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The BC Dance Ensemble displayed an array of talent at their spring show, A10

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Vol. XCIII, No. 15

GSSW earns top-10 rank among national peers Dean set top-10 as 10 year goal in 2004

By Andrew Skaras Heights Staff

A year after celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW) has reached another milestone. It is the first of Boston College’s graduate schools to be ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News and World Report. After coming to BC in 2001, Alberto Godenzi, dean of the GSSW, made a top-10 ranking the school’s 10-year goal in 2004.

Originally from Switzerland, Godenzi came in 2001 from the University of Fribourg, where he chaired the department of Social Work and Social Policy. He spent the first few years making an assessment of the GSSW’s strengths and weaknesses before setting the goal.

“It was a goal that we set in 2004, when we were 19th, and some people laughed at us,” Godenzi said. “The social work ranking is done by reputation, and you are not in full control of that.”

After setting this target, Godenzi led strategic retreats with the faculty. In order to achieve his goal, he asked them the questions, “Where do we want to make a name for ourselves? What fields aren’t already highly populated?” The impetus behind the retreats was to get the faculty to engage with the goal and form an iden-

Winston Center recruits student ambassadors

tity as an organization.

Godenzi thought it favorable that he worked at a Jesuit Catholic school. “The fortune for the school of social work is its center in BC’s identity,” Godenzi said. “We grapple with issues of equality, injustice, the poor, and the sick. What we do, in a way, is God’s work.”

In his attempt to create an identity for the school, Godenzi concentrated on making the school prominent in three areas. He wanted the school to excel on global issues, issues of aging, and diversity.

“Schools of social work were relatively U.S.-centered,” Godenzi said. “We decided that we wanted to be known for our global perspective. [The students] work with international agencies and relief programs. When we are engaged with global communities, we are in line with the vision that Ignatius had for setting the world aflame.”

After noticing the changing demographics in the world population, Godenzi settled on the problems associated with aging for the second area for the school to focus on. There are three centers at BC, one in CSOM and two in GSSW, that form the Institute on Aging. The director of the institute is James Lubben, who holds the Louise McMahon Ahearn Chair in Social Work at Boston College.

The third goal was that Godenzi wanted to create a distinction for the

By David Cote News Editor

display on for the exhibit, which will be shown at the Boston Public Library. There is a section on children’s writers, a section on literary magazines, a section focused on Edgar Allen Poe, and a variety of other literary topics. For one section, titled “Treasures or Turkeys?” the students looked at a wide range of literature to decide what was worth including, and what was a “turkey” and perhaps better left forgotten.

Kristen House, A&S ’12, prepared her display on children’s novelists. “Any children’s author that we don’t know about that was relevant at the time, I’m sure no one knows who they are today.” House commented also on her tie to the city of Boston and how, as a native to the city, this project was particularly eye-opening.

“I’ve lived in Boston my whole life, and I’m coming across this information for the first

The Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics has announced a new program to encourage student participation in the center’s activities. The new Winston Center Ambassador program will begin in the fall semester, and will give interested students the opportunity to work closely with the program’s administrators in planning and publicizing the center’s events.

“We are looking for students who are interested in promoting and advancing the mission of the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics,” said Brooks Barhydt, assistant director of the center, in an e-mail. “The students who are selected to serve in this important volunteer role will work in collaboration with [the] assistant director of the Winston Center to publicize key events to the campus community.”

“In addition to working to help publicize important Winston Center events throughout the year, students will have the opportunity to help brainstorm what notable leaders to bring to campus, and will be able to meet and spend time with those individuals.”

The Winston Center will look specifically for students who have attended previous events put on by the center, and hopes to recruit 10 to 20 ambassadors for one-year commitments or more.

“I think it goes without saying that we will be giving preference to those who have attended past Winston Center events and have a passion for the core components of the Center–Leadership and Ethics,” Barhydt said.

In terms of potential effects, Barhydt said he hopes that involving more students will allow the center to gain more student input when planning events and give students the chance to interact on a personal level with the center’s speakers.

The ambassador program also hopes to bring the Winston Center’s events to students from all of BC’s schools, not just the Carroll School of Management.

“Student input is always welcomed, and we want to ensure that students have the opportunity to connect with worldclass speakers on a more personal level,” Barhydt said. “I believe that too often in the past, members of the campus community have attributed the Winston Center to only benefitting members of the Carroll School.”

Although the ambassador program will not officially begin until the fall, the

See Exhibit, A4

See Winston Center, A4

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See GSSW, A4

The GSSW, housed in McGuinn Hall, was named a top-10 school by ‘U.S. News and World Report.’

‘Forgotten Chapters’ brings to light Boston’s lost literature Students research Boston’s forgotten literary works

By Brigid Wright Heights Staff

photo courtesy of kristin house

BC students have spent several months researching Boston’s numerous lost literary landmarks.

Students in an English seminar class are preparing for an upcoming exhibit on which they have worked all year long, titled Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History. The exhibit will feature a wide variety of mid-19th century literature that today’s culture has not preserved. This elite class, taught by Paul Lewis, has researched disregarded Boston-area novelists, poets, and journalists, along with their works.

Each student selected a writer or piece of writing to research and then prepare a

Five teams remain in BCVC competition Editor-in-Chief

Students participating in the annual Boston College Venture Competition (BCVC) have been refining their startups since first submitting their business models in October.

Out of the 20 teams who initially pitched their ideas, five are now left standing: the “2012 Accelerator Teams.” They have been awarded $1,000 in seed money and given two months to further develop their businesses in hopes of turning the $1,000 into $10,000.

BCVC, a university-wide business plan

competition, seeks to promote and support entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level at BC. In past years, the entire competition has taken just two weeks, beginning with teams submitting their business plans and ending with a final event in front of a panel of judges.

This year, after a semi-final event in mid-February, the number of teams was narrowed down from 10 to five, with the top five teams moving on to the accelerated program to work with with mentors and advisors.

CJ Reim, chair of BCVC, and Mateusz Kaliski, who is in charge of all mentor / mentee relationships for the competition,

Maji is a water bottle Green start up Lightning is a focused on company focused solving the on producing eco world’s friendly water crisis surfboards

Per Diem Connect is an application that provides users with a unique networking environment

both CSOM ’13, explained that each of the final teams has been given access to free financial service and legal advice, as well as being flooded with a number of events that focus on topics including the best ways to pitch your company.

“There is now more coaching involved,” Kaliski said, mentioning that each team meets and Skypes with professionals every week. The teams are given personal feedback rather than just presenting their startup to an open audience.

The five BCVC finalists are: Maji, Green

See BCVC, A4

Namid Beetle Design is a start up company inspired by the namib desert beetle

Neuro Tone is a company that consults for record labels and advertising agencies

woogeon kim / heights editor

By Taylour Kumpf

Noted Author visits the heights

Robyn kim / for the heights

Earl Lovelace, author of ‘Is Just a Movie,’ visited BC for a lecture on Thursday, Mar. 15. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Lovelace specializes in Carribean literature.

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‘The Price of Sex’ Screening Today Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Cushing 001

Sponsored by the Boston College Women’s and Gender Studies Program, photojournalist Mimi Chakarova will show her film, which delves into the world of sex trafficking in Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the Middle East. A question and answer panel will follow the screening.

Morton Keller, ‘Three Years On’ Presentation

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Wednesday Time: 4:30 p.m.

Location: McGuinn 121

Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University Morton Keller will discuss Obama’s first three years in office.

African American Spirtuals Presentation

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Tuesday Time: 5 p.m.

Location: Heights Room Professor Cheryl Kirk-Duggan of Shaw University will provide an overview of African American spirtuals and discuss their influence on the Civil Rights Movement.

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State and local spending on higher education hits 25-year low

On Campus BC to host an event discussing the 1989 Jesuit assassinations The Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice will host a lecture on Mar. 22 about the 1989 assassinations of six Jesuits at the University of Central America (UCA). This event will be titled “Amnesty and Accountability in the Case of the El Salvador Jesuit Assassinations: The Moral Meets the Pragmatic.” It will take place in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons at 7:30 p.m. Jose Maria Tojeira, S.J., who was at UCA in November, 1989, when Salvadoran government troops killed six of his fellow Jesuit brothers, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter, will discuss this pivotal event in U.S.-El Salvadoran relations.

Tojeira will discuss the assassinations and their aftermath, and current developments in the process of bringing those responsible for the murders to justice. Pamela Merchant, executive director of the Center for Justice and Accountability, which filed a case in Spanish National Court that led to the issuing of indictments for the Salvadoran soldiers who were involved with the murders, will also speak.

A new report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers reports that state and local spending for higher education fell to a 25-year low in 2011. This spending low comes at a time when college enrollment has increased nationally by 12.5 percent from 2007 to 2011. State and local spending on higher education has decreased by $1.3 billion over that same period of time. The current national average for combined state and local support per full-time student is down to $6,290. Tuition revenue per student was at an all time high of $4,774 in 2011 to make up for this lack of spending.

Local News Newton man’s vehicular manslaughter trial pushed back Evan Hoffman, a Newton man charged with vehicular manslaughter, will have his trial pushed back to May until the District Attorney’s office can get an accident reconstruction report from Defense Attorney Timothy Burke. A compliance hearing on Mar. 16 at Newton District Court determined that Hoffman will return to court on April 11 for a status review, and that his trial will begin on May 9. He is charged with crashing into a minivan on June 26, 2010, and killing its driver.

Conference discusses Islam’s role in democracy

By Samantha Costanzo Asst. News Editor

daniel lee / Heights editor

Students and faculty gathered at an all-day conference to discuss the role Turkey and Islam play in Democracy. similate Muslim immigrants.

Laurence characterized this as the conflicts between Europeanization and maintaining Turkishness.

“There has been a paradigm shift within Turkish strategy,” Laurence said. “Instead of focusing on remittance or terrorism, it’s shifted to something more optimistic.”

He discussed the various ways

in which the Turkish government has recently been working with other governments to reach out to its citizens living abroad, such as programs to train imams and send them to Islamic communities in need of a religious leader.

Despite this, the Turkish and European governments still struggle to represent and assimilate Turkish Muslims.

“It’s not about whether Islam

in Europe and modernity are compatible,” Yukleyen said. “It’s more than that.”

According to him, the localization of Islam in Europe depends on which multicultural policies countries adopt, social activism in regards to communication and establishment of “neighborly relations,” and bridging and outreach between Muslims and other citizens.

“Young leadership is emerging,” Yukleyen said. “They want to be recognized as new leaders.

Through activism, their understanding of Islam is adapting to democracy.”

Scott Alexander, director of the Catholic Theological Union, gave the keynote address. He focused on the varying Islamic reforms in Turkey and the ways in which these reforms are renewing people’s perception of the faith.

In the last panel of the day, Omer Taspinar, director of the Brookings Institution and National War College’s Turkey Project, and Joshua Walker, assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School’s International and Cross-Cultural Leadership Studies program, discussed Turkey’s impact on the Arab Spring.

The conference, which was part of the Islamic Civilizations and Society’s Distinguished Lecture Series, was hosted by The Islamic Civilizations and Societies program and Boise Center for Religion and American Public Life, both from BC, as well as a number of off-campus organizations, including the Peace Islands Institute, The Turkish Cultural Center Boston, and the Kokkalis Program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. n

Police Blotter

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“Who would you pick to perform at BC’s spring concert?”

Wednesday, March 14 4:28 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a larceny in Walsh Hall. A detective will investigate further.

Thursday, March 15 11:08 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny in the Plex. A detective will investigate further.

3:03 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person at Alumni Stadium.

The party was identified and advised that he was in an area that required prior authorization. The party was cooperative and left the area without incident.

6:41 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation at 110 St. Thomas More Rd. The cause of the alarm activation was determined to be the result of burnt cooking. The building alarm did not activate as it was a local alarm only, therefore there was no Fire Department response. A Boston College electrician responded and reset the system.

7:10 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an ill party at Medeiros Hall who was transported to a medical facility via Armstrong Ambulance.

8:36 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an ongoing dispute between roommates in Keyes South Hall. The issues are currently being addressed by Residential Life. All parties involved on opposite

sides of the issues were advised to have no contact with each other and all agreed.

11:57 p.m. - A report was filed regarding assistance provided to the Boston Police with an off campus event at a local bar that was attracting underage students.

BCPD was advised that they would be looking into claims that the event was advertised to underage BC students via an e-mail. The BPD Sergeant stated that he would pass this information along to BCPD when his investigation is completed.

Friday, March 16 12:50 a.m. - A report was filed regarding assistance provided to the Boston Police and the Community Assistance Patrol with a loud party off campus. Officers responded and encountered approximately 100 people in and around the residence openly consuming alcoholic beverages.

A keg was located within the residence.

Two BC students were identified as the residents. The Boston Police issued the residents a $300 civil citation.

12:53 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a party who was placed under arrest for assault and battery at Walsh Hall. The party was transported to BCPD Headquarters where he was booked and later transported to Brighton District Court for arraignment.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

“Carly Rae Jepson, but she can only play ‘Call Me Maybe.’ I’m totally kidding.”

—Jaclyn Carey, A&S ’12

“Jay-Z.” —Terry Peng, A&S ’14

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“Bruce Springsteen.”

—Brian Williams,

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Boston College hosted an all-day conference to take a close look at the role Turkey and Islam play in democracy.

The conference, called “Islam and Democracy: A Closer Look at the Turkish Model,” consisted of three panel discussions and a keynote address by Scott Alexander, the director of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

The first panel of the day focused on the relationship between politics and Islam in Turkey and featured insights from Berna Turam of Northeastern University and Ahmet Kuru of San Diego State University.

The second panel, with Jonathan Laurence, an associate professor at BC’s political science department, and Ahmet Yukleyen, an assistant professor of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, discussed the political and religious situation of Islamic Turks living in Europe. The panel highlighted the various cultural facets of issues related to Muslims living abroad, such as the Turkish government’s desire to continue to regulate citizens and foreign government’s struggles to as-

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Housing Boston lucky on St. Patty’s Day crisis hits BC again

By Andrew Millette Assoc. News Editor

Joseph Pasquinelli The three most important things in real estate are: location, location, location. Many BC students seem to think that where they land in the lottery is the most important aspect of their spring semesters. While I haven’t been the luckiest in location, I have been fairly lucky with whom I’ve been living.

Certainly it would be nice to live in the Mods (if that’s your taste) or Gabelli (for those with more refined palettes), but ResLife is correct when they say it’s not where you live but who you live with.

My freshman year I lived in a forced triple on Upper Campus with two of the sloppiest and lovable guys with whom you could share a walk-in closet. The location exasperated the problem of having a dirty laundry throw rug to cover a milk stain, but the essential issue was our conflicting views on what we consider living in filth. While I like the guys a lot and still spend time with them, we were not compatible as roommates and have not lived together since.

Sophomore year I was incredibly lucky to get Edmond’s Hall by more or less randomly falling in with three guys I had never met. Our similar standards of cleanliness made for a pleasant living situation, and, with one change, we have made the unhappy return to Edmonds as seniors. Living on the first floor of Edmond’s right next to the entrance and day partying bros doesn’t exactly strike any of the four of us as an ideal location for seniors, but we are satisfied with out living situation because of mutual respect and the realization that only pigs should live in pig sties.

There are two important factors that need to be considered.

First, as you may have guessed, is that they have similar standards regarding what is clean enough. Someone who’s incredibly concerned that the drinking glasses line up by height in the cabinet probably shouldn’t live with someone who uses dirty laundry as a soft place to land upon falling out of bed. Secondly, you and your roommate should have similar, or at least non-conflicting, ideas of what the room should be used for. Is it to be a study space, a place to relax and just hang out, the host of the pre-game, or the room in which to rage? The person who prefers to read silently and has an anxiety complex around noise probably shouldn’t live with the guy who hosts thirty party animals Thursday through Wednesday.

Location should be one of the last things on your mind during the housing lottery, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important.

It’s necessary to tailor your room choice to your needs and wants. If you want to party, play hostess, and have random freshmen coming through your back door, then by all means live in the Mods. However, if you don’t want to sh— where you eat, you might want to break from the typical—and I’d argue ridiculous—BC desire to live in what was supposed to be temporary housing, then it would serve you well to consider other housing options.

Most importantly, though, is that we don’t let the housing lottery turn into a housing crisis.

I suppose it’s easy for me to say as a senior who is above the fray, but it’s simply not worth losing friends over if you live in the Mods or in an apartment in Edmonds. If you so desire, the stench of booze, sex, and vomit will be scarred into your nose for the entirety of the coming academic year no matter where you live.

Joesph Pasquinelli is a staff columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at news@ bcheights.com.

Boston has been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day since Massachusetts was only a British colony, and the city’s passion for the holiday has not diminished at all in over 250 years.

The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston is the city’s largest celebration. Started in 1804, this parade has grown to attract crowds of 600,000 to one million people annually and is now second in size only to the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Bagpipe bands and marching bands from all over America travel to Boston to march in the parade, which begins at the Broadway T station and ends at Andrew Square in South Boston. Though the actual parade does not start until 1 p.m., it is not unusual to see the route of the parade already lined with people by 9 a.m.

To counter past issues with alcohol at the parade, this year Boston Police implemented surveillance cameras alongside the parade route to monitor crowds.

The city also restricted liquor stores’ hours from noon to 4 p.m. and forced all bars to close by 7:30 p.m.

A somewhat more recent St. Patrick’s Day tradition in Boston are the annual St. Patrick’s Day shows of hometown band Dropkick Murphys. This Irish-influenced punk rock band, which many Boston College students may know for their cover of “For Boston” and their stadium anthem “I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” rocked the House of Blues every night from Wednesday to Friday last week.

Faneuil Hall Marketplace hosted a celebration of Irish culture all day Saturday with a series of free performances at The West End Stage, including the bagpipe group The Bay State Pipers, and Irish dance groups from the Wood School of Irish Step Dancing and the O’Dwyer School of Irish Dance. Cheers Boston, also located in Faneuil Hall, offered a special Corned Beef and Cabbage and Irish Beef Stew dinner.

Bar crawls are an ever-popular means of celebration in Boston

on Saint Patrick’s Day, and pub and bar owners anticipate the holiday all year, looking forward to the unusually high profits they always receive. A different sort of crawl, a guided tour of the Boston Irish Heritage Trail, is also a popular St. Patrick’s Day event.

On Saturday and Sunday, guided tours were offered by the Boston Irish Tourism Association. These tours visit 20 sites in downtown Boston over a three-mile stretch and teach participants about 300 years of Irish history in Boston.

Some of the most active St. Patrick’s Day celebrants participated in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Road Race 5k. A field of over 1,500 runners competed in the race, which benefits the South Boston Boys and Girls Club.

Boston was lucky enough to have beautiful weather both Saturday and Sunday. Though late season snowstorms have fallen on St. Patrick’s Day in the past, the weekend’s high temperature was above 70 degrees. The sunny conditions all weekend were perfect for one of America’s most Irish cities to celebrate one of its most beloved holidays. n

R E D I S N CO A Closer Look at BCVC With the Boston College Venture Competition (BCVC) coming up, take a look at one company who started with this prize money and developed into a company that had a huge impact on current issues.

WePay, co- founded by graduates Bill Clerico, BC ’07 and Rich Aberman, BC ’07, is an online pay system that makes money transfers between users and large groups of people faster and easier. Clerico and Aberman’s involvement in the founding and winning of BCVC in 2006 led to the eventual success of WePay. One major success for WePay was their involvement in the Occupy New York protests. Organizers of the protests launched a page on WePay to accept donations from supporters of the cause.

WePay projects that by October, the protestors had raised over $400,000 for their donation page.

WePay is just one example of the different companies formed and funded through the help of BCVC. Other successful organizations started by individuals who won the award include WakeSmart (2009), and College Mogul (2008). BCVC offers a unique opportunity to students with a program that encourages and promotes creativity entrepreneurship. With the success seen so far, it begs the question of what exactly is possible with the prize money.

With the success seen thus far, BC could potentially be about to support “the next big thing.”

St. Patty’s Day Celebrations

Zac Halpern / Heights senior Staff

Many Boston College students chose to skip the city altogether on St. Patrick’s Day, celebrating on campus instead.

Welcome to BC’s Green Corner, a weekly spot dedicated to providing students with information, tips, and ideas on sustainable living.

Green Week 2012 Boston College’s annual Green Week begins today.

This year’s theme, Save the Humans!, focuses on social justice and activism and is sponsored by Eco Pledge, Sustain BC, and UGBC. Here is a list of this week’s events: Monday From Academics to Activism: a talk and discussion with Juliet Schor and a student showcase in Higgins 310 at 8 p.m.

Tuesday Sustainability Operations Forum: Representatives from IT, Dining, Procurement, Transportation & Parking, Facilities, and Athletics will discuss recent sustainability efforts and initiatives in Fulton 511 at 4:15 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.

Eco Career Night: Come learn about a variety of green careers in The Rat at 6 p.m.

Wednesday Lunch and Learn: Dan DiLeo of Catholic Climate Covenant will be discussing faith and solidarity in light of the climate crisis at 12:30 p.m.

