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After its Tuesday announcement that actress and transgender advocate Laverne Cox would speak at Boston College on Feb. 15, Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s GLBTQ Leadership Council was informed that Cox will no longer speak at BC next month.

Cox’s agent told UGBC that the actress will be canceling all of her speaking engagements from February through April, which includes her visit to BC and several other universities, because she begins filming for the new Rocky Horror Picture Show in February until May, according to Nick Minieri, chair of GLC and CSOM ’16. Cox had signed her contract with GLC prior to being cast in Rocky Horror Picture Show, so there was no way for her to know she would be filming on the date of the event, Minieri said.

Minieri explained that BC is not allowed to hold any events during study days or finals, which are the only dates that overlap with Cox’s availability.

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speaker come on Feb. 15 in place of Cox, and hopes to reschedule Cox for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Cox was planning to discuss how the intersection of race, class, and gender affects trans women of color at the event, according to Afua Laast, UGBC vice president of diversity and inclusion and LSOE ’16.

In addition, Cox was going to speak about growing up in a conservative, Christian family in Alabama, and how this affected her journey to womanhood and her ability to find her authentic self.

Minieri came up with the idea to have Cox at BC last March, after attending a GLC conference at G e orgetown University.

A student leader from Canisius College, a Jesuit university in Buffalo, N.Y., had

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unmet. The goal of the working proposal was to create an equal home at BC for all of the members of the community.

Many of the requests highlighted in the document were discussed, including a bias response protocol and an expanded diversity training. UGBC’s request for a vice president for institutional diversity, however, was denied at this point.

According to Jones, in the meeting

The recovery process from Boston College football’s disastrous 2015 campaign begins right now.

On Tuesday afternoon, the ACC released the football schedules for each of its 14 member programs. Although each school has already sorted out its non-conference agreements and knows the teams it will play in the conference, this announcement by the ACC reveals which games will be nationally televised, highlighting those which are on non-Saturdays. This should include BC’s annual Friday night Red Bandanna Game, in honor of Welles Crowther, BC ’99, a former lacrosse player who gave his life saving 12 others in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

While the non-conference slate may pose little threat, the road of returning to respectability isn’t going to be an easy one for the Eagles.

In Steve Addazio’s fourth season, BC will host ACC Atlantic Division opponents Clemson, Louisville, and Syracuse; Buffalo, a MAC team; regional foe UConn, of the AAC; and FCS Wagner. The Eagles will travel to divisional opponents Florida State, NC State, and Wake Forest; Coastal Division rival Virginia Tech; and FBS Independent UMass, which plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

But, of course, we begin in Dublin, Ireland, at Aviva Stadium. The Eagles will travel to the Emerald Isle to take on Georgia Tech on Sept.

3 for their “home opener.” The Yellow Jackets, the universal favorite to run away with the ACC Coastal Division, finished a poor 3-9.

Their only ACC win came in an upset over Florida State, famously dubbed by announcer Brandon Gaudin as the Miracle on Techwood Drive.

The Eagles will then travel to the home of the New England Patriots on Sept. 10 to challenge the Minutemen, who were 3-9 last season. Last time the two teams met in 2014, BC throttled them, 30-7, with Tyler Murphy behind center. UMass left the MAC to pursue the unknown paths of independence in 2016. This will include dates with three SEC teams—Florida, Mississippi State, and South Carolina—as well as trips to Provo, Utah to play BYU and Honolulu to take on the Rainbow Warriors. Yikes.

Next up for BC is a trip to Lane Stadium to face the Hokies on Sept. 17, the first time in nearly three decades that legendary Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer will be absent from the sidelines in a game against the Eagles.

Nevertheless, new head coach Justin Fuente, who took the reigns after leading the University of Memphis to its highest-ever ranking in school history, presents a serious challenge for BC. Virginia Tech finished last year at 7-6, yet still manhandled the Eagles in a 26-10 drubbing at Alumni Stadium. If freshman running back Travon McMillian racked up over 100 yards on the ground against last season’s stout BC defense, this year’s game against the Hokies could bring a familiar result.

Remember the 76-0 blowout win against Howard last year? Well, BC’s Sept. 24 matchup with Wagner reeks of a similar FCS rout.

Wagner’s 2015 season included only one win, against Central Connecticut, as the team stumbled to a 1-10 record against less-thanstellar competition. This is the first-ever date between the two schools.

BC will then open a new month against Buffalo on Oct. 1. The MAC’s Bulls faltered in their only showdown—a 27-14 loss to Penn State in Happy Valley—against a Power Five team (ACC, Big Ten, Big XII, Pac-12, SEC) in a 5-7 2015 campaign,. The program has had mostly downs in its existence: SUNY Buffalo

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Boston University officials announced last week that they are putting nine buildings on the north side of Kenmore Square up for sale, including the building that has had the famous Citgo sign on its roof for the last 61 years.

The university contacted several real estate agencies to help with the sale, but chose Boston brokerage firm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s proposal to

sell the buildings, for which the profits will be used to benefit the university and its students.

According to BU’s executive director of media relations Colin Riley, the school is marketing the property for the benefit of the mission of the school.

He says that all of the buildings for sale have a lot of square footage and are in great condition.

“We’ve improved Kenmore Square tremendously, and hopefully [the sale] will help with the improvement,” he said. The school’s website says they will

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protocol, and expanding training for students and staff in efforts to create a more inclusive environment at BC for students.

Thomas Napoli, UGBC president and MCAS ’16, James Kale, chair of UGBC’s ALC and LSOE ’16, and Afua Laast, vice president of UGBC’s diversity and inclusion branch and LSOE ’17, met with Vice President of Student Affairs Barbara Jones and Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students

Thomas Mogan to discuss the proposal UGBC drafted, titled “Towards a More Inclusive Community.”

The Jan. 22 meeting followed the release of the proposal, written earlier this year after UGBC received feedback from some students of color that they do not feel at home at BC. UGBC has been working with the administration to institute the action plan over the last few months, and asked that it be prepared

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The Center for Ignatian Spirituality and the Jesuit Collaborative will sponsor a presentation by philosophy professor Marina McCoy on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in Corcoran Commons. McCoy will discuss the use of our imagination in terms of our human capacities and God.

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The music department will host a 10th Anniversary Family Concert on Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. in Lyons 423. The show will include opera scenes from The Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel, and Brundibar, and will be directed

by Barbara S. Gawlick.

UGBC will hold its Spring Involvement Fair Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. in the foyer of Conte Forum.

Clubs and organizations will have the opportunity to hand out flyers and speak with interested students.

This is the second involvement fair of the 2015-16 school year.

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The Lowell Humanities Series released its schedule for the spring semester Jan. 26.

The series is open to everyone and is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, BC’s Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Office of the Provost. The first speaker, Lev Golinkin, BC ’03, spoke Jan. 27 about his book, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka.

This event was funded by the Gerson Family Lecture Fund.

On March 2, Leslie Jamison will be speaking in Gasson 100.

She is author of The Empathy Exams, a collection of essays which won the 2012 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and was on The New York Times bestseller list. It was named one of the year’s best by National Public Radio, The New York Times, and Publishers Weekly.

Colm Tóibín, the author of eight novels, including Brooklyn and Nora Webster, will be speaking on March 16 in Gasson 100. His play, The Testament of Mary, was nominated for a Tony Award in 2013. Tóibín’s work has been translated into over 30 languages. His appearance is co-sponsored by Culture Ireland and is part of the University’s centenary commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, a foundational event in the emergence of the Irish nation-state.

“We look forward to another semester of stimulating debate, dialogue and conversation with an exciting lineup of speakers,” James Smith, associate professor of English and series director, said.

:;DËj N`ek\i Jldd`k Xk 9: College Democrats of Boston College will host College Democrats of Massachusetts for their annual Winter Summit on Jan. 30.

At the Winter Summit event, College Democrats chapters from universities all over the state will join in Stokes S195 to discuss the organization’s achievements over the past year.

They will also create goals to improve CDM as an organization in 2016.

CDM’s caucuses, including the Black Caucus, Environmental Caucus, Laboral Caucus, Latin Caucus, LGBTQ+ Caucus, and Women’s Caucus, will also speak on their group’s initiatives for the upcoming year.

The attendees will discuss the Democratic presidential candidates and each of their policies with respect to the caucuses’ goals.

The different chapters will also compare their organizational styles and meeting methods, in order to find the best way to improve membership retention, social events, lobbying, and “get out the vote” initiatives.

Students can register for the event online, and tickets cost $5 per person.

“Winter Summit is a time for our College Dems chapters from across the state to reflect on our achievements and discuss how we can improve CDM as an organizaton,” James Cody, president of CDM said in his E-board update. “Summit lets our members reconnect with one another and catch up ahead of what is sure to be a busy spring.”

Ten days after what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 87th birthday, more than 200 students, faculty, and staff gathered in Gasson 100 to celebrate his legacy.

The Monday event, Are We Still Dreaming, is part of an annual memorial gathering to honor King.

The Office of Campus Ministry’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Gathering Steering Committee hosted the event, along with the Black Student Forum, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Committee, the Multicultural Christian Fellowship, the Dominican Association at Boston College, the Office of Student Involvement, Eradicate Boston College Racism, University Mission and Ministry, and the Learning to Learn Office.

Brittany N. Packett, the executive director of Teach for America in St. Louis, Mo. and the event’s keynote speaker, encouraged students to speak out about injustices and ignore those who try to silence them. Packett explained that she attended an elite, private high school where she was still bullied because of her racial identity.

“I was spit at by another classmate who said I was ‘stirring the pot,’” she said.

The classmate told her that nothing would be done because his father was on the board of the school, and he was right—nothing was ever done.

Packett works on issues of educational equity, youth leadership development, and social justice, with a focus on culturally responsive leadership in marginalized communities. She has been one of the voices to portray the narratives of Ferguson, activism, policy, and racial justice to media outlets, including The New York Times, TIME magazine, USA Today, MSNBC, and CNN. “There will always be an excuse of its equity,” she said, “because it threatens the status quo and keeps some comfortable while the rest of us suffer.

‘We win’ doesn’t mean ‘you lose.’

Eradicate ‘equitable and inclusive’ democracy and create space for the sun to shine on all of us.”

Prior to the event, BC community members marched in honor of the Civil Rights Movement and of King. Later, the United Voices of Freedom, led by newly appointed director David Freeman Coleman, sang songs, including “Go Down Moses” and “Precious Lord Take My Hand/ Glory,” throughout the evening.

Shelly-Ann Dewsbury and Kadesh Simms, two guest performers, also performed a dance to “Amazing Grace.” Cai Thomas, MCAS ’16 and Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholar, also spoke.

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically … Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education,” Thomas said, quoting King.

She asked the audience where BC successfully does what King said education should do, and

where it lacks in fulfilling his message.

“I think there is sort of three ways of thinking about it: there is dreaming, there is thinking, and there is acting,” she said. “How am I acting? How are you acting?”

As a freshman, she said, she felt comfortable because she went to a prepatory high school that was very similar to BC, but many of her friends struggled to adjust to the BC culture.

Since her freshman year, Thomas said, BC has implemented many new formal and informal programs to help minority students, including mentoring groups, United Front—a group that seeks to foster a supportive, interactive, unified and safe community to celebrate Black culture and its identities within the African Diaspora—and the Learning to Learn Office, which aims to help underprivileged students and students with

disabilities make the most of their college experience.

Thomas said she came into BC not knowing about all of the resources available at the University.

“How I want to act upon this being my last semester is making sure that every student here knows the resources that are available to them,” she said. “And that what your zip code is and what city you come from shouldn’t determine what happens after your collegiate experience.”

Students should engage in active thinking, Thomas said. Last semester was the first time she was taught by a black faculty member, and she could not help but wonder if it will be the same if her twelveyear-old brother decides to come to BC. “That’s not something I want,” she said. “How do we celebrate different identities here on this campus? Are we inclusive?”

One of the biggest barriers to healthy eating is that people think that food is fattening, and that it is the enemy, Red Sox nutritionist Nancy Clark said at a Jan. 26 panel titled “New Year’s Nutrition” hosted by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College.

The panel, originally planned for Higgins 310, was moved to the larger Higgins 300 after seats quickly filled and students were forced to sit in the aisles and on the stairs. The talk was led by Clark, Sheila Tucker, registered dietitian for the Office of Health Promotion, and BC professor Shannon Hogan to discuss healthy eating when in a university setting.

“The goals of this talk are hopefully to inspire you to be as nice to your body as you are to your car,” Clark said.

Clark believes that eating a wellbalanced diet and paying attention to the body’s needs are the most important ways to maintain one’s health.

Clark also advocates for sleep.

After subjects in a recent study slept an extra hour and a half each night for a week, their cravings for sweets

POLICE BLOTTER Monday, Jan. 25 6:49 a.m. - A report was filed regarding the execution of a search warrant at an off campus location.

7:09 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a reportable medical incident at the Flynn Recreation Complex.

8:09 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a reportable medical incident at the Cushing lot.

9:52 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a police service at the Boston College Police Headquarters.

dropped by two-thirds. Clark noted that sleep deprivation and obesity go hand-in-hand, reminding the audience of the importance of sleep in a healthy-eating program.

Clark has discovered that one of the biggest barriers to optimal fueling is negative body image, like “feeling fat.”

“Fat is not really a feeling,” Clark said. “You don’t feel brown eyes, you don’t feel brown hair, and you don’t feel freckles. What you do feel is uncomfortable with your body. You might be feeling imperfect.”

Another barrier that clients face is regulating calories on calorie-counting apps. By tracking daily intake of calories, clients often unintentionally starve themselves. Instead of using apps, Clark believes the body is the best means of tracking calories, and recommends her clients pay close attention to their bodies’ needs.

“I want to invite you to think: Does my body need this food?” she said.

The largest barrier students come across when attempting to eat healthy or lose weight is binge eating after craving sweets, Clark said. To combat binge eating, especially at night, Clark suggests eating large meals at scheduled times throughout the day.

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Students, faculty and guests gather in Gasson 100 to talk about racial diversity.

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“It is physiological,” Clark said.

“You are probably not addicted to sugar, or addicted to cookies, or whatever it is. You have probably just gotten too hungry.”

Tucker agreed with Clark’s idea of creating a regularly scheduled meal plan. She urged the audience to plan similarly to the way one plans for classes, to avoid going without food for too long or getting trapped in the crescendo.

Clark tells her clients to divide calories into four different “food buckets” of equal amounts throughout the day to avoid binge eating. By eating a “food bucket” every four hours, clients should be able to avoid hunger at the end of the day, a food crescendo.

“There is a food bucket every four hours to eat evenly on a regular schedule,” Clark said. “Eat this way, the even energy diet, in order to have plenty of energy to study, to exercise, and to enjoy life as a student.”

In regards to the types of foods that students should eat, Clark believes that protein-carbohydrate combinations are the best way to fuel and repair the body. Clark explained that hard exercise requires an individual to refuel his or her muscles afterwards.

Tucker believes most students become stuck in a cycle that she calls the “BC story,” a pattern of healthy eating and exercising on weekdays, followed by junk food, drinking, and partying on the weekend. Although students believe that they can maintain their health through exercise and clean eating on weekdays, their hard work is undone after drinking with friends on the weekend.

Tucker told the audience about a recent study done on college students who had five drinks or more, one or two days during the weekend. These students were then compared to the students’ friends who never drink. The study found that those who drank two nights a week had bigger waist-to-hip ratios, or waist circumferences, than those of their friends with the same energy requirements who did not drink.

Clark ended the panel on a high note, encouraging students of the positives when eating healthy and exercising routinely.

“When you eat well and exercise regularly, you feel better, you have more energy, you feel better about yourself, so that everybody always wins with good nutrition,” Clark said.

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scheduled Cox to speak at his university, and put Minieri in contact with Cox’s speaking agent.

BC was going to be the fifth Jesuit school Cox has spoken at, following Marquette University, University of Loyola Chicago, Saint Louis University, and Canisius College.

Minieri worked with Laast to draft a contract alongside Cox’s agent in September. Minieri and Laast then drafted a proposal for the administration and received approval from the Office of Student Involvement.

“I think the main thing for us was framing the event in the context of the Jesuit values,” Minieri said.

UGBC originally expected the event to

sell out, with about 560 students attending the talk.

“Laverne is the biggest speaker that we have ever had,” Minieri said before the event was cancelled.

Along with GLC, the talk was going to be sponsored by the Women’s Center, the Campus Activities Board, the Thea Bowman AHANA Intercultural Center, and the African

and African diaspora studies department.

GLC has been pushing to add a section for gender identity to BC’s Non-Discriminatory Policy, Minieri said.

