The Heights December 8, 2016

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The tribe’s lands have been the site of protests against the planned Dakota Access Pipeline. President Barack Obama’s administration said this week that it had denied permission for the last leg of the pipeline to be built, a major victory for environmental activists that could soon be reversed by President-elect Donald Trump.

The rally will feature sachem Wampatuck Wompimeequin of the Mattakeeset tribe of the Massachusetts nation, who will speak about the implications of environmental degradation on Native American land and Standing Rock while also integrating a large component of prayer and faith. The rally will take place on O’Neill Plaza at 4:30 p.m. “[Standing Rock is] a huge victory, and it’s very exciting, and I think it really shows the power of protest and the

power of the people who are out there,” said Alyssa Florack, a member of CJBC and MCAS ’17. “We want to give thanks to those people, but also remind people that it’s not over. You can’t just share the Facebook link and be like ‘it’s a victory!’ when there are still so many injustices going on.”

This rally is part of CJBC’s weeklong theme of “International Solidarity: When Climate Change Impacts Aren’t in my Backyard.” CJBC is collaborating with the Chinese Student Association, the South Asian Student Association, and Eradicate BC Racism to host a series of events throughout the week.

“We’re not just looking at climate change, but we’re also looking at the social justice issues related to that,” Florack said. “A big part of that is the fact that climate change has these really disproportionate impacts around the globe.”

Continuing the theme of the week, CJBC will host an interactive art display at O’Neill Plaza on Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., where students can trace their hands in blue marker and add it to a “rising sea-level” on a poster.

“These particular injustices may be over in this one battle, but if you look at who’s going to win the war overall there’s still so much to be done,” Florack said.

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Just before Thanksgiving Break, Boston College awarded a financial aid package to Minaldy Cadet, MCAS ’20, a student who had hoped to receive aid after he learned that he was ineligible to receive any financial aid for the fall semester because of his citizenship status. His story had attracted attention earlier this fall from The Miami Herald and United States Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

The Appeals Committee in BC’s financial aid office offered Cadet a special appeal grant.

According to the BC fi nancial aid website, students who believe they have special circumstances that have led them to need to adjust their financial aid packages can appeal to the Appeals Committee. After the Committee looks over the appeal form, it will notify the student of whether he or she was offered

financial assistance within 10 business days.

Cadet said he was told that he was offered financial aid because he found out about his legal situation right before the fall semester began. Bernie Pekala, the director of student financial strategies in the Office of Enrollment Management, said in an email Wednesday night that federal student privacy laws prohibit his discussing student matters, but he said his office has worked closely with Cadet’s family and will continue to do so.

Cadet’s parents emigrated from Haiti when he was a young child. When his parents applied for citizenship, they paid a man to help them with their paperwork. The man was a fraud and took all of their money, forcing them to start the process over again on their own. Since 2004, Cadet’s parents have been working through the process of applying for citizenship. Expecting to receive a green card by the end of the summer of 2016, Cadet accepted his offer from BC, which stated that he would receive financial aid once he obtained a green card.

In August, the immigration office denied his request for a green card, saying he and his family had overstayed their visa between the time that they first

arrived in the United States in 1999 and when they started to apply for the green card in 2004.

As a result, Cadet’s father took out a loan to pay for his first semester at BC. Cadet and his family have been working to find a way to receive financial aid since then. They appealed to BC to help them just before the fall semester began, but they were denied.

Cadet’s story gained some attention.

The Miami Herald interviewed and wrote an article on him after his father took out the loan. Rubio reached out, Cadet said, telling him not to worry about money. Rubio’s office confirmed to The Heights that he has been working with Cadet and his family to discuss possible solutions. Cadet also has a GoFundMe page, which has raised just over $7,000 so far. All of this media attention has made lawyers want to represent him and people want to support him.

Although his current fi nancial aid package only covers the spring semester, Cadet believes he and his lawyers and advisers will be able to find a way to extend the financial aid.

“Obviously our main objective is to stay here for four years and graduate here,” he said.

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Michael Proietta, MCAS ’19, looks more eccentric than most people on campus, with his trademark bowtie and wild-man, mad-scientist hair. And then he gets going on something in his deep bass voice, a sort of low, breakneck murmur, and you realize he sounds the part, too. But it might be what he’s saying that generates the most interest.

Proietta is a senator in the Student Assembly (SA) of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College. He and Raymond Mancini, CSOM ’19, have developed something of a reputation this year for being contrarians, automatic dissenters in SA resolutions dealing with social issues or diversity on campus. They certainly would like to see some changes in the SA, but Mancini said the overall characterization is unfortunate. What they’re really out to do, they said in an interview Monday, is find some balance. And as Proietta demonstrated this week, they aren’t definite “no” votes.

At an SA meeting this past Sunday, as members debated whether they should adopt a resolution endorsing a petition calling on BC to designate itself a sanctuary campus for undocumented students, Proietta raised his hand.

“This is dealing with fundamental human rights,” he said. “It’s an ethical and to a great extent religious imperative to support something like this.”

Another senator raised his hand right after: “Call to end debate?”

Some people laughed at the abruptness, and Meredith McCaffrey, UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17, kept the debate open, but the sense was that since Proietta supported the resolution, when he may have been viewed as likely to dissent, everybody else was a definite yes. That’s exactly the type of situation he and Mancini

would like the SA to avoid.

When they were talking before the meeting, even though they disagreed, Proietta encouraged Mancini to dissent on the resolution, just because he knew there would otherwise be no dialogue. And though Mancini eventually voted yes, he argued for several minutes that becoming a sanctuary campus could endorse BC’s violating federal law.

It’s a familiarly minority position. This semester, the pair has had a finance committee resolution it proposed voted down 22-2; voted against resolutions calling for the University to establish an LGBTQ resource center and a better bias incident reporting procedure; and gotten a spirituality resolution passed after it was postponed and rewritten.

Each of those moves has come out of a frustration with the politics of the SA, a sense that its focus should be elsewhere, or a feeling that the proposals it considers are unnecessary and toothless, just empty rhetoric. Mancini voted against the LGBTQ resource center resolution, for example, because he thought it wouldn’t make a big change in the community. He thought the resolution’s statements about a potential center’s purpose were too vague, and he would have voted for it had it been more specific. Proietta agreed that it was vague and didn’t see the need for a separate building, thinking instead that a student center could contain LGBTQ and other resources. The resolution, however, does not call specifically for a separate building, just a resource center intended to provide education, programming, advocacy, and support. Overall, they saw it as an ineffectual statement, and were the only dissenters in a 15-2 vote.

“UGBC is really a monolithic organization, they’re impervious to change,” Mancini said. “Many of the senators don’t want to make any overhauls that would actually develop meaningful change within the organization itself.”

Proietta described the ideology of the SA as dominated by a “complacent leftism,”

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The core pilot courses were created in 2012 when an outside agency called Continuum was brought in to help BC update its core. Julian Bourg, the associate dean for the core, said that students previously treated the pre-existing core classes as boxes to check off, and did not actually take an interest in the subject matter.

Continuum suggested that BC overhaul the current core with the core pilot classes. The original proposal created seats for every freshman. University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. and other top administrators did not want to make that change so quickly, Bourg said.

Instead, they wanted to slowly expand

the course, monitoring student feedback along the way.

This semester, when registration for core classes opened to first-year students, fewer freshmen registered for these classes than expected. As a result, the classes were opened to sophomores on Monday. If the seats do not get filled by enough sophomores, the classes will be opened to juniors.

The Complex Problems classes, which each seated 76 students last year, increased to 152 students this year. These classes were not being filled by freshmen like Bourg expected.

“With any new experiment, there’s turbulence when you take off the runway,” Bourg said.

Seats were also filled by sophomores in August for the first semester’s core pilot courses.

Despite the lack of seating, the core pilot courses will still expand another 400 seats next academic year as planned.

Decisions to create classes are made a year in advance, which limits decisionmaking based on student feedback for administrators. “[The] faculty are really pleased with the level of student engagement and intellectual awareness, and the students are finding these classes transformative and rocking their world in ways other classes are not,” Bourg said.

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The Campus Activities Board will host a gingerbread decorating event tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room. Students will be able to decorate gingerbread cookies with frosting and toppings as a part of “Winter Week.”

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The Undergraduate Government of Boston College will host a table in the basement of McElroy Commons on Thursday afternoon for students to make holiday cards for the Veterans Association of Boston.

Students will have the opportunity to take holiday photos.

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David Little, a professor at Georgetown University, will give the annual Fr. Raymond Helmick, S.J. Inaugural Memorial Lecture on Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Devlin 101.

Little will offer a lecture on conflict transformation in honor of the late Helmick.

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9: @ejkXccj I\j\XiZ_ CXY A new $2.5 million lab located in Devlin Hall started up this year to provide researchers space and technology to analyze earth’s processes and human activity. The state-of-the-art Center for Isotope Geochemistry in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences also encourages students and faculty from other fields to utilize the new technology for their work.

The 1,350-square-foot space will feature clean labs and clean rooms that are controlled environments with low levels of airborne contaminants.

It will also include an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (IRMS) which, when analyzing isotopes of oxygen and carbon from earth materials, can provide insightful information about things related to the past climate.

This clean center has helped secure awards of more than $1 million for the earth and environmental sciences faculty.

Next semester, the new facility will host students enrolled in the BC core renewal courses, including “Building a Habitable Planet—Origins and Evolutions of the Earth,” taught by Ethan Baxter, an associate professor and chair for earth and environmental sciences, and Natana deLong-Bas, an assistant professor of theology, as well as the course “A Perfect Moral Storm: The Science and Ethics of Climate Change,” taught by David Storey, an assistant professor of the practice of philosophy, and Corinne Wong, an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences.

“These classes will be in the isotope lab talking about philosophy and talking about God, which I think is quintessential BC,” Baxter said to The Chronicle.

In the cozy cove of Hillside Cafe, University Spokesman Jack Dunn stood before an overflowing crowd of students at Tuesday night’s Agape Latte. In a talk titled “Love Actually,” Dunn asked students to give a different kind of gift this Christmas: love.

“Tonight I want to tell you two stories,” Dunn said. “One of love lost, and one of love unrealized.”

As a student at Boston College, Dunn was a big brother through the Big Brother Association of Boston to a 10-year-old boy from Dorchester named John. John’s father abandoned him, his mother, and two brothers at Christmas time a few years before.

At first, John was quiet around his new brother, unsure if he was trustworthy.

Slowly, John became comfortable around Dunn. The brothers would go out for walks in the neighborhood, play catch, and occasionally go to wrestling matches at the former Boston Garden. They spent four to five hours with one another each week.

Dunn said that John felt like a real brother to him.

John struggled in school, but Dunn encouraged him to put more time in, to “become a student.” A few weeks later, on report card day, Dunn drove to Dorchester. He watched as John sprinted down from the top step of his triple-decker apartment, report card in hand. He’d made the honor roll.

“I told him I was so proud,” Dunn said. “Then this tough little city kid burst into tears. No man ever said that to him.”

John was an usher at Dunn’s wedding. He started school at Northeastern and struggled at first, but as he grew in self-confidence, he began

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David Takeuchi and Samantha Teixeira, professors at the Boston College School of Social Work, co-edited a special edition of the W.E.B. Du Bois Review, a journal based at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African American Research. This year’s journal is about race and environmental equity.

“To date, those of us in the social sciences haven’t studied the role of the environment as much as we should,” Takeuchi said to The Chronicle. “But we hope that this issue will open collective eyes with regards to the real intersections between environmental equity and race, while inspiring further research at its crossroads.”

The goal of the edition of the journal is to build a comprehensive view of the impact of the environment on race, while also suggesting possible interventions to effect critical change in the future.

Teixeira hopes that the journal will help to provide a more holistic understanding of environmental justice and highlight its potential. Historically, when people say environmental justice, they think of recycling, she said. Teixeira believes that scope should be broadened. “[Social workers] sometimes forget that we have a rich history of environmental work in our profession,” she said. “It’s time to get back to our roots and change the way we think about how the environment can play a major role in how we provide services to those who are living on the margins in various communities across the globe.”

Many climate activists felt that the environment received too little attention during this year’s presidential campaign. At a talk last Monday, Nathaniel Stinnett, the founder and CEO of the Environmental Voter Project (EVP) and BC Law ’05, said that might be because only 2 percent of voters see climate change as an important issue that influences their vote. Thirty percent prioritized issues such as national security and the economy.

Stinnett was the keynote speaker at the Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculties third-annual “Advancing Research and Scholarship Day,” an event dedicated to showcasing faculty and student research at Boston College. Stinnett was the keynote speaker at the symposium, which focused this year on the environment and society.

Stinnett described the EVP as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose sole focus is to fix the environmental voter-turnout problem in the United States. The

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Before the start of John’s sophomore year of college at Northeastern University, he went to the Dunns’ apartment in Quincy for dinner.

He told Dunn he wanted to be a lawyer and get his mother out of the projects.

“But that night was the last time we ever spoke,” Dunn said.

After dinner, John went out with his friends in Dorchester. His big brother pleaded with him not to go, but as a kid born and raised in Boston, a place that prizes loyalty above all else, John went. He and his friends went to a house party where a fight broke out. John was stabbed to death on a street corner just a few steps away from where he was born.

John’s murder shattered Dunn’s heart. He turned inward and isolated himself. He did not want to confront the pain of grief. Yet one day, a Jesuit that Dunn knew from Boston College High School came to visit him at home. He was worried about his former student.

“He told me, ‘I know from my own experience that it costs a lot to love someone, to give yourself away.

But what’s the alternative to living your life without loving?’ I want you

organization uses data analytics and behavioral science research to identify environmentalists who are not civically engaged and turns them into more consistent voters.

“When you poll likely voters in any election with respect to the issues they most care about, climate change and other environmental issues are almost always at the bottom,” Stinnett said. “This has an enormous impact on how policy is made at every level.”

According to Stinnett, if likely voters don’t care about climate change, as the data indicates, it would be “malpractice” for political candidates to spend time and money from their campaign focusing on environmental concerns. This is one reason that climate change was rarely discussed during the presidential debates earlier this year.

But Stinnett has discovered that while so few voters care about environmental issues, this does not mean Americans do not care about these concerns. The problem is that environmentalists are “awful” voters who disproportionately stay home on Election Day. Thus, the

to honor John’s memory by loving again,” Dunn said.

The Dunns followed the priest’s advice and had four children, the first of whom they named John.

Even though Dunn suffered a great loss when his little brother died, he still professed a message of giving selfless love.

“I want you to know that the perfect gift is you,” Dunn said. “Give yourself away to someone who needs your love. That’s the spirit of Agape.”

The crowd was still, processing Dunn’s words. He then transitioned into a second story about his grandfather.

Dunn’s grandfather was put up for adoption at birth, but knew nothing else about his past. Dunn described him as a difficult man who fought a lifelong battle with alcohol addiction, carrying the weight, Dunn said, of feeling like his mother never loved him.

Dunn’s cousin Maureen, heartbroken about her grandfather’s sadness, began to investigate his past.

Eventually, after working through Boston’s public records, she found a folder with the name “Bridgette Nevins” on it. This was her grandfather’s

mother.

Nevins was an Irish immigrant who worked as a domestic servant in the home of a wealthy Boston family. She was paid $3 a week. After a few years in the states, Nevins met a man and became pregnant. But that man abandoned her. She approached the Catholic Charitable Bureau of Boston (CCBB), hoping to place her son in foster care until she could reclaim him.

Every week, Nevins sent one of the three dollars she made to the foster care system for her son. She visited him, and tried to follow her son throughout his various moves and her changing jobs.

After a fire in his foster home, Dunn’s grandfather, Francis, was moved to a placement far away from his birth-mother, and eventually, Nevins could no longer find him.

Nevins died shortly after her son moved away. For his whole life, Francis believed his mother did not love him, but the love he coveted was there all along.

“This can be a place that is, at times, unloving,” Dunn said. “The greatest gift God gave us is our ability to love, yet so often, love is the gift we’re most reluctant to give away.”

environmental voting block is really experiencing a turnout problem rather than a persuasion problem.

According to Stinnett, EVP identified 15.78 million voters concerned about the environment who did not participate in the 2014 midterm elections. In Massachusetts alone, it identified 277,250 of the same voters who did not participate in the 2014 gubernatorial race, which was decided by roughly 40,000 votes.

For this reason, the EVP targets registered environmental voters who don’t usually make it to the polls rather than those with high turnout rates.

The EVP uses sophisticated data analytics to identify voters, which Stinnett believes is a strategy that helped Donald Trump win the presidential election. The organization relies on a method called predictive modeling to conduct its polls, assigning high scores to those voters who it deems likely to care about climate and environmental issues.

“Big data has completely revolutionized politics,” he said. “Campaigns don’t target large demographic groups anymore. They

target individuals.”

The EVP’s polling methods reflect this shift toward the use of behavioral data in the analysis of voter patterns instead of demographic data. According to Stinnett, one characteristic of environmental voters is that a high percentage of them live in homes that no longer have a landline. Old stereotypes about environmental voters, such as that they only live in coastal enclaves, have also become less accurate in recent years.

Another concept that has been debunked in recent years is what is known as the rational choice theory, or the idea that citizens would vote if the burdens of voting were smaller than the expected benefit. EVP studies have shown that voters are actually more likely to participate in an election when turnout is higher, even though their vote statistically counts for less.

“Our goal is to change the electorate,” Stinnett said. “We don’t need to talk about the environment to get these people out to vote, but we just try to get them to change their voting habits.”

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Tuesday, Dec. 6

7:18 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Fitzpatrick.

7:47 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at 90 More Rd.

9:52 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance at the Cadigan Alumni Center.

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

11:55 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm in Lyons Hall.

5:54 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at the Flynn Sports Complex.

8:36 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at 2101 Comm. Ave.

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For many, President-elect Donald Trump’s ambiguous rhetoric has left the the future of United States domestic and foreign policy shrouded in mystery. Erin Annunziato, MCAS ’17, said she believes that the U.S. is entering an environmental dark age at a policy discussion held on Monday, titled “Trumped

by Global Warming.”

The student-led presentation, punctuated by break-out sessions, was hosted by the Boston College chapter of GlobeMed, a non-profit collegiate advocacy organization, and was intended to educate BC students on the future of U.S. environmental policy under the incoming Trump administration.

Mary Stygles, MCAS ’17, began the talk by describing the evolution of Congressional support of environmental regulation. In the 1960s, Congress passed a plethora of new laws, such as the Clean Air Act of 1963, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, during what Stygles called a “golden age” of environmental protection.

