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ceived 8,600 early action applications, a decrease from last year’s spike in interest. John Mahoney, Boston College Director of Undergraduate Admission, said, however, that the number of applications is similar to what was received in past years. “We have carved out our niche in terms of the reputation of the institution and the quality of students that apply,” Mahoney said.

The admitted class averaged 2128 on the SAT and 33 on the ACT, nearly matching last year’s early action class’ scores. BC Undergraduate Admission admitted 30 percent of the 2020 class through the restrictive early action program. Because the office received about a third of the overall applications through early action, allotting 70 percent of spots for the regular decision

students creates a fair playing field for those who apply to the Jan. 1 deadline, Mahoney said. “We are great believers in this idea that the people applying at the Jan. 1 deadline should be treated with the same fairness and equity as those who are applying early action,” Mahoney said. “So as a result, we do apply a

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Cocce, CAB president and CSOM ’16, wrote in an email. Cocce wrote that the maximum capacity of the venue is 1,800 people due to fire code and safety laws and that all tickets were sold this morning. She explained that the standard policy of two tickets per student ID has always been in place for this event. Cocce wrote that CAB has already identified students online who are attempting to resell their tickets at a higher price. Those tickets will be voided without refund. Tickets must be presented at the door, and all tickets will be scanned upon entering the event, which will be held Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m in the Flynn Recreation Complex.

At the end of last semester, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College called for a plan of action from the administration regarding race and institutional racism to be released Jan. 19. Despite the push for a response and changes made by UGBC on the working proposal earlier this month, the administration chose not to release a statement or plan this past Tuesday. Since the initial release of its working proposal, UGBC has been working with Barbara Jones, vice president for student affairs, and Dean of Students Thomas Mogan to create a proposal. This has included benchmarking other schools, as well as adding its own recommendations about what a proposal would look like in order to assist in the process. Members of the administration were contacted, but have not yet responded at this time. “We are committed to continuing the dialogue with students around issues they have raised,” Jones wrote in an email. “We look forward to discussing with UGBC their concerns, correcting some misperceptions, and sharing our mutual commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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Artists Liza Lou and Ramiro Gomez, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler, and poet Edward Hirsch will host a panel discussion on the role of contemporary visual arts in creating, defining, and critiquing the American democratic vision on Thursday at 6 p.m. in Devlin 101.

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On Thursday, Jan. 21, Professor Mike Cronin, academic director of Boston College Ireland, will present a lecture titled: “The Enemy in Dublin, 1916: Who Were the British?� to commemorate Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916. The event will be held in the Connolly House at 5 p.m.

Master Sergeant Cedric King, a veteran who lost both of his legs and suffered multiple severe injuries during his third tour in Afghanistan in 2012, will be speaking Thursday in the Shea Room in Conte Forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A light lunch will be provided.

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On Jan. 17, Infor mation Technology Services (ITS), the Office of News and Public Affairs (NPA), and the Office of Marketing Communications (OMC) collaborated with consulting firm r2integrated to create the new Boston College website homepage. The website’s redesign is part of a multi-year plan to update the most viewed pages on the website, including the Admission, Campus Life, and BC News pages. The new website looks different and is more functional. There is a new events calendar, a new audience page tailored to students, parents, faculty, and staff, and dynamic multimedia. Although BC.EDU is still supported by Adobe Experience Manager, it now has customized pages, rather than the standardized BC web templates. “This web redesign would not have been possible without the extraordinary commitment of our project team,� University Spokesman Jack Dunn said, according to the BC news release. “Through their efforts, the University now has a website that will vastly improve our ability to tout the outstanding faculty and students who make BC one of the nation’s best universities. This was a truly collaborative effort that followed the input of the campus community and drew on the strengths of BC’s talented staff.�

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Boston College’s capital campaign, Light the World, reached its goal of raising $1.5 billion last month. According to the BC news release, the Board of Trustees, University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., and campaign co-chairs Charles I. Clough, Jr. ’64, Kathleen M. McGillycuddy BC ’71 and William J. Geary ’80 launched Light the World in 2008, just before the economic recession hit. This campaign marks one of the most successful capital campaigns in higher education this decade and is likely one of the factors that allowed BC to rise to 30th in the US News rankings. The money raised for Light the World is nearly triple the $441 million that the Ever to Excel campaign raised from 1997 to 2003. BC has used the money to support academic excellence and student-formation programs, expand financial aid and campus construction projects, strengthen BC athletics, and fund several major resource centers. “More than anything, Light the World has solidified our place globally as a top-tier Jesuit, Catholic institution with great clarity about who we are and what we want to do and be,� McGillycuddy said. The co-chairs of the campaign urged that there is much more that needs to be done. “ While we should be immensely proud, our work is never done,� said McGillycuddy. “We are not wealthy in comparison to peer institutions, so we must continue to focus on the future, including gifts through the end of this fiscal year. Providing financial support for the University is a lifetime commitment.�

On Jan. 8, John King, the director of public safety at Boston College, exacted a ban on hoverboards on BC’s campus via an email to the student body. The decision to ban the hoverboards was initiated by King, Dean of Students Thomas Mogan, and George Arey, the director of the OďŹƒce of Residential Life. The email said that the OďŹƒce of Environmental Health & Safety recommended this measure after the Consumer Product Safety Commission cited that hoverboards have caused 28 ďŹ res in 19

states. The University’s action is out of concern for student safety, the email said. While Massachusetts has not passed any direct legislation concerning hoverboard use, in 2011 the City of Boston passed an ordinance that banned the use of electrical personal assistive mobility devices on public property. Other schools in the area, including Suolk University, Brandeis University, and University of Massachusetts Amherst, have banned hoverboards their on campuses. These bans are following a larger, national trend in which colleges across the country are

using the Winter Break to release updated policies banning the use of the self-balancing scooters. The same day that King sent out the email to BC students, students at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., received a similar notiďŹ cation regarding a ban on hoverboards on their campus. California passed legislation early in 2016 that legalized and regulated the hoverboards. Riders must be at least 16 years of age, wear a helmet, and cannot ride in zones where the speed limit is greater than 35 miles per hour. These regulations follow a viral video of former professional boxer Mike Tyson falling o of his

child’s hoverboard, released Dec. 29, 2015. Several airlines, like American Airlines, Delta, and United, have banned the electrical boards from being brought on ights. Metrolink trains have also prevented riders from bringing the hoverboards aboard. “I was really excited to bring the hoverboard I got for Christmas to school this semester,â€? Cameron Pott, MCAS ’19, said in a phone interview. “All of my friends wanted to see it and it would’ve been a ton of fun in the dorm. Unfortunately, this is no longer an option for me, and I’ll have to leave it at home.â€? „

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In response to last month’s norovirus outbreak , B oston College students are beginning to take legal action against Chipotle with the help of Boston criminal lawyer Brett Levy. He

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BC Recreation resurfaced five basketball courts in the Flynn Recreation complex over Christmas break. that the courts will serve club sports, Plex programs, and OďŹƒce of Student Involvement projects well. “I think overall it’s going to enhance our internal programming, as well as events,â€? Cegledy said. “By having the regulation-style courts,

is currently working with two students, and plans to file civil suits against the corporation in the coming weeks. The students affected by norovirus in December are looking for compensation from Chipotle. Each case differs in the amount for which the students are fil-

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Two BC students are filing civil cases against Chipotle after the norovirus.

POLICE BLOTTER Monday Jan. 18 2:15 p.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance from Edmond’s Hall. 5:21 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a past motor vehicle accident in the Edmond’s Parking Lot.

Tuesday Jan. 19 11:11 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a Campus School student who was transported to a medical facility from Campion Hall.

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our club sports teams are now going to be able to host more events and more tournaments.� The new courts are one of several facility improvements over the break. Other changes include new lights over the Plex’s tennis wing and two

TVs in the cardio room at Newton Campus’s Quonset Hut. “It’s an old building that was built in the 1970s, so anything we can do to enhance it is well worth it to make it better for our students and our members,� Cegledy said. „

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By becky reilly Heights Sta While students spent their Winter Breaks away from campus, Boston College Campus Recreation worked to improve facilities. In the most signiďŹ cant of several changes to the Flynn Recreation Complex, Campus Recreation redid its basketball wing with five new wooden courts. Because two of the five new courts in the Plex have been expanded to NCAA regulation dimensions, the other three had to be shifted and reduced in size. The material used to resurface the courts in the Plex was taken from Conte Forum. According to Rebecca Cegledy, the associate director of facilities and operations, some unsafe bubbling in the old courts’ synthetic material prompted the renovation and the Conte wood acquisition. As a result, the remaining three courts were resurfaced, too. Cegledy now expects

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ing, depending on the student’s medical bills, missed class time, the time spent in the hospital and the degree of his or her illness. Levy hopes to solve the issues amicably with a civil case. Levy is confident that Chipotle will cooperate based on the company’s efforts thus far to regain its customers’ trust. Chipotle’s insurance would cover the students’ damages, Levy said. “Generally speaking, with an incident like this, it is our aim to take care of customers that were impacted by it,â€? Chris Arnold, communications director and oďŹƒcial spokesman at Chipotle, said. Under University policy, flyers that are hung around campus must be approved by the Office of Student Services. The flyers that Levy’s firm posted around campus and on bus stops had not been run through the University, said vice president of the office of student affairs Barbara Jones. Levy has not reached out to BC concerning the legal cases. “These posters would not

be approved under the posting policy and will be removed,� Jones said. BC is not planning on taking any legal action against Chipotle after 141 students were infected in December, Jones said. Other lawyers around the countr y, however, have begun to take legal action following the series of e. coli and norovirus outbreaks, Levy said. The corporation has already begun efforts to solve the health problems within its stores around the countr y. The restaurant chain released a statement on its website on Dec. 21 explaining how the company is launching an enhanced food safety program and is working alongside state and federal health officials to solve the health issues. Chipotle also announced this week that it will be hosting a national employee meeting Feb. 8 to discuss food safety and implement changes. Stores will be closed for the afternoon due to the meetings. „

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CORRECTIONS Please send corrections to eic@bcheights.com with ‘correction’ in the subject line.

1/18/16 - 1/20/16

9:01 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny from a non-resident in Corcoran Commons.

Wednesday Jan. 20 4:53 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC employee who was transported to a medical facility from McElroy Commons.

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Flight School, a program to connect student-athletes with the professional world, was launched last week by the Boston College Athletics Department. The new program has the goal of seeing 90 percent of BC athletes with definitive post-graduation plans. Seeking to make the transition from BC student-athlete into BC graduate a seamless one, Flight School has gathered the help of alumni and their colleagues to serve as mentors. The mentors, known as advocates, will help by recruiting BC athletes into their industries. The relationships could lead to internships or job interviews, according to BCEagles.com. Flight School already has 70 advocates onboard, according to Alison Quandt, assistant athletics director for student athlete development. In 2013, Director of Athletics Brad Bates announced his

goal for 70 percent of athletes graduating in 2014 to have postgrad plans. Bates’ mark was surpassed, and in 2015, the goal was raised to 80 percent—then met. To reach a goal of 90 percent of its graduating student athletes with jobs come May 2016, BC Athletics has instituted Flight School. Similar to a LinkedIn-type networking site, Flight School is a database that can connect student-athletes with advocates. Athletes will create profiles that list things like the sports they play, their career interests, and their desired regions to live and work. Such characteristics will help to match BC’s athletes with the right advocates. Along with the start of the spring semester, Flight School will officially launch this week. Definitive post-grad plans “could include employment, graduate school, professional playing opportunities or even planned volunteer or activism projects,” according to BCEagles.com. Due to a high proportion of

accounting and finance majors, Quandt said, the early numbers show that 23 percent of student athletes already have post-grad plans. Quandt pointed out that much of this career development and forging of relationships between student athletes and alumni or employers had already been going on over the past two years within BC Athletics, and that Flight School only formalized the process. Whenever athletes were in search of post-grad plans, the Athletics Department would assist by searching through its rolodex of contacts. This may have included alumni or companies who have hired BC student-athletes in the past. Students were then able to align themselves with advocates of common interest. Flight School is accessible AMELIE TRIEU/ HEIGHTS EDITOR only to BC student-athletes. As Boston College Athletics Department developed Flight School to increase the number of athletes to graduate with jobs. a result of the program, though, BC Athletics expects the net- of student-athletes will actively goal of 90 percent can be success- with a diploma in one hand and work of connections to grow, advocate for future groups of fully met every year. a job in the other is what we’re so this year’s graduating class Eagles, and so forth, so that the “Walking across the stage about,” Quandt said.

<Xicp 8Zk`fe JkXk`jk`Zj J_fn I`^fiflj K\jk JZfi\j# ;ifg `e 8ggc`ZXk`fej Early Action, from A1 somewhat tougher standard to the early action pool.” In the early action admittance class, students represent 46 different states and 28 different countries. The most students reside in Massachu-

setts, New York, New Jersey, California, and Connecticut. Twenty-eight percent of admitted students also come from an AHANA background. Mahoney also believes that 25 percent of deferred applicants will gain admission in the regular decision pool.

BC admission works through a restrictive early action system, meaning that students who apply early to BC may not apply with a binding early decision agreement to any other university. Mahoney reasons that this system gives students who are really interested in BC a greater opportunity

to be admitted. Georgetown and the University of Notre Dame practice the same admission system. The admissions team is now working to encourage those 700 to 750 students accepted to BC to enroll for the fall of 2016 by hosting events with BC alumni throughout the country.

Over Christmas break, 42 events were held nationwide. Undergraduate Admissions is hosting Admitted Eagle Day on Jan. 31, when admitted early action students will have the opportunity to visit campus and hear from administrators, professors, and students. Current BC

student volunteers will also begin to make phone calls and send out emails to admitted students. “I am not exaggerating when I tell you that we could probably enroll Boston College’s entire freshman class in that early action group,” Mahoney said.