He hoped that Cox’s talk would foster their efforts and continue the conversation about the topic.

“This event will show current and future trans as well as LGBTQIA+ students that they

are welcome on this campus,” Laast said in an email before Cox cancelled on Wednesday.

“GLC hopes to continue to expand their transgender programming and increase resources on campus. The event will reach many students who do not normally attend GLC events, and we hope they will learn the importance of understanding gender identity and ending transphobia on campus.”

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By Eileen Corkery For The Heights Photos of students, their hands and faces covered with inky phrases like “swept under the rug” and “smiling but not happy,” are scattered over Facebook in an effort to share insecurities, and why those insecurities are not absolutely defining.

The What I Be Project, an eight-day online photo campaign, is returning to campus for the second time as part of Undergraduate Government of Boston College’s Mental Health Spotlight Series.

Created by artist Steve Rosenfield in 2010, the What I Be Project focuses on building students’ self-confidence through expressing their insecurities.

The photo campaign is “designed to create an open and safe community around campus that encourages diversity and empowers students,” according to the UGBC website. The project will culminate Monday, Feb. 1, when UGBC will host an event to reflect on the campaign.

As a part of the project, Rosenfield will photograph portraits of over 80 Boston College undergraduate students, each with his or her largest insecurity written somewhere on his or her face or hands.

The photographs will then be publically posted in an album on Rosenfield’s professional Facebook page throughout the week. Links to the album will also be made available on the UGBC Facebook page.

“I think the best part about What I Be is that everyone struggles with something, but the important thing is not letting it define you,” said Connor Marshall, UGBC senator and MCAS ’18, a main organizer of the event. “Unfortunately, that is so much easier said than done.”

The caption of each photo describes each subject’s insecurity in detail, stating “I am not my ____.” By stating I am not my_____, “students acknowledge their insecurities, but do not let them define who they are,” Rosenfield explains on his website. Students can sign up on the event’s Facebook page.

“I chose to be photographed because the photo emphasizes that everyone has

these troubles,” Joseph Arquillo, LSOE ’17, said. “It is time to be honest about the differences that affect us today.”

The project has created bonds between people, Arquillo said.

“Suffering in silence is something that one should not have to go through alone because feeling alone is something that we all can attest is not a good feeling,” Arquillo said. “Ultimately we are more than our scars and struggles.”

The What I Be Project has visited college campuses across the country, including Providence College, Cornell University, and Princeton University.

Rosenfeld said that his initial inspiration for the project came while talking to a friend about an idea to share people’s insecurities without literally showing them.

“I decided that night that I wanted to photograph my friend with her insecurity written somewhere on her face or hands as a way to boldly displaying [sic] her greatest insecurity on her skin and fearlessly stare into the lens for a powerful headshot,” Rosenfield said on his website.

“I wrote ‘thunder thighs’ on Amanda’s hand, alongside the photograph she came up with the statement, ‘I am not my body image.’ And thus, the ‘What I Be’ project was made.”

The What I Be Project first came to campus in the fall of 2014 as part of UGBC’s Be Conscious campaign. The 2014 campaign was a success, with Rosenfield photographing over 70 students.

The project invoked a strong, positive response from the student body, attracting thousands of views, likes, and shares on Facebook.

Molly Newcomb, MCAS ’18, co-director of the UGBC mental health committee and UGBC senator, said the popularity of last year’s campaign made it an obvious choice for this year’s UGBC agenda.

Newcomb believes the best part of the What I Be Project is its ability to make students relate to one another.

“It completely shatters the image of the ‘perfect BC student,’” Newcomb said.

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Students join ‘What I Be’ photo campaign, hosted by undergraduate government, in efforts to take away the power of their insecurities.

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The Lowell Humanities Series brings a speaker to Gasson to talk about his field.

On Wednesday night, Lev Golinkin, BC ’04, described his experience as a Jewish, Eastern Ukrainian refugee attending a Catholic, American college.

“It sucked,” Golinkin said. “I didn’t have an identity.”

The journalist and author was invited to speak as the eighth guest in the Lowell Humanities Series this year. Since 1957, the Series has invited various well-known personalities to Boston College to share their knowledge about their respective fields, whether scholarship or art.

The event, held in Gasson 100, included a lecture as well as time for questions and a book signing. Golinkin spent a fair amount of the lecture itself discussing his journey as an undergraduate at BC. Golinkin recounted a meeting that he had in his senior year with a professor who he considered to be his mentor. He voiced his concern that he did not have a future.

To his surprise, the professor agreed.

“You don’t have a future because you don’t have a past,” Golinkin said. “You’re a Jewish kid who’s hiding in a Catholic college.”

This inspired Golinkin to think more deeply about his past, and what it meant for who he was. He continued to share with the audience anecdotes from his childhood in the Eastern Ukraine. At the age of seven years old he began to realize how different his family was from the other families in his community. He said he recognized their common use of the terms “us” and “them,” as if the rest of the world were somehow against him and his parents.

Golinkin’s parents taught him early on to be very careful with the word for ‘synagogue,’ as it would give away the fact

that he was Jewish. This was dangerous information at the time, which he said he understood completely when he soon found himself prohibited from attending school.

At this time, Golinkin briefly paused in his story and explained that about six months ago, he was giving a talk to a group of children in middle school. He acknowledged that the wonderful thing about children is that they ask simple, smart questions.

“Why didn’t you move?” was the question that Golinkin repeated.

He then took the opportunity to clarify.

He described the Soviet Union as a prison the size of a continent, explaining that the one thing keeping it together was that no one left. Even once the government began to fall apart, his parents did not take the decision lightly because one of the rules was that you had to leave all possessions behind.

Thus, this rule was part of his inspiration to write. A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka is the title of his memoir, as well as a list of the objects he brought with him while escaping Ukraine.

The vodka, he told the audience, was used for bribing anyone and everyone his family encountered on their trip to the train station in Vienna. This was where they found assistance from people who felt morally responsible for their safety. His family was sent to the United States, where American Jews adopted them.

Presenting himself as a Jew who does not practice the religion, he described the disillusionment that he, and so many others, brought to American Jews. A student in the audience asked about this label. He explained that, as the child of Soviet Jewish refugee parents, he also considers himself Jewish although he does not practice the

religion. He further disclosed that his friends never quite understand how that could work. In response, Golinkin pointed out that he believes there is a difference between being ethnically Jewish and religiously Jewish.

Overseas, around Christmas time, each household would bring a tree inside, Golinkin said. Similar to the idea of a Christmas tree, this was a New Year’s tradition in which people of all religions took part. When Golinkin’s family came to the U.S., they were told that Jewish people did not do such things, and they were handed a menorah. Golinkin said that those candles meant nothing to them, though. Once his father got a job and they were living on their own, Golinkin said his family discarded the menorah and obtained a tree.

Golinkin told the audience that he does not need to practice the religion to consider himself Jewish.

“I feel the most Jewish when I am building another house for Habitat for Humanity,” he said.

This was one of the many activities that molded his identity while he attended BC. “The important thing about Boston College is that this is a place that empowers people,” Golinkin said. “This school is the antithesis of being powerless.”

He then charged the listeners to try something. He told them that on a colder day in the middle of winter, they should try walking around Boston with just a light shirt on. He then explained that that is what it felt like for families such as his in the Ukraine.

When asked about why he wrote his memoir, he gave a short response.

“I wanted to write a book about someone who is still a work in progress,” he said, “and that’s okay.”

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This week, Amherst College overwhelmingly voted to remove “Lord Jeff” as its mascot for athletic events after the large majority of students, alumni, and staff expressed negative views about it, according to The Boston Globe.

“Amherst College finds itself in a position where a mascot—which, when you think about it, has only one real job, which is to unify—is driving people apart because of what it symbolizes to many in our community,” the trustees of the college said in a statement.

This is but the latest occurrence in an ongoing national trend taking place at many colleges and universities, where the students or the administration have engaged in historical revisionism to ensure that individuals who are representing their institutions adhere to university values.

“It is fair to recognize that historical context may influence, or make us cautious about, judgments concerning Jeffery Amherst the man,” the trustees said in the same statement. “It is equally fair to decide that 18th-century standards should not govern a 21st-century choice of symbol.”

That being said, some have been more successful than others, as tensions remain high nationwide. One only needs to look at the events that took place at Yale and Mizzou to see the reality of the situation.

Even here at BC we saw some demonstrations take place, and rightly so.

But, this brings forth the question: Why is this taking place at this time? The knowledge that the namesake of Amherst University, Lord Jeff Amherst, allegedly caused the spread of smallpox among Native American populations during colonial times has been around for centuries.

Over the past year, there have been protests, talks, tensions, name changes, convictions, and the legalization of gay marriage across the nation. One thing is abundantly clear: the country is fed up with the system in place and is beginning to take action to change it.

Presidential candidates took note, with some fine-tuning their whole campaigns to fit a specific viewpoint and feed off the outrage.

As in that recent Sandra Bullock movie, they have made “Crisis” their brand.

The country finds itself in a state of this-but-not-that. Individuals are taking up the opportunity to finally act upon what they see as unjust, not just for their own sake but for those of future generations.

In order to deal with the realities of their world, of our world, they are grabbing the bull by the horns to get their point across, although not always in the most appropriate ways.

Their point has been made, however. The fact that an institution such as Amherst even considered the move shows how far the opinion of the public has shifted: racial intolerance will no longer be tolerated, at any level, and neither will the glorification of those guilty of it.

To answer the question: Why here and now? Because it has to, otherwise, we find ourselves guilty of perpetuating that which we try to eradicate.

Here in Boston, there have been calls to rename Yawkey Way in the Fenway area, as the late Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey has been accused of racial prejudice, based on his refusal to sign Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson in 1945, as reported by The Boston Globe.

Harvard Law School is also reconsidering its official seal, as it holds elements of a slaveholding family crest.

Future generations will do one of two things when looking back at this “second civil rights era.” They will either commend this generation for fighting for humanity’s sake, or condemn it for not doing enough.

In this “best of times, worst of times,” as Charles Dickens once said, it is the time to question, but to question prudently. The future of the city, nation, and the world is in our hands—what will we do with it?

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A view of the storefront that houses Frank Pepe Pizza Napoleatana, which hails from New Haven, Conn., and is now the newest addition to the Chestnut Hill Mall.

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Finally, a Pepe’s in Massachusetts.

Frank Pepe popularized ultra-thin pizza, or “New Haven” style, in the Northeast, and it has been a staple in New England ever since its creation in 1925. Located in the Chestnut Hill Mall, Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria offers both take-out and in-house dining.

Pepe’s is known for having lines out the door at its original location in New Haven, Conn., and is anticipating the new location to be quite busy, as many Pepe’s loyalists are in Boston, having moved to the city from elsewhere in New England.

Pepe’s has never expanded to Massachusetts until now. Perhaps trying to build the brand with college-age students and millennials, its first location here is in close proximity to many college campuses.

Strategically stationed next to a gelato store within the mall, Pepe’s Pizzeria offers an authentically Italian ex-

perience. The custom brick oven, both an aesthetic and a cultural focal point for the restaurant, is visible from the moment you step into the pizzeria.

Each Frank Pepe’s location is modeled after the original, so that the taste of the pizza is not compromised based on where one chooses to dine.

This is the consistency in quality and tradition that is central to the mission of Pepe’s.

The oven is based on the classic brick ovens of Italy, and when the chefs swing the door to the furnace open, countless burning orange coals and cooking pizzas are visible. When the pizzas come out they appear charred, though the wait staff quickly explains that this is intentional and just a byproduct of the cooking method.

Pepe’s takes pride in its product, and each pizza is handmade to order.

In the restaurant, pizza is served fresh from the oven on trays, contributing to the authentic atmosphere.

Just above the entrance to the kitchen lies a red, neon sign with simply the

words “Tomato Pies” written in script.

The old-fashioned pizza is mainly tomato sauce with minimal cheese, something that may seem foreign to the pizza lovers of today.

Frank Pepe’s signature forest-green, wood-paneled booths were clearly continued in this location. Tall and private, they offer an element of seclusion for diners. Outside the doors of the pizzeria lie tables for those who might opt to people-watch in the mall, or perhaps to house overflow crowds on particularly busy nights.

And there are plenty of busy nights, but most patrons feel that it is worth the wait.

Pepe’s is famous for its white clam pizza, which consists of fresh clams, cheese, olive oil, fresh garlic, and oregano. While pizza is the signature meal of the restaurant, there are also Italian salads available for those who cannot or opt not to indulge in the signature dishes.

Foxon Park Soda, another staple, has been served at Pepe’s since the

restaurant’s inception. The soda is similar to colas that most college students would recognize under more common brand names.

The restaurant also offers Gassosa, a classic Italian lemon soda, white birch beer, root beer, cream soda, orange soda, and ginger ale. The restaurant stays true to its Italian roots in offering San Pellegrino as well. The sodas are all served in glass bottles, reminiscent of an older time.

Pepe’s paints itself as a proponent of the American Dream, with Pepe himself coming from Italy and making a lasting name for himself. His legacy lives on the walls of his restaurants.

Lining the walls are pieces that display the original Frank Pepe himself and the history of the restaurants.

Pepe’s has the registered trademark phrase “Old Reliable” just underneath its logo, along with a cartoon of the original Frank Pepe. This logo speaks to the mission of the brand, as Pepe committed himself to providing a quality experience and product.

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Boston in Flux, the latest collaborative effort between Boston-area filmmakers Paul Villanova and Richard Hawke, explores the history and evolution of the city both men call home.

The three-minute, 13-second-long short consists of archived, black-and-white footage of iconic locations around the city, overlaid with similar scenes in modern color, set over captivating, period-style backing sound.

Like the city it chronicles, Boston in Flux finds an intricate balance between historical footage and modern postproduction, from its silent film-style cutscenes to its distribution on YouTube.

Such a style of film is relatively unexplored—that’s part of the reason Villanova wanted to pursue the project that focuses on the untold story of Boston.

What Villanova and Hawke see every day is a strange yet enrapturing paradox within Boston that Villanova deemed “inescapable,” a constantly changing city with deep historical roots.

Villanova called the short “a labor of love,” driven largely by his interest in Boston’s unique past. While many Colonial-era cities have historical significance, Villanova was quick to point out that Bostonians themselves identify with their history more than their counterparts do in other urban centers.

He then cited Boston’s intrinsic value as a historical site. “[You can] be looking for the T stop and be standing on the site of the Boston Massacre,” he said. “So I think that’s a unique and really cool thing.”

Unique and cool, perhaps, but also challenging. Researching Boston’s recent history in preparation for production proved difficult, and securing archived footage for use in the film was an unexpected obstacle.

Digitized footage of Boston from the early 20th century is rare and difficult to license.

When actually filming Boston in Flux, however, both men were excited rather than annoyed by the unique challenges the project posed.

Boston in Flux represents Villanova’s first nonfiction, nontraditional project. His previous works, including the short films Grudge Match, A Briefcase Full of Knives, and Octopus, all fall into the genre of orthodox fiction-narratives. Boston in Flux, according to its creators, “flirts more with documentary.”

Hawke described the challenging camerawork as one of the reasons he wanted to create the film.

One of the most pertinent aspects of the project is the film’s modern-day role and relevance. Both filmmakers noted that Boston is undergoing a new era of gentrification. Evidence points to neighborhoods like Charlestown and South Boston catering more to 20-something college graduates than to the heavily-accented Bostonians of years past. Since the turn of the century,

more than 20 percent of neighborhoods with median incomes and housing prices under 40 percent of Boston’s average were undergoing significant gentrification.

Villanova and Hawke did not seek to debate viewers on the benefits and downsides of gentrification. Instead, the film raises discussion about urban evolution.

Villanova stated that “the film tries to ask a question” about Boston’s ever-shifting demographic and physical landscapes. Whether the rise of skyscrapers and development of real estate portrayed in Boston in Flux is a conflict or a natural course of events is left up to the viewer to decide for him or herself.

“We’re not approaching the film saying ‘gentrification is bad’ or ‘gentrification is good’ or ‘big buildings are bad’ or ‘big buildings are good,’” the filmmakers said.

“We’re saying, ‘look at this paradox, what do you think?’’ they said.

What Boston in Flux represents for them is not just a provocative discussion of the city’s past life and future direction.

It’s also representative of Bostonians themselves—young professionals juxtaposed with generational residents. While what’s next for Boston may be unclear at the moment, Villanova and Hawke have a clear idea of what the future holds in store for themselves.

Though no individual project is currently in the works for either, both men plan to focus their efforts on a burgeoning filmmaker’s collective based in Somerville. When asked what his future plans were, Villanova said the collective is important to support and develop independent filmmakers, and keep the spirit of filmmaking alive.