Contact margaret.lister@ bc.edu to RSVP. Thursday Activism 101 with MA Fair Share at 5 p.m. in Higgins 265.

Friday Stokes Hall tour: Learn about Stokes Hall’s efforts to be green on a tour with an architect from Tsoi Kobus Associates. The tour is limited to 10 students and will begin at 3:30 in Lyons 207. Email margaret.lister@ bc.edu to RSVP. Saturday Endangered Species Concert in Carney Dining Hall at 8 p.m.

NRG Games Results The winner of this year’s NRG Games is Edmond’s Hall. Residents reduced their electrical use by 4.4 percent, and all residents will receive a t-shirt as their prize.

Recycle Mania Of the over 600 colleges and universities participating in this year’s Recyle Mania competition, BC is still ranked No. 1 in the per capita division. The competition continues through Mar. 31.

Want more news?

A new Sustainability Newsletter is available on BC’s sustainability website.

Across the city, Saturday was spent celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. For a city where 15 percent of the population claims Irish

descent, this is one of the city’s biggest holidays. Here are a couple of St. Patrick’s Day traditions and facts, both in and out of Boston: -McElroy Dining Hall served Irish food all day with a fare that included Roast beef and cabbage, Irish lamb stew, and lots of potatoes.

-The city of Boston is known for one of the best St. Patrick’s Day parades in the country. It is the world’s oldest parade for the holiday, first hosted by the Irish Society of Boston in 1737.

-Since 1962, the city of Chicago has dyed the Chicago River green. This began when a plumber who also helped organize the parade noticed that a dye used to trace pollutants in the river stained a friend’s overalls green.

-The amount of Guinness consumed on St. Patrick’s Day around the world more than doubles from the daily average of 5.5 million pints to 13 million.

-The color originally associated with St. Patrick’s day was blue and it wasn’t until the 17th century that the color of green began to be associated with the holiday.

-Hoboken, New Jersey recently instituted a zero tolerance policy for alcohol related incidents. The minimum fine for alcohol related offences is $2,000.

-In Great Britain, the Queen Mother used to present shamrocks flown over from Ireland to the Irish Guard, a regiment in the British Army made up of soldiers from Ireland.

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Exhibit preserves lost art

BCVC will award $10k BCVC, from A1

Exhibit, from A1 time. This whole project was pretty enlightening and shed some new light on Boston’s past.”

Kelsie Dorn, A&S ’12, focused on a different side of Boston’s literary past. Dorn researched Judith Sargent Murray, an essayist and playwright who she describes as “suffering in silence.” Dorn’s experience with what she found was as astounding as House’s. She described the project as a process of “unearthing priceless, centuriesold pieces of Boston’s history.” Dorn also commented on the chemistry of the group of students as a whole, all “[bringing] something different to this puzzle.”

The students, led by Lewis, were given access to the rare books section of the Boston Public Library, as well as collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. House also elaborated on field trips to particular historical literary sites in the Boston area.

House commented on the lack of preservation involved, remarking on visiting a former literary landmark and discovering it had been converted into a Qdoba. “Literary landmarks in Boston aren’t really kept up,” House said. “Our research and the exhibit really give light to where these places actually are.”

All of the students, despite their varying literary focuses, realized the same theme about their extensive project: to educate the Boston community on aspects of history that have been forgotten.

Developing the anthology was an attempt to shed light on pieces of literature that were acclaimed at the time, but for whatever reason, ended up misplaced.

Alexandra Mitropoulos, A&S ’12, commented specifically on the importance of their project.

“It’s so easy to walk around Boston and just see what’s in front of you without understanding the history.

I think it’s really important to understand the past to be able to see how much of the city has changed, or hasn’t changed, since it was built. This project really helps an era of Boston come back to life.”

House also mentioned that the exhibit is geared toward students and citizens of Boston: “The project is for people who visit and for people who live here to let them know that this is a part of the history.”

The exhibit opens at the Boston Public Library on Wednesday, Mar. 28, and is scheduled to remain on display for the coming months. n

“I’ve lived in Boston my whole life, and I’m coming across this information for the first time. This whole project was pretty enlightening and shed some new light on Boston’s past.”

-Kristen House Exhibit Participant and A&S ’12

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The Winston Center brings notable speakers to Boston College, like former Washington, D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty (above).

Winston Center hopes to gain input Winston Center, from A1

further our programmatic offerings to topics that are timely and

Winston Center is opening applications ahead of time to interested students. The program will also be marketed throughout the coming months and at Student Activities Day during the fall. The new program is just one step in continuing to improve the way the center operates, Barhydt said.

“I trust that the Ambassador Program will help to spread the message of the Winston Center throughout campus and draw increased interest from students and faculty in many different areas of the school,” Barhydt said.

“The ability to gain thoughtful feedback from the student base will allow the Winston Center to

“I trust that the Ambassador Program will help to spread the message of the Winston Center throughout campus.”

-Brooks Barhydt Assistant Director of the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics extremely important on campus, whether this is through outside

Work has paid off for GSSW GSSW, from A1 school in diversity. “This school had only about 15 percent AHANA students,” Godenzi said. “The goal was to double the percentage, which we achieved. We increased our efforts to reach out.”

When looking to the future and moving up further in the rankings, Godenzi spoke about the four areas in which BC is behind. “The people are key,” Godenzi said. “We needed distinguished faculty with global perspectives. It is easier to attract the best faculty when you offer them an endowed chair which allows them to sustain their successful careers, but BC has a relatively low number of endowed chairs. The top 10 social work programs have up to 10, while we have two.”

Unlike many of its competitors, BC’s school of social work does not have its own building.

Before the economic downturn, the Master Plan had a building planned for the school of social

work, but it was scrapped.

The third area was student-tofaculty ratio. “In 2003, our ratio was 1:22 and we set our goal to be 1:13,” Godenzi said. “Today we are at 1:18. The ratio of the top 10 is 1:10.”

The fourth area was financial aid. When comparing BC to other schools, Godenzi stressed that BC did not have the same resources as the other top-10 programs. “The financial aid that [social work students] got was very moderate, but it was increased strategically twice over the past 10 years,” Godenzi said. “We are one of the most expensive social work schools in the nation.”

Looking to the future, Godenzi emphasized the need for constant innovation. “We are about to launch the first dual language social work program in the nation,” Godenzi said. “This is a response to the changing climate in demographics. We don’t plan beyond two years because we don’t know what is going to be around the corner.” n

speakers or thoughtful collaborations with key members of the campus community.”

Althoug h the center ha s worked with numerous students in the past, the new program hopes to emphasize the center’s commitment to students in the BC community.

“We’ve been fortunate in the past to work with a number of amazing students in an informal basis, but by creating this program, I believe we will take a critical step toward reinforcing important lines of communication, key partnerships, and ultimately continue to work diligently on our great offerings to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of Boston College,” Barhydt said. n

Lightning, Namib Beetle Design, Per Diem Connect, and Neuro Tone.

Maji is a water bottle company working to help solve the world’s water crisis. In Swahili, Maji means “water.” For every five Maji bottles sold, the team pledges to provide someone access to clean drinking water for life.

“We are extremely grateful for the $1,000 that we received as finalists in BCVC,” said Paul Veiga, chief financial officer for Maji and CSOM ’12. “So far, a portion of the money has gone into ordering new products that will help strengthen our brand.”

The teams, including Maji, have found the accelerated program to be extremely beneficial. “We have had the opportunity to meet with different business professionals on campus about our financial outlook and business strategy,” Veiga said.

“The BCVC team has also connected us with professionals outside of BC to help us tighten our business plan and expand our brand.”

Green Lightning provides the eco-friendliest wave-riding experience by handcrafting custom surfboards from recycled materials.

They offer a unique product and service through tailor-fit customization and co-creation. Beyond construction, the team incorporates 14 principles to build a truly innovative business model that is designed for financial, social, and environmental sustainability.

The Namib Beetle Design (NBD) is a biomimicry-inspired product based on the namib desert beetle.

The team uses nanotechnology to trap water from condensation to produce a sustainable method of collecting clean drinking water.

“So far the accelerator program has been great,” said Miguel Galvez, chief operating officer for NBD and A&S ’12. “We’ve picked up a couple of great mentors. One of which is really going out of his way to help us out and connecting us to people in the industry.”

“The $1,000 has been great to cover up some really early expenses that can go a long way as we try to build our business,” Galvez said.

Per Diem Connect is a hybrid ap-

plication that empowers users with a transparent and efficient networking ecosystem that is controlled for quality by other business travelers.

Strong search, targeting, and mobile concierge services unite the major event groups on one communication platform and generate multiple revenue channels.

Drew Beaurline, a founder and managing partner for Per Diem Connect, and CSOM ’13, said his team started to develop ideas in October, establishing a network of mentors, including some BC professors. “As we entered into the accelerated stage, we gained further great mentors that have helped us with some of the more micro aspects of our company,” Beaurline said.

“All the resources [the program] set up for us have been great, and the program attempts to walk you through step by step as far as what you need,” Beaurline said.

Per Diem Connect has used the two-month period to meet with different team members and to get advice from their mentors about when and where they should pitch their product. They have also worked on their design and the engineering of their product.

Beaurline mentioned that one setback his team has faced has to do with the disbursement of the $1,000.

“The other teams are all at BC, but it’s different for our team,” Beaurline said. “Personally my money hasn’t come through yet. If BCVC could make this a little bit easier, if the money could all go into one account for the team, that’d be easier.”

Neuro Tone is a music consulting company that utilizes biometrics to gather insightful consumer data with respect to audio applications. They cater to record labels, advertising agencies, and consumer retailers offering an advantage over convention market research methods. “[Our team has] gained invaluable experience through the BCVC program and [has] had the chance to discuss ideas with a number of very intelligent individuals,” said Sven Benson, member of the Neuro Tone team and A&S ’12. “The oneon-one meetings that we are now privy to as finalists are an amazing opportunity.”

The final competition for this year’s BCVC will be April 11. n

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Changes to BCVC positively received

Restructuring of BCVC offers both capital and advice to student startups Boston is a city known for innovation. Just ask 2thinknow, which just ranked Boston as the most innovative city in the world . Not surprisingly, the city, with its profusion of universities and youthful population, has considerable appeal for venture capitalists seeking to stake claims in startups.

Boston College, capitalizing on the draw of and resources provided by the city, is wise to sponsor the Boston College Venture Competition (BC VC), which provides students with an environment in which their ideas for startups may be seen to fruition through the aid of venture capital firms. Students entering the competition, which has recently modified its structure, are provided with capital from sponsoring firms for successfully reaching certain levels of progression with their ideas.

Venture capital benefits students

like those in BCVC because it allows them to receive funding for ideas when they may not have the funds to support themselves other wise.

Venture capitalists hedge bets by investing in a lot of small firms with the logic that though most will not succeed, those that become realized enterprises will potentially yield enormous profitability–this is how firms like Facebook , Google, and Twitter were originally funded.

By providing BC students with these tools, the group’s sponsors are not only providing students with capital, but advice. Venture capital firms often provide advisory services to firms they invest in to increase the likelihood of future probability.

Students who participate in BCVC can thus attempt to start companies while at the same time learning from experts how to navigate that process.

The Heights applauds GSSW’s top 10 rank

The U.S. News and World Report ranking demonstrates strong leadership and innovation within the school Earlier this week, U.S. News and World Report named the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work the 10th best school of its kind in the nation. The graduate school rankings, which are released every four years, mark a major victory for both the social work school and BC as a whole.

According to Dean Alberto Godenzi, after being ranked 14th in 2009, the GSSW set a goal to be in the top 10. With a lot of hard work, determination, and excellent leadership by both administrators and faculty, GSSW achieved this goal, and now will be recognized as being in the top echelon of social work schools.

The Heights would like to congratulate all those involved with GSSW now, and for the past eight years. By

implementing initiatives that centered on global issues, improving student-to-faculty ratios, increasing financial aid, and fostering diversity, these members of the BC community set their school apart from the rest by giving it a unique identity. These measures are truly signs of innovation and wonderful creativity in the education process.

The Heights also would like to acknowledge the success of Dean Godenzi. Coming to the school in 2001, Godenzi formulated a vision for the school that catapulted its success to correspond perfectly with the school’s 75th anniversary. As of now, GSSW is the only BC graduate school ranked in the top 10, and this is no doubt due to the entire school’s tireless effort.

University should reflect on actions post-Rutgers With the conclusion of the Rutgers trial, BC should reexamine its treatment of the GLBTQ community

In wake of the sentencing of Dharun Ravi, the Rutgers freshman accused of videotaping his roommate Tyler Clementi during a sexual encounter, The Heights would like to remind the Boston College community of the importance of GLBTQ tolerance.

The above incident, which took place in 2010, was the catalyst for

“Without a proper system that supports GLBTQ students and bodies, tragedies like those at Rutgers could very much fall closer to home.”

Clementi’s suicide and led Ravi to be convicted of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, and several other charges. In response, state and nationwide laws were passed regarding bullying and webcam use.

Although no such incident has occurred here at BC, it is imperative that we use this event to examine and reflect on GLBTQ issues within our own campus. Without a proper system that supports GLBTQ students and

bodies, tragedies like those at Rutgers could very much fall closer to home.

When considering that the GLBTQ community at BC has often faced uphill battles due to the University’s Catholic identity, The Heights believes that we should all continue to relentlessly advocate for GLBTQ causes in order to foster a healthy and accepting campus.

Currently, the GLBTQ Leadership Council is working to fulfill the goals outlined in their document “Reaching New Heights,” and in light of the end of Ravi’s trial, we hope that the administration and students at BC will support their propositions. Some, such as the creation of a resource center, could help prevent hate crimes or assuage the isolation felt by many of our GLBTQ peers—the isolation which likely led to the heartbreaking death of Clementi.

As Clementi’s father put it best, “You’re going to meet a lot of people in your life. Some of these people you may not like. Just because you don’t like them doesn’t mean you have to work against them.” We are all a community here at BC, and we should all work to increase our cohesion and unity, no matter what our differences are.

The Heights The Independent Student Newspaper of Boston College Established 1919 Taylour Kumpf, Editor-in-Chief Daniel Ottaunick, General Manager Lindsay Grossman, Managing Editor

Monday, March 19, 2012

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

-Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), past President of the United States

Letter to the Editor The following letter is addressed to Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston: I am writing to you and to all the ordinaries of the dioceses in the United States to ask you and your fellow bishops in your role as teachers to provide a clear and credible theological explanation of why women are not being ordained to the priesthood in the Catholic Church.

I write not to challenge the teaching of the church as set forth in the 1994 Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, concerning priestly ordination.

My concern is the theological explanation of this teaching. Theology I take to be essentially what Anselm said it is, “faith seeking understanding.”

I teach in the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. As you might expect, in the school we have a number of students—women and men—who are preparing for ministry of one kind or another. As serious students of theology and ministry, the issue of women’s ordination is extremely important for many of them—how this issue is now understood and has been in the past, what the requirements for ordination are, and especially what a clear and adequate theological explanation of this teaching might be. For some of our students, this issue is the most important one they wrestle with. For some of them, what resolution they come to determines whether or not they stay in the Catholic Church.

Yet, in the Church there is a rule of silence. We are told that women’s ordination cannot be discussed. The issue that cries for theological explanation is not to be discussed in schools that have theological explanation as one of their prime reasons for being. In other settings, however, rather abstruse arguments are put forward, usually around “bride of Christ” symbolism or with a suggestion such as ordination is “God’s gift to men.” Several years ago, as you know, Pope Benedict XVI declared that the ordination of women was a “grave crime” akin to pedophilia. My sense is that these comments are found to be more puzzling, or bizarre, or embarrassing than seriously theological. They beg the issue, raising more questions than they answer.

In case you are wondering who this person is who is writing to you, I am an Augustinian priest, solemnly professed for 50 years, teaching at the School of Theology and Ministry of BC. Before coming to Boston College in 2003, I taught for many years in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University.

My areas of expertise are in pastoral care and counseling (Fellow, American Association of Pastoral Counselors) and the psychology of religious development (Ph.D., Psychology of Religion, University of Ottawa), areas that today would be considered practical theology. I also have graduate degrees in theology, philosophy, pastoral counseling, and social work.

I mention this background because in all of my study, in all of my training, in all of my counseling experience, and in all of my 30 years of teaching I have not come across a single credible thinker who holds that women are not fully able to provide pastoral care. Likewise, I have not come across a single credible thinker who holds that women are deficient in religious development or maturity.

From the perspective of practical theology—a theology of the living church—I find there is absolutely nothing that does not completely support the ordination of women to the priesthood. Therefore, I too am looking to you and to your fellow bishops for a serious theological explanation of the church’s teaching on women’s ordination.

Not being an historical or a sacramental theologian, I have attempted to keep abreast of some of the contemporary research. Perhaps in the mainstream of that research is Gary Macy’s The Hidden History of Women’s Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West. Macy, a serious scholar by any account, begins the preface of the book by saying: “The fact that women were ordained for the first twelve hundred years of Christianity will surprise many people. It surprised me when I first discovered it.”

Chapter Four, “Defining Women Out of Ordination,” is as disturbing ecclesiastically as it is fascinating historically. Without doubt, patriarchy was alive and well in the Medieval Church.

All the historical reasons offered against the ordination of women ultimately boil down to the one theological explanation the Vatican actually did offer a number of years ago: women cannot be ordained because they are “not fully in the likeness of Jesus.” It seems to me, however, that to hold that women are not fully in the likeness of Jesus is to engage in heresy. It is to say that women are not fully redeemed by Jesus. It is to say that women are not made whole by the saving favor of our God. The statement

of the Vatican on the ordination of women substitutes gender biology for Christian theology, privileging Jesus’ maleness instead of his full humanness.

Cardinal O’Malley, can you actually support this theological explanation offered by the Vatican? Is the theological reason why women cannot be ordained because they are “not fully in the likeness of Jesus”? As you know, for centuries the question in the church was whether or not women had souls, and if they did, were they equal to those of men. Now, with an understanding of the person more as body than soul, the question is whether or not women have bodies equal to those of men. Is not Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo, the Patriarch of Lisbon, right when speaking on this issue he clearly affirms the “fundamental equality of all members of the Church”?

Since 1986, I have been calling every four years for open discussion of women’s ordination at the chapters of my province, the Province of St. Thomas of Villanova.

In September of 2010, I wrote to Father Robert Prevost, O.S.A. in Rome, the Prior General of the Augustinian Order, asking “that I be officially recognized as stepping aside from the public exercise of priesthood until women are ordained as priests in our church.” Eventually, I heard back from the Vicar General saying there was “no category” for what I am asking. In February of 2011, I wrote to you, the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston; to my Provincial, Reverend Anthony Genovese, O.S.A.; to Reverend Mark Massa, S.J., Dean of the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College; and to Doctor Thomas Groome, my chair at the school, informing them that I was stepping aside from active ministry as a priest until women are ordained.

As a way of giving some context in my letter to Father Prevost, I told the following story. In 1991, I was invited to India to give a paper at a conference in Madras (now Chennai) honoring the life and work of Father D. S. Amalorpavadass. After the conference, I offered a workshop on “Listening Skills in Pastoral Counselling.” As I was describing these skills, a priest from a neighboring country said, “Can I ask you a practical question?” I said: “Of course.” And then he proceeded to tell me that the most pressing pastoral problem he was facing was that mothers were killing their own baby girls. The families were too poor to provide a dowry for them and it would be too difficult to keep them. Later, as I was reflecting on the horror of mothers being made to kill their own daughters, I asked myself, “How can the Church respond to this?” And then it came to me: “How can the Church talk about the dignity of women when it also sees women as inferior to men, as in a ‘state of subjection,’ as not fully in the likeness of Jesus?”

I write to you to ask you, in your role as a bishop in the Church, to craft a serious theological explanation of why women are not able to be ordained. I also ask that you speak with your fellow bishops so that you can lift the rule of silence on this issue. If you agree with the Church’s statements on women’s ordination, please have the courage to teach about this issue in a way that mature, intelligent adults can appreciate, taking into account Jesus’ relating to women and the actual history of ordination. If you have serious theological problems with the Church’s statements on women’s ordination, please have the courage to teach about this issue with pastoral care so that the hemorrhaging in our Church can begin to stop. Whatever your position ultimately may be, our Church—including the students of theology and ministry at Boston College and elsewhere across the country—is in desperate need of your honesty, openness, informed clarity, and leadership.

A friend of mine is fond of saying that in the Church today, authority trumps theology every time. If this is true, it is clearly not a strategy for the long term. Is there a better way? Can authority and theology actually strengthen each other for the good of all the people of God? It is the beginning of Lent, a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, a time of for all of us in the church to be mindful of how we are in our caring and in our justice.

Cardinal O‘Malley, is providing a serious theological explanation of why women are not being ordained in the church something you can do as part of your teaching responsibility as a bishop, as part of your caring and your justice?

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Sandra, Sarah, and sexism

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Janine Hanrahan Appreciating St. Patrick’sDon’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Yes, we are talking about one of the most wonderful days in our BC career, and yes, we know that last sentence made you want to gag but we don’t care. Whether you were dartying, exploring Boston, or watching the Luck of the Irish, Saint Patrick’s day at BC was certainly one to remember. In the case of the boy we found vomiting in some Mod bushes while singing “Shipping up to Boston,” we’re sorry that your memories will be lost forever.