“These green laws were pushed through with the purpose of being flexible, so that regulations could change as science developed relating greenhouse gases and carbon

emissions to climate change,” Stygles said.

Today, that legacy is in jeopardy, Stygles said. She cited the proposed Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, or REINS Act, which, if passed, would require any new economically significant environmental regulations to be both approved by Congress and signed by the president.

Such requirements would severely constrain the ability of federal agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, to exercise the broad discretion they currently enjoy in interpreting and enforcing vague environmental legislation.

While the REINS Act has so far remained stalled in Congress, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has given it his endorsement, and the act’s passage has become a key part of the incoming Trump administration’s prospective 100-day plan, Stygles said.

Stygles also spoke about the role played by the executive branch in environmental policymaking. Obama, facing intense gridlock in Congress, has turned increasingly to executive power. His Clean Power Plan of 2015, which set a national limit on carbon pollution, and his changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards in 2011, which reduced allowable emissions by motor vehicles, have been lauded by climate advocates.

These policies are not permanent, however, as they only continue at the discretion of the sitting president, and can be easily abandoned by a subsequent administration.

Stygles said that Trump’s inclusion of Myron Ebell, a vocal climate change denier, to lead his transition at the EPA portends a swift reversal of these policies.

Annunziato spoke about the uncertain and often erratic role of international accords in influencing U.S. climate policy. She referenced the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as the first major example of international agreement on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The UNFCCC was ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1992 and, while the stated intent of the Convention was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avert greater climate change, no specific emissions reduction targets were mandated, Annunziato said.

The Kyoto Protocol of 1997, the first legally-binding international climate change treaty, proposed by the UNFCCC, laid out explicit targets for state parties to achieve, and set a worldwide goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 95 percent of 1995 levels, according to Josh Elbaz, MCAS ’19.

Due to concerns over China’s classification under the Protocol as a developing

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Many environmental policies in the U.S. continue only at the discretion of the president. country, and the accompanying leniency with which China’s economy would be treated relative to that of the U.S., President George W. Bush did not submit the Protocol to the Senate for ratification, Elbaz said.

Annunziato then spoke about the Paris Agreement of 2015, the second treaty drawn up by members of the UNFCCC. Intending to keep the global rise in temperature in the near term to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the Agreement legally requires state parties to implement domestic regulatory structures that aim to reduce emissions within their borders, she said.

While Obama formally signed the Paris

Agreement on Sept. 3, 2016, Trump has said that he supports an immediate American withdrawal from the Agreement, which has not been ratified by the Senate and is not legally binding in the U.S. While Annunziato recognized in her remarks the domestic and international progress achieved in past decades, she closed by expressing dismay at the seemingly bleak future of environmental policy in the U.S. under Trump’s administration.

“If the 1960s were the golden age [of environmental protection], now you might say that we’re heading into the dark ages,” Annunziato said.

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Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of history at Boston College, was included on a “professor watchlist” published on Nov. 21 by Turning Point USA, a conservative activist group that aims to educate students about free markets and limited government. Richardson’s name no longer appears on the list. It is unclear when it was removed.

While Turning Point acknowledges a respect for free speech, the list’s organizers wrote that it was being compiled in the interests of students, parents, and alumni knowing about “the specific incidents and names of professors that advance a radical agenda in lecture halls.”

Richardson is a prominent writer about American history and the conservative movement, and her most recent book is To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party in 2014. She said in a phone interview Sunday that she found out she was included on the list after people posted about it on her personal and professional Facebook pages.

“My first reaction was just to have my gut sink,” she said.

Richardson has been included on a list like this before, and she said the

worst thing was having her friends and family hear about her being on it and immediately get in contact out of concern for her safety. Richardson said she is surprised by the amount of attention the list has gotten, since she views it as somewhat amateur. She wrote a Facebook post about being on the list, and when she got home from grocery shopping after posting it, saw that it had been shared several hundred times. Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley, University Spokesman Jack Dunn, Dean of MCAS Greg Kalscheur, S.J., and Kevin Kenny, chair of the history department, all reached out expressing their support.

The list Richardson was previously included on was compiled by a group associated with the alt-right movement, a radical offshoot of conservatism that has received increased attention during the presidential campaign and since the election of Donald Trump. The alt-right has been at the center of a controversy within Trump’s transition team. Stephen Bannon, who is currently slated to be Trump’s chief strategist, was formerly the chairman of the anti-establishment conservative outlet Breitbart News, which became more vocally supportive of Trump as the campaign wore on.

Breitbart published a short piece on

Tuesday headlined “Boston College Faculty Want to Ban Trump-Inspired ‘Hate Speech’” that linked to a letter signed last week by around 50 faculty members. The article had no overt criticisms and mostly quoted from the letter.

Richardson guessed that whoever made this professor watchlist used names that have previously appeared on similar lists, which could explain how she ended up on it.

“Since she joined the university, I’ve come to know better just how committed she is to the work of teaching and mentoring,” Quigley said in an email.

“The watchlist is troubling to me, not least because somehow an exemplary teacher-scholar ended up on it. While we are glad that Professor Richardson’s name has subsequently been removed from this list, it is important to affirm that our faculty enjoy our full support, and we will never be intimidated by any political activist or website.”

In addition to research and historical writing, Richardson said she has also done some political writing. She described the modern Republican Party as having been taken over by a cabal of movement conservatives who aren’t actually Republicans. She sees Trump as a little bit different from that.

“Donald Trump is not technically a Republican or a Democrat, I would call him more of a salesman,” she said.

These movement conservatives were just a radical group of Republicans in the 1950s, but as they have gradually gained power, Richardson said, they have moved to dismantle the government’s regulatory framework and social welfare legislation.

Richardson said the way these radicals gained power was by arguing that any regulation was a redistribution of wealth from hard-working white people. That rhetoric always had what Richardson calls a “wink and a nod”—Republicans really wanted to reduce taxes and business regulations, and they used the concept of a “welfare queen” to sell it.

“But the problem is that that language took on a life of its own over the past generation,” Richardson said. With the alt-right came clear strains of racism and sexism, she said, divorced from the economic motives of the old movement conservatives.

“The alt-right now I think is kind of a Frankenstein monster come to life,” she said.

Another thing fueling the creation of this kind of watchlist is anti-intellectualism, which Richardson said has existed in some way in the United States

since at least the 1600s. But these same movement conservatives took it in a much more extreme direction. Richardson said that when presented with facts, most Americans would actually support government regulation and a basic social safety net, so instead these conservatives focused on nurturing an us vs. them, hard-working Americans vs. people of color narrative.

“In order to promote that, they really had to undercut the idea that facts really mattered,” she said.

Richardson highlighted in particularly William F. Buckley’s 1951 book God and Man at Yale, which accused Yale faculty of being socialists, and over the next three years, she said, he evolved into calling anyone who agreed with government regulation of the economy a capital-L “Liberal.”

That contributed to an anti-fact mindset among Buckley’s audience, and the phenomenon continues to play out today, Richardson said, as Trump and his surrogates question the legitimacy of the media in what some have dubbed a “post-fact world.”

“That is a new moment,” she said. “In the past, American politicians have at least pretended to care about the reality of the world around them.”

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Michael Proietta, MCAS ’19, and Raymond Mancini, CSOM ’19, have a reputation as dissenters.

UGBC, from A1 and said that even though he considers himself politically closer to the left than not, among members of the SA, he might as well be in the Tea Party.

Ultimately he thinks that mindset is damaging to intellectual growth.

“What the left, I think, is trying to promote is the overcontrol of ideology, in that their ideology becomes the truth de facto against all others,” he said. “I really think change is possible only through dialectic, through diversity of observations, and when you have this monolith of this complacent, hypersensitive rhetoric where you can’t say anything, you can’t use the wrong words … there’s such an overfocus on what to say and what not to say that I think it really steps far beyond what is actually important.”

McCaffrey said in an email that she has been impressed this semester by the willingness of SA members to debate and consider different ideas, even if they don’t agree with them. She added that analyzing the SA based purely on the resolutions it has passed is hard, given that a resolution’s final text doesn’t always show the discussion and revision that went into it, or the exact feelings of every SA member.

One example of something that received extensive debate was Proietta’s spirituality resolution. Passed two and a half weeks ago, after a vote was postponed at a previous meeting, it was meant as an affirmation from UGBC that spirituality is “a prominent component of education and student life.”

Its eventual passage followed concern among some SA members that part of the resolution might seem unwelcom-

ing to people who aren’t spiritual—the SA, Proietta included, voted to delete a sentence saying that spiritual formation should address the whole person, not just a fraction of a person. Proietta said in the interview that the resolution had a broader purpose for him.

“Though I didn’t phrase it as such, because I did want to get the proposal passed, it was in a sense a direct attack on the overwhelming ideology of the organization,” he said.

Several of the actions Mancini and Proietta have taken pose a challenge to a trend they see in the SA of every issue being reduced to a matter of race or gender. Mancini also criticized the fact that 60 percent of UGBC’s $328,000 budget goes toward diversity initiatives and programs. This includes $123,822 allocated for diversity and inclusion programming, or 37.75 percent of the budget, which goes toward four wellattended, annual events, one of which is the AHANA Leadership Council’s Showdown. Money allocated specifically for ALC, the GLBTQ Leadership Council, and the Council for Students with Disabilities makes up an additional 22.84 percent of the budget. For an organization with a significant focus on diversity, Mancini and Proietta said UGBC isn’t diverse. At least, not intellectually.

“It’s sad that the only time you’re going to get controversy in voting process or in debate is if you get these people who would be viewed as radical conservatives, which is a problem,” Mancini said.

The goal of his finance committee proposal was to bring in four external members who would have different perspectives and potentially disrupt the way UGBC currently allocates its budget. The intention behind it might

have been clearer than how the actual plan would work. Niki Patel, UGBC’s vice president of financial affairs and CSOM ’17, did not support the plan and said at an SA meeting in October that it added an unnecessary step to the budget approval process, which already goes through several checks before it even gets to the SA. So other than the spirituality resolution, Mancini and Proietta have hardly been successful. But one current and one former member of the SA agree, at least in part, that the SA has at times suffered from a bias.

Josh Daniell, a former UGBC senator and MCAS ’17, said in an email that he left the SA based on its ideology. Other people in the organization told him they appreciated his outspokenness on controversial issues, but he said his objections were meaningless because SA votes are often unanimous or nearly so.

“I strongly feel that until UGBC is willing to escape its echo chamber and foster more ideological diversity within the organization, it will never gain widespread respect in the student body,” he said.

Hagop Toghramadjian, MCAS ’17, has been in the SA since he was a freshman. His first year was very formal—everybody wore suits, every member showed up to every meeting, and they passed more resolutions. But they actually took themselves too seriously, he said, and the SA lost touch with the important issues. The next two years it was the opposite. Members were casual, missing meetings, and according to Toghramadjian, the SA got too involved with student initiatives work and eventplanning rather than advocacy. He views the SA less as an actual government and

more as a lobbying group that works on behalf of the entire student body.

“I think the true power of the organization is when it represents everyone, and everyone can see themselves and hear their voice in the Student Assembly, and that way when we do take a stand on an issue that might be pushing the envelope a little bit … we’ll be taken seriously when we do so,” he said.

Last fall, Toghramadjian introduced a bill slightly similar to Proietta and Mancini’s spirituality resolution. Co-sponsored

by Eileen Corkery, MCAS ’17, it would have symbolically aligned UGBC with BC’s moral purpose and Jesuit history and identity. The measure failed—nine yes, 14 no, and six abstentions—but Toghramadjian said it was the first time in his experience there had been a close vote on something, and he thinks it’s important not to stigmatize voices with alternative views. He said this year has been the best so far in terms of balancing a seriousness with a downto-earth attitude in UGBC, for which he credits McCaffrey and Russell Simons, UGBC president and MCAS ’17.

Reed Piercey, MCAS ’19, is also a senator. He said he doesn’t think anyone would deny that there’s a majority opinion in the SA, but because it gets elected by the student body, there isn’t really a good way to quickly have more diversity of opinion.

That would have to be voted in by students, which McCaffrey echoed over email, but he does think everybody should feel like their voice matters.

“The problem is more that if they don’t feel heard, then we should somehow do a little more to try and be open-minded and really sit down and hear what they think, because changing the representation of an elected body isn’t something that you can just do,” he said.

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By Madeleine D’Angelo Asst. Metro Editor While the outcome of the 2016 presidential election may seem like a distant memory to some, Bostonians are striving to keep the election results at the forefront of the public memory. Many of those joining protests are students.

On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of students ranging from middle school age to college walked out of their 1 p.m. classes to attend the Boston Student Walkout and protest the election of Donald Trump. Organized by a wide-range of ethnically and socioeconomically diverse students in the Boston area, the rally officially began at 2 p.m. as protesters gathered in front of the Boston Common gazebo.

With the crowd standing below them, the organizers positioned themselves inside the gazebo, using megaphones to lead the crowd in chants ranging from ‘No Trump, no KKK, no fascist, racist USA’ to ‘Street-by-street, block-by-block, we stand with Standing Rock.’

As participants flooded in, highlighted by an impressive contingent of students from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design carrying brightly colored signs, the organizers gained fire, and began to list off the demands for Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker.

These five demands—that Baker protect public education; protect vulnerable populations of students and their families, declare Massachusetts and Boston sanctuaries for immigrants, and denounce Trump’s connections to racist and whitesupremacist movements—served as the foundation for the Walkout.

The Walkout organizers, specifically 20-year-old Michael Jones from Boston

Day and Evening Academy, also stressed the importance of the power in the youth’s voice through this form of protest.

He believes that young people must stand in solidarity for nonviolent demonstrations to get themselves heard.

“The reason that [we are] standing up [with our demands] is that a lot of the things that Donald Trump will be putting policy towards … will affect the future, and the youth are the future,” Jones said.

“It correlates all with that.”

These sentiments were certainly heard throughout the afternoon.

During the first hour of the protest, organizers led chants with brief speeches from student speakers regarding the importance of each demand. Immediately following, organizers led the ever-growing group of protesters to the Massachusetts State House. As the large group slowly moved down the Common pathways, they continued to loudly chant and wave their signs. Cameras of various media outlets swarmed around them. Passersby looked on with curiosity, often joining from afar with shouts of encouragement.

Once there, the protesters continued loudly chanting and sharing stories centering on the organizers’ demands before sending a large delegation of students into the State House to present Baker with the demands. For many students like Mike Wilkins, a sophomore at Northeastern University, this opportunity was ultimately the reason for skipping their afternoon classes and attending this walkout.

“Students need to stand in unity against Trump and against bigotry. We need to show in numbers how we don’t stand for all this horror, and we need the government to denounce Bannon,”

Wilkins said in reference to Trump chief strategist Stephen Bannon. “We just want to talk to the governor and tell him our demands.”

In an inter vie w with the Boston Herald, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, took exception to student walkouts during school hours. Although Walsh expressed full support of the students’ rights to make their voices and concerns heard, he questioned the timing of their demonstration.

“I think they can do it after school,” Walsh said.

Wilkins, however, believes that walkouts exemplify just how much students are willing to sacrifice in order to make their own voices heard and stand up for those who are unable to.

Jones provides a different perspective on the issue. He explained, that although the students in attendance value their educations, they value their futures as well and refuse to separate the two.

“Our future is under attack, so we want to show that this is what’s most effective, and we also that we use our education,” Jones said. “We view this as an educational time for us.”

The youth’s concern for the future was never more apparent than when a middle school girl addressed the crowd on the steps of the State House before the group marched to the City Hall.

Although the girl wished to remain anonymous, she expressed with a shaking voice an emotional concern for what her future might hold, speaking on behalf of her friends. She believes that Trump does not represent the American people. “[Trump] appeals to the dark side of people and brings that side out, and then we’re all going to become savages like the boys in Lord of the Flies,” she said.

On Thursday night, Boston’s sky line was illuminated with holiday lights and a spectacular fireworks display for the 70th annual Tree Lighting Ceremony in Boston Common.

The event, which featured the official lighting of Boston’s towering 47-foot Christmas tree, marked the start of the holiday season in the city.

The festivities began at 6 p.m. when thousands of spectators gathered to watch the Holiday Lights Concert. The lively audience was treated to music by Town Heroes, country singer Timmy Brown, and the cast of A Christmas Carol. This year’s headliner, R&B group Bell Biv Devoe, entertained the exuberant concertgoers, performing unique renditions of traditional Christmas songs.

Just minutes before 8 p.m., Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, was joined on stage by Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil and Santa Claus—who made a surprise appearance—to signal the start of the lighting ceremony.

As spectators watched in anticipation, the smaller trees around Boston Common were simultaneously lit with festive decorations and white lights that filled the Common with a warm glow.

The lighting of the giant, whitespruce Christmas Tree followed, as Walsh pulled a large candy caneshaped switch that turned on the tree’s multicolored lights.

To the delight of the audience, the display was not over yet. It concluded with a thrilling display of pyrotech-

nics—a series of large red and green sparklers shot off into the Boston night sky.

As explained in a statement from the city of Boston, in keeping with long-standing tradition, this year’s Christmas tree was donated by Nova Scotia. For the past 45 years, the Canadian province has given Boston a Christmas tree in return for its relief efforts after the Dec. 6, 1917 explosion in Halifax Harbor.

This year, the ceremony attracted an eclectic mix of students and Boston locals who all came together to take a break from their hectic weeks to celebrate the holidays. Kie Watanabe, a student at Harvard Business School, expressed her desire to attend the event.

“It’s my last year here in Boston and I’ve always wanted to watch the tree lighting,” Watanabe said. “I think it’s a great tradition.”

Not letting the icy December winds deter them from having a good time, spectators flocked to all corners of Boston Common to soak up the holiday spirit.

Friends and family gathered together singing Christmas carols and snapping pictures . Those patient enough to wait in the long lines enjoyed classic American hot dogs and freshly-made donuts.

Boston native Daniel Brown noted the significance of the event, and explained why he returns every year.

“It’s a great way to kick off the holiday season,” he said. “I love coming together with my family and friends to admire the decorations around Boston Common.”

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Last Friday, the annual Boston Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony took place in the Common.

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By Vaughn Feighan For the Heights There is a certain unspoken code that arises when Boston College semesters come to an end. For many, this code sounds something like, “My professors are stressing me out with work. I do not want to do any of this work, but I will definitely end up homeless if I do not get an ‘A’ on my final paper, so I will not sleep for four days.”