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The short film, made by Paul Villanova and Richard Hawke, juxtaposes pictures of the Boston of old with current, modern videos.

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“The response has been phenomenal, [it] has changed my thinking on how we’re going to do,” said Barry.

When asked about the heavily seasonal nature of the app’s purpose and it plans for the rest of the year, Barry mentioned that he, alongside his two other team-members, are looking for ways to expand it to a year-long product.

“Depending on the feedback we get, it could turn into a full-time job in the future,” he said.

Currently the app is in the final stages of its heavy testing. Next week, it will go to Apple for its stringent review process, with Barry hoping that it will be short.

Last week, the large snowstorm that hit the

Northeast reaffirmed his belief in the product, especially since New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio recently asked citizens of the city to remove the snow from public areas in exchange for payment.

Barry sees that type of situation as an opportunity Yeti could take advantage of in the future.

For this winter, however, people seem really interested and receptive to the idea, as their early marketing campaigns have generated good responses from the public.

“A lot of the attention we have gotten has been self-generating,” Barry said. “This past weekend we launched our first heavy marketing campaign through Facebook.”

In regards to where the name “Yeti” comes from, Barry admits that the “Boston Yeti” that has been roaming the streets since last winter inspired him.

“It has a connotation of strength and brutality,” he said. “I think it will catch on.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE YETI CORP

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Lectures during syllabus week are always a toss-up. You could go from one class with a no-nonsense professor at the helm, or maybe you have the “Let’s spend five minutes-apiece saying our names, majors, hobbies, past medical histories, and favorite One Direction member” kind of lecture.

Models of Politics with Professor Hayao started on a different tone.

He asked the class to list reasons why Bostonians are bad drivers. “Narrow, hard-to-navigate streets.” “Young population.” “Bad weather conditions.” “Lack of substantial testing before issuing driver’s licenses.” “It’s in our blood.”

There I was, expecting to learn a little bit about my syllabus, or my classmate’s favorite guilty pleasure song, or maybe even, you know, some politics—but instead I was confronted with a list of reasons why bringing a car to campus this semester might have been an utterly horrible mistake.

I grew up 40 minutes outside of New York City, so you would think I’ve had experience with aggression behind the wheel—both receiving and giving it. But in my small town of just over 7,000 people, to honk your horn at another car would run the risk of honking at your teacher, your neighbor, or, in the worst case scenario, your mom.

So regret and fear sank in as I sat in my first class of the semester and listened to my professor cite a study that concluded Boston is far-and-away the worst American city to drive in.

I’m not an aggressive driver. I’m not a skilled driver, either. I don’t have great reflexes on the road, nor do I have great navigational instincts.

While my professor had moved on in his lesson to speak to the possible policy shifts a city could undergo to make changes in this phenomenon, I simply stared at the chalkboard that was now filled with several reasons why I had several days to live before being demolished by a devastating four-car collision or somehow fly off the Zakim Bridge into the Charles River.

Before that 9 a.m. revelation, I planned on using my car for my job or my 4Boston placement—both 20-minute commutes.

But now venturing 20 minutes into the city seems like a fatal endeavor. Where’s the good in being from New York City if you don’t inherit a skillful road rage?

After one trip from Newbury Street on the T, I found the good.

I may not have acquired an overconfidence on the road from the Empire State, but the Northeast did give me that perfectly pretentious combination of irritability and pride everyone knowa.

And it was with that narrow-minded, self-centered attitude—you know, the one that makes you look at the world and everyone in it as obstacles in your way and not worth your time—that I sat on a broken-down T outside of Beaconsfield.

Once arriving at Reservoir (30 minutes and two Adele albums later, mind you), I waited yet another 20 minutes for the

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Comm. Ave. shuttle.

My experience that Saturday morning was not unique. It’s happened before—to me, to BC students, to Bostonians. This time, however, I sat on those tracks and waited in the cold for that bus knowing I could have avoided all of it if I got over my fear of driving in the city.

An hour-long trip on the T that could have been 15 minutes—that’s what gave me the motivation to drive to work the next

day. And the day after that. And the next day as well.

I haven’t had any near-death experiences on the road. I haven’t had any epiphanies that take the shape of “I really can do anything if I back-up my convictions with courage, hard work, and the right attitude!”

Nor am I ashamed that the motivation to conquer this fear was what many would view as a vice: impatience.

The culture of bad driving in this city

may be a sad reality for our insurance rates, but it’s also one of those rough-but-endearing characteristics of Boston that sets it apart from other places—like the harsh weather or easily agitated locals.

It’s nice to know that at least on that front, I fit right in.

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D8;<C<@E< ;Ë8E><CF Over the past few months, I’ve become convinced that the Boston area doesn’t get enough credit. People who view the area from afar see a veritable mountain of snow covering pink whales, boat shoes, and respectable businessmen who can trace their family histories back to Plymouth Rock.

There is the ever impressive Museum of Fine Arts and the Orchestra peeking out from the snowdrift because we are, of course, talking about a metropolitan area, which means that it not only has history but also abundant culture.

But, once you really start looking at Boston, and the cities surrounding it, you might notice that they walk themselves back from the abyss of stuffiness (something that can come naturally to cities with just the right amount of history) because they have developed a trait coveted in both people and cities alike.

The Boston area refuses to take itself too seriously.

Take for example one of the newest storefronts in Cambridge, Cash for Your Warhol.

If you walk past it, located in Inman Square, the aggressive yellow signs in the windows might make you pause for a minute.

Cash for your Warhol? Are there people who wonder what to do with all the extra Warhols they have lying around their homes? Who are those people?

They must be really rich.

You may be intrigued enough to start peeking inside the windows of the store, which at first glance looks authentic enough, kind of like those stores that dramatically announce that they will buy gold for cash.

But there are no Warhols of any kind in the store.

There are only more of the brightly colored Cash for Your Warhol signs and a few checks hanging on the wall.

At this point, you might be so curious as to how this establishment functions that you actually go into Cash for Your Warhol.

If you do get to that point, you will discover that the whole thing is but a joke, with conceptual art projects all wrapped into one storefront.

Cash for Your Warhol is the brainchild of Geoff Hargadon, a Somerville resident, whose

day job is managing a wealth management practice.

Hargadon’s passion for photography and conceptual art lead him to begin the project in 2009 with just a few Cash for Your Warhol signs.

Hargadon intended to comment on the financial crisis of the time and the way art is sold in the modern world, incuiding in Boston, according to The Boston Globe.

The project gained momentum from there as public interest grew, and separate galleries began featuring Hargadon’s Warhol signs. Cash for Your Warhol even has a function phone number and a website proclaiming that you can “Raise cash!” and “Avoid bankruptcy!” with your “Confidentiality assured!”

For me, the fact that this form of storefront can exist in the Boston area is a victory.

Cash for Your Warhol is a platform that opens up a discussion for more serious topics, like the nature of art or the financial crisis, while allowing people to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

It is the kind of place that lends an important element of lightheartedness and sends out the signal that Boston is the kind of city that you want to actually be in, not just look at from afar.

I guess that cities are not too dissimilar from people. The enjoyable ones are constantly changing, with just the right amout of stuff staying the same.

Like people, they also need the ability to disassociate themselves from the stressful expectations of their past and their present so that they can

make people laugh.

They need to be a space where conceptual artists feel comfortable setting up transient shops that will brighten someone’s day and give them something amusing to discuss at the dinner table.

Like Hargadon, the Boston area needs, and seems to have,

a practical side, where they manage wealth, balanced by a side where they can express—or provide a place for others to express—their passions.

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:XeZ\cc\[ :fo Jg\\Z_ Jk`cc ;\dfejkiXk\j Jkife^ <]]fik This past Tuesday, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College announced that Laverne Cox, transgender actress and LGBTQ advocate, would be speaking at BC on Feb. 15. Cox plays Sophia Burset on the popular Netflix series Orange is the New Black. A day after this announcement, the talk was cancelled by Cox, due to a conflict with a movie she is filming this spring. The talk was meant to revolve around the experiences of a transgender woman and the effects of race, class, and gender.

Despite the ultimate cancellation of the event, there are still a number of positive aspects demonstrated by the booking of the event itself.

U GB C organi ze d the talk . Nick Minieri, chair of UGBC’s GLBTQ Leadership Council and CSOM ’16, was responsible for first devising the idea and then pursuing it alongside Afua Laast, UGBC vice president of diversity and inclusion and LSOE ’16.

Cox would have been one of the biggest speakers UGBC has ever brought to campus. She has become very wellknown through Orange is the New Black and has become a highly sought-after LGTB Q advocate and speaker. Five Jesuit universities have already hosted Cox—(Marquette University, University of Loyola Chicago, Saint Louis University, and Canisius College)—making UGBC’s successful booking even more impressive.

It is clear that the process behind organizing this event was not easy and that a considerable amount of work went into it. Minieri, Laast, and UGBC as a whole deserve commendation for putting in the necessary effort to secure a speaker who would attract a great many listeners, while also promoting the transgender discussion they have been presenting for some time.

By organizing the talk, UGBC and its

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co-sponsors—the Women’s Center, the Campus Activities Board, the Thea Bowman AHANA Intercultural Center, and the African and African diaspora studies department—demonstrated strong efforts in their various campaigns to increase LGBTQ inclusivity. Although the talk was unfortunately canceled, the initial success in having secured her booking is a hopeful sign that these groups will be able to achieve future results in their various projects, like GLC’s attempt to add a gender-identity section to BC’s Non-Discriminatory Policy.

The event was expected to sell out,

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The people and organizations involved in booking this talk contributed greatly to campus LGBTQ equality efforts and showed a great deal of effort.

In working with the administration to secure this talk, they have demonstrated a commitment to their various ideals. Hopefully, the time, money, and effort that went into securing this talk can now be used for something equally as impressive.

“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Another Response to “Bernie Sanders” Column Mike Crupi has already identified most of the practical problems inherent in Joshua Behrens’s Jan. 21 Bernie Sanders panegyric, so I’ll try to keep myself as brief as possible here. I actually enjoyed Mr. Behrens’s piece; political discourse is always good.

Naturally, I don’t agree, either practically or philosophically, and I’ll try to lay out my reasons here.

Mr. Behrens’s favorite phrase (in the piece) is “fiscal conservative.” He uses the phrase, or a variation of it, seven times. I have to admit that I’m a little confused here.

Behrens’s presumption, it seems to me (see his first sentence), is that “fiscal conservatism” is a good thing. Great! I’m a fiscal conservative too (and a social conservative, and a philosophical conservative, and a pedagogical conservative…but I digress).

Either that, or he just wants fiscally conservative students to take a look at Bernie Sanders as—supposedly—a fiscally conservative candidate. (The second seems more likely, but Mr. Behrens keeps using “fiscally conservative” in a laudatory way.) Either way, I’m afraid that Mr. Behrens has a faulty understanding of fiscal conservatism.

“At the core of fiscal conservatism, however,” he writes, “is the belief that the government should foster economic growth, and that is exactly what Sanders is proposing.” Well… That may be what Sanders is proposing, but I can assure you that that’s not “fiscal conservatism.” The core of fiscal conservatism, I’ve always thought, was that private individuals and communities, not an all-intrusive government, should foster economic growth. At least, that’s what every conservative I’ve ever known has fought

for. (Honestly, Donald Trump is no more conservative than Sanders.)

Anyway, Mr. Behrens realizes the extensive, overwhelming, “obscene” (his wellchosen word) cost that Sanders’s health care plan would impose. His justification, however, sounds like it was taken right from Sanders’s campaign rhetoric. The “obscured, rose-tinted understanding” that Mr. Behrens alleges is in fact the rosy portrait that Sanders—and all socialists—paint.

See Mike’s piece for a good dose of common sense poured onto that “socialismis-amazing” picture (and then just look at Europe and Canada). What are the magic words? Oh, yeah—“Spend, spend, spend!”

John Maynard Keynes, whose “school of economic thought” Behrens mentions, must be smiling in his grave.

From an historical perspective, I have to disagree with Mr. Behrens’s analysis of the New Deal. As many historians now agree, the New Deal did not “jumpstart a failing economy;” the production caused by World War II did.

Behrens’s last paragraph discusses that age-old question, “How the heck is Bernie [or any socialist] going to pay for this?”

Yup, you guessed it—tax the rich! Who gets to decide who’s rich? Why, the people who are taxing them, of course. And when Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton, or any of our leftwing friends runs out of “the rich” to tax…

Well, we won’t talk about that. Progress is happening here, and we silly conservatives can’t stand in the way of the coming brave new world.

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For the second year in a row, photographer Steve Rosenfeld will visit Boston College as part of his ‘What I Be’ project. This project involves taking pictures of students with their biggest insecurities written across their faces and various other parts of their bodies.

It is meant to act as a tool for confronting these issues and declaring that they do not define you. By broadcasting an unsmiling picture of yourself with your deepest fear or insecurity written on your body, you subvert the expectations of social media and instead portray an uncomfortable and personal revelation about yourself.

By bringing this project to BC for a second year, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College continues to promote programs that address issues of mental wellness. With increasing rates of students seeking counseling services and various mental health issues plaguing colleges across the country, planning events, projects, and campaigns that address this is a positive step for UGBC. The ‘What I Be’ project provides a possible outlet for many people suffering from personal issues and is a good use of UGBC’s effort.

A way for UGBC to build on the success of last year’s ‘What I Be’ project and take advantage of the interest generated by this upcoming year’s would be to craft a follow-up campaign that plays off these already addressed themes. The campaign allows participants to confront their insecurities, but confrontation is more effective when paired with a solution. This follow-up could approach the issues brought to light by the project and

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present possible solutions and ways of improving upon or dealing with the insecurities that have just been broadcast across the Internet. By adding this to the growing list of mental health campaigns and events, UGBC would take further advantage of the ‘What I Be’ project and not allow the important issues it brings up to be forgotten as time passes.

The ‘What I Be’ project is a raw and discomfiting way for a student to address their problems and refuse to be defined by them. Its return marks another admirable effort by UGBC to confront mental health problems on

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

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ABSENTEE BALLOTS - Sometimes we gaze around our classes, listening to our fellow students spout idiotic, badly thought-out half-truths, and realize that these people are going to be able to vote. The kid with the half-shaved head and the nasally voice who preaches moral relativism to a painfully uninterested class is going to have some say in who next governs our nation. While this is bound to bring about fear and trembling in even the most courageous U.S. citizen, it is also a reason to remember our civic duties.

While we are trapped on this campus, separated from our homes and any sense of reality, our respective states will send us ballots, allowing us to participate from afar. If you’re feeling too lazy to register for this ballot, you must remember that your vote is the only thing off setting the clove-cigarette-smoking, fingerless glove-wearing faux-intellectuals surrounding you.

FINGERLESS GLOVES - Ever yone knows that your fingertips are completely immune to the cold. It has been scientifically proven that no human being has ever had cold fingers. For this reason, fingerless gloves are the most practical sort of glove out there. There’s even an added bonus: everyone will think you’re a trend-setting, totally original hip feller with a really interesting, worth-listening-to view of the world.

AMBIGUOUS ENDINGS - Fools often despise movies, books, and television shows with ambiguous endings.

But eventually the well-cultured consumer of consumer culture will develop a taste for the ambiguous, thought-provoking end: the Tony Soprano cut to black, the Tommy Lee Jones dream soliloquy. Sometimes we all know there’s nothing better than a frustrating ending that doesn’t make any bananas.

“It’s all about the encounter,” Father Keenan said to us from the front of our tour bus, as we cruised down the hot asphalt roads of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Nineteen fresh-faced Boston College sophomores looked back at him, scribbling the words in our new journals—all about the encounter— without quite knowing what they meant. We knew we were here to understand the need for human development and social justice in a developing nation, but that concept was already abstract enough. Seeing our puzzled expressions, he continued: “When you go to a foreign country, you don’t remember the place, you remember the people you meet.”

The truth of that statement was, at first, dubious. I’d never been to a third-world country before, and my first moments on the road were already overwhelming. Apart from the obvious language barrier, the palm trees, and the punishingly humid weather, I was not prepared for the reality of the Nicaraguan streets. Corporate ads for CocaCola and Firestone were pasted on massive billboards, only feet away from the crumbling shacks. Spray-paint graffiti that read “Long Live Daniel Ortega”—the country’s controversial dictator—was scrawled across concrete walls. It was a hasty mixture of two different worlds, a series of mediocre attempts to jumpstart an economy with too many foundational problems to avoid, only to result in a nation that seemed half-fantasy, half-reality. I snapped pictures of dilapidated homes on narrow streets, of garbage trails on wilting grass, and of the structural aftermath of repeated earthquakes and thought: This is a third-world country, and this is what I’ll remember.