Social School swag- U.S. News and World Report just ranked BC’s Graduate School of Social Work as the 10th best graduate social work school nationally. In 2009, it was ranked 14th. TU/TD would like to congratulate all those staff members and graduate students who made the school what it is today.

Mario, memoralized- Move over Hope Diamond, it’s Pacman’s time to shine. The Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. has just opened an exhibit about video games, the f irst of its kind. Taking its visitors through video game history, from Space Invaders to Call of Duty, the exhibit features giant interactive screens.

Which basically means it’s a giant free arcade.

Vindication- After three consecutive semesters of having the worst pick time, BC TU/TD has finally secured one before 10 a.m. on the first day. For all you haters out there, after getting 4:45 on the last day freshman year (that is, actually, the last pick time in the ENTIRE SCHOOL), we deserve this. The possibilities of our schedule are endless. Should we have no classes on Friday?

Monday? Should we decide to only have classes past 12?

The world is our oyster.

Thumbs Down Invisible Crazy- The cofounder of Invisible Children, Jason Russell, was arrested for vandalism and public masturbation. His publicist blames the incident on a combination of dehydration, exhaustion, and malnutrition. We don’t know about you guys, but we do that when we’re hungry too, so what’s the big deal?

GOP Gut- A passenger on an all-gay cruise snapped a picture of Rick Santorum shirtless in Puerto Rico.

Come on guys, can we please stop with half naked pictures of presidential contenders?

We were just recovering from seeing Gingrich posed on a rock like an obese Ariel, and now we have this to deal with.

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Once upon a time, Sandra Fluke was just a law student at Georgetown and Sarah Palin was just the former governor of Alaska. In these bygone days, “slut,” “prostitute,” “c—,” and “t —” were words not often seen in the newspaper or heard on CNN. Then along came Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, and a national controversy about the words used to describe women.

Now Sandra Fluke is the latest victim of the Republican Party’s “war on women,” and Sarah Palin is the longsuffering target of liberals’ unchecked misogyny. The end—or so Democrats and Republicans would respectively have it.

But of course, the partisan spin sheds an incomplete light on the firestorm that Limbaugh set off when he railed against Fluke for three days on his radio show, calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute” who is “having so much sex she can’t afford her own birth control pills.” Limbaugh’s comments came after Fluke offered testimony in favor of the Obama Administration’s contraception mandate before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. In his vulgar tirade, Limbaugh conveniently ignored the fact that Fluke’s testimony had nothing to do with her sex life, but rather concerned a friend of hers who suffered from a medical condition that required treatment with contraceptives, which Georgetown’s health insurance policy refused to cover. But who needs those sorts of details?

While Mitt Romney and his cohorts on the campaign trail were con-

tent to let Limbaugh’s comments slide, or excuse them as the absurdities of an “entertainer,” Democrats seized the day—portraying Limbaugh’s words as further evidence of the GOP’s antiwomen bias. In response, Republicans pointed out that Bill Maher, who recently donated $1 million to President Obama’s super PAC, has called Palin and Michele Bachmann “bimbos,” in addition to calling Palin a “c—” and a “t—” According to David Axelrod, a key advisor to President Obama, the super PAC should keep the money because Maher’s comments are “different.” Why of course! As Maher pointed out, Palin is a “public figure who gives as good as she gets.” Obviously it is fine to call her a c—, and the audience laughed when he said it after all!

But despite what the spin-doctors

would have us believe, Maher’s comments about Palin and Limbaugh’s rampage against Fluke are really no different—they are just the latest examples of the sexism women face.

While Maher claims that his use of the “c-word” merely makes him a “potty mouth,” it is hardly a coincidence that he used it when describing Palin and not George W. Bush. Like the words slut and prostitute, the c-word is reserved for women. When an organization was formed to stop

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, it was named Citizens United Not Timid (yes, Citizens United of Supreme Court infamy) so that the acronym would spell the c-word. Last time I checked, there are no similarly named super PACs opposing male candidates. Likewise, Limbaugh hasn’t suggested that any of the men who testified before Congress post sex tapes of themselves—only Fluke has that distinction.

So as much as we might like to tell ourselves that sexism no longer exists, or that it doesn’t matter, the fact is that it does. Sexism is not only reprehensible—it is destructive. It makes it more difficult for women to be taken seriously in the political arena (and everywhere else, for that matter), and it also dissuades women from getting involved. What woman would want to be subjected to the name-calling and constant scrutiny of her appearance that people like Palin and Hillary Clinton face? Not very many, which is one of the reasons why women only compose 17 percent of Congress despite making up half of the population.

When President Obama discussed his decision to call Fluke and express his support for her, he invoked his own daughters, saying, “I don’t want them attacked or called horrible names because they’re being good citizens.” President Obama is absolutely right, but he and everyone else need to realize that this is true for all women, not just the ones with whom we agree or like. As long as calling out sexism is a mere political calculation rather than a serious and deliberate effort, we will continue to have these sorts of incidents long after Fluke and Palin are gone.

Janine Hanrahan is a staff columnist for The Heights. She welcomes comments at opinions@bcheights.com.

Jump shots and job hunts

Tim O’Connor For me, March has always been a time for college basketball. I entered my first NCAA pool through my dad’s work when I was seven or eight. A couple of years later, I won for the first time. I put the money toward a skateboard. Since then, I’ve managed two more wins. This surprises me. I enjoy watching basketball, I have a familiarity with the better players on my favorite teams, but I lack the obsessive knowledge that some of my more informed peers possess. I couldn’t tell you who the best player in the league is, what team is the runaway favorite, or how the infallible judgment of the selection committee screwed a deserving squad out of a good seed.

I really just enjoy watching the games and leaving things to chance.

Every year, it’s hard to find time to actually sit down and fill in the bracket.

I don’t understand why. The entire process–at least the haphazard, random, and arbitrary approach I bring to it–takes all of five minutes. I suppose I just have a lot going on. The normal distractions from previous years returned: the chaos of heading back from Spring Break and an onslaught of midterms and papers always hit around the same time as my e-mail invitation to rejoin the pool I’ve been a part of for 15 years. At least I didn’t have to worry about housing this time around. That’s one problem we seniors no longer have.

So, last Wednesday, I finally opened up CBS Sports’ website and made my selections. It was a welcome reprieve from meticulously researching school districts that would be present at the career fair I would

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attend that evening. I’m told that it is important to distinguish yourself by asking intelligent, focused questions, so I do make an effort to get a sense of what a district is about. Knowing that tedious note-taking on potential employers would be my reward for completing my bracket, I ended up spending a little more time filling it in this year than usual. It was still a pretty random affair, but I looked at a couple of injury reports. My decision to have Ohio State take the championship was a result of the combined opinions of Charles Barkley and Barack Obama.

Both had Ohio State making it to the Final Four, but neither had them going all the way. That was my personal touch.

A couple hours later, I noticed that a fellow job seeker had applied her own personal touch to her resume: the paper she had printed it on was a cloudy, whirling blend of soft gold and white. I hadn’t thought of that, but I didn’t let it worry me. My approach would be more intellectual than aesthetic. I maneuvered my way through a sea of suits and dress blouses, locating the first target on my list. I briefly reviewed my research before getting in line, introduced myself to the recruiter, and launched into my 30-second pitch.

Take some notes, get a business card if the recruiter has one, thank them for their time.

As I meandered between booths, my mind kept wandering back to my bracket. I resolved to make a couple of

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key changes. Our fellow Jesuits over at Marquette, for example, would have to fall to Michigan State. In the end, I know getting the right picks is mostly a matter of luck. Last year, anyone who followed conventional wisdom got blown out of the water, not a single first or second seed made it to the Final Four. Still, deferring to the rankings makes me feel like I’m exerting some control on a random, arbitrary process.

If you do things “the right way,” you’ll surely win the pool.

I found another district on my list, and took a quick glance at my notes.

I approached the booth, ready to talk about the challenges of teaching at a school that speaks four different languages. When I was almost at the table, a representative from the booth immediately to the right intercepted me.

This was not the plan. I was caught unprepared when he introduced himself – I hadn’t done much research on his school because their website didn’t list any openings. Nonetheless, I launched into my spiel, and when I mentioned I was looking for an English teaching position, he enthusiastically introduced me to the man standing next to him: the head of the high school’s English department. Of the dozens of schools I had talked to, this was the first time I had met the person I wanted to talk to—the one who, a couple of weeks from now, will begin pouring over resumes and applications and calling candidates in for interviews.

Of course, I–or any other senior, for that matter–won’t get a job based on pure chance. Rather, it will be our resolve and determination going forward, combined with the hard work we’ve put in over the past four years.

Still, from where I’m standing right now, with full awareness of how ambiguous and uncertain my future is, a little luck definitely couldn’t hurt.

Tim O’Connor is a staff columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at opinions@bcheights.com.

Eagles for each other

Pooja Shah When I first saw all the Facebook status posts, profile picture changes, wall posts, and tweets go viral about the disappearance of Franco Garcia, I was afraid, to say the least. It shocked me how a student could tragically disappear from a night out with friends without a single clue left behind. It was even more discomforting knowing that the extensive investigation resulted in few answers to the dozens of questions everyone on campus had. A few days before Spring Break, the student body received yet another e-mail after an incident of an intruder lurking in the Mods. To be honest, after both these occurrences I began to question my own safety. I was uncomfortable at the thought of walking alone at obscure hours or at the idea that any individual could easily enter the open campus.

If there’s any thing I learned in the last month, it is how strong the Boston College community really is. I have never seen another time when BC students gathered together to garner support for each other during the search for Franco.

Whether it was arranging who puts up flyers where, or who communicates with the remainder of the student body, students have certainly exhausted every effort during this difficult time. By doing so, the campus fosters renewed feelings of comfort, safety, and a general unspoken understanding that we are here for each other in time of need. Yes, BC students party with one another and create a sense of togetherness during football games and other major sporting events, but I never valued how tightly knit our community was or how much we care for each other until now. It is definitely when a difficult circumstance arises that we are all especially proactive. Even in my personal experience, I have seen the compassion of my peers. For instance, during one of my 3 a.m. walks back from the library, I occasionally kept looking over my shoulder out of paranoia. To my surprise, a student that I had only briefly met in a class freshman year decided to walk me back to my dorm. It makes me so proud to be part of an atmosphere that is surrounded by kindness and one where I do not feel as if I don’t belong or that I am, in a sense, alone.

Perhaps the reason for this cohesiveness is due to the fact that BC is founded on Jesuit ideals, which emphasizes that a university is a community.

Not to say it’s the only reason, but the fact that everyone at BC is expected to contribute to the spiritual, intellectual and moral development of one another, as explained in the mission statement, represents our dedication to each other. There have been times when I feel trapped in the “BC bubble,” but in a way, this confinement actually forces us to become closer. This religious and spiritual vision enables us to distribute our responsibilities among ourselves and to our surroundings. Another aspect that may be accountable for this togetherness is the idea that our institution stresses doing service. Through volunteering and service, we become men and women for others and learn how to be supportive.

These lessons are absolutely crucial throughout our college careers and any other obstacles that may face BC, because without them, we may not be as prepared to take on these challenges. Let us remember what we’ve learned, and pray that Franco comes home soon.

Pooja Shah is a staff columnist for The Heights. She welcomes comments at opinions@bcheights.com.

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‘Jump Street’ excels with strong leads and witty spoofs

By Darren Ranck Heights Senior Staff

Hollywood’s obsession with remakes and reboots proves the old saying, “Everything old is new again.” Taking a stale idea and breathing modern life into it is the surefire path to a box office hit, based on name recognition alone. 21 Jump Street never relies solely on 21 Jump Street: this advanPhil Lord tage, though, Columbia Pictures and uses the f rame work of its early-’90s predecessor to create a film that’s energetic, funny, and, above all, good fun.

21 Jump Street tells the story of cop duo Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill), two guys who originally met in high school. Jenko hung out with the popular, underachieving jocks while Schmidt, known by his peers as ‘Not-SoSlim Shady,’ kept to himself and made the honor roll. Reunited in the police academy seven years later, the two adversaries form a team of brains and brawn. When a day on bike patrol in the local park goes awry,

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they are sent to the 21 Jump St. operation to go on an undercover drug bust as high school students. Schmidt takes his second chance at high school to befriend the openminded, socially conscious popular kids (Dave Franco, Brie Larson) while Jenko becomes a social outcast befriended only by his AP chemistry classmates. With the tables turned, Jenko and Schmidt start to lose sight of both the mission and their friendship.

Surprisingly, the duo of Hill and Tatum has the elegance and charisma of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Despite obvious initial differences, their friendship never feels tainted by cynicism, but full of affection and respect for one another. More impressively, neither one overtakes the other in the film. They share it and gamely match one another in energy and comedic timing. After his trite dramatic performance in The Vow, Tatum has found his niche in comedy. While the role relies heavily on his meathead attributes, particularly his fittingly blank stare and mouth breathing, he brings a puppy-like sweetness to Jenko.

Seeing him vibe off his nerdy classmates and give a shy rap about the properties of

potassium manganese bring out the most charming aspects of his acting style.

Hill does one better, though, by following up his Oscar-nominated performance in Moneyball with another great performance that shows his value to the acting community. Hill brings a touch of the insecurity that made Cyrus so endearing, the assured intelligence that kept his Moneyball performance so grounded, and the frantic comedic timing that characterized his breakout in Superbad to create a fully-formed comic character. He deserves credit for his solo performance of the song “I Gotta Crow” from Peter Pan at the very least. Franco, James’ younger brother, brings wonderfully weird and crunchy energy to his character, while Larsen proves the best kind of girl really is a quirky girl. Brief performances

by Ice Cube, The Office’s Ellie Kemper, and Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman are similarly side-splitting.

Hill co-wrote the story and screenplay with Michael Bacall, and it’s full of witty observations and laugh-out-loud scenes.

One of the screenplay’s greatest strengths revolves around the continued parody of the action-comedy genre. In a high-speed

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Hill, who co-wrote the screenplay, and Tatum prove to be an effective comedic team. freeway chase with a group of bikers, every flammable element comes into contact with spun-out motorcycles, but Jenko and Schmidt never get the explosion they’re waiting for until the most unexpected moment. Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller stage scenes like this perfectly and continue to shoot in this “expect the unexpected” format. They can give the more sentimental

scenes levity and bring great creativity to tired situations like a high school party or a recreational drug trip.

21 Jump Street may borrow some aspects from the original 1990s television program, but this movie feels original and quick. With Hill and Tatum at the helm, it earns a distinction as one of 2012’s most fun films. n

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Being two lifelong friends who come together to have a child, Westfeldt and Scott are able to entertain despite a commonplace narrative.

By Dan Siering

Asst. Arts & Review Editor Raising children is traditionally seen as a purely romantic practice that many couples wholeheartedly and eagerly anticipate.

With her independent comedy Friends with Kids, JenniFriends with kids: fer Westfeldt Jennifer Westfeldt tries her hardLionsgate est to debunk such claims.

Focusing on the conversion from rambunctious newlyweds to sleepless maternity, Friends with Kids slaps a realistic tag on the practice of parenting by interchanging scenes of decidedly poignant comedic conversation with starkly dramatic character confrontations. Westfeldt—who is credited as writer, director, producer, and star—delivers a surprisingly fresh take on romantic dealings despite the presence of a pedestrian and unimaginative framework.

Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Westfeldt), two lifelong friends, are seeing striking changes within their once youthful and spirited circle of friends. Once notorious for their conspicuous group bathroom breaks, Missy and Ben, played by the very much subdued combo of Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm, now spend most of their time bickering over marriage trifles and masking their sorrows with cocktails. Leslie (Maya Rudolph) and Alex (Chris O’Dowd) have traded in their

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witty conversations and stylish clothing for parental squabbles and Baby Bjorns.

Looking to fulfill their nurturing needs while also avoiding the pitfalls of married life, Jason and Julie make a pact to have a kid outside the spectrum of a romantic relationship.

The two will switch off tending to the needs of their baby so that they can continue their lives as bachelor and bachelorette. Much to the chagrin of their more traditional married friends, Jason and Julie’s partnership couldn’t be a more perfect situation. The two are happy, parental, and single.

But of course, emotions start to kick in.

Jason, a notorious womanizer, meets the Broadway star Mary Jane, played by the gorgeous yet incessantly hateable Megan Fox, and begins a serious relationship with the bombshell. Julie is obviously uncomfortable with the situation, yet she is able to recover after she meets Kurt (Edward Burns), a brawny single father who charmingly courts Julie. Conflicts quickly arise as the two must deal with the other’s romantic interest and the decrepit marriages of their friends.

Westfeldt keeps things charming and light at the beginning, inserting a commendable amount of memorable jokes and stark social commentary. Yet, as the story progresses and the romantic stakes are raised, the film’s initial comedic aurora slowly and steadily dwindles away. Surely Westfeldt, who seems to be drawing from real life experience, is looking to depict very truthful romantic situ-

ations, but the audience still needs something to grin at as they venture into such a realistic realm.

The most apparent absence of comedic punch is in the roles played by Wiig and Hamm. The Saturday Night Live cast member, who is perhaps the funniest woman currently working in Hollywood, and the Mad Men star, who has developed a formidable comedic reputation with stints on 30 Rock and SNL, are the two most notable names attached to this project, yet their characters are surprisingly minor and exceptionally serious. It’s particularly uncomfortable to see Wiig playing such a stern character. Perhaps the comedic actress will find a foothold in the drama sector further down the road, but her melodramatic moments in Kids seem to be too much too fast. The couple that ultimately holds the bulk of the comedic weight is Rudolph and O’Dowd, who bounce snappy remarks off each other with ease. Scott, emitting a convincing playboy persona and Westfeldt, with ticking clock anxieties, are also both formidable leads.

With a mid-March release and minimal budget, Friends With Kids is by no means a trailblazing romantic comedy. The film’s action is about as predictable as it comes, but Westfeldt accomplishes a lot within a trite storyline—the dialogue is fresh and modern and her message is clear and clever. It might not be a innovative message, but at least it has a glossy comedic coat. n

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With Latin flavor, ‘Chico & Rita’ offers stunning animation

By Allan Guzman Heights Staff

It’s refreshing to see a good animated film that isn’t from Disney or DreamWorks once in a while. Chico & Rita, a Spanish romance story from directors Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, and Tono Errando, tells the story of Chico Valdes and Rita Martinez, two young Cubans living Chico & Rita: in pre-revoTono Errando lutionary HaIsle of Man Film vana whose passions lie in music–his at the piano, hers in singing.

Throughout the film, viewers are invited into a world of music and color, traveling from Cuba to New York, Paris, and Las Vegas as they follow Chico and Rita on their musical escapades.

Set in 1948, the film follows a relatively simple plot: two young musicians fall in love but suffer a turbulent relationship as their careers take off. Eventually, one will make it to Hollywood and become a star while the other will enjoy moderate success. Despite the fights, betrayals, and broken hearts, however, love comes through to unite the two once more. The story isn’t groundbreaking, but it doesn’t need to be, and you wouldn’t mind anyway thanks to the film’s exquisite

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soundtrack taking hold of you and making you lose yourself in the music.

This movie is crafted around its music–so much so that it wouldn’t be a stretch to call it a musical. Composer Bebo Valdes, for whom the film is dedicated, treats the audience to a veritable feast for the ears. Salsa, jazz, big band, and swing numbers often steal the spotlight from the protagonists and take control of the film. Almost all of the greats of the time–Tito Puente, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Chucho Valdes–make an appearance along with their music, which would certainly be a jazz lover’s dream come true.

With such an emphasis on music, it’s easy to see what made it so appealing at the time: there’s an undeniable element of fun and enjoyment in it. The American jazz is enigmatic and almost serious, while the Cuban jazz and salsa force you out of your chair and onto the dance floor, fueling your body with the urge to move it, regardless of whether you’re skilled at the dance or not.

The film strives to be realistic, and as such is almost entirely in Spanish, with some bits of English here and there. The voice acting is great, and the characters sound thoroughly Cuban (I can vouch for this since I was raised around Cubans for most of my life). The subtitles were a bit off, but not much was lost

in translation.

The movie is a pleasure to watch as well as to listen to. Chico & Rita thrives in its color and style. The attention to detail can be astounding at times, especially in wide-range shots of cities (Havana in particular is beautiful from both near and far). Up close, buildings and objects are drawn with a sort of careless finesse. Lines are crooked and disproportionate–utterly cartoonish–but they do not lack care and affection. Liquor bottles are labeled, billboards and neon signs litter practically every shot, and ads and flyers are scribbled on from top to bottom. At the same time, trees have messy black squiggles to give the impression of leaves, and colors often spill outside the lines. This balances out the style of the film’s look so there is neither too much detail nor too little in any one particular scene.

The color palette is varied and unique.

Lights and darks do not mix often, but there are various shades of each that add an extra layer of detail to the film. Even after watching it for a few minutes, you immediately get the feeling that much work and care went into giving the film a distinct and memorable look.

