the House Salvatore Dimasi and owner of Taranta restaurant José

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The evening’s offerings ranged from truffeled polenta to octopus, while the silent auction featured famous sports memorabelia.

Duarte were recipients of the events’ awards. Goodale noted that he it was Duarte’s time to be honored after all his charity work as a North End community activist. As Walsh took to the stage to make some closing remarks, he praised Dimasi for his political contributions.

“When he was the Speaker of the House, universal health insurance was passed, marriage equality was passed, including other landmark legislation that we have.” Walsh said.

Despite the North End recently becoming a hotspot for newer businesses, it will always be synonymous with

family-owned Italian restaurants. The Taste of the North End event proved that there are many who still feel deeply connected to the neighborhood.

“It’s a proud food area and a proud historical heritage area so people feel very tied to the North End,” Goodale said. n

In Macbeth Spin Off, ‘peerless’ Darkly Satirizes College Admissions Using themes of madness and murder, the Shakespeare-inspired play delves into the complexities of the twin psyche.

MaryElizabeth Mooney Heights Staff A scream pierces a silent theatre as the lights come up on stage left. Two girls, dressed identically, stand in front of a row of lockers. The girl on the left clutches an envelope in one fist and a letter in the other, visibly rattled. She utters one word, “deferred,” as her twin looks on in horror. After a back and forth exchange of disbelief, the second girl says “there’s always regular decision,” to which the first replies “No, they only take one.”

So begins peerless, a play about college admissions with a fatal twist.

While the college admissions process is a harrowing experience under normal circumstances, peerless, a play written

by Jiehae Park and directed by Steven Bogart, takes this anxiety to new levels.

Currently produced by Company One Theatre (C1) in Rabb Hall at the Boston Public Library, peerless runs through May 27 at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square, the

first time that a fully-staged production will occur in the space. In an effort to make the piece accessible to all, the event is pay-what-you-want with no minimum contribution.

Peerless focuses on twin sisters, M and L, whose devotion to one another may only be overshadowed by their desire to get into “The College.” L has stayed back a year so that M could get into The College first and thus help L get in with “sibling preference.” The show follows their downward spiral into madness after M gets deferred from early application.

Based loosely on Macbeth, peerless takes the classic work by William Shakespeare for a modern jaunt.

Instead of witches, peerless includes an ostracized “Dirty Girl,” a loner serving as the play’s stereotypical student who doesn’t quite fit in. Rumors swill around her, only adding to the mystique of her weird utterings and the influence they have over M and L. M and L essentially become Macbeth and Lady Macbeth respectively. Both are

driven and determined, and L becomes M’s motivator when the increasingly dire consequences of their actions begin plaguing her conscience. The girls murder their way into gaining admittance, killing off boyfriends and

in the 1960s. June and Jennifer rarely spoke to other people, and moved very slowly, seemingly always in sync with each other. Their story is crime ridden, and resulted in the mysterious death of Jennifer at the age of 29.

“We are all just excited to put it out there and talk about everything. Our goal is to start conversations.”

- Kim Klasner, who plays M in peerless schoolmates in an attempt to get the “one spot” that was taken from them.

Playwright Jiehae Park found inspiration for M and L from the infamous Gibbons twins, June and Jennifer, identical girls who grew up in Wales

Much of the dialogue between the girls is fast paced, with one always finishing the other’s sentence. Kim Klasner and Khloe Alice Lin, who play M and L, respectively, did a lot of work outside of rehearsal to craft the

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Last weekend, the Boston Public Library’s opened peerless, a pay-what-you-want theater production that makes the enthralling story accessible to all Bostonians.

relationship between the sisters. They talked about their own high school experiences, and what they thought the childhood of characters like L and M would be like.

And, according to Klasner, each spent lots and lots of time perfecting the back and forth dialogue. Their hard work is evident, as they seamlessly deliver the line “Me.” “And then-” “You.” “You.” “And then-” “Me.” It is a mantra that they repeat throughout the show as they go about their evil deeds, reaffirming that all they do is with the end goal of both of them attending “The College.”

The versatile set allows the actors to move fluidly from one scene to another, giving the show, which runs for an hour and a half without intermission, an easy pace that keeps the audience engaged. Lighting and sound design complement the story and acting, matching the descent of M and L into madness.

The show deals with a number of hot button issues, including race and suicide. At one point, when the twins are discussing why M was deferred, she says “but I’m a double minority—Asian and a woman!” At another, there is a frank discussion of suicidal thoughts.

While the play is a dark satire of the process of college admissions, it also doesn’t lack genuinely humorous moments. Klasner, who plays M, feels that the show does a good job of balancing the heavier topics with the lighter ones, and using them to complement each other. “[It] makes you laugh and catches you off-guard,” she said. “It gives people a good way to approach a topic that usually is hard to bring up.”

In the end, however, peerless wants to grab your attention and make you think.

“We are all just excited to put it out there and talk about everything,” Klasner said. “Our goal is to start conversations.” n

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Khari King discusses his passionate quest to connect with listeners through intimate tales and genuine sentiments.

BY CALEB GRIEGO Arts & Review Editor It only takes one person to believe in your dreams for them to come true: you.

Luckily, Khari King, CSOM ’19, has many more believers than that as he dreams of a music career. After releasing his first song last April, an EP in December, a series of covers, and projects, King is determined to establish himself on campus, in Boston, and elsewhere as a creative force in R&B, hip hop, and rap.

King, an Atlanta, Ga. native and selfdescribed family man, has been surrounded by those of leaders and creative, cultural minds. Among painters, to musicians, and an NAACP chapter leader, King has been enveloped in the artistic community from a young age. Though the influences were numerous, singing was never something King thought would interest him long term.

His casual relationship with music was as ordinary as any other. But when he got to BC, those things changed.

After Sing It to The Heights in 2016, one of his fellow members on Sexual Chocolate, had told King his voice was something to be cultivated. It was then that he decided, it was time to hit record. Many would not know what to expect, walking into a professional recording studio for the first time. King was no different. Sitting isolated in the recording booth, singing with soul, may have seemed a daunting task. More daunting would be the exit, back into the world, out to listen to whatever came out of you.

Headphones on. Pursed lips. Play.

“And after I heard the song I thought ‘I love this,’” he said.

At this moment, Khari understood the real chance he had a chance making something great.

“When I got here, I didn’t even think about it or pursue it,” King said. “But if I can do this for a living, why not giving it a shot.”

This kind of discovery is emblematic of the ebb and flow King strives for as an musician. Organically, through his friends, the extent of his talents were discovered. In song and style, he also hopes to continue down natural avenues of progression. King wants to expand his roots in a mellow kind of R&B and soul, while foraying into the realms of rap and hip-hop. The wide swath of style may seem daunting to some, but this trans-genre movement is no accident, as it represents the dynamism King hopes to attain.

“I’m a big fan of the chameleon artist that can go into any sort of genre and make it their own,” he said.

This notion of fluidity and flow is some-

thing he employs in his process. Starting with percussive elements, King establishes a base before adding embellishments through piano, guitar strums, and vocal hits. King attempts to “feel out the process” of instrumental development, at which point he says most of the work is done. At this crucial juncture, King finds the right way to splice himself seamlessly into his creation.

“It’s sort of unorthodox, but I’ve seen some other people do it too, but I just get on the microphone and start humming and seeing if there is anything I like,” he said. “When I play it back I go “Okay, I like that and I’ll use that as a melody and so on.”

By employing basic vocal machinations and movements, King explores the best way to present himself in song. He puts impetus on the idea that he must tread carefully with each addition and think about how to elegantly gift ideas and personality to his listeners. Without such tactful balance, the message may be lost in a given song. This process allows King to place a cohesive lyric element, in content and style, in relation to the other sounds he has crafted. For King, the delivery is one of the primary driving forces that distinguishes what the content is about and where it’s supposed to go.

King says that he knows a song is right when he sings it. All the thoughts put into the song are forgotten as he loses himself in the finished work.

“When you’re really passionate about it when you are singing and you don’t realize you have gone through the entire song or take, that’s when you know you’ve really immersed or lost yourself in the entire project,” he said.

As a result of all this time spent on perfecting the process, King hopes to yield a strong connection to his audience. King makes a point to speak about things he knows others can relate to. Though this is fueled by events or feelings in his own life, he nonetheless is very cognizant of how others can take his words in.

“There is this culture surrounding music that is just meant to glorify experiences people haven’t experienced themselves,” King said. “As much as music is supposed to be about you, it is supposed to be for the people you are giving it to.”

In his music, King speaks about relationship, nervousness, friends, and life in general. Their impact allows for him to connect to his peers on issues which all can relate.

Recently, he wrote a song having money, talking to a girl, getting her to hear him out, and the nervousness that is associated with all of that. For King, the beauty of music is that listeners can still put themselves into his songs with separate experiences, but can still connect to him.

“My ideal date is a burrito from Pelon and a beer, just hanging out,” he said. “I can’t give you something that I don’t know or I don’t have and that is something I hope people take away from my music, that I’m just like you.”

It is exactly the personal relatability that influenced the favorite line he has written.

Back in December, during a project he produced and wrote himself called “Messy Painter,” King captured something simple yet profound.

“It starts off and it says ‘You say you don’t love me the way that you used to anymore’ and that—and it’s sort of a small thing—but it’s a relatable all encompassing sort of line that people can hear and be like ‘Yeah. I’ve been through that.’ or ‘I understand that,’” he said. “You can derive so many personal experience from other people just from that small part there.”