Perhaps it was exactly this attitude that made me so unprepared for the wave of human emotions that followed. Right from the start, it was clear that I was wrong—so wrong that I will never again forget that a country is not made of buildings and streets, but of human beings. For those seven long days, we “encountered” a series of fierce defenders of human rights—representatives

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affection. “Especially when the men ask.”

It was in that moment that I recalled my first moments on the roads of Managua and felt how deep my ignorance was, even just days prior. Nicaragua was not half-fantasy, half-reality, but wholly and horrifically real.

We BC students, teeming with social privilege and opportunity, were sitting in a world where it was surprising for men to question structural systems. Where people didn’t get to debate climate change, but dealt with it directly. Where the only way to get a decentlypaying job was to support the single-party dictator. Where women were scared of PAP smears because instead of learning basic medical information, they spent their time taking care of their husbands. Suddenly, we were not visiting Nicaragua—Nicaragua had come to knock down our door and show us what was really happening in the world outside America, outside our soft, warm, comfortable “fantasy-land.”

Our week in Managua was not a vacation, nor was it a service trip—it was a muchneeded encounter with the real world. We did not return to Chestnut Hill feeling better about ourselves for making a dark-skinned child a bracelet. We came back feeling bitter, furious, and woken-up. We did not revel in our spiritual fulfillment. We reeled in a new understanding of Nicaragua. Nicaragua as home to the Centro de Mujeres Acahual.

Nicaragua of Chureca. Nicaragua of deep government corruption, of structural sexism, of deserved anger, and of inspiration.

Silvia’s work is noble and necessary, but to truly solve Acahual’s problems, the world needs to change—the way we confront issues has to change. Students of privilege and opportunity—the epitome of what we are at BC—have the ability and thus the obligation to understand what needs to be done, and what we can do. Every organization we met with in Nicaragua is struggling: with a lack of funding, with underpaid and even unpaid personnel, with an increased demand for resources and services that are already scarce.

But they also have a ferocious community of leaders with a vision of a new development, and it is in our privilege and power as young, bright, and educated students to help realize it as the new “real world.”

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SLIPPING ON THE STAIRS - Minutes after a fresh batch of snow coats campus, you’re walking down the stairs. In your peripheral vision, you think you spot a small gremlin wielding a carving knife. As you turn to confront this evil little creature, your foot flies out from under you and you go careening into the air, spinning like a top, and then you land with a heavy and embarrassing thud. Even then it’s not over. You struggle to stand up, but keep slipping and falling down the stairs on your hands and knees until you’re crawling like a dog, just trying to get back on your feet. “I’m not a circus freak,” you scream, tears dripping down your cheeks, at the passers by who laugh and gawk at your misfortune. “I am a human being.”

at women’s centers, workers’ unions, poverty rehabilitation programs, and champions of disability rights—each of whom painted for us a new face of the reality of Nicaragua.

One of these encounters was at the Acahualinca Women’s Center, which focuses on women’s issues in Nicaragua. Acahual is situated in the neighborhood of Chureca, Managua’s massive dump—a landfill for most, but for Managua’s poorest, “home.” We learned that many residents worked at the dump as scavengers, looking for discarded food, toys, or souvenirs to either reclaim or resell, only to earn maybe 15 to 20 cordobas (50-70 cents) a day. Silvia, one of the nurses at the center, explained that working in such conditions led to increased cases of cervical cancer and other diseases of which low-income, uneducated women were unaware. Worse still was the deeply ingrained machismo culture of Latin America: the cultural idea that men are naturally superior to women, which expressed itself in cycles of domestic abuse, extreme gender roles, and income inequality, making Acahual’s clients primarily single mothers with few alternatives. Although Acahual offered counseling for cases of family violence and sex workers, self-esteem workshops, and health education to counter these conditions, the need for greater change was clear in both the harsh machismo culture of Latin America and the context of extreme poverty.

After Silvia’s talk, we drove around the neighborhood of Chureca to see the dump with a clearer lens. Although the Nicaraguan government had recently relocated the neighborhood out of the dump to counter mounting health concerns, it was still perfectly accessible. As our bus drove through the reclaimed neighborhood, we could see people climbing over the wall to scavenge.

Mountains of trash pressed against a disturbingly beautiful blue sky, and children played among puddles of garbage water with battered toys. We watched in helpless silence.

Silvia relayed her talk in an oddly matter-of-fact tone, calm and eloquent, the way only someone who had repeated these words many times could be. But when our class of 19 sophomores, 13 of us men, showered her with questions about the neighborhood, about machismo, and about the organization’s challenges and triumphs, Silvia finally smiled. “I love when groups ask questions,” she said, each word dipped in patience and

On Jan. 16, 2016, the United Nations lifted most of the economic sanctions that have been imposed on Iran since 1979, in accordance with the Nuclear Deal that was passed unanimously by the U.N. Security Council in Vienna last year. While it is not a perfect solution, it is plain to see that the deal achieves the primary goal of the international community: preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons, and preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

The deal eliminates Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and restricts the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges that Iran needs to build a bomb. While the Iranian government retains the ability to enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent for nuclear power plants, which is much lower than the 85 percent enrichment level for viable atomic weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency monitors radioactive material processing at all levels of the supply chain in order to notify the U.N. if the country is violating the resolution. Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Francois Hollande, David Cameron, and Angela Merkel have all praised the deal for making the world a safer place, but it is not a perfect solution.

Some critics of the deal have speculated that Iran is the military giant in the region, and that the deal enables Iran’s ruling clerics to eventually acquire weapons of mass destruction to destroy Israel. These criticisms are completely unfounded. In reality, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates outspend Iran on military expenditures nearly 7:1. The Iranian military has relied largely on obsolete military equipment from before the Shah was ousted in 1979. The idea that Iran wants nuclear weapons to destroy Is-

rael is even more outlandish. In 2012, the CIA released findings from an investigation on Iran that stated it had completely abandoned its nuclear weapons program, and had no intention of starting a new one. Even if Iran had nuclear weapons and wanted to use them against Israel, there is no evidence to suggest that the ayatollahs are insane enough to risk their own annihilation to do so. Many critics have failed to put forward the best way to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons: a nuclear weapon-free zone.

The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has called for a non-nuclear zone in the Middle East (the Egyptian government first proposed such a zone in 1980), which most of the 162 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty countries are in favor of. Last year in May, the United States blocked a U.N. addition

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While it is the most straightforward measure to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, the non-nuclear zone is outside of the Overton window in Washington. Getting support from senators to approve the nuclear deal was difficult enough, as congressmen were worried that their constituencies might not support them in the upcoming election. New York senator Chuck Schumer

voted against the resolution, despite the vast majority of Democrats voting for it.

It took President Obama eight weeks to get enough votes to get the deal to pass, after Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas convinced 46 of his Republican colleagues to sign a letter to the ayatollahs of Iran stating that a new Congress or president could easily undo whatever the eventual agreement entailed. The letter was an unprecedented attempt to undermine President Obama’s and Secretary of State John Kerry’s credibility in negotiating with Iran. Even though the deal got enough votes to pass in order to prevent the worst possible consequences, the president and Congress should work together to create a non-nuclear zone to ameliorate the problem permanently.

Creating a non-nuclear zone in the Middle East will be particularly difficult for politicians who receive donations from the military-industrial complex. Israel’s assumed nuclear deterrent strategically allows the country to occupy the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights militarily without repercussions. The Israeli possession of nuclear weapons allows the country to engage in aggressive military practice with imported conventional weaponry. American arms manufacturers profit from U.S. military aid to Israel, as well as direct purchases from Israel. While politicians voted in favor of this particular deal to prevent the proliferation of nuclear arms, it is not clear whether or not these same politicians would vote to completely expel weapons of mass destruction from the region, because the political will does not currently exist.

The international community largely agrees that the safest future for us entails the ban of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, if not the entire world. Intellectuals in the U.S. have a responsibility to themselves and the world to advocate peace and make the truth known.

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AF?E D@FKK@ A yacht: 165 feet long, 7,500 square feet of living space, max speed 17 kt, all-composite hull. It includes a kitchen, dining hall, gym, sauna, office, five bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a built-in hot tub on the deck. Its name: Size Matters. This is what I would buy if I won the lottery.

My dreams of sailing along the Amalfi Coast may be far-fetched, but the attention surrounding the recent $1.5 billion Powerball lottery was very real. And despite every news source having fueled the lottery frenzy, I figured I would still offer my two cents on the situation (I would offer more, but I didn’t win).

Let us focus on the basics of Powerball.

Five white balls are selected out of a drum of 69 balls, along with one red ball out of a drum with 26 red balls. You win the jackpot by matching five white balls in any order and the red ball. Your odds of winning: 1 in 292,201,338. So you’re saying there’s a chance? Not really. At $2 a ticket, it is a bad bet. And I think it’s easy for us to forget just how ludicrous those odds are. To put $292 million into perspective, here is a Forbes.com list of things that will more likely happen to you before you hit the jackpot: Dying from heart disease: 1 in 3. Injured by a toilet: 1 in 10,000. Crushed by a meteor: 1 in 700,000.

Struck by lightning: 1 in 2,300,000. The takeaway is that your energy, or at least your money, is better spent elsewhere. Nevertheless, the odds bring up an interesting question on human nature: why do we buy the ticket anyway?

I believe there is a two-part answer. First, we have a tendency to overvalue the probability of beneficial events, and to devalue the probability of negative ones. This is because we are emotionally invested. We are so desperate to improve the quality of our lives—our happiness—that we unconsciously ignore the numbers. It is our innate hope that creates optimists instead of realists. Secondly, we invest our happiness in material things.

From our earliest memories, we are either directly or indirectly bombarded with ads and marketing schemes that manipulate how we think. These tactics subtly wire false ideas of happiness into our subconscious. And this is hardly an original realization, but no matter how much we say that we are not materialistic, it is much harder to put this statement into practice. Our everyday surroundings motivate us to “buy more” in order to achieve happiness.

We cannot possibly ignore this call completely.

Hence, when all these goods can be obtained with money, the $1.5 billion seems like the ultimate key to our success. A doorway that will open to the path of everything we could want. It is an almost irresistible offer. But we recognize that this is not the answer. The true happiness we seek is found elsewhere, but none of these ads tell us where to look. I am not criticizing our competitive market system, but I am criticizing our inability to find this happiness, especially when we know it lies within ourselves.

In his TED Talk, Dan Gilbert attempts to scientifically evaluate happiness. He finds that paraplegics are equally happy as lottery winners merely a year after their respective life-changing incidents. In fact, he argues, major life traumas have no impact on your happiness after three months (with some exceptions). These traumas lose their significance because we exemplify a capacity to change our perceptions over time. We all have this unique mental perseverance that, when exercised, redefines our inner-relation with the world, allowing us to feel content with our lives. This ability reveals that happiness is accessible to everyone.

So where do we go from here? That’s the $1.5 billion question. And I am not going to answer with some cliche phrase like “friendship is the real jackpot.” The reality is that true happiness is deeply complex—many people go their entire lives without finding it. We must actively adjust, and then readjust, our perspectives on the world in order to create a reality in which we can feel fulfilled. In my own search for happiness, I begin by practicing gratitude—the conscious effort to appreciate my life. Try this exercise that I did with my 4Boston group. Write a letter to someone you care about, explaining why your life is better because of him or her. Then send the letter.

I hope that, before long, finding happiness within yourself becomes easier and easier, until you genuinely are happy. And no, the $45 million yacht is not worth it.

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

A8

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Founder Chris Barry, currently a business consultant, got the idea for an on-demand snow removal service from his own experiences during last year ’s “Snowpocalypse.”

“Firstly, I thought ‘Why isn’t there a service for this?’’’ Barry said. “So I started building up some technical skills in app development [last January].”

After months of managing a full-time job and online classes on computer science and app development, Barry’s brainchild, Yeti, brought Boston’s backs some relief by providing an easy-to-use app

for those times when there is too much snow and not enough time to remove it.

“I was building the app as I was taking the classes, applying everything I was learning,” he said. “But, at first, I wasn’t too sure it was going to take off.”

For Barry, Yeti was nothing but a side project for a long time. The more involved he became with the development of this app, however, the more intrigued he was and the more people became interested in it. He finally believed that “he had something.”

The new app aims to match those contractors and freelance snow-plowers with individuals in need of the service, such as when someone tries to get to work , but his or her car is covered with snow.

“It’s something similar to Uber,” he said. “It’s not as difficult, [the app development], as long as you’re motivated and are willing to put in the time.”

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Chris Barry, a local entrepreneur, makes dealing with the snow slightly easier for one of the snowiest regions in the US.

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the administration discussed revamping the Mosaic program based on assessment and feedback obtained from this pilot-year launch of the program. She also said that they spoke about expanding training for students and staff involved in educational efforts on diversity and inclusion, and introducing through Human Resources a new online module on harassment for faculty and staff.

Jones said that a review of a bias response protocol for students is ongoing, which will provide opportunities to address issues raised in the UGBC’s working proposal.

“The University will not stand still on these important issues and is committed to making BC the most welcoming and inclusive community possible,” Jones said in the email.

Instead of adding a vice president for institutional diversity, the administration plans to focus on utilizing existing

programs and committees, according to Jones. She said that the efforts to become a more welcoming and inclusive community are and must be collective, with responsibility shared by all members of the community.

Jones said that the University has been assessing the charter and role of the Diversity Steering Committee (DSC) through the leadership of the Office of Institutional Diversity (OID) and has made the recommendation to add two students, appointed by UGBC, to the committee beginning in the fall of 2016.

“This is an important step in better engaging students in University diversity and inclusion efforts,” Jones said in the email. “Further, the results of the faculty and staff experience survey initiated

by Human Resources during the fall semester, and the upcoming summit on diversity, will provide more information for the DSC to consider.”

In the meeting, the students were

updated on both their old and new efforts to address issues of race, diversity, and inclusion, according to Napoli, who also said that they were better able to understand the work the administration has been doing with these matters. He said that the next step is engaging with the community about the virtue of these steps and that they will be working with the administration to schedule a public meeting.

“Hopefully this will lead to better implementation of these steps and if necessary, further goals we can continue to work on,” Napoli said in an email.

Jones expressed the administration’s appreciation for the concerns raised by UGBC and the ongoing dialogue surrounding issues of inclusion.

“Racism is a matter of concern for all of society, and maintaining an inclusive community where all students can thrive is a steadfast commitment of Boston College,” Jones said in an email.

Jones said that the Friday meeting

was helpful in better understanding the concerns of UGBC, and that the meeting afforded the administration an opportunity to communicate the efforts of the University to address issues of race, diversity, and inclusion. Jones noted that during the past two decades, BC’s enrollment of AHANA students has doubled from 15 percent to 30 percent.

During this same time period, the AHANA percentage of tenured faculty has risen to 20 percent and 23 percent of director-level positions in the Division of Student Affairs are AHANA, she said.

“The University is attentive to hiring for diversity, and continues diligent and focused recruiting efforts in what is a very competitive environment,” Jones said in the email. “Vice presidents and deans are accountable for these efforts within the University.”

In addition to recruitment and retention efforts, Jones recognized that the document included clauses regarding

education, programming, climate, and support efforts.

In the meeting, Jones said that the administration highlighted the new core curriculum pilot courses—Complex Problems and Enduring Questions—which are meant to allow for the opportunity to explore questions on race and justice. Jones said that the new Core Renewal Committee is also exploring BC’s current cultural diversity requirement.

Jones encouraged UGBC to draw upon the resources of Student Affairs and engage with individual vice presidents on program within their areas.

She said that the discussions with these other vice presidents will help to clarify additional concerns where the group may not have adequate information or understanding.

“We look forward to continuing the thoughtful and challenging dialogue around creating a more inclusive community,” Jones said in the email.

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Boston University is selling many buildings in Kenmore Square, one of which houses the famous Citgo sign—the sign will likely remain, but the new owner will have the final say.

Citgo, from A1 promote improving Kenmore Square as an even more vibrant part of the community as a guiding principle when considering all options available to them.

The decision to sell the nine buildings, located on Commonwealth Avenue, Beacon Street, and Deerfield Street, ultimately occurred so the university could use the

money for more academic purposes. According to BU Today, the sale of Kenmore Square properties is but a strategic move to encourage development in Kenmore Square. The university believes the sale of these buildings will be a great opportunity to raise capital funds, which will be invested in its core mission of education, research, and student services.