The film isn’t a slideshow, however–it’s not all just pretty pictures. The animation is simple and almost unstable, with oblong shapes and body parts becoming disproportionate at times (one peculiar thing I noticed was how

large everyone’s lips were). Curiously, the characters are drawn fairly simply. The outfits lack patterns, and there’s hardly any texturing on the skin and faces. This isn’t a fault, however, as it saves the film from overwhelming the audience with detail. Besides, this movie is as much about setting as it is about characters, and the latter are already fairly conspicuous, so there’s no need to muddle them with unnecessary flair.

Chico & Rita is a pleasant love story with plenty of music and Latin flavor. There hasn’t been an animated film that combines the elements that Chico & Rita does, and fortunately it does so very well. Simple story aside, the movie rewards its audience with its rich visuals and terrific soundtrack. It should come as no surprise, then, that it was nominated for an Academy Award. n

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Festivals need to find a home in the Northeast Festivals, from A10 Following extremely successful events in Lake Tahoe (December’s SnowGlobe featured huge acts like Pretty Lights and Childish Gambino) and Vail (SnowBall, with Major Lazer, TV on the Radio, and Bassnectar), SnowMont was planned as a one-of-akind experience that proposed the ultimate marriage of music and the mountains. Huge artists like Snoop Dogg, the Flaming Lips, Big Boi (of Outkast), and Diplo (of Major Lazer) promised a stellar weekend of skiing and raving.

More so than other festivals, perhaps, organizers had to be vigilant about keeping concertgoers in check, if only to avoid any drunken attempts at skiing following a set.

To do so, SnowMont planned to kick off its performances in the early afternoon, a sage decision that showed a glimpse of promise for crowd management in huge, unstable venues. Organizers offered a projected attendance of 45,000, a seemingly huge number that still paled in comparison to that of more well-known festivals like Coachella (so big it had to expand to two weekends in 2012) and Bonnaroo.

The mere fact that they were unable to pull it together is a disappointment.

Just days ago, SnowMont fell apart “due to the event’s lack of demand.” While the subtext of this explanation offers the picture of low ticket sales, promoters must also marry these figures with poor PR planning and ineffective use of social media. This may be the first anyone has heard of SnowMont, which is a major fault on the part of its organizers, and its failure to drum up interest should certainly

not deter future trailblazers from trying to set up camp in the region.

Though also a sufferer of low attendance, this weekend’s LIFT Festival took place as planned at Whaleback Mountain, Vt., a two-hour drive from Boston that certainly deterred thousands of potential buyers from going. Producers of the event described it as a “first taste of a brand new, two-day, elevated music experience in the heart of New Hampshire Ski Country,” but the only elevated thing ab out the weekend was its literal setting . The only mildly recognizable band on the event’s lineup was Ghostland Observatory, an electronic act that has trouble selling out small clubs in New York City—a sign that more of a draw was needed. If not held in a major city, a festival needs a headCourtesy of google.com liner that will draw people in who might not normally make the trek, and LIFT Festival offered only niche electronic and dance acts like Alpha Data, Conspirator, and Business Casual Disco.

Going forward, those interested in bringing festivals to the Northeast should heed the varying failures of the aforementioned events in attracting large-scale audiences.

Though locations like Prowse Farm in nearby Canton may be hard to come by, it’s obvious that Life is Good’s planners took their time to both scout out an enjoyable, accessible location while also carefully selecting a roster of artists that not only fit their message, but lured huge crowds. If the Life is Good Festival is any indication, the Northeast has festival lifeblood flowing through it that simply needs to be harnessed. n

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Thanks to a wacky, uninformative trailer, ‘John Carter’ had trouble convincing audiences to make the trek to the theater on opening weekend.

‘Carter’ fails to rack up much money ‘Carter’ Catastrophe, from A10 vying for an audience’s attention each week, the only way that one can gain an advantage over the competition is to separate itself early on. That’s just what The Lorax did, which allowed it to reign over Carter’s release weekend, even during its second week in theaters. That trailer almost singlehandedly made the most recent in a string of Dr. Seuss adaptations a major point of conversation. Those who cut The Lorax’s trailer highlighted the film’s whimsical animation over its dialogue and its big Hollywood budget. Holding the entire thing together is a catchy song from alternative group called The Polyphonic Spree that makes the movie look less like a family-film cash-grab and more like a serious work of art.

John Carter’s teaser trailer, on the other hand, seems to promise that the film could go wrong in a number of ways. Gone is any attempt to associate itself with its writer/director Andrew Stanton, who also created Pixar greats Finding Nemo and, my personal favorite animated film, Wall-E. Given complete creative control after these mega-successes, Stanton decided to make his

dream project, a faithful adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s famous Barsoom series. Unfortunately, this series from the early 1900s, while serving as inspiration for sci-fi films for almost a century, has been forgotten by most of the movie-going public over the years.

The biggest problem with the film is that John Carter is no Batman, but Stanton vehemently believed that he was. The trailer makes almost no attempt to explain to audiences what the story is. One second, it’s an English period piece. The next, it begins feeling like an ill-conceived Prince of Persia knockoff. Then, spaceships! Where are the action sequences and epic set pieces that draw an audience into a theater on opening night? Nowhere to be found, reportedly because Stanton didn’t have enough footage at the time the trailer needed to be cut. Instead, he presents us with an incomprehensible twominute mess which assumes we’ll see a movie that we know almost nothing about.

For a man who could transform a dialogue-light tale about a lovesick robot into a runaway family and critical hit, a misreading of his audience of this magnitude is puzzling. Anyone working

in Hollywood knows how important a film’s opening week box office is to succeed. Nowadays, if a film fails during its first week, no amount of word of mouth can save it or prevent heads from rolling in LA. When a film is bad, producers try their best to make it seem good so that people will still go see it. Sure, audiences become angry once they realize the film stinks, but they still get suckered into paying for it.

Of course, even an intriguing teaser trailer wouldn’t have necessarily prevented John Carter from performing badly. It also had mediocre reviews and a by-now cliched premise to help it out.

But would more people have seen it if they knew it was from the man behind two Pixar masterpieces or if the trailer highlighted the battle sequences? I, for one, would have bought into this tried-and-true method of promotion.

How else can I explain seeing M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water in a packed theater on opening night?

Joe Allen is a staff columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at arts@ bcheights.com.

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Dancers entranced the crowd with moments choreographed to “Turn Me On” by Nicki Minaj and “Dirty Diana.”

Over twenty new dances enchant ‘Escape’ from A10 piece choreographed by Justine Delpriora, LSOE ’12. The song itself was simple, focusing mostly on the soft voice of musician Mindy Smith, but it was apparent that the choreography was much more intricate. The piece was successful artistically, not only because of the capable performers, but because it portrayed the beauty and truth in heartbreak that the song expressed. Each dancer’s movement aligned effortlessly with the passionate tone of Smith’s voice and her heartbreaking story, which embodied the lyrics.

It is obvious that each dancer in this group is in immaculate physical shape, and they need to be in order to pull off their refined routines. Dance Ensemble is composed of capable dancers with different fortes that are spotlighted into their choreography respectively to show off each individual girl’s talent.

Unfortunately, their talent did not shine through easily in pieces such as “Sexy Silk ,” choreographed by Jessica Ollhoff, and “Be Italian,” created by Taleen Shrikian. Great technique is still very apparent in these numbers, but the girls seemed to express

their sensuality more than their otherwise inventive skill. Dramatic faces and impeccable confidence were appreciated in these pieces by most performers on stage, but the overtly sensual gestures were unnecessary to entertain and impress audiences.

Both numbers were supposed to show off each girl’s talent – which I knew existed and wanted to see more of.

N i co l e H a r r i s , A & S ’ 1 4 , composed an innovative piece, “Beauty is Found in Everything.”

It was an enchanting contemporary number in which the dancers tended to a black rose. I interpreted this prop to represent something considered aversive by the general public that also maintained a beautiful essence.

To further develop the song’s title message, each dancer wore a different color of dress, reflecting upon the fact that every person is different, but their differences are beautiful too. Using this sort of symbolism to send a message to the public is unique and engaging. It made being an audience member interactive because you were able to reflect on your own interpretation of beauty as you viewed the impressive and original routine.

The recent Top-40 hit, “Turn

Me On,” made a well-received appearance in Act Two. Madelaine O’Connell and Claire Halleland composed a lively jazz number with the unexpected appearance of tap choreography. Their shoes made hard-to-hear beats alongside the electronic rhythms of David Guetta and Nicki Minaj.

At first, I did not expect them to have success with this number, but as the beats progressed and became more audible, I was fortunately mistaken. This trendy tap and jazz blend made “Turn Me On” one of the highlights of the show. “ D. D. ,” m o r e c o m m o n l y known as “Dirty Diana,” made its prized appearance at the end of Act Two. Brigitte Butler, LSOE ’14, did Michael Jackson proud with her sharp, punctuated choreography. Each dancer wore a different “Michael-inspired” costume that enhanced the artistic quality of the piece. Additionally, attention was drawn to each girl as she individually executed a strong dance trick amidst the flashy and well-interpreted choreography.

It’s safe to say that, once again, the BC Dance Ensemble successfully unveiled 23 striking new pieces that showed off its adept artistic talent and versatile skill. n

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An Eye on Culture

Feeling close to my home

Taylor Cavallo

In my short time as Associate Arts Editor, this column has given you some informative, yet essentially useless, information about Mormons, my crying habits, and some subtleties of classic albums and songs that I adore. Since my column is titled “An Eye on Culture,” I thought this would be a perfect time to deliver on that promise and bring you a reflective cultural piece.

Over Spring Break, I traveled to Morocco with my father, a trip never to be forgotten filled with funny moments, cool experiences, and wonderful encounters. However, my eyes and ears couldn’t help but notice the essentially Western-inspired phenomena that was present all around me:some that I created, but others that existed regardless of my American presence in this foreign country. I had some expectations traveling to Morocco. I’ve always loved Middle Eastern culture, and couldn’t wait to experience it firsthand. But the culture snob in me was at work too. I knew it was a place where Jimi Hendrix had spent an extended period of time before appearing at Woodstock, claiming it changed his style, reinvigorating his sound and his outlook on life. Not saying that I expected to famously recreate the sound of “The Star Spangled Banner” in front of 500,000 people upon my return, but I remained hopeful. Designer Yves Saint Laurent lived in Marrakesh before he died, in a villa amidst a desert oasis, surrounded by a beautiful garden, and said he was his most creative there. And again, I remained hopeful, not that I expected to become Moroccan, but to find inspiration.

Morocco is without a doubt a land rich and still alive with its own cultural traditions, and that is obvious everywhere, from the seemingly innumerable mosques that grace the horizon line to the handcrafted treasures found in the marketplaces. However, I noticed many small things that didn’t make me feel as out of place as I perhaps expected I would—instead I felt a small connection to the people around me. Many of these, of course, had to do with music.

While on my way to the third largest mosque in the world, and the largest mosque outside of Saudi Arabia, named after ruler Hassan II, our cab driver was listening to Kevin Little’s “Turn Me On,” a song I have on my iPod but haven’t listened to since middle school. While on the balcony of a traditional Moroccan restaurant, overlooking the market places in Marrakesh, hearing the Islamic call to prayer at sunset, the ode to Allah in Arabic was interrupted

by Drake’s “Headlines” playing as tourists ate their tagine and couscous. While riding through a large palm oasis in the desert, the tour guide was bumping hits such as Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around (Comes Back Around),” Rihanna’s “You Da One,” and the cream of the crop, namely Hoobastank’s “The Reason” (I hope you sense my sarcasm on that one).

The people in Morocco enthusiastically greeted my father and I as Americans, telling us about the places they have travelled to in the U.S. (among these were the expected New York, California and Chicago, but also, Minnesota and Iowa) and were curious about what we, as Americans, thought about their culture and their country. Seeing an American family is something of an oddity, and this was confirmed by many Moroccans throughout our visit.

On the plane ride home, a terrible idea occurred to me: that a fear of traveling to this region of the world will take away from the potential to experience a wonderful culture so rich with tradition and so welcoming in nature—a culture that isn’t as alien as some might think. Although this was proven to me through the music, the angelic voice of Kevin Little and the lyrical mastery that is “The Reason” (again, sarcasm), it still resonated with me, perhaps more clearly because it was musically. All of these anecdotes and instances made me realize that music, among many other things, is universal, and that the attraction to all things Western is truly alive. Whether that attraction might be Drake, Abercrombie, or an enthusiasm for the American way of life, I saw it and felt it in a place where many might hesitate to go.

I say, if Hoobastank can bring themselves to Morocco, we should too.

Taylor Cavallo is the Assistant Arts & Review editor of The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Dance Ensemble hits the creative mark with its spring show in Robsham Theater

By Kira Mulshine For The Heights

The Boston College Dance Ensemble graced audiences with impressive artistic quality in their annual spring show, Escape. The talented group expressed their dance dexterity Wednesday through Friday night for eager and enthusiastic crowds of fellow students, teachers, and family members. They covered a range of styles from ballet to tap, but their stand-out pieces were the numerous spotless contemporary numbers.

The powerful one word title, “Escape,” gives the impression that their performance will give you a release from reality, and after attending one of their shows you have achieved that experience,

with a few caveats. The two hour show gives you a couple moments to reflect on something

most people do not experience often: relief from life’s stresses to embrace and understand an art often neglected–the art of dance.

The performance began with an inspiring introduction piece titled “Endangered Species,” choreographed by the club’s executive officers. The piece showed off specific dancers’ stylistic strengths by giving the audience a glimpse of each dance medium that would be seen as the show progressed. This was a particularly clever, attention-grabbing tactic that led to a rise in hope for what came next. I anticipated the edginess, articulacy, and high energy exhibited by the dancers to continue as the show progressed, and it did.

“One Moment More” was a heartfelt contemporary

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The cancellation of SnowMont shows a glarring derth of New England music festivals.

Examining the lack of Northeast music festivals

By Brennan Carley Arts & Review Editor

If you’re a music fan who lives in the Northeast, a common complaint is the lack of festivals that make their way to our neck of the woods. For several summers, New Jersey hosted All Points West, an East-coast version of Lollapalooza, and for the past two Septembers, the folks at Life is Good have thrown together stellar end-of-summer festivals with the likes of Dr. Dog, Jason Mraz, and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals.

Something seems to be holding concert promoters back, however, when it comes to truly large-scale festivals—at least, ones with attendance on par with the most popular events. What is it, then, about the Northeast that keeps festivals away?

It’s hard to imagine placing the blame

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on the actual fans, but that’s just what organizers at the now-cancelled SnowMont Music Festival did after shutting down their event just weeks before its execution.

Deep in the heart of Vermont, a mountain meant for skiing planned to transform its snowcapped slopes into “a home for world class music.” A three-day event held in Killington, Va. (easily accessible from Boston by bus or car, so pretending like that market wasn’t biting wasn’t Boston’s fault), SnowMont was to be the third in a series of countrywide festivals that sought to integrate high-energy winter sports like skiing and snowboarding with music that brings just as much energy to the table.

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Hill and Tatum bring ‘21’ laughs

The two share an unlikely chemistry in the consistently enjoyable remake that never feels cliched, A8

Disney’s recently-released John Carter disappointed at the box office last weekend, something that everyone and his mother seemed to have been anticipating since the release of its teaser trailer last summer.

Costing around $250 million to make, this attempt at an epic has had Walt Disney Pictures scrambling for months to sell its story and central character, the titular John Carter, to a wider audience. With an opening weekend domestic box office of just

$30.6 million, however, the prospect of Disney breaking even on this wannabe blockbuster seems unlikely. What was it exactly that doomed this ambitious film to failure? Claude Brodesser-Akner, a writer for Vulture, blamed John Carter’s demise on its problematic teaser trailer.

After watching it again for the first time in almost a year, I can’t help but agree.

Whether people realize it or not, an eye-catching first trailer is key for any movie that isn’t directed by Christopher Nolan. With a handful of new films

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Battle of the bands

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Last Friday, the Vandy Cabaret Room displayed a variety of skilled student muscians in the annual ‘Battle of the Bands’ talent show.

Friends With Kids is a solid effort

Jennifer Westfeldt’s directorial debut features Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, and Adam Scott, A8

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A surreal experience as No. 1 seed Greg Joyce

BC wins Hockey East tournament for third straight year, over Maine to be successful here in the Garden. It’s a major goal for us,” said head coach Jerry York. “I thought our team played extremely well. It was probably the best game we’ve played over the past two or three weeks as far as defensive zone coverage, and as far as breaking pucks out of our zone.”

The Eagles seemed to be in control right from the start, thanks to two early goals from the freshman Gaudreau. He began the scoring 5:24 into the first period when he slapped home a rebound to give BC the early 1-0 lead. The rebound opportunity came off a Patch Alber shot from the point that went off of Maine’s goaltender

By Greg Joyce Sports Editor

It was more of the same on Saturday night at the TD Garden for No. 1 Boston College.

For the second time this season, the Eagles clinched their third straight trophy at Boston College 4 the Garden, this one being the 1 Maine Lamoriello Cup as champions of the Hockey East Tournament. BC defeated No. 11 University of Maine by a score of 4-1 on the back of a two-goal performance by tournament MVP Johnny Gaudreau.

“The Lamoriello Cup is something we point toward

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Eagles earn No. 1 overall seed in NCAA Tournament

By Greg Joyce Sports Editor

Boston College is the No. 1 overall seed in the 2012 NCAA men’s ice hockey tournament, as the brackets were announced yesterday afternoon. The Eagles will take on Air Force Saturday at 4 p.m. in Worcester, beginning their attempt to claim a fifth national championship.

“It’s always an exciting day, I think, for the players and fans and coaches, that selection show,” said head coach Jerry York after his team gathered in the locker room to watch the show. “Coming off a St. Patrick’s Day victory in the Hockey East Championship and going right into the selection show is a terrific time to be associated with our program.”

BC is in the midst of a 15-game winning streak, but

the team stressed the importance of seeing the national tournament as a new season and not just relying on its recent success.

“I can’t believe it’s been 15 in a row,” said senior captain Tommy Cross. “But I think we put those in our back pocket and move on. There are 16 teams that have a chance to go on a four-game winning streak, and whoever does that is going to get a trophy. That’s the way we’re looking at it. We’re starting a new win streak. We’ve learned a lot over the past 15 games, but our main goal is to win the next game and put together four in a row.”

York echoed his captain’s feelings, but noted that those 15 wins can help in different ways come tournament time.

“I think we’re proud of [the 15-game win streak] because it means we’re playing good hockey,” York said. “A lot of the

games have been tightly contested games, where we had to make good plays to win them. That builds your confidence as a team. Now, we’re starting from scratch. Everybody’s starting 0-0.”

Air Force will carry a 21-10-7 record into Saturday’s game, and is coming off an Atlantic Hockey Championship. The Eagles have seen the Falcons play this year, but it came during the opening weekend of the season at the Ice Breaker Tournament.

“They were in the Ice Breaker at the beginning of the year,” said senior captain Barry Almeida. “They played two hard, one-goal games against North Dakota and Michigan State, so we know they’re going to be tough.”

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Crawley resigns as head coach

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Women’s hockey downed by Wisconsin in Frozen Four Badgers get by BC once again in semi’s

Cites health reasons in sudden departure

By Chris Marino

Assoc. Sports Editor

By Austin Tedesco Asst. Sports Editor

Boston College announced Thursday that head women’s basketball coach Sylvia Crawley has resigned her position due to health reasons. Tim Eatman, an assistant coach for the team, has been appointed as the interim head coach until a permanent replacement is announced.

“I am putting my coaching career on hold to deal with a non-life-threatening, treatable condition,” Crawley said in a statement. “I am grateful to Boston College for the opportunity to coach here.

I wish the very best for the current and future student-athletes in the program.”

Before coming to BC, Crawley played for the North Carolina Tar Heels and captained the 1994 national championship team. She earned the Coaches’ MVP in that year’s Final Four and also made the All-Tournament Team. Crawley went on to coach as an assistant for Fordham University during the 20052006 season before heading to her home state of Ohio to coach Ohio University for two years.

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It was a picture perfect Sunday morning in the locker room of the Boston College men’s hockey team. Just 13 hours after the Eagles hoisted the Lamoriello Cup on the ice of the TD Garden, they gathered together to watch the selection show for the NCAA tournament.

Below the flat-screen TV, there was a table of greatness. All the way to the left, there was the trophy from the Ice Breaker Tournament, which the Eagles won way back in October to begin the season. Next to that was the trophy from winning the Hockey East regular season title, captured on Mar. 3. The Beanpot trophy came after that, and next to that was the Lamoriello Cup. Four trophies representing an amazing season filled the locker room, as the Eagles began the final stretch of their season in an attempt to take home one final trophy.

Fifteen minutes before the show began on ESPN, there was speculation going around the room about what the bracket would look like. The team was pretty sure it was locked in to get the No. 1 overall seed and spot in the Worcester regional, but it needed to see it on the screen.

Finally, the cheerleading competition on ESPN had finished, and it was time for the selection show. The room went silent, but a confident kind of silent. With coaches, staff members, some family, and the team looking on, the brackets were finally revealed.