In a roundabout way, this line also connects King to his roots. He laughed and recalled the first person he sang the line to—his mother. Valuing his mother’s critique, who has seen him grow up musically since the age of six her input was of considerable importance.

“But she said the first line of that song really highlighted my vocal trajectory,” he said.

That trajectory can really go places and King knows it. As he prepares for the summer, which will see performances in his hometown and New York, King eyes even bigger dreams. Though he expressed that it was more important to connect with people then win validation, he hopes to be a Grammy-winning artist. Detractors would rightly label King as a dreamer, but even there, King is conditioned-well to combat pessimism.

“My mom would always tell me, and I would always hear from other people, ‘If people aren’t laughing at your dreams then you’re not dreaming hard enough,” he said.

As King looks to the future, strong and unfettered, his attitude sets him up for success. He recently released a cover of Chance the Rapper’s “Sunday Candy,” with more covers on the way, along with a summers worth of experience. King will likely return as a force on campus to watch out for.

King was brimming with confidence, but exuded an air of humility for where he came from. With a reverential eye to the past, he looks ardently toward the future.

Much like his musical process, each moment is taken in with care.

Poetically verbalizing universal sentiments, whether it be in the booths in studios or in Eagle’s Nest, is sure to make waves at BC and beyond. 

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The Metafiction in Media

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Students Use Digital Tech to Frame Big Media Figures With Postmodern Slant

By Barrette Janney Executive Assistant O’Neill Library serves as the perennial watering hole for Boston College students during this unwieldy final exam season. A yearning for summer conflicts viciously with the demands of exams and papers, resulting in a flurry of restless students slaving over their keyboards in each and every crevice of the library’s five levels.

Level One, however, captured more than just stress-charged students and an aura of willed focus this week. It acted as the home to the Art and Digital Technology Exhibit of May 2017, an event sponsored by the Art, Art History, and Film Departments as well as BC Libraries. The gallery showcased upwards of 150 excerpts from the final projects of students partaking in a studio art course taught by Karl Baden, a professor in the film studies program.

Through various compilations of media and text, the students aimed to craft unique design and art-oriented pieces that resembled book, magazine, and album covers as well as advertisements and posters. Using the basic tools of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, the students created several different interpretations from a few thematic prompts and mainly indulged in a postmodern slant on wellknown media and media figures.

A myriad of pieces from the exhibit played with the iconic layout of Google’s homepage. One interpretation utilized a cartoon landscape of Winnie the Pooh and his friends, showing the yellow bear and Piglet as the “O”s in “Google” and inserting the entire scene within a speech bubble on a white background. The colorful image conveyed the imaginative powers that searching the internet can entail.

Another interpretation displayed the letters of Google within a primitive ocean landscape, with the “L” as the sail protruding from a boat on the horizon and a seagull resting on the “G.” Within the green-

and blue-colored waves lives the search engine, expressing how the web is a vast sea of knowledge and possibility at our fingertips.

The re-working of iconic movie posters with a Jaws flair manifested another hot topic of the exhibit. One image showed the poster for the recent sensation and awardwinner La La Land with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling dancing on the right and a gigantic shark devouring the lamp post traditionally lighting the couple’s scene, labeled as “Lala Jaws.” Another poster read “Jaws Up,” illustrating the balloon-elevated house whisking the Up characters away from the gaping mouth of the shark below.

The winner for most creative and and undoubtedly the most humorous of this genre had to be the Jaws-ified Mr. Bean movie poster in which the infamous silly man embodies the equally infamous sea creature, pointed teeth and all. Who knew that Mr. Bean could simultaneously delight and disturb? Well, anyone who’s watched Mr. Bean could actually reach this conclusion, which emphasizes the accuracy of what this digital manipulation offers.

Another umbrella topic was an advertisement for Absolut Vodka construed in various fashions. Everyone knows the label, and that white bold font was primarily maintained while the background was manipulated to fit the touch of each individual artist.

One picture presented “Absolut Lightning” with a white strike of lightning occupying the deep blue bottle on a white background while another highlighted “Absolut Paradise,” depicting the bottle on a tropical beach through a circular lens and showing the reflection of this image on a black backdrop. Such representations seem to hint at the culture established around drinking and party culture, one that promises the power of lightning or an escape into a more desired realm.

Other standouts included some poignant mockings of campaign posters.

One visualized “Corinne 2020,” with a purple-infused picture of the latest blonde Bachelor star imposed on light blue, poking fun at how our current political leader arose from reality TV fame and criticizing how we as a society uphold pop culture so vehemently that we’ve blurred the lines between entertainment and politics.

Another campaign poster assumed a technology stance, displaying “Olympics 2072” on a red planet emblazoned with craters resembling the five Olympic rings. This expressed how technology is developing so rapidly that the inhabiting of outer space by mankind and our customs is not so far out of reach.

A specific eye-catcher was the image of a plastic bottle of water pouring into a wine glass, in which the transparency of the water transformed into a bright scarlet liquid. The obvious allusion to is here manipulated in a clever way, merging the simplicity of the image One subtle feature of the exhibit as a whole was its anonymous display of students’ work. Whether intentional or not, the nominal absence highlighted the feeling of stark contrast from reality that emanated from the pieces, stripping away the personal connection of a human behind the work and leaving the digital images to speak for themselves.

The overall atmosphere of the gallery space solidified the exhibit’s amateur candidness. Students occupied the scattered chairs and tables of the confined room throughout the day, equipped with their own digital devices and continuously filling the space with both the source of their media and the very tool for manipulating it.

Such a contrast of the physical reality against digital reality marked this exhibit as more than just some final project necessary to complete a course. It illustrated the power of the digital, a universal tool allowing the real to adapt to the creative inkling of any inspired individual. n

Isabella Dow In the dark ages of my life, I largely considered meta-art, or art that references itself, to be a fake art form. I always expected songs or movies to forget that they’re artistic entities, and have the delusional mindset that they’re living in the same world as the audience. The characters aren’t supposed to know they’re in a story. They’re not supposed to talk to us, or act like they know they’re at the mercy of a writer with an overactive imagination. We’re supposed to be submerged in a work, and disregard the fact that we’re usually looking at something fictional and scripted.

I have since become enlightened to the clever ways of metafiction, and consider it a welcome change from characters that are oblivious to the lives they live. I’ve even experienced second-hand embarrassment when characters did cringe-worthy things that I couldn’t prevent. All I could do is sit there in horror as characters said the wrong thing, or proceeded with their halfbaked plans, while dramatic irony laughed maniacally in my face. I mean, hasn’t every reader ever wanted to scream to Romeo that Juliet wasn’t actually dead, she was just faking it like a crafty little opossum?

That exasperating scenario is one that riles up its audience, and proves how effective trapping characters in a fictional bubble can be.

Often, real-world circumstances affect the course of fictional events, which creators usually choose not to acknowledge.

With TV series especially, there’s a regular need to adjust story arcs as actors or writers leave the show over the course of a its lifetime. And people get upset when their favorite characters are written out of a script, which is often done through some wild plot twist or a convenient, lethal event. Anyone who watched Christina Yang take a job halfway across the world in Grey’s Anatomy has faced the bitter reality that their fictional obsession is affected by real people. I’ve even risked looking completely callous by telling people that a whole work is fictional anyways, so it doesn’t matter if a character trips down an elevator shaft unexpectedly, but for some reason, no one wants to hear that.

Meta-reference can’t be used in every creative work, because otherwise people

would never be able to entertain alternative worlds, or become fully invested in characters and plots. However, when used mindfully, the brilliance of metafiction shines. Meta-reference allows characters to defy the role they’re expected to play, namely, as pawns on a chessboard. A character might do this by breaking the fourth wall. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of my favorite examples of this, as Ferris will talk directly to the viewer to explain why he must skip school or engage in other shenanigans. It’s like he’s bringing the viewer in on his thought processes and the events of his life, and the viewer is able to laugh with its protagonists instead of at them. There’s a sense of camaraderie as the viewer builds a seemingly reciprocated interaction with characters, and makes the character seem more real by blurring the line between fiction and reality.

Deadpool takes the concept of metafiction several steps further, with its irreverent title sequence, the jokes characters crack about their actors, and the explicit reminders that the audience is supposed to be watching a romantic action movie.

By the movie’s end, Deadpool gets extra sassy through its reference to another meta scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Both movies have a smug post-credits scene telling viewers to “go home” because “it’s over.” This scene demonstrates the characters’ knowledge that they have an audience, and that the events of their lives have been used for entertainment purposes. For some reason, the characters relish and even rub this fact in viewers’ faces, which allows them to take on a life of their own, outside the script. In a way, it humanizes the characters by giving them as much information as the viewer has, and giving them a sense of control they wouldn’t otherwise have. Deadpool drew attention to its status as a movie by referencing another film viewers have seen, which invoked common ground with them. If a meta-reference within a meta-reference isn’t delightfully meta-referential, then I don’t know what is.

Meta-art can be a lot of fun, in all of its mildly pretentious, post-modernist glory.

You might even say this whole column is mildly pretentious, and you’d be correct.

You would also have to acknowledge that reminding you this is a newspaper column is a meta-referential tactic, and then you would see that I’ve already taken this topic way too far.