The sign, one of the most recognizable

features of the Boston skyline, can be seen from many places throughout the city, including the Charles River, the Boston Marathon route, and inside Fenway Park.

Boston College student and Red Sox fan Mary Lodigiani, MCAS ’18, who has seen the sign at many baseball games both on television and at Fenway Park, would be sad to see it go.

“For many Red Sox fans, the Citgo sign

is nostalgic,” she said, “To see the sign go would be a loss.” She hopes that if the new owners are unable to keep the sign at its current spot, they will be able to display it somewhere inside the baseball stadium.

According to The Boston Globe, the sign itself is not for sale, as it is owned by a company that leases air rights atop 660 Beacon Street. University representatives believe that any changes to the sign seem

unlikely, although it would ultimately be up to the building’s new owner. BU hopes to keep a voice in the building development, although any large-scale construction would have to be approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

Despite the history of the sign in Boston, it is not a protected city landmark, and therefore is not immune to being taken down. Though BU representatives believe it will not be removed, there are no terms about that in the sale, according to The Boston Globe.

In recent years, Kenmore Square has seen great improvements to many of its buildings, including an updated T stop, new restaurants, and the Hotel Commonwealth, which was owned by BU until they sold it three years ago, according to Riley. Yet the north side, home to BU’s Barnes & Noble campus bookstore, Bertucci’s Restaurant, Cornwall’s Pub, and several other tenants, remains unimproved. The university would like to sell the property to someone who could finish improving the facade of the square, giving the school the opportunity to focus on bettering its students.

The school’s vice president for government and community affairs Robert Donahue told BU Today that any developments would have to be approved by the city and the Kenmore Square community.

“The University will work in partnership with the developers and the community,” he said. “We have a long history of cooperation with our Kenmore Square neighbors.”

Additionally, removing the Citgo sign does not make sense, as it is one of the unique attributes of the property, and it is part of the character that makes Kenmore what it is, said Riley.

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“You’re just too good to be true,” Mike Mastellone, CSOM ’18, belted out as the horns and saxes of BC bOp! faded out. Thunderous applause met the Boston College jazz band as its fantastic cover of Frankie Valli’s classic hit “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” ended. As the cheers and whistles died down, the man who decided he’d give his own performance throughout the show let out his sixth cry of the night.

“KATIE,” he shouted, slurring his words horrendously, “KATIE!” The crowd chuckled a bit, but the majority of people around me weren’t happy. After each and every song BC bOp! performed that night, this one man felt the need to cry out Katie’s name, hoping to…I don’t really know what.

While this one individual was the loudest of the crowd that had gathered in Robsham that night, he wasn’t the only one who had had more than his share to drink. I got to the show a bit early, as I customarily do when I’m reviewing something for The Heights (I’m an anxious guy that needs to be on time), and I noticed more than a handful of people stumbling in, being obnoxiously loud, and even sipping from a flask they’d brought along.

It’s always funny to see people drunkenly meandering to their seats at these shows that I review, stone-cold sober. Trust me, after a year working the Arts section, you start to notice drunkards streaming into plays, band performances, and dance shows more often than not.

I get it, to a degree. People want to have a good time. Alcohol makes for a good time.

Maybe someone going to these shows thinks it might be a little boring and that they’ll need a bit of a kick to get them through the two-hour performance. Maybe a group of friends is planning on going straight to the cast party after the show and they want to start pre-gaming during the show. Like I said, I get it—sort of.

But, as far as I can see, drinking before or during on-campus performances becomes a problem pretty quickly. People start heckling, calling out to their friends on stage at really inconvenient moments, and even getting sick in the middle of shows. I’ve seen it all. It’s not like most of these shows go very late into the night.

Most start at 7:30 or 8 p.m. I’ve seen people running out of the theater, holding their hands to their mouths at 8:30. I’m also not talking about a few isolated incidents either. I’m not going to say this happens at every performance I go to, but like I said, I see these types of things more often than not when I go to a show on campus. The one exception is plays. Everyone respects the theatre, I guess.

Now, I don’t want to sit here and sound like Big Brother or someone who doesn’t indulge in a couple drinks now and again, but I really don’t see the point in going to these shows if you’re going to be hammered. You don’t remember anything that happened. You sit there, unable to focus, until that friend you came to see in the comedy group comes out for his or her bit. You try the best you can to process what they did and while you might generally remember the skit he or she was in, you don’t remember a single line that, at the time, held

you in side-splitting laughter. I’ve been there, I’ve done that, and it’s terrible.

And I’ve never been on the other end of the tom foolery, but it’s hard to imagine that the performers appreciate the shenanigans that go on out in the audience. If I haven’t pointed it out, it’s unbearable enough as an audience member to see more than a few students lampooning about in a really distracting manner. I can’t picture what must go through some performers’ minds. Sure, some of them probably couldn’t care less. I’d think, however, that a few (if not most) people on stage would prefer that their friends who came to see them actually remembered what the performer did in a show, not just that their friend remembered seeing them for a few minutes.

I might sound like a cranky old man, and if you think I do, that’s fine with me. I really don’t care. I’m not trying to point out an epidemic that I think needs a serious amount of attention. I’m just trying to point out to those who decide to have a few drinks before they go to the next Irish Dance show or BC bOp! program that they’re not adding anything to a show when they make their presence known to anyone. It’s usually not funny. It’s just sort of a bother. Next time, leave the performing to those who you came to see perform.

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Dlj\ ;fd`eXk\j JkX^\ n`k_ X Jki`b`e^ G\eZ_Xek ]fi >cfip 9P C<@>? :?8EE<CC ?\`^_kj <[`kfi On a chilly evening in January, Boston was bustling with abnormal activity for a Monday night. Was it just marathon runners taking advantage of snowy, low-impact training conditions? Nope. People of all shapes, sizes, and ages flooded TD Garden for what will hold its early-set title as the “Best Show of 2016”—Muse’s Drones World Tour, featuring opener X Ambassadors.

X Ambassadors recently broke into the popular scene with their 2014 single “Jungle.”

With their 2015 hit “Renegades,” their success was sealed. Between the Jeep commercials and radio play, the swampy, rhythmic track was inescapable this past summer. The quartet started its set at the Garden with retro soul track “Loveless,” off their debut album VHS. Continuing from the album with “Hang On,” lead singer Sam Harris showed no restraint in exercising his impressive vocal range, swinging from a falsetto note to a chesty baritone pitch within seconds—sometimes, even within the same word.

The band continued its set with the show’s sole homage to their 2013 EP, performing its title track, “Love Songs Drug Songs.” Then came “Fear,” a track co-written and recorded with Imagine Dragons on VHS, but performed well by Harris alone. Taking a more emotional turn, Harris and his brother Casey, the band’s

blind keyboardist, rendered “Unsteady,” before lightening the mood with vocal challenge “Gorgeous.” To close its set, the band gave the crowd what they all had been waiting for—“Renegades” and “Jungle” back-to-back in a dual finale. While these songs may be the only reason attendees knew X Ambassadors before the show, there’s no chance the audience left without a newfound penchant, if not respect, for the talent of the group.

After a short break, the lights finally dimmed. While Muse is renowned for its impeccable performance abilities, it didn’t limit itself to only living up to expectations. Every song performed had some sort of individual quirk, an additional aspect that made it much more beyond a studio. The opening number, “Psycho,” lacked none of this flair—glowing orbs descended from the ceiling in the dark to a taped rendition of “Drones,” circling the general admission pit as the four members of the band took advantage of our distracted state to sneak on stage. After the heavy, riff-laden “Psycho” concluded, the band continued with another track from Drones, “Dead Inside.”

Then came Absolution’s “Hysteria,” which lead singer and guitarist Matt Bellamy closed with riffs based on Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker.”

After performing “Map of the Problematique” and a shortened rendition of “The 2nd Law: Isolated System,” the band’s staging crew outdid itself with the lights and graphics accompanying “The Handler.” Bellamy and bass-

ist Chris Wolstenholme took opposite sides of the stage, underneath billowing sheets of fabric that allowed video projection and acted as puppets under the holographic hands of an icy-eyed drone. Even as they moved around the stage, the “wires” connecting them to her hands followed, and the central Jumbotron seemed more menacing than any real-life threat as the drone’s virtual eyes scanned the crowd.

Muse then took a two-song run from Black Holes and Revelations, performing a version of “Supermassive Black Hole” supplemented with Bellamy’s rendition of Zeppelin’s “The Ocean.” It continued with “Starlight,” and then reached even farther back into its anthology with “Apocalypse Please.” After “Munich Jam,” a trippy light sequence and Jumbotron sing-along lyrics introduced crowd favorite “Madness.”

The set came back to the tour’s title album with a clip from JFK’s “Conspiracy Speech”—a perfect summation of Muse’s common revolutionary themes—and Drones single “Reapers.”

The final feature from Absolution followed, serving as a reminder that unfortunately, “Time is Running Out” in its set. Then came the anarchist anthem “Uprising,” another 1984-based track, given an extended outro to satisfy the crowd’s (and Billboard charts’) love for the song. For the grand “finale,” the staging crew returned to astound the audience—during “The Globalist,” an HFO, or Heavy Fuel

Oil, drone flew around the Garden, barely escaping the grazing touch of fans trying to claim some physical connection to the show.

The set closed with another round of glowing orbs and “Drones” recording, as the audience fidgeted anxiously, refusing to believe it was really over.

Of course, we were right. Muse returned to the stage after only a few minutes, picking up with the emotional Drones single “Mercy.”

After the dramatic performance, the audience was again set to wait as we listened in the dark to Ennio Morricone’s “Man With a Harmonica,” an instrumental evocation of the Old West. The quasi-silence was broken with the iconic galloping percussion that could only mean one thing—Muse was closing, per usual, with “Knights of Cydonia.” Lyrics flashed upon the Jumbotron as every spotlight in the Garden spun around the room, covering the stage in splashes of color. No expense was spared in this final song, as every ounce of energy they had left was poured into the final song.

The execution of the Drones World Tour was impeccable—from the band’s perfect collection and its discography and seamless transitions between songs, to the lighting and props’ staging—every moment of the show had at least one aspect that caused jaws to drop.

From the start of X Ambassadors’ opening set to the end of “Knights of Cydonia,” this Monday night was likely one of the best TD Garden has had.

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It’s safe to say that I enjoy the series, but it’s also easy for me to admit that seeing the last two films felt like more of a long-haul commitment than something that truly excited me.

Though not top-tier examples of what Hollywood has to offer, The Hunger Games films are in no way low-quality. The cinematography, especially in the latter half of the franchise, is done rather well. The films feature a number of impressive, wellrounded actors, music from some of the very best artists, a sprinkle of social commentary, and enough high-octane fight scenes to keep even the most distractible audience members interested. If this is all true, why doesn’t the series have higher reviews on the whole? If the books they’re based on are so well-received, why do the film adaptations suffer

from such mediocrity?

The answer is simple, but very easy to miss: The Hunger Games did not take the right risks.

This is a rather general assertion, so consider a premier example of a film that takes the right risks—Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most respected, revered, and well-known films of all time. Shawshank is an excellent example of a work that made the right corrections to its source material, which in turn catapulted it into cinematic immortality. The film is based on Stephen King’s novella, “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” but the two works bear a remarkably small number of similarities for having nearly the same titles. Despite the changes, King’s novella is one of his lesser-known pieces, while The Shawshank Redemption is arguably the best work to come out of American cinema in the past 50 years. Had Darabont not taken this massive risk of textual adaptation, his film would not have been nearly so popular.

Textual adaptation, the act of altering a film’s plotline or tone to no longer match its source material, is a Bellagio-level gamble in most cases. Incidentally, it’s also the reason

why The Hunger Games did not attain better reviews. Gary Ross’ and Francis Lawrence’s rendition of Suzanne Collins’ young adult masterpiece stuck to its source material like glue, and while this decision was “true” to the book series, it also forced longtime fans into a tough position. With no new storyline innovations, fans of the books had no new surprises in store, and thus very little to rope them into seeing the next film. This, as I discovered in November of last year, was my problem as well.

Every decision in Hollywood is a risk, and taking the right risks can make the difference between a film becoming an instant classic or falling flat on its face. Many examples shed an interesting light on the vast array of paths a movie can take when it comes to textual adaptation. Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth was a near line-by-line reading of Shakespeare’s play, and yet (deservedly so) received stellar reviews across the board. Shortly thereafter, Star Wars: The Force Awakens proved that retconning thousands of previous works of fiction (even in its own family) can go quite favorably if you have excellent new characters to back it up. These are instances of artists’ both risking the efficacy of their

source material, as well as rigidly clinging to it, and still reaching critical acclaim either way. Of course, there is always the other side of the coin: Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game cut massive tracts of storytelling from Orson Scott Card’s original novel and paid a hefty toll for it at the box office. The young adult action film Divergent suffered much the same fate. Both of these films are examples of directors taking the wrong risks—instead of improving on original source material, they handicap what already exists.

In the world of moviemaking, success and failure depend heavily on one’s willingness to gamble. If films from the past five years are any indication, there’s nothing inherently wrong with holding the hand of the novel on which a film is based. It will likely score average-todecent reviews, and then slowly fade from the limelight. If a film is to truly be a masterpiece, however, its director must follow one simple rule: take the right risks.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | HEIGHTS EDITOR

‘ALMOST, MAINE’ (THURSDAY—SUNDAY AT 7:30 P.M.)

‘KUNG FU PANDA 3’ (OPENS FRIDAY)

Directed by Ryan Cooper, MCAS ’16, this emotional production tells the intersecting love stories of various couples living in a rural town in Maine. Sweet, sad, and adorable all at once, the play will be performed in the Bonn Theatre this weekend.

Jack Black is back again in Dreamworks’ newest addition to the Kung Fu Panda saga. This time around, the loveable Po struggles with the transition from student to martial arts master.

PLEXAPALOOZA (FRIDAY AT 8:30 P.M.) Head to The Plex this Friday to hear The Chainsmokers perform some of today’s hottest EDM tracks live. The American DJ duo will play some of their most popular songs at BC’s annual Plexapalooza.

JEFF DUNHAM (SATURDAY AT 5 P.M.) Popular comedian, ventriloquist, and producer Jeff Dunham will perform his stand-up routine in Boston this weekend. Visit Boston University’s Agganis Arena on Saturday to watch some of his award-winning comedy live.

DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

BLUE MAN GROUP (NOW PLAYING) Buy your tickets to Blue Man Group for a night of loud music, bright colors, and the incorporation of crazy props.

Venture over to the Charles Playhouse for an exciting show audiences won’t forget.

‘NICE FISH’ (NOW PLAYING) Incorporating poetry, humor, and a whole lot of introspective conversation, Nice Fish is a story about two Minnesotan ice fishermen looking for their last catch of the season. Head to the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge to view.

‘THE FINEST HOURS’ (OPENS FRIDAY) The SS Pendleton is severed by a violent storm, trapping over 30 sailors in a rapidly sinking ship.

Action-packed and suspenseful, the film hits theaters this weekend.

‘THE BOY’ (NOW PLAYING) When Greta accepts a nannying job in a rural English village, she is shocked to find out that the child she is expected to look after is actually an inanimate doll. Greta soon experiences some very disturbing events in this high-intensity horror film.

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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Almost, Maine

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

‘Almost, Maine’ Enchants Audiences with a Charming Series of Intertwining Romantic Vignettes Hannah McLaughlin | Asst. Arts & Review Editor Every time the stage lights dim and the soft, floating music restarts to signify the end of a love-saturated vignette, a silhouette in the shape of director Ryan Cooper, MCAS ’16, takes detailed notes and whispers quietly to a confidant sitting next to him.

Through a pair of dark-rimmed glasses, his eyes scour the stage, making sure that every prop is perfectly positioned where it should be. For reference, Cooper recalls just one of the play’s many set configurations that he has committed to memory, as the various characters, props, and set designs change almost entirely with each new scene. Of these, the show has nine.

The play is good—very good, actually— and he knows it. Just 10 minutes into the first act, the combination of the actors’ evocative performance and Cooper’s meticulous attention to stage direction has the audience swooning. He watches the actors intently: their every move and inflection studied, and the effect they have on the audience duly noted.

The actors never seem to slip up, however, and scenes transition smoothly despite each

scene boasting its own individual themes and separated plotlines.

Throughout the performance, the naive residents of fictional town Almost, Maine, fall in and out of love in the most peculiar—and awkward—ways. Funny when it needs to be and stone-cold serious on more than one occasion, Almost, Maine straddles a variety of contradictory genres, skipping from one to another and back again without skipping a beat.