The Eagles didn’t have to wait long, as they were announced as the No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, with a game against Air Force scheduled for Saturday in Worcester. There was a breath of relief across the room, especially when the location was announced, which drew some claps started by senior goaltender Chris Venti. BC won’t have to fly out to the Midwest like it did last year, and instead will take a short bus trip to the DCU Center.

A team manager wrote down all four seedings from the Northeast bracket on a whiteboard next to the TV, while the team turned its attention back to the TV to view the rest of the bracket announcements. With each matchup that got announced, there were quieted mumbles across the room, as the players began to analyze other teams’ draws.

During the proceeding commercial break, the locker room was graced with

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For the second straight year, BC was knocked out of the Frozen Four by the Wisconsin Badgers.

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DULUTH — For the second consecutive season, the No. 4 Boston College women’s ice hockey team went to the Frozen Four. For the second con6 Wisconsin secutive season, Boston College 2 the Eagles were defeated by No. 1 Wisconsin. While last year’s game was a 3-2, down-to-the-wire loss, this year’s Badger squad showed its experience with a 6-2 victory. The nation’s top team was dominant thanks to two-goal games for senior captain Hilary Knight and sophomore forward Brittany Ammerman.

The Eagles were led by goals from their season’s top scorers, Alex Carpenter and Emily Field.

“Obviously, it wasn’t the outcome we wanted,” said head coach Katie King Crowley. “It was a disappointing loss for us, but I’m extremely proud of the way our kids played a full 60 minutes and gave it everything they had. We have a great team that did a lot of great things this year, and I’m really proud of them.”

Heading into her team’s Frozen Four matchup, Crowley suggested that this year’s team had a chance to use its experience from last year to overcome early nerves.

The Eagles did just that off the stick of Field only 57 seconds into the game. Field made

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a nice move at the left post, pushing the puck through a Wisconsin defender’s legs, collecting it, and shoveling it in for the fivehole score.

“It was weird,” Field said about the score.

“I was like, ‘Wow, I still have the puck. I still have the puck. This is weird. I still have it.’

I just kept going and thinking, ‘Well, I still have it,’ and I didn’t have anyone on me.

I remember talking about shooting low, shooting low, shooting low. And I got closer, and I kind of blanked, and I shot the puck where knew I should, and it went in. It was a good start to the game, but I wish we could’ve kept that momentum.”

Crowley was pleased with not only the way her team came out in the first period, but how it kept its energy up despite being down throughout the majority of the contest.

“I thought we came out great in the first period,” she said. “I thought we had a lot of energy in that period, so I thought it was much better than last year. I didn’t think we had quite as many nerves going into it. Then, I think in the second they came out and got that goal within two minutes of the start of the period to make it 3-1, so that was a tough one, but still, like I said before, I was really proud of the way these kids played. I mean, if you were on that bench at the end of the game, they’re still yelling for each other, cheering for each other to go score a goal. I don’t know if I’ve ever been a part of a team that right through the end of that 60 minutes continued to play hard.”

The second period saw the Badgers come

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Softball swept in three contests against Georgia Tech

By Sam Costanzo Heights Editor

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Crawley struggled in her short tenure at BC.

Crawley resigns

Crawley, from B1 Crawley became the head coach at BC in 2008 and led the Eagles to a 2312 record, reaching the semifinals of the WNIT Championship. That same season, the squad defeated two ranked teams and Carolyn Swords made the All-ACC second team.

In her second season, the team went 6-8 in conference play and 17-15 overall. Despite the mediocre year, it was the first time since BC joined the ACC that they defeated Duke, UNC, and FSU all in the same season.

The next year the team went 23-17 overall and 5-9 in the ACC. Crawley and the Eagles finished their season in the fourth round of the NIT, losing to UVA after beating Yale and St. Joseph’s.

Crawley led the team to a 7-23 record this year, finishing her BC career with a record of 67-63 overall and 20-38 in conference play. The Eagles’ season ended in the first round of the ACC tournament against Virginia.

“Sylvia is one of the best people I’ve had the opportunity to work with,” said Gene DeFilippo, Athletic Director, in the same statement. “I would like to thank her for her hard work and contributions to Boston College basketball.” n

The Boston College softball team (16-9, 0-3 ACC) had a difficult weekend against Georgia Tech (19-13, 3-3 ), losing all three road games at Mewborn Field in Georgia.

In yesterday’s 4-0 loss, BC drew four walks and got four hits from Nicole D’Argento, Brittany Wilkins, and Maria Pandolfo, who hit two. Sophomore Amanda Horowitz held the Yellow Jackets scoreless for two innings before giving up a three-run homer to Kelsi Weseman in the third.

In the bottom of the fourth, Morgan Kidd relieved D’Argento and gave up four walks and two hits, including a home run to Yellow Jackets pitcher Hope Rush.

Rush, who pitched a complete game, was helped out by some solid hitting from her team, which left only five runners on base and scored four runs over five hits.

BC lost the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, 9-4. D’Argento and Kiley Kleinschmidt both pitched complete games for their teams.

After Pandolfo was caught trying to steal home in the third inning, Georgia Tech came up to bat and scored three runs. Weseman came up second and hit a double to left field, and Alysha Rudnick followed with a single. She advanced to second on a wild pitch from D’Argento. Weseman scored when Rush reached first on a fielder’s choice.

Kaitlin Kates, who pinch ran for Rush, stole second. She and Rudnik scored on a single by Katie Johnsky.

Not to be outdone, BC scored two in the bottom of the fourth. Wilkins led off with a single and was replaced

by Nicole Koszowski. Kleinschmidt gave up two consecutive walks to Ali Lynette-Krech and Chelsea Dimon.

Chelsea LoBue drove in both of BC’s runs with a double to left center.

Fullem doubled in Georgia Tech’s next two runs in the fifth after Weseman singled and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Rush and Johnsky drew a walk . In the sixth, Chelsie Thomas led off with a single and stole second, advancing to third on a sacrifice bunt by Ashley Thomas and scoring on Kuzma’s bunt. Weseman walked and Rush doubled, scoring two, after

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Maria Pandolfo (above) and Nicole D’Argento (below) could not spark the offense this weekend.

which Johnsky doubled in the next two runs to make the score 9-3.

Kleinschmidt gave up three consecutive walks to Rene Delagrammaticas, CJ Chirichigno, and Wilkins to start the seventh. All runners advanced on a wild pitch, which scored Delagrammaticas and accounted for BC’s final run of the game.

In the first game of the series, which consisted of only 4.5 innings, Georgia Tech managed to shut BC out again with a score of 8-0.

Rush, who again pitched a complete game shutout, held BC to just two runs and struck out four.

Kidd started for the Eagles and picked up the loss. D’Argento, who starte d the game at se cond base, relieved her after two innings. Kidd gave up four walks and one run, while D’Argento and Horowitz, who pitched one inning each, gave up a combined four hits and seven runs.

Georgia Tech began its streak in the third inning when Rudnik made it to first on a throwing error by D’Argento.

In a double-switch, head coach Ashley Obrest sent D’Argento to the mound and replaced her at second with Andrea Filler. Rush walked, and both runners advanced on a sacrifice from Johnsky. A fielding error at third allowed the first run to score, and the next two came in on a double by Danielle Dike. Hayley Downs pinch ran for Dike and scored the final run of the inning by stealing home.

D’Argento moved back to second for the fourth inning, and Horowitz came in to pitch. She promptly gave up two singles to Weseman and Rudnik and a walk to Rush. Johnsky and Fullem each reached base on two fielder’s choice plays, and two runs scored. GT scored its final two runs when Dike was hit by a pitch and Kuzma walked.

BC’s softball team, which started off strong in in its three pre-conference play tournaments, will face Boston University and Dartmouth before taking on conference rival Virginia Tech. The key for BC in these upcoming games will be to achieve more consistency in driving runners in. The team left 26 runners on base and got only 12 hits in this weekend’s series, and while they did face some agressive pitching previous games this season show that the Eagles have what it takes to bounce back. n

Women’s lacrosse unable to pull out ACC victory over ranked Maryland

By Steven Principi Heights Staff The No. 14 Boston College women’s lacrosse team lost for the second straight game Saturday afternoon when they were defeated by the No. 6 Maryland Terrapins 16-10. The Eagles fell behind early in the contest and were

never able to recover, as Maryland led for almost the entire game. The Terrapins opened both halves of the game on 5-1 runs and distanced themselves from BC quickly. The loss drops the Eagles to 4-4 on the year (1-1 in ACC), while Maryland improved to 7-2 (2-1 ACC) for the season.

The first half of the game was more

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Kristin Igoe, Mikaela Rix (above), and Brooke Blue all tallied multiple scores, but it was not enough.

ACC Women’s Lacrosse Standings Team

North Carolina Duke Maryland Boston College Virginia Tech Virginia

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defensive than many of the games BC has played to this point. Neither team generated much offense, and both goalies dealt with the few chances there were with relative ease. The Eagles managed to take an early lead when Brooke Blue opened the scoring just under seven minutes into the game. The lead didn’t hold for long, however, as Maryland tied the game just two minutes later with a goal that started a 5-0 run for the Terrapins. The Eagles did manage to cut the deficit by halftime, as Mikaela Rix scored two goals less than a minute apart, but BC went into the break down by a score of 5-3.

The second half was much more open and offensive than the first. Maryland scored two early goals to regain its four-goal lead before Kristin Igoe managed to score her first goal of the game.

The comeback bid died before it even started, however, as Maryland scored the next three goals to put the game all but out of reach at 10-4. Igoe managed to score three more later in the game to earn a hat trick, but the Eagles were forced to take more chances and play more offensively later in the game, which gave Maryland a number of chances that they were able to convert on. BC made one last bid toward the end of the game when they cut the lead to 13-9 with just over six minutes to go, but Maryland scored three goals in quick succession, and the game was all but over.

Igoe led the Eagles in scoring with four goals while Rix and Blue both

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Igoe and the Eagles had to overcome a slow start against the Terrapins, and couldn’t recover. added a pair. Covie Stanwick continued her impressive freshman campaign with a goal and two assists, Brittany Wilton had two assists on the afternoon, and goalie Catherine Conway made five saves in the loss.

Maryland outshot BC 29-22 and managed to pick up 16 ground balls to the Eagles’ nine. The teams were even

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Numbers to Know

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The number of saves for Corinne Boyles this season, which is a program record for single-season saves.

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After recording an assist in Friday’s Frozen Four contest, the number of points for Mary Restuccia in postseason play, which is a BC record.

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The number of consecutive Hockey East Tournament titles for the men’s hockey team. This is the first any team has accomplished such a feat.

on the draw, however, as they both managed to win 14.

The Eagles have lost two consecutive games for the first time all season and will attempt to get back on track when they visit Harvard on Wednesday. BC will resume ACC play when they welcome second-ranked North Carolina on Saturday afternoon. n

“I think we’re in that mode where you just win and advance.

That’s where all our thoughts are.”

Jerry York following Saturday night’s Hockey East Tournament final victory —

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Eagles get third straight Hockey East crown Hockey East, from B1 Dan Sullivan. Gaudreau found himself in the right place at the right time, and buried the loose puck.

Less than three minutes later, Gaudreau was at it again. In a similar-looking goal, Gaudreau capitalized on a rebound in front of the net, and sent a backhander into the back of the net for the 2-0 advantage.

“Johnny’s skills are incredible,” said senior captain Tommy Cross. “Even his own teammates will marvel [at] the stuff that he does in practice. He is a team-first guy, and that is a good recipe. He has stayed humble, and for the most part he has been pretty consistent his freshman year, and that is really impressive. The way he goes about his business is very quiet. Everyone in our room likes him, and I know that I admire some of the stuff he does on the ice.”

“He’s got those qualities that you can’t teach,” York said of Gaudreau.

The Black Bears got one goal back in the second period, when Brian Flynn finally snuck one by Parker Milner. But for the rest of the game, Milner continued to be a brick wall, finishing with a total of 41 saves.

“There were a couple surges by Maine, especially in the second period where Parker [Milner] made some incredible saves to keep

it where it was,” York said. “Every time they had that surge, Parker made a [stop]—from the bench, it looked like a surefire goal, and he’d make a save off it.” “[Parker] was like a vacuum,” Cross said.

“There were not a lot of second chances.

It seemed like he kept everything in his stomach.”

Right before the end of the second period, Gaudreau set up BC’s third goal, giving the Eagles all the momentum heading into the final frame. Gaudreau controlled the puck behind the net and saw Pat Mullane flying down the center of the ice. The freshman gave his linemate a perfect pass, and Mullane one-timed the puck past Sullivan for the 3-1 lead.

The Black Bears did not go down easily in the third period, but the impressive performance from Milner and the BC defense kept them from lighting the lamp again.

Barry Almeida secured the win with 1:01 to play in the third when he added an empty-netter for his team-high 22nd goal of the year.

The Eagles are firing on all cylinders right now, and have won 16 straight as they head into the NCAA Tournament. York credited the hot play of Gaudreau and Milner as major factors to BC’s sustained success.

“We’re continuing to get outstanding play

from Johnny Gaudreau up front and Parker Milner in the goal,” he said. “Those have been two of the really key reasons why we’ve been going on a run like this. There are a lot of reasons. But those two individuals have really stepped up their game lately.”

York also noted how big of an impact the senior leadership has had on this team throughout the season.

“The leadership of this team, and what they’ve done over the stretch from January 20-21, when we lost both games up at Maine, to come back and play as well as we’ve done down the stretch is a credit to the leadership,” York said, specifically crediting Cross’ guidance.

Maine was playing without its best player, Spencer Abbott, who was injured in Friday night’s win over BU. The Hockey East Player of the Year was forced to sit out the championship game, and the Black Bears seemed to be missing his play.

“Spencer Abbott is a Hobey Baker finalist and certainly one of the top players in the league, and for him to not play tonight was certainly a blow to their aspirations of winning the championship,” York said.

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Surreal day in locker room

“There are 16 teams that have a chance to go on a four-game winning streak, and whoever does that is going to get a trophy. That’s the way we’re looking at it.”

-Senior captain Tommy Cross

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Column, from B1 the presence of Father Monan, a long-time friend of the team, and the man who originally hired Jerry York at BC. (I think everyone owes Fr. Monan a little thank you for the past 18 years and counting. That’s easily the greatest hire in the history of the athletic department, right?).

York called over to get his players’ attention, and Monan gave them his two cents.

“We gotta go all the way this year!” he told the players. Monan stuck around for the rest of the show, and talked to each of the players on the way out.

Minutes later, the final two regionals were announced, and the field of 16 was set. The manager finished the bracket on the whiteboard, while York scribbled the teams and seedings into a little brown notebook he took out of his back pocket.

Later on, Father Leahy came walking by the locker room and congratulated York on his season. York took him over to the whiteboard and explained the brackets, BC’s seeding, and how the tournament could play out.

It was a pretty surreal environment in that locker room yesterday, and not just because York was wearing jeans. Instead, it was surreal because York admitted that just eight months ago, he thought this year might be somewhat of a rebuilding year.

“In the summer, I was thinking maybe

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Gaudreau (right), Carey (center), and Mullane (right) all scored during the weekend at the Garden.

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Cross hoisted the Lamoriello Cup Saturday night. BC begins its national tourney run this Saturday. we’d be down a notch,” York said. “We thought this could be a rebuilding year, just because of what we lost. [Brian] Gibbons, [Joe] Whitney, and [John] Muse enjoyed a career here that was really something very special. Cam [Atkinson] and Jimmy [Hayes] were coming on so strong with goals. There were some marquee players that left. So I wasn’t quite sure.

“But we are better than I thought we were gonna be. Our body of work is much better than my expectations.”

York went on to talk about the players who had stepped up, but by the time he finished his comment, he had talked about nearly everyone on the four lines. And that’s pretty reminiscent of this team. On any given night, any player could have a great game.

This weekend, it was Johnny Gaudreau and Parker Milner that got the main recognition and stats to prove it. But it really could have been anyone on the roster. And I think that’s

what makes this team different than any other of the 15 teams in the NCAA Tournament.

When everyone had cleared out of the locker room, York went over to look at all the trophies a little closer by himself. I don’t know what was going through his mind at that moment, but that was a pretty impressive table to look at. But then York let us into a little insight of what he was thinking.

“I think we need one more little table here,” he said, looking at the table with four trophies resting there. He said it half in jest, but half seriousness. There are four more games to be won this season. And if all works out, they will indeed need one more table to hold the most important hardware yet: the national championship trophy.

Greg Joyce is the Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@ bcheights.com.

“Air Force, we were really impressed with at the beginning of the year in Grand Forks,” Cross said. “They’ve only gotten better since then.”

Even though the Falcons come in as the No. 16 seed overall in the tournament, BC will not be taking them lightly.

“We understand that the team that plays the very best that night advances,” York said.

“We’re not going to base anything on the seeds. We understand that this is a minitournament that leads to Tampa and the Frozen Four. It’s our goal to win this minitournament and go to Tampa.”

The Eagles only have to look to last year for a reminder of how quickly an impressive season can go down the drain. As a No. 1 seed, third overall, BC was dropped

by Colorado College in St. Louis by a score of 8-4 in its first game of the tournament last year.

“The older guys know what it feels like to be on the winning end and the losing end like last year,” Almeida said. “It’s one and done—you gotta play your best hockey.

The team that plays the best is going to move on.”

The team is excited to be playing just an hour away from campus instead of hav-

ing to travel to the Midwest like last year, however.

“Going out to St. Louis last year wasn’t what we expected, wasn’t what we wanted, but we’re excited to go to Worcester like we did a few years ago,” said senior captain Paul Carey.

As nice as the local regional will be, York knows that their play on the ice will be more important than the location of the arena.

“We’ve been at Worcester on multiple occasions. It’s great for our fan base, it’s great for parents of players because it’s so easy to get to,” York said. “But everything is played within the glass, and the proximity goes out the window once you start the game. But it was nice to be local for us.”

The other teams in the regional are Minnesota-Duluth and Maine, who both present a potentially challenging Sunday night quarterfinal matchup if the Eagles can get past Air Force “We have a really good bracket. We’re excited to be close to home, but there are definitely four really strong teams in our bracket. Obviously, Duluth won [the national championship] last year. Maine, we found out last night Maine has a heck of a hockey team—so four really good teams.

It’s a deep bracket, and we’re excited for Saturday.” n

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Gaudreau’s impressive performance leads to Hockey East championship The team defense overall seemed very strong over the course of the night for the Eagles, as they looked to minimize Maine’s second and third chances.

“As a defense, we really try to stress clearing the lanes and letting [Parker] see pucks, and I thought we did a really good job at that this weekend,” Cross said. “Parker–he was like a vacuum–there wasn’t a lot of second chances. It seemed like he kept everything in his stomach.

That’s huge with good offensive teams like Maine, if you can limit them to a shot and no rebounds. Our team defense is essential to our team.”

By AJ Pottle

For The Heights The No. 1 Boston College Eagles (29-10-1, 19-7-1 HEA) defeated the No. 11 Maine Black Bears (23-13-3, 15-10-2 HEA) by a score of 4-1 Saturday night at the TD Garden to capture their third consecutive Hockey East championship.

BC was led by tournament MVP Johnny Gaudreau, who finished the night with three points (2 goals, 1 assist).

Two Gaudreau goals early With Maine’s heavy attendance at Saturday night’s final, BC looked to really take it to the Black Bears early and often, and it was Gaudreau who was able to help the Eagles do just that. Gaudreau’s first goal came at the 5:24 mark of the first period, followed by another just over two minutes later.

Gaudreau’s first goal came on a rebound opportunity on a shot by junior defenseman Patch Alber. Alber wound up at the point, and the puck jumped right to Gaudreau, who was able to easily beat Maine’s sophomore goalie Dan Sullivan.

When head coach Jerry York was asked about Gaudreau’s ability to be in the right place, he had nothing but praise for his most recent weapon at the small forward position.

“He’s got those qualities that you can’t teach,” York said. “You know, Ben Eaves, Ryan Shannon, and [Brian] Gionta–those types of players. They just really understand the game, and the skill level is outstanding. Whoever he plays with he makes a better line.”

Gaudreau’s second goal was very similar to the first that came from another rebound on a shot by junior forward Pat Mullane. Junior forward Chris Kreider took a shot from the point on a BC power play that Mullane got a second chance at, but Gaudreau was able to pick up the third opportunity on the backhand to slide it under Sullivan’s glove.

“The first goal was a nice shot on net by Patch Alber, and I happened to just hit the empty-netter,” Gaudreau said. “The second one was almost exactly the same–another shot from the point, a great screen by Paul Carey, and

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Gaudreau scored two rebound goals on Saturday night, and did not look at all like a freshman during the Hockey East tournament. another empty-net tap-in, so mostly my teammates helped me out on those [goals].”

Gaudreau finished the night with two goals and one assist, putting him atop the tournament in points and earning himself the tournament MVP. Strong penalty kill The Eagles finished the tournament 11-for-12 on the penalty kill after going five-for-five on Saturday night against Maine. Entering the night, BC was hoping

to stay out of the box, as Maine boasted the Hockey East tournament’s most impressive power play percentage at 26.1 percent, but when the calls started to pile up, the defense was put to the test.