While many students agree that the weeks leading up to finals week are daunting, and that finals week itself is a living hell, there are ways to reduce and relieve this anxiety and pressure. This week, that reprieve might be a two or three-hour trip down to the Waterfront in order to visit the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) for their 10th anniversary week of celebrations.

If staring at paintings, old pieces of furniture, and nude statues all day is not your thing, then the ICA is the place for you.

Unlike more traditional galleries, the ICA is an art museum with alternative types of programming that change constantly.

Collette Randall, director of marketing and communications for the ICA, explained that part of the ICA’s mission is providing a space for community. This part concerns constantly re-engaging and involving members of the Boston Community through special events like the 10th anniversary celebrations.

As part of the museum’s 10th anniversary, many of the events center around a 10 day theme. On Dec. 1, the 10 days of programming, activities, parties, and exhibitions at the ICA began, a week of festivities that culminates on Dec. 10 with a free community day for all to participate.

Randall also noted that the institute is based in community through the ways it provides Bostonians, and other visitors, with opportunities to explore something new about themselves and others.

The heart of the ICA is the innovation that art and the artists put forth—innovation that can be found without even leaving Boston.

“Part of the community that we build is in direct correlation to surrounding the Boston landscape,” Randall said. “Many works of art are contributed or collected from directly within or around Boston.”

Currently on exhibit in the ICA is a showcase called First Light. Open to the public from mid-August to Jan. 16, the exhibition tells stories of emotion through art. Pulling from the strengths of the ICA’s physical collection First Light examines the ways that community has formed around these various forms of media by combining the highlights from the collection that the institute has built since 2006 with newly acquired pieces. The collection, which recently opened to the public, features a wide representation of voices and strong new media. You will see sculpture, photography, video, painting, installation, and

many other groundbreaking themes.

One of the other notable aspects of the ICA that Randall highlighted was the unique collection of art made by women.

Housed within the Institute’s Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women lies an impressive trove of artwork that was created by women. Some of the notable artists include Cindy Sherman, Eva Hesse, and Kara Walker.

Whether you are binge-eating Half Baked Ben & Jerry’s, stress exercising, or pulling the dreaded all-nighter, consider relieving some of that stress by going down to Shore Dr. on the water to see and expe-

rience the ICA’s innovative exhibits and anniversary celebrations. Thursday, Dec. 8 is free admission between the times of 5 to 9 p.m, and the free community day is Dec. 10.

Additionally, for those students 21 or over, the ICA hosts “First Fridays” throughout the year. These nights, which occur on the first Friday of each month, are filled with a variety of themed activities.

Each month there is a different theme, but be sure to show up early—the ICA usually fills to capacity on these special Friday nights.This Friday’s theme is “Snowball,” and will be filled with activities developed

to welcome winter back into the city with a good heart, and to throw back the mood to 2006.

For those under 21, Randall pointed toward “British Arrows,” a particularly unique experience during which attendees will watch and review the best of Britain’s television commercials. “British Arrows” is for those who want stray off the beaten path and have a night of humor and fun. “[The commercials] are surprisingly amazing,” Randall said. “They are these two-minute little masterpieces. They’re often touching, hilarious, and they really seem to be a cult favorite.”

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In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the ICA is hosting a series of events, exhibitions, and other festivities to engage the community.

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, December 8, 2016

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by Ghanaian artist, El Anatsui. From the Benin Kingdom of the 12th Century in the first room to the revolutionary impact of the camera on the art world presented in the second, the exhibit could be mistaken for a time lapse.

But don’t fret: this Museum of Fine Arts brainchild is Massed Media.

When people think of contemporary art, they generally consider it to be work relevant to today’s culture. But the Museum of Fine Arts’ Massed Media exhibit, running now through April 9, reveals that contemporary art requires the viewer to truly become present in order to unpack the complexity of a piece which will, one day, define their generation.

Emily Zilber, the Ronald C. and Anita

L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Art, explains that El Anatsui’s Black River was the foundation of her contemporary art exhibit. Thinking about the theme of “massing”—incorporating multiple components into an artistic whole—for some time now, Zilber saw this exhibit as the perfect opportunity to get one of the highlight pieces of the contemporary collection back in the gallery, particularly because massing is the primary strategy to Anatsui’s work.

And it shows.

Anatsui names his work “cloths.” Although the pieces alone—liquor bottle caps, aluminum and copper—are by no means fabric-like, his description relies in part on the fact that the quilt-like bottle caps are stitched together with copper wire, creating what is sometimes referred to as a “metallic tapestry.” Alone, these materials evoke a sense of excess, but together they create a world. In many ways this layered, mega-map comments on the way that pieces of the past facilitate a grasp on the present landscape in which the viewers find

themselves.

Zilber explains that, like Anatsui, the works of the other artists in the exhibit are a result of simultaneous ideation. Each was concerned with how to use multiple components to make an object, or a statement, that is greater than the sum of its individual parts. By marrying otherwise incompatible materials in fresh ways, the artist can share his or her unique worldview.

This global phenomenon was central for Zilber, who hoped to give visitors a sense that these artists were all working with similar themes and material approaches, but from different geographic position— namely, the United States, Africa, Israel, China, and the Czech Republic.

Housed in the MFA’s Linde Gallery, the space may appear rather small for such big ideas about massing. With only four objects and a case of jewelry, the space is not overhung. Zilber admits this was deliberate.

“I wanted space for people to be able to experience and have time with the objects and look at the way that they don’t just take up physical space, but also psychic space

around each other as well,” Zilber said.

The space itself mimics the interconnectedness and complexity of systems that these artists hope to explore. Once finished admiring the Anatsui piece, it is easy to bounce between the pieces—weaving an intricate web for oneself within the sparse room.

It is this performative space for the viewer that Zilber hopes visitors also encounter.

American Harry Bertoia’s “Sound Sculpture” does just this. His tonal sculpture of bronze and nickel alloy rods is both pleasing to the ears and hands. The way that the sounds and objects together build off one another further demonstrates the idea of cohesiveness that fascinates Zilber. She urges visitors to take this idea that artwork is experiential, and apply it to all of the objects in the exhibit.

Contemplation can be as powerful as touch—but the rebel comes out of every museum visitor as they realize the musicality that has been echoing through the white space stemmed from this multi-purposed

piece. It’s reminiscent of the outside world in a tantalizingly yet meditative way.

Dance toward the glowing, rock-like formation to further warp your distinction between the organic and architectural worlds. Ayala Serfaty tints transparent glass rods, shapes them with a handheld torch and coats with polymer fibers, to form what looks like a frozen iceberg warming from within.

Zilber explains that out of all the artists Ayala was most interested in how people in the modern day interact with their natural environment. Viewers are forced to question whether Ayala’s piece was perhaps found rather than humanly formed. The use of industrial materials provokes ideas about the layers humans leave upon the natural world.

“This is a strategy that not just artists use—but a strategy that we find in the creation of objects throughout our environment—even natural ones,” Zilber said.

“Nature itself is interested in masses. We have one beautiful leaf, but also the tree full.”

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Hundreds of families gathered together to formally welcome the holiday season. They huddled around each other for warmth on the crisp December night.

As the tree lit up, mothers and sons embraced while fathers carried their daughters on their shoulders.

Together, families sang along to Christmas carols, and took photos commemorating the special moment.

As beautiful as the ceremony was, it made me sad. There I was alone, attempting to enjoy a famous Boston tradition that I had heard so much about.

Instead of admiring the glowing tre, I was fixated on all the families around me—wishing I had mine there with me.

Growing up, I loved the holiday season because it always had a way of bringing my family closer together. I am a homebody. Nothing makes me happier than spending time with my family. The holidays were ideal time for bringing us together.

This year is my first holiday season in college. My first holiday season away from home, and away from my family.

My dorm room doesn’t have a sparkling tree surrounded by presents, or any Christmas decorations whatsoever. It’s safe to say that to me, it doesn’t really feel like Christmas.

I blame my despondent attitude on my inability to fully embrace change.

As a creature of habit, I find myself overwhelmed and distracted by all the new things forced into my life.

Recently, I’ve found myself reminiscing about life before college.

At home, the Christmas festivities begin way before the 25th. Littleby-little, small touches of Christmas would be sprinkled throughout my home. By now, a fresh spruce tree

would be towering over my living room. The comforting aroma would waft through the entire house. Day after day, the gifts from family and friends would begin to pile in under the tree. Every now and then when no one was looking, I’d go through the presents looking to see if any of the big ones were for me.

It brought me joy seeing my mums satisfaction as she went through what seemed to be a tedious task of sending elegant gifts and Christmas cards to our nearest and dearest. However, in recent years our have cards no longer featured a photo of me and my brother posing in matching navy blue polos.

On the weekends, my family would wind down by watching our favorite Christmas movies, Elf and Love Actually.

I foolishly tried to recreate this moment last Saturday night but only got through 30 minutes of another favorite: Home Alone 2. It just wasn’t the same.

I miss fighting my dad over our favorite chewy gingerbread cookies gifted to us by friends that we wait a year to enjoy, attending Christmas parties surrounded by the childhood friends I’ve known longer than I can remember, while the holiday classic Christmas with the Rat Pack plays on repeat in the background.

For the next four years—and probably longer—the lead up to Christmas will be different. Instead of spending it with family I get to enjoy it with the new friends I’ve made and create new memories I will look back on one day with nostalgia.

For the first time in my life, I get to wake up, look out the window, and see snow falling from the sky, dusting the top of bare tree branches. Just like in the movies.

Looking back, I realize I took all these moments for granted. It’s only now that I really can appreciate how lucky I was for the last 18 years. When I do get home—just four days before Christmas—I know to savor each moment.

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D`[[c\ <Xjk\ie :l`j`e\ 8ii`m\j `e 8ccjkfe 9P N@CC@8D 98K:?<CFI ?\`^_kj JkX]] In early November, The Chicken and Rice Guys, a popular Boston-based chain of restaurants and food trucks, opened their third brick-and-mortar on Harvard Avenue in Allston. Best known for their their halal chicken and rice b owls , the fa st g row ing eatery is now adding a little bit of Middle Eastern flair to Allston’s vibrant restaurant scene.

The Chicken and Rice Guys began as an idea between three friends—Ian So, Jaemin Lee, and Kevin Lau—who noticed that Boston’s food scene lacked the halal street-cart food made famous in New York City. Five food trucks and three restaurants later, they have established themselves as a Boston favorite.

The chain’s newest location already attracts the young and trendy Allston crowd, many of whom are looking to get their fix of chicken and rice. The Allston area is home to many college students who serve as the core group of customers the company primarily caters to.

For merly a sne aker store, the Chicken and Rice Guys’ new space has been transformed into a fullyoperating restaurant where customers can dine-in or have their food delivered.

The eatery’s spacious area features counter-style tables lining the walls, complimented by tall stools in their signature bright yellow color.

This minimalistic design creates a hole-in-the-wall feel that truly allows the food to serve as the restaurant’s focal point.

Steven Collicelli, marketing manager of The Chicken and Rice Guys, doesn’t see the space as a typical sit-down

restaurant. Instead, his vision for the eatery is something more casual.

“My hope is for something reminiscent of that sliced pizza place you go to after a concert,” Collicelli said.

The company’s name reflects their flagship dish. The halal-certified chicken is sourced and prepared in compliance with Islamic traditions which require a strict method of raising and butchering animals. Their famed chicken is then grilled and seasoned with a secret blend of Middle Eastern spices.

Their simple menu highlights one distinct dish—an aromatic rice plate with crisp shredded lettuce and toasted pita–which can be personalized in a variety of different ways. The three main options on offer are the classic halal chicken, grilled tofu, and gyro— a shredded beef and lamb mixture Avoiding carbs? Ask for the salad option which comes sans the rice.

Collicelli expressed that the company always had their eye on opening an establishment in Allston.

All of the company’s marketing is done through social media, in order to reach a younger demographic of customers. Many of them are college student s lo ok ing for a quick and inexpensive meal that’s delicious yet satisfying.

For the ultimate chicken and rice experience, Collicelli recommends ordering the combo. It’s a delectable mix of chicken and gyro served with all the accompaniments. Take your bowl up a notch by getting the side of veggies—a sweet and tangy tomato and cucumber salad—to complete the dish.

End your meal on a sweet note by ordering the baklava, a flaky and sticky Turkish dessert that will become an instant favorite. At $1 apiece, you will

find yourself going back for seconds and thirds.

Collicelli attributes some of The Chicken and Rice Guys’ success to their signature house-made sauces.

The sauces allow for each dish to be personalized in a plethora of different ways, making every bowl unique. With the creamy garlic sauce being the outright favorite, others include BBQ, mint cilantro, hot sauce, or if you are feeling daring, extra hot sauce.

But the best way to devour a bowl of chicken and rice is by mixing everything together. So throw in all your sauces, close the lid, and give it a shake. The result: your own customized chicken and rice bowl that you can enjoy by scooping everything up with a slice of pita bread.

But the resturant was founded not just to create a business, but also to also serve the Boston community.

This idea of helping better the world was integral to the formation of the Chicken and Rice Guys Foundation— something that the founders had aimed to start when they first opened their business.

With multiple fo o d truck s and restaurants, the company sees a lot of food go to waste. Instead of throwing it away, they donate this excess food to various causes.

In January, the foundation is looking toward handing out 5,000 chicken and rice plates to an abused women’s shelter in Back Bay. Ultimately, the company’s goal is to aid in the effort to solve the food and hunger problem in the city of Boston.

“Their aim was to not only bring food to people but to help better the world,” Collicelli said. “It’s important for us to pair our entrepreneurial spirit with those who want to do good.”

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“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

On Monday, hundreds of Boston-area students walked out of school and gathered in front of the Massachusetts State House to protest the election of Donald Trump. The protest was organized by a smaller, diverse group of college and high school students and gained a large following on Facebook, with 848 students marking that they were planning to attend the event.

This protest follows a national trend after the election last month, in which young people have taken an active role in political demonstrations. Students in middle and high school participated in the walkout, which was similar to a demonstration carried out by District of Columbia Public Schools students earlier this month.

Students in D.C. left class and marched to Trump International Hotel, and then the Lincoln Memorial to decry the election of Trump.

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS’ 09, was critical of the students’ decision to leave class.

“I just think that during school hours— right now, this early in the year—I just don’t think it’s needed today,” he said in an interview with The Boston Herald. “I think they can do it after school.”

Boston Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Tommy Chang released a video via Twitter on Sunday, prior to the protest, that asked students to reconsider walking out of class.

“There is a time and place for these conversations to happen, and peaceful advocacy for what you care about is important, but not during learning time,” he said in the video.

Walsh and Chang’s concerns over students missing class is valid, as a portion of the participants attend public schools, which are funded by taxpayer dollars. Class time, as well as teachers’ time and school resources, are undeniably valuable, but it is important to recognize the strategic intention of the students.

The students’ decision to walk out of class at 1 p.m. sent a symbolic message.

Public education is one of young people’s only direct connections to government, and served as an important and significant outlet for students to protest. Americans

aged 13 to 17, without the right to vote, are given no direct voice in politics. Leaving class to promote their political opinion was a powerful statement that garnered mass media attention.

The protest was previewed and covered

by The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and other major news sources. Such recognition is necessary for the protest to have a real impact on the community and public opinion.

Students currently in middle and high school are those who will inherit an America shaped by Trump’s policies. Many significant political issues affect these students directly, such as education reform.

For groups that have been direct targets of Trump’s rhetoric—specifically LGBTQ, Hispanic, and Muslim students—showing discontent through public protests is one of the most important forms of media available to defend their rights.

As Mayor, Walsh has a responsibility to encourage students not to skip school.

But, middle and high school students do not have other methods in seeking consideration and validation when it comes to political decision-making. Therefore, the efforts of these students should not be overlooked.

The walkout will likely be subject to criticism. Some might argue that many of the students do not know enough about politics to protest in the first place, even though quotes from young people at the rally might suggest otherwise. Some also might claim that students used the demonstration as an excuse to cut class.

In order to dispel such criticisms of the protest, the students should follow up on Monday’s walkout with concrete action, such as volunteering for local and grassroots campaigns. Taking this initiative would also help to further promulgate the students’ message. The follow-up meeting, which will take place at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design on Wednesday night, will discuss further action and is a step in the right direction.

In taking political action, it is important not to be discouraged or disheartened by criticism and doubt, but to remember that change is only possible through activity.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Ladder of St. Augustine”

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A Response to ‘Eradicate Must Acknowledge Efforts’ Yesterday, University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. took action on one of 16 demands that over 1,400 Boston College community members have petitioned for in the “Call to Make Boston College a Sanctuary Campus.” This caption was posted on Eradicate Boston College Racism’s Facebook page on Nov. 30 to contextualize our support of the Sanctuary Campus petition which enumerates concrete steps that BC’s administration should take to protect undocumented students and has been signed by hundreds of BC students, faculty, and staff. On Dec. 1, we released a detailed comparison of the Pomona College and ACCU Statements (which Fr. Leahy has signed) and the far more comprehensive and binding AJCU Statement, noting that Boston College is the only institution in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities that has not signed this statement.

Therefore, when The Heights claimed in its Dec. 5 editorial that Eradicate “should have acknowledged Leahy’s action,” it was unclear what sort of acknowledgment was expected. Should Dec. 1’s rally in support of the Sanctuary Campus petition have adopted a celebratory tone because one of its 16 demands had been met?

Incidentally, The Heights’ claim that Eradicate authored the petition is flattering, but incorrect. The petition was initiated by a group of law students who solicited feedback from an array of undergraduate and graduate students and faculty. The Graduate Student Senate and Undergraduate Government of BC were involved from the petition’s inception. The resulting document reflects the desires of hundreds of members of BC’s community, as evidenced by the hundreds of signatures it has collected.

Eradicate is often criticized for our perceived failure to cooperate with the administration. However, Eradicate’s attempts to work through the institution have been ineffectual. In Oct. 2015, the Provost’s office stepped in at the last second to block a flyer we had created to help promote a conversation series on race. This past September, when we attempted to register a solidarity march, our application was denied, and we were told that we could not register events because we were not an official campus organization. We were not told that individuals could register events until Dec. 1. Repeated attempts to use official channels have shown us that we can work most effectively as an extra-institutional organization—jumping through the administration’s hoops is a distraction from the more important work of advocating for vulnerable students.

The rally on Dec. 1 was our attempt to support two existing movements in solidarity with undocumented students: the Sanctuary Campus petition and the national movement organized by Cosecha. Our status as an extra-institutional, “undocumented” organization allows us to create a space of resistance that complements the efforts of other groups that work closely with the administration. Until these officially recognized groups succeed in implementing policies that protect and support vulnerable students, we will continue to create spaces of sanctuary, resistance, and healing for the oppressed through direct action.