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

Shows to the Left of Me, Series to the Right: Too Much Television

Jacob Schick We are living in the golden age of television. Movie stars have left the big screen to play in high-quality shows.

There are an increasing number of television providers, and most of them aren’t even on basic cable. Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Hulu, Showtime, and more are all producing their own shows at a higher rate. Television acting, directing, and writing are all becoming more viable or desirable than the same job in the movie industry. The fan bases are getting bigger and bigger, and it’s almost “cool” to be a part of one. People stare wideeyed if you don’t catch their reference to Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead (why people like that show escapes me).

Television shows are getting better and

better, and there are more and more of them.

So why do I find myself watching less and less television? This is something I’ve noticed recently. I think it’s fairly obvious that most of us are watching less actual television. That is to say, television that you get through cable or satellite and has commercials and air times. We have options that allow us to watch our favorite shows without waiting for the exact time slot every week. We can record it with a DVR, we can download the channel’s app and watch it anywhere we want, or, if the show isn’t on basic cable, we can watch it on Netflix or HBO GO or Hulu or Amazon Prime or any other number of places at literally any time of day.

But when I say I watch less television, I mean this. With the increased influx of new shows arriving every month, week, and day, I have found myself watching fewer and fewer shows. I have withdrawn into the comfort of a handful of television shows that I truly enjoy. In fact, at time of writing, there is no show that I

CALEB GRIEGO Arts & Review Editor Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hits theaters this Friday. The sequel to the 2014 smash-hit is ready to bring more of the beloved humor, wit, and stakes that the galaxy has come to love. Somehow, Vol. 2 topped the highly successful soundtrack that made Vol. 1, with a slew of oldies hits including “Brady” by Looking Glass, “Father and Son” by Cat Stevens, and “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac. As Starlord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Rocket Racoon (Bradley Cooper), Baby Groot (Vin Diesel), and Drax (Dave Bautista) suit up to save the galaxy, stars are sure to align for a hit.

am currently waiting for new episodes besides Rick and Morty. Of course, when Game of Thrones comes out, I’ll watch it, but I’m not holding my breath. Gasp! It almost sounds like heresy when I say it, but I don’t really feel very impatient for the new season. I binged the first three seasons of Silicon Valley in the week before the first episode of the fourth season aired, but I haven’t seen the new one yet. I watch new episodes of Archer whenever I remember to check. In fact, the only times I watch television with any sort of frequency are the nightly rewatches of The Office with my girlfriend, and I’ve seen all nine seasons at least four times (and “Dinner Party” about 40).

We’ve become so inundated with weekly updates of what’s hot in television that it’s just so much noise. Every day a new, critically acclaimed show is released in the form of a 13-episode, 20-hour season by Netflix, or the latest season of a gritty, somber drama wraps up on cable.

There is so much out there, it’s hard to know what to pick. I find myself stick-

ing to the same old shows I’ve always watched, venturing outside of this little bubble on the rare occasion the fancy strikes me. I keep a list of the television shows I want to watch and this year I’ve added dozens to the list (Mr. Robot, The OA, The Crown, Into the Badlands, Billions, Empire, Atlanta, The People v. OJ Simpson, Veep, The Leftovers, and more), while the new shows I’ve actually started are far fewer in number (Silicon Valley, Ballers, Westworld, Big Little Lies, and The Young Pope are it for this year).

I’ve even fallen off with shows I used to watch and love. I watched the first season, loved it, and never found the time or inclination to keep up with it (Fargo, Better Call Saul, Narcos, Black Mirror, True Detective). This doesn’t even factor in all of the old TV shows I keep telling myself I will watch, and yet never do (The Wire, The Sopranos, The X-Files, M.A.S.H.).

There are so many television shows out there, so many that everyone thinks are mind-blowingly amazing, it’s hard to know where to start. It’s tough to justify

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Assoc. Arts & Review Editor A new independent movie, The Lovers, will be released this Friday. This movie was originally shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and is a new studio project by A24. This studio, founded quite recently in 2012, has orchestrated films like Ex Machina, Moonlight, The Lobster, and 20th Century Women, and with this track record, The Lovers is sure to be great. The film is about an aging married couple who are both cheating on each other. They come close to breaking it off individually, but begin to fall back in love with each other. The film will comedically examine a love story from a unique perspective.

investing 40 hours into bingeing the first three seasons of whatever show it is, because I might be missing out on something else. I know it isn’t very logical, but when presented with more choices than you can possibly explore, it’s easier to just stick with what you know, especially when what you know already takes up a good deal of your time to stay on top of.

I’ve begun to fall right back into this trap again and I can’t help myself. With summer fast approaching, I’ve begun to build up my Netflix queue and my HBO watchlist with new shows to catch up on or see the new episodes/seasons. I know that, inevitably, I won’t get to all, or even most of the shows I want to.

I’ll probably watch the bare minimum of television to stay up to date with the references, but the more this happens, the more I fall behind on my pop-culture literacy.

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

ISABELLA DOW

Asst. Arts & Review Editor Netflix’s science fiction drama, Sense8, will return for a second season this Friday. After its holiday special aired last December, fans will be pleased to know that their binge-worthy series will continue exploring its addictive premise. The show centers around eight people that are cosmically connected and must work together to save the world. While this vaguely sounds like the plot from Heroes, the show contains a mix of political, religious, and social commentary that many fans find unique, and hopefully the new episodes will deliver its characteristic blend of intellect and action.

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Guardians Vol. 2 Supplies Humor, Color in Place of Plot

BY ANDRES GARCIA ANGULO For the Heights

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is just as one would expect—a lighthearted action/comedy superhero movie with amazing visual effects and tons of inappropriate humor. Though some might criticize it for falling into Marvel’s now tired formula, the film actually takes expectations and elevates them to a new level, without necessarily breaking new ground. Genre-conforming boundaries were already broken by this film’s predecessor, while Vol. 2 explores where the new boundaries lie, somewhere at the edge of the galaxy.

In Vol. 2, the Guardians of the

Galaxy are hired by an alien race, the Sovereigns, to protect important batteries from an invader. When the job is done, Rocket Racoon (Bradley Cooper) steals some of these batteries, leading the Sovereigns to set out to recover their property and inflict punishment on the Guardians. While evading the Sovereigns in pursuit, the Guardians try to escape and are helped by a mysterious entity. For many characters, such as Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) and Gamora (Zoe Zaldana), demons from their past continue to loom menacingly ahead. The Guardians are placed in dire circumstances, risky intergalactic travel, and left answering to Quill’s own family.

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The plot of Vol. 2 was not perfect. It followed much the same Marvel structure seen in the first and was rather predictable as a result. The Sovereigns served little purpose, other than reintroducing us to The Guardians and distracting from the plot. It is possible that they served as some sort of commentary on the issue of the search for perfection, but the film never explored these social issues. Even when the film tried to touch on more serious issues, it only gently scratches the surface.

During one scene, the film attempts to comment on heavier issues such as drones and prostitution, but, not wanting to lose the lighter tone, they were largely brushed over, making their mere mention feel superfluous. It would have been better for flow had these commentaries not been attempted at all.

What the film lacks in story, it makes up for in humor. The self-aware style was an expected, albeit necessary, carry over from the first film. There are some corny moments and the movie almost always makes an effort to poke fun at itself. The quality of the humor overall was substantially better than in the first installment, as much of the introductory character humor of the first could give way to more substantive jokes. Though not at the level of Deadpool, the film’s humor stems from its crudeness—an intelligent (or as intelligent as possible) dissertation on poop and bodily fluid. It will be difficult for fans to determine if it’s an

action film with comedy or a comedy film with action.

When it comes to action, the film mixed in visuals in a breathtaking way.

Every fight sequence (whether in space or in a planet) was beautiful. Vol. 2 is filled with vivid colors and sceneries, and the camera is always looking for the best way to showcase the scenery or the action at hand. It sometimes runs the risk of looking like Starbucks’ new Unicorn Frappuccino, but it never gets to that point. If given the chance to see Vol. 2 in 3D, consider spending the extra $5. For this film, 3D adds to the experience and elevates the visuals in magnificent ways.

The characters were well developed, especially the secondary ones. There are some quick character explorations that were unexpected, and the relationships and motivations seemed genuine. This is in great part due to both the writing and the acting. Pratt embodies the brash Starlord. Cooper, though just a voice, solidified his characters’ emotions. Kurt Russell, as Ego, Quill’s father, had depth and relatability, even while playing an ancient cosmic being.

For those looking for a fun way to spend an evening and start the summer, do not miss Vol. 2. It is not too shallow, but not too deep. Just like the galaxy itself, there is much to be found in the various corners of this film. It isn’t perfect, but it is a whole lot of fun. 

Netflix Comedy Examines Race in College Context

BY TOMAS GUARNA Heights Staff

In February, Netflix released the first teaser trailer for Justin Simien’s series Dear White People, and some dark corner of the Internet didn’t take it lightly. Hours later, #BoycottNetflix was a popular hashtag, and Twitter was filled with cries of “white genocide” and “reverse racism.”

Three months later, the show seems to have had different luck than the one the alt-right would’ve wished. The show has a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, and it has the potential to become one of Netflix’s most prominent shows.

A rework of the 2014 Sundancewinning indie film, Dear White People follows Sam White (Obba Babatundé). A black student at Winchester University, a predominantly white elite colleges, she hosts a radio show (“Dear White People”), where she cunningly talks about the race tensions on campus. It also focuses on the experiences of Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), the dean’s son who leads a black student union and plans to run for president of the student government, and Lionel Higgins (DeRon Horton), a black sophomore who writes for the school’s newspaper and has numerous characteristics that cause people to to doubt his heterosexuality.