“Maine’s power play is one of the tops in the nation,” senior defenseman Tommy Cross said. “They can move the puck around and have five skill guys out there, but as a penalty kill, we just felt like we were going to attack their power play like we do other power plays, and stick to our guns to try and take away their

time and space.”

Perhaps the most essential piece to the penalty kill was junior goalie Parker Milner, who was able to anchor BC’s perfect penalty kill with multiple key saves. His biggest penalty kill save came on Maine’s senior forward and captain Brian Flynn during the Patrick Wey interference penalty in the first period.

Flynn collected the puck in the low slot area and forced Milner to cover the entire net. Milner made it over just in time for the blocker save.

Season turnaround in Maine With the win on Saturday night, BC brought its winning streak to 15 games.

The winning streak is the longest since York took over the team in 1994, and is the longest active streak in all of Division I hockey.

BC’s last loss, however, came to the Maine Black Bears on Jan. 21, when the Eagles lost 7-4. Over the course of the winning streak, many players have cited that weekend in Maine, and the bus trip back to Chestnut Hill, as a turnaround for their season.

“That’s a five-hour bus trip back late on a night where we got beat pretty bad on successive nights by the Black Bears,” York said. “We just thought we could be a much better club than this, and we just weren’t firing on all the cylinders. I think our goaltending was very erratic at that time. Parker Milner stepped up major league from that point on in the season.”

York also cited a players meeting after the weekend series in Maine when Tommy Cross discussed the importance of hard work and team effort.

“Just because we’re wearing the BC sweater doesn’t mean we’re going to be successful,” York recalled. “It’s because players work hard and work well together.” n This article is dedicated in loving memory of Eva Hall. My thoughts and prayers are with the entire Hall family during this difficult time. May Eva’s memory live on through you all.

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After quick start, BC pushes past Providence in semifinal

By Greg Joyce Sports Editor

After a flurry of four goals in the first nine minutes of Friday night’s Hockey East semifinal, No. 1 Boston College settled in and defeated Providence 4-2 at the TD Garden.

The Eagles received a goal from Johnny Gaudreau in the second period for the game-winner, and Steven Whitney added another in the final frame for some breathing room.

“I think we’re in that mode where you just win and advance,” head coach Jerry York said.

“That’s where all our thoughts are.”

The Eagles got on the scoreboard first just 1:15 into the game when Paul Carey used a wrap-around move to slide the puck by PC’s goaltender Alex Beaudry for the 1-0 lead.

Just over four minutes later, however, the Friars had answered right back with a pair of goals past Parker Milner’s glove side.

“Providence played us hard. Early, there was a lot of action with four goals being scored in the first period,” York said. “They weren’t going to just say, ‘Hey, your record is better than our record, and you can advance to the title game.’”

Though they haven’t had to play from behind very often over the past month, the Eagles fought back down 2-1. The equalizer was set up by a textbook 3-on-2 break that began with Chris Kreider. The junior took the puck down the right side of the ice and dropped it to Kevin Hayes, who backhanded it to Destry Straight for the easy one-timer with half of the net open.

“We try not to let [being down] affect us,” Carey said. “They got those two goals early in the first, and I don’t think we got rattled one bit. We just keep a positive attitude and

keep pushing because it’s a long 60 minutes.

You don’t win it in the first period.”

Instead, the Eagles won it in the second period. Gaudreau’s tally came just 13 seconds into a BC power play, when he deked out Beaudry to bring him out of the net and then skated over to the left for a shot on a wide-open net.

“Johnny’s goal in the second period there, that was pretty special,” York said. “We’ve seen it during the course of the year, but to come at that time in a tight, tight game to break it open, we’re really excited about how well he’s playing. He’s just getting better and better.”

BC thought it had extended its lead to 4-2 later in the period on an apparent goal from Barry Almeida. But the referees decided to review the goal and called it off, as Steven Whitney had interfered with Beaudry before the shot came through.

The Eagles carried their 3-2 lead into the third, and added an insurance goal midway through the period. Soon after BC completed killing off a Providence power play, Almeida flew down the ice and took a shot off Beaudry. The rebound landed right in front of Whitney, who one-timed it into the back of the net to make it a two-goal lead.

Despite allowing two early goals, Milner remained focused, finishing the night with 27 saves. He came up with multiple big saves down the stretch, and his confidence was not shaken.

“He came right back [from the two early goals] and made some outstanding saves as the game progressed,” York said.

“Parker was strong in net,” Carey added.

“I know he wants those goals back, but he played the rest of the game really well.”

After the game, York lauded his senior

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Paul Carey scored this wrap-around goal early in the first period to get the scoring started. captain, Carey, for the year that he’s had after he scored his 15th goal of the season in the victory.

“Paul Carey has been one of our staples right from day one,” York said. “He has enjoyed a banner senior year, from practices to just being part of the team, and there was a push to move him to Colorado last year in the NHL, and he decided to stay back.

We’re so fortunate he did because he’s had an outstanding year for us.”

York was also complimentary of his junior defenseman, Brian Dumoulin, who

earlier in the week was named one of 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, given annually to the nation’s top collegiate hockey player.

“I think he’s certainly one of the top defensemen to play at the collegiate level, and you got to look at all the different leagues and probably a top defensemen,” York said.

“From my vantage point, he has more impact on the game—he defends and he’s an offensive threat with the puck. He’s been a terrific leader for us, so we’re excited about how well he’s playing.” n

Baseball hurt by big innings as Clemson sweeps series

By Stephen Sikora Heights Staff

The Boston College baseball team went into its series at Clemson this past weekend on a six-game losing streak.

It was extended to nine after Sunday’s loss, bringing BC’s record to 6-11, and 0-6 in ACC play. The Eagles have played some tough competition to begin the year, including the No. 23 Tigers, but the numerous losses don’t bode well for their postseason chances later in the season.

“We’re still playing hard,” said head coach Mike Gambino. “We’re doing a good job in the clubhouse staying together. You look at some of these games, one or two hits here or there, a break here or there and we’re 5-4, 4-5 and not 0-9. We’re not going into these places and getting rolled. I don’t look at it and say we’re so far off.”

On Sunday, the Eagles fell 5-1 to the Tigers. BC got off to a great start against Clemson pitcher Kevin Pohle, who came into the game with the second lowest ERA among starting pitchers in the ACC. Tom Bourdon led off the game with a double, and Anthony Melchionda drove him in with an RBI single to put BC up 1-0.

The score stayed that way until the third inning, when Clemson erupted for five runs against BC pitcher Matt Alvarez. The home team used five singles, a hit batsman, and a walk to score the runs, which were catalyzed by two stolen bases by the Tigers. BC held Clemson scoreless for the rest of the game, including 3.2 innings of work

by Taylor Lusko.

“We’ve given up some big innings in the last couple weeks,” Gambino said.

“It’s one of the things we’ve got to get better at as a ballclub. As things start to steamroll a bit, we’ve got to do damage control and get out of there allowing two or three runs instead of five.”

Unfortunately, BC could not score for the rest of the game, despite collecting 11 hits—one more than Clemson.

Bourdon and freshman Blake Butera, who batted second on both Saturday and Sunday, combined for five hits in seven at-bats, three of which were doubles by Bourdon. “[Blake] has really good at bats, does a good job with two strikes, sees a bunch of pitches, and can battle,” Gambino said. “He’s starting to get used to the

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Brad Felder (right) hit two homeruns on the weekend for Clemson to complete the sweep at home. speed of the game at this level. He’s going to be a really good player, so whether he’s hitting second or ninth, you just know you’re going to get good at bats out of him.”

On Saturday, the Eagles fell 6-3, as BC could only manage four hits against Tigers’ pitchers Dominic Leone and

Jonathan Meyer. BC’s starting pitcher Hunter Gordon gave up five runs in the first two innings to give Clemson a 5-2 lead, and the Eagles weren’t able to recover.

John Hennessy led BC with two hits, while Nate LaPointe hit his first home run of the season. None of the

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Nate LaPointe hit his first homerun of the season on Saturday, but it wasn’t enough for the win.

Eagles’ top six batters got a hit in the game. BC attempted to rally in the ninth, as Rob Moir had a pinch-hit triple and Hennessy drove him in to bring BC within three. Matt Pare came in to pinch-hit, but struck out to end the game.

On Friday, the Eagles were defeated by a score of 6-4. Clemson got out in front with a 3-0 lead by the second inning, and after starting pitcher Eric Stevens left in the seventh, the Eagles were down 5-3. Melchionda’s home run in the eighth brought the Eagles within one, but Clemson got the run back in the bottom of the inning, and BC did not score in the ninth.

“Overall, our starting pitching is doing a good enough job to give us a chance to win every game,” Gambino said. “The bullpen has done a pretty good job of keeping us in ball games.

We’ve got to do a better job of executing with our situational hitting. We had a leadoff double in each of the first three innings [Sunday], and only came up with one run.”

The star of the game for BC was Bourdon, who hit two homeruns as part of a three-hit, three-RBI performance.

In the series, Bourdon went 6-for-13 and is now batting .377 for the year with a .701 slugging percentage, both of which lead the team. His five homeruns are tied for second in the ACC. “You see how mature he’s becoming as a hitter,” Gambino said. “In this league, scouting reports get out on every hitter, pitchers can execute, and pitching coaches know how to attack hitters. You see a kid that can have a good game on Friday night, they make an adjustment on how they’re attacking him, he makes an adjustment, and Sunday he’s still hitting [well] against the same staff. That’s the key to becoming a mature hitter.”

Sunday’s loss marked the final game of BC’s 17-game stretch on the road to start the season, as they play their home opener against Holy Cross on Tuesday. They will hope to be able to come through with a win as fans get a first look at the team.

“Once we get home playing on our field, practicing on our field, hitting in the cages everyday, playing in front of our home fans,” Gambino said, “we know it’s something that’s going to get us feeling good again, and get us a win.” n

out with the same persistence in the offensive zone and overpowering defense. Knight scored to bring her team’s lead to two. Alev Kelter started the play with a long pass over the neutral zone to Madison Packer. Packer moved the puck to Knight, and the pair broke off on the 2-on-1. Knight faked a shot, threw the defense off, and proceeded to take a slap shot over Corinne Boyles’ shoulder.

The Eagles did not put their heads down after this defining score. Aggressive play in front of the net gave the Badgers a twoplayer advantage, putting BC in a tough spot.

The penalty-kill unit was able to hold the score due to quality goaltending by Boyles.

The Eagles’ penalty kill was efficient for the period, killing UW’s three power-play opportunities. BC’s power play was nonexistent, however, coming away scoreless in its three attempts.

At 17:21, Ammerman once again broke through the Eagles’ defense after taking a pass from Kelly Jaminski in the right circle.

The sophomore slipped a shot past Boyles to put her team up 4-1. The Eagles would not respond in the period.

The Eagles were unable to hold the lead for long though, as sophomore forward Brittany Ammerman brought home the equalizer at the 6:44 mark. The Badgers continued this momentum, as UW senior Carolyne Prevost sent her team ahead at the 13:47 mark. After the BC defense coughed up the puck, Prevost broke down the ice by herself.

The third period saw the Badgers continue their offensive push. After BC scored the first goal of the contest, UW went on to score five unanswered goals. The fifth came off the stick of senior Brooke Ammerman.

The older Ammerman sister came hard to the net and pushed through the five-hole score.

The Eagles showed a little bit of life with a score from Carpenter at the 9:54 mark.

With the Eagles on the 5-on-3 advantage, junior defender Blake Bolden found senior forward Mary Restuccia down the ice. Restuccia sent it over to Carpenter in the slot, and the freshman flicked it in to narrow the deficit to three.

Senior Danielle Welch nearly brought her team even closer with four minutes left in the period. The forward flew into the offensive zone with space, and set up for a hard slap shot, but the shot narrowly missed high.

Under the pressure of BC’s high-energy third period, Wisconsin did not slow down, however, and Knight scored her second goal of the night at 16:23. Just after the Welch attempt, Brianna Decker gave Knight a wellplaced pass at the point, and she sent it to the top left corner of the net.

Penalties seemed to be a major factor in the game for both teams. Both teams ended the night with seven penalties. So many trips to the box hurt the flow of the game, according to players.

“I feel like every time we started to get some flow or momentum, we would go to the boards and pretty much beat them in a foot race to the puck, and then I kind of felt like they were falling, but I guess we were cross checking and doing some boarding,” Restuccia said. “It definitely killed the momentum of the game, but I would also say that Wisconsin got a couple of penalties that weren’t deserved, so I guess it played out pretty even. We like when they let us play, so a couple less penalties on each team would’ve been nicer.”

Despite the loss, two Eagles left Duluth with personal accolades in regard to the program’s history. With her assist on Carpenter’s goal, Restuccia became BC’s postseason point leader with six. Also, Boyles’ 32 saves on the night put her ahead as the school’s record holder for most saves in a season with 927.

With a taste of postseason play, the team is already determined to make a third straight appearance in the Frozen Four. With the young makeup of the team, the experience of the players and the leadership of Crowley, it does not seem out of reach for this team to make the return.

“It was definitely very exciting,” Carpenter said of the experience. “Like Coach said, it wasn’t the outcome we wanted, but it was great to be here as a freshman. Hopefully, we’ll get back here in the years to come. It was just a good experience all around.” n

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Football finally sees its first live game action in intrasquad scrimmage

By Greg Joyce Sports Editor

Two weeks away from the annual Jay McGillis Spring Game, the Boston College football team held its first scrimmage of the spring at Alumni Stadium on Saturday. The intrasquad matchup was the first time the team saw game action under a revamped coaching staff.

“I think it was good,” said head coach Frank Spaziani. “We came out with a little bit of edge.

It was a good start, with new coaches and some young players. I would liked to have ended better, but that’s how we have to learn.”

Under new offensive coordinator Doug Martin, quarterback Chase Rettig finished

the day 12-of-19 through the air, passing for three touchdowns. Rettig looked most impressive during the red zone possessions, when he started two straight drives at the 20-yard line. Both drives lasted just one play, with a touchdown pass to Chris Pantale, and another to Alex Amidon.

“I think Chase was fine,” Spaziani said.

“We had some receiver issues and a couple guys that went down. We’re already thin over there, but I think he managed the game well.

It’s his first time under fire with the new stuff, and I think he handled it real well. He’s been having a good spring so far. He’s been having good practices so far, and he continued with it today.”

Josh Bordner saw action under center as

well, mainly with the second unit. He completed eight-of-15 passes, and threw a 40-yard touchdown to Spiffy Evans.

The running backs split playing time as well, with Tahj Kimble seeing the most carries.

The sophomore highlighted the day with a 20-yard touchdown run, starting out on the left sideline before crossing all the way back to the right sideline before gaining yards. Andre Williams received the second most carries, which included a 30-yard touchdown run that displayed his brute speed.

The Eagles were forced to play without some of their regular starters, who sat out due to injuries. This included six defensive backs, two offensive linemen, and Kevin Pierre-Louis at linebacker.

“Spring is about not beating anybody, if you will,” Spaziani said. “It’s not about the team.

It’s about individuals getting better. We’ve got to have enough guys to line up, and then the other guys can practice.”

Luke Kuechly was at the scrimmage, but stood on the sideline for the first time as he prepares for the NFL draft. The linebacking core of Steele Divitto, Sean Duggan, Nick Clancy, and Nick Lifka got plenty of action in his absence and played well.

“I watched Duggan a little bit, and he’s a football player,” Spaziani said. “Steele has been playing for a while. Clancy, playing in the boundary, made some plays. I think we need to get some more depth over there.”

Another player to watch was redshirt

freshman Brian Miller, who saw his first action in a BC uniform after having to sit out the past year with a knee injury. Miller is listed on the depth chart as a tight end, but lined up mostly in the slot as a wide receiver.

“Brian’s got some athletic skills, and he never really was an on-the-line tight end,” Spaziani said. “After his injury, it’s good to [have him back]. This is the first time he really scrimmaged since he had his horrific knee injury. For him to get through this was a big step, so we’re excited about him.”

The Eagles will scrimmage again next Saturday for the last time in the bubble, before it’s taken down. The following Saturday is the annual spring game, which will cap off the spring football season for BC. n

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Time to pretend: an argument for BC’s place in the NCAA bracket Chris Grimaldi There’s no doubt that the month of March is a time of madness for college basketball fans all over the country. From monumental upsets to last-minute buzzer beaters, the men’s NCAA tournament provides us with a marathon of adulation, heartbreak, and, most importantly, the fate of our own vulnerable brackets.

From the standpoint of any diehard fanatic, the bracket becomes a sentimental creation of personal judgment and a science so precise that proposed Final Four matchups become the work of algorithms, hypotheses, and unwavering faith in “bracketology.” But I’m not the usual sports fan.

After all, I’m the same guy who makes his fantasy baseball team a mirror image of the New York Mets roster with the excuse that “this is gonna be our year.” Blind allegiance and randomness are, after all, what make a fan’s ultimate experience.

So when I went to fill out my bracket last week, I was poised to boldly pencil the initials “BC” onto the victor’s line of the first round … until my own mutinous NCAA printout gave me no such choice.

I was dejected. I felt betrayed. Okay, bracket gods, go ahead and invite your precious South Dakota State, but leave the Eagles out? Madness.

Force me to watch Duke selfishly squander their own place in the tournament against Lehigh, a team that Donahue’s squad could’ve feasibly taken on? Injustice.

My frustration with the bracketology gods suddenly had me thinking, though. I removed myself from the agony of reality and let my mind wander to a hypothetical fantasy world. What if Boston College had earned an NCAA tournament bid?

Before you deem me insane and go back to

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Flashes of quality play from the Eagles, including their win over FSU, give hope that they will be in March Madness soon. crying over your own sorry bracket, give this logic some consideration. You could easily pull a switcheroo of wins and losses to change the Eagles’ 2011-2012 record to 22-9, but that wouldn’t be so honest, would it? Therefore, look at the facts and let

mathematics do the trick: since BC upset Florida State and Florida State won the ACC tournament, then by the transitive property, the BC Eagles must’ve been this year’s ACC champions. Take that, bracketology gods.

As much as we’d like to think so, conference wins and overall records—not the transitive property—determine NCAA tournament births.

Should any naive basketball fan have believed that the Eagles would appear on the bracket this year?

My heart tells me yes, but the numbers tell me no.

All joking aside, BC finished the year with a 9-22 record and a spot in the basement of the ACC due to youthful inexperience and an inability to close out tight games it could’ve realistically won. The Eagles proved to be a dichotomous team that did defeat a legitimate national title contender in FSU by four points and played a highly competitive half of basketball against ACC foe Duke, yet also fell victim to Holy Cross and UMass in the same season. A 21-point loss to NC State in an early exit from the ACC tournament caused a perseverant BC squad to leave a hard-fought season on an unfortunately sour note.

In reality, any collegiate roster that has almost as many freshmen as a summer orientation session and plays in a conference as stacked as the ACC has adversity to face. Whether I can accept it or not, this wasn’t going to be BC’s year for March Madness, but it isn’t an unrealistic proposition to suggest that the Eagles can “go dancing” within the next couple of years, nor is it crazy to predict that their talented crop of soon-to-be sophomores will have tasted the insanity of March Madness before they graduate. If the likes of Ryan Anderson, Dennis Clifford, and Jordan Daniels can build off of the flashes of brilliance Superfans witnessed this season, the college basketball world will be watching.

BC pull off some upsets of its own next March.

Chris Grimaldi is an editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@bcheights.com.

After two rough winter months, Milner has emerged as a reliable star

By Henry Rodophele For The Heights

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Parker Milner entered his junior year at Boston College as the Eagles’ starting goaltender. Coming off a quiet sophomore year playing behind John Muse, the Waterloo High School all-star stepped up to the plate at the start of the 2011-2012 season.

“I had to be ready to step up this year,” Milner said.

Going 8-1 in his first nine games of the season with a save percentage of .923, Milner was unstoppable.

And with the incredible offensive success by the BC forwards, the Eagles were arguably the biggest threat in collegiate hockey.

However, on Nov. 13, Milner faced his most difficult opponent, Boston University, and lost a crushing game, 5-0, giving up all five goals in 20 shots. After a

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Milner has notched awards since being renamed the starter.

second consecutive loss against Notre Dame, Milner would once again be heavily tested by the BU forwards at home, who ended up scoring another five goals on 15 shots against Milner. The Eagles went on to lose that game 5-3.

Following these last rough games, head coach Jerry York decided to bench Milner and give some playing time to other goaltenders Chris Venti and Brian Billett.

“At that stage, like a golfer, Milner started pulling the ball,” York said. “We’ve got some really competitive situations on our team, including the two other very talented goalies.”

And although BC’s first-string goalie was watching from the bench, York found that in the following games, Venti and Billett stepped up.

“There was a reason I was put on the bench,” Milner said, admitting his coach had made the right decision at the time. But while Venti and Billett were successfully filling Milner’s slot, the junior began his recovery process.

According to Milner, he was “not trying to make any radical changes, but at the same time, continuing to get better.