The Heights reserves the right to edit for clarity, brevity, accuracy, and to prevent libel. The Heights also reserves the right to write headlines and choose illustrations to accompany pieces submitted to the newspaper.

Letters and columns can be submitted online at www. bcheights.com, by e-mail to editor@bcheights.com, in person, or by mail to Editor, The Heights, 113 McElroy Commons, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02467.

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A website entitled “Professor Watchlist” was created on Nov. 21 to identify college professors across the country that promote “leftist propaganda in the classroom.” The project was founded by a nonprofit called Turning Point USA, an organization that “educates students about the importance of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government,” according to its website.

The site provided a list of professors deemed radically leftist. Among the list was Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson, a scholar in U.S. history and the history of the Republican Party in America. In 2014, Richardson authored To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party, in which she examines “how Republicans’ ideological vacillations have had terrible repercussions for minorities, the middle class, and America at large,” according to a description of the book.

Although it is unclear why Richardson was removed from the list on Nov. 23, her initial selection is a testament to the impact of her work. She is an influential professor who has sought to educate students on the importance of equal rights for all Americans.

“I teach that the American government only works when it is based on the principle

that every single American is equal before the law,” Richardson wrote in a response to her placement on “Professor Watchlist.”

Richardson and professors alike that speak up for the marginalized in society are necessary forces for social progression.

Following an election in which the law was used to deprive many Americans of their fundamental political rights, intellectuals such as Richardson represent the floodgates that shield against widespread oppression.

Richardson should not be discouraged by labeling and criticism, but encouraged that many recognize her as an influential figure.

Richardson’s audacity and integrity in communicating her ideas and research for the good of the next generation of Americans is commendable. In an era of political polarization, rational voices such as Richardson’s are the stitches that can heal the country’s wounds.

“In fact, I do what I do—all the teaching, writing, speeches and media—because I love America,” Richardson wrote.

Without educators like Richardson, the current generation of American students would be less enlightened about the problems that plague American politics, and less able to guide the country in the right direction in the future.

The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the Editorial Board. A list of the mem-

bers of the Editorial Board can be found at bcheights. com/opinions.

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S W A N S O N G S

THE HEIGHTS SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS DEPARTING BOARD MEMBERS

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magdalen sullivan managing editor

zach wilner general manager

carolyn freeman editor-in-chief

to the heights, Though working for this organization is no small task, what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received in return has been nothing short of exceptional. Thank you for the lessons, the friendships, and the home youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve given us.

With love,

the outgoing members

2016 three-year board members

bennet johnson sarah moore

two-year board members

chris fuller juan olavarria magdalen sullivan carolyn freeman

Keaton McAuliffe zach wilner tom devoto gus merrell

one-year board members

james lucey kaylie daniels savanna keifer kayla fernando jack donahue sophie reardon grace mastropasqua

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Rʛʃʐ Dʗʈʈʛ MR. BRIGHTSIDE - The party is dying. The hour is late, and the fridge is empty. Waves of freshmen begin to move toward the door of the hot and crowded Walsh eight-man, their shirts dripping in sweat they pretend not to care about. They’re in college now. This is how they’re supposed to have fun. So what if they had just spent the last three hours of their lives packed like sardines in a crowd of comical miscommunication and meaningless interactions?

What matters is that their friends think they were having fun. Snapchat would tell them so. Suddenly, the DJ awakens from his drunken slumber. He hits the glowing forward arrow at the top of his iPhone screen, prompting the next song in his “Lit Party” playlist on Spotify. All exiting comes to an abrupt halt as the seductive initial guitar notes of “Mr. Brightside” fill the room. The members of the leaving crowd turn around slowly as the song continues, staring at the previously tapped out DJ in the corner.

The song continues, and its spell grows stronger. The crowd backs away from the door and mobs the common room, overturning couches and sending red cups flying in every direction. The partygoers begin to jump and scream, uniting in declared confusion concerning a kiss they never had, and a dress they’ll probably never take off. The chorus hits, and the transformation is almost complete.

The members of the crowd will soon no longer be themselves. Together, they recount a swim they never took, and alibis they never swallowed. Then, in the crucial moment, the uncontrollable uproar grows louder, and in a bellowing call, the victims ask for the opening of their eager eyes, followed by a final declaration of their true identities. The music cuts off, and the mob drops to the floor, lying scattered and unmoving in puddles of beer. They are all Mr. Brightside now, an English school teacher who died in 1876. One freshman remains standing in the middle of the room, and the scene leaves him awestruck. He had sung “eagle eyes,” not “eager,” his passion for his new school mascot saving him from his doom. Or maybe he’s just an idiot.

That would make sense too.

RANDOM CLASS CANCELLATIONS - The freshman burst out of bed after checking the phone lying beside his pillow. 8:54 a.m. glared at him like a kangaroo after you punch it in the face. He toppled onto the floor, because his bed is lofted at an awkward height where a step down is just out of reach. He thought it looked cool when he moved in. Sprinting through his morning routine, the disheveled underclassman ran from his hall, tripping over a break in the pavement. His arm was broken, but at least his heart wasn’t anymore. Sometimes freshmen get over their emotional problems. Rolling over on the ground, he noticed his phone light up beside him. An email from his professor with the subject line “No class today” sat atop his notifications, along with a Snapchat from his grandmother.

The freshman put his head back on the pavement and went to sleep. He had left his ID in his room. This was the fourth time he had done this.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC BEFORE DEC. 25 Come Dec. 1, Americans enter a new mental state. Their fingers become incapable of selecting any music without the words “jingle,” “halls,” or “Rudolph” in the lyrics, and their ears cannot tolerate any playlist unless Mariah Carey’s rendition of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is played every three songs. Any other combination of auditory stimulus causes eggnog to ooze from their ears, and reindeer horns to sprout atop their head. Only when the sound of Carey’s voice enters their ears will the waterfalls cease, and the horns recede.

The coronation of Donald Trump is an undeniable shock and a challenge to our axiomatic assumptions. By now, post-hoc analysis is becoming a bit of a worn cliché, since everyone and their mother has given their insight and commentary on the results of the election. It’s important and worthwhile to deliberate and consider just how groundbreaking and system-shattering Trump’s victory is. Given the riptide of the right moving across the world, his rise begs the question: is this the new normal?

The president-elect was messianic. His candidacy delivered a series of blows to establishment politics, liberalism, and the very nature of our world order. Zigzagging and flip-flopping across the country, he stuck it to the elites as a renegade outsider, pledging loyalty to nobody and taking marching orders from only himself. As a cheerleader for those hit in the gut by automation, globalization, and technological development, he galvanized a silent majority in the flyover and rust-belt states of Middle America. He rallied resentment against the bicoastal barons and media gatekeepers. He challenged liberal smugness and political correctness. And he won.

His unlikely emergence as leader of the free world is—on paper—certainly a shock to what we knew (or what we thought we knew). But the vindication of a clairvoyant Trump is concurrent with a broader global trend: globalism, cosmopolitanism, and liberalism in retreat. Apostles of resentment are rising from the right, skeptical of international cooperation and weary of the tides of globalization. In general, these leaders are pessimistic, populist, and P.O.’ed. They are ready to turn their countries inward, raise the walls, and build a moat.

Across the Atlantic, amid a massive influx of migrants, sluggish economic growth, and profound disappointment with the central planning and bureaucracy of Brussels, the Europeans are getting bearish on the European Union, and they are toppling the liberal optimists of the West’s old guard left and right. Gone are the days of cheery diplomacy, climate accords, upbeat

G7 meetings, and steady resolve in beating back the Russian bear in Europe’s backyard.

David Cameron of the United Kingdom was ousted from office when Britons voted for Brexit, a vision for the country sharply at odds with his own. In France, François Hollande saw his approval rating bottom out at 4 percent last month. Vying for his spot are Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen, who are both fond of Russia and critical of France’s Muslim population. And just this week in Italy, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced that he will resign following the country’s forceful populist-driven vote against his proposed political reforms.

In Eastern Europe, far-right politicians are winning. Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Poland have elected parties that “range across a wide policy spectrum, from populist and nationalist to far-right neofascist.” The rhetoric and ideologies of these politicians seem more similar to that of Europe’s eastern neighbor, Vladimir Putin, than they do to that of bulwarks like Germany’s Angela Merkel. Countries in this bloc are balking at a weakening E.U. and beginning to embrace an emboldened Russian-led push for regional hegemony.

Improved Russian relations might be in store for even the continent’s western flank, which could pose challenges to global stability with America as top dog. For all his talk on warming to Russia, Trump would surely recoil at the thought of the country dominating in the Middle East, ramping up cyber interference, or gaining the edge in proxy conflicts.

Former Soviet Union satellites and Eastern European countries with particularly bleak socioeconomic prospects pivoting to the far right is one thing. But the U.S., France, England, and Italy—nation-states typically seen as post-WWII bastions of liberalism and stability—are also experiencing far-right nationalist and populist pushbacks. As Florian Phillippot, vice president of France’s National Front party, tweeted on Nov. 8 , “Their world is crumbling. Ours is being built.”

With Trump, Euro-skeptics, and authoritarianism, the world order as we know it is in store for some big changes. Multilateralism and the free flows of capital, trade, and people could take a back seat to parochial pushes for national sovereignty and “taking the country back.” The neoliberal nature of the West is at stake as economic

nationalism is becoming the policy du jour. The ‘New World’ is being built: two parts systemic shock and disruption, one part Trump, three steps to the right, and a sprinkling of populist rhetoric thrown in for good measure.

The president-elect might as well be the standard bearer for this “New World.” He will preside over a melting pot that he has violently stirred, elected by a democratic process he has time and again inveighed against, constrained by a system of checks and balances which he has repeatedly insulted, and able to dismantle a Pax Americana he has vociferously raised doubts about. Though his ascent might have been disruptive and unprecedented, his place at the top of the pecking order in the “New World” is unquestionable. However, his ability to stay atop is certainly questionable.

Illiberalism and a form of splintering tribalism seem to be on the rise, but if global cooperation and diplomacy recede, will it be possible to handle international issues like climate change? Who will keep the Kremlin in check, if and when it jockeys for territorial expansion and cyber dominance?

The “New World” winners want to stem the flow of immigration and free trade. Will isolationism boost a country’s economic prospects or is it a recipe for further malaise?

Many of the West’s new leaders are overtly contemptuous of democracy; some have patently exclusionist, xenophobic, and racist beliefs. Has this full-scale assault on cosmopolitanism and liberalism taken root in the West, or is it a passing—and dangerous—chapter of history?

How Trump and his compatriots in the West handle the uncertainties and contradictions raised above will determine how they fare. Their ascent to positions of power, popularity, and prestige in their respective countries are a clear mandate for fresh and new leadership. However, if they are not able to govern and deliver, then they will be booted just as soon as they were ushered in. The million dollar question is how far these fresh-faced renegades and newly-minted leaders of 2017 will deviate from the west’s current course. If their campaigns and proposals are any guide, the change and disruption could be profound.

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Create a clear image of it in your mind.” I pictured a birch: skeletal whiteness—paper-like sheets of bark peeling from a trunk—a few autumn-gold leaves hanging from scraggly branches. “And now realize that your tree, despite its physical absence, exists in this room. As a conjured image, yes, but existent nonetheless.” My professor began our class with this exercise as an introduction to Mallarmé, specifically his assertion of the ability of poetry, or language, to create an absent image.

There is no linguistic medium in which this ability is so resonant as it is in lyrical music. Songs, with their audio aesthetics, create not only an image, but a mood—a situational context that submerges the listener.

The exaltation of music video art through the 1981 launch of MTV created tangible visual and contextual resonances of music, in place of imaginative suggestions.

This revolution engendered a sense of solidarity between artists and their supporters, as it allowed fans to witness the style and persona of their heroes. With the introduction of music videos, my 5-year-old self was not only afforded the ability (or lack thereof) to sound like Britney Spears while singing her lyrics on my front porch, but I could look like her, too, simply by tying up my t-shirts in homage to her belly shirt steeze. Mimicry of this kind swept across a generation of young listeners.

And while my young incarnation of

Spears may seem inconsequential, it is a microcosmic reflection of the momentous changes that took place in the music world.

Through music videos, artists gained the ability to influence their listeners’ means of expression. Popular fashion trends, haircuts, body types, mannerisms, and lifestyles were dictated by the images that now accompanied an artist’s already popular lyrics.

From a marketing standpoint, the effect that music videos had on their watchers was lucrative. From a social standpoint, this effect became increasingly futile. Rather than advancing to a self-expressive form of identification with an artist and their message, mimicry devolved into a superficial façade used for one to become “part of the crowd.”

Recently, the function of music videos has taken a positive turn away from the social stagnation of superficial mimicry, and towards social progression. This new trend utilizes music videos to gain recognition for prevalent social issues and to incite social change.

The most moving example of such a song is Coldplay’s single, released in April, 2016, “Up & Up.” Though the lyrics of the song reflect a commitment to social progression, it is only through the many beautifully arresting images of “Up & Up”’s music video that the song reaches its fullest effect.

The music video itself is a continual presentation of recognizable scenes and images displaced from their conventional setting to lend them a new meaning. For example, the video includes a scene of a river running through a forest. Spanning across the width of the river lays an enlarged paper cup, like those used to serve drinks at fast-food restaurants.

The image is a statement on the impact of human waste on nature. Its arresting distortions, especially in the size of the cup and its obvious lack of belonging, call the viewer to consciousness, encouraging recognition of our human impact on the environment. This resulting awareness contrasts the senseless imitation fostered by earlier music videos due to the video’s presentation of a problem as a social issue rather than a superficial aesthetic.

The viewer is then presented with an image of a massively enlarged butterfly (the size of a building) resting, wings flapping peacefully, on the side of an oilrig in the middle of the ocean. In the background of the image, the sun sets in a vibrant gradient on the ocean’s horizon, rendering the beauty of the scene dominant to the imposition of the oil rig. This image is a metaphor for the triumph of the natural world over the facilitator of its destruction, the oil rig. This compliments the river scene by providing the viewer with a sense of hope for a better tomorrow. This encourages the viewer to take action against the destruction of the natural environment.

The form of mimicry incited by this image is one of social progression, rather than pointless impersonation.

While the socio-politically charged lyrics of Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” and The Beatles’ “Revolution” will always strike a chord of passion within the hearts of their listeners, the visual rhetoric recently adopted by the music world resonates with its viewers on a more effectual level than can be accomplished by lyrics alone. The recent use of music videos to address social issues is a tactical and meaningful capitalization on the ability of music to sway social tides. The new generation of visual artists has departed from the restrictive cove of superficial imitation, to arrive upon the expansive shores of social activism.

Music videos are a powerful medium for the communication of socially progressive ideas. They create, in the words of Mallarmé, “the absent flower of all bouquets,” the realized image of what our society can and should strive to be. These images provide viewers with an encouraging sense of possibility, prompting work towards the realization of the portrayed societal progression. Music videos with an aim at social progress necessarily recognize the problems plaguing our society, positively incite viewers to act, and instill hope for a better tomorrow.

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Aʏʛ Fʇʎʆʏʃʐ It was 1:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, and I had just left O’Neill. I decided it was probably best that I go back to my dorm after using my microeconomics textbook as a pillow for the third time. Getting up from my seat, I said a silent goodbye to my comrades, descended the winding stairs, and pushed open the glass door into the cold night air. I was about to head down to Lower Campus when twinkling lights appeared at the corner of my eye, waking me from my sleep-deprived stupor.

There it stood—the Boston College Christmas tree, over 20-feet-tall, blinking red and green and brightening up the cold December night.

Instantly, I recalled the tree from last year. It serves as a constant in my ever-changing BC experience.

As I stared at the tree, I thought about the changes that came with sophomore year. When I returned to BC a couple of months ago, I was initially excited about the move from Upper to Lower Campus, happy to finally be in the middle of all the action. But as the year progressed, I found myself missing the safe enclave of Upper. Even more unnerving was all the talk about the year ahead. My friend and I had barely unpacked, and our conversations were already about what house to rent on Foster Street and where to study abroad.

It was probably naïve of me in retrospect, but I had no idea these decisions had to be made so early. Should I go to Ireland for a semester? What about Italy, or perhaps a full year in London? In contrast to first semester of freshman year, when the focus was on enjoying the present, fall of sophomore year was all about change. As a person who doesn’t like change, these impending decisions made me uneasy.

I soon began to realize that change is neverending. Before long, it will be senior year and I will have to start preparing for an even greater adjustment: the real world. Standing outside of O’Neill, I envisioned the next two years of college: a flurry of resumes, interviews, and cover letters, all part of the search for the perfect internship that will hopefully lead to a job offer. Suddenly, I started to feel like I was getting pulled down by the undertow, unable to stay afloat in the tide of growing older. I vigorously shook my head, trying to rid myself of the thoughts that were currently taking over my mind. As soon as I returned my focus to the Christmas tree, a sense of calmness came over me.

Thank goodness for traditions.

I have no idea who at BC is responsible for putting up the tree each year, but on that Tuesday night, I felt extreme gratitude. Before this moment, I had never really thought about traditions. Viewing the BC Christmas tree, everything that I loved about this time of year came rushing back to me: the red and white wreaths that have adorned the front of my house since elementary school, the reindeer standing in the same spot on my neighbor’s’ lawn, and the Christmas season staple, the Nutcracker ballet. How wonderful it is that with all the changes going on in our lives, we can always look forward to the traditions we hold dear.

During this time of year, as you undoubtedly work yourself up into a frenzy over papers, presentations, and exams, pause for a moment to embrace BC’s celebratory traditions of lighting the Christmas tree, placing rows and rows of poinsettias on the St. Ignatius Altar, assembling the nativity set outside St. Mary’s Hall, and stringing garland and hanging wreaths on Main Gate. This will help ground you. And when you return home for Christmas break, if your family has traditions, enjoy them and continue them. If they don’t, I strongly encourage you to start your own, as it is comforting to have these constants in your life.

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If, like the city of Boston, you have not yet encountered an Eataly—there are other locations in the United States: two in New York City and one in Chicago—you may wonder exactly what it is. Is Eataly a specialty grocery story? Is it a restaurant? Is it a grab-and-go lunch destination? Well, it is all that and more.

Intrigued, perhaps you will make your way toward the Boston Eataly, located right in the middle of the Prudential Center and stretching across two floors of space. If you arrive at rush time, you may face waiting in the long line that snakes in front of the store’s entrance before you can even enter the store, prompting you to wonder if you should even bother going through all this trouble.