Sam, Troy, and Lionel find themselves in a turmoiled campus after invitations were mysteriously sent for a blackface party, which was crashed and shut down by black student activists.

As Sam denounces in her radio show, the party has brought to light the deep racism that, she argues, is engrained in Winchester itself.

The success of the series can be probably attributed to the freshness of its portrayal of black youth. The show stems away from one-sided, stereotypical portrayals of black people in media. It denies all claims of political correctness, and presents profound characters willing to poke fun at themselves. Winchester students are complex and amusing, and the show manages to submerge them in Gossip Girl-caliber drama while also throwing in a witty joke or two in the process. Some of them are outspoken activists, others are career-focused overachievers, others just want to fit in—but, most importantly, none of them are simplistic.

The Netflix show does some smart departures from the earlier film. Except for some actors, such as Bell, the production mainly recasted all the roles, leaving behind some awkward performances. The script is also interestingly rewritten, giving some characters more depth. The series, for example, delves more into the Lionel’s coming to terms with him being gay, and explores more interestingly the sociability of the group of bourgeois black students. Moreover, some uncomfortable stretches and plot holes are fixed, making the story much more credible.

What it does keep from its predecessor, however, is its strong comment

about racial issues on campus. The show does not fall short of showing how Black students, the administration, and the predominantly white student body clash.

It presents an extremely contemporary and pressing issue, however, with an ingenious humorous twist. It also deserves praise for its accurate portrayal of white allies, often awkwardly felt amid guilt and self-exclusion.

The series’ aesthetic is one of its biggest feats, too. Heavily borrowing from the film, style of symmetrical shots, Instagram-faded hues and overall grim Wes Anderson-vibes gives the series’ visuals an important dose of

originality. The series aims to be visually tongue-in-cheek pretentious, and achieves this without letting any shot lose its authenticity and screencapworthiness.

Netflix’s bet for Simien’s series is a bold one, yet undeniably successful. It appeals to a generation willing to question its presuppositions and to engage in a discussion about race on campus.

The show’s greatest merit is doing that without losing its comic relief.

With complex characters, tumultuous drama, and hilarious gags, Dear White People proves that being “woke” can be also be quite fun. 

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Collapse. The film opens on scenes of devastation, as a collection of footage taken on shaky cell phones shows people from all walks of life falling in public, unconscious.

The filmmakers chose to open the film with its ending, revealing to viewers a disturbing depiction of an opioid overdose.

HBO’s newest documentary, Warning: This Drug May Kill You, is brutally honest about the opioid epidemic in America, making it incredibly difficult to watch.

The premise isn’t new, as the film jumps from family to family, each affected by

opioid addiction, offering viewers the chance to observe the many ways it can destroy a home. But the film views the issue through a distinct lens, postulating that the prominence of opioid addiction in America stems from misinformation doled out by Purdue Pharma in the ’90s.

Its false promises, the filmmakers argue, have led doctors to overprescribe addictive painkillers like OxyContin and Percocet to patients, who quickly become addicted.

After offering up what essentially becomes the thesis, the film then begins hopping from family to family, showing the events surrounding a family member’s addiction. We are first introduced to

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1 That’s What I Like Bruno Mars 2 Shape Of You Ed Sheeran 3 HUMBLE. Kendrick Lamar 4 Despacito Fonsi & Yankee ft. Bieber 5 Mask Off Future 6 Something Just Like This Chainsmokers & Coldplay 7 DNA. Kendrick Lamar 8 iSpy KYLE ft. Lil Yachty

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“RIGHT NOW” HAIM

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HBO Doc Offers Critical Look At Opioid Epidemic

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Stephany Gay, a mom and wife in Illinois who, after harboring an addiction to painkillers, soon moved on to heroin.

Gay’s account of her addiction explores the slippery slope of addiction, recalling that doctors first prescribed her OxyContin at 16 after being hospitalized with kidney stones. She became addicted during this time, enjoying the feeling that comes from taking the pills.

The film then introduces viewers to the Doyle family in California, as the three teenagers all recount their mother’s addiction and how it tore the family apart. The mother’s addiction began after giving birth with a C-section procedure and being prescribed, unsurprisingly, OxyContin. After attending rehab for the eleventh time, her husband eventually divorced her and the three children only visited her on occasion.

She soon overdosed and died, a day after checking into a hospital for a kidney stone.

The children recall seeing at least eight orange pill-bottles of opioids at her bedside when she died—serving to remind them that the hospital and doctors initiated her addiction and were also instrumental in her death as a result. The children’s father remarked that the hospital should have known better.

The film then centers in on a support group for those who knew someone who died from an opioid overdose. The group’s founder, Mrs. Cole, decided to start the group after the sudden death of her son,

Brendan. One of the most searing parts of her account of her son’s addiction was the difficulty he had during withdrawals.

Mrs. Cole remembered that after Brendan returned from rehab, initially, she didn’t understand him, demanding he shower and clean himself up. It wasn’t until after his death that she learned that many withdrawing opioid addicts cannot shower or brush their teeth because it’s often too painful. Soon enough, other members of the support group begin to share their stories about loved ones. The filmmakers’ use of home footage is particularly difficult to watch, with the knowledge that a child once so innocent could grow to harbor such a painful addiction.

The film, by its end, fails to provide any concrete answer for how to solve this pressing issue. Purdue Pharma, which advocated for long term opioid use in the 1990s, plead guilty to a case years ago against them, yet the prominence of opioids persists. The film even explores the shortcomings of rehab, showing that opioid addicts often fall back into addiction upon returning home. The film, therefore, serves more as a warning, demonstrating how any person, rich or poor, young or old, can easily fall down the slippery slope of addiction. The tragedy of these vignettes is that the addiction experienced feels inevitable, and our human will is often powerless when staring down a little white pill. 

After a nearly four year hiatus since the release of their previous album Days Are Gone, HAIM is returning this year with Something to Tell You, the three sisters’ second studio album.

As a forerunner to the eventual release of the album, the trio released a music video on April 27 for the single “Right Now.” The video is directed by the indelible Paul Thomas Anderson, and the synthesis of beautiful camerawork and a fresh sound made for a great video.

The video takes place in the HAIM’s recording studio in North Hollywood, as the band plays through their new song.

Anderson’s camerawork is truly remarkable, as he sustains interest by simply floating between the three sisters, checking in on what each is doing (singing, drumming etc.).

Impressively, the video opens on a sustained long-take, as the first cut isn’t made until exactly 3:40 minutes into the video. The camera captures the inherent claustrophobia that comes from moving around a small studio, while also drawing attention to the sustained perfection embodied by the band’s performance in the video.

These long shots arew very reminiscent of other movies by the director, such as Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love.

Sonically, the new song from HAIM is delightfully injected with energy. The vocals on the track are raw, yet playful, while the interplay between the sisters works remarkably well.

Throughout the track , the sisters seem to be calling and responding to one another—each providing a distinct and welcome voice, creating a feeling of euphoric rhapsody.

The song begins quietly, as only a lone voice is heard. As the song progresses, more guitar and heavy percussion are added to the mix, building up to an explosion of energy and emotion by the song’s end. 

SINGLE REVIEWS BY TOMAS GUARNA KYGO & ELLIE GOULDING “First Time” While a solid plagiarism case for The Chainsmokers, “First Time” is a catchy tune that will be around for a while. Kygo teams up with Ellie Goulding to produce a song about a young couple facing the hardships of love. Bet you haven’t heard that one before.

KATY PERRY FT. MIGOS “Bon Appétit” “Bon Appétit” raises up numerous question marks from its audience. What is going on with Katy Perry? Who let her make this song?

What does this song even mean? What has she done to her hair? A cringe-worthy, factoryproduced single, its only merit is Migos’ appearance.

PHOENIX “J-Boy” Phoenix’s new song makes you feel like you’re navigating space in an ’80s video game, or something along those lines. A cheesy romantic song in usual late-Phoenix fashion, it does not fall short of showcasing some lyrical masterpieces.

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WHATEVER IT TAKES Despite losing two star scorers, Katie Crowley returned BC women’s hockey to the Frozen Four yet again.

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ortheastern women’s hockey unassumingly hopped over the boards and skated toward the visiting locker room at Kelley Rink. Goaltender Brittany Bugalski pumped her fist, and the rest of the team gathered around her in their normal fashion before hitting the showers. But the Huskies’ 2-1 win was something special. They had just beaten Boston College women’s hockey at home, something no other team had done since March of 2014—63 games ago.

All but three of BC’s players had never lost a home game. For some of them, this was only their fifth loss in their entire careers, home or away. But instead of highlighting miscues and poor play, this loss highlights something else—the fact that BC has been a contender at the highest level for years. Losing, it seems, has become something of a foreign concept aside from near misses at a national championship.

The story has been written before.

Over the last decade, Crowley has built the program from a perennial doormat to a national powerhouse. BC has won three Beanpots, two Hockey East Tournament titles, and reached five Frozen Fours since Crowley was promoted to head coach. It seemed like this year would be like any other: the Eagles looked like contenders not only for a Hockey East Championship, but for more.

Nothing about this season would be similar to previous ones, however, except for the result.