“I wanted to be the same goalie I had always been, I just aimed to get better,” Milner said.

And this was exactly what he did. Following his month and a half break in December and January, Milner returned for good on Jan. 27, winning his next 15 games of the season, including the Hockey East championship on Saturday.

“He got another chance to get in there after a trip back from Maine and he’s taken advantage of it,” York said. “Now he’s striking the ball right down the fairway.

Sometimes competition brings out the best in you.”

Letting up just 11 goals in his last 11 games, Milner proved to his teammates, his fans, and himself, the type of goalie he could truly be. His coach happily recognized Milner’s outstanding recovery.

“His work ethic improved and his concentration level was better,” York said.

There is no arguing Milner’s success, after he brought his save percentage of .901 in January up to .928 to finish off the regular season. Ending the season with a 23-5 record, Milner can look back proudly at the great accomplishments and feats that he was able to overcome throughout this challenging season.

However, Milner said his rise back was also helped out by his teammates.

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Jaw-dropping glove saves and consistent goaltending have defined Milner’s play during the past two months.

“They’re supportive of the guys that aren’t playing and supportive of the guys that are,” Milner said. “Your teammates are there for you no matter what.”

In the Beanpot, his teammates supported him in more ways than one, giving Northeastern and Boston University two hard-fought games. Milner mentioned that this Beanpot “was a big deal to me personally and a big deal for the team.”

The Beanpot also gave Milner a rematch against the Terriers, who had walloped the Eagles in November.

“It was good to finally beat BU after my tough run against them earlier in the season,” Milner said.

And it should have felt good for Milner, who saved an outstanding 32 shots from BU, letting only two other shots slip past his padding.

Milner’s Beanpot success was just the start of great things to come for the junior. Saturday night, Milner and his Eagles were able to win the Hockey East championship, beating Maine 4-1. And with the NCAA Tournament nearing, in which BC has secured the No. 1 overall seed, the importance of Milner’s performance between the pipes will be at an all-time high. Rebounding from his midseason slump hardened his game, and Milner will now set out to finish what he started. n

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Challenges emerge for BC med students

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Be a Yankees fan at Boston College Therese Tully When I was accepted to Boston College senior year in high school, I thought all of my dreams had come true. My parents were proud and excited that I had been accepted to the school where I really wanted to go, but they each asked me to make a promise to them, half in jest, half in seriousness, before I accepted my spot in the class of 2014.

My mother made me promise that I would not fall in love with anyone from Boston, because she was convinced that I would never come back home to New Jersey, and my father made my promise that I would not, for any reason, become a Red Sox fan. My father said this with a look of intense seriousness in his eyes, and I assured him, I would not cross over to the dark side.

Growing up in New Jersey, it seemed only natural to be a Yankees fan, but that is not the reason I am one. I tend to pick my sports team allegiances based on which teams my dad likes. Hence, I am a Yankees, Packers, Bruins, and Celtics fan. People are often shocked to hear that my dad, the biggest Yankees fan I know, actually grew up in Massachusetts. So when I headed off to school here, I knew it wouldn’t be easy. He warned me about what I would face, having dealt with it firsthand as a Massachusetts Yankees fan all of his life.

Mainly, the name of the game is, don’t provoke people. But it is just so hard. How am I supposed to keep my mouth shut when the Yankees beat the Red Sox? Though I do not happen to have the kind of personality that allows me to keep quiet in these situations, or any situation for that matter, I swear, I am working on it. Because if there is anything I have learned about Red Sox fans since coming to school here, it is that they are passionate. It has been good to witness it first hand. And as a loyal Yankees fan myself, I know any sort of baseball related argument will not go anywhere good. The chances of either either fan giving up, in an argument, or conceding their opponents point, is rather unlikely. Equally unlikely is the possibility of a Red Sox fan changing their allegiance due to my stellar argument. So really, it’s best not to bother with the whole thing.

The next issue is paraphernalia. I knew what I was signing up for going to school in Boston (or Chestnut Hill, if we are being picky), and I was not surprised by the amount of Red Sox paraphenilia I encountered here, but there is a fear that I have not shaken about sporting Yankees gear.

Though I am all about making bold fashion statements, wearing an obnoxious amount of Yankees gear may not be good for my safety.

So it’s best to keep it at a minimum and not be too showy. Also, wearing of this provocative apparel should be withheld on game days between Boston and New York if at all possible–it’s just better that way.

And the most important way to survive being a Yankees fan in a sea of Red Sox fans is to never gloat over a big win. Baseball, though a beautiful game, is a fickle one. One week you are up, the next you are down; one inning the Yankees are killing it, the next the Red Sox are winning. It is best to just enjoy the healthy competition without the victory chants. All I can do is to keep my head down and keep cheering for my team, through thick and thin.

Therese Tully is the Features Editor for The Heights. She welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com

MCAT, from B10

Courtesy of Kathryne Bauchspies

Boston College ROTC Seniors, soon to be Army 2nd Lieutenants, celebrate together at the Liberty Battalion Military Ball on Feb. 25.

Military life at BC unveiled ROTC, from B10

important to respect people of authority and maintain a sense of respect for them and their position. Outside of that, however, almost all of us get breakfast together at Hillside after workouts. You get to know your fellow cadets on a level you normally wouldn’t get to.” ROTC is a small community, with only 32 members in the entire company.

Piro and Winglass both referred to the company as a family, offering them mentorship as well as giving them the opportunity to mentor others. Each cadet is assigned one or two freshmen to meet with and help ease their transitions. In general, however, all members act collectively as their mentors. Winglass reminisced on how ROTC was a structure that helped her in adjusting to college. “It was extremely helpful to come to college and already have a group that is looking out for you and want to see you succeed.”

As the years pass at BC, the notion of being a part of the Army becomes increasingly real. After junior year, the cadets attend a four-week long training course, the Leadership Development and Assessment Course (LDAC). Here, cadets assemble from all over the United States at Fort Lewis, Wash., where everything they have accomplished in the past three years is assessed and evaluated. This course and evaluation is the culmination of everything one has pursued

in ROTC thus far, from physical aptitude to performance in classes. The next step is arriving back at school as a senior and a leader for the underclassmen. Depending on how well one performed at LDAC, one’s overall score is thrown into a system.

Eventually, one chooses between Active Duty, Army Reserves, or Army National Guard. Within that decision, one must also choose three branch choices: anything from infantry to military intelligence to medical corps. Once a top three has been chosen, the Army assigns one an occupation. More training occurs senior year, until finally one is commissioned as a lieutenant.

“After being commissioned as a lieutenant, from there it is tailored to the individual. There is no one particular set track that everyone follows. The big choice is going active or reserve because active duty means the Army is your career every day.

With the Reserves, you can have a civilian job and work one weekend a month and two weeks a year training with your Army unit,” Piro explained. After four years, one has the option whether or not they wish to continue their military career.

Many ROTC members receive scholarships to attend BC and be an integral part of the program. Although there are a range of scholarships, the full four-year scholarship includes tuition plus a monthly stipend and book money—everything besides room and board. The requirement for this scholarship is four years of active duty

after college or six years in the Reserve or National Guard.

This Wednesday, Mar. 21, ROTC is holding an open PT session at 6 a.m. at the Plex to show the greater BC community what their training is like. The workout will be tailored so that it is available for everyone.

Piro and Winglass described it as a sort of “bring a friend to army day” and promise it will be a mix of fun and exercise—a chance for the rest of the school to get a dose of their daily medicine.

In addition to ROTC, there are a scattering of BC students in Navy ROTC, a similarly structured program, only for those interested in being commissioned as an officer in the Navy after college.

Their regiment is also full of physical training, a weekly naval science class and a weekly “lab,” where students are briefed on everything from terrorism to safe driving skills.

One major difference between ROTC and NROTC is that all training for NROTC shipmen is at BU because BC is only an affiliated school of a greater consortium of six schools. “Applying for an NROTC scholarship was not to fulfill an ambitious childhood dream that had been fueling me all my life,” said Lamont Gross, NROTC shipman and A&S ’15. “I think I made a mature decision. I want to serve my nation in the best way possible, and this is how I think that manifests itself—in the Armed Forces.” n

Courtesy of Kathryne Bauchspies

Boston College cadets Erin Rademaker (right) and John O’Shea complete a squad tactical exercise while also being full-time students.

health and ethics. Also, starting in 2014, a year before the aforementioned changes will be implemented, the writing sample on the exam will be eliminated.

The major implication of the changes for premed students is that they will be expected to know a wider range of material, and may have to take courses that they otherwise would not take. It also may change the course sequences for some, as there are two main tracks for premed students: the three-year track, where students take the MCAT in their junior year, and the four-year track, where they sit for the exam as seniors.

Even if students are planning on taking biochemistry, for example, before medical school, many who would ordinarily wait until senior year will now have to work that into their schedule before they take the MCAT. Since the main changes will not be effective until 2015 or later, this primarily impacts current freshmen and incoming students, but will have large implications for the premedical program. Recommended courses will most likely change, and Farcy noted, “Preparation will be harder since there is more content, and length will impact things since a longer exam is more taxing.”

These changes could also shift the demographics of medical school applicants, encouraging or discouraging certain students from pursuing this path.

“Med schools say they like students with backgrounds outside of the core sciences to add a variety of experience, but at the same time, with the addition of biochemistry and other subjects, there is concern from advisors that this will make the premedical school track more rigid and might prevent students from alternate paths,” Farcy said.

These exam changes will certainly be causes of uncertainty and stress for students planning on pursuing medical school. However, if the test is being altered to better reflect the topics important for medical school, then it will ultimately benefit the applicants in the long run. While students taking the current, shorter version of the exam should certainly focus on the topics they will be tested on, Farcy points out that, “This is a clear indication of the way schools are taking the curriculum, so even if they are not taking the new MCAT, students should consider pursuing coursework in those areas.”

A press release by AAMC president and CEO Darrell Kirch said, “Being a good doctor is about more than scientific knowledge. It also requires an understanding of people.” While the additional courses required to have that behavioral understanding beyond the core sciences will be taxing for many students, ultimately the intention is not to burden, but to prepare the students for medical school and, eventually, the field of medicine.

In a Kaplan survey, the vast majority of students said that the exam changes would not change their decision to go to medical school. “Self-motivated students won’t let the exam derail their path to medicine,” Farcy said. n

PHOTOGRAPHER

On-Campus quirks

The clock-less classroom inconvenience Bridget Norris It’s Friday afternoon and you’re sitting through a painfully dull Philosophy of the Person II lecture. It’s one of those freakish 70-degree March days and it’s hot enough on the third floor of Carney that it’s quite possible you have melted into your questionably small desk chair. You’ve been staring out the window long enough to convince yourself it’s the middle of summer and you’re starting to reach that restless point during class when you decide you deserve to be set free of this misery. Enter the milliondollar question: what time is it?

Don’t waste your time staring at that conveniently blank spot on the upper wall next to the door, because there are no clocks in the classrooms at Boston College.

A standard bad classroom is filled with things like lackadaisically erased chalkboards and awkward lefty-desks, but the lack of clocks trumps these predictable annoyances. Most obviously, a clock-less classroom prevents students from accurately approximating how much time is left in the period. This becomes a pressing issue on test days when the professor slaps

down a 60-question midterm that students have to rush to complete. Beating the clock is nearly impossible when you have no idea what time it is. Yes, some teachers are nice enough to put five-minute time updates on the board and yes, some students are smart enough to wear a watch.

But what about the professors who do the bare minimum and lazily call out “Five minutes!” after you feel like it’s only been 20? What about the students who stayed up so late studying they could barely remember to put pants on the next morning, never mind a watch? The answer to these stumping questions remains to be seen.

There are a few somewhat satisfactory solutions to BC’s clock problem. Wearing a watch combats the issue, but some people aren’t into watches and others don’t feel like wearing one every day. Students who use laptops for notes are blessed with the on-screen digital clock, but what about technology-free classes? Most students turn to the option that makes professors across the departments cringe: cell phones. Some students cradle them in their laps, others put them face down on their desks.

Certain students even go for the “discreet” usage, hiding it in the

top zipper of their backpacks and attempting to master the art of the casual lean-down to check the phone’s clock. Side note: this rarely ever appears casual.

Though each of these solutions has its pros and cons, nothing can beat a good old-fashioned wall clock.

Students probably never thought that they would reminisce about high school and dream of the luxury that is clocks. Ah, the simple days.

When the gentle tick-tock set the tune to every lecture. When class ended at a predictable hour and students were never sur-

prised by how much or how little time they had spent there. But time passes and people mature, and eventually comes a time— pun intended—when society expects people to have outgrown their need for clocks. According to BC, our time is now. n

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David Givler is an editor for The Heights. He welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com

David Givler is an editor for The Heights. He welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com

The Heights

B8

editor’s column

Monday, March 19, 2012

professor profile: Audrey Friedman

Dean of the Lynch School loves both nature and nurture This week’s campus trend is ‘going green’ Joseph Pasquinelli For The Heights

Therese Tully It only seems appropriate that Green Week is coming right after my favorite green-themed holiday, St. Patrick’s Day. So with green still on the brain, this week offers the perfect reminder that our every decision affects not only ourselves and those directly around us, but also the entire planet and human race, which is pretty daunting to say the least. But there are things we can do, and ways we can help.

Though many of us have heard it all before, and know what we are supposed to do to “stay green,” it’s always a good idea to think of new creative ways, as well as take the reminder to be eco-friendly to heart.

My own day usually begins with approximately eight cups of coffee from dining halls around campus.

The amount of paper cups that this amounts to in a year is probably disgusting. This is why I have opted to use a reusable coffee to-go cup.

Simple enough, but plastic water bottles aren’t the only culprit in producing massive waste on a college campus.

And then there is printing.

Many professors have taken pity on my pockets and not made me purchase whole textbooks, but opt to post the readings online for us to print out individually. Thank goodness for print bucks, because I have had to print millions of pages so far this year. But sometimes those O’Neill printers are not set to double-sided default, and you end up printing out 40 pages instead of a mere 20. Try repurposing these pages when you are done with them, using the backs of them for other uses–making to do lists, doodling, brainstorming, planning out your week, or leaving your roommates notes.

Also, when it comes to the copious amounts of paper we all use, it is good to spread the love. Know someone else taking the same class you once took? Why not pass along your notes, study guides, and handouts to them so they don’t have to print them out themselves?

Let’s be honest—how often do we really look back at the notes and handouts that we save from previous classes? Even old textbooks from classes, why not pass them along—the bookstore will only give you about $2 for the $200 textbook you purchased anyway.

Also, a lot of textbooks are offered digitally, which also saves paper, and purchasing a Kindle and downloading the textbook is definitely cheaper than purchasing the hardcover edition. More and more are becoming increasingly available online, so look out for them!

Or maybe it’s as simple as using the metal silverware and actual plates and bowls in the dining halls as opposed to the throw away to-go containers for every meal. Or grab fewer napkins when you are on the go. There are plenty of things to do in all parts of your college life. If you keep your eyes peeled, the opportunities are endless.

It’s great to get your roommates involved, too. It can be hard to remember to turn the lights off, not leave the water running, or always recycle, but if you all are on top of it, and reminding each other, it’s possible. A little roommate encouragment can go a long way in making the whole campus more green. It’s always easier to accomplish goals when you have people supporting you in it. That’s what roomies are for, right?

There are tons of ways to get involved, and it’s an easy way to make a difference in the world and feel good about your choices.

Hopefully, the reminder to reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose, etc. will encourage us all to make just a little bit more effort in our conservation efforts, and we can see “staying green” become the trend on campus beyond just this one week.

Therese Tully is the Features Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

Audrey Friedman, associate professor and assistant dean of undergraduate students of the Lynch School of Education (LSOE), insists that her students call her Audrey because she believes it creates an atmosphere of collaboration and mutual respect. She began at Boston College in 1988 as a doctoral student in the curriculum and instruction program. Since then, she has worked her way through the ranks, becoming a professor in 1996, earning tenure in 2002, and rising to department chair in 2003 before becoming dean this year.

In addition to her administrative duties, Friedman teaches three courses.

She facilitates the Undergraduate Inquiry Seminar, Theory and Pedagogy in the English Language Arts Classroom, a graduate level course, and English Secondary Methods. Friedman has also taught the Capstone course Science for Social Justice.

After graduating from a public high school in western Massachusetts, Friedman attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she studied Zoology and English literature before adding secondary education to her list of majors at the beginning of her senior year. “Teaching for me was a happy accident,” Friedman said. “My goal was to become a research biologist, but the summer before my senior year, my husband proposed and indicated I needed to go to work to put him through dental school.”

Upon completing her undergraduate work, Friedman took a job teaching science and literature in an urban public alternative school in Philadelphia.

While teaching, she earned a Master’s degree in reading and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her time in this setting was important to the development of her teaching philosophy. “I

loved teaching in an urban school. I had a great deal of autonomy, but there was an immense amount of collaboration,” Friedman said. “I can’t imagine myself doing anything else.”

Toward the end of her time in Philadelphia, a decline in the prestige of education as a profession began. “We were valued and supported in Philadelphia.

Then, in the late 70’s, respect for teachers as professionals, problem solvers, and activists for social justice started to diminish,” she said. “The tenor was that teachers needed to be fixed.”

“Students ground me.

I learn something new everyday. I especially love the students who challenge me.”

-Audrey Friedman, LSOE Dean Friedman disagreed with this assessment of teachers. She said that there are many factors that affect achievement, and “almost every teacher brings meaningful expertise to the classroom.”

She believes that teachers are not the problem. “We don’t need fixing. We need support, a genuine invitation to the conversation about teaching and learning, and we need to remember that our primary responsibility is to the student,” Friedman declared.

When she returned to Massachusetts, she completed a Master’s degree in critical and creative thinking at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and taught English at her alma mater. In addition to teaching, she also developed curriculum aids for literature with John Savage, professor emeritus, who encouraged her to apply for the doctoral program in the LSOE. “He was the

catalyst for my applying here,” Friedman said. “I have an immense amount of respect for him as an educator and a scholar. He has been one of the most influential people in my career and vocational discernment.”

After completing her Ph.D., Friedman began teaching at BC and became one of the most effective teacher education instructors to ever pace a classroom in cowboy boots. She not only tells students effective teaching practices, but also models them by requiring students to participate in the activities they may one day use with their students. Friedman’s classroom practices and presence led the Carnegie Foundation and Council for Advancement and Support of Education to award her 2009 Massachusetts Professor of the Year.

Second to her ability to teach is Friedman’s profound care for all members of the Lynch School student body.

When students come to her office filled with Star Wars memorabilia and gifts from students she has helped, she greets them with a smile and an excited shout of their name no matter how many administrative tasks she has on her methodically cluttered desk.

She believes the relationships she forms with students outside of the classroom are integral for learning in the classroom. “Relationships between student and advisor are critical. Understanding students as people contributes to my competence in serving their needs and teaching them,” Friedman said. “And they keep me young.”

For Friedman, the best part of BC is the students. “Students ground me. I learn something new everyday. I especially love the students who challenge me,” Friedman said.

“One of the reasons I took [the position as dean] is it allowed more interaction with students, but it also allowed me to continue to teach,” she said.

“Our students make a commitment to

others that has very little remuneration.

They’re not in it for the money. They’re in it for the mission.”

One aspect of BC that Friedman finds problematic is the sometimesdisparaging view that some members of the University have of the Lynch School. “We need to get a message to the larger University about the success of our graduates,” she said. “Ninetyeight percent of our graduates who want jobs in education get them. Given this economy, that is quite good. Also, our students remain in classrooms significantly longer than the national average, and 75 percent of our graduates are still in their professions.”

The success of the Lynch School students, though, is not limited to postgraduation. “Our students score statistically significantly higher in theology and philosophy than their peers throughout the University,” Friedman said. “Out of 16 University leadership awards being presented in March, four are being awarded to Lynch school students.”

In addition to its stellar student body, Friedman believes the faculty makes LSOE a laudable and important school within the University. “We are constantly gathering data about graduates to inform program development and quality. The Lynch School makes decisions driven by evidence,” she said. “Furthermore, we have six endowed chairs, and, with the school of nursing, offer the best advisement on campus.”

In her spare time, which she admits is rare, Friedman loves to garden and play with her grandkids. “I have 60 varieties of lilies and 40 irises. I love to watch things grow,” she said. “I love my grandkids and kids in part because I get to watch them grow.” Her loving and nurturing nature, and her passion for what she does, have assured that Friedman’s garden, students, and grandchildren will continue to grow and succeed for many years to come. n

For students, dining hall is just another kitchen Dining Hall from B10 just waiting to be combined. These include the fried eggs in the omelet line, baked goods, oatmeal, fruit, the salad bar, the cereal bar, and all the hot breakfast sides. “Just the other weekend, I saw someone go up to the wrap line, and ask for just a tortilla, and then she got in the omelet line and ordered an omelet,

which she then put inside the wrap and added home fries to. It was a homemade breakfast burrito!” said Rachel Rudder, CSON ’14.