The answer is yes, you should bother. Get in line, because the store on the other side is well worth the wait.

Founded by Oscar Farinetti, who opened the first Italy-based Eataly in 2007, Eataly first arrived to the United States in 2010.

Having since spread following wild success, Eataly, in the simplest of terms, is a giant Italian marketplace. But in reality, it is much more complex than that. This becomes obvious the moment that you step foot inside the Boston location.

After you are handed a map of Eataly’s layout to guide you through the different specialty sections scattered throughout, you might look around awestruck as you are carried forward into the store by the determined wave of people.

Your eyes will eagerly dart from counter to counter. The I Panini E Le Ciabatte counter, which features a stunning array of sandwiches and paninis, not to mention handcrafted potato chips, will catch your

attention. The pastry bar, where beautifully composed small desserts glisten behind a glass case, will speak to your sweet tooth.

After seeing the case of pastries, you cannot help but investigate the Focacceria, where picturesque piles of rustic bread lie just behind a window. A stop here is essential, for the samples are plentiful and prove that the breads—all with the perfect crust and flavor—taste even better than they look.

Slightly overwhelmed by this point and afraid of missing anything, you may whiz through the rest of Eataly. You weave through the two sit-down restaurants located in the center of the store and quickly move past the gelato and chocolate fountain stand, the butcher, the mozzarella lab, the Salumi E Formaggi counter, and the window behind which you can watch Eataly employees craft fresh pasta.

But take a breath, and take a cue from the shoppers calmly strolling through the aisles and baskets heaping with Italian foodstuffs in one hand, and a glass of wine in the other. Maybe stop by the bread counter again for another sample, and then set off again and slowly explore—thankfully Eataly isn’t going anywhere.

Having taken over a large space in the Prudential Center that originally housed a food court, Adam Saper, managing partner and CFO of Eataly, explained that the designers of the Eataly focused upon providing visitors with an easy-to-navigate store containing many counter-serve options.

“In a building like the Prudential Center we knew that weekday lunch was going to be a big focus for our customers,” Saper said in an email to The Heights. “We wanted to give them as many highquality options as possible.”

But Saper explains that it isn’t just the wide range of over-thecounter options that makes Eataly Boston unique. Although the

restaurants, counters, and specialty items within the store may hold similarities to those of other Eataly locations, they are specifically tailored to the Boston community in this location.

“We didn’t just build another Eataly here, we built Eataly Boston,” Saper said. “Our shelves and our house-made products are all filled with local ingredients.

Such ingredients include everything from the local Island Creek oysters used within their two restaurants and their New England Charcuterie products, to the High Lawn milk that serves as the base for their house-made gelato.

Saper also points out the special focus of Eataly Boston, which is “dedicated to the sea” to allow Eataly to emphasize local fishermen while celebrating the city’s rich seafood tradition. The businesses also collaborated with Boston-based chef Barbara Lynch, a partnership that adds yet another personal touch to the location.

“We knew we had to do something special in our fish-focused restaurant, Il Pesce,” Saper said. “When you think of Boston food culture, and you think of seafood, who else comes to mind but Barbara Lynch. We are so proud to be working with her in Il Pesce, it’s helped us get even more connected to the local community.”

If you aren’t a fan of seafood, don’t fret. From its wildly popular pizza counter to its high-quality salad counter, Eataly Boston has plenty of equally-delicious, hand-crafted alternatives.

In fact, Eataly Boston contains many alternatives and special features to keep visitors constantly returning to discover new products and taste new options.

Saper advises visitors to keep their eyes peeled for the opening of Eataly Boston’s third restaurant, Terra. Located in a rooftop space, this grill-focused restaurant will open within the coming months, and will only add to Eataly Boston’s special magic.

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In the middle of what used to be a giant, and often barren, expanse of red brick in front of Boston’s City Hall now lies a winter oasis filled with over 40 wooden cottages, a custom-designed ice skating rink, and large buildings housing chocolate and wine tastings.

Originally scheduled to open to the public on Dec. 2, the grand opening of “Boston Winter Presented by Berkshire Bank” at City Hall Plaza was rescheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday following weather-born delays. But even the temperamental Boston weather did not stop “Boston Winter” from undergoing a soft opening over the weekend, much to the delight of locals who made their way to the

plaza to explore all it had to offer.

After entering the open-air enclosure that contains “Boston Winter,” this weekend’s visitors were faced with a giant, festively-decorated lawn chair—the perfect opportunity for a photo opportunity.

After snapping a quick picture, visitors had the opportunity to explore the holiday shopping market.

Inspired by traditional European markets and housed in a collection of 42 quaint wooden cottages that sprawl in winding avenues throughout the enclosure, the holiday market may just be the perfect place to hunt down that elusive holiday gift for a friend or family member. Each cottage contains a different pop-up shop, such as the Etsy Artists of Boston, The Grommet—a product-launch platform dedicated to promoting the success of small businesses—and B&B Glass Studios, a Massachusetts-based glass design studio.

The market provides a variety of items to explore and brands to discover. Many of them, such as Lovepop, a pop-up greeting card company, were launched by some of Boston’s very own innovators.

As visitors wandered through the paths of the holiday experience, many taking

breaks to duck into the tiny stores, they made their way to the center of “Boston Winter.” From there, Bostonians could appreciate the 20-foot-tall Holiday Tree—an installation of glowing red and green lights powered by four bikes surrounding the tree. Those who pedal fast enough and manage to illuminate the star atop the tree will trigger a special light display in celebration. When Hanukkah begins, the Holiday Tree will be joined by a giant, glowing menorah.

From the center, visitors can also access the ice skating rink, which opened to the public during yesterday’s grand opening ceremonies. Designed in an innovative curving shape, this nearly 11,000-squarefoot skating path will be open to the public until Feb. 28. It will no doubt be the site of many selfies due to the glowing-green sign it surrounds that spells out BOSTON in giant letters.

Visitors who work up an appetite, whether from wandering through the market or skating the day away, can stop at one of the several food vendors located within the market. These include the Urban Lodge beer hall, or the Bavarian Village cottage, which sells traditional European options

like sausages, soft pretzels with mustard, and mulled wine. More adventurous eaters even have the chance to participate in the Vinopolis Wine tasting, an exhibit that originated in London, or the Chocolate Story, an educational chocolate tasting featuring Boston’s own Taza Chocolate.

“Boston Winter” is the first installment of Berkshire Bank’s “Boston Seasons” project, the first in a series of projects developed by the Boston Garden Development Corp. (BDGC) pand the City of Boston Property Management Department, that aims to re-energize the City Hall Plaza space. And as Amy Latimer, president of the BDGC, revealed to The Heights over email, this is a form of innovation new not just to Boston, but to New England as a whole.

“New England has never before seen a three-month long holiday festival like this before,” Latimer said. “The ice skating path is New England’s first custom-designed skating path.”

And while Latimer also notes that the holiday markets that inspired the “Boston Winter” holiday shopping market are common occurrences in Europe, and even beginning to emerge in other major US

cities, this is Boston’s first time hosting a holiday market of this magnitude.

After Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, announced the initiative in early 2016, Latimer explained that officials immediately began developing the yeararound seasonal activation plan that will take place over the next three years, often drawing inspiration from cities across the country.

“For inspiration, some of the leadership from Boston Garden Development Corp did a whirlwind tour of other major cities that have unique and successful spaces similar to Boston’s City Hall Plaza,” Latimer wrote. “They took the best concepts and applied them to the city’s vision of a vibrant, communal space—hence, New England’s very first custom ice path!”

And so far, the concepts have proven immensely successful. Grace Barr, a Chelsea resident who decided to visit “Boston Winter” after hearing about it on the news, was delighted by what she found, and plans to return to “Boston Winter” through its duration in the Plaza.

“It’s wonderful, I think [the holiday market is] great with the different booths,” Barr said.

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Though released in the summer of 1984, Gremlins is undoubtedly a Christmas story. Gifting, giving, caroling, family, and violent mischief are intrinsically parts of an illustrious holiday season. After all, what is family without a little bloodshed? The rules of the mogwai are simple and echo the sentiments we can all follow to keep us alive during Christmas time.

1. Keep them away from sunlight. In the dead of a brutal New England winter, when we are all nuzzled about the fire, the last thing we want is a ray of sunshine to make our days any less dour. We love winter because it gives us an excuse to be indoors. For mogwai like Gizmo (voiced by Howie Mandel), the imperative is survival. For us, the imperative is not moving an inch.

2. Keep them away from water. As you down your fifth spiked egg nog, the last thing you want is a family member to even insist you “take it easy.” The holidays are all about giving—to yourself. If the mogwai cannot handle the candor and merrimaking of their spawn, maybe they should have

thought about that before they got doused in water.

3. Never feed them after midnight. Now excess is good and Gremlins can attest to that, but the gastronomic turmoil you are likely to wrought on your body is probably not worth it. Gremlins burn a lot of calories committing acts of vandalism, burglary, and homicide. They have earned it. The least you could do is put in a couple of reps at the gym. So when Billy’s mom finds you in the kitchen eating all the Christmas cookies with no intent on stopping, the shame may have you thinking about putting yourself in the microwave.

But beyond the rules, the sentimental moments of Gremlins capture the essence of this season of candy canes, carols, and gingerbread houses. In one scene, Kate (Phoebe Gates) describes how she found her father dead in the chimney in an attempt to play Santa Claus. Is it sad? Is it funny? Who knows. It is in Gremlins though.

Gremlins is the perfect Christmas movie because it captures the fears we have all had as children on Christmas morning. And it’s not finding your father dead in the chimney. It’s when all you wanted was something fun and entertaining, but you just end up inheriting an excessive amount of responsibility.

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Christmas Vacation is the movie

that I asked Santa to bring me for Christmas. It’s not just some feel-good, everyone remember how special family is holiday flick. It’s a comedy, and a good one at that. So you know it’s going to be a little more “ha-ha” than “ho-ho” which is just how I like my Christmas movies. My family has the tendency to make the same jokes every year. Multiple. Times. And while I love them, it’s nice to stick some actual comedy in there too. And I know my family reads all of my articles so … Hi guys! Don’t worry, I love the jokes every time you tell them.

Christmas Vacation also has a very important lesson to impart to you and I. Griswold puts way too much pressure on himself and on the holiday. He brings his family to “the threshold of Hell” trying to get things to go exactly according to plan. Christmas is a time to de-stress after a long year. It’s a time to sit around the house, spend time with the family you don’t see for most of the year, eat lots and lots of food, try to figure out what the heck you’re supposed to do on Christmas Day after presents have been opened (I always see a movie ... go figure), prepare for the eight crazy nights of Hanukkah this year (if you’re half-Jewish like me), and do every other wacky tradition your family does. Learn from the Griswolds, and have a merry, and incident-free, Christmas this year.

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Although categorized as a dark fantasy film, Edward Scissorhands provides a new perspective on what a holiday romance may look like. Most Christmas films are filled with a cheesy, semi-turbulent plotline that concludes happily, as if wrapped up nicely with a bow. Edward Scissorhands, on the other hand, is a refreshing, heartwarming, yet saddening tale that truly describes the realities of a seasonal love affair: chaotic and fleeting, but often filled with beautiful and captivating moments.

The film begins with an elderly woman explaining to her granddaughter why snow falls, attributing it to an ominous figure from her past. Much like a dark, modern rendition of Beauty and the Beast, Edward Scissorhands focuses on the unlikely romance between Edward (Johnny Depp), the blade-fingered spawn of a local scientist, and Kim Boggs (Winona Ryder), the beautiful, popular daughter living in the house he has been welcomed into. Kim’s initial resentment toward Edward transforms into appreciation and ultimately love as she realizes that he is not the monster he appears to be. The scene that speaks to this revelation features Edward crafting an ice sculpture with his hands while

Kim decorates the Christmas tree inside with her mother. Walking outside, Kim sees that the sculpture is of her and proceeds to dance underneath the falling snow of Edward’s craftsmanship. The moment they share is ethereal and unforgettable, one that is an image I often think of when Christmas comes to mind.

Sadly, however, Kim and Edward’s love is not meant be. Their eventual, tragic separation speaks to a deeper, truer love defined by respect and selflessness. Any typical Christmas movie can take two people who seemingly shouldn’t be together and craft a story in which they fall madly in love and stay together forever. It is more daring and truthful to show that, in life, you often don’t find one true romance that puts all the others to shame, or even receive all of the presents you scribbled on your Christmas list.

Kim and Edward may not have attained their happily ever after, but the love they shared is everlasting.

It is revealed that Kim is the elderly woman from the beginning of the film and that every time the snow falls, she thinks of Edward. In the same vain, every time the Christmas season rolls around I think of Edward Scissorhands. The winter wonderland of Christmas set the scene for a tragic love story like none other and, in my eyes, revolutionized the modern holiday romance.

A WORD FROM MARS

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M<IFE@:8 >FI;F It’s no secret that I like to write. Even to you, dear reader, who has most probably never met me before, by reading this column my interest in writing and journalism is clear. My dreams of becoming a renowned writer and figure in the realm of art and media emerged in middle school when I began writing for the school newspaper. My literary aspirations have been growing stronger ever since. The writing I have done in the past, however, has never illustrated my fascination with and love for space exploration, scientific discovery, and theories about the cosmos.

As a young child, my bedroom ceiling glittered with glow-in-thedark stars. In the moments before I would drift off to sleep, I would stare up at my homemade constellations and envision my place in the galaxy. These nightly experiences fostered my love for space and what lies beyond our world.

When I first started playing guitar in the sixth grade, I found solace in playing at night, in front of my giant bedroom window, so I could feel the strings and play by memory and inspiration, rather than out of a book. While staring at the stars, I realized what I would name my guitar: Orion.

When I finally added a two new guitars to my collection, a Yamaha acoustic and a Fender stratocaster, I named them Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, respectively. Betelgeuse is Orion’s “right shoulder” in the

constellation while Bellatrix is the “left shoulder.” Altogether, my collection of guitars and love for music lit up my life.

It was then that I realized that two of my loves, science and art, were inextricably intertwined.

The beauty and mastery of the universe is encapsulated and embodied in the art that fills the world around us. As I entered high school, I decided to follow this path of juxtaposed interests.

Mainly, I continued my journalistic journey. In middle school, I began as a staff writer for the school newspaper and eventually worked my way up to the position of editor-in-chief. I replicated this path in high school as I went from staff writer, to editor, to creative director. But in my spare time, I furthered my love for science. I was inducted into the National Technical Honor Society and thrived in my Chemistry and Physics classes.

My time in physics during senior year was highlighted by the release of The Martian. Watching it gave me a pure rush of excitement—I was captivated by not only the film’s cinematography, score, and artistry, but also its story. The complex science and ingenuity of Matt Damon’s character, Mark Watney, floored me and inspired me. As he battled the elements and loneliness that Mars presented him with, Watney embraced each challenge with a striking optimism and sense of humor.

Now, here at Boston College, I declared as an English major. Yet I am still pursuing my passion in the sole astronomy class offered at this university. Every Tuesday from 6:30 to 9 p.m., I listen in awe to Thomas Kuchar’s lectures on lunar phases, astronomical

motion, and spectra. One lecture has stuck with me, though, all throughout this semester.

This November, while learning about stellar evolution, Kuchar explained that we’re all made of stardust. A star’s life is a perpetual war between gravity and internal gas pressure. This is a war that gravity ultimately wins every time.

As stars evolve, they increase in luminosity (brightness) and decrease in temperature. This process continues until it dies. Sometimes, stars explode in a fantastic show of power called a supernova.

When this occurs, heavier elements are created from fusion events, like magnesium, lead, or gold land on Earth as such. So, essentially, the gold necklace I wear everyday with my first initial is made from a star. This fact amazed me and made me look at the world around me differently.

It reminded me of the epiphany I had while naming my guitars.

Therefore, I am naming this column, “A Word From Mars.” Every week I will be excited to bring a new outlook on something that interests me and hopefully interests Heights readers. This time, my motive was to introduce myself and, in doing so, share an interest of mine that may seem out of left field. Throughout my upcoming time writing this column for The Heights, I plan to convey my love of the arts— subjects and themes in music, film, fashion, and more—while exploring some unexpected topics, like science, that may take some by surprise.

To me, the sky’s the limit.

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all the while warmly inviting them into Dr. Seuss’ wonky,

fictional world. As far as fantastic aesthetics are concerned, this rendition of Whoville looks like the Christmas Season itself vomited glitter and strings of twinkly lights all over the

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Universal decided to stretch the thing so that a hairy green monster was just as much of a person as his viewers. In this

Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a

rendition, an 8-year-old Grinch sulks after being bullied

neat, compact little title for a time-honored Christmas

by Whoville’s future mayor. He peaces out and practically

movie whose lime-green colored VHS case of my youth

enslaves an adorable dog as his beloved indentured ser-

should have instead been emblazoned with the more

vant. The movie follows the peppermint-flavored tropes of

accurate name How The Grinch Stole Our Hearts in The

“nice-guy-turns-nasty” and the classic “christmas-hating-

Greatest Cinematic Masterpiece to Grace Undeserving

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Mortals in the History of Holiday-Themed Films Including

mayor-realizes-he-can’t-buy-love-with-an-expensive-car.”

all Future Attempts at Dethroning this Particular Holly-

Despite the aforementioned conventional plotline, though,

wood Gem, Probably. The movie boasts an unprecedented

the film soars.

level of imagination in an unquestionably emotional story

Jim Carrey is a treat as the brooding, sarcastic Grinch.

which champions the winter season’s spirit of belonging and

While Carrey’s character is not entirely human, but gradually

fostering good will toward [green] men. The Grinch’s entire,

getting there, his flawless comedic portrayal of the crabby

complicated world—comprised of all the valid insecurities

anti-Christmas antihero makes the grouchy green monster

that accompany life as a hairy orphan baby, tragic memories

far more relatable. The movie has allowed everyone young at

of a childhood love gone sour, and hilarious revenge plots

heart to believe in the possibility that with every snowflake

intended to serve the Grinch’s boyhood bullies their just

landing on their awaiting outstretched tongue, there may

desserts—is revealed to be a mere microscopic speck on a

very well be some miniscule green monster gaily flinging jury

seemingly insignificant snowflake in the first few seconds

duty notices and pieces of blackmail into the tiny square mail-

of the film. This is mind-boggling stuff we’re flirting with

boxes of an entire Who population embedded somewhere

here, folks.

deep in the fibers of the teeny-tiny snow particle. This notion

The live action film, straying boldly from the pliable versatility of the animated realm, finds a way to aid viewers in

alone is utterly hilarious and incredibly absurd—two marked characteristics of all high-quality Christmas movies.