Many in the media wrote off the Eagles given the dropoff in talent from the graduating seniors, most notably 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award winner Alex Carpenter.

The Eagles also lost Haley Skarupa, who finished second only to Carpenter in many scoring statistics. Nevertheless, those closest to Crowley knew of what she could do.

“I think they have it,” Digit Murphy, Crowley’s old coach, told The Heights

after Crowley’s 2015-16 Person of the Year Award win. “I think they’re going to win it all next year.”

It was harder than Crowley might have even imagined. To compile the loss of six starters, the Eagles were decimated by mid-season departures and countless injuries to important players. Despite the trials and tribulations, they came within two wins of Murphy’s prediction, with a Frozen Four appearance to supplement a Beanpot and Hockey East title. In the process, Crowley, The Heights’ 2016-17 Coach of the Year, put together the most impressive season of her career.

“Obviously, last year was a successful year for us, but we wanted to put that behind us,” she said. “We wanted to push forward and look ahead and I think, overall, everyone did a good job of that.”

To win at such a level, Crowley would have to make massive adjustments following the 40-1 campaign in 2015-16. The Eagles lost three forwards on the United States Women’s National Team—Carpenter, Skarupa, and Dana Trivigno—as well as two first-line defensemen in Kaliya Johnson and Lexi Bender. Crowley, however, was prepared for these changes.

For starters, Crowley showed her prowess in a key area of the game: recruiting.

Forwards Caitrin Lonergan and Delaney Belinskas each tallied 33 points. Lonergan never went more than two consecutive games without a point, and she also earned honors as Hockey East’s Rookie of the Month in October and November. Caroline Ross was another notably talented freshman, bringing fresh legs to the blue line.

“I think the biggest jump from high school to college is making them feel comfortable,” Crowley said. “But the freshmen really stepped up and played well for us.”

These players stepping up did not make things easy, however. Not only did talent graduate, but it became unavailable

for other reasons. Grace Bizal sustained a severe concussion in the middle of the season. Ross sustained a long-term injury early in the season, which was disclosed as a fluke injury in practice. Andie Anastos also sustained a minor upper-body injury, and was held out of a few games early in the season. Other notable losses included Tori Sullivan, who took a leave of absence early in the season, and Toni Ann Miano, who was dismissed from the team for disciplinary reasons and did not play the second half of the season.

At one point, Crowley said that the team was down to only two starting defensemen—one of whom, Megan Keller, that was the nation’s best at the position—meaning that young and converted defenders had to pick up the slack while the veterans often logged double shifts trying to keep legs fresh. Yet even still, the Eagles succeeded, winning a Beanpot, Hockey East Championship, and making it to the Frozen Four.

“I thought that this year, of all the years I’ve been here, this one is up there on the adversity scale,” she said. “But when everyone stepped up, that was a huge moment for our team. That’s when they realized that everything is going to be okay.” t helped that the Eagles’ current stars kept up their work. Anastos, the fiery captain, was equally as instrumental to the Eagles’ success, if not more so than her younger teammates. Scoring 42 points, of which 16 were goals, Anastos proved vital to both playmaking and timely scoring.

Five of her goals came on the powerplay, and another was an overtime game-winner against Northeastern to secure the Hockey East title. Keller and star sophomore Makenna Newkirk were not far behind, scoring 39 points, and along with Anastos averaged more than a point per game.

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losing world-class scoring expertise, the team was forced to adapt its scoring strategy. Instead of relying purely on talent, the Eagles were molded into a versatile team with threats across the ice, including a brick wall in the crease.

Katie Burt took the all-time franchise win total this season, victories which she deserved. She played the most games of any goalie in the NCAA with 37, and finished sixth in goals against average, up alongside netminders who faced fewer than a quarter of the shots than she did. She finished second in minutes played, fourth in shutouts, and sixth in save percentage. Only one goalie in the league has put up arguably better numbers—Ann-Renée Desbiens, who amassed an insane 0.89 career GAA (over four seasons) with defending champion Wisconsin.

Bringing in goalie coach Gillian Apps proved to be another stellar decision on Crowley’s part, as Apps helped Burt continue to take her game to the next level.

Apps, a former member of the Women’s Canadian National Team, has also improved BC’s recruiting game by bringing in three Canadian prospects. Courtney Kennedy, Crowley’s other assistant coach, also bolstered recruiting by bringing in Cayla Barnes from California, a top defensive prospect. Kennedy was also instrumental to the development of Kali Flanagan and Keller’s defensive game, which was a huge component of the Eagles’ success this year. The two junior defensemen would

routinely play 35 minutes per game, logging four-to-five minute shifts through important moments. Forcing these two to step up didn’t lead to a mediocre team—it led to a great one.

Crowley adjusted to in-season issues on the fly, issues that compounded talent losses from the previous season. Anastos, Bizal, Ross, Miano, and Sullivan all played starring roles on the team, and while some losses were more significant in nature than others, losing any player for any period of time is tough to coach around. Keller, Flanagan, and the other defensemen were forced to step up and play new roles. It was a requirement that Burt be an immovable wall in the crease. You might think all of these challenges would lead to a sub-par performance from the Eagles. They didn’t.

BC made it to the Frozen Four without its two top talents from last year—not to mention six other missing players. The team’s defensemen played more than 30 minutes per game, and its star goaltender battled illness at the end of the season. They lost a 1-0 game in the final 17 seconds of the third period in the NCAA semifinals to a generationally talented Wisconsin squad.

If anything shows Crowley’s coaching prowess, it was this season. Crowley has been here before, through injuries and home losses, long practices and longer games. Practically the only thing left to achieve is the National Championship— and when you have Crowley, you have what it takes to win it. 

national play. But because of the Achilles injury she suffered that summer, she had no choice but to sit and wait. And rehab.

“It gives you a different perspective on things,” Meehan said of her time on the sidelines. “It makes you realize how much you love the sport. You can also learn different elements of the game by watching rather than playing.”

In her first game back, she picked up right where she left off against rival Boston University in a 2-1 win. Meehan scored both goals, including the game-winner in the 79th minute. It would be one of four multi-goal games for BC’s star attacker in her redshirt junior season.

Once again, she led both her team and the ACC in goals scored, totaling 17 goals and five game-winners en route to All-ACC First Team honors. Along the way, she broke the program’s record for most goals scored with her 40th career goal in a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh. In the offseason, she enjoyed another stint with the USWNT. Naturally, she entered her final year of eligibility with lofty expectations—but without her best friend. Madison, who had been with her every step of the way, on and off the field, was graduating and moving to New York City to work as an investment banker.

Nonetheless, it didn’t take long for Meehan to shatter another school record. The redshirt senior subbed into a September

match against Pitt in the 75th minute with her team leading 2-0. Eight minutes later, Gaby Carreiro sent a low line drive into the box and Meehan dove in between two defenders to head the ball into the twine.

The goal upped her career point total to 118, the most in program history. n the second-to-last game of her collegiate career, Meehan went out with a bang in the most unfortunate and fitting of fashions. Just six minutes into the contest at Virginia, she caught up to a through ball and staved off two defenders on a breakaway toward goal. As she approached striking range, Meehan planted her cleat and fired. Her ankle snapped. The shot hummed past the Cavalier goalkeeper and into the corner of the net.

Any injury is poorly timed, but again, this seemed plain wicked. Meehan was so close to swapping her title from student-athlete to professional soccer player.

The 2017 National Women’s Soccer League Draft was only two months away.

Now she needed her second surgery in as many years.

Meehan, luckily, knew the ropes of rehab. She mended her ankle and fibula, and by the time the draft came around in January, Sky Blue F.C. took a chance on her with the 34th overall pick. They, too, knew what Mary Lou, Madison, and Williams had known before: If anyone could overcome an injury, it’s McKenzie Meehan. 

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he first thing McKenzie Meehan remembers was the shattering sound behind her. Then there was the sharp pain that shot up her right heel as she stumbled forward. Two steps later, she collapsed onto the floor of her upstairs bedroom.

In the unlikeliest of freak accidents, a full-length mirror that had been hanging on Meehan’s wall for nearly two decades came crashing down, unprovoked, on her dominant kicking foot. It didn’t make any sense. The 19-year-old forward had attended monthly camps with the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) for the entire year and, just two weeks prior, received the call that she had made the final U-20 roster. Meehan was slated to leave for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in less than a week. Plus, she was fresh off of one of the best seasons in Boston College women’s soccer history. Of all the times to get hurt, why now?

Her twin sister, Madison, BC ’16, and her friend, Mikayla Williams, rushed to her side as they assessed the damage. Meehan had been showing them her brand-new USWNT gear moments before, and was about to fetch some cleats from downstairs when the mirror fell.

At first, it didn’t seem too serious. Blood wouldn’t stop gushing, but Meehan wasn’t screaming or writhing in pain. When they decided to drive her to Urgent Care, she was able to limp to the car. At the hospital, doctors removed shards of glass from her heel and estimated that Meehan’s Achilles tendon was 15 percent torn, although they wouldn’t know for certain until the MRI results arrived on Monday. Ten stitches later, the crisis seemed largely averted.

Meehan’s mom, Mary Lou, wasn’t convinced. For a second look, she brought

Meehan to a foot doctor who happened to be a friend of the family. His prognosis was far more grim. It wasn’t just a cut, he said, but a severe Achilles tear with a lengthy recovery time. A couple days later, the MRI confirmed their worst suspicions: Meehan’s Achilles was 85 percent torn. She needed surgery.