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pointing to not see the administration adopt any proposal of their own,” Thomas Napoli, president of UGBC and MCAS ’16 said. On Jan. 20, UGBC posted the proposal it had given the administration on its Facebook page, along with a note expressing disappointment. This was the first time the proposal was released to the public. Napoli explained that the group has transitioned to bringing its information to the public to be more transparent. The document, titled Towards a More Inclusive Community, outlined the group’s vision for an inclusive environment

on campus, as well as suggestions for the administration on how to achieve this inclusion. “Even though this wasn’t the announcement we were looking forward to making, at this point we really wanted to be able to say we have this plan and it’s going forward,” Olivia Hussey, executive vice president and MCAS ’17 said. “Even though that hasn’t happened yet, we really wanted to be transparent in what has been happening in the meetings with ourselves and the administrators for three months now.” The document is broken down

into a preamble, an overview of the action plan, and has categories of institutional support, academics, campus climate, and education. The preamble includes a call for the University to create a long-term strategic action plan. Here, the group outlined its goal, stating that it hopes “to foster an institutional transformation and ultimately, an intellectually-enhanced environment.” Napoli explained that the administrators left the door open to create an action plan, but never indicated whether they planned to release one or not. Members of UGBC had not

received any information indicating progress to create or adopt the plan UGBC had proposed. “They haven’t reached out to us at all,” Napoli said. “So, for us, we’re going off of the fact that there has been no statement, which is a statement of itself, and taking that as a signifier of no action.” Napoli said that despite the group’s effort to use all of the resources within the structure given to it by the University, he now feels that UGBC is in a position where this structure is not working. UGBC plans to release a statement soon on what its response will

be. This may include getting more student support, as well as looking to alumni and professors, Napoli said. Hussey expressed the group’s determination to pursue the issue of institutional racism and to change BC’s racial climate. “It’s important to remember the ‘why,’ because it can be easy in this world to take things personally or look at the people you’re working with and just remember that the real issue that’s at play right now is for many students of color, we are getting reports that BC doesn’t feel like a home to them,” Napoli said.

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After the undergraduate student government President and Executive Vice President submitted a working proposal in November to the Board of Trustees, there has not yet been a public administrative response.

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As I was sitting in my bed the other night in a half-awake stupor, I began thinking about the unhealthy amount of Vines I had seen that day (I may or may not have a problem), and how they were taking away precious minutes I could be spending doing something else, anything else. For some reason, my cousin had forwarded me a page that consisted almost exclusively of hilarious falls that involved a popular, yet controversial, product that was making waves throughout the teenage population. Everything I had watched was now being re-played with that eerie flicker of films of old, Tarantino style. The next thing I knew, I was asleep. *** *100,000 feet above the ground, two survivors, Rich and Morphy, orbit the Earth in their improvised spaceship and discuss the remains of what was once called Boston.* Morphy: “So, Rich, what are we doing here again? Please tell me this isn’t one of your hilarious-to-you-butlife-threatening-to-me shenanigans. Because if we are not doing anything productive, I’m out.” Rich: “No, no, no. You must have me confused with someone else. This is completely for research purposes and completely safe. Even if something were to go wrong—what were we talking about again?” “Rich! Pay attention! You were telling me about the beginning of our new civilization, or rather, about the end of the previous one. How there used to be so much beauty in that world with so much to offer, only for all to collapse like—how did it happen again?” “Well, it all started on Christmas Day 2015. Yeah, I know how you feel about that day. Stop crying! Like I was saying, on that day kids and teens all over the world, but somehow much more so in Boston, decided that they no longer wanted to use their legs to move around.” “Why, Rich?! They didn’t deserve that! We didn’t deserve this! Why are we here, Rich. Really, why have you brought back to me all fo therse horrid memories?” “Let me finish my story, Morphy. On that day, many forgot what it was like to walk. We were among the lucky few who never gave up that supposedly inherent physical ability, but they—well, you know the rest.” “Yes, those devil machines! The Hoverboards! Those kids, so many lives! When they weren’t crashing into walls or each other they were bursting into flames—Oh, the humanity!” *At this point, their space ship approaches the surface. Flames rage in the distance, bursting with palpable volatility, illuminating the early evening sky. The living dead are now visible with their thousand-yard stare. Some still have mobility due to their charged products. Others, however, are not so lucky.* “Okay now, Morphy, go outside and grab one of those things. I need to win a bet I made.” “What? I knew this would happen! You bring me to this place and now this? How could you do this?” “I just need to prove a point. There are those back home that do not believe me when I say that I invented this hoverboard. It’s ingenious, if I do say so myself. I just never expected for people to lose their minds over them. If people just understood that there is a time and place for everything and used common sense, we would not be in this mess.” “Let’s just go home Grandpa. I can’t take seeing another one of these things.”

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This Tuesday, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, gave his State of the City address where he voiced his support for General Electric’s upcoming move to Boston.

9fjkfe kf 9\Zfd\ >cfYXc ?\X[hlXik\ij ]fi >\e\iXc <c\Zki`Z 9P A8:B CPE:? =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj General Electric recently announced that it is moving its global headquarters to Boston. GE will be the largest publicly traded company with its headquarters in Massachusetts, becoming a valuable addition to the growing tech industry in the city. Boston was one of many cities bidding on becoming GE’s new home, and, along with the state, could give GE up to $150 million in incentives through grants and tax relief. The financial incentives were one of the key factors in persuading the company to move to Boston, but sources have said that both New York and Georgia offered more money than the city or state governments, according to The Boston Globe. Boston also had an edge due to its large and expanding tech sector, which includes many startups, as well as being home to some of the best universities in the country.

The industrial conglomerate was formerly based out of Fairfield, Conn., and was motivated to relocate because of the state’s decision to raise corporate taxes. “General Electric was looking to relocate corporate HQ to another state with a more pro-business environment,” said CEO Jeffrey Immelt in a press release. There were many factors that led the company to return to the city it was founded in, but it was Boston’s identity as an innovative ecosystem, one with a vibrant startup sector, that tipped the scales in GE’s decision, said Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, in his State of the City address. Being home to 55 colleges and universities, the Greater Boston area is home to many of the country’s brightest and most innovative individuals. “Boston attracts a diverse, technologically-fluent workforce focused on solving challenges for the world,” Immelt said in a press release. Along with millions in financial incentives, GE is relocating to an area

where it will be surrounded by students as potential employees and businesses that are innovating new technologies that will directly affect the company. Hosting such a high-tech industrial powerhouse does more than give Boston an economic lift—it highlights Boston’s growth as a hub for innovation that continues to show growth, as city statistics show. “General Electric’s choice to move to Boston is the result of the city’s willingness and excitement to work creatively and collaboratively to bring positive activity to our local economy and continue to grow our industries,” Walsh said in his official statement concerning the relocation. “GE is not only a historic innovator,” Walsh said. “It’s a magnet for talent and investment that we’ll direct toward our shared goals: in opportunity, in community, in education.” GE has already been very present in the Boston economy, with over 5,000 of its own employees in the Greater Boston area working on aviation, oil

and gas, and energy management. They are also involved in seven Boston-area companies made through GE Ventures. Now that its headquarters is in Boston, the company will likely be even more active, Immelt said in a press release, in the startup community through Ventures and a new branch called the GE Digital Foundry, which was created with the purposes of “co-creation, incubation and product development with customers, startups and partners.” The move should also signal to other industry leaders that they can look to Boston as a business-friendly city, which could mean that other industry leaders will consider Boston as a potential home in the future. In his State of the City Address on Tuesday night, Walsh was excited about the prospect of welcoming back the company to its origins, citing the cultural advantages of the city, rather than a purely financial one, as a contributing factor in the decision.

?XimXi[ 9lj`e\jj ;ifgflk ;\m\cfgj 8`i KiXm\c 8gg =i\\Y`i[ 9P B<8KFE 9<8DJ =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj When Ethan Bernstein, founder of Freebird, walked through the doors of Denver International Airport on Presidents’ Day last year, he had no idea that inspiration for the next big travel technology company was about to strike. Unbeknownst to Bernstein that morning, he would drop out of Harvard Business School within the next three months and dive headfirst into his brainchild. Freebird, located in Cambridge, Mass., was conceived on that Presidents’ Day as he saw the consequences of cancelled flights firsthand. During the summer that followed, the app, one that aims both to simplify the air travel re-booking process and empower travelers, emerged seamlessly from his imagination. “Our product circumvents that entire re-booking process, puts the power back in the traveler’s hands, gives them the information they need when they need it and the tools to get through the rebooking process in less than 30 seconds with just three taps of your phone,” he said. Freebird does more than display options quickly and neatly upon the event of your flight being canceled—it also serves as an insurance policy for your flight. For just $19 one-way or $34 round trip, Freebird will pay for whatever option you chose, regardless of the price. As Bernstein and many of his vacation companions boarded their two different airlines both bound for Logan Airport that Monday around noon, however, this whole idea was far from the people’s minds. But as the flight Bernstein was on soared into the sky en route for Boston, the other flight was canceled due to maintenance, its intended passengers sent to stand in endless lines, wait on hold with the call centers for hours, and frantically search for alternative flights on their phones.

Although Bernstein was not one of those stranded in Denver that day, the story inspired him. After four years as a senior manager of corporate development at the largest travel company in the world, Expedia M&A, he had developed a unique understanding of the travel technology landscape, and in this ordeal, he saw a problem to be solved. He saw an opportunity for a service. This service was Freebird. Only a few months after that day, Bernstein was building his company right down the street from Harvard Business School. This location has positioned it to grow into a future champion of its industry. “Boston is a travel technology hub,” Bernstein said. Th is strategic move puts Freebird among the many Boston-based travel technology companies, like Trip Adviser, Kayak, Google Travel, Hopper, and Lola. All of these companies, by nature of being in close proximity to each other, formed a vast network of industry experts and resources. In this way, the city is a crucial component of Freebird’s success, Bernstein said. “More than any other place in the world, this is where travel technology gets built,” Bernstein said. Even in this “travel technology hub,” Freebird has distinguished itself from the rest of its neighbors. Its focus on empowering the customers to make their own decisions by equipping them with the tools to manage their own situations is a prime example of this uniqueness. In addition, the technology behind the product is something not found in any other company. In early November, the fruits of Bernstein’s labor were unveiled. With $3.5 million in total funding from three separate venture capital firms, Freebird is set to continue its rapid progress. As its winter promotional fixed-pricing model comes to a close, Freebird fur-

ther evolves, this time by implementing a revolutionary dynamic pricing model that will price Freebird relative to the flight of the customer. As Freebird doubles its staff and delves into uncharted data science, it

promises much more to come. “It is a long road when you have such an early-stage company, but there is a roadmap in place to help us grow in a way that is focused on the long term,” Bernstein said.

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DXpfi NXcj_ ?`^_c`^_kj =lkli\ GcXej `e J\Zfe[ JkXk\ f] k_\ :`kp 8[[i\jj By Heidi Dong Heights Editor Tuesday night, on the stage of Symphony Hall, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, delivered his second State of the City address. Walsh’s speech emphasized his plans for education, housing, income inequality, a higher minimum wage, and public safety. Walsh opened with a slew of statistics supporting his assertion that “the City of Boston is as strong as it has ever been.” In 2015 more homes were built than in previous years, Boston’s first high school dedicated specifically for science and technology began construction, both violent and property crimes went down for the second year in a row, and unemployment and homicides both fell. Additionally, safety measures for firefighters were implemented, the city earned the title of the leading American city for energy efficiency, and it created America’s first Office of Recovery Services to fight substance abuse.

Boston has even ended chronic veterans’ homelessness, Walsh said. Walsh then excitedly welcomed General Electric to its new global headquarters in Boston. “It’s not only another step forward for Boston on the world stage,” he said. “It’s a magnet for talent and investment that we’ll direct toward our shared goals: in opportunity, in community, in education.” Hundreds of Boston public high school students attended the event in response to Walsh’s invitation. “We don’t need you to be perfect,” he said in his address to the students. “We need you to keep learning, and keep believing in your dreams. The rest is on us.” Last year, Walsh appointed a new superintendent, hired 24 new principals, extended the school day for every student up to eighth grade, and took community input to help create a 10-year school-building plan. For the third year in a row, Walsh is sending the City Council a budget plan that increases school funding. He is calling

for fairer and more sustainable funding for both district schools and charter schools. Walsh then focused on education funding, shining a spotlight on pre-kindergarten education. “The Boston Public School’s pre-kindergarten program is proven to close the achievement gap,” he said. “The city has added seats in each of the last two years. Yet hundreds of children still sit on waiting lists.” Despite a total increase of $90 million in school funding since he has entered office, Walsh expressed urgency and necessity for more. He calls on neighboring cities, legislators, and more to help the children without access to pre-kindergarten through the state budget process in the year to come. Next, Walsh addressed the challenge of affordable housing. His administration plans to strengthen its inclusionary development policy to provide more affordable homes where they are most needed. This policy will lead to the increase of middle-

class housing around the city. In an effort to keep residents in their communities, Walsh introduced a new Office of Housing Stability. With an increase in affordable housing and more stability for communities, Walsh also aims to increase the quality of life for Bostonians. Six acres of land will be converted into parks, Ramsay Park will be renovated, and Boston Creates, an initiative to support the arts in each neighborhood, will be completed. It will also invest $1 million in local artists. With an increa se in af fordable housin“Workers and employers moving forward together,” Walsh said. “That’s our economic vision, and it’s a proven success. What we offered GE was less an incentive package, than a cultural advantage. Innovation. Education. And a community that works and grows together.” His business initiatives will help employers add jobs and support workers through a Business Expansion Toolkit, assist entrepreneurs through a Small Business

Center, and also empower women workers through the offering of 40 more Salary Negotiation Workshops. Digging deeper into the roots of income inequality, Walsh will build a new Apprenticeship Program that will offer on-the-job training as well as a two-year degree for low-income workers. A task force of workers and employers will be formed to more seriously consider and study the possibility of a $15-per-hour minimum wage for the city of Boston. Besides education, inequalities in housing and income, and initiatives to improve quality of life, Walsh is also ramping up public safety in response to the increase in non-fatal shootings last year. Walsh also expressed concerns over the state of gun reform and a hope that the country will continue moving toward tighter controls. “We are proving that when Boston comes together, when we truly act as one community, we can change our city, and change the world,” Walsh said, “We’ve been doing it for a long time.”