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‘WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND’ (NOW OPEN)

‘MISS SLOANE’ (OPENS FRI.)

This new exhibit celebrates all that is snowy, sparkling, and winter. Presented in the Reading Room in the O’Neill Library, the collection of art, literature, and science allows students to revel in the more somber side of the season.

Ruthless and unapologetic, Elizabeth Sloane is a cunning Washington, D.C. lobbyist with a target on her back. Played

by Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain, Sloane faces new, powerful enemies as she maintains her stance on regulations on firearms throughout the film in the hopes of coming out on top.

JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER (NOW OPEN) Also located in the Reading Room of the O’Neill Library, this literary exhibit explores, “both the origins of the printed book as we know it today, and the resulting interaction between oral and written cultures,” according to the Boston College online events calendar.

ST. MARY’S CHRISTMAS CONCERT (THURS. AT 5 P.M.) This week, the Jesuit community and the University Chorale are sponsoring a Christmas Concert in St. Mary’s Chapel involving members of the University Chorale of Boston College as well as John Finney its conductor. Admission is free and Christmas cheer is guaranteed.

‘JACKIE’ (NOW PLAYING) Academy Award winner Natalie Portman’s new biopic puts her in the driver’s seat as a fascinatingly unstable, grieving Jacqueline Kennedy in the wake of her

‘INCARNATE’ (NOW PLAYING)

Likened to films such as Sinister and Insidious, this horror film stars David Mazouz as a child possessed by an evil demon and Aaron Eckhart as a scientist with the ability to enter the subconscious mind who has been sent in to save him.

BOSTON HOLIDAY POPS (FRI. AT 8 P.M.) Boston’s seasonal tradition continues as the Boston Pops perform a wide variety of holiday favorites as well as a Pops sing-a-long portion in Symphony Hall.

JINGLE BALL TOUR 2016 (SUN. AT 6 P.M.)

The iHeartRadio’s annual holiday musical event is back featuring artists such as Ariana Grande, Shawn Mendes, and Diplo. The TD Garden will be filled with pop culture’s stars ringing in the season by performing their latest hits.

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A CHRISTMAS STORY

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But there is one movie that dominates all other Christmas movies. A movie that has the true Christmas spirit: disappointment, temporality, and mashed potatoes. That is A Christmas Story, the classic film of TBS 24-hour marathon fame that tells the story of young Ralphie’s (Peter Billingsley) quest to get an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two hundred shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time. Ever since I saw the scene where Ralphie beats up his bully while screaming obscenities and then collapses in tears, I knew that this was the Christmas movie for me. It takes the “fra-gee-lay” life of a child on the cusp of his youthful peak, just a brighteyed kid trying to have a great Christmas, and has Santa literally kick him in the face.

It’s a fantastic movie in itself, but the real reason this

SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN J?8EEFE B<CCP s ?<@>?KJ <;@KFI There are not many longstanding Christmas traditions in my family. The side we celebrate with is fairly new to the United States, so my idea of a classic American Christmas mostly comes from books or movies. The closest thing we have to a tradition is Chinese takeout dinner on Christmas day, which itself was shown as an atypical affair in A Christmas Story. But if there is one thing that is a constant for me, from the first time I knew what Christmas was to last year, it is the Arthur Rankin/Jules Bass cartoons that are sprinkled into ABC Family’s—now Freeform, for some reason—25 Days of Christmas special throughout December.

Though the duo’s first Christmas work was in 1964 with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, my personal favorite came six years later in Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town.

Now, there are a lot of myths out there about how exactly Santa Claus came to be, and Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town offers another one. Baby Santa, an orphan, is adopted by a family of toymaker elves who name him Kris Kringle. He grows up in a town where children cannot have any toys, and so Krin-

is the best Christmas movie of all-time is because I say it is. It’s the Christmas movie I grew up watching and that’s really all that matters when it comes to Christmas movies.

These films aren’t about objective cinematic greatness.

They’re about subjective experience, the memories you develop growing up around them and the people you sit down to watch them with. A Christmas Story has had dramatic and long-term effects on my life, from calling every “Scott” I’ve ever met “Scut” to screaming “NOT A FINGA!” at strangers for no apparent reason. The movie is full of these tiny moments and quotes that have been grafted into a permanent Christmas-association in my brain.

I don’t look forward to that many things nowadays, but I can confidently tell you that I can’t wait to watch the final scene of the movie on Christmas Eve. As the unnamed mother and father sit in their dark living room watching the snow fall outside to the sounds of “Silent Night,” the nostalgic, childish, sentimental, and ultimately kinda sad spirit of Christmas is fully realized in the best dang Christmas movie of all time.

gle delivers toys by night , and the rest is history. It is adorable and smart, connecting popular belief about Santa with an original story.

Besides the story, the artistry provides a sense of familiarity that is unmatched.

The film’s stop-motion animation, with its charming shakiness and funny character close-ups, is almost synonymous with Christmas movie, to the point of parody.

And then there are the characters , of which the two leads are voiced by film icons Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney, that make it all the more homey. I can’t think of watching the Rankin/Bass films without thinking of a 6year-old me in blue pajamas with brown bears on them, curled up in the middle of our family’s wellloved red plaid couch, a small mug of hot chocolate—made with hot milk, not hot water—clenched in a small fist.

Maybe the biggest part of why I love this movie is that it meant more than watching just the one.

ABC Family’s special holiday schedule meant Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Little Drummer Boy, and The Year Without a Santa Claus playing back to back. Just think of that: five hours of uninterrupted TV time as a kid, your pajamas still on at 2 p.m. It was heaven then. And it’s still a good memory now.

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In a large sense, the movie is the simple story of one of the Stone family’s more bizarre Christmas weeks, as one of the Stone family sons, Everett (Dermot Mulroney), brings home his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker). The rest of the family’s heard plenty about Meredith.

One of the Stone daughters, Amy (Rachel McAdams), spent a weekend with her and Everett in New York. Amy tells the rest of her family, including

DIE HARD D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E s ?<@>?KJ <;@KFI In the midst of the rush to get to Walmart first on Black Friday, or the desperate Dec. 23 push to snag the hottest toy to hit the shelves since Tickle Me Elmo, Americans have forgotten what Christmas is truly about.

This isn’t a holiday about consumerism and gift-giving, or even the traditions that come around the season. It’s about being with one’s family, traveling far distances at absurdly marked-up ticket prices with massive delays, alongside creatures that remind you of John Candy in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. It’s about screaming at one another over lasagna and the Seven Fishes at the dinner table when Dad gets Mom the same damn blender we’ve had for nine years. And, if you believe in the Christian roots of the holiday, it’s about miracles and believing that, on this glorious day, anything can happen.

Which is why no movie perfectly exemplifies the Christmas spirit quite like Die Hard.

Yes, the greatest Christmas film of all-time is Die Hard, the John McTiernan action classic and the 1988 Greatie Award winner for Best Disgruntled Cop Defeats European Not-ReallyBut-Technically-a-Terrorist Film. (Editor’s note: The Greatie Awards are the creation of the author. They hold no bearing on cinematic excellence.)

her parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson), about how uptight and conservative she is, arguing that Meredith is a terrible fit for both Everett and the whole family. Meredith’s got a lot working against her.

Throughout the movie, Meredith tries to prove to the family that she is more than just a prude and rigid New Yorker and that she and Everett make for a great, compassionate couple. For the most part she fails miserably and embarrassingly. Though things look grim for Everett and Meredith, these types of situations have a funny way of working out how some might not expect them to, and movies don’t always have to put together couples everyone thinks they have to.

This relationship isn’t the only thing The Family Stone has going for it. It’s the story of an outsider that wants desperately to be a part of something that looks so wholesome and fulfilling. It’s the story about a typical, yet uncanny family—one that makes a viewer feel right at home with them, whether that be by judging Meredith or simply snuggling into the couch next to the fire. The Family Stone maybe doesn’t have the depth, history, or significance of Christmas movies like It’s a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street, but it is not afraid to show its viewers a real family, one without all that joyful makeup.

Before you defer to the films that have earned one-timeonly specials on NBC or day-long marathons on TBS, think of it this way. What Christmas film exemplifies family and miracles better than Die Hard?

John McClane, played by America’s action-movie sweetheart Bruce Willis, journeys from New York to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve just to see his wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia, also, yep, like the Christmas plant), and his two kids. He does this despite hating flying with every inch of his bones. When he gets to Holly’s workplace at the Nakatomi Building for a terribly bougie holiday party—yet another nostalgic hallmark of what makes this the best Christmas movie—the company gets attacked by a foreign crime syndicate led by Severus Snape—err, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). Despite not having any backup within the building, McClane goes to every length to save Holly from her captors. Risking everything for family? Sign me up.

But how he does it is truly a Christmas miracle. Outnumbered 12-to-1, pushed on only by his love of Holly and Al (Reginald ValJohnson), a cop he’s communicating with over the radio who he welcomes into his family, McClane takes down the entire group, using only his street sense. (Well, that and the guns he steals from the men he takes down.) And it all comes without wearing shoes for a majority of the film!

For goodness sake, the guy didn’t even have shoes and he got out of there alive.

So you can keep your family-friendly flicks about presents and reindeer. Because I’ll take Die Hard: a true Christmas film about the power of family, friends, and miracles. Just like the holiday was meant to be.

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A8:F9 J:?@:B Looking at movies in recent months and years, it appears that Hollywood thinks audiences are dumb. According to most movies, the general viewing public has to be explicitly told exactly what is going on, what the characters are thinking and feeling, and how every process works. Apparently, Hollywood doesn’t trust us to figure out the movie ourselves. Personally, I’m offended.

WALL-E is a perfect example of a movie showing.

Everyone who watches this movie knows exactly what is going on from the get-go. “But Jacob, how can this be?!” you may ask incredulously. Well my dear reader, I’ll tell you. The movie opens with our intrepid robot friend WALL-E and his pet cockroach puttering around what is left of Earth. WALL-E collects trash and stacks it into skyscrapers of junk. To illustrate that WALL-E is probably one of the few working things left on Earth, the movie shows him replace his faulty tread with one from a “dead” WALLE unit. He has clearly been doing this for a while and he has his routine down pat. Every person, young children included, can clearly understand exactly what has happened and what is going on from the very

start.

“But, what about exposition? The movie doesn’t tell us anything explicitly!” Exactly.

There is no dialogue in this movie for the first 22 minutes.

Even then, the “dialogue” is just between WALL-E and EVE. The first human dialogue is not until 39 minutes into the movie.

That is almost half of the movie gone before a human character speaks. Yet, did audiences sit in utter confusion for two thirds of an hour, unable to figure out what was happening? Not at all.

Now let’s look at a movie that tells instead. Suicide Squad has some of the worst exposition ever. The first 15 minutes of the movie is either dialogue between characters explaining the powers and ability of the Suicide Squad or flashbacks

that hammer the audience in the face with backstory and motivation. Later in the movie, the “protagonists” are fitted with explosive collars that will kill them if they try to escape. This concept is explained once to a group of government officials, once to the characters themselves, and then it is discussed by the characters at length.

THEN, a character literally dies just so Suicide Squad can make absolutely sure that the audience understands these stupid collars.

WALL-E is a good movie.

Suicide Squad is a terrible movie. This is not just a coincidence. A lot of bad movies from recent years have had clunky exposition. Most of the good movies from the same time period either focus on showing

instead of telling or weave exposition into the story and plot in such a way so that it doesn’t feel forced. Doing this correctly is clearly possible. Audiences and critics almost always respond well to movies that can do this. Hollywood can make money from doing this. They just have to trust us. End rant.

On a lighter note, just a little bit about me. My name is Jacob Schick. I’m the new Assistant Arts & Review Editor. I’m from Orlando, Fla. and I’m a freshman in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. I watch too many movies. It’s kind of an obsession of mine. I keep a list of every movie I have ever seen in my entire life. At the time of my writing this article, I have seen 1,583 movies. If you want to do a little math, at an average

of two hours per movie, that is about 132 straight days of nothing but watching movies.

That doesn’t even count movies I’ve seen more than once. So, believe me when I tell you, I love to watch movies. I like a lot of music, but my favorite type is classic rock (or really anything from the ‘60s to the ‘80s). I’m also a big fan of a lot of television shows (Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, It’s Always Sunny, Futurama, etc). Although I don’t foresee discussing it as much here, I do love to read.

Well, that’s it for today, thanks for reading folks. I promise I won’t always just rant about stuff.

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The halls of Gasson are alive with the sound of music! Or at least, they were last Tuesday night for “A Christmas Festival,” presented by Boston College Bands.

The halls rang with triumphant brass and crashing percussion accented by enchanting woodwinds. Christmas time is here at BC and it sounds great.

The Irish Room in Gasson Hall was packed to the gills with proud parents and grandparents, along with some students, looking to get their Christmas music fix from a source other than a Spotify playlist. There were more wouldbe audience members than seats, and some listeners took to sitting on the window sills or on chairs placed outside the doors. Clearly, “A Christmas Festival” was more popular than one might initially expect. The main focus of the event was obviously the music, but that didn’t mean that there wasn’t anything to see.

Every member of the band was decked out in what was presumably their favorite Christmas sweater. Some musicians had gone as far as to put tinsel on their instruments, and one oboist even wore a headband complete with moose antlers.

The holiday spirit was felt by all.

The first part of the concert was a series of five selections of music, put together by various composers. These first five musical pieces—“A Fireside Christmas,” “O Magnum Mysterium,” “A Home Alone Christmas,” “Greensleeves,” and “Sleigh Ride,” and were played by the BC Symphonic Band.

“A Fireside Christmas” got “A Christmas Festival” off to a great start. This selection consists of a few of the more famous light-hearted Christmas jingles.

Composer Sammy Nestico, however, puts his own unique spin on the Christmas classics. The song from “A Fireside Christmas” that really stood out was “Frosty the Snowman.” The theme song from the classic animated movie and its

sequels, “Frosty” is a Christmas staple.

This rendition was triumphant instead of cartoonish. The piece was still quite recognizable as “Frosty the Snowman,” but it has welcome changes of pace and a stronger beat. This version of “Frosty” was much more fitting to be played by a full band, and to be played well.

Moving right along from light holiday songs to more serious and solemn music, the BC Symphonic Band played “O Magnum Mysterium” by Morten Lauridsen. This subject of this composition is the theology of the nativity scene.

While there were no accompanying vocals on Tuesday night, the music echoing through the building made Gasson feel even more church-like than it already does. The band did a beautiful job with this moving piece of music and, looking around the room, there were some tears to be seen on the faces of particularly proud parents, and maybe even some students too.

Next there was a piece from a fellow

Bostonian, and a very famous Bostonian at that. John Williams’ “A Home Alone Christmas” transported the audience. It felt as if one was experiencing the music again, but also for the first time. Images of Kevin McAllister setting holiday themed traps for Harry and Marv and a tearful reunification between Kevin and his mother floated through the minds of those present. High spirited flutes and chiming bells were the main feature of this film score.

The first half of “A Christmas Festival” finished with one of the most famous and popular Christmas songs there is. “Sleigh Ride,” an upbeat catchy tune about a ride through a winter wonderland, was apparently composed in the midst of a 1946 heat wave. However, the song evokes thoughts and feelings of flying down a snow-covered street in a sleigh of one’s very own. This last song by the Symphonic Band was received to rounds of congratulatory applause. The conductor and the band

took bows to very well-deserved praise by the audience.

After a brief intermission, the crowd funneled back in, eager for the second half of the show. The members of the University Wind Ensemble were clearly enjoying themselves as much as the audience. They were smiling and laughing with each other while they warmed up for the second half. If it is clear that the people giving the performance are having a good time and that they love what they are doing, it only adds to the enjoyment of the listener.

The University Wind Ensemble began with “A Christmas Intrada” by Alfred Reed. He wrote this piece to progress through a multitude of contrasting moods that go along with the Christmas festivities. The progressions utilize different sections of the band separately until the climactic swell of the full band to finish off the piece with a flourish.

By far the best piece played at “A Christmas Festival” was “Russian Christ-

mas Music.” It got off to a slow start, full of bells and somber, haunting notes from the woodwinds. It conjured sensations of the liturgical sounds of Mother Russia at Christmas time. The music rose, lifting itself into a climactic height with the blaring of the horns. The Wind Ensemble should be highly commended for its work on this piece as it was definitely the high-point of the night.

Wrapping up “A Christmas Festival” in a neat little bow, the Wind Ensemble played a piece similarly named “A Christmas Festival.” An uplifting arrangement consisting of “Joy to the World,” “ Deck the Halls,” “Jingle Bells,” and more, these well-known songs made for the perfect end to the Christmas-themed event. “A Christmas Festival” certainly gets the listener ready for Christmas time, even though there a few more weeks until the big day. One thing is for sure: the music played by the BC bands sounds much better than any Christmas music one might hear on the radio.

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Coming from a place of confusion, rather than pain, I would ask much the same question to the writers of HBO’s Westworld about the conclusion of its premiere season.

With so much riding on its back, Westworld set out to be a tasteful,

yet gritty work of science fiction.

Engaging us on intellectual grounds and revitalizing the childlike desire to romp as a cowboy, the show was, and in many ways is, one of the best futuristic epics to date. But, much like the West itself, Westworld’s eagerness to expand outside its borders has it reaching the end of its finite narrative world.

Without a doubt, the cinematography of the show is stunning.

The created an aesthetic that felt authentic, rustic, while at the same time strangely “perfect” all at the same time. That clean cut nature of much of the costuming and score

was, in part intentional, lending to the eerie notion that not all was as it seemed within the park.

Anthony Hopkins is masterfully integrated with his character.

Hopkins masterfully conveyed the Ford-characters sociopic god-complex in a way that only a seasoned actor seemingly could.

The other actors and actresses, namely those portraying hosts like Evan Rachel Wood, James Marsden, and Jeffrey Wright, proved that they possess an incredible acting range as they were able to turn emotions on and off in an instant as needed. In moments that could quickly devolve

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into farce, Wood could shift from an inconsolable emotional wreck, panting and all, into a emotionless visage.

Within its cast, Westworld finds the most of its success, as without these ovation-worthy performances, much of the rest of the show may have fallen flat.