As the three accompanied Meehan out of the doctor’s office, reality began to set in.

“We were walking to the parking lot at one point and it was all hitting us, like, ‘This can’t be happening,’” Williams recalled.

“She was about to leave for camp in a week or so. Even thinking about it, it brings back a lot of tough memories.”

In the parking lot, Mary Lou smashed a water bottle against the concrete in frustration and broke down in tears. She knew how hard her daughter worked to get to this point in her soccer career. She knew that she would have to miss the opportunity of a lifetime due to circumstances out of her control.

But Mary Lou, along with the other three women in that parking lot, knew something else. Meehan would be back.

And she wasn’t going to lose a single step. efore her freak injury, before her forays with the USWNT, even before she became an Eagle, Meehan was an absolute beast in high school.

At LaSalle Academy in Rhode Island, she racked up a 76-0-7 record alongside her sister and led the Rams to four-straight Division I state championships. After her junior season, she was named Rhode Island Gatorade Player of the Year and an NSCAA High School All-American. As a senior, she captured those same honors, plus scored 80 goals to lead the entire country. In 22 games, she recorded an unreal 16 hat tricks.

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Meehan eventually chose BC because of its proximity to home, the University’s reputation for great academics, and the elite competition in the ACC. The fact that Madison would be joining her in Chestnut Hill was the cherry on top.

Under head coach Alison Foley, Meehan accepted a limited role in her rookie season. The 5-foot-5 forward played in every game, but only started six matches. Still, her impact was felt across the conference, earning All-ACC Freshman honors after finishing third on the team with nine goals.

In 2013, Meehan’s sophomore year, Foley handed her the reigns. Meehan scored, kept scoring, scored some more, and didn’t stop until she had carried the Eagles all the way to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. In the postseason, she elevated her game, tying the program record with her 18th goal of the year in a first-round win against Northeastern. Meehan found the back of the net again versus No. 10 Nebraska, breaking the school record for goals. And against Illinois in the Sweet Sixteen, she increased that program record just for good measure.

By the time BC was finally eliminated by Florida State, Meehan had finished with an ACC-leading 20 goals, nine of which were game-winners.

The breakout season turned heads within the soccer community. Following the season-ending loss to the Seminoles, Meehan was selected as a member of the U-20 National Team for the CONCACAF Championship. There, on the pitch in the tropical Cayman Islands, she stayed scorching hot. Meehan tallied a tournament-high six goals, guiding the U.S. to a 4-0 victory in the title match and receiving Co-Golden Boot honors for her effort.

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Ky Bowman wasn’t an ESPN 100 recruit.

But that didn’t stop him from outscoring the guys who were.

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t was just like old times.

Boston College men’s basketball was back in Madison Square Garden—the site of its last conference tournament championship. A title that is now 16 years old.

For two and a half decades, BC made the annual trip to New York for the Big East Tournament. Competing among the likes of Syracuse, Connecticut, Villanova, and Georgetown, the Eagles took part in what is now the longest-running conference tournament at any one venue in all of college basketball. Win or lose, the atmosphere was unrivaled.

When BC left for the ACC in 2005, the program lost that aura.

But for one night, the Eagles got it back.

Prior to the start of league play, head coach Jim Christian and Co. traveled to the Garden to play Auburn in the Under Armour Reunion game on Dec. 12, 2016.

Coming into the contest, BC was riding a two-game skid and sat at a mere 4-5. Having already lost to Nicholls State and Hartford, the Eagles’ chances of defeating a Power Five opponent, let alone a winning one, were slim.

Yet, right from the get-go, BC looked like a changed team. And one player in particular looked especially different. Ky Bowman had dyed his hair a flaming-hot red. But that wasn’t all. Coincidence or not, for the first time all season, Bowman caught fire. The freshman guard—who was averaging just 6.6 points per game at the time—nearly doubled that mark by intermission.

“There was just a confidence about [Bowman] that was kind of spreading to the whole team in that particular game,” Christian said thinking back on that day. “It was his moment. You knew, ‘Okay, this is going to be the guy.’ He’s got something here.”

Although Bowman’s numbers slipped in the second half of that game, his impact was undeniable. After all, he was the one that set up Nik Popovic’s game-winning tip-in at the buzzer. With just a few seconds remaining in the game, Bowman sprinted into the lane and put up a contested layup. It missed by a matter of inches, but Popovic was there to put it back.

What’s telling is not that Bowman missed the shot, rather, it’s that he was the one taking it. One game removed from logging three points in nine minutes of play, Bowman had emerged as a go-to scoring threat. In essence, he had added another dimension to Christian’s offense.

And for the first time in over a year, a sense of optimism surrounded BC basketball.

“It’s a new beginning for us, and that’s what we were telling everybody in the huddle,” Jerome Robinson said in a Fox Sports postgame interview. “It’s going to be a whole different team.”

While it was a game reminiscent of the past, the future of the program was on full display. s soon as Bowman arrived on campus this summer, the coaching staff knew it had something special. From the moment he took the court, his athleticism, speed, and scoring ability were evident. But when the regular season began, Bowman failed to produce. Suddenly, he wasn’t making the shots that he was draining in practice.

The most routine of passes resulted in turnovers.

Not to mention that he struggled on the fastbreak. His speed—normally a strength—became his greatest weakness.

Time and time again, Bowman zoomed past defenders while bringing the ball up the floor. His court vision was clouded and his ball control was erratic.

Throughout the first quarter of the season, Bowman looked raw. He looked like what he was: a kid who was playing his second full year of basketball.

Ready or not, Bowman, was faced with the task of learning a new system. Troubles at home made it even harder.

Since arriving at BC, Bowman has lost a handful of loved ones. To say the least, the transition to college was not easy. Hundreds of miles away from his hometown, Havelock, N.C., Bowman felt helpless.

Assistant coach Scott Spinelli calls Bowman a “pleaser,” someone who always tries to do the right thing. So when it came to his family, Bowman took on the responsibility of handling what was going on back home.

But as soon as things were squared away, a huge weight was lifted off of his shoulders.

That’s when he broke out.

Bowman scored a career-high 15 points against Auburn, playing a major part in the Eagles’ first signature victory of the year.

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am Apuzzo has a strict pregame regiment.

Before every game, she’ll eat toast with peanut butter and banana, and she’ll tie her hair back just the same way. If you ask Apuzzo, these aren’t superstitions, they’re just her habits.

Apuzzo might not consider these traditions to be her good luck charms, but fans of Boston College lacrosse might.

Because whatever they are, they seem to be working. After eating her toast and braiding her hair, Apuzzo has dazzled on the field for the Eagles in each game this season, racking up shots, goals, assists— and most importantly, wins—for the Maroon and Gold. For this reason, she is The Heights’ 2016-17 female breakout athlete of the year.

As a rookie, Apuzzo dominated the field. Through nine games, she had 21 goals and four assists, on pace for an excellent freshman year. But suddenly, her first campaign for BC was cut short in the Eagles’ win over Syracuse. Apuzzo stepped down hard in front of the goal and something in her knee just went wrong. She fell to the turf with a torn ACL. An ACL tear is a devastating injury for any athlete, let alone a freshman hitting her stride early in her college career.

Apuzzo’s head coach, Acacia Walker, characterized her injury as “awful.”

“It’s so terrible to see someone who’s devoted themselves to hard work have it ripped away,” Walker said. “I always tell my players they’ve got 48 hours to be as sad as they want to be, but then it’s time to get back to work.”

Apuzzo certainly did get back to work. She spent the entire offseason rehabbing to return to top form for her sophomore season. She participated in strength and conditioning alongside her teammates. But when they got onto the

field, Apuzzo remained in the gym. She biked, lifted, and worked out, all the time determined to bounce back from her injury even better than before.

Fortunately for Apuzzo, she had a role model to look to in handling her torn ACL. Sarah Mannelly, BC ’16, also dealt with a torn ACL during her college lacrosse career. She bounced back, excelled on the field for BC, and became a top-25 Tewaaraton finalist during her senior year. Apuzzo admired Mannelly’s determination and skill. She knew that regaining the pre-injury level of talent wasn’t impossible—her close friend had just done it.

So Apuzzo worked throughout the offseason, watching her teammates play from afar, constantly aware of the fact that her lacrosse skills might get rusty after so many months without practicing.

In fact, Apuzzo wasn’t even able to play lacrosse until the preseason. But when she finally did pick up a stick again, it was as if nothing had changed. She was still an elite lacrosse player—but this season, she wouldn’t have to deal with a catastrophic injury.

“I knew that she would get herself to a really good place for the team, and that’s exactly what she’s done,” Walker said.

Those who know Apuzzo know she would give it her all from the outset, but it would have been easy to expect her to get out to a slow start. After all, she’d have to clear both mental and physical barriers to get back to top form. After serious injuries, some athletes are timid coming out of the gates again, reluctant to do anything that might set them back.

And that’s not to mention that lacrosse is a sport consisting of a lot of running over a long period of time, and physically getting back into that groove is tough.

But from the start of the 2017 season, Apuzzo showed her dangerous skill.

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Less than a week later, he dropped 33 points and five assists in a loss to Fairfield.

After the game, Christian walked with his point guard back to the bus. Bowman turned to him and criticized his own performance—another career high. He took a jab at his defensive play, and declared that it must improve. At that moment, Christian knew what he had in Bowman.