8 J\[lZk`fe Yp =ff[1 ?fn X E\n Dfm\d\ek :Xgkli\[ k_\ :flekip By Leslie Sellers For The Heights Downtown in Copley Place, the Sur la Table teaching kitchen surrounded me, fluorescent light beaming down. As I stood across from pastry chef— and my teacher for the day, Rachel Miller, all I could think of were the layers of butter and pastry that swelled sweetly just before flaking away as my teeth sank in. Over the course of the next three hours, I would carefully make the croissant. I thought back to the day before. On Sunday at two in the afternoon, I sat at a small cafe table beneath the street over in the South End. White tile covered the floors while dim light encircled the room and glinted off the Perrier bottles on the walls that dotted the dining space. I looked down at the menu at Gaslight, a French brasserie, searching for coffee and the usual omelet that colored my Sunday brunches. That afternoon, however, the pan au chocolate was speaking to me. Back in the kitchen, the rhythm of croissant-making was peaceful and methodical, almost as a mathematical performance for the senses. Roll the dough out to 15 inches. Do the letter fold. Chill for one hour. Roll the dough out to 20 inches. Do the book fold. Chill for one hour. Roll the dough out to 15 inches. Do the letter fold. Chill for one hour. The butter and pastry were layered and layered tirelessly. The chilled dough was then cut into the triangles and two-inch rectangles that would

become the homes of chocolate, almond, and cheese. Twenty minutes in the oven, and they glinted gold on the butcher-block countertop. Sitting on their cooling racks, the golden pastries were saying more than the quintessential “Eat Me”—sorry, Alice in Wonderland. Through the process of their creation, I began to look at the memory from the day before with more fondness and appreciation rather than just sweet-tooth satisfaction. Food is art. Food is also the only form of art you can experience with all five senses, unless you take to eating canvas, oil paint, or wood. Food, in many ways, is the most accessible form of art because it is necessary to survive, literally. And this necessity makes it an art form that people want to explore themselves by trying their own hands at cooking and baking. Food is an art form that most are not afraid to delve into, unlike painting, printmaking, creating large-scale installations, or playing the guitar. As this art form has taken hold in restaurants across America, gourmet eating has become so pervasive that over the course of the last few decades, “foodie” became a desirable way to identify oneself. Consumers have become both more erudite and selective about the food they consume for themselves and their families, causing a language shift—adjectives are more prevalent than ever because we must differentiate between the superior and substandard. Adjectives commonly used today

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Sur La Table offers cooking classes in the South End for the Boston Foodie, and the chocolate croissants that each student produced. include free-range, grass-fed, organically-raised, hormone-free, locallysourced, and in-season. We live in the age of the hyphenated moniker. As knowledgeable as our population is becoming, however, most only experience gourmet food created by a chef. After repeated gastronomic memories, one becomes well versed in the difference between bouchees and bouillabaisse, but lacks understanding

of time, technique, and skill. When I first bit into the croissant at Gaslight, I thought of little else besides the warm chocolate, flaky pastry, and the calories I didn’t care to ask about. But after standing for hours and making croissants myself, by becoming the artist, I found a deeper appreciation for the commonly known pastry because I understood it on a level beyond reception. I knew it from inception.

As the foodie movement continues in cities across America, the American consumer might find that to enrich the dining experience beyond knowing terminology, they should try their own hand at the most beloved, and sometimes abused, art form. Creating can often exceed receiving and yield more understanding. But the finished product doesn’t taste bad either.

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MADELEINE D’ANGELO I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but there is a storefront on Newbury Street that never really stays the same—144 Newbury Street, to be precise. When I first came to Boston, it was a futuristic MakerBot store, filled with fragile-looking plastic shapes that seemed to have no purpose other than hanging in the store’s floor-toceiling windows. The next time I came back, the MakerBot store was gone, and the windows, although dusty, allowed passersby to peek into the vacant storefront, which seemed overwhelmingly concrete and grey. But when I came back this summer, about to start the semester, the store had taken on new tenants. I couldn’t find a name or brand on the outside, but I could see the colorful clothes hung haphazardly on huge rolling racks through the now less dusty windows. I peeked in, and discovered that it

was a sample sale for a rather obscure brand. This store, and I find this strange because it should have been a fleeting sample sale, seemed to stick around for quite a few months. In fact, I began to wonder if it was going to become the first permanent sample sale. I forgot about it and let it blend into the streets like one of the immovable big brands, hoping that 144 Newbury had finally found something permanent. But, as with most things, I looked away. When I looked back, the sample sale was gone. Maybe it left because of the cold. Although the frigid air outside has convinced me that an inability to cope with the rapid drop in temperature seems like an increasingly valid excuse to jump ship, the empty store has been bothering me over the past few days. I don’t really mind the loss of the sample sale. It’s more the fact that this particular storefront is unable to hold down an occupant. I sincerely doubt that 144 Newbury is cursed, but why is it so hard for something to stick? With its generous windows that would bathe any merchandise in sunlight (for the limited time that the sun is actually shining), and a size that is big enough to prevent people from feeling cramped, but small enough to be manageable, retailers should be

clamoring to claim the space. I poked around online, but instead of finding theories about a curse, I found articles pointing to the starkly realistic explanation of quickly rising leases on properties in the Back Bay area. The Boston Globe revealed that property taxes in the Newbury Street area have recently risen 18.4% percent a number that forces out many of the smaller independent businesses on the street. I thought about the cheerful-yetoverstocked pet store where I met a lady with a bulldog-shih tzu puppy (I’ll let you guess the official name of that breed) that mysteriously vanished after my first visit to the city. And the art gallery-bistro combo—where my mom and I had picked at wheat berry salads before deciding that cake and hot chocolate were probably a better call for lunch—had disappeared as well. Although, in all honestly, the bistro may have disappeared for the greater good. I felt a horrible guilt for the small businesses that are still being shoved away from what could have been their home for decades and wondered why I always gravitate towards Newbury Street when I’m in the city. The dwindling number of independent shops is obvious once you

start paying attention, and the street noticeably lacks the character that they tend to bring with them. Newbury Street is mostly composed of big brands like Chanel, Valentino, Dolce and Gabbana, and Burberry—places that I can only dream of shopping in. Of course, there are a few more affordable shops thrown into the mix, but I keep coming past to wander by the windows of stores that I can’t fathom actually going into. Maybe I tend to gravitate towards Newbury Street, and others like it, because, for me, it is a dream street. Despite its lack of unique character, I

need streets like Newbury to exist because they provide me with a concrete place of escape. For a few moments, I can immerse myself in the unattainable and look longingly at a pair of Chanel boots that I have as much of a chance of owning as I do of becoming an astronaut. Which is to say, absolutely no chance because I have a horrible fear of dying in space.

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Gc\oXgXcffqX K`Zb\k`e^ Jpjk\d E\\[j @dgifm\d\ek Tickets to this year’s Plexapalooza, featuring The Chainsmokers, sold out within two minutes of being available in the Robsham box office. Students took to social media to express their dismay over the unprecedentedly fast sell-out, complaining that the Campus Activities Board, which sponsors the event, did not handle the ticket-selling process properly. CAB president, Christine Cocce, CSOM ’16, responded to this criticism by stating that the Board is pleased about the enthusiasm, but also understands the frustration of those who were unable to buy a ticket. Plexapalooza, as a concert that takes place in the Flynn Recreation Complex, is automatically limited in the amount of people to whom it can sell tickets. The venue can only hold 1,800 students due to fire and safety codes—a limitation inherent in the staging of the concert, as there are no legitimate alternatives. If Conte Forum were to be used, further fire and safety regulations would force students to sit in the bleachers, essentially destroying the dancing aspect of the concert. With the Plex being the only possible venue for this concert, there is little that can be done to increase the maximum capacity for the concert. Due to this severe limitation of venue capacity, it is to be expected that a popular concert will sell out. Based on the positive reaction CAB received upon its Dec. 15 announcement of the Chainsmokers’ performance, there should have been greater anticipation of the rate at which tickets would sell and further action taken. The biggest issue with this rapid sell-out is the two-tickets-per-student-ID policy that CAB has typi-

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cally instituted for the concert. This policy is problematic in that it allows BC students to buy tickets for their non-BC friends. While not an issue in itself, this becomes frustrating when large numbers of BC students cannot buy tickets due to a second ticket purchased by those before them. As a group meant to promote oncampus activities for BC students, CAB’s priority should be ensuring that the greatest possible number of interested BC students are able to attend these events.

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BC athletes commit themselves year-round to their sport. Sports programs demand much from athletes and are also a part of the school’s attraction for incoming students. Student-athletes devote a great deal of time and effort to practices, workouts, and games, which detract from other aspects of college life. It is good to see the Athletic Department supporting the athletes who work constantly toward

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

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THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, January 21, 2016

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ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES - With the start of a new semester comes a bevy of options. The entire world is our oyster here at Boston College. Get straight A’s? Read Ulysses? Join a new club? Make a new friend? Prove to the world that your existence matters? It all seems possible in this first week. THE LEFTOVERS - The best television show currently airing finished its phenomenal second season in the beginning of December. If you haven’t watched this depressing, perplexing, and extremely rewarding show, you need to fix that immediately. Every minute you spend watching Severely Overweight Truckers’ Wives and My Son’s in Love with a Gerbil: An Adorable Atrocity is a complete waste of television time. WATCH THE LEFTOVERS before it dissap

WINTER - Some people say winter is the worst season of the year. Those people are what we in the business call wrong. Winter is a perfectly unique season with the most captivating weather of the year. We all get to wear jackets and breathe little clouds of magical vapor into the air every time we exhale. The driving winds might numb your face, and your nose might run like a disgusting waterfall of snot, but always remember that winter is what separates us from the godforsaken land of California.

About 35 minutes into the interview, its direction shifted. Our conversation on underrepresentation in the media moved from the Oscars to The Heights. “It just seems like a white club, and that shouldn’t be the case,” student filmmaker Cai Thomas, MCAS ’16, said. Here I was, editor-in-chief of the largest student newspaper on campus, and in all honesty, I had never had this conversation about my organization before. It was a disarming moment, and I find myself frequently thinking back to that exchange. I was first inclined to explain to her that there was actually little I could do to change anything, having only a semester left before leaving the paper’s editorial board, which turns over once per calendar year. But then, how ridiculous would it sound for me—as leader of the group—to not only admit that I never before thought of my organization’s identity as a problem, but also that I was powerless in changing it? The craziest part is, for all intents and purposes, it probably was too late to do much at all. This is a conversation I wish I had sooner, and while I’m mostly proud of what I achieved with The Heights, this is a point I wish I had the bravery to act more aggressively on. It’s a flaw in the University’s culture that we often use the good we do as justification for not trying to do better. And when our organizations fail to sufficiently build on the school’s diversity, we’re all on the losing end of the conversation. Boston College is a place with a lot of memory, which is to say that most of the institutions making it up move slowly—if at all. Its culture is heavily governed by tradition, and I’d hazard to guess that, for most students, the historic mystique of the school is actually a big part of their initial attraction to it. And central to the endurance of these traditions is a belief that the bones of this University are essentially good—that the BC DNA is exceptional, and on some level, our

happiness here is dependent on our faith in the institutions we inherit. Perhaps this is why when Princeton Review ranks BC among the top schools for “Little Race / Class Interaction” for seven consecutive years, the gut reaction is to question the validity of such polling samples. Meanwhile, we’ll happily suffer a poll’s shoddy data collection practices if its conclusion is favorable. And while campus climate surveys conducted internally as recently as 2012 have similarly highlighted a dissatisfying state of race relations at BC, each time these problems resurface the institution seems taken off guard—as if the problem just arrived at BC, and couldn’t possibly be built into the way our University functions. To “Eradicate Boston College Racism,” as the campus’s most recent wave of student activism has urged us to do, demands we investigate the very architecture of a BC education. This certainly extends to policy and curriculum decisions made at the top, but it does not stop there. And while much of the criticism of this group has targeted its tactics, I believe it’s actually its message which really offends proponents of the University’s exceptionalism. BC does good, so it can’t do better. If we’re interested in seeing a solution, as individuals we also need to take stronger ownership of the problem. As students, it’s easy to reduce BC’s troubles to some caricature of Father Leahy, making all University decisions from some mahogany-walled room in Maloney—but the reality is that senior administrators are relatively limited in their influence on the day-to-day of student life. Furthermore, such characterizations diminish student autonomy in improving the institutions closest to them. I do believe, in your four years here, you can have a profound impact on how the University functions—but this requires some strategy. As the national conversation on race at college campuses turns to safe spaces for solutions, I’d argue that many of BC’s problems endure because of “safe spaces” built into student life. While some Walsh eight-mans might indeed be centers for diverse discussion, my experience is that University housing can lock students into relatively narrow perspectives on college life. Meanwhile, student organizations

similarly enforce cultural homophily among BC students, bringing them together based on shared interests and backgrounds. It’s not a problem in itself that these environments exist. It’s most often in these groups that we create the friendships that define our experiences at BC—and if there is a place BC is truly exceptional, it’s in the relationships this community affords us. But I have come to see that these environments can pull students apart or bring them together for relatively superficial reasons. Take, for example, junior year housing. The people you live with junior-year are very likely to be who you’re close with through graduation, and currently, those living situations we end up in are heavily dictated by our financial ability to do things like live off campus or go abroad. This housing divide slices up undergraduates by family wealth, and reinforces a culture that “otherizes” those of modest means. The challenge of BC housing is that it forces us to abandon the diverse experience of freshman housing, and can often direct us toward more limited, homogenous communities. And when it comes to student organizations, the current process for joining them does force you to make snap judgments on just where you best fit. It might be based on high school history, it might be based on an upperclassman you know, but regardless, student groups consistently struggle (or are altogether lacking in the resources) to bring together an organization fully taking advantage of the diverse pool of students at BC. Of course, each student group has its unique set of challenges in recruiting, but smart outreach and collaboration between groups has potential to really broaden an organization’s perspective. What I can say from experience is that, if you wait until junior or senior year to begin identifying where your organization could do more, odds are those areas will remain wanting. Most BC institutions move slowly—if at all. If a piece of the culture feels too exclusionary to you as a freshman, it probably is. Someone could probably use your help. You can do better.

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JOSHUA BEHRENS In defiance of the economic stigma surrounding the infamous S-word, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the one ‘socialist’ in the presidential race, has the most financially sound policies of any candidate, even when compared to so-called ‘fiscally conservative’ candidates. If you haven’t actively sought out the information, you may not know much about the specifics of Bernie’s policies . A recent study by news commentator Andrew Tyndall showed that Bernie received only 5 percent of the television exposure his primary rival, Hillary Clinton, was given, despite having topped her in both New Hampshire and Iowa polls and having the most individual campaign contributions in the history of American politics. Consequently, many Americans have an obscured, rose-tinted understanding of Bernie’s label or no legitimate idea about the policies he’s proposing. Bernie has put out the most extensive series of policy proposals thus far in the race. His ambitious agenda accounts for every dollar. While most candidates spout hot air about how they will make America great again, Bernie has, on his website, laid out the exact steps he will take to rebuild our crumbling middle class. The total price tag of his plan is $17 trillion over 10 years, which I acknowledge sounds anything but fiscally conservative. At the core of fiscal conservatism, however, is the belief that the government should foster economic growth, and that is exactly what Sanders is proposing. The vast majority Senator Sanders has suggested spending comes from his proposal for universal health care, to the tune of $14 trillion. Trust me, I can hear your gasps from here. It’s an obscene amount of money. But get this: Bernie would be saving the average American family $5,000 a year and businesses $9,000 an employee. Our current health care system is far from fiscally conservative. It’s bloated with administrative costs and increasingly plagued by exponential price inflation.