Some people do choose to see the ugliness in this fictional world— and for good reason. Westworld detracts from itself when it takes on too much at once. Reminiscent of the faults of Lost, with details that begin to compound, the future looks uncertain. The latter half of the season sees many mainstays of the earlier half fall to inconsequential or lackluster ends. The Maeve storyline, the Maze, the Man in Black’s identity, and Wyatt come to dull conclusions. This is not to say that the story is incoherent or hard to follow, but the manner in which the story develops is unfulfilling. The finale feels deflated as many of the longstanding issues are played out in a tensionless environment.

As they crafted a story about a world in which everything has purpose and is meticulously crafted, it is disappointing, if not shocking, that the writers would not exercise a similar amount of precision and cunning within their own creation on the small screen.

Instead of spending due time elevating these would-be pivotal moments, with Ford, Dolores, or Bernard, we are brought on an excursion to future Delos properties or to a conclusion of hapless, pedantic bloodshed for bloodshed’s sake.

The moral conundrum of the show, whether the hosts are alive in the truest sense, is no more fully realized than at the beginning. We have seen the inner machinations of thought that Ford and Arnold sought to flesh out, but apart from our own insights into the characters themselves, the show has offered no single congruent message to demand that.

They are simply asking too many questions and going down avenues that are best left unexplored until future seasons. A 10-episode season is far too short for a show stuffed with as many lofty ideas as Westworld to truly flourish.

Down the line, in future seasons, one may hope to find an order to our days.

After seeing the season to its end, viewers may feel a little like Old Bill, just ready to put themselves away and move on to more comprehensible matters as Ford articulates his complicated thoughts: “That is one humdinger of a story, partner. Shall we drink to the lady in the white shoes?”

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John Legend illuminates the dark lack of soul on the top music charts of today in his new album Darkness and Light, released Dec. 2. Darkness and Light is now the fifth album under the belt of R&B-master Legend, joining the list of his other major successes, such as Once Again, Evolver, and Love in the Future. In this album produced

by GOOD Music and Columbia, Legend aims to break into more emotionally intimate territory through his soulful sound, and, for the most part, he succeeds.

The first single of the album “Love Me Now” confesses resistance toward losing a fleeting love. The underlying beat of the song, along with the mostly fast-paced piano, contributes to a sense of urgency that is also suggested by lyrics “I know it’ll kill me when it’s over / I don’t wanna think about it, I want you to love me now.”

Released as the second single of Darkness and Light on Nov. 18, “Penthouse Floor” captures a smooth seduction in the context of a retro sound. Chance the Rapper, a Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist, lends his vocals to the track, adding a playful break from an otherwise provocative composition with a knock-knock joke. Legend returns the mood with lyrics “Oh my favorite mix / A little ignorance bliss,” ulti-

mately closing the song in a smoke of temptation.

“I Know Better,” the final single released before the album’s drop, uses the medium of a stripped down Gospel vibration to reveal a self-revelation. A simplistic piano melody embraces the rawness of lyrics that shift from “They say sing what you know / But I’ve sung what they want” to “You see me and nothing more / I’m singing what I know.” Here, Legend touches on his break away from the expectations of culture and mainstream media, and he even acknowledges racial issues relevant today in his reference to the power history has bestowed upon him with “the color of my face.” The single fades out the way it began, engraving a striking impression of the vulnerability Legend will pursue throughout the rest of the album.

The album’s titular track produces an inviting pulse that welcomes heated intimacy as well as an opportunity for Legend’s impressive vocal capabilities to shine through. The sultry use of drum and electric guitar fosters an initially seductive whisper of Legend that transforms into an outburst of organic sound. Brittany Howard, lead vocalist of the Alabama Shakes, contributes an effective female tone to the piece, balancing Legend’s depth with her own velvety chops.

Legend collaborates with Miguel in “Overload,” tapping into the pressure of love in the limelight. The rising

pop R&B star’s vocals effortlessly collide with those of Legend, resulting in a richly supported, jazz-infused sound with its subtle usage of the saxophone.

“Overload” ends on lyrics “Life on overload, must we make a spectacle of love?” establishing the ongoing desire to escape the magnified life of fame.

Other standout songs from the album include “Temporarily Painless,” “Surefire,” and “How Can I Blame You.” “Temporarily Painless” addresses the need to satisfy emptiness with a unique employment of harp sounds, anointing the divulging of honest intentions.

“Surefire” exercises understated electronic beats and chimes, idiosyncratically crafting a slow-paced, contemplative piece. Oddly profound lyrics like “If we just let the blue flame die, the devil wins this bet” saturate the song with a deep, earnest longing to sustain love.

Legend channels the feeling of overwhelming regret in “How Can I Blame You,” utilizing the echo of a female voice to convey a compulsion to apology that alas cannot alter love’s past.

Darkness and Light does tend to follow John Legend’s typical trajec-

tory of soulful, lightly pop-infused music. “Love Me Now” immediately recalls John Legend’s mega hit “All of Me” with its similar albeit sped up piano tune. However, this album reaches beyond the emotional scope Legend has tackled thus far in his career by fully opening up about current struggles enhanced by media—both in his personal life and at large.

Darkness and Light, with its coalition of soul and earnestness, has allowed John Legend to “sing what he knows,” and we’re hoping he never stops.

As a new presence in the everexpanding genre of dystopian media, Netflix’s Brazilian drama, 3%, manages to transform a conventional story into an engaging series that develops beyond a superficial dynamic among its characters. The show’s sparse and concise design takes the emphasis off of the genre’s eye-catching technology, allowing

faster-paced and intriguing content to emerge. As a whole, 3% is an entertaining drama with enough suspense and plot twists to compel viewers to enthusiastically watch the next episode.

The premise of the show centers around a city divided between a land of scarcity, the Inland, and a place of abundance, the Offshore. At the age of 20, everyone in this city must participate in the Process, a series of tests used to determine which 3

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percent of the population will thrive in the Offshore, and which people will be condemned to squalor in the Inland. The story opens on the latest group of candidates to take the test, introducing us to Michelle (Bianca Comparato), determined and wheelchair-bound Fernando (Michel Gomes), and the honeybadger of the group, Joanna (Vaneza Oliveira). Presently, the first murder in over a hundred years was committed on the Offshore, and now the

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Offshore has sent an investigator to evaluate Ezequiel (João Miguel), the creator of the Process. This increased scrutiny leads to a quiet chaos throughout the Process, and draws viewers into an increasingly complex web of conflict.

The show’s participation in the dystopian genre inclines the viewer to be cynical of the Offshore from its first mention. While the poverty and degradation of the Inland is apparent from the beginning, conflict for the viewer develops from the continued insistence of the Offshore that this division of society is the result of merits of the individuals, not salvation based on luck of the draw. Given differing views on the cause of poverty today, 3%’s use of merit-based salvation perhaps attempts to caution viewers against blindly promoting this narrative.

The nature of the Process potentially suggests that viewers should avoid a complacent regard to the institutions that govern their own societies.

What’s interesting is that a wide range of attitudes toward the Process are demonstrated by parties of the Inland and the Offshore alike.

The calculating, unhinged Ezequiel

treats his Process as a matter of life and death for everyone involved, and his dedication to maintaining a highly-productive group of Offshore citizens borders on insanity.

The Offshore higher-ups want the system to be more lenient, and are concerned that the Process values cutthroat personalities more than more human candidates. And the candidates themselves have a variety of stances on the Process. In 3%, the characters and the system resist easy categorization as wholly good or bad entities.

As the episodes progress, so too does the viewer’s knowledge of the Process and the characters operating within it. The tests inspire a virulent strain of competition among the candidates that leads to deception, betrayal, and cheating. Within the show’s dystopian concept, it seems that even a society created to eradicate war and injustice remains subject to human error, and calls into question humanity’s power to create a heaven and hell on Earth. Esoteric and moderately bland plot-device names aside, 3% contributes a nuanced voice in popular dystopian media.

Though English singer Dua Lipa has already released a headshot heavy video for “Be the One” back in October of 2015, the latest reiteration appears to be far more lucrative than the previous installment.

As the video opens to a panning shot of a motel at night, colorful dust is illuminated by streetlights. Inside, curtains, lamps, and sheets are lit up with much the same colors as Lipa seemingly argues with a man. Cutting to a shot of a road, with Lipa driving a car bedazzled with orbs of light, we see her stop as she witnesses a comet fall from the sky. As she continues on, we begin to see shots of the road. This time, the man is running barefoot in Lipa’s direction.

Interspersed with repeating images of colorful voids inside of an eye and glimpses of Lipa’s face, the video ends as the man stops running to see Lipa in the road with her car. She soon splits into a diffraction image of herself, hovering above the ground as the music reaches its soft conclusion.

The video as a whole seems, as is the current trend, to be a sort of ’80s nostalgia homage in style.

Despite this, the use of color in the video was interesting and seemed to compliment the lyrics of the song well—specifically those that speak about the confusion of differing opinions. Lyrics like “I see the moon / Oh, when you’re looking at the sun” and “I see blue / Oh and you see everything in red” speak to this dissonance. The overall message, to be taken back by a lover, because you could “be the one,” is plainly evident in the video, through the literal chase on the road. The ending, of a diffracted self, echoes the lines: “Let me get to know you.”

Illustrating the notion of not seeing eye to eye through color and light is a thought-provoking style. Though some of the other imagery is unclear, the interpretive nature of the video is worth a gander for this upcoming artist.

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But no other Eagle finished in double figures.

BC struggled to get freethrow opportunities against the Crimson, and when the team did get to the line, it struggled to convert. The Eagles took six free throws to Harvard’s 14, and they only connected on three of those six. The Crimson, meanwhile, only missed a single chance from the charity stripe.

“We avoid a lot of contact,” Christian said. “When we’re driving, we try to shoot over the defenders instead of jumping into their bodies. That’s something that’s been a problem for us.”

According to ESPN, Harvard recruited the 12th-best freshman class in the nation in 2016, and the group showed why it was

ranked so highly on Wednesday.

Harvard’s dynamic freshman duo, forwards Chris Lewis and Seth Towns, led the way in scoring for the Crimson.

Lewis tormented the Eagles in the paint the entire game.

The big man got plenty of open looks around the rim, and he converted nearly every time.

Lewis was active on defense, forcing bad passes and altering shots around the rim. At 6-foot9, 235 pounds, he’s not much bigger than BC’s frontcourt, but he looked unstoppable down low against the Eagles.

Meanwhile, Towns shredded BC’s defense from the outside. He connected on three 3pointers, contributing 18 points overall. His two best offensive performances of the season came on back-to-back nights, following his 24-point outburst against Northeastern University on Tuesday night.

“Our defense was awful tonight,” Christian said. “I’m not taking anything away from Har-

vard—they’re a good team. But we took a huge step backward tonight.”

The victory was Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker’s 179th win overall, which makes him the all-time winningest coach in program history. Amaker, who was a standout at Duke University during his playing days, joked about the milestone and a comment he made to former coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“After he reached his milestone [winningest coach in Division I history], I told Coach K that if I was a better player, he might’ve gotten those wins a little sooner,” Amaker said with a smile. “I wouldn’t dare say that to these guys.”

Th o u g h A m a k e r w a s a l l smiles after his landmark victory, Christian was left searching for answers.

If the Eagles struggled so badly on defense against Harvard, one can only imagine what will happen when BC takes on the beasts of the ACC.

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Sophomore guard Jerome Robinson continued his hot scoring streak with 25 points against crosstown rival Harvard.

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Ryan Ruck, the Northeastern goaltender, stoned No. 4 Boston College men’s hockey for much of two teams’ tilt at Matthews Arena last week. Although the Eagles came away with a 2-1 win, thanks to a last-second shorthanded goal by Michael Kim, Ruck withstood the attack of the Beacon St. Bullies. He hasn’t had a lot of those games, with a save percentage below .900 on the year. But at last, it looked like the Huskies got enough out of their goaltender to turn around the poor start to their season.

After all, that’s what Northeastern did last year on its magical run to the Ho cke y E ast Championship.

Yet on Tuesday night at Kelley Rink, it took J.D. Dudek 77 seconds to expose Ruck.

As students slowly trickled in, using hockey as an excuse to shirk their last-second finals responsibilities, the Eagles went on the attack. Colin White flew down the ice, pausing in front of Ruck to dish the puck to Mat-

thew Gaudreau parked behind the net. Gaudreau saw Dudek quickly coming in between the circles.

Dudek went bar-down, gloveside, helped by a screen from White. The goal was pretty to watch, though not particularly unsaveable. But it helped Dudek unlock Ruck’s secret: just go top shelf.

In a 5-3 win over their crosstown rivals, the Eagles took the high road with four goals above Ruck’s head, two of which came from Dudek. With the victory, BC (13-5-1, 8-0-1 Hockey East) continues its undefeated tear through the conference. With points in each of their nine games, the Eagles are off to their best start in conference play.

And for Northeastern (5-7-4, 1-6-2) head coach Jim Madigan, the frustration in between the pipes continues.

“He’s got to be better,” Madigan said of his netminder.

Not long after Dudek’s goal, Zach Walker followed the formula . He took advantage of a terrible cross-ice pass from Northeastern’s Dylan Sikura,

and easily split two defenders.

Walker shot high, blocker side and uncontested, to give the Eagles a 2-0 lead.

Sikura quickly made up for his mistake, with help from Zach Aston-Reese. The Staten Island, N.Y. native sent a pass to Sikura in stride, beating Joe Woll.

The Eagles held strong on a four-minute penalty kill following back-to-back penalties on Gaudreau. Northeastern whiffed on a couple of clear chances in front of the net—a common trend of the evening.

Meanwhile, Julius Mattila had the best chance to extend BC’s lead. He stole a puck away from Ruck, and for a brief period had a wide-open net. Yet with only bright red and black jerseys around him, Mattila had to hold onto the puck, which helped kill 50 seconds and the NU power play.

Yet Dudek wouldn’t be denied. During a 4-on-2 breakaway, Dudek saw an opening above Ruck’s shoulder. Without anyone to threaten him, Dudek blasted the puck from between the circles, humbly gathering

his linemates to the corner in celebration.

Head coach Jerry York lauded the play of Dudek, who along with fellow sophomore Christopher Brown, has made a huge impact on this team, especially following the mass exodus of players this summer and the right-ankle injury to Ryan Fitzgerald.

“We lost so many players, and we needed someone to step up,” York said. “Both sophomores, Chris and JD, have played clearly better than they did last year.”

Laughing with his rising star, York also suggested that Dudek has been helped because “Coach has been playing him more.”

The only time the Eagles went low against Ruck was on David Cotton’s goal a mere 55 seconds after Dudek’s. The freshman from Parker, Texas broke past defenseman Garret Cockerill.

No one came to Cockerill’s aid, allowing Cotton to assault Ruck in the slot. He took two shots that rebounded off Ruck’s pads, before sliding it past him for the 4-1 lead.

Because of the Eagles’ con-

tinued penalty problems, the Huskies nearly got back in the game. Jeremy Davies took advantage of a power play brought on by Gaudreau’s fourth penalty of the night, finding Woll out of position on a slick combination play. Halfway through the third, John Stevens scored after a pass from Aston-Reese that was almost identical to Dudek’s first goal. With momentum swinging away, it appeared BC was in for another third-period swoon.

Yet Scott Savage remembered Ruck’s Achilles heel. With White screening Ruck in front, Gaudreau sent a perfect crosscrease pass to Savage, who went bar down for the dagger. Dudek later explained that, though the Eagles won with this strategy, it wasn’t part of the game plan.

They simply exploited what was foolishly given to them by Ruck.

“It’s just what he gave us,” Dudek said. “We saw that he was off his angle a lot, and that won’t go unnoticed. We got a lot of good players who can find what he gave us.”

Now, the real challenge be-

gins. Tuesday was the final home game for the Eagles until Jan. 16, 2017 against Boston University.

They’ll take on Notre Dame, Quinnipiac, Robert Morris or Ferris State, and Providence.

Three of those games will be at neutral sites: the middle two at Consol Energy Arena in Pittsburgh, and the last vs. the Friars at Fenway Park.

During this stretch, the Eagles may have to go without se veral of their top players because of the World Junior Championships. This list will likely include Casey Fitzgerald, Woll, White, and the Mattila brothers. Yet York, never one to panic, has little fear in what lies ahead. Even if his guys don’t all have NHL teams next to their names on the roster, he knows where they stand.

“We might not be the most talented team in the league, but we certainly work as a team,” York said, “and I think that’s a big, big part of success.”

As long as Dudek keeps taking the high road on the league’s goaltenders, BC should have a lot more success.

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Chris Calnan (11) prepares for a faceoff against Northeastern, BC’s second meeting with the Huskies in a week. Senior Austin Cangelosi (9) sprints away from a Husky defender and toward the net in a 5-3 win at Conte Forum.

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I\`e\b\ GXjj\j k_\ KfiZ_ kf IXjdljj\e Sailing, from B8 out Rasmussen was joining her at BC through his parents. Reineke was excited to have her friend on the team, but she also understood the impact Rasmussen would have on a program with such a rich history.

“When I found that out I was thinking about our laser program, because he’s a great Laser sailor,” Reineke said, “and just from the experience of being a laser sailor, how great it would be to have him on our team to also push other athletes.”

Rasmussen was excited that he would be sailing on a team with Reineke, not just because it was an opportunity to get closer in friendship, but because Reineke was someone that Rasmussen looked up to and would be able to follow. Specifically, Reineke could help Rasmussen figure out the laser program, which works a bit different from the rest of the team at BC. Usually, BC sailors practice in double-handed dinghies, which necessitates a completely different set of skills than the single-handed lasers.

BC sailing’s laser crew only consists of three people: Reineke, Rasmussen, and sophomore Isabella Loosbrock, which allowed for the two friends to spend even more time together.

“We’re a weirder bunch,” Reineke said, “so that’s why I think we all get along.”

Rasmussen agreed, “We’re weird, we’re weird.”

Despite spending most of their time together during laser practices, Reineke recalled that her favorite memory of sailing with Rasmussen wasn’t with the laser crew. She and Rasmussen sailed a 420, a doublehanded dinghy, together at a windy regatta. Since the course was dif-

ferent from what both sailors were accustomed to during Laser regattas, both Reineke and Rasmussen were confused about the layout of the course. This led to a lot of questions, both asked and unanswered, throughout the race, but they eventually, said Reineke, sailed to the finish.

“Scotty, you got a different one?”

Reineke turned to Rasmussen, also wondering what his favorite sailing story of the two of them would be.