“You know certain guys have it,” Christian said. “They’re playing for more than just this moment. They’re playing to get the most out of their ability. And that’s what he does.”

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Its victim? None other than the then-reigning Midwest Regional Champion Syracuse Orange.

From tipoff, Bowman was on. With each shot, his light only got greener.

“I mean, after the second one, I feel like I can just let it go,” Bowman said.

Bowman sunk 7-of-8 shots from beyond the arc and eclipsed the 30-point mark for the second time in three games.

Together, he and Robinson combined for a total of 52 points. And as a team, the Eagles made a Conte Forum-best 16 triples.

Even though he wasn’t on the team for the 2015-16 season, Bowman recognized how much the victory meant to those who were.

“Just being able to show that we can do it,” Bowman said. “Not that we’re one of the teams at the bottom, but that we’re actually one of the teams that everybody has to watch out for.”

In addition to showing that BC was a legitimate threat in conference play, Bowman had something else to prove: that all of the coaches who passed up on him were missing out. Especially when the Eagles started playing teams right in Bowman’s backyard.

“The one thing about Ky Bowman: the bigger the stage, the bigger he performs,” Spinelli said.

The stage was no bigger than when then-No. 9 North Carolina came to town.

Bowman was originally committed to play football at UNC, prior to switching to the sport of basketball. And when the time came for Bowman to enter the basketball recruiting process, Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams wasn’t interested.

Bowman’s mother, Lauretha Prichard, distinctly remembers what her husband said to Bowman before the game.

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didn’t pick you. So this is a personal thing.

You take it to ’em,’” Prichard said.

He did just that. Bowman poured on another 33-point performance. In large part because of his outside shooting, the Eagles were still in the game well into the second half. BC may have lost, but Bowman had made his mark.

“For a while, it was the Ky Bowman show,” Williams said in the postgame press conference. espite consistently playing teams close, the Eagles failed to win another ACC game.

Bowman had never experienced such a dismal stretch. Still, he remained positive, and remembered Prichard’s words.

“You’re going to win some, you’re going to lose some, but as long as you go out there and take it, and do what you have to do, you’ve won,” Prichard said. “In your mindset, you’ve won.”

As time went on, Bowman, The Heights’ Breakout Male Athlete of the Year, improved in nearly every statistical category. He finished out the regular season with 12-straight double-digit performances. And he would have added to that streak if it wasn’t for an awkward fall in the first round of the ACC Tournament.

After all was said and done, he earned All-ACC Freshman honors and ranked as the fourth-leading scorer among his classmates in the conference. Two of the three above him—Jayson Tatum and Smith, Jr.— have already declared for this year’s NBA Draft. Eventually, Bowman sees himself joining them.

But right now, Bowman is focused on carrying BC back to its winning ways—like it was when it played in the Big East.

With the combination of Bowman and Robinson—the fifth-highest scoring backcourt in conference play among the Power Five—Christian and Spinelli’s path back to that point should be a bit easier. Both of the underclassmen guards serve as the staple of BC’s recruiting pitch.

“It’s no longer, ‘Hey we have these guys that can be good,’” Christian said. “No, we have these guys who are really good.”

Bowman may have made a statement this season, but he still has a chip on his shoulder. According to Spinelli, Bowman thinks he should have been selected as the ACC Freshman of the Year. And don’t think he’s forgotten about all of those coaches who ghosted him.

Bowman will always have a fire in him.

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Sam Apuzzo has bounced back from a torn ACL to dominate on the lacrosse field this season.

In the season opener against the College of the Holy Cross—her first game back— Apuzzo tallied three points on a goal and two assists. Four days later, she put up 10 points against the University of Massachusetts, including seven assists.

Her numbers continued to rise and remain strong throughout the season, highlighted by six-goal games against Boston University and the University of Virginia.

One of the best combinations for BC (and worst for opponents) this season has been Apuzzo and senior attacker Kate Weeks. Together, Apuzzo and Weeks are nearly unstoppable. They are both highly-skilled offensive players who know how to finish and earn points for their teams. Apuzzo is aware that their time together is coming to a close, but she’s making the most of the time they have left.

“We’ve had a really good connection on the field,” Apuzzo said. “She’s an incredible player and person.”

Apuzzo and Weeks have each put up strong numbers this season, but Apuzzo holds the advantage. She has scored 64 goals this season, including at least five in six different games, while also adding 29 assists, good for an astounding 93 total points this season. She leads the team in points this season—but then again, it’s not that surprising, because she practically leads the whole country in points.

As of publication, Apuzzo is No. 2 nationally for points this season, behind only Stony Brook’s Kylie Ohlmiller. And if you peruse the NCAA’s top-50 women’s lacrosse players in a variety of categories, you start to see Apuzzo’s name pop up again and again. She’s ranked No. 4 nationally in goals, with 64, and No. 13 nationally in goals per game, with 3.37.

Besides being No. 2 nationally for points, Apuzzo sits at No. 8 for points per game,

averaging 4.89 each contest, and No. 49 nationally in assists.

The numbers are impressive enough on their own, but they’re far from the only accolades Apuzzo has gathered this season. She became the fastest Eagle to tally 100 career points, ac-

complishing the feat in just 25 games.

In April, Apuzzo was named ACC Co-Offensive Player of the Week after a two-game stretch where she scored nine goals and added three assists. Just last week, Apuzzo was named to the AllACC Tournament First Team. And she’s currently one of the 25 nominees to win

college lacrosse’s most prestigious accolade, the Tewaaraton Award.

To say that Apuzzo has had an elite sophomore season is pretty much an understatement, but it’s not over yet. The Eagles lost to the eventual champions, the University of North Carolina, in the ACC Tournament, but still have the NCAA Tournament to look forward to later this month. Apuzzo, for her part, hopes the acuse Eagles draw Syrin the first round, but is ready for whatever team is unlucky enough to face her next.

And beyond the NCAA Tournament, Apuzzo is looking forward to accepting more of a leadership role as an upperclassman next year. She says that she’s a little quiet, but likes to lead by example, and sees herself as a leader in that way—setting an example for younger players on how to conduct themselves in practice and during games. Walker wastes no time in saying that Apuzzo is a natural leader already.

“She’s just so humble,” Walker said.

“She has no idea how much of an impact she has on her teammates.”

Apuzzo, it seems, has an impact on everything—the game, the atmosphere, and her teammates. She has bounced back from a devastating injury with remarkable determination and focus, resulting in an excellent sophomore season and recognition as one of the country’s best players.

Now halfway through her tenure at BC, Apuzzo isn’t changing her winning recipe. As long as she’s got her hair tied back in the same way and her pre-game peanut butter and banana snack, she’ll continue to be the toast of the town. 

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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2017

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LONG RIDE HOME

Austin Cangelosi is finally back where he started.

Jerry York, Thatcher Demko, and the BC Superfans are happy he took this route.

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tuck somewhere on I-90 on his way back to Boston College from Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum, Austin Cangelosi had to blush.

“Well, that’s nice of him to say for sure,” Cangelosi said.

Cangelosi, the Eagles’ center and alternate captain in 2016-17 who now plays for the American Hockey League’s Albany Devils, was referring to the kind words of his recently former head coach, Jerry York.

In his 45 years leading college hockey teams, York has seen a lot of players. But there was no doubt which three reminded him most of Cangelosi.

Nathan Gerbe, Cam Atkinson, Johnny Gaudreau. York put Cangelosi’s name alongside three Hobey Baker candidates, the last of whom won the sport’s highest honor in 2014.

Okay, in fairness, a lot of that has to do with height. Like those three, Cangelosi stands well below the invisible line of where a casual fan’s stereotypical hockey player would stand. A lot of it also has to do with style of play—Cangelosi, like that once-in-a-generation trio, is speedy and scores in high volumes. He’s the kind of player the new NHL wants.

But York’s reasoning goes beyond size and skill. Those three were all leaders.

They made BC what it was in the years they played. Cangelosi is no exception to that mold. After playing a role on the third line in the final year of the Gaudreau era, Cangelosi has been the Eagles’ leading scorer over the last two years. In his 201617 senior campaign, Cangelosi amassed 21 goals and 14 assists while capturing his second-consecutive faceoff winning percentage crown. Though the year was ultimately trying for BC fans—the Eagles missed the NCAA Tournament for only the third time since 2000—York poses another question: Where would they have been without him?

“Clearly, he was our most valuable player,” York said of Cangelosi, The Heights’ Male Athlete of the Year. “He’s my choice for my MVP.” f Andy and Diane Cangelosi had their way, really, who knows where BC would have been.

Cangelosi’s parents moved him and his brother, John, from their home in New Jersey to Estero, Fla. in 2002. Ideally, the Cangelosi boys would follow the same path as the rest of their family: the summer sport route. Diane played tennis at Fairleigh Dickinson, and Andy was on the rugby team at Villanova and continues to play golf now. Even their grandfathers were athletes—Andy’s father John played catcher at Florida State, while Diane’s father Ed was a table tennis champion in Austria.

Unfortunately for the parents, Google Maps wasn’t around for them to scout out the neighborhood in advance. The Cangelosis moved only five minutes away from Germain Arena, home of the ECHL’s Florida Everblades and Lee County’s premier ice hockey rink. The boys, who had grown up playing roller hockey up north, graduated to the only frozen water worth skating on in southwest Florida. Austin and John milked as much as they could out of the fledgling, early-2000s hockey scene down South. But given the lack of competitiveness, there’s only so much a player can get out of it, especially if he or she wants to go pro.