“It’s my favorite play,” Cooper said. Easily beating out others on the short list of scripts Cooper compiled at the advent of his directing stint, the heartwarming Almost, Maine emerged as a clear victor almost immediately.

“It does have this underlying, sweet message,” he said. “It’s very much about how love has a place in the world. Even though things can go wrong, it still has this sense of hope.”

In one vignette, a giddy young woman throws caution to the cold, winter wind and confesses her love for a close friend. In another scene, arguably the most notable due to its humorous dialogue and inventive use of

physical comedy, two best friends discover a compelling desire to be with one another after all of their relationships with girls go south.

Wrestling with social constructs and gender stereotypes that initially keep their feelings under wraps, the friends unearth a love that they were previously too timid to explore.

One of the most interesting aspects of the performances is the play’s magical-realist genre. In the town of Almost, Maine, fanciful wonders exist, as love becomes tangible, lost love physically hurts, and hearts break—literally. The centerpiece of the entire show (sheer, billowing sheets suspended from the studio rafters) gleam with iridescent beauty when colored lights illuminate them between scenes. The prop perfectly embodies the Northern lights, a staple that helps establish the play’s whimsical air and aides in extending the audience’s disbelief—a mindset that is so vital to the enjoyment and understanding of Almost, Maine. In reference to his production concept, Cooper said, “I wanted to play with this natural and ethereal thing. I wanted to make sure [the Northern Lights] were

represented in this kind of beautiful, magical way. In doing so, we’re able to kind of put in this wonderment and ethereal quality to the world of the play.”

The show is a marathon of wintery vignettes, and the impressive execution of the miniature scenes makes the overly sappy subject matter addictive instead of annoying.

A smaller and more versatile space than Robsham’s main stage, the Bonn Studio Theater allows Cooper some artistic leeway.

Choosing to have the show in the round, or structuring the stage so that performers are surrounded by the audience on all sides, Cooper takes advantage of the intimacy of an emotional show like Almost, Maine. The decision to avoid directing the play in proscenium—with the audience watching the stage from just one side—was a deliberate and nontraditional break from the way Almost, Maine has historically been performed.

“Because the show is so much about love, so much about people and connection and relationships, I thought that having it in the round would provide a more intimate setting,”

Cooper said. “It would actually make the show come more to life.”

For Cooper’s production of Almost, Maine, the Bonn theatre isn’t the only thing that has to be versatile to meet the expectations of the director’s vision. The small cast of seven actors bustle in and out of scenes, changing costumes enough times to represent a total of 19 characters. The plotlines and relationships intersect at times, making for a guessing game of who’s who that lasts throughout the entire show.

“Oh, of course I have a favorite scene,” Cooper said, throwing his head back and smiling as if playing the entire vignette out inside his head. “It’s called ‘Getting it Back,’ and it’s really a very sweet scene.” He laughed.

“By the end I’m in a puddle—I think it’s just the cutest thing.”

Charming and enchanting, raw and honest, Cooper’s interpretation of the play is just that: “the cutest thing.” A refreshing look at love in all its wacky and often unpredictable forms, the Theatre department’s January 28-31 performances will have the audience falling in love with this rendition of Almost, Maine.

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HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN “Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs.”

The words are etched deep, scrawled repeatedly across the length of a wooden table on the fourth floor of O’Neill like some kind of tangible motivation. Driven either by optimistic aspiration or utter desperation (I’m not quite sure which), an anonymous undergrad must have used this graffiti as a visible incentive of sorts.

I imagine this shaky scribbling was the handiwork of a stressed-out CSOM senior of yesteryear, perhaps a byproduct of mid-finals-week daydreams. Regardless of who wrote it when and why, this particular message from a Ghost of BC Students Past really got me thinking.

Just as prehistoric fossil records or Revolutionary-Age journal entries help historians unearth the mysteries of our ancestors, the doodles and diagrams covering virtually all of the library’s flat surfaces provide incredible insight into the subconscious minds of valiant BC students who came before us. A treasure trove of information can be derived about BC culture from every teacher complaint, countdown to graduation, and “so-and-so was here” scribbled hurriedly onto a wooden study cubicle from the early ’80s.

Forgetting about my extensive to-do list, I decided the graffiti was worth investigating.

Luckily for me, the careless vandalism

of University property is apparently alive and well at BC’s O’Neill Library. Under my laptop, a faded blue ink blot read “Obama 2008,” which was followed by a social-media savvy supporter who wrote “#Obama2012.” Capping off this political conversation was one snarky opposer, weighing in with a “Yeah, and how’s the country doing now?”

Nearby, some sarcastic (or perhaps sincere) scientist-in-training claimed that “organic chemistry rules!” As an English/comm double major with little to no interest in the chemical composition of all things living or dead, I decided to take their word for it.

While some leave silly sentiments (“2 Chainz 4 president”), others express utter loneliness. Someone’s pink-penned note accompanied by a flock of fractured heart doodles boldly confesses, “I miss my boyfriend in NYC.” Now, I do not endorse vandalism, nor do I believe it’s what the cool kids should be doing these days—I’d like that on the record. But, it is interesting to consider these desks as an ever-growing guestbook of people constantly coming and going.

In my humble opinion, the desk that once belonged to Goldman Sachs Guy is the best seat in the house—not because it offers a neat view of Alumni or reveals a fraction of the Boston skyline on a good day. I like it because despite what stress I’m enduring or what new writing-related pipe dream I want to chase, I find comfort in knowing that someone at some time in the past has literally been in my very position. Someone sat exactly where I have, feeling the same uncertainties and fears about the future that college likes to hurl at cocky students who think they’ve got it all

figured out.

What’s most upsetting, though, is the sheer unlikelihood that I’ll ever find out about any of these desk-damaging delinquents. I won’t know if LH and MW really stayed “together 4ever,” and I’ll never find out if that frustrated physics major really did end up shoving his problem set where he threatened he was going to.

I want answers. I want to hear the gripping story of our fearless CSOM-er whose life could have culminated in a dramatic, “to-hell-with-business-schoolI-want-to-be-on-Broadway” resolution. I crave some kind of epilogue that assuages our nagging fears about the future, one that assures stressed students that everything’s gonna be ok.

I wonder if Goldman Sachs Guy (or any of us, for that matter) really knew what he was getting himself into when he signed up for this whole thing. Could he have predicted the stress, the deadlines, or the competition? It’s just like what Alfred Tennyson said when he was talking about the difficult life of a BC undergrad: “Into the valley of Death rode the 9,100-or-so.”

Despite the stress, choosing BC was the best decision I’ve ever made. There are incredible opportunities, great professors, and those friends who will stay up until 3 a.m. drinking tea and talking about important things like the universe to thank for that, I think. This isn’t to say everything’s all smiles and Superfan shirts, though. I’m not exactly sure what to make of that.

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Dffi\ J\XiZ_\j ]fi Gif^i\jj`m\ @[\Xj `e @kXcp# Jcfm\e`X 9P :?8E;C<I =FI; ?\`^_kj JkX]] In many ways, watching documentaries can be like playing with fire—large amounts of intriguing information, disseminated in the context of entertainment, can very quickly draw in a high viewer count.

When documentaries have a strong political leaning, be it to

the left or the right, it takes only a single spark to light a fire that enrages the masses.

With that thought in mind, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next walks a dangerous line from the very beginning.

Moore’s film operates on the premise that America has officially run out of countries to invade, and that American officials need his assistance to determine

what country has the most valuable “resources” worth stealing.

Moore then travels to a variety of locations, from Italy to Slovenia to Tunisia, highlighting their practices and opinions regarding social issues in every area. The driving principle of Where To Invade Next is, by itself, a work of genius, deserving high ratings just for originality. Thankfully, the fun doesn’t stop there.

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Moore begins by taking a trip to Italy, where he meets with anyone from average citizens to factory workers to CEOs. He asks them about their positions on and experience with their work, and every answer is resoundingly similar: nearly all Italians are quite satisfied with their occupations.

Furthermore, middle-class worker stress levels in Italian society are at an all-time low, which creates a society with, generally speaking, good mental health.

Moore presses further—he discovers that this is, in large part, due to the six to eight weeks of guaranteed paid vacation provided by the Italian government, as well as the family-driven culture of Italy.

In contrast with American ideals, Moore asserts, there is an undeniable disparity. He then “claims” Italy for the United States, stealing their idea to bring home to the U.S. government.

The documentary progresses with much the same formula, but it never becomes tiresome or worn out. Moore visits France in pursuit of better health education, Finland and Slovenia for college tuition, Germany

for workplace standards and solutions to racism, Portugal for narcotics policy, and so on.

The espoused message of the film is undeniably progressive, but never feels abrasive, malicious, or anti-American.

In fact, Moore ends his documentary realizing that America can regain much of her former glory if her citizens and government re-embrace forgotten ideals.

It’s strange to associate the terms “Michael Moore” and “apolitical,” but this is just the path that Where To Invade Next takes.

Beyond the central message, the cinematic quality of Where To Invade Next is top-tier. Moore’s compilation of music and visuals is truly stunning, leaving the audience incredibly uncomfortable with the state of America’s social norms.

The film makes excellent use of silence as well, leaving viewers to comprehend the ramifications of what has just been said.

Regardless of whether or not the audience agrees with the message, the technical aspects of Where To Invade Next hammer home its message with disturbing effectiveness.

Where To Invade Next easily finds it’s home among Moore’s eclectic collection vivacious and monumental documentaries.

>Xj$CXY IX`j\j ;`m\ij`kp 8nXi\e\jj N`k_ GcliXc`kp f] Mf`Z\j 9P IP;<I C<< ?\`^_kj JkX]] Hip-hop was once a creative engine of music and political messages, forged from the experiences of diverse communities in New York City and other urban centers around the United States. Like all great American creations—blue jeans, American democracy, the iPhone—it was exported around the world. And like these things, American hip-hop seems to have diverged and assimilated into popular culture.

Gas-Lab is an Argentinian multiinstrumentalist whose latest creation, a collab with MC Hache St. called Jubilo, is a refreshing, genredefining mixture of diverse styles and musical influences. Listening to the album is as much an exercise in morality, culture, and regional politics as it is music. Granted, much of that political and cultural message will be missed by non-Spanish speakers.

Yet Jubilo is enjoyable even to the average American’s ears. Hip-hop is about balance, and Jubilo assures musical language takes precedence over spoken language.

Gas-Lab has produced purely instrumental albums in the past, as well as English-language projects. Jazz Hop, perhaps his most recognized work to date, could be brilliant, but was largely inconsistent. That project was incongruous—upbeat title tracks

mixed with overly artsy interludes and mediocre filler content.

It’s evident that Gas-Lab has evolved not just as a producer, but as a dynamic musician. The first track, “Reencuentro” (Rediscovery) is rife with crackling vinyl effects, piano backing, and maracas. Immediately following “Reencuentro” is “Primavera” (Spring), which includes jazzy electric guitar riffs and traditional cymbal accents. Perhaps the most experimental track on the album is the “Altas Montanas, Spoken Word” (Highlands), a french horn-headlined, synth-heavy ode to Haiti and its tragic history.

The diversity of the album’s styles is present in its featured artists as well. “Altas Montanas” contains a verse in French Creole from guest rapper Me-Stair. Several guest singers perform in English, and the final track features a pair of Mexican artists sharing the mic with resident MC Hache St. The pacing of the album is slow and methodical. Jubilo’s first four songs follow a similar formula of upbeat bass and drum beats mixed with slow, relaxing instrumental features.

The fifth, “Principio” (Beginning) has quicker drums and more dominant percussion, but retains a slow, melodic chorus, meant to maintain a tonal continuity. After “Principio,” percussion remains strong for most of the rest of the album, while the

speed of Hache St.’s lyrics seems to gradually quicken, building urgency and changing the tone, which can be understood even if the listener doesn’t understand the lyrics.

Lyrically, Hache St. touches on such major issues as racism in Latin America, with a line that translates to “black in plural, little white when single.” The treatment of immigrants in the United States is mentioned on multiple tracks as well: he wonders if he’d be questioned in the U.S. as an illegal immigrant, due to his heritage. He criticizes the U.S. immigration system as “failed reforms,

like Perestroika.” Such references remind the listener that Jubilo—and hip-hop—are global entities with global awareness.

Despite the heavy content, Jubilo is the sort of album that can be studied to, chilled-out to, or even slept to. The music calls to mind sleepy jazz clubs of old, but to quote one of Gas-Lab’s stylistic influences, Guru, “there’s always a message involved.”

And it’s important that there is a message in Jubilo. Music makes a listener feel a certain way, and hiphop is no exception. Jazzy, mellow,

intellectual hip-hop has existed for decades—just look at pioneers like Common, Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, and the late J Dilla. Modern.

Despite the language barrier, Jubilo should not be ignored—it represents hip-hop in the world.

As modern American hip-hop drifts closer and closer to electronic, trap, and pop music, listeners must wonder if the rest of the world’s local hip-hop communities will follow suit. To that question, Jubilo is a reassuring, satisfying, and enrapturing “no.”

Stephen Colbert took a pause before addressing former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. To preface the question Colbert wanted to ask him, Colbert threw out one of Sec. Rumsfeld’s most popular quotes.

“There are known knowns—things we know that we know. There are known unknowns—things we know we don’t know. Then there are unknown

unknowns.”

“Those are the ones that get you,” Sec. Rumsfeld interrupted. The audience chuckled.

Sec. Rumsfeld looked uncomfortable. He probably knew where this question was going, but he politely sat back and let Colbert get to his point. “I think there’s a fourth option though—known unknowns,” Colbert suggested, “These are things we know, but we choose not to know or things that we know, but don’t want other

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people to know that we know. With Iraq, it was known that there was not hard evidence, but we, as the American people, were given a partial picture. Do you think that was the right thing to do?”

The two went back and forth about going into Iraq with the right intentions, and how solid the Bush Administration’s information was about the situation in Iraq. Finally, Sec. Rumsfeld found the right words to answer Colbert’s question. “The

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National Security Council had all the information. It was all shared between the departments, but nothing was ever certain,” he said. “If we were talking facts, the information wouldn’t be called intelligence. There’s always information that you can’t verify and presidents have to make decisions based off of that intelligence.”

The audience went silent. Even Colbert seemed a bit shocked. After a brief pause and several seconds of applause, all Colbert could say was, “I think you answered my question.”

This interaction is emblematic of what Stephen Colbert has been doing with The Late Show since he took over the program last September. These two, ideologically speaking, should not get along. If you had put Stephen Colbert’s hard-line conservative character from The Colbert Report with Donald Rumsfeld, the interview probably would have ended with Rumsfeld storming off the set. But on The Late Show, out of character, sincerely conversing with a politician that he has serious questions for, Colbert is able to have both a friendly and substantive conversation.

If you flip over to NBC and watch a bit of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, you’ll see nothing like this.

Fallon’s too afraid to get into heavy topics like this with people he knows might get upset.

Colbert takes the risk. He’s not afraid to ask his guests questions that might upset them. He usually won’t, though. Colbert crafts his more controversial questions with the most sincere intention and tone and it usually disarms his more abrasive and argumentative guests. Colbert’s is the cream of the crop, blending the hysterical and the serious. We rarely hear the same comedic scene or voice from episode to episode, and Colbert’s too quick-witted not to get more than a few laughs out of the most hard-to-please viewers.

“I think what’s important are the intentions and capabilities of the people in government,” Rumself said at the end of the interview. “It was Churchill that said, ‘Democracy is the worst form of government except for any other that’s ever been tried.’”

“You know what else he said?”

Stephen responded. “Try my solitaire game.” Colbert pulled out his iPad with a green, velvet background with hearts and diamonds that read “Churchill Solitaire.” “Thank you, sir.

It was a real honor to talk with you.”

The two shook hands.

The fluid aesthetic of the music video “Wide Open” by The Chemical Brothers (featuring Beck) was a striking contrast to the artist’s usually jarring and edgy videos.

The track from its new album Born In The Echoes attempts to blend an electronic and, at times, monotonous melody with its melancholic lyrics. At first glance, the video appears to be a simple representation of the song through its gradual and meandering nature. But when one notes the nuances that embellish the visual, the whole video takes on an appealing attitude of reflection and wistfulness.