America spends the most in the world on its health care coverage per capita, yet 33 million people are still uninsured and, compared to every other developed nation, we rank dead last in quality of care. Not only would Bernie’s health care system be more efficient, it would also take the pressure off of businesses and entrepreneurs who have to bear the brunt of medical costs under our current system. Paradoxically, by having government take over health care, it would free companies from the expense of paying for their employees’ insurance, allowing them much more flexibility in how they manage their hard-earned profits. Additionally, Bernie’s plan would remove one of the biggest barriers for new entrepreneurs: extreme independent health care costs. This combination of factors ensures that Bernie’s health care proposal is

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and airports, rendering them more businessfriendly. Making public college tuition-free would vastly improve America’s workforce by allowing more people to attend college who had previously been unable to due to financial barriers. It would also make students more active consumers, since they would no longer be overwhelmed by student loans. The sum of these fiscal policies will be an explosion in jobs and an improvement in an ever-faltering American workforce. This will put more money in consumers’ pockets as they become employed and gain greater-skilled jobs, which will in turn spur more consumer spending and increase aggregate demand, aiding the economy as a whole. What is more fiscally conservative than aiding the business health of this nation? Now the question is: how the heck is Bernie going to pay for all of this? Well, for starters, a tax on Wall Street speculation will foot the bill for his free public college proposal. A combination of closing corporate tax loopholes, increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, and eliminating Social Security exemptions for millionaires will provide the rest of the $2 trillion in proposed non-health care spending. Bernie’s Medicare-For-All plan is paid for by a combination of taxes on businesses and individuals (it’s important to note that 91 percent of households would pay less than $250 per month with no co-pays or deductibles), closing tax loopholes for the wealthy, and losing the obsolete tax-breaks for now-defunct insurance companies. Every dollar is accounted for, the national deficit does not increase, and thus, those worried about the economy can sleep soundly. The ‘socialist’ policies of Bernie Sanders make economic sense. His proposals will save money, increase the freedom of businesses, encourage entrepreneurship, and improve the economy as a whole. Bernie will invest in the American economy, an investment that will see immediate benefits as well as immense long-term payoffs. If you consider yourself fiscally conservative, take an honest look at this so-called fringe candidate, and you just might find yourself feeling the Bern.

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I glanced back at the room I had left behind. On every wall, I saw myself: frozen in place, with each image varying slightly in expression and stature. It wasn’t until I escaped that I realized I had been living in a room of mirrors, each wall projecting a different reflection. I had been surrounded by the identities assigned to me—some by outsiders, others by myself. My attempts to meet those expectations left me constantly shifting from one wall to another. Like Earth, I had spun so quickly for so long that the revolutions became indiscernible. My truest self was the girl spinning in the middle of the room, changing rapidly to reflect endless variations and extensions of herself. The movements themselves were natural, for humankind is meant to change and adopt new identities. It was in trying to mimic the stasis of those fixed reflections that I interrupted my personal growth. When I tell people that this past break has been my best yet, I don’t know how to express the idea past the cliches: a comfortable and secure home, quality time with people who will always love me, and the resulting freedom that allows me to see more from my couch than I could from the top of a mountain. I can’t recall a time when I’ve felt more at peace, comfortable in my own skin, and separate from everyday stresses. That’s when I escaped the room. I found myself spending entire days relaxing, watching movies and eating meals with people I hadn’t seen in months. My many perceived identities became irrelevant. I realized that there was more to my life than those false identities that had guided me during the past semester at Boston College. In less than a month, I saw so many positive changes in myself that I couldn’t help but notice how limited I’d been before. The reduction of stress and allotment of free time transformed me into someone my friends wouldn’t have recognized: timely, well-balanced, and focused. I realized that I had been underperforming because I was being pulled in too many directions at once. Like so many other well-meaning BC students, I had become over-involved, trapped in that room of mirrors in an effort to play every role. I was Atlas, carrying a world on my shoulders, and in hindsight, I don’t understand how I remained standing. Giving myself the challenges of a superhero didn’t make me one. My focus now is on quality over quantity. I don’t have to be in six clubs (and perform perfectly in each one). I don’t have to know everyone on campus. I’m taking the time and space to examine the walls around me, so that I can be the self that best fits me now. Inevitably, I will disappoint some people— an idea that resounds as anathema to many BC students. Our commitment marks us as leaders, hardworking and steadfast, ad nauseam. We don’t like to show our hands, even if it means saving our lives. We can’t entirely stop facing reflections of ourselves, and we shouldn’t. As time passes, we transition from one room of mirrors to another, searching for an identity that fits—for the time being. When we grow dissatisfied with the restrictions of that identity, we move along. The mirrors are accepted for what they are: portions of truth. These identities are reassuring because they give us boundaries, remind us that we exist, and show us our place. They also scare us because they do not reflect an entire truth, and as a result cannot bear our weight, collapsing under too much pressure. If we accept them as the alpha and omega of identity, we can very well fall victim to the same fate. The key is to remain in this state of exploratory motion without losing our balance. Earth was meant to revolve. We are meant to evolve. That doesn’t mean that we drop everything at a moment’s notice. We hold ourselves to some measure of consistency and accountability, so that when we decide to move along, we take ourselves seriously. Our decisions hold weight, and our lives are not nihilistic. There is some overarching order to our lives that we cannot begin to comprehend. It is felt in the chaotic rhythm of our lives. In accordance with the universe, with God, with whatever you call that which moves us, we spin at speeds we don’t entirely understand—planets, wanderers of unsure ends, minds marvelling at themselves. To stand still is to oppose our very nature.

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THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, January 21, 2015

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Trignis, a Boston startup, is creating a smoker with cutting-edge technology that can outlast the harsh Boston weather.

8k Ki`^e`j# Jdfb`e^ G\id`kk\[ 9P AL8E FC8M8II@8 D\kif <[`kfi The Northeast is not often associated with the Southern tradition of smoking beef, especially due to ever-changing weather conditions that affect the quality of the end product. The Harvard-based startup Trignis hopes to reshape the age-old process and bring it into the 21st century. Founder Jordan DeGraaf, a senior in the engineering program at Harvard University, got the idea for a smoker from a junior-year project in which all the students in the class were tasked with building a better grill or smoker. “In the course there is a new topic every year,” she said. “We had to develop the concept and build the product. We actually did over 880 hours of testing in the freezing Boston weather.” The result of all of the testing is that the Trignis Smart Smoker makes use of better airflow, an automated fan system to minimize hot spots in the grill without requiring frequent monitoring, and an integrated app for smartphones. The new design aims to create a constant environment inside the grill that allows for a consistent result, time and time again. Ensuring that environment in the harsh New England winters was one of the biggest challenges the development team faced. “Smoking is a long process, up to 10 hours,” DeGraaf said. “It’s easier in the South than in the North, with the big hour-by-hour temperature changes that cause temperature discrepancies in the grill itself.” To combat those temperature changes, Trignis implemented a fully-automated system that can be operated from the app itself—the algorithms in place control the airflow and the amount of smoke in the smoker itself, and self-regulate by sensing the temperature in different spots of the grill and compensating as necessary. The app does more than simply ensure the ideal conditions for the meat to cook. It also serves as a stepby-step tutorial for those new to smoking meat. “The goal is to make better meat and be more acces-

sible to the consumers,” DeGraaf said. ”It works a lot like autocorrect: if you are a novice it will walk you through the process, but, if you’re more advanced, there is a lot of customization and recipes available, too.” After its final presentation during the spring of 2015, which featured representatives from Williams-Sonoma, the development team decided to go forward as a startup. The feedback the team members received from taste tests was positive enough that they decided to pursue it full-time as soon as they graduate. “This is a first-class brisket … as good a brisket I’ve had in months and months,” Dave Schaefer from Blue Ribbon BBQ said during a tasting session. Originally, Harvard took care of ensuring the proof of concept and filed for the intellectual property patent, but Trignis has begun working with its own startup lawyers and is evaluating licensing the remaining IP from Harvard. “After we’re done putting all of the pieces in place in terms of development, we go full force,” DeGraaf said. One of the biggest challenges encountered during the transition from product to company has been that many startups are based around software, while they are dealing with hardware, which involves manufacturing, transportation, and storage, on top of all of the other issues software companies face, such as marketing and app development. “We can’t follow the 1,2,3 startup guides … we are paying good attention to all the details, [we face] higher stakes,” DeGraaf said. Trignis is currently applying to tech incubators and searching for beta testers—they are looking to launch their product sooner rather than later. Much of the press the company has been getting has been from more “techy” publications and word of mouth, according to DeGraaf. “We want a fun, techy, cool … product to have in the backyard,” she said. “Although we first want to target beginners interested in techy products, while eventually reaching the die-hard smokers who want the best quality meat possible.”

Citizens of this modern world constantly redefine love. They probe not only what love should mean in today’s fluid society, but also how people across the globe talk about the oftentimes elusive and messy feeling. This week, on Jan. 21, WBUR, Boston’s largest public radio station, will enter the conversation head on through a collaboration with the New York Times. WBUR plans to bring the Times’ ever-popular ‘Modern Love’ column to life through its much-anticipated Modern Love: The Podcast. Modern Love: The Podcast is the brainchild of WBUR’s Idea Lab (iLab), a space where members of WBUR explore and invent new content that resonate with modern listeners, and take advantage of today’s advanced technologies. In an interview with Current, WBUR general manager Charles Kravetz said that the WBUR iLab is currently working on multiple projects, with a total of $1.5 million set aside to fund the projects. Although Kravetz declined to reveal the cost of Modern Love: The Podcast, he did highlight the content of the upcoming podcast through a quick preview on the WBUR website. Each episode of the soon-to-be weekly podcast will center around an essay that was originally published as one of the ‘Modern Love’ columns in the Times. The columns, which have grown in popularity since their first appearance in 2006, are a weekly staple in the Sunday Style section of the Times. Each column runs between 1,500 and 1,700 words, and is chosen from a large pool of reader submissions before being edited by Daniel Jones. Jones revealed in an interview with Times Insider that he can receive upwards of 7,000 submissions a year, though the paper only publishes 52. The rules for submission are very strict and require that the writer maintain a high level of integrity—names cannot be changed, characters must appear as they did in reality, and events cannot be invented or elaborated. In the past, successful columns have resulted in many full-length books, as well as eventually abandoned attempts at television shows and musicals. Although the column’s theme of love in the modern world might seem straightforward, the stories that result

from it are anything but. They range from heartbreaking to uplifting, covering everything from foot fetishes, glimpses from a florist’s perspective, to the scientific possibility of forcing oneself to fall in love. For Modern Love : The Podca st, standout essays were selected from the large the pool of published columns to be featured in each episode. An introduction on the WBUR website reveals that during the first part of the episode, the chosen essay will be read aloud by well-known figures such as January Jones, Judd Apatow, Jason Alexander, Joshua Jackson, and America Ferrera. The stories, however, will not end there. After each column is brought to life, the original author will be interviewed by ‘Modern Love’ editor Jones, and Meghna Chakrabarti, the host of WBUR’s own Here & Now. Kravetz also revealed to Current his high hopes for the podcast’s success, as the project is entirely funded by WBUR, with the Time s providing support through marketing. If the show does reach its desired success, it will continue into the next year. Given the current fame that certain podcasts—such as This American Life and the true-crime investigation Serial—have achieved over the past couple of years, and the overall rise in the popularity of podcasts as entertainment, Kravetz’s aspirations may not be so ludicrous. Recent data collected by Edison Research and the PEW Research Center clearly highlight the growing presence of podcasts in the world of media entertainment. By 2015, 49 percent of Americans over the age of 12 were aware of the existence of podcasts, and 33 percent had listened to at least one podcast in their lifetime, both numbers more than double what they were a decade ago. In an interview with BetaBoston, Jones mentioned the high readership the column attracts, with the most popular receiving 10 million online views. By harnessing both the loyalty of the Times readers and the rapidly growing community of podcast listeners, Modern Love: The Podcast has the potential for great success, a success that is already becoming apparent as Modern Love: The Podcast already holds the 43rd place in the top charts of the iTunes podcast after only releasing a tantalizing preview that lasts a grand total of 99 seconds.

9: I\gfikj Ef GifÔ k =ifd 8k_c\k`Z Gif^iXd `e )'(+$(, Equity in Athletics, From A1 that reported worse returns in 2013-14 than in 2012-13 was women’s basketball. Erik Johnson’s crew posted a record that was one win better (13-19) last season, but reported an 11.5 percent decrease in profits—the team reported a loss of $3.1 million. Yet, when compared to the rest of the conference, BC sits at 11th, ahead of Miami, Georgia Tech, Syracuse, and Notre Dame. The program’s revenue and expenses both totaled about $69.3 million. This is the fifth consecutive year that BC has not reported a profit from its Athletics Department. Pittsburgh is the only other program in the ACC that did not report a profit in 2014-15. Florida State turned the highest profit in the ACC at $23.6 million. The average profit of an ACC school was $5.55 million. This is the fourth year that BC did not report institutional support for team revenue for its ticketed sports. Because of this policy, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s hockey, and football can reveal their actual profit figures. Every other varsity sport at BC is a non-ticketed event and therefore does not report a revenue or expense without including institutional support. That means that BC reports all sports (other than the four listed above) broke even whether or not they actually lost money. This is a common practice around the NCAA. The Department of Education asks that schools report their financial information from between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015 by no later than Oct. 15, 2015. The schools do not have to report any financial information prior to that point. The Equity in Data Athletics report also reveals that BC has the lowest salary per

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head coach—male or female sport—in the ACC. BC has the most female varsity sports in the conference, yet pays its coaches an average of $91,616. While this is $38,000 less than 14th-place Wake Forest, and half of the average female head coach salary of $182,080, it is a $4,000 increase from last season. The salary per male head coach at BC is $384,440, about $30,000 less Notre Dame, the next closest team in the order. This is a 16.4 percent

decrease from last season’s total of about $460,000, and is 419 percent more than the average female head coach salary. Much of this number is skewed heavily in favor of BC’s three male profit sport head coaches: Steve Addazio, Jim Christian, and Jerry York. There are 336 male athletes and 380 female athletes at Boston College, without duplication across sports. BC lags, however, in spending an equal amount on male and

female athletes in recruiting. In 2014-15, BC spent $2,519 per male athlete, 11th-most in the ACC, and only 23 percent behind the conference average of $3,261—the program has the fifth-most athletes in the conference. By contrast, the department only spent $708 per female athlete, despite having the most female athletes in the ACC by a wide margin. This average is $400 less than 14th-place Virginia ($1,129), and is less than half of the