Rasmussen smiled at Reineke and started slowly, “Probably one of the funniest moments sailing with her was right after she found out I had won nationals,” he said. “I was just looking at her face and she was in shock I guess. She was just like,” Rasmussen pauses to open his mouth wide in awe, raises his voice to a Valley-Girl pitch to mock Reineke’s voice, and says, “‘No way! No way!”

Reineke sailed toward the dock in the randomly calm conditions of Galveston, Texas, knowing she had just won her fourth National Singlehanded Championship title.

She saw her mom running down the dock toward her approaching boat.

Reineke smiled, expecting eager and excited “Congratulations” from her mother, Sharon.

Instead, Sharon skipped the “congrats” entirely.

“Scotty won! Scotty won!” She cheered at her daughter, skipping over her daughter’s accomplishment. Then again, Reineke did, too.

Reineke recalled that the win was a huge surprise, not because she doubted Rasmussen’s ability in the least, but because Coach Wilkinson simply did not talk about his fleet due to his own nervousness. Reineke had no idea where Rasmussen was in the standings.

“I just remember like the biggest

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Senior Erika Reineke has four national titles and a 2015 Sailor of the Year Award. smile coming to my face,” Reineke said, “and I had chills in that moment.”

Rasmussen also had chills during that moment, but for a different reason. During the race right before the last two of the regatta, Rasmussen flipped. This set him back in points, possibly ruining his chances of making even the top three, which had been his principal finishing goal for the regatta: just contend for the top three. This put an added pressure on Rasmussen for the following two races.

After the second-to-last race went well, Rasmussen was in a good place to not only make the top three, but to win the whole thing. Before the final race, Rasmussen went up to Wilkinson, “And the only thing he said to me was, looked at me in the eye all serious and just said, ‘You have to do whatever it takes to win this race,’ and I honestly thought he was talking about like, killing people it was that serious.”

But the advice worked, because Rasmussen sailed what he thinks was the best race of his life. Although once he had finished, he wasn’t sure of what his standing was. He sat at the finish, looked back at the other boats, and tried to calculate the points in his head. He didn’t know for sure he had

won, though, until he saw Wilkinson on the dock, waving his arms and jumping up and down.

Reineke shook her head as Rasmussen finished recounting his first championship regatta. “Even now I’m getting chills,” she said.

This is what makes Reineke and Rasmussen’s relationship go beyond just teammates—just friends even.

There’s a selflessness in their friendship that stands out against their silliness, their teasing, their hard work.

They are happier and prouder for their counterpart’s accomplishments more than they are for their own.

The two are at opposite ends of their careers, Reineke, a graduating senior with four National Championship titles. She’ll be leaving BC having finished nearly every regatta in the top three and with the status of being one of the best female sailors in the nation.

But Rasmussen is just getting started. The freshman snagged his first National title the same day Reineke won her fourth, and now it’s just a matter of continuing the momentum and following the legacy that other BC sailors, national champions, and Olympic athletes have created.

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9: ;fd`eXk\j GX`ek `e N`e Fm\i PXc\ 9P 8E;P 98:BJKIFD ?\`^_kj JkX]] With seconds remaining in the first quarter, Kailey Edwards ballhawked a Yale pass, brought the ball up, and channeled her options. The redshirt senior looked back and slung the ball to a charging Katie Quandt.

Just before the sound of the buzzer, Quandt laid it in, giving Boston College women’s basketball a four-point cushion.

Mariella Fasoula, last year’s runner-up for ACC Rookie of the Year and BC’s primary source of production, was on the bench in Payne Whitney Gymnasium. For head coach Erik Johnson’s crew on Wednesday night, that was exactly what it needed.

This sequence showed the Eagles that they could score without the star-center.

The team finished the first half on a 13-4 run and refused to concede its lead for the remainder of play. With

the 71-64 victory, BC (3-6), ended a pair of streaks—its own two-game skid and the Bulldogs’ (7-3) six-game winning streak. More importantly, the Eagles featured a balanced scoring attack.

For the first time this season, three starters finished in double figures.

But just a couple minutes into the opening period, it looked as if BC was on its way to another typical performance—the Fasoula show.

In fact, the sophomore was responsible for the Eagles’ first point, assist, and rebound. Point guard Martina Mosetti went back to Fasoula time and time again. The Greek sophomore would receive the pass, turn, and scoop the ball into the basket. Early on into the game, the contest was dictated by a battle between Fasoula and Yale’s Jen Berkowitz in the paint. But after Edwards’ steal, the floor opened up for BC. As the scoring distribution increased, so did the shooting percent-

age. The Eagles have shot a mere 41.7 percent from the field this season, but the team upped the conversion rate to 59.6 percent against Yale.

BC’s all-time leading marksman from outside, Kelly Hughes, bounced back from her 3-pointer-less effort at Fordham. The senior knocked down a triple near the start of the second half, which complemented her three additional field goals and late-game trips to the charity stripe, giving her 13 points on the night.

Yet it was the Eagles’ defense that won them the game. The size on the interior finally yielded results. BC blocked eight shots and limited Yale to 36.1 percent shooting.

The strength in the paint forced Yale to the perimeter. Naturally, the Bulldogs jacked up 25 3-pointers—this was somewhat successful.

The Bulldogs strung together a 15-2 run early on in the latter half of play.

Throughout the game, Tamara Simpson, Lena Munzer, and Mary Ann

Santucci all hit multiple shots from beyond the arc. But ultimately, the Bulldog offense became one-dimensional. And when the treys stopped falling, BC returned to a comfortable advantage.

The Eagles especially buckled down on defense following a turnover.

BC gave the ball up 20 times, but Yale could not capitalize, as the Eagles’ big men frequently initiated enough contact to disrupt Bulldog finishes, but not to draw a foul. That being said, the statistic still reveals one of BC’s lasting flaws. Like tonight, Johnson’s squad had turned the ball over 15 or more times in its previous two games.

It lost both. The team’s occasional lack of ball control must be addressed.

To no surprise, Fasoula ended with her third-consecutive 20-point performance. But it was the supporting cast which gave BC the win and hope for its upcoming stretch of play—something Johnson’s team has had difficulty finding this season.

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If NFL scouts see what Superfans have witnessed all season long, then Landry should be picked between the second and fourth rounds next year. He makes up for being slightly undersized with his explosiveness off the line and his knack for contorting his lower body to turn the corner on blockers. And don’t even think about letting him near your quarterback—of his 15 sacks, seven have resulted in fumbles. The odds of Landry and his signature arm sleeve jarring the ball loose are pretty damn good.

Even better are his chances of playing football on Sundays instead of Saturdays next fall. If he does indeed leave early, it makes the voting results of the Ted Hendricks Award all the more disappointing.

It would be nice for Landry to leave the Heights with some hardware, a national award commemorating a season which, statistically, remains unmatched by the best defensive linemen in the nation.

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Sports Editor Ah, predictions, you fickle beast. How little you matter in the grand scheme of things. How wrong you have shown me to be, especially when I give BC encouragement with all my heart. At last, I am happy to bid thee adieu. But I couldn’t say goodbye without giving a bold prediction.

As bad as BC is, the Terrapins are that much worse. They too have been constantly blown out. The Eagles will win their first bowl game since 2007.

Prediction: BC 20, Maryland 17 RILEY OVEREND

Assoc. Sports Editor The bulk of BC’s front seven may not be returning next year. But Harold Landry, Matt Milano, and Truman Gutapfel are primed to go out with with a bang in the Quick Lane Bowl against Maryland. The Terps’ offense has holes, and the Eagles will expose them. The question is: can they score enough points? I’m predicting a big day from Davon Jones and Jeff Smith, as BC does just enough to earn its first bowl win in nearly a decade.

Prediction: BC 14, Maryland 13

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Asst. Sports Editor The Quick L ane B owl is going to be a low-scoring affair, but the Terps are going to leave Detroit with the win. I just can’t see the offense putting up a real fight against Maryland, so expect the Eagles to score a pair of touchdowns, but nothing more. Meanwhile, the Terps will expose the defense with some big plays to find the end zone en route to a bowl win. The Eagles will leave Detroit with some pretty sweet custom Fatheads, but no bowl game victory. nothing but a Golden Helmet of the Year Award, an accolade given to the top player in New England.

Of course, that’s a tremendous honor, but too often does it feel like BC is competing to be the best in the Northeast.

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It’s a little like beating UMass and UConn: it never gets old, but it leaves you wanting something more.

Landry seemed primed to burst that regional bubble this season. Yet, once again, the voters got it wrong. Here’s to

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Boston College men’s basketball has had trouble dispatching tough opponents under head coach Jim Christian, but the one repeat opponent the Eagles have beaten each of the last two years was Harvard University.

Last year, the Eagles took down Harvard to start the season 3-0, which marked their best start to a season in seven years. BC limited the offensivelychallenged Crimson to only 56 points in that contest in a comfortable 69-56 victory.

On Wednesday night, nothing was the same.

Though the Eagles (4-4) went on a rampage late in the second half to chip away at the double-digit lead, it was too little, too late. Harvard (4-4) attacked the paint on offense, forced BC into foul trouble, and converted its scoring opportunities en route to an easy 74-66 win. The loss marks BC’s fourth of the season, with five games remaining on its nonconference slate.

Simply put, BC looked sloppy all night against Harvard. The Eagles didn’t take care of the ball on offense—giving up 16 turnovers, many of which were

unforced—and failing to stop point guard Siyani Chambers on ball screens at the top of the key.

Though he only scored four points, Chambers set the tone for the Crimson with his leadership, reliable ball-handling, and impressive court vision. With 11 assists and zero turnovers, he was the most impactful player on the floor for Harvard. “[Chambers] is tremendous,” Christian said following the loss. “We did an awful job of hedging the ball screen. He was able to turn the corner, get in the lane, and make good plays.”

BC came out playing tough defense

through the first five minutes, but a 11-2 Harvard run out of the first media timeout put the game out of reach almost immediately. The Crimson never looked back after taking a 13-point lead with 12 minutes left in the first half, and led the rest of the way. BC never held a lead at any point in the contest.

The Eagles struggled to get consistent offense from anybody not named Jerome Robinson. The sophomore from North Carolina led the Eagles in scoring for the fifth time this season, notching at least 25 points for the third consecutive

See MBB vs. Harvard, B6

SAILING

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9P B<8KFE D:8LC@==< ?\`^_kj <[`kfi Scott Rasmussen and Erika Reineke couldn’t remember the first time they met.

I asked if they remembered the moment, hoping for a good story with entertaining personal anecdotes.

But the question immediately elicited laughter from the two friends. They looked at each other, smiling and wrinkling their eyebrows, as they attempted to come up with the answer. After about a minute, they both turned to look at me, laughing with a resounding, yet somewhat defeated, “No.” So, I asked for the next best thing: “What is your favorite moment with the other person, outside of sailing?”

“I got it.”

Rasmussen answered immediately and looked slyly over at Reineke, who promptly interjected with a laugh, “Don’t say anything that’s going to get us in trouble.”

Rasmussen, quickly assuring Reineke that the story

was not actually going to get them into any trouble, launched into a retelling of one time he and Reineke were out on a boat together, wakeboarding and doing other water sports. Both of them were just starting to really get to know each other, but they mutually decided it would be a good idea to ditch their boards and just get pulled along behind the boat. Eventually, the two hit each other in the water and all Rasmussen could hear was Reineke screaming “My pants are falling off!”

“That’s pretty much it,” Rasmussen looked over at Reineke once he was done with his story, smiling guiltily.

That’s the one that best sums them up.

But they’re more than just friends that joke around constantly and teammates that sail together everyday.

Individually, they’re accomplished, elite athletes who top the national rankings in their sport.

Reineke, a graduating senior, will finish her Boston College sailing career with four NEISA Women’s Singlehanded Championship titles under her belt along with a 2015 NEISA Conference Women’s Sailor of the

Year award. Rasmussen is just beginning his with his first National Championship win and a successful high school run.

But Rasmussen and Reinke have known each other well before they both competed in Nationals, in fact, they knew each other well before Rasmussen even came to BC this past year. The freshman and the senior are from the same area in Florida, and Rasmussen sailed with Reineke’s younger sister throughout his high school career at the Lauderdale Yacht Club. Reineke came to get to know Rasmussen when she came home from BC for the summers. Rasmussen would make the two-hour drive up from Cape Coral to Fort Lauderdale, spending the weekends on Reineke’s couch in order to train with the Laser-sailing team Reineke had trained with before continuing her career in Chestnut Hill.

Head coach Greg Wilkinson likes to keep recruiting information as private as possible, but Reineke found

See Sailing, B7

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

<X^c\j <e[ =`ijk ?Xc] fe ?`^_ Efk\ Xk ;Xikdflk_ 9P J?8EEFE B<CCP Heights Editor Boston College women’s hockey gave itself an early Christmas present with a win against Dartmouth College Wednesday at Thompson Arena. With the 6-1 victory, which featured great offensive play and a near-shutout by goalie Katie Burt, the Eagles sealed their first half of play with a 12-3-3 record going into Winter Break.

BC (12-3-3, 10-2-1 Hockey East) may have struggled to get in the offensive groove, but 12 minutes into the first period, Delaney Belinskas connected with Andie Anastos and Toni Ann Miano for the first goal. Not long after, Newkirk was the star with her own goal, putting the Eagles up 2-0 to end the first period.

With aggressive play, Newkirk barrelled down the ice and stripped the puck from Dartmouth control, taking little time to worry about if it was the perfect shot. It didn’t matter—BC didn’t need perfect. It just needed to go in.

The Eagles brought the offensive momentum into the second period, with captain Andie Anastos scoring just four minutes in. After the goal, however, BC fizzled out, failing to capitalize on a power-play opportunity.

The Eagles also faltered foul-wise, doling out chances for the Big Green (2-9-0, 1-6-0 ECAC) to score left and right with players in the box. With the offensive production iced, BC headed to the locker room still clutching a shutout and a hefty lead.

While there was little for BC to worry about, Dartmouth gave it cause

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for concern when it came out of the gate to score just 1:51 into the third period.

The goal set a late-start fire under the Eagles, as the second half of the period was the BC show.

The offense connected so well that even defensemen got in on the action.

Kali Flanagan was in the right place at the right time, waiting at the goal when a shot by a fellow Eagle was deflected off Dartmouth goalie Robyn Chemago.

Flanagan scooped it up and beat Chemago top shelf, adding another goal to the tally. Megan Keller, one of the nation’s best defensemen, got in on the party too. Keller shot hard and high from far out to pile on to 5-1.

Even though there were only four minutes left, the Eagles didn’t feel the need to slow down the offensive

production. For her second goal of the game, which came with just seconds left on the clock, Belinskas snuck the puck

by Chemago one last time.

After a relatively rocky start against opponents like the University of Minnesota Duluth, it seemed as though the Eagles would not return to their former glory—one that included a 40-1 record and a trip to the NCAA National Championship—this season.

But after their recent performances, it appears that BC is going to come out stronger than ever for the second half.

Though Dartmouth is not the most fearsome opponent, a high-scoring game indicates the offensive possibilities that BC has against more difficult teams.

For now, though, it has this gift to be happy about.

Men’s Hockey: BC Eases Through Hockey East With an 8-0-1 record, the Eagles are off to their bestever start in conference play.....................................B6

I@C<P FM<I<E; Ill-informed voters made their secondbiggest mistake of the past month when they selected Alabama’s Jonathan Allen as the winner of 2016 Ted Hendricks Defensive End of the Year Award on Wednesday.

Tennessee’s Derek Barnett, Utah’s Hunter Dimick, Florida State’s DeMarcus Walker, Pittsburgh’s Ejuan Price, and Boston College’s own Harold Landry rounded out the list of finalists on the ballot.

Granted, the decision was not an easy one. How do you measure the effectiveness of a defensive end? Sacks? Tackles for loss?

Forced fumbles? How about all three?

Landry totaled 42.5 combined sacks, tackles for loss, and forced fumbles, putting him leagues ahead of the competition.

Dimick was the next closest with 36.5.

Simply put, Landry is the most versatile edge rusher in the country—and it’s not even close. His seven forced fumbles rank first in the nation and fourth all-time. He bulldozed opposing quarterbacks for 15 sacks, tied for best in the country with Walker (he leads Walker in sack yardage, though, 133 to 115). While he “only” tallied 20.5 tackles for a loss—good for third in the nation—the 142 yards lost on those plays is unmatched by any defender in the FBS. Plus, he accomplished all that and more in only 11 games due to an early-season injury.

Just how valuable Landry is to the Eagles’ defensive unit cannot be overstated. His ability to maneuver around the offensive line into the backfield is the main reason for BC’s 14.8 percent front-seven havoc rate, second in the country behind Michigan (we miss you, Don Brown). The Eagles limited two opponents to negative rushing totals and six to under 100 yards.

Landry’s constant pressure often masked a secondary which was prone to allowing big plays, preventing quarterbacks from getting their passes off, and nipping the problem in the bud. On passing downs— defined as needing eight or more yards on second down or five or more on third and fourth down—BC ranked third in the nation with a S&P+ of 156.1 and first in sack rate with 16.7 percent.

In the most important games of the year, Landry was at his best. It started against the Seminoles last season, when he recorded a career-high 11 tackles en route to his first of two ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week honors.

This year, the Spring Lake, N.C. native sacked NC State quarterback Ryan Finley and forced a fumble to set up a field goal in a 21-14 victory, BC’s first conference win in nearly two years. In losses to Clemson and FSU, Landry still did his job and forced a fumble in each game. Against Wake Forest, he tipped a pass that resulted in an interception, recorded 4.5 tackles for a loss, and totaled three sacks to become the Eagles’ single-season leader with 15. Not to mention he helped secure bowl eligibility for a program that desperately needed it.

But, as stellar as Landry’s numbers are this year, the announcement did not come as a surprise to those who follow ACC football. Two weeks ago, Landry was left off the All-ACC First Team in favor of fellow finalists Price and Walker. And two days ago, ESPN delivered a smoldering hot take and named Price and Walker to its All-ACC Team, too. The Associated Press was the only major media outlet to get it right, voting Landry to the All-ACC First Team with Walker in its annual selections yesterday.

Landry’s historic season has also gone largely unnoticed by NFL mock draft websites. A brief rendezvous around the internet will yield just two mock drafts which include Landry.

Ultimately, though, it’ll be NFL front offices that will judge the professional value of the 6-foot-3, 250-pound junior.

The question is: when?

The answer will depend on the draft grades Landry receives from NFL GMs over the coming weeks. After all, he could stay for his senior year, enjoy another year of college, and be a surefire first-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. But if he is projected high enough now, he could ditch school for paychecks and public esteem as

See Harold Landry, B7

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