The video opens on a sparse industrial warehouse. A dancer walks into the gray light from the windows. After staring inquisitively and perhaps a bit crossly at viewers, it becomes apparent that one of her legs has turned from flesh into a shell of white netting and nothingness, making her limb look almost invisible. As the song progresses, her movements become increasingly wandering in style, as limb by limb turns invisible. At one point, an almost total silhouette version of the dancer stands before a mirror, and the full-flesh form of the dancer wanders around in the reflection’s background before becoming completely invisible The video effectively portrays the connection between the song’s forlorn, detached lyrics with the dancer’s silhouette transformation, as it demonstrates the “wide open[ness]” and “drifting away” of the song’s addressee. The lyrics of the song are repetitive and are spread out over the track in a way that complements the slow-moving and seemingly aimless style of the video’s sole dancer. This aspect of the video demonstrates the detached, almost mechanical estrangement of the dancer. Assuming one has the patience to watch the entirety of the visually unvaried video, the final product can be looked upon with artistic admiration, but also a notable amount of boredom.

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SIA “Unstoppable” In the wake of David Bowie’s recent death, “Look up here, I’m in heaven” could not be more appropriate opening lyrics to the pop legend’s final single. This track offers ethereal synth and a pleasantly whining saxophone, along with a haunting vocal performance. Bowie beautifully bares his soul one final time.

Sia’s music is powerful and uplifting, but with the release of “Unstoppable,” it is clear that her formula is getting old. Her songwriting template, booming drum and basic piano accompaniment, is predictable and dronging.

The album is fittingly titled This is Acting.

Maybe it’s time for Sia to play a different role.

Coldplay has succeeded once again in making great background music. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. With a bouncing bass line and airy vocals, “Birds” doesn’t try to do too much. It’s fun, it’s light, and sounds like a cover of a Sting deep-cut. Coldplay avoids the melodrama that has come to define much of its discography.

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Every year, I argue with my friends that a starting pitcher is the true National or American League Most Valuable Player.

For example, there was never a doubt in my mind that Clayton Kershaw was the most important player in the NL for the 2014 season. He had the highest wins above replacement (WAR), a stat that measures how many wins a player adds to a team compared to a below-average player, in the sport. Generally, that’s something that’d make you pretty valuable. But the argument people come back at me with is that pitchers only play 33 games a year if they pitch a full regular season (Kershaw, in 2014, only 27 starts) and should be limited to the Cy Young Award, a pitcher-specific honor.

Nay, I say to you, does it matter more how many games you play or how many times you actually encounter a live ball? A batter who doesn’t get hurt or has regular rest will have about 650 plate appearances in a single season—Giancarlo Stanton, the man who finished second in 2014, had 638. Yet Kershaw faced 749 batters that season (he typically averages about 900), meaning he had a direct impact in 100 more plays than Stanton. And Kershaw did it better than Stanton.

These stars, like Kershaw, don’t provide offense.

They prevent it. And there’s no reason why that doesn’t make them “Most Valuable.”

But I don’t believe that logic applies as well to hockey.

I appreciate the talent that Thatcher Demko is.

There is no doubt in my mind that Demko is the only logical choice for the third-annual Mike Richter Award, college hockey’s response to its lack of a Vezina Trophy. And he must be making a convincing case to the people, considering he currently has a healthily wide lead in fan voting for the Hobey Baker Award.

But I don’t know if I’d make the case if he’s the most valuable member of Boston College men’s hockey right now.

Don’t get me wrong, Demko has played fantastically. His statistics speak for themselves. But the Eagles didn’t do so poorly without him. Backup and first semester freshman Ian Milosz, a 6-foot-7 behemoth of a goaltender, was thrown into the fire against Provi-

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dence, the defending national champs and currently the 10th-highest scoring offense in the country. In two games, Milosz gave up seven goals. That’s normally a lot, but against the Friars, it led to a win and tie for the Eagles.

So if Milosz can seamlessly replace Demko, it’s hard to say he’s the top option. So then who is?

How about Colin White?

On a team with a parade of offensive superstars, White sticks out more than the others. The Ottawa Senators prospect has notched a point in 16 of the 22 games that he has played, including nine multi-point games. He has 31 overall (14 goals, 17 assists), good for 11th in the country, one more than fellow Eagle Ryan Fitzgerald. But while Fitzgerald has scored 14 goals on 102 shots, White has done so on 80—only five players have more goals on fewer shots than White.

But White’s ability to wreak havoc and attack the net has proved an invaluable asset to the Eagles, one they lacked last season. He (and Fitzgerald) have already passed Alex Tuch’s team-leading 28 points from last year. White has constantly attacked the net with fervor throughout the season, keeping pressure on both opposing goaltenders and defenses. It has even led to two penalty shot attempts. (He missed them both, but it’s the thought that counts.)

He’s also a natural leader as well, something that most of these awards take very seriously—justifiably so or not. In his first year as a member of the U.S. U18 National Team, White was elected as an alternate captain with Auston Matthews and Louie Belpedio.

He has the flare of a freshman—you’ve all seen his electrifying dab in the World Juniors—but the poise of a senior. He rarely takes a penalty, with only 30 minutes total (14 of them in BC’s Nov. 8 game against Maine). Not every freshman stays out of the box as well as White (looking at you, Miles Wood, with your nation-leading 62 minutes).

Oh yeah, and what happened when White was at the World Juniors? BC’s offense became anemic. The Eagles’ two Winter Break games in Estero, Fla. against Ohio State and PC were disasters. BC fell 3-2 and 2-1, respectively, to finish fourth in the Florida College Hockey Classic. Since his return? BC has gotten a point in every game.

You want to talk about valuable? Talk about Colin White.

?\`^_kj JkX]] There’s a cliche out there that hockey should be called “goalie.” There are worse cliches. In team sports, only quarterbacks in football impact winning the way goalies do in hockey. In baseball, pitchers pitch now and then, and even quarterbacks sit for more than half the game when factoring in special teams.

Goalies, though, are always on call. A hockey team’s skaters can play like garbage ,and as long as that team’s goalie is better than the opposition’s, he gives his team a chance to win.

It’s true in theory and in practice. Hockeyreference.com tracks all players in the NHL’s individual “point shares”—that is, each player’s estmated contribution to his team’s point total.

The stat is analogous to WAR, or wins above replacement, in baseball or basketball. By this metric, eight out of the 10 most valuable players in the NHL last season were goalies.

Last year wasn’t an anomaly, either. In the 2011-12 season, seven of the 10 most valuable players were goalies. In 2012-13, the entire top eight most valuable players were goalies. In 2013-14, eight of 10 again.

This season has been the aberration—just five of the top ten players are goalies, but those five are all in the top seven, and last season’s Hart Trophy winner as the NHL’s MVP, Montreal netminder Carey Price, has been injured for most of the season.

If this horse isn’t dead enough for you, Waron-ice.com has its own total player contribution metric called goals above replacement, or GAR. The website’s database goes back to 2005, and of the top 20 GAR seasons in that time frame, 12 of those seasons have come from goalies.

There are no equivalent statistics in college hockey, but the differences between the college and pro game only enhance the importance of a top goalie. There is more variance in player quality across college hockey than in the NHL, and thus that variance matters most at the sport’s most important position.

Additionally, players in college hockey are worse, younger, and less-practiced than professionals, leading to more defensive breakdowns and odd man rushes for offenses—crises that goalies must deal with.

To argue that any skater, no matter how dominant in his time on the ice, should be considered a better candidate than a premium goalie for the award that goes to the top player in college hockey is drawing dead.

Qualitatively and quantitatively, Thatcher Demko has been a premium goalie this season. The classic butterfly goalie at 6-foot-4, 195 pounds, Demko is rarely caught out of position, but after undergoing hip surgery last offseason, he is flexible and quick enough to make flashy, lunging saves when need be. His presence dictates that BC has an advantage on just about every shift, no matter the matchup between skaters.

“I’ve been Thatcher’s teammate for four years [between BC and the U.S. Development Program] and I’ve never seen him as plugged-in as he is now,” Demko’s classmate and BC defenseman Steve Santini said after the San Diego, Calif., native put on another elite performance against Maine earlier this season. “Confident, mature, at times he makes it look easy, and for any team to see that, I think it gives us confidence and helps us win games.”

At .936, Demko’s save percentage is just .007 back of the nationwide leader in that statistic, Chris Neil of Bowling Green. Demko has also played nearly 60 minutes, or a full game, more than Neil, as Boston College’s backup goalie situation has been in flux for much of the season, and thus faced 48 more shots than Neil. BC is sixth in the country in total goals against, yet is 18th in total shots allowed. Demko represents that difference.

There is nothing that drives a team’s success in hockey like a high-level goaltender.

Demko has been that this season. Out of all of BC’s top performers this year, Demko deser ves foremost consideration for the Hobey Baker.

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SUNY Buffalo cut football in 1970, returning it as a D-III sport in 1977. It moved up to the FCS level in 1993 before returning to FBS in 1999.

Since then, the program has compiled two winning seasons (2008 and 2013) and has not beaten a Power Five school. BC is 6-2 against the Bulls in the all-time series, the most recent matchup a 41-0 destruction

by Matt Ryan in 2006. And they’re only on the path to more pain in 2016—their best player, quarterback Joe Licata, has moved onto (likely) warmer pastures after turning in a solid senior campaign (2,969 yards, 62.4 completion percentage, 15 TD to 13 INT)—putting Buffalo back in the rebuilding boat.

Mark your calendars: on Friday, Oct. 7, National Championship runner-up Clemson visits BC on what will most likely be Red Bandanna Night at Alumni Stadium. Deshaun Watson is returning after his impressive 2015 campaign, which saw him throw for over 4,000 yards and rush for over 1,000, becoming the first quarterback in FBS history to do so.

He will try to carry his team to another National Championship game

as he builds his case to be a 2016 Heisman candidate. Yes, there will be hype: ESPN will pounce on the Red Bandanna storyline and Deshaun Watson’s unbelievable resume. Beneath all this, however, lie two football teams with ferocious defenses.

Prepare for controlled chaos.

At this point, BC has what it so desperately needed last year: a midseason bye. Following what could be a physically and emotionally draining game against Clemson, the Eagles will have a week to rest and prepare for two winnable battles at home versus Syracuse and on the road at NC State. Last season, BC didn’t receive a bye until November—by then, it was too late to reap many of the benefits that a bye week provides.

Coming out of the bye week, the Eagles will host the Orange on Oct. 22. Although the two schools normally play on the final week of the season, which is usually considered “Rivalry Week,” BC Athletics confirms that it has not received an explanation from the ACC for why the game against Syracuse will now take place in mid-October—however, there is no change, according to BC Athletics, in the two schools’ relationships and both

are considered the other’s rival since the Orange joined the ACC in 2013 and reunited the two former Big East foes. Syracuse collected its fourth and final win of 2015 against BC in the Carrier Dome during Rivalry Week, but the team is a lot less scary away from home—last season, the Orange didn’t win a single game on the road.

BC then travels to NC State on Oct. 29 in a pre-Halloween clash in Raleigh. Last year, Jacoby Brissett and his receiving corps torched the Eagle secondary en route to a 24-8 win in the final home game of the season. This year, however, Brissett is gone, leaving a gap in the Wolfpack offense and few clear remedies.

Regardless, NC State is returning a top-tier defense that rivals BC’s own defensive unit, which could make this year’s matchup another low-scoring affair.

ACC Freshman of the Year Lamar Jackson will lead his Louisville squad into Chestnut Hill for another contest on Nov. 5. Jackson has been dubbed the next Deshaun Watson by some, as he showed last year that he is very dangerous when out of the pocket. Although he still needs work as a passer, the Cardinals are

confident that he is their guy for the future after he torched Texas A&M in the Music City Bowl. Last season, Louisville escaped with a 17-14 win on its home turf to push the all-time series record to 5-3 in favor of the Cardinals.

Jimbo Fisher & Co. remember how BC’s defense nearly led to an upset last year, and the Seminoles won’t forget it when the Eagles make the trek to Tallahassee for a Friday night grudge match on Nov. 11. The game will be televised on ESPN as part of a special Veteran’s Day broadcast. Despite BC’s dismal record last season, don’t expect Florida State to take the Eagles lightly. And with Dalvin Cook returning to the line of scrimmage for the Seminoles in 2016, BC will face an immense challenge in slowing an FSU offense that looks to plow through opposing defenses all year long. Plus, #FSUTwitter likely remembers the scare the Tyler Murphy-led Eagles of 2014 put into them.

BC returns to Alumni Stadium for the final home game of the season against UConn on Nov. 19, in what will be the 13th meeting all-time between the two programs. The Eagles have won nine straight dating back to 1912, and the non-conference duels

are set to continue in the near future.

BC also has the Huskies scheduled for meetings in 2017, 2022, and 2023.

The AAC foe finished 2015 at 6-7, culminating in a loss to Marshall in the St. Petersburg Bowl.

Finally, the Eagles will once again wrap up their regular season schedule on the road, this time at Wake Forest on Nov. 26. The Demon Deacon defense gave BC trouble in their meeting last year, in what was one of the most frustrating losses in recent school history. Wake came away with a 3-0 win as clock management issues caused a painful defeat in the final seconds of the game.

Look for BC’s offense to come out in this matchup with a chip on its shoulder.

All three of BC’s wins were at Alumni Stadium—none against conference opponents. But the Eagles should have most of their wins at home again this year. Only two, Clemson and Louisville, pose an overwhelming challenge, while the others (including Georgia Tech) are theoretically winnable games.

Addazio’s club will likely only face one nearly-impossible threat on the road, Florida State. Note that he is only one year removed from

a highly successful road win streak.

2014’s 7-6 team won all but one of its road games, the one mishap a 20-17 loss to the Jameis Winston-led Seminoles, a team that later won the conference.

Yet, unlike in recent years, BC lacks a premier non-conference opponent. Some of the recent members of the Eagles’ non-ACC slate have included Notre Dame, Southern California (home-and-home), and Northwestern (home-and-home).

When you include the Fighting Irish, who play every other one of their qualifying sports in the ACC besides football (Independent), this will be the first year the Eagles do not have a Power Five non-conference team on the schedule since 2006.

But you don’t need marquee matchups to make bowl games, only if you want to push higher in the AP Poll and make a run at the College Football Playoff. And right now, the goal of this rebuilding program is to restore itself to a winning record and play December football. With this schedule, improved coaching, and development from the players, BC has a chance to get there only one year removed from a last-place finish.

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E\n ;iX]k Ilc\ Xe @dgifm\d\ek ]fi E:88 NCAA, from B8 some basketball players can go one-and-done and do just fine for themselves. But I’m thinking about the bigger picture. Nobody can play in the pros forever. And while professional athletes like Tom Brady or Steph Curry will have job opportunities left and right following retirement, most athletes will not be approached

by ESPN when they throw in the towel on their career. Less than 2 percent of college basketball players make it to the NBA. For so many hopeful athletes, the dream of turning pro is just that: a dream. So what happens when an athlete who left school early retires, or doesn’t get the success they anticipate? They’re stuck without a diploma and without any money coming in. Athletes who graduate from college at least

have a degree to fall back on, and with that the potential for another career.

But I know how naive it is to expect athletes to sit patiently in college and graduate before turning pro. For some of them, big bucks await in the big leagues, and it just doesn’t make sense to wait around for that money. On the flip side, many others misjudge the level of interest teams are showing. The new rule change protects athletes like that. Instead of blindly declaring for the draft and then realizing later that they should have stayed in college at least another year, athletes will have a better idea of their position in the draft and can make the right choices for themselves with the most knowledge possible.

The rule change hits close to home for Eagles fans. In April 2015, then-junior Olivier Hanlan

announced that he was skipping his final season at Boston College and entering the NBA Draft.

Hanlan had enjoyed success at BC—in his freshman campaign, he started every game, led the team in scoring, and was named ACC Rookie of the Year. As a sophomore and junior, the team’s record dipped, but Hanlan’s numbers stayed consistently good. He was selected 42nd overall in the second round of the 2015 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz. After a stint with the Jazz in the summer league, he signed a one-year deal to play overseas in Lithuania.

If Hanlan had been able to take advantage of the rule change, it’s possible he would have consulted an agent, learned how he’d stack up at the combine, stayed at BC for his senior campaign, graduated, and then gone on to pursue a career in the Association.

So I commend the NCAA. This rule change might hurt coaches, who will not know what positions they need to fill before high schoolers sign letters of intent, but it is the best thing they could have done for collegiate athletes. At the end of the day, whether to declare for the draft is an unbelievably important decision that will have an enormous impact on an athlete’s future.

This new rule change is designed to help athletes through the decision-making process in the best way possible. After years of a system benefitting the coaches, it is a big step forward for the NCAA to implement a system in the athletes’ favor.

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Sports Editor No one hate s Ho cke y E a st more than Notre Dame head coach Jeff Jackson, which is convenient, because Jerry York hates Jeff Jackson, too. The Fighting Irish have had the Eagles’ number in recent years, except when it comes to, yaknow, actually winning titles. Despite ND’s 12-game point streak , BC is going to find a way to come straight outta Compton (Family Ice Arena) with a win.