ACC’s average spending on recruiting female athletes ($1,693). Spending on recruiting is a highly variable total per year. It often depends on how many needs schools have in a given year. Additionally, BC recruits most heavily in the New England area, and thus does not have to pay much in terms of travel when recruiting. BC Athletics did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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THE GANG RETURNS IN FULL FORCE TO FXX IN ITS 11TH SEASON, PAGE B4 COLUMN

A PONY SHOW

QUESTIONING THE ARTISTIC AUTHORITY OF THE SEASON’S AWARDS SHOWS, PAGE B2

REVIEW

‘Dirty Grandpa’

DE NIRO AND EFRON GO WILD IN A COMEDY THAT INDULGES IN LOW-BROW LAUGHS, Page B4

THURSDAY | January 21, 2016

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“Phil… wake up. I thi—I think there’s a tornado storm ahead of us,” I complacently muttered to my sleepy passenger. It’d probably be quite a spectacle to see a Californian kid such as myself thinking he’s about to pass a series of tornadoes for the first time. My buddy Phil and I were on the second leg of Winter Road-Trip Extravaganza, passing through Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho to meet up with our good friend, Ryan, who lives in Eugene, Ore. We had woken up before the crack of dawn to make good time on the probable 20-hour drive from our friend’s house in Boulder, Colo., to Eugene, and as the sun peeked up over the Rocky Mountains, we were pleasantly surprised to find that not a single cloud covered the brisk baby-blue sky. For us, this seemed a pleasant and necessary escape from the sleet and hard winds that had plagued the first leg of our journey from Southern Calif. out to Boulder. Driving through these harsh conditions on our first drive out to Boulder hadn’t been all that bad, though. I had never driven anywhere east of Las Vegas before, and encountering the better parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado was an unparalleled delight. Phil and I had mused that, immediately passing through state borders, each state’s scenery necessitated the name that state had. Utah’s rolling, empty, and snow-covered hills demanded that the state be named Utah. Colorado’s quick-climbing mountains and uniquely clean and crisp air suggested that a passerby could only claim to be in Colorado and not anywhere else in the world. For being a 14hour drive that practically consumed the whole day, the scenery these states surrounded us with made the trek feel like a walk in the Common in the fall, sublime and relaxing. A fellow Heights editor, Caleb Griego, wrote a column before Winter Break about enjoying beautiful scenery and architecture as nature and man’s art. While I’ve always considered myself engrossed with and captivated by the landscapes and buildings that I live and work in, I reminded myself of Caleb’s column before setting out on my trip, and I encouraged myself to consciously appreciate the trip’s views as much as I possibly could. This thinking made for an extremely pleasurable road trip—that is, until I saw the tornadoes. The four tornadoes met in the blackest cloud I had ever seen. If death took a natural form, this is what it would look like. As we drove closer and closer to the terrible mess, my heart skipped a few beats, and I started sweating profusely. I was not prepared for this. I had never seen a tornado, let alone driven near one. Or four, for that matter. The highway, however, looked as though it veered out of the way of the beasts ,and I decided to press on, at least until things looked like they might get hairy. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. Those ghoulish tornadoes weren’t moving anywhere or farther apart from each other. They seemed to be static. Confused, I kept driving and noticed that my calculations were incorrect—the highway was going to pass rather close to these horrendous creatures. “What could they be?” I asked myself. “What could possibly account for these hulking, black plumes?” Then it appeared over the horizon: the gates of hell. Sitting in a

valley in Wyoming, along the I-80W, was the largest factory I had ever seen. It was bellowing out gobs of the dirtiest and most corpulent smoke that I think could possibly exist. The plumes that rose out of these four massive smokestacks, the four columns that I had mistaken for tornadoes, congregated in the most disgusting heap of air imaginable. This clump of smoke was so heavy that it condensed into a thick layer extending out a few miles from the factory. Everything that unfortunately found itself under the horrendous mass was untouched by the sun. As I passed the most terrifying sight I’d ever encountered, I reminded myself that that factory probably exudes its crap all day, almost every single day. I’m no expert on environmental science or clean energy, nor can I really speak on the necessity or needlessness of that factory I passed, but one thing I can say is that factory and the countless others like it found throughout the world are dumping an unbelievable amount of toxic and terrible gas into the air. I can’t imagine how many gorgeous landscapes and towns are plagued by industry like this. Now, whenever I see a painting or picture of a valley with rolling hills, I can’t help but imagine a big black blob being smacked onto the canvas.

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Gfep J_fn1 K_\ Le]fikleXk\ @eÕ l\eZ\ f] 8nXi[ :\i\dfe`\j CALEB GRIEGO Awards never resonate with me. Awards particularly having to do with art seem to mean even less. In many ways they seem just a way for self-prescribed authorities to tell the masses what is and is not of artistic merit. During the Grammys, Golden Globes, or Academy Awards seasons, many flock to see their favorite celebrities and artists intermingle and take the stage to accept acknowledgement of their artistic endeavors. But in what ways does this truly validate an art? And, moreover, should it? Should the arts operate under the confines of a select few who can dictate what they feel is of more merit, to brand works as Best Picture, Best Album, Best Score, Best…? This is not to say that the committees behind these awards do not recognize that the ceremony is a reflection of their own opinions. But the pageantry, the grandeur, and the power of celebrity may influence the average person to shape their opinions around the opinions of these committees. In this way, people may neglect to see films, or listen to music, that do not fit the standards of those running the industries. In the end, it is just a couple of people’s view on a matter pertaining to some-

thing as varied and prolific as art. In 1996, after winning the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance,Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam took the stage with some controversial views. Looking at the trophy, he said, “I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.” A nervous laugh shook the

room. Vedder took issue with the award because the acknowledgement of one group innately neglects the achievement and work of others. If everyone who deserves to be recognized is not, Eddie’s point stands markedly. These kinds of things do not seem to be for the artists, but really are a way to collect celebrity in one place and capitalize on their influence. Moreover the use of superlatives is a little off-putting. It is the best? Sure it is.

Look at actors like Di Caprio, who to this day (we will see with The Revenant) has not won an Oscar. Do his performances in The Departed (2006), Django (2012), or Wolf of Wall Street (2013) not warrant an award? The truth is it does not matter. His work stands as his award and testament to his career. He does not need a trophy to validate the magnificent work he has done and no doubt will continue to do. His reputation as an actor gets us in seats to see his movies, not the awe we feel as we tally his trophies. Look at films and entire productions. In 1994, Forrest Gump won Best

Picture, pushing out Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption. Is this to say that it was in any way superior to the other two films, considered masterpieces by many? No. But they only give out one award, thereby putting all other contenders to the side. Again, the legacies of these films, watched and rewatched over the ages, is a more of a testament to their influence and success

than any single award ceremony in any given year. The fact that terms like Oscar Bait exist is representative of the endemic nature of awards. Sooner or later people or organizations bent on achievement will neglect the true passions of the artistic process in favor of a synthetic, systematic processes used to draw in votes. But if these awards do not really mean anything, why do viewers flock to them as authorities, by which they hierarchically rank art? Fear of missing out defiles the minds of almost everyone. To cut through brush in search of the Best, we turn to Rotten Tomatoes, Top 100s, The Academy, and other people to tell us what is and is not good. With so few hours in the day, these authorities’do the work for us. This kind of investigation transcends the conversational intrigue of “What did you think of the movie?” and turns it into “What should I think of the movie?” With so much media to consume, these sources help people decide what they might like and what they might not. Certainly these things serve a purpose

as a preliminary judgement of media, but ultimately it falls on the individual to say what they enjoy. Apart from musing in conversation, placing one film, song, or album over another should not be taken as seriously as people tend to take it. Sometimes we have to watch and listen to things we do not like to solidify the reasons for why we don’t like them and why we like other things. That kind of relativity is essential in developing a diverse and mature taste. The opinions of others will never lend the kind of certainty that is given when experiencing something first-hand. The kind of spontaneity that it takes to try something new, something you might not like, is thrilling to experience, as you challenge yourself to grow in taste. It is in minute moments that we find things that resonate with us, which are completely separate from the droning opinions of a committee. People’s tastes are more complex than popular opinion. We may never experience everything there is. For every film we see, there are thousands more we have not. For every song listened to on repeat, we are missing out on another that we would enjoy

more. But that is okay. Everyone should find pleasure in these things because they simply enjoy them. They do, but someone else won’t. If we actively look for the Best as prescribed by others, we may never venture far enough to find the things we really enjoy.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | HEIGHTS EDITOR

MUSE (MON. AT TD GARDEN, 7:30PM)

RIDE ALONG 2 (NOW PLAYING)

English rock band Muse is set to hit the stage at Boston’s TD Garden this Weekend. Grab tickets to hear the highenergy performance of their newest album Drones at Muse’s website.

Comedian Kevin Hart teams up with Ice Cube to bring viewers this action-packed sequel. Entangled in a drug ring, this unlikely pair attempt to bring justice to a corrupt system.

JENNIFER NETTLES (SAT. AT HOUSE OF BLUES, 8PM) Head to the House of Blues this weekend to hear new songs from country singer Jennifer Nettles. After breaking into the music scene and making headlines as the lead vocalist for Sugarland, Nettles is currently pursuing a solo career.

LOS OLVIDADOS (THURS. IN DEVLIN 101, 9AM-5PM) Visit Devlin 101 for this pop-up exhibition featuring the work of Ramiro Gomez. A panel discussion with the artist is scheduled for Thursday, and the art will be on display for one day only.

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NEWS PAINTINGS EXHIBIT (O’NEILL LIBRARY, JAN-MAY) The O’Neill Library’s Level Three Gallery will feature a semester-long exhibit titled 24 Hour News. Professor Mary Armstrong of the Fine Arts Department shares her meditations on war through a series of paintings.

DIRTY GRANDPA (OPENS FRI.) Zac Efron and Robert De Niro co-star in this crude new comedy. Filled with crazy parties, wild bar fights, and spring break madness, the movie hits theaters this weekend.

13 HOURS (NOW PLAYING) John Krasinski and james Badge Dale star in this chaotic account of a security team that works to defend the United States consulate in Benghazi during a horrific attack.

5TH WAVE (OPENS FRI.) As a series of alien attacks put the human race on the brink of extinction, fearless teenager Cassie Sullivan sets out on a frantic search for her brother. Alliances form and friendships are tested in this fast-paced sci-fi film starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Viva Dalla Riva Chris Dalla Riva on Writing, Singing, and Living His Music Day by Day Chris Fuller | Arts & Review Editor

Students rush across Linden Lane, either running to their next class or trying to evade the freezing cold’s grasp as quickly as they possibly can. Teeth chatter and students shiver as they pass the golden Baldwin that sits upon its pillar perch. While most people bundle up to the best of their ability, one student, Chris Dalla Riva, MCAS ’17, strips down to his flannel shirt and wades out into the snow in front of Bapst Library. He’s not too cool for the cold, but he realizes how much better the photo will look without his North Face pullover on. While he may be a singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and harmonicist, Dalla Riva’s artistic vision extends far beyond his musical talent. Dalla Riva posted his first EP, I Want You To Know, on his Soundcloud page last summer. I Want You To Know is emblematic of Dalla Riva’s sound. It is small-band rock at its finest. The EP only has six tracks, but Dalla Riva has been writing and producing music for

much longer than this would suggest. He’s been playing guitar, learning the piano, writing, and singing since he was in the seventh grade. “I was never really confident in my abilities to play covers of songs I loved,” Dalla said. “I figured if I can write my own song, there’s no possible way I can mess that up.” Since then, Dalla Riva has written over 50 of his own songs, and he doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon. “I just want to play and write as long as I can,” he said. “You know, everyone would like a record deal. It’s always nice when you meet people that connect with your music or lyrics you’ve written. I’m focusing on building a fanbase of people that my music can touch in some way or another, as cliche as that sounds.” Invested isn’t a good enough description for Dalla Riva’s relationship with his craft and process—“absorbed” works much better. He enjoys working through and adding his own touch to themes and

narratives that have existed in music throughout its entire history. “You always come back to same tropes people have been writing about forever: love, youth, and escape,” Dalla Riva said. “I won’t stick to these exclusively, but I see that my view on these themes has shifted drastically even in the last five years, and I think they probably do for most everyone.” One of the first things you notice when talking with Dalla Riva is that he exudes confidence. His personality doesn’t come off as superficial. He just knows what’s he is talking about, and he doesn’t have to dance around a subject to get to his point. A conversation with Dalla Riva is especially refreshing. He’s not afraid to admit where he’s gone wrong in his music career, or to promote what he thinks are his strong suits as a musician. “The last couple years have been about trying to find the right group to bring an idea I have to life,” he said. “Relationships can be fickle, and it’s

difficult to find people who agree with what you believe in musically and not only that you agree, but also that you work well together too.” While Dalla Riva has gained and lost band members over the years, his friend and trumpeter, Peter Julian, CSOM ’16, has been a steady collaborator whom Dalla Riva has involved heavily in his creative process. “I usually write a song, bring it to Pete, and then we work an arrangement with just the guitar, vocals, and trumpet,” Dalla Riva said. “Then we’ll bring it to a bass player and a drummer because the hardest part is working at a trumpet line. Playing live though, you really only need Pete and I.” It’s intriguing to talk with Dalla Riva about his interests outside of music. He’s a co-producer for BCTV’s comedy division and often works with BC’s comedy teams to develop and broadcast comedy specials. He’s an avid film fan and reader who can go off a tangent on any of his favorite stories

(George Lucas’ American Graffiti and Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea). It’s difficult to encapsulate Chris Dalla Riva in a nutshell. There is an endless amount of inspirational and sophisticated quotes that he whips out on a whim. He’s both mysterious and entirely approachable, just like his music sounds. Some may think he’s more inclined toward studying the arts, but Dalla Riva’s actually a mathematics and economics double major. He has a very unique view of the relationship between his studies and his musical career. “People usually think math and music are such divergent paths, but to me it’s a very similar process that you go through with both,” he said. “They share a general form. You’re doing something different when you work in either, but with both you’re facing a creative problem and you need to solve it in a novel way. To me, music, math, and economics come together in a really nice way, despite their apparent differences.”