“Not trying to knock on Florida,” John said, “but the hockey is way better up North.”

So when John, three years Austin’s senior, was old enough, he made the trip to Western Massachusetts to join head coach Tom Pratt at one of the nation’s best prep schools, Northfield Mount Hermon.

John’s move up north paved the way for his brother to find an out. In turn, Cangelosi was a talent Pratt just couldn’t ignore. Playing the brothers on the same line, Pratt saw in Cangelosi a terrific penalty killer who could excel as

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a two-way player while also sitting at the top of the umbrella on the power play, even as a freshman. Cangelosi had quick hands and a low center of gravity. Though he initially deferred to John on the draw and preferred the wing, Cangelosi easily adjusted to Pratt’s system. And boy, did he have some jump on the ice. No one could outskate him.

“He can close a 3-foot, 5-foot, 7-foot gap really quickly,” Pratt said.

Pratt quickly realized that if he couldn’t ignore Cangelosi’s talent, colleges soon wouldn’t be able to either. He made a call to York, his coach back during his playing days at Bowling Green, to get an assistant out past the Berkshires, ASAP. “I knew quite clearly that Austin would be an attractive player for a number of schools, so I wanted to give Boston College a heads-up early,” Pratt said.

Enticed by the detail with which Pratt described him, Connecticut head coach and then-BC assistant Mike Cavanaugh came out to see Cangelosi. A week later, associate head coach Greg Brown was in the stands too. Not long after that, Pratt pulled Cangelosi into his office—the BC staff had seen all it needed to see, and was ready to make an offer, just halfway through Cangelosi’s freshman season.

“He drops the bomb that Jerry talked to him and offered him a full scholarship to school,” Cangelosi said. “I had no intentions of thinking that far in the future, I was just trying to take it day-by-day, and all of a sudden, I get this offer for college.”

When York came calling, so did other schools—Cangelosi recalled Northeastern, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire among the programs that showed interest. But one visit to Chestnut Hill and a tradition of winning and excellence were all he needed to be convinced. hen York is convinced, so are the fans.

Grant Salzano, one of the hockey beat reporters for SB Nation’s BC Interruption and BC ’10, recalled the first moment he was really excited about Cangelosi.

“Austin came in with some weighty expectations, and frankly, a lot of that was because of a single play he made while in the USHL,” Salzano said in an email.

He saw a clip on YouTube in which Cangelosi’s USHL team, the Youngstown Phantoms, took on the Cedar Rapids Roughriders in the 2012 Eastern Conference Playoffs. Tied 3-3 in overtime, Cangelosi skated past center ice into the faces of three defensemen. Knowing that, with his stature, he’d never get around them, Cangelosi flipped the puck over the head of the lead blue liner. The defenseman swatted it with his hand, but the deflection fell behind him. With that great closing speed, Cangelosi skated easily around him on the right to go backhanded, high past the goaltender’s right, for the game-winning goal. The video has been played nearly 700,000 times.

Funny enough, it’s the same exact moment York cited as when he knew Cangelosi was his man.

“That was our validation point that we’ve got the right guy coming to the Heights,” York said.

But, as Salzano noted, that goal, as well as the success of smaller skaters in York’s system, may have unfairly placed too high of a belief in Cangelosi to be “the next one” in the season immediately following Gaudreau’s Hobey campaign.

After a down sophomore year, in which BC failed to come close to the high-flying offense of 2014-15, many of the frustrations fell onto Cangelosi’s shoulders.

Things changed in 2015-16, when the reinforcements arrived. The star-studded freshman class, including Miles Wood and Colin White, as well as the continued development of Alex Tuch and Zach Sanford, took the pressure off Cangelosi to be the focal point of the offense. That, Salzano believes, helped Cangelosi focus

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on his game.

And, while he continued to score plentifully, his game grew around the faceoff.

His exploits in that field have already been documented. But, amazingly enough, Cangelosi somehow got better than being the nation’s best.

Cangelosi won faceoffs in 2016-17 at a whopping .650 clip, best in the country again. That mark was .3 higher than the next closest center, Matt Marcinew of Denver—he was also the only Eagle in the top 100 nationally. When BC was in the defensive zone and needed to hang on to a one-goal lead, Cangelosi instilled confidence that he could shut the game down. No player in recent memory has been as good at one singular, specialized skill as he has.

“Knowing we had his faceoff skills also always made me breathe easier,” said Laura Berestecki, BCI’s editor-in-chief and BC ’13, BC Law ’16, in an email.

His faceoffs continually set up goals, too. BCI’s Joe Gravellese, BC ’10, referenced this year’s Frozen Fenway, in which a struggling Eagles team on the opposite side of the PairWise Rankings leaned on Cangelosi to bail them out. He perfectly set up Michael Kim to rip home a game-tying goal.

“That turned the game around and BC went on to pick up the W,” Gravellese said in an email.

He provided a plethora of other memories too. Gravellese remembers Cangelosi’s first home-opener, when he scored two goals in a 9-2 blowout of Wisconsin. Berestecki recalls Cangelosi’s natural hat trick this season in Portland.

All three can’t help but think about his prowess on the penalty shot, particularly the one he potted last season against Boston University.

And all of those memories make Cangelosi harder to let go.

“Jerry talked a lot this year about how this was one of his favorite teams to coach, even though they had some struggles through the middle of the season,” Gravellese said. “I’m not in the locker room but I’m guessing Cangelosi is a huge reason for that—his leadership, his drive, and his continued progression was fun to watch.” s Kentucky’s John Calipari likes to remind us, winning in college isn’t the primary goal.

It’s getting your guys to the next level.

York doesn’t ascribe to that same level of one-and-done obsession. Still, he understands the importance of preparing his players to get to the NHL. Normally, it’s easy enough when you bring in a

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Cangelosi is a perfect fit at the end of the bench to provide a boost late in a game.

York figured this out long ago. He’s just glad general managers have wised up.

“Now, the NHL is putting more value on that kind of player,” York said. “It took them a while to understand that.”

And if Cangelosi does make it to the NHL one day, that locker room is in for quite a treat. When preparing for a game, Cangelosi leads by silent example, a way he has been since high school.

“Jerry will probably tell you it took him three and a half years for him to say much,” Pratt said.

Off the ice, though, Cangelosi is just like any other BC student. Like many of us, he sweated out room selection day, when he, Ryan Fitzgerald, Matthew Gaudreau, and Chris Calnan were among the first men’s hockey group to win the Mod lottery and be allowed in since York became the coach. And he enjoys eating out, a lot, according to his former roommate.

“He loves to down his sushi and Cookie Monster,” said Thatcher Demko, the BC goaltender from 2014-16, calling in from the links in his hometown of San Diego, Calif.

Cangelosi confirmed his obsession for Yamato’s and White Mountain’s signature flavor. The guys in his grade would go once a week last year, crushing spicy tuna rolls and ice cream by the pint. He didn’t mention, however, his other secret obsession.

“He’s got good tango skills, he’s got good rhythm there,” Demko said of Cangelosi’s other special skill. “You’ve got to throw that in the article.”

Demko, however, could not confirm if Cangelosi’s dancing skills help him on the ice. n that drive back to Boston, Cangelosi detailed his daily schedule. Now, it’s a lot of early nights and early mornings.

Just a few days after BC’s season came to an end in the Hockey East semifinals, Cangelosi signed with the Albany Devils.

As York suggested, Cangelosi loved the opportunity to pick where he got to play. There’s a little bit of bias there, too.

The leadership of the Devils’ front office consists of two BC parents: Ray Shero and Tom Fitzgerald. Because of his New Jersey roots, Cangelosi has always been a fan of the red and black, and as he says, why not suit up for your favorite team?

His days are even more structured now. During his abbreviated professional stay, he lived in a Residence Inn near the Times Union Center. A lot of other players

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“Clearly, he was our most valuable player. He’s my choice for my MVP.” -Jerry York revolving door of first round picks. Yet York actually thinks it’s a blessing that Cangelosi didn’t get drafted.

“As a free agent, he had a bunch of choices of them,” York said. “If you’re not going to be a first rounder, that’s the better route to go through.”

And, according to York, a player like Cangelosi is perfect for the the new NHL. The first- and second-line talent still trends toward those overall athletes, the 6-footers like Alexander Ovechkin and John Tavares who have size and skill to match. But the third- and fourth-line guys are no longer the goons, the enforcers there to entertain the crowds and eat up minutes by punching Sidney Crosby in the face. Now, teams want to get smaller and faster with specialists.

That’s where Cangelosi comes in. With his faceoff and penalty killing expertise,

there for only a short time, like BC alums Steve Santini and Miles Wood, make it a dorm atmosphere, just like what he’s used to in Chestnut Hill. Every day, he has to get ready for a 9 a.m. meeting, before an hour and a half practice. The day ends by noon, when Cangelosi can get back to his room and return to schoolwork and studying. He’s still on track to graduate this May from the Lynch School of Education.

Like college, the professional season is now over for Cangelosi. His Devils lost to the Toronto Marlies in the Calder Cup Playoffs. Nevertheless, he’ll be ready for Devils training camp Sept. 10 in Newark.

But he’s still got a few more days in Chestnut Hill. And, on that drive, he couldn’t help but notice that he was making such good time.

“Just glad I decided to take this route,” Cangelosi said. 