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Eli Carter (3, right) shot only 33 percent from the field (6-of-18), but was still BC’s leading scorer with 16 points. Darryl Hicks, however, was the star.

Darryl Hicks, from B8 on the zone on a guard-heavy BC squad.

“He’s in a tough spot,” Christian said. “He plays two, three, and four for us because of our team. But he does battle. One thing about Darryl, he’s probably our toughest kid.”

Christian likened Hicks to Clifford—an apt comparison,

as both have missed extensive time due to their respective injuries. They’re also the two guys currently playing hardest on the court for the Eagles.

“When the game is taken away from you, you kind of reevaluate things,” Christian said. “So I think he’s just happy to b e play ing . But he do es compete.”

Toward the end of the sec-

ond half, this intensity caught up to him a bit. Just minutes after Robinson came out of the game after slamming into the ground on a breakaway dunk, Hick s attempted to make a steal, fell, and his face slammed into the floor, making a sound no coach ever wants to hear.

Hicks walked off the court, but didn’t return to the game— the first in a while that BC has

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been close enough to start the foul game at the end, though it never got too close. Yet the effort he made on that play alone stood out. Christian has said earlier this season that while Carter and Clifford do have certain roles as leaders on this team, it’s also up to the younger guys to take up the responsibility. Hicks is showing just how that can be done.

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“He’s probably our toughest kid,” Christian said.

On a team that sometimes needs a bit more physicality, Hicks could be in line for a more prominent bench role as the year progresses, particularly if his offense develops further.

Three Down 1.) Transition Play: FSU likes to play the game at a fast tempo.

It allows guards Dwayne Bacon, Malik Beasley, and Xavier RathanMayes to attack the rim against a backpedalling defense, picking up easy buckets. Stretches of this game turned into a track meet, with both teams sprinting the floor,

throwing full-court passes and relentlessly attacking the rim.

In theory, this would be good for the Eagles, an offense that struggles mightily to score in the half court. Despite that, against FSU, BC’s fast breaks were very inefficient. Often the ball handler simply put his head down, barreling to the rim and throwing up a wild attempt, hoping for a foul call. Carter was guilty of this a few times.

Other times, the Eagles simply couldn’t handle passes or maintain their dribble on the break. These live-ball turnovers allowed FSU to run the other way, allowing them to score 16 points off turnovers.

2.) Defensive Rebounding: In news that shocks nobody, the Eagles’ lack of size was again an

issue against FSU. The Seminoles, whose players have the third-highest average height in the nation, amassed 16 offensive rebounds, constantly beating the Eagles to the ball or muscling them away from rebounds.

Some of these issues were because Eagles played a 2-3 zone for some of the game. In the zone, rebounding assignments are hard to keep track of, often allowing opponents to grab a high percentage of offensive rebounds.

Regardless , these secondchance points helped the Seminoles score 36 in the paint and shoot 25 free throws. Bacon pulled down 14 rebounds, including five on the offensive end, proving too strong for BC’s smaller guards to handle.

3.) Free-Throw Shooting: BC ranks 330th in the nation in freethrow rate, indicative of both its lack of size and inability to get to the rim consistently. In addition, not only do the Eagles rarely shoot free throws, but they also struggle mightily to make them. As a team, the Eagles shoot 63.6 percent from the line, 320th in the country.

Against FSU, this season-long issue once again reared its ugly head. The team made just two of its nine free throw attempts, a feat that left Christian dumbfounded.

“That was a joke,” he said. “We can’t go 2-for-9 from the line, especially at home.”

For the Eagles to win in the ACC, they will have to work on the little things, starting with the most open shots in the game.

Assoc. Sports Editor The Irish are riding an 12-game unbeaten streak into Friday night’s showdown in South Bend, and haven’t been shut out on their home ice in nearly a year. Both will end as Notre Dame will run up against the country’s best goalie in Thatcher Demko, who was the last man to hold the Irish scoreless back in February of last year. The score in that meeting?

2-0. Eagles get revenge as deja vu strikes again.

Prediction: BC 2, Notre Dame 0 ANNABEL STEELE

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Merrimack came out hot and

put pressure on Katie Burt. Just seconds into the game, Katelyn Rae had a great look on goal. But Burt was there and robbed Rae right on the goal line, allowing BC to settle into the game and take control.

The Eagles dominated most of the first period on the offensive end, firing off 20 shots on goal.

Haley Skarupa put the Eagles on the board with a clean top-shelf shot at 5:27 in the first. Seconds later, Warrior Annie Boeckers headed to the box for interference, giving BC its first power play opportunity of the night.

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Ridgewell to give BC a 2-0 lead.

Then Makenna Newkirk sent one high into the net, giving the Eagles a 3-0 edge after one.

To open up the second period, the Warriors had 1:45 left on a cross-checking penalty, giving them a great opportunity to close the 3-0 gap. Felila Manu fired the puck toward Burt and a BC defender deflected it into the goal, making it a 3-1 game. For the remainder of the period, both teams went back and forth, but the goalies stood strong and denied each puck that came their way.

In the third frame, the Eagles were prepared to seal a league win to continue their streak.

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Ridgewell, but nothing got past her. Halfway through the period, the score remained 3-1. Though they were ahead, the Eagles were still not satisfied.

Meghan Grieves fired the puck toward the net, allowing Kristyn Capizzano to sneak the rebound past Ridgewell to give BC a 4-1 advantage. The Warriors did not give up. They continued to push the BC defense, but to no avail.

With under a minute left, Merrimack had the biggest opportunity of the night with a 1-on-1 through the zone. Burt rejected Madison Morey’s comeback attempt, guaranteeing the Eagles a 4-1 Hockey East road victory.

Asst. Sports Editor If you don’t remember the last time BC and Notre Dame squared off, you’re not alone: it took place the day before finals started in December. Don’t worry, though, because even if you forgot about the 4-3 loss, the Eagles sure didn’t. They’ll hit the ice ready and raring to go, especially after a disappointing tie to UConn last weekend. We’re officially entering the most exciting part of the season, with the Beanpot and Hockey East tournaments looming. Look for BC to dominate the Irish and capture Jerry’s 1,001 win.

Prediction: BC 4, Notre Dame 1

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E:88 Jk\gj Lg 8EE89<C JK<<C< It’s a story all too common in today’s world: A seemingly mediocre college basketball player explodes during March Madness, decides to leave college and enter the NBA Draft, and then struggles to keep up with the big boys. If you don’t believe me, just ask Vander Blue, who entered the NBA Draft at the end of his junior year after a stellar March Madness run with Marquette and then went undrafted. For the past few years he has bounced around from team to team, sometimes on an NBA roster and sometimes on a D-League roster. He even had a stint playing overseas in Israel.

Earlier this month, the NCAA announced a rule change that will hopefully limit stories like Blue’s. Previously, the NCAA required that athletes declare for the NBA Draft in April, before high school recruits sign their letters of intent.

This arrangement only benefitted coaches and schools. They were able to assess their needs based on departing players and pursue high school recruits accordingly. On Jan. 13, the NCAA announced that, starting this year, athletes have up to 10 days after the end of the combine to withdraw from the draft. In addition, athletes can declare for the draft more than once throughout their college career without being penalized. This year, the NBA Combine will take place from May 11-15. Under the new rule, any NCAA athlete has until May 25 to withdraw from the draft.

This development is an overdue and excellent step forward for college basketball players. They can test the waters, participate in the combine, and work out with one NBA team. If they sense interest or believe that they will be drafted by a team, they can enter the draft confidently.

If they believe they aren’t at the NBA level yet and should play another year in college to hone their skills and gain maturity and leadership, they can back out without losing any NCAA eligibility and declare for the draft in future years without being penalized.

I believe this change is just about the best thing the NCAA could have done for college basketball players. One of the most painful mistakes an athlete can make is declaring for the draft too early.

Sacrificing a successful college career and a college diploma on the mistaken belief that there is a team willing to take you on is terrible and can only lead to painful regret. This new rule gives athletes a better understanding of their chances in the draft and allows them to make informed decisions that will impact their futures.

Now, if it were up to me, college athletes would remain in school and get their diploma before declaring for any draft. I know, I know—besides the fact that a rule like that can’t really be enforced, many athletes are in their prime during their college years. They may be worried about severe injuries hurting their chances of getting drafted if they stay in school for four years. I understand that there are a lot of factors that go into declaring for a draft, and that

ABBY PAULSON AND KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITORS

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In many ways , he’s a great re pre s ent ation of this ye ar ’s bench—a group that BC (7-13, 0-7 Atlantic Coast) has needed to step up to help a streaky starting lineup. As has been the case for much of ACC play, Eli Carter missed twice as many shots as he made during BC’s Tuesday night matchup against Florida State (13-7, 3-5), and though Jerome Robinson picked up some of the slack, the Eagles couldn’t last a full 40 minutes. FSU’s bench outscored BC’s 21-13 on its way to a 72-62 win for the Seminoles.

Individually, Hick s put up a solid performance, knocking down 3-of-5 from the field, grabbing three rebounds, and playing better defense on forwards than should be expected from a 6-foot-2 guard. After slowly working his way back from a pair of devastating knee injuries that forced him to miss his first two seasons at BC, Hicks has turned into head coach Jim Christian’s scrappiest guy.

Unfortunately, it took a hard crash onto the ground toward the end of the game for him to get real attention for it.

Besides point guard leaders Carter and Robinson, who play about 33 minutes a game, and fellow starters Dennis Clifford and A.J. Turner, who each average in the mid-20s, BC has six other players, including Hicks, who have played most games. In that time, those guys have made relatively little impact on the

score—they have each averaged fewer than 20 minutes and five points a game.

Where some of BC’s losses in AC C play have ultimately come dow n to cold sho oting performances and poor overall offensive execution, that wasn’t the biggest issue against Florida State—though as a team, the Eagles made just 2-of-9 free throws, their worst all-time percentage at Conte Forum, according to BC basketball’s media guide. From the field, however, the Eagles outshot the Seminoles 44.8 to 39 percent in the game and utterly lit up the 3-point line, making 42.1 percent compared to FSU’s 29.4. Take out a few desperate heaves by Carter near the end, and BC’s shooting would look even better.

The real issue was on the offensive glass. With both Clifford and backup center Idy Diallo in some early foul trouble, the Eagles were forced to play small, to the benefit of FSU’s Dwayne Bacon and Jarquez Smith, who combine d for eight offensive boards on the night. In all, the Seminoles outrebounded BC 4628, with a 16-6 advantage on the offensive side. “ We’re not ver y big to begin with, it’s hard rebounding sometimes out of zone, because assignments get a little shaky,” Christian said.

This is where Hick s really comes in. Despite being 6-foot-2, two of Hicks’ three rebounds were on the offensive side. He jumps up in the air for those boards, he hustles and dives on the ground for loose balls—all aspects that have been notably missing from BC’s young team this season. He’s also playing in tough spots on the defensive side, filling in down low

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In front of a sparse crowd—official attendance was listed at just over 2,000—Boston College men’s basketball (7-13, 0-7 Atlantic Coast) dropped its seventh straight game to the Florida State Seminoles Tuesday night (13-7, 3-5) 72-62, in a sloppy, fast-paced affair. Though the results were again dismal, there were several positives hidden in the defeat.

Even Jim Christian agreed with that notion.

“That was probably, for 40 minutes, the hardest we’ve played in a while,” he said after the game.

Three Up 1.) Jerome Robinson: Robinson had an excellent game, scoring 15 points on an efficient 6-for-10 shooting clip. For most of the season, he has impressed with his ability to get to the basket and finish through contact, as well as with his midrange shooting acumen.

Tonight, he impressed from beyond the arc, canning three of his four 3-point attempts, tripling his total from the first six games of ACC play.

Robinson did most of his damage by spotting up on the weak side of Eli Carter’s pick and rolls.

Robinson utilized the general concept of the play above to hit all of his threes. Christian knew before the game that this particular shot would be open.

“That was what was going to be open today because of how they guard the ball screen,” he said.

FSU had their center hedge hard on the screen, essentially doubling Carter. This left only Robinson’s

man to bump Dennis Clifford rolling down the lane, which then opened up Robinson for easy 3-point looks. He was able to hop into the shot and set his feet, making the defense pay for its strategy.

2.) Eli Carter, Attacking: Though he still settled for too many isolation, pull-up threes, Carter demonstrated his pick-and-roll skills throughout the game. He totaled eight assists, with the majority generated by his penetration and its impact on the defense. In addition to the passes he made on Robinson’s threes, he had several nice dimes to his big men under the basket.

The play above demonstrates the patience Carter has developed in the pick and roll game. He drives into the lane and waits for Boris Bojanovsky to commit to him before dropping a pass to Idy Diallo for the layup.

Carter also used the pick and roll to score.

He does an excellent job of slowing down and keeping his defender on his hip, away from the ball. He then crosses over and puts up a floater before the defense can recover. Most importantly, the shot comes in rhythm.

If Carter can incorporate more of this type of play into his game, forgoing a few ill-advised threes, he could open up even more looks for both himself and his teammates.

3.) Darryl Hicks: During ACC play, Hicks has gradually become a staple in the rotation. While his shooting range has not yet expanded out to the 3-point line, he has shown comfort with taking jumpers one or two steps inside the line. Twice against FSU, he capitalized on open looks generated by teammates, something the Eagles desperately need.

He also showcased aggressive, physical defense and tremendous hustle, constantly diving on the floor for loose balls and even getting a tip in on a missed shot among FSU’s

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Don’t turn the ball over.

Basketball coaches around the country repeat this every day. On Wednesday night, Boston College women’s basketball proved exactly why coaches continually instruct their teams to do this. The Eagles (13-7, 1-6 Atlantic Coast) turned the ball over 25 times on their way to a 62-61 defeat by the Syracuse Orange (14-7, 4-4) at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. BC came out with a hot start in the first quarter, taking an early 13-2 lead buoyed by three 3-pointers from junior Kelly Hughes.

This mini-run to begin the game set the tone for a solid first quarter effort from the Eagles, who continued their scoring to take a

20-15 lead heading into the second quarter, leading by as much as 13 at one point.

In the second quarter, adversity started to hit the Eagles as the Orange began to play much better. The turnaround for Syracuse started late in the first quarter, and its defense was the main catalyst.

The group forced 12 turnovers starting at the two-minute mark of the first, and continued that momentum into the second quarter. Briana Butler dominated the first half for the Orange, totaling 22 points, with 12 of them coming from beyond the arc.

Syracuse seized control of the game in the second quarter. The Orange led by as much as nine and took a 40-31 lead at the break. The team’s ability to take over the game and reverse the script was due to its trademark defensive hustle, which forced a

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total of 18 turnovers in the half.

The Eagles reasserted themselves in the third and much of that was due to Hughes, who rained down three 3-pointers to start the second half, just as she did in the first, and brought the Eagles back within four points.

While the Eagles still turned the ball over too much in the third, they held Butler to only two points and got buckets from four different players, in addition to Hughes.

This team effort and renewed commitment to slowing down Butler reduced the lead to as little as one point, and the Eagles eventually trailed by only three at the end of the quarter.

BC’s momentum from the third carried into the fourth, and the comeback rolled on.

Two things keyed a strong fourth quarter for

the Eagles: freshman Mariella Fasoula and a commitment to ball security. Fasoula scored six points, and BC did not turn it over once in the entire quarter.

By the 1:49 mark of the fourth quarter, the Eagles tied it up at 61 apiece. BC had a chance to pull ahead on its final possession when it got the ball into Fasoula in the post with nine seconds left, but Briana Day blocked her shot.

After the missed opportunity, each team called a timeout as they postured for lategame position. Out of the break, Brittney Sykes drove the lane for the Orange, and was fouled on the floor by Hughes. After the foul, Sykes drove the lane once again and missed the shot, but Cornelia Fondren rebounded the miss and Kailey Edwards fouled her on the put back attempt. Fondren drilled the

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first free throw, then missed the second and, just like that, the game was over. Syracuse prevailed 62-61.

BC’s resilience was one positive takeaway from the game. Despite being down big at half and turning the ball over too many times, the Eagles fought back by playing better defense. BC beat Syracuse 31-21 in the second half and almost stole the game, despite an alarming 25 turnovers.

Much of that can be credited to Hughes, who scored 21, grabbed 13 rebounds, and recorded four steals. Fasoula was the second player whose effort kept the Eagles in it, as she scored 18 with several big buckets down the stretch. A road win against a solid conference foe would have been impressive for the Eagles, but their desire to fight was nonetheless impressive.

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