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HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN Just like Nutella, Jennifer Lawrence, and other things that are decidedly overrated, Winter Break just isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. As soon as that brief thrill from holiday decorations, home-cooked meals, and the long-awaited reunion with the family dog wears off, the month-long hiatus-from-hell follows the same sort of blueprint for us all: college friends are MIA, high school pals have to spend time with their parents, and you’re stuck home alone while your family flies to Disney without you for a week (I’m hoping that applies to someone other than just me). After a solid and blissful three days or so of basking in the dim glow of a stocked family refrigerator (one

that can hold more than just three pineapple Chobanis, two chocolate milks, and a freezer-burnt Ben & Jerry’s), you realize that your small Massachusetts suburb is the single most horrible place you could ever be trapped for a month. Then again, as soon as you acknowledge that your hometown is known primarily for its high-security prison and the most exciting destination within a four mile radius is a newly refurbished McDonald’s where the McFlurry machine is always broken, you realize that you’ll have to get crafty in order to preserve your sanity. Personally, I like to interpret the term “crafty” pretty loosely. I mean, the craziest thing I did over break was take the commuter rail into the city and explore the mean streets of Boston alone a few times (wild and risky and utterly spontaneous, I know). Mostly, though, I opted to hide under an expertly-crafted blanket cocoon and catch up on the movies, shows, and albums I was way too busy to bite into during a hectic fall semester. So,

armed with my trusty laptop, a couple of movie tickets, and way too much time on my hands, I jumped right in. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is the kind of show that’s capable of making viewers chuckle in a sweet, simple “this-isn’t-the-worst-showI’ve-ever-seen-but-it-sure-as-hellisn’t-the-best” kind of way. Ellie Kemper channels her inner Erin from The Office with her character Kimmy Schmidt, a stereotypically clueless Midwesterner whose 15 years in captivity only adds to her naivete about the big, bad world around her. One note I took on this series says “Smalltown girl tries to achieve her dreams in the big city, all the while getting by with a little help from her friends.” You probably cringed while reading that sentence, but you also now have the basic plotline of every Kimmy episode created to date. Master of None is just awesome, and I would praise the new gem of a television series all day if I could. It’s honest and unapologetic, without being obnoxious or brash. It’s smart,

original, well-written, and Aziz Ansari deserves all of the awards—all of them. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returned for its 11th season, and I feel like I need to express my sheer gratitude to creator Rob McElhenney for making such a great series. Maybe I’ll name my firstborn after him or something. Netflix is the devil, because I sat virtually immobile until I had caught up with the show’s previous 10 seasons. Some notes on this series include a growing tally of the number of times Danny DeVito is nude on screen, “Charlie Kelly is the best worst person ever,” and “this show is never allowed to end.” Joy is a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, and it’s also a common human emotion that I felt none of while watching said movie. It was clunky, awkward, and didn’t include any semblance of sexual tension between Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s characters, which threw everyone for a loop. Mad Max: Fury Road is the greatest film I never want to see again. It was

completely devoid of any interesting plot point, apart from a guy attached to the back of a rig who mercilessly shreds on a guitar despite bullets and shrapnel flying every which way. The CGI was awesome, though (as it probably should be for a budget of roughly $150 million). I justified my lack of productivity by tossing out a few key words and phrases like “work” and “necessary” and “The Heights Arts & Review Section” when confronted by my mom about why I was wasting so much time over break. I mean, an assistant arts editor needs to be well-versed in the entertainment world, she needs to be good at clicking the “Next Episode” button on Netflix without missing a beat, and she needs to rewatch all seasons of 30 Rock in preparation for Fey’s film Sisters, dammit. Now, I am. So, in that sense, I guess it was a pretty successful break after all.

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to spice up his life with a trip to Daytona Beach. With the help of his submissive and soon-to-be-married grandson Jason Kelly (Efron), Dick makes his ambitions of sex and partying a reality, while showing Jason how to loosen the grip of his controlling fiancee. Police, drugs, gangs, and Grandpa make for a dangerous combination. Dirty Grandpa’s plot is predictable, with characters ending up exactly where you think they would. In fact, the progression of each character can be accurately

predicted within several minutes. We have seen this type of dynamic before, with reserved and radical characters butting heads. In the end, both sides find a sentimental truth through various trials and antics. This is apparent in Neighbors (2014), in which Efron plays a similar role. In that comedy, his position was that of the radical fraternity member, tormenting the couple next door. The story was of a struggle between two households, with no clear victor in sight. Conversely, in Dirty Grandpa, Efron is on the receiving

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end of most of the ill will, yet the shared fate of him and his grandpa is completely foreseeable. The movie wastes no time in building up to De Niro’s character’s crazed nature. Shortly after his introduction, the ridiculous situations, lines, and quips come in full force and rarely slow down. Insult humor dominates as Dick continually berates and emasculates his weak-willed grandson. As they traverse the roads and party scenes together, Dick truly leads the way, with Jason looking on awkwardly. The unfortunate simplicity of the plot can be forgiven, as the film wastes no time jumping into the action and quickly progressing from scene to scene. The insult humor is at times very funny, as Efron does not lead the show. Instead, he fills the role of a human punching bag. Much of the humor is easy and simple, but demands laughs or chuckles at its delivery or nature. A good portion of the humor falls into pitfalls of shock humor. In place of a joke with buildup and payoff, writers substitute for easy laughs with a penis to the face or fart noises on a stage. This kind of humor is easy to pull off and will garner some laughs, but those are cheap and easy laughs. Making Efron the human

punching bag functions very well. His reaction to De Niro’s performance is authenticated by his sincere looks of desperation and shame. For Efron, this film can be seen as an extension of Neighbors, as he continues to shed his prettyboy persona. In many ways, the movie continues to prove that. His misery is a highlight of the movie. De Niro makes the movie, as he precisely embodies a dirty grandpa. Most of the funny moments come from the situational comedy that ensues from seeing a grandfather in the situations presented on screen. De Niro pulls off everything with confidence. Shotgunning beers, rapping, lighting cigars, and seamlessly mingling with spring breakers make for some entertaining spectacles. De Niro is trying new things and for a man of 72, this is admirable. Clearly he does not need to make films anymore, but he does for the love of it. Just as his character is made to feel younger through his antics, De Niro is given vigor as he continues to churn out films, proving that he still has what it takes to deliver a good, or at least entertaining, performance. Dirty Grandpa is fun and will have you chuckling throughout. Though it has few well-crafted jokes, the fast-paced nature of the movie will keep you engaged.

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Tuesday night was the last time—disregarding TV’s syndication of (500) Days of Summer, Yes Man, Elf, and now New Girl itself—that Zooey Deschanel could be found in a living room near you. When Deschanel’s Jess walked out of the loft at the end of Tuesday night’s episode of New Girl, leaving behind a heap of advice for her friends in her typical fashion, she marched into an invisible arc of secluded jury duty. Deschanel herself is on maternity leave and now New Girl—as always—is forced to reinvent itself. It’s weird that New Girl is in its fifth season. The show is like your friend who lives back home, yet somehow still cracks you up. And there’s nothing wrong with either! New Girl was born before the era of the transcendent comedy—Transparent, Master of None, You’re the Worst—the flesh-and-blood sitcoms that mix commentary and comedy in one fell half-hour swoop. But before those shows were filling up your queue, there was New Girl, hunting spiders and playing True American in a wildly spacious loft. In its second season, with the chemistry between Deschanel’s Jess and Jake Johnson’s Nick Miller, New Girl reinvented

and embraced the screwball comedy of old—capturing the ‘will they won’t they’ and ‘they can’t ever be together but they must’ dynamic of romantic relationship. The third season proved that the Jess-Nick union wasn’t as fertile as their ‘hardening caulk’ of a courtship. The third season was entertaining, but the fourth proved that New Girl can still be really, really funny (see “Wedding,” “Micro,” “The Crawl”). That’s a hasty summary of approximately 90 episodes of television. With juicy syndication rights in hand and Deschanel en route to maternity leave, New Girl could mail it in, or at least had the opportunity at hand. The ultimate answer to that fateful question will be answered— in New Girl fashion—in quiet understatement. No one makes big moves in the hallway of a loft in the quiet of the night like New Girl. Which brings us, finally, to the episode in question. In “Jury Duty,” Jess is off to jury duty, and all of a sudden has to juggle her judicial disposition, the sudden appearance of John Cho, and now a feud between her best friends Nick and (his best friend’s fiancee) Cece. Sitcoms can be confusing. Nick is fed up with Cece because she is hot mess incarnate. And Cece is fed up with Nick’s Wet Pants story—how the bottom of a guy’s glass at the

bar breaks and gets his pants wet. It’s one of those typical New Girl plots—Jess is up to something quirky, the gang is up to shenanigans in the loft. Here, they’re tackling an age-old dilemma. How do I be friends with my best friend’s girlfriend/fiancee? What do you do when relationships change? And as Jess seals her fate and departs with her uncompromising dedication to the judicial system, Nick and Cece compromise. Cece admits that she may never know Schmidt like Nick—Schmidt’s college roommate and best friend—

knows Schmidt. Though, she adds, he may never know Schmidt like she does physically, to which Nick responds, “You’d be surprised.” There’s also a funny bit in which Nick and Winston try to say “at the same time” in unison, which doesn’t sound all that funny, but director Eric Appel lets the moment run as long as awkwardly possible to let the joke build and burst. The show won’t be the same without Jess. But the show that it’s been so far this season has been a shadow of its screwball season two high and the hardboiled comedy of

season four. So maybe Megan Fox, who replaces Deschanel on the call sheet and Jess in the loft for the foreseeable future, will jumpstart the show and transform it into something new all over again. New Girl grew out of the quirkable Deschanel project long ago into the still-delightful ensemble comedy it is now. But anyone who loves the show has surely wondered how it’d run without its star. Jess is still the heart of the show, but it should be fun to see how far it might go and what it might find without her at the center.

Dazed, confused, and gradually reclaiming control of their extremities as the numbing effects of a mysterious elixir wear off, the gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia find themselves in shackles—and diving headfirst into season 11 of the critically-acclaimed FXX series. In the corner of a dilapidated basement, an outdated, static-laden

TV set hums to life. Danny DeVito appears onscreen sporting an impressive disguise straight out of Saw, but the man’s short stature and trademark screeching voice blow his cover almost immediately. “Hello, gang,” he growls. “The keys to your cuffs have been sewn into your forearm. Beside you are some tweezers attached to a car battery. Last team out of the room loses.” Well, what else could one expect from an episode titled “Chardee

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(Charlie Day), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Sweet Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) return weirder, funnier, and more shameless than ever. The newest season doesn’t waste a minute in revealing how dissolute and horrible these not-so-clever con artists can be. Willing to risk anything to make a quick buck, their new venture in the game industry and the subsequent physical harm it causes is just another day in the life of the gang. Episode two opens with a nonsensical argument in Charlie and Frank’s apartment. Mentally, Frank becomes stuck in the year 2006, which allows Dennis and Dee to take advantage of their father’s unfortunate condition. The twins try to have another go at inheriting Frank’s fortune. Meanwhile, Charlie and Mac conspire to toss Frank out of his own apartment in hopes of raking in more rent money. Sunny tackles major controversies and profits off of political incorrectness. The characters are the worst people one would ever want to meet, their hilarious depravity responsible for a number of horrible situations. Since its series premiere in 2005, the gang has sold a variety of hard drugs, faked their own deaths, performed

several kidnappings, and posed as police officers. They’ve committed fraud, ruined innocent lives, and eaten more cans of cat food than can be counted. Each new episode of horrifically immoral hijinks brings a tasty delinquent activity du jour, and fans eat it up every time. Throughout its long run on FXX, Sunny has received incredible praise virtually unmatched by today’s top comedy shows. With all but two seasons receiving a 100% on rottentomatoes.com, Sunny is an unapologetic show that takes major comedic risks while expertly retaining the quality and sheer originality that avid viewers have come to expect and crave from creator Rob McElhenney. Having teamed up with fellow costars and executive producers Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day since the show’s conception, McElhenney has churned out nearly 11 seasons of uproarious episodes. If this absurd season premiere and its subsequent second episode are accurate representations of what insane shenanigans the gang will get caught up in this time around, Sunny faithfuls are sure to be more than satisfied, with plenty of things to look forward to from the gang.

The ideas behind Nina Nesbitt’s music video for “Chewing Gum,” a song from her upcoming EP, Modern Love, are similar to the concepts of the song itself—simple, catchy, and unfortunately, repetitive. “Chewing Gum” uses a single visual gimmick to carry the three and a half minutes of audio, and if the end result is not revolutionary by any means, it is at least as eyecatching as intended. The video opens with Nesbitt getting dressed as the previous evening’s conquest lies asleep and forgotten in the bed behind her. The presumed one-night stand moves through a quick background jump to a nightclub featuring a feathery blonde who leaps through a similar flurry of camera-perspective tricks to flirt with another man. The dominoes continue to fall, with each new participant in the fleeting shots of bedrooms and crowded parties dropped—through the magic of editing—into a new partner’s arms. The trick is that what is behind the walls is not just another room, but another moment, each as inconsequential and doomed to end as the next. At times, Nesbitt herself reappears after the latest jump cut, backlit in a foggy hallway and quirking an eyebrow to drive home her apathy This same impermanence is seen in the varied cast of characters tethered together only “until the flavor’s gone.” This concept coincides perfectly with the song’s cycling assurance that its vocalist is uninterested in “forever,” and though the visual might not convince any wary viewers to feel the same, it plants a cynical seed of thought. When Nesbitt glides into a car at the end of the video and embraces the driver there is a sense of imminent doom even as the intimacy is still unfolding onscreen. Ultimately, the video falls alongside its characters into a pattern it is unwilling or unable to break, and the resulting monotony leaves no soft sentiment for the audience after the final blackout.

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THE 1975 “The Sound”

DOROTHY “Missile” Bieber’s mysterious new track was released solely on his official Vevo page. Intentional leak? No one knows. All we know is that Bieber steps out of his conventional wheelhouse on “I’ll Be There” to perform his own rap-filled bridge, a job generally reserved for outside hire. “I’ll Be There” lives up to the “Bieber-fever” hype.

DOROTHY’s new track “Missile” is perfectly timed to revitalize interest. The trademark gritty, bluesy sound of the band radiates throughout the single, along with singer Dorothy Martin’s powerhouse vocals. The song sounds like a Taantino western and garage band, suggesting great album to come.

Breaking away from the angst, The 1975 delivers a bubbly, electro-pop anthem. Featuring the vocals of a children’s choir and pulsing synth beats, “The Sound” is the last thing anyone would’ve expected from the indie band, while lead singer Matty Healy maintains his typical emotional, conversational lyrics.

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months will bring. These are the only two months that matter. Last year, when the Eagles’ only three losses were in the Beanpot Final, the Hockey East Championship, and the Frozen Four Semifinal, serving as a brutal reminder. To say this year is different because BC is undefeated and has succeeded against last season’s local rivals would be wrong. Although the 2015-16 Eagles boast a 24-0-0 record—including a combined 5-0 mark against Harvard, BU, and Northeastern—it is not necessarily a sign of improvement. At this time last year, Crowley’s squad was not only undefeated, but also 5-0 against those same three Boston-area schools. So what makes this year different? It starts with the maturation of the team’s offensive and defensive MVPs: Carpenter and Burt, respectively. The senior forward is now nearing the end of one of the most impressive campaigns of all-time in the sport, and she is hungry for hardware. Not to mention, the 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award winner is playing the best hockey of her life—even better than last season—as she has tallied 28 goals and 27 assists in just 24 games this season. It’s difficult to drastically improve when you’re already among the best in nation, but Burt did exactly that. The sophomore has allowed just 20 goals in 20 games between the pipes, making strides as she sees higher volumes of shots and tucks another year of experience under her belt. On Tuesday, Burt and the Eagles blanked Harvard, 2-0, for their first win at Bright-Landry Hockey Center in 10 years. Burt collected her 50th victory as goalie for BC, making her the youngest and fastest in women’s collegiate hockey history to reach the milestone. The 18-year-old’s ninth shutout of the season featured two goals from Meghan Grieves, proving that the veteran first-line duo of Carpenter and Haley Skarupa doesn’t need to score to secure a win. On paper, there is little difference between this year’s success and the deceiv. But after an agonizing offseason, Crowley has transformed her team into one that is ready for the big stage, and ready to crush the perception that BC can’t win when it matters. Rattling off 24 consecutive wins to start this season has shown the 2014-15 National Coach of the Year that her players have bought in. As fans, it’s time to buy in, too. This year, forget the tragedy storyline—this team wants redemption, and it’s going to get it.

Miami head coach Jim Larranaga said. “They got some fast-break opportunities … I thought we gave them too many opportunities in the open court.” As Miami managed to slow down the game, BC fixed its other problem—getting to the line. The Eagles actually managed 14 free throws after taking none in the first half. But these were representative of Miami making e ver y shot BC took much harder. Eli Carter suffered the most from this revamped pressure, going 2-for-13 in the second half, and while BC still hung around for much of the first half, the lack of a go-to option beyond Jerome Robinson—who finished with a game-high 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting—proved too much to handle. While Robinson turned into the Eagles’ best form of offense in the game, BC actually came out of the gate determined to get

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its main big man going. Besides finding A. J. Turner wide open on the perimeter to open the scoring, the Eagles pushed four of their first six possessions inside to Dennis Clifford, who has been one of BC’s most reliable scorers this season—when he hasn’t been lodged in foul trouble. Establishing Clifford early is also key for BC to take the pressure off its top guards, who often resort to launching a poor shot as plays break down. Miami center Tonye Jekiri kept Clifford in check, however, causing BC to pick up three quick turnovers before its own center could handle the ball. The one time they did successfully feed Clifford, he rimmedout an awkward fadeaway on the side. A second personal foul five minutes in sent Clifford to the bench, and brought in Idy Diallo, who has struggled in most facets of the game this season. Then suddenly, for a fourminute stretch, Diallo didn’t look like a body solely designed

to take up space on the court. He began by knocking down an open jumper at the free-throw line, but followed up on the next possession with a make inside the paint, handling the ball far better than he has for most of the season. He also played far better on the defensive end, leading BC head coach Jim Christian to give him, as well as Turner, a verbal nod in the post-game press conference. Miami, as most teams have done to Clifford when he has had success, renewed efforts inside that prevented Diallo from becoming a factor in the second half, but it’s still a promising sign for the BC program to see development from its younger contributors. Even though it’s not easy to look past 14 misses in the game for Carter, the guard also tacked on eight assists, proving he has the ability to distribute the ball. He’ll need both the help and a hotter hand for BC to find the win column.

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Jerome Robinson (1, top, right) had 20 points on a highly effective 9-of-14 from the field. On the other hand, Eli Carter had 12 points but on a poor 4-of-18 shooting performance. WOMEN’S HOCKEY

D\^_Xe >i`\m\j JZfi\j Knf `e I\m\e^\ fe ?XimXi[ 9P J?8EEFE B<CCP ?\`^_kj <[`kfi Wins come easy for Boston College women’s hockey. With 24 victories this season under its belt, BC (24-0-0, 16-0-0 Hockey East) has demonstrated its methodical path to a win: strong defense, a wall of a goalie, and fast-paced offense. A first-period goal to start it off, an obligatory point from Alex Carpenter (with an assist by Haley Skarupa), and a few more shots chipped in to seal the deal. It’s almost a formula. That formula was tested when they faced Harvard University, the last team the Eagles lost to—way back on Mar. 21, 2015. In the 2-0 win against the Crimson (10-7-1, 7-5-1 ECAC), BC’s goals came from the third line, with no points earned by Skarupa and Carpenter. In addition, Harvard’s offense tried to chip away at goalie Katie Burt, hitting her with far more shots than she is used to seeing.

The Crimson staved off an offensive strike by the Eagles until halfway through the first period. When thirdline forward Tori Sullivan skated up the ice and shot at the net, it was deflected by Harvard goalie Emerance Maschmeyer, the player who shut down BC’s win streak last season. Meghan Grieves took advantage of the disoriented goalkeeper and snuck in her own shot, giving BC the lead. Later, nearing the end of the second period, Grieves and Sullivan partnered for another goal that would rival a Skarupa-Carpenter collaboration. After a pass from Sullivan, Grieves streaked toward the net, backhanding the puck past Maschmeyer to add some insurance. Unlike BC’s match against Merrimack College Jan. 17, in which the Warriors took eight shots, Harvard managed 29 against Burt. The goalie, who is not used to having so many shots on her, could have cracked under the pressure of lack of practice,

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but remained constant, giving the Crimson little leeway to sneak one in. BC was also cut off offensively, notching 38 shots, which is slightly under the team’s average of 41.6, and a stark contrast to the 55 it put up against Merrimack. While extending their spotless record against a storied rival is reason enough to celebrate, the Eagles also accomplished several other milestones. Burt, in her 55th start with the team, reached 50 wins, becoming the youngest and quickest person to do so at 18 years and 358 days. She has given up 20 goals in the 20 games she has appeared in this season, earning her a .953 save percentage—just behind Ann-Renee Desbiens of University of Wisconsin’s .961. Facing Harvard on the road hasn’t been easy for the Eagles. The victory is just the second in BC’s history at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center, with the last being on Valentine’s Day 2006. That win set a fire under the Eagles,

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BC hadn’t beaten Harvard in Cambridge since Valentine’s Day, 2006. who have gone 10-4-1 against the Crimson since that day, a far cry from the 1-21-0 record that BC maintained in the rivalry from its inception in 1996 to Feb. 13, 2006. Though the number of goals scored in the game is one of the lowest for the Eagles this season, the victory shows a team that has evolved from last season. BC’s defeats against Har-

vard had scores of 3-2 and 2-1. With her ninth shutout of the season, Burt has demonstrated her ability to kill off any team’s offense, and the two goals from the third line prove that every Eagle has the scoring power to put the team on the winning side. If it all comes down to one goal in a meeting against Harvard again, it could very well be in BC’s favor.

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Women’s tennis opened up its season with a loss to the University of Virginia. It was a mu c h c l o s e r co nte s t th a n expected, with the No. 7 Cavaliers claiming a 4-3 victory over the Eagles. Sophomore Asiya Dair was a bright spot during the day. Dair and her doubles partner, Jennifer Ren, earned a victory to set a good tone for the rest of the day. Later in the day, Dair scored a major upset as she defeated the eighth-ranked Julie Elbaba in straight sets. Dair was named the ACC co-player of the week (along with University of North Carolina’s sixth-ranked Hayley Carter) for her performance against the Cavaliers. Meanwhile, men’s tennis traveled to Harvard University and suffered a 6-1 loss to the Crimson. BC’s only win on the day came from Alexandre Thirouin’s 6-4, 6-1 victory against Harvard’s Kent Mukai.

The Boston College ski teams competed at the Bates Winter Carnival in Sunday R i v e r, M a i n e , l a s t w e e ke n d . B o t h t h e m e n’s a n d women’s teams struggled to dominate in the contest. Throughout the we ekend’s e vents , B C earned 70 points and finished 15th out of 17 teams. Dannica Ashnault recorded BC’s best time for the women’s slalom, finishing two slaloms with a time of 2:16.13. On the men’s side, Carter Robertson ran two slaloms in 1:55.22. O verall, B C could not compete with powerhouse schools like the top three finishers: Vermont, Dartmouth, and New Hampshire.

Both swim and dive teams competed against Marist College last Saturday. After a day of tough comp e tition, the men’s te am e ar ne d a 160-140 victory, while the women’s team fell to Marist, 175-120. On the men’s side, Dan Kelly’s 50-yard freestyle time of 20.90 seconds earned him first place in the event, and Cole Malatesta’s 16meter diving score of 341.55 brought him to a dominating finish over every other diver. The men’s A medley relay team comprised of Josh Williams, McKenzie Cole, David Howard, and Dan Kelly also came in first place with a time of 1:35:35 seconds. On the women’s side, Jordan Parry finished the 100-yard butterfly in first place. Erika Freeman, Emily Mann, and Katherine Karle took first, second, and third places in the individual medley event. On Tuesday, the men’s team squared up against Tufts University, earning a 204-164 victory against the Jumbos. Tufts won only six events against the Eagles. Standouts for BC included Malatesta, who dominated the three-meter dive, and McKenzie Cole, who took the 100-yard breaststroke.

Women’s track traveled to Kingston, Rhode Island, l a s t w e eke n d fo r i t s f i r s t competition of the spring s e m e s t e r. Th e Un i v e r s i t y of Rhode Island hosted the Sorlein Memorial Invitational and came in first place, and the Eagles finished second with 107 points. Multiple athletes set or tie d p ersonal records at the competition. Captain Carly Daniel set a personal record in the 60-meter preliminaries, and would go on to finish second overall in the event. Paige Duca also set a personal record in the 1,000-meter event. Elizabeth Knoll tied her personal record in the high jump. The 4x800 team qualified for the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships with a victory in its event.

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Pfib <Xiej 000k_ N`e 8^X`ejk K\ii`\ij BC-BU Saturday, from B8 him far ahead of Parker on the all-time coaching wins list. Parker sits at third with 894, while York is at 999 and actively searching for No. 1,000. It wouldn’t happen on Saturday night. The No. 10 Terriers (11-7-4, 5-4-3 Hockey East) prevented the longtime Eagles coach from celebrating at Agganis Arena, on the ice that bears Parker’s name. Yet the No. 4 Eagles (15-4-3, 8-1-3) still earned a huge point in the conference standings, clinching a 1-1 tie thanks to Ryan Fitzgerald’s goal with 2:05 remaining in the third period. But they were fortunate to get even that. Throughout the game, BU goaltender Sean Maguire stoned the Eagles, saving 38 shots, often sprawling out to do so. Terriers head coach David Quinn felt that this was, without question, Maguire’s best game of the season. “From our end of it, we’ve gotten elite goaltending,” Quinn said. “It certainly bodes well moving forward.” The Eagles and Terriers showed their hatred right from the game’s outset. On a rush to the net, forward Jordan Greenway collided with Thatcher Demko. Inspired by their goalie, the Eagles played tough in the opening 20 minutes—almost too tough. Demko was often forced to stop BU with a man down—back-toback penalties by Matthew Gaudreau and Ian McCoshen made sure of that—but he made several great saves, including one using his right pad to stuff Ahti Oksanen on a redirection from Greenway. On the other end, BC had trouble taking advantage of its early power plays. After Greenway was called for roughing with eight to go, the Eagles played too hesitantly with the advantage. BC’s defensemen spent too much time waiting for the forwards to get in position in front of the net for a deflection, instead of chucking the puck up at the net and hoping for some craziness. Even when they did get a good look, as Adam Gilmour often did, Maguire was there to stop it.

The Terriers broke through after clumsy play caused several breakaways on both sides. Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson started the attack by splitting Teddy Doherty and Scott Savage to put up a shot on Demko. After clanking the puck off the boards, the Terriers sent it out to Danny O’Regan, who found team captain Matt Grzelcyk for the easy goal. York placed the blame on overall sloppiness rather than his stalwart goalie, who finished with an impressive 30 saves. “It was a very shinny game for a few minutes, but they were the ones who got the red light on,” York said. Maguire continued to stuff the Eagles until late in the third. Zach Sanford led a rush down to the BU end of the ice, allowing Gaudreau to show his creativity. He took the feed from McCoshen before passing it to a wide-open Fitzgerald in between the circles. Fitzgerald blasted it above Maguire’s shoulders to force the game into overtime, which would turn out to be an uneventful five minutes. Despite not getting his 1,000th win, York was pleased with the fighting effort from his team, which has now earned four out of a possible six points against two conference foes (the other being Providence College). “It’s a tie, but it’s a late tie,” York said. “I think it’s good for our team that we can stay patient and hang in a game.” On the Terriers’ end, there weren’t as many good vibes. They came away with only one point, but came a combined four minutes away from getting three. Still, there was one positive to come away with: preventing York from getting No. 1,000. Captain Matt Grzelyck was asked about if that’s something the Terriers should be happy about after the game. Though he mentioned he had all the respect in the world for what York has done at BC, he still eked out a small smile. “We definitely didn’t want to give that to them, especially at Agganis,” Grzelyck said.

BC-BU Friday, from B8 But in the first period, it didn’t look like the Eagles were going to inch York closer to magical No. 1,000. As an entire unit, BC looked slow and sloppy in the game’s first 20 minutes. The team’s forwards had a lot of trouble keeping the puck in the offensive zone, playing a round of ping pong with the Terriers near the BC logo at center ice. The Eagles got an opportunity early in the period to take a lead after Matt Lane was called for a slash, but Colin White whiffed on an easy cross-ice pass. White would miss on a breakaway later in the period. The Terriers held the momentum for much of the first, taking advantage of penalties by BC, one of which led to a goal. Steve Santini’s boarding call—a hit that could have easily been avoided—allowed BU star freshman Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson to notch his sixth goal of the season. As the second period hit, the Eagles nearly reclaimed the energy for good. Santini was called for another penalty only 39 seconds into the frame, but Austin Cangelosi goaded the zebras into awarding him a penalty shot. The junior treated the puck like a hot potato, deking left-right-left-rightleft-right enough times to make BU goalie Sean Maguire contract vertigo. His equalizer was the first penalty goal made by the Eagles since current New York Rangers’ star Chris Kreider notched one against the University of Notre Dame on Nov. 18, 2011. They wouldn’t hold onto it for long. Ahti Oksanen answered 17 seconds later, leading a bull rush at BC goalie Thatcher Demko, who had returned from an upper body injury. Oksanen’s sliding shot past Demko’s left pad put BU back on top, 2-1. But the rest of the period was all BC. Zach Sanford rocketed a shot off the boards and collected his own rebound with a beautiful backhander past a screened Maguire’s left shoulder to knot the game up at two. Then the Terriers turned in their own dose of sloppy play, earning several penalties in a row, including one that gave BC a 5-on-3 for a brief period. Terrier head coach David Quinn noticed his team’s clumsy play, making a point of it after the game. White avenged himself by taking advantage of BU captain Matt Grzelyck’s tripping penalty, swallowing a gorgeous pass from Casey Fitzgerald to put BC in front late in the second. (McCoshen tallied the secondary assist on White’s goal.) In the third period, we saw a good ol’ fashioned dogfight courtesy of the most hated rivals in college hockey. The Terriers kept a lot of pressure on Demko by consistently breaking away

from the pack on 2-on-1s. But McCoshen was always there. He expertly used his body and stick to poke away would-be goals from oncoming BU players. “He was a man playing tonight,” York said of his star defenseman, giving him a telling look and a pat on the back. It almost wasn’t enough. With under five minutes to go, the Terriers capitalized on Michael Kim’s goaltender interference penalty. BU’s Charlie McAvoy and Bobo Carpenter—brother of BC women’s hockey captain Alex Carpenter—sent two hard shots in on Demko. One deflected off his pads, ricocheting over his head before Matt Lane tipped it in to tie the game 3-all. Despite whatever difficulties you may have had on your TV at home, the show then flipped from the Battle of Comm. Ave. to the Ian McCoshen Hockey Hour. With Miles Wood camped in front of the net, waiting for the screen, McCoshen converted on a penalty of Carpenter’s. He fired a laser from the point that rattled both the water bottle atop Maguire’s net and the entirety of Kelley Rink, giving BC a 4-3 lead with a mere two minutes remaining. He wasn’t done just yet. Quinn pulled the goaltender with 1:30 to go to give the Terriers the 6-on-5 advantage. The Eagles desperately tried to clear the puck and battled constantly to keep pressure away from their goaltender. With 13 seconds to go, McCoshen corralled the puck in the corner, attempting to pass it off to Cangelosi for the easy empty-netter. But instead, McCoshen fired it the length of the ice and at the back of the twine, sending the BC faithful into a frenzy, the victory now insured. McCoshen could only laugh as he reflected on the goal afterward. “It was like a Rory McIlroy chip shot,” McCoshen said, referring to the world-renowned golfer. It’s just a microcosm of the success McCoshen has had all season. The junior has made excellent progress over his three years at BC, and now has a career 41 points in 92 games. As most BC players do in postgame pressers, McCoshen focused on the importance of the team and getting the win over individual accomplishments. He has good reason to do so, too. The Eagles have desperately needed “big wins” to boost their PairWise Ranking— this victory allowed them to leapfrog the Terriers into the No. 9 spot. But his coach, who was deflecting praise and excitement for his own individual accomplishment, wouldn’t let McCoshen get off so easy. “Everyone knew exactly when No. 3 was on the ice,” York said.

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Sports Editor Well, well, well, Jerry. You’ve done it again. Don’t lie to us, we know you don’t want the praise. This happened when you were getting set to win your 925th game, but instead of beating BU at home like the fans wanted, you decided to wait until the Alabama-Huntsville game. Over winter break. In Minneapolis. Well, you win. Your Eagles will dominate the sorry Minutemen this Friday to get that 1,000th win on the road.

Prediction: BC 5, UMass 1 RILEY OVEREND

Assoc. Sports Editor Few teams handle the power play better than the Eagles. BC has scored seven points per game in its last four matches, including Ian McCoshen’s game-winner against BU last Friday. What’s more, the Eagles have been even better defending against the power play, killing penalties at an 85.6 percent rate, good for 11th in the country. UMass won’t hold off freshman Colin White—the first known BC student-athlete to show off the “dab” celebration—and the rest of the Eagles.

Prediction: BC 8, UMass 3 ANNABEL STEELE JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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consecutive points, bringing the score to 35-31 with less than five minutes left in the third quarter. The Eagles went 10-for-14 shooting throughout the quarter. At the start of the fourth quarter, Duke led 47-41. The team thwarted any opportunity for a BC comeback with a 10-2 run to start the final quarter of play. Duke earned its second victory against an ACC opponent with a 71-51 victory over the Eagles. BC sealed its own fate with sloppy play throughout the game. The Eagles did not start strong, scoring just eight points in the first quarter on 25 percent shooting from the floor. In con-

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trast, the Blue Devils scored 11 points off seven BC turnovers en route to 17 first-quarter points. In the second quarter, the careless play continued as the Eagles turned the ball over nine times. Throughout the entire game, BC allowed Duke to score 30 points off of 25 turnovers. These 30 points would prove to be too much for the Eagles to overcome. If there was a bright spot in the game for BC, it was Hughes. She went 5-for-9 from behind the arc on her way to 23 points. Her 3-pointer at the start of the third quarter marked the beginning of the rally. Another third-quarter three marked Hughes’ 1,000th

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career point at BC. She sank all five of her free throw attempts and recorded four rebounds in 35 minutes of play. Fasoula led the team in rebounds, grabbing five to accompany her 11 points over 32 minutes of play. She could not outmuscle Duke’s Azura Stevens, who recorded 14 rebounds in the game. Mosetti led the team with five assists. The third-quarter rally did not undo the costly turnovers for BC. Even with explosive offensive performances from Hughes and Fasoula, the Eagles’ loss to Duke marks their fifth this year. BC remains winless in the ACC.

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Asst. Sports Editor There’s no question BC pulls out the victory against the Minutemen this weekend. The only unknown is just how much the Eagles will dominate UMass. This is Jerry York’s 1,000th win, and it should be big. Look for the Eagles to control the game from the very beginning. This will be a statement game—a milestone for York and another multi-goal victory to boost confidence as the Eagles head into the second half of the season.

Prediction: BC 4, UMass 0

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016 MEN’S BASKETBALL

Kfep\ A\b`i` >iXYj (. 9fXi[j Xj <X^c\j =Xcc kf Ef% (, D`Xd` 9P 8C<: >I<8E<P ?\`^_kj <[`kfi Oh, the difference halftime can make in a game. The 15-minute break can be the perfect time for a coach to have his guys hit the reset button. Take a few moments for a breather, address the issue, and then get back on the court to fix it. That’s exactly what Boston College men’s basketball (7-11, 0-5 Atlantic Coast) did in its 67-53 loss to No. 15 Miami (14-3, 3-2) on Wednesday night. The problem for the Eagles was that the Hurricanes did the same thing. And they did it better. Down by just one point at the half, the Eagles had two glaring flaws on the statsheet: they had drawn just four fouls

and hadn’t taken a single free throw in the half, and they had turned the ball over 12 times compared to Miami’s six. But besides those shortcomings, BC played one of its better halves of the year. A generally undersized team fought and won the rebounding battle 18-16 in the first half, and then the guys didn’t waste time in moving the ball up the court. This allowed BC to penetrate before Miami could set up its half-court defense, a roadblock that the Eagles have had trouble surpassing in recent games. BC’s youth and inexperience showed here, as the team often tried to do too much, in one stretch turning the ball over five times in three minutes. Yet after a dozen turnovers in the first half, the Eagles played smarter in the second,

turning the ball over just three times. Th at a d j u s t m e nt a l o n e w a s n’t enough. While BC had found a way to make tough-looking transition shots fall in the first half, it began to miss—even air-ball—in the second. After knocking down 52 percent of their shots from the field in the first 20 minutes, the Eagles collapsed to 25.8 percent in the second, hitting just 1-of-10 from 3-point range. That was Miami’s adjustment. The Hurricanes, who themselves had shot a poor 40 percent in the first half, had played weak defense as BC got out in transition. So they addressed that at the half. “In the first half, they outran us,”

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The stout Miami center, Jekiri (23), snatched 17 rebounds in Miami’s 67-53 win.

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9: \Xie\[ k_i\\ gf`ekj X^X`ejk i`mXc 9L# aldg`e^ kf Ef% 0 `e k_\ GX`iN`j\ IXeb`e^j 9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi BOSTON — Jack Parker wasn’t on the bench Saturday night, but he sure would be proud of his Terriers. The former head coach of Boston University constantly reminded his players of one goal during his 40-year tenure: beat Boston College. Throughout his career, he did just that. The Terriers outplayed the Eagles for much of Parker’s time at BU, winning two national titles in 1978 and 1995 while then-BC head coach Len Ceglarski couldn’t muster one.

With Parker’s help, the Terriers took a commanding lead in the rivalry between the two schools. That is, until Jerry York rolled into town. Since then, he leads in three main categories. Entering Saturday, the Eagles are 42-39-7 against their adversaries from down Commonwealth Ave. since York has taken the reins. York has also brought four championships to BC, compared to only three by Parker. But on a more personal level, York’s success has pushed

See BC-BU Saturday, B6

9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi Like most defensemen, Ian McCoshen earned his reputation for hard hits and a take-no-prisoners attitude on the ice. When he wasn’t in the penalty box last season, he was engaging in fights. But after Boston College men’s hockey lost its two best blue liners—Noah Hanifin and Mike Matheson—to the NHL last season, head coach Jerry York needed McCoshen, the highly-touted Florida Panthers’ prospect, to step up as both a leader and a player.

On Friday night against Boston University, McCoshen showed why, with each game, he is making a case as the best allaround player on an incredibly talented 2015-16 BC squad. Thanks to McCoshen’s three points— two goals and an assist—the No. 4 Eagles (15-4-2, 8-1-2 Hockey East) took down No. 10 BU (11-7-3, 5-4-2) in the 268th meeting of this historic rivalry, lovingly referred to as the Battle of Comm. Ave. With the victory, York increases his career win total to 999.

See BC-BU Friday, B6

FOOTBALL

=ffkYXcc kf GcXp Gli[l\ `e )'(/ Xe[ )')' J\Xjfej 9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi As the divide between the Power Five and Group of Five Conferences grows ever larger, football programs are scrambling to schedule teams that will make them appear as competitive as possible in the eyes of the College Football Playoff committee. On Tuesday morning, Boston College took that first step. BC Athletics confirmed that Director of Athletics Brad Bates has scheduled two games for the Eagles against the Big Ten Conference’s Purdue University. The Eagles will travel to West Lafayette, Ind. to take on the Boilermakers at RossAde Stadium on Sept. 22, 2018. Purdue will then visit Chestnut Hill on Sept.

26, 2020. The department has not yet responded to a request for comment. This will be the first meeting between the two programs, who both have all-time records of .500 against the opposing conferences. BC is 37-37-1 against teams that play in the Big Ten. Its most recent matchup was the 2014 Pinstripe Bowl, a 31-30 loss to Pennsylvania State University on a missed extra point in overtime. The last time the Eagles had a Big Ten team on their regular season schedule was in 2012 when they fell 22-13 to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Purdue is 14-14-2 all-time against teams from the ACC. Its most recent matchup came this season in a 51-24 drubbing at home by Virginia Tech.

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Under head coach Darrell Hazell, the Boilermakers are a mere 6-30. They have finished with the worst record in the Big Ten in each of his three seasons at the helm. The announcement provides more clarity to the Eagles’ future schedule well into the future. BC now has three games on the schedule in 2018 and 2020. The Eagles will play the University of Massachusetts, an FBS independent, and College of the Holy Cross, an FCS team, in 2018. They will play Holy Cross and Ohio University, a Mid-American Conference school, in 2020. Bates will likely need to schedule one more game against a non-conference opponent in each of those seasons unless the ACC moves to a nine-game conference schedule in the

near future. Purdue will be the first non-conference Power Five program scheduled by Bates during his three-year tenure as Director of Athletics—BC’s games against the University of Notre Dame and The Ohio State University were organized under previous Director of Athletics Gene DiFilippo. In the last few seasons, the Eagles have been plagued by broken contracts, most notably with the New Mexico State University, forcing Bates to add Howard University, a weak FCS program, to the 2015 schedule. Bates, however, has moved in a more positive direction in future scheduling as of late, securing spots against the University of Connecticut for 2016, 2017, 2022, and 2023.

Women’s basketball: Duke gets revenge Af ter falling to the E agles la st se a son, the No. 22ranke d Blue D e v ils pummele d Johnson’s cre w.......B6

Jfd\k_`e^ kf gifm\ RILEY OVEREND Reading through last season’s Boston College women’s hockey archives is like sitting front row at an ancient Greek tragedy. It opened in the winter of 2014, beginning with intense rising action as head coach Katie Crowley’s squad breezed through the first half of the year to climb to the No. 1 ranking. Emily Pfalzer, one of the country’s top defensemen, anchored the blue line as the Eagles racked up shutouts and held opponents to a mere 19 shots per game. Unwittingly, BC had already committed its fatal error. The team was too good—by limiting opponents’ shots on goal, the Eagles also limited save opportunities for freshman goalkeeper Katie Burt (it’s not a tragedy without a little bit of hubris). While the then-17-year-old led the nation in goals against average with 1.11, she fell far behind the curve in terms of experience. Then you had your tragic heroine in Alex Carpenter, the superstar U.S. Olympian with an Ovechkin-esque resume crowded with individual accolades but devoid of postseason wins and championships. In the Beanpot Final last February, she watched from the penalty box as Harvard stole the title during her fiveminute absence to hand BC its first loss of the year. For now, they’ll chalk it up as a learning experience. The dramatic irony is painful. A month after the Beanpot meltdown that ended their 28-game unbeaten streak, the Eagles would fall victim to the pressure once again, this time in the Hockey East Championship against rival Boston University. The Terriers overwhelmed Burt with shots and scored four goals in a rout of the No. 1 seed to win their second straight conference crown over Carpenter & Co. Finally, in March, BC sought revenge on the Crimson in the final act of the season: the Frozen Four. Harvard goalie Emerance Maschmeyer slowed the highoctane Eagle offense just enough to eke out a 2-1 win and send Crowley’s crew home without any trophies as recognition for its historic season. Losses like these provide no great catharsis for BC fans. Through January, the undefeated 201516 BC women’s hockey team has drawn an eerie number of parallels to last year’s group, which won the most—but not most important—games in school history. That’s why it’s easy to get excited about the No. 1-ranked Eagles, but just as easy to remain skeptical. Indeed, history repeats itself, but there is another storyline brewing in Crowley’s clubhouse. It starts with Carpenter, the fallen heroine, stepping off the plane from Minneapolis after the team’s season-ending loss to the Crimson in the Frozen Four, already eyeing revenge like Leonardo DiCaprio as he painstakingly claws himself out of his own grave in The Revenant. Yes, the losses still sting. But now, after nearly a year of waiting, she stands again on the main stage at Kelley Rink, skates sharpened, ready for the challenges that the next two

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