“At home, there is this bagel place that makes egg and cheese sandwiches with mushrooms, and it’s the best thing ever. So when I come back to school, I try to make a dining hall version of that by getting the bagel, egg, and cheese sandwich and then getting the mushrooms from the omelet line to put on it.

Daniel Lee / heights editor

Instead of complaining about their options, many students take culinary license in the dining halls.

It subs for the original,” explained Riley Davis, A&S ’14. Lately, students have been taking advantage of the option to order a sunny-side up egg in the omelet line instead of the full omelet. This opens up the ability to make egg sandwiches with one’s bread of choice, including the sliced bread that is available in the bakery section, a different bagel flavor, English muffins, pita bread, and tortilla wraps.

Weekend brunch offers students the greatest environment to exercise their dining hall prowess, regardless of however many of these ideas were concocted around tables of mozzarella sticks and chicken fingers at Late Nite. Though most of the Late Nite options are pretty satisfying on their own, there are those Wednesday nights when one misses dinner and finds himself or herself staring at the prepackaged sandwiches and salads and feeling less than impressed. Once again, innovation is called for, and it is at this time that many students’ inner-chef comes into play. “I went to Late Nite with a friend that missed dinner and she really wanted something hot, so she got the pasta, added vegetables, and the chicken parm from the hot subs, and topped it off with some cheese from the salad bar. It actually looked good,” Eizayaga said. When a lot of students go to Late Nite, though, their sweet tooth is what really drives them. The classic “brownie in the bottom of the fro yo” is a delicacy that is typically discovered early in one’s freshman year. This, of course, has

multiple modifications, all of which involve something being topped off with fro yo. The addition of whipped cream to Late Night has further opened up the dessert world to BC students. One can top off essentially anything with it. Leftover chocolate decadence in the refrigerator from dinner that night simply calls for the addition of a dollop of fro yo topped off with whipped cream and sprinkles. It’s equivalent to something one could order in a restaurant.

Last but not least comes the most controversial of dining hall fixtures: the salad bar.

Many BC students swear by it, and really never eat anything else in the dining hall. With this dedication and potential monotony, one really needs to get creative to avoid eating the same meal twice a day seven days a week. There are many different salads one could make, but the salad bar can also be a resource for students less inclined to reach for the dressing every night. With the pita bread and hummus available, the possibility of pulling together a Greek spread is not entirely far-fetched. Additionally, one could add a grilled chicken breast to a pita with hummus and whatever vegetables he or she wanted from the salad bar and make a sort of Mediterranean wrap.

All in all, every student complains about the dining hall at one point or another, but maybe all hope is not lost. One just needs to look at it as a forum for culinary creativity and artistic expression. n

he said, she said Do Boston College boys ever actually mature or is it just a myth to make freshmen girls feel better?

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nfortunately, I cannot speak for the entire male population at Boston College, but here are a few general statements that I think might help answer your question. As a disclaimer, some will not change during their four years here or even in the first 30 of their lives—that’s a fact, albeit an unfortunate one. College does a lot to a person—whether you’d like to call it “maturing,” “growing up,” Alex Trautwig “changing,” or any other synonym, it happens to everyone. As a senior, it’s not that I’m a better or worse person, but I’m certainly different. Maturing is a good term to use, and a big part of that comes with learning from different situations and experiences that you probably don’t have when you enter college at 18. Getting around to the issue at hand though, the treatment of girls, I think the same rules apply.

As seems to be the norm on campus, there are plenty of senior guys that will continue to just try and hook up with girls, but there are also those that are sick of it and will date (shocking, isn’t it?) or look for more serious relationships. Motivations shift and so, yes, I think you can say that we mature, but if you feel that the guys you know are completely immature, it might be time to broaden your horizons a bit. Being mature isn’t necessarily an age thing because it’s really a mindset. There are some underclassmen that you could consider more “mature” than some seniors, so it’s about finding the people who you view as mature.

do not think it is fair to group Boston College boys, or any college boys for that matter, into one category. Most boys come into college looking for a good time, and can you blame them? The party scene at BC is not very conducive to maturing. BC affects everyone differently, but it does seem to be the norm that the boys continue to act like juveniles through their senior year. I believe there are many respectable boys Madeline demoulas at BC, but I have noticed, as you have as well, that the immature ones tend to outnumber the mature ones.

That being said, you should never wait around for a boy to mature.

College is a trying time for everyone, and boys have lots of influences and distractions between their friends and going out. Unfortunately, it always seems like the ones that you want to mature never do. There are some guys who will never fully mature. It is important to never think that all BC boys are a lost cause. Just always keep your mind open and be smart when choosing which boys you get involved with. I know this is an indirect way to answer your question, and it can be frustrating when you are surrounded by immature boys constantly, but I truly believe that every boy is different, and right now most of them are just a product of their environment.

Honestly, only time will tell. My roommate always says, “a watched pot never boils,” meaning that you cannot sit and wait for someone to become the mature person you want him to be.

Alex Trautwig is senior staff for The Heights. He can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

Madeline Demoulas is senior staff for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

The Heights

Monday, March 19, 2012

B9

The Real World

Fresh perspective Eagle Dates

Eight, Six, Four, No More

MEET THE DATERS:

Christine Misdary Make friends of four, six, or eight. This is what the upperclassmen advised most of the freshmen first semester, and now I know why.

If we had listened to them, we would not be stuck in this housing nightmare. There are only a couple of days left before we register for rooms, and students are still frantically looking for that one person to complete their eight-man. If they do not accomplish this vital task, then they have to worry about their greatest fear: ending up on College Road.

Surprisingly, Boston College offers freshmen a variety of housing. Some rooming options include an eight-man in Vandy, a four-person apartment in Edmond’s, or, if we are lucky, a six-person suite. It seems like everyone is going for an eight-man in Vandy, so all we can do is hope and pray that we get a registration time and it’s a killer one. Blocking is also another option that freshmen can choose if they have a close group of friends they want to live near next year. Another thing to take into consideration is, who gets the eight-man in 90 if there is only one left?

This situation leaves freshmen with another tough decision they must make: to block or not to block?

My group of friends had a very stressful rooming situation that I am sure others had to deal with as well. We had five girls, and were stuck on what kind of room we wanted to live in next year. A four-person apartment would have been awesome because it would not get too hectic living with three other people, nor would we get stuck on College Road. Yet, one girl would be left to room with people she did not know, and everyone knew who that girl was going to be. A lot of tension arose from this situation. Some thought it was only fair not to leave her out and aim for an eight-man, while others thought it would be so much easier if we just dropped her. In the end, everyone came to their senses and realized we could not leave a close friend by herself.

Although it was very difficult finding three other people, we managed to do it with only a couple days to spare. Now, if we do not get an eight-man, it would just flat out suck because of everything we went through. We would have to break up, and I don’t even want to think about the issues that will arise. My roommate put it plain and simple: “Sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do. You’re not going to be able to please everyone, so you just have to choose what’s going to make the most people happy. But, if we end up on College Road, then I’m transferring.”

When asked about CoRo, I received different responses from freshmen. Some were okay with it and said, “It definitely would not be my ideal situation, but if it happens, it happens. As long as my friends and I are all together, then it’ll be fine.” Some mentioned that they would be very annoyed. Especially the freshmen currently living on Newton. But at least they wouldn’t have to take the bus.

In the end, I think it wouldn’t matter if we did not have the luxury of a kitchen or the space of a common room. The thing that matters most would be the fact that we’ll be living with our friends. I was devastated when I found out I was on Newton, but now I love it and would not have it any other way. So to all the freshmen who are losing sleep over housing, don’t worry about it, because somehow, it’ll all work out. I mean, there are worse things in the world … like going to BU.

Dan Friedman

Cover, from B10

NAME: Paris Geraniotis YEAR: 2012 MAJOR: International Studies FAVORITE HILLSIDE SANDWICH: Hillside Veggie FAVORITE MOVIE: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

NAME: Juan Cobos YEAR: 2012 MAJOR: Economics and Communication FAVORITE HILLSIDE SANDWICH: Baja Chicken FAVORITE MOVIE: Taken

Two seniors cross blind dating at Boston College off their bucket lists HEIGHTS: How did your date begin?

Heights: How did your date begin?

PARIS: The date began when I got to Tasca first and he was running late because of intramural soccer. I befriended the host, which was hilarious because he got so excited for the blind date and was really welcoming. He told me, “He’s here and he’s hot.”

Juan: Met at the restaurant—I was 25 minutes late, good first impression on my part. We went to Tasca.

HEIGHTS: How did you prepare for this date?

PARIS: I got a pedicure, I watched The Notebook, and read some Shakespeare.

HEIGHTS: What did you guys talk about?

PARIS: It was super easy to talk to him—we went right into conversation, and we stayed for a long time. We didn’t even notice the food when it got there because we were talking so much. We talked about how his sister came this weekend, our favorite classes we’ve taken, and what we’re involved in at school.

HEIGHTS: Were there any awkward moments?

PARIS: Just when we were waiting for the T—it was a little chilly, and so that was the only awkward moment.

HEIGHTS: How did you two end the evening?

PARIS: I didn’t get to say goodbye to him because we walked to the Heights room and were separated. (Spoiler: Juan waited to walk Paris home after their interviews!).

HEIGHTS: What would you have done differently?

PARIS: I maybe would have worn more perfume.

HEIGHTS: What does the future hold for you two?

PARIS: The future is bright like Gasson.

heights: Were you nervous for this date?

Juan: I wasn’t. I was playing in IM playoff soccer which is why I was late. I tried to get clean as quickly as possible, and I was really looking forward to it. I had been bragging about it to my friends, telling them they were jealous.

Heights: How did the conversation go?

Juan: We talked about why I was late, aside from that, we talked about how St. Patrick’s Day had taken a toll on everyone. We have a couple of mutual friends, but we had never met before. heights: Were there any awkward moments?

Juan: No actually, to be perfectly honest. The only thing that was a little awkward was just picking food—we couldn’t decide, and we got several different things. We ordered bean chili, pollo y chorizos, tortillas, and calamaris fritos.

Heights: What does the future hold for you two?

Juan: I could see myself getting along with her. I would do another date.

Heights: How did you end the date?

Juan: We took the T back together and we walked to the Heights room and talked about how beautiful Gasson was – almost as beautiful as her....

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The obsession-worthy allure of March Madness Jenn Lavoie There’s something about the month of March that really gets people going. Whether it’s the cardinal holiday of all Irish Catholic schools called Saint Patty’s Day, those random 70-degree days where you break out the Sperrys, or that epic Spring Break trip you and your friends have been planning since September, most would agree that March brings a lot to look forward to.

For college basketball fans nationwide, March is defined by a different set of standards. It is defined by the madness. It is the December to most of our years, the Final Four being the New Year’s Eve. As each new season begins, there is always a hope for fans that their team will take them to that final spot in everyone’s bracket.

Although Boston College won’t be named this year’s Cinderella team, nor receive a spot in the 2012 official bracket, the inevitable bracket hype has already spread throughout campus, giving us another reason to love March.

Arriving back from Spring Break Sunday night after just catching the last bit of bracketology, I was already being hit with, “Hey, how was your break? Who do you have in your final four?” Within minutes of unpacking, I found myself rushing to fill out

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a bracket, but only a rough draft of course.

Being in college, it is only natural for BC students to be drawn to the excitement, anxiety, and pressure of creating the perfect bracket. March Madness contains all of the necessary elements that students seek in sports: 64 college teams, unexpected upsets, diehard fans, and, of course, the opportunity to win a solid amount of cash. But how exactly does one go about picking the ideal bracket?

For most students, the process begins during the conference tournaments. These games give fans a last chance to view potential bracket teams, as well as scope out this year’s upset teams. Watching Florida State lose their 10-point lead during the second half against Duke and come out with a 62-59 win in the ACC championship game certainly influenced my bracket. Ironically enough, the Seminoles were one of the four ACC teams BC beat.

After the conference champions are named, fans wait patiently for selection Sunday, where the official bracket is put together and the No. 1 seeds are named. Being somewhat of a bandwagon Missouri fan, I was pretty disappointed in seeing the No. 1 seed go to Michigan State. Yet, as we’ve seen so far, your seed number does not necessarily give you an easy road to the final four. Although I have

Syracuse going to the Elite Eight, I couldn’t help but root for UNC-Asheville toward the end. After all, there’s nothing like a good upset.

Choosing those four crucial teams for your final four can be done by a number of different approaches.

While some choose solely based on ranking, others go for the upset factor, and some simply choose their favorite teams. Going for a combination of all three of these approaches, I quickly realized my tactics were inefficient compared to those of some of my peers. Watching one of my friends carefully examine each team’s record, evaluate its wins and losses on a tenpoint scale, and research key players’ free throw percentages, I realized I had work to do. I would love to know the thought process behind Obama’s bracket picks.

Once students set their bracket, or multiple brackets for that matter, the next task is deciding what pools to enter. While some students play just for the competition, others will buy in for up to hundreds of dollars, making each game that much more crucial.

As the first round of the brackets get underway, most fans would agree that the tournament has not ceased to entertain. With most students’ brackets taking a hit with an unexpected win for Norfolk State over Missouri, many were also holding their breath for games such as Vanderbilt vs. Har-

vard and Louisville vs. Davidson.

Whatever the outcome may be, most would agree that the tournament brings excitement to campus during the stress and chaos of midterms. Sitting in the fifth floor study lounge of Vandy last week attempting to teach myself Spanish verb conjugations, I was interrupted by the sounds of screams from down the hall. Running to the room to see which team was about to lose, I saw my whole floor anxiously sitting around a small TV holding their breath as Syracuse’s Scoop Jardine took a foul shot. Within minutes, we were able to breathe again, knowing the East’s No. 1 seed would be safe. What unexpected events will take place during the Sweet Sixteen is still a toss-up.

Jenn Lavoie is a contributor for The Heights. She welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com.

These are rough times for conservatives my age. How does one justify principled belief in smaller government in light of recent history and the conduct of Republicans, specifically the presidential candidates?

First, the history: my lifetime spans the terms of four presidents. I have no memory of the first Bush’s presidency, and the little I remember of Bill Clinton’s terms had to do with wrapping my young mind around this mysterious woman named Monica Lewinsky and what it meant to have an “affair.”

The second Bush was a disaster, as most agree. Under the tutelage of Dick Cheney, Bush expanded the deficit. The two wars exacerbated his time in office, and though the decision for war made sense at the time, the difficulty of winning and hindsight as the wars stretched on hardly helped his approval ratings. With the passage of the stimulus act, he ensured that history would not remember him as a fiscal conservative.

Finally, Obama was elected. His election has appeared to usher in an age of unfettered spending, and certainly Europe has followed his lead. In quick succession he bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, AIG, and passed the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He then bailed out the auto industry and passed Obamacare, essentially nationalizing healthcare. He passed a monstrous financial regulation bill in DoddFrank, and has made government betting on solar energy routine (see Solyndra).

Thus, for college students my age and younger, it is difficult to find true models of conservative leadership. I was not alive for the Reagan years, which many conservatives look back upon with such love. But that was over 20 years ago—what would conservatism look like today?

Which brings me to the next problem— the Republican presidential candidates.

There is a problem when one feels embarrassed about the leaders of one’s party. My heart sinks and my cheeks redden every time a friend of mine does a double take and says, “Wait, you don’t actually support (insert Republican candidate).”

I never seem to have a satisfactory answer at the time, so here is an attempt. First, there is a real scarcity of choice in America.

I don’t support Santorum when he says marriage should be between a man and a woman, but I’m willing to look past that in light of the fact that he can bring some badly needed fiscal discipline to Washington. Conversely, someone who does not like higher taxes will accept this as a necessary component of a Democrat who will protect social liberties. In either case, a choice has to be made, unless one absolves his civil duty altogether (which I find detestable).

Why are these candidates so terrible?

I willingly admit that I would not like to see Romney or Santorum in the White House—but anyone who is not Obama will do. The liberal media has had a field day with the Republican candidates. The most subtle and accurate analysis of why these candidates are so subpar comes from, of all places, The New York Times. Conservative columnist Ross Douthat writes in a Mar. 10 piece, and I quote at length: “What we’re really seeing from the Republican campaign, over all, is less a party gone mad than a party caught between generations. The disasters of the George W. Bush era depleted the party’s bench of officeholders and tarnished the (last) name of its most successful big-state governor. The elections of 2009-10 delivered a promising crop of future stars, but the current presidential campaign arrived too soon for them to be entirely seasoned … So the primary electorate was left to choose from a roster of retreads, mediocrities and cable-news candidates. And given their options, Republican voters have acquitted themselves about as sensibly, responsibly and even patriotically as anyone could reasonably expect.”

I will end with two points. The first is the nature of politics today. Politicians are judged by what they do, not what they don’t.

This may seem obvious, but there are times when doing nothing may be the best course of action. As a brilliant article by John Stossel in Reason magazine points out, “When so much is illegal, common sense dies.

Out of fear of breaking rules, people stop innovating, trying, helping.” This is a major difference between the right and the left.

Obama can bail out an industry and boast about the jobs the government saved. But as financial commentator Peter Schiff points out in congressional testimony, “You always see the jobs government creates, what you don’t see is the jobs it didn’t create.”

Finally there is an old parable about English factory workers versus American workers. In England, when the boss visited his company in a fancy car, the workers would stare enviously and say, “We deserve that—we are entitled to that. We envy him.”

In America, the workers would say, “What can I do so that I can get that car—so I can be like him.” A philosophy that allows for people to move up because of the work and effort they have put in their lives is far more optimistic than one in which they are forced to wait for government handouts.

Dan Friedman is a contributor for The Heights. He welcomes comments at features@bcheights.com.

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Building bonds, forging futures Members of BC’s ROTC program work to become leaders on and off campus

By Cathryn Woodruff Heights Editor

Most people—even the majority of the apathetic students at Boston College—have had their eyes open long enough to notice a scattering of uniformed men and women perusing campus.

Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a four-year program that allows students at BC to have a normal college experience while also receiving the training and education necessary to be commissioned as an Army Second Lieutenant once they graduate.

ROTC includes weekly training sessions, that are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6 a.m. Although the strenuous physical training is necessary to shape these budding young Army members, equally important are their weekly military skills training, their leadership labs on Tuesday mornings, and their military science class. A major part of their training includes learning military tactics, land navigation, squad tactics, and, overall, combat-oriented skills.

“What we do the most is physical training,” said Meredith Piro, A&S ’14, “but I think the biggest misconception people have is that we just work out. People don’t know how much time goes into coordinating labs and training. It is a very student-oriented organization.”

Recently, ROTC students put on a large-scale military ball. The BC battalion, called the “Liberty Battalion,” is actually a joint battalion made up of BC and Northeastern students.

BC and Northeastern are the two “host schools.” All of the BC students’ training is here on campus, however with the occasional trip to Northeastern for certain events and Liberty Battalion-wide gatherings.

For outsiders, it may seem difficult to understand the life of an ROTC cadet. “When you’re at an ROTC function, it’s important that what needs to get done gets done,” said Sarah Winglass, A&S ’14. “It is

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Changes in the MCATs to affect a quarter of students Revisions in the MCAT’s content create stress

By Marye Moran For The Heights

Almost a quarter of students in the College of Arts & Sciences are premed.

That means that one out of every four students is working for their entire undergraduate career to prepare for the MCAT, an exam that they shape their course selections and academic programs around. Now, though, for the first time in over 20 years, those students are being forced onto a new path of preparation, as the MCAT announced significant changes to be initiated in 2015.

Owen Farcy, Kaplan Test Prep’s Director of Pre-Health Programs, noted that the last change to the exam was in 1991, saying that “the world of medicine and how doctors interact with patients has changed drastically since then.” The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which both represents medical schools and creates the exam, decided that the test no longer represents what is important to medical schools and could better evaluate undergraduate applicants.

Major changes affect the test’s length, content, and structure. What was once a five and a half-hour test will now be over seven hours. “The AAMC will now have enough data on the test to really distinguish between students,” Farcy said. While the additional questions may give some students more opportunities to show their knowledge, others worry that this will make an already grueling exam excessively stressful.

When looking at content, there was a realignment of the topics covered on the test. “They realized the sciences being tested didn’t necessarily correspond with what medical schools need students to know,” Farcy explained, so additional advanced topics in biochemistry and genetics were put onto the exam. One of the most controversial changes is the addition of a new section called the Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior, which includes topics in psychology and sociology. “The idea behind this new content is that the doctors of today and tomorrow need to be well-versed in understanding different cultures and communicating with their patients and understanding behaviors behind diagnoses,” Farcy said. Smaller changes also include a restructuring of the Critical Analysis and Reasoning section, which will now focus more on population

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Boston College students without kitchen get creative while reworking dining hall options to their own unique tastes and desires.

Students express creativity in dining halls

By Alexandra Schaeffer Asst. Features Editor

Everyone knows that classic Boston College experience of walking into the dining hall for dinner on Friday or Saturday night and realizing that there is absolutely nothing appealing to order. The majority of students just surrender and get a burger, a safe option on most occasions, and others admit complete defeat by heading for the cereal. It’s at times like these that students crave the comforts of home, and particularly for freshmen and sophomores, the absence of a kitchen in the dorm rooms becomes more and more

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debilitating. Yet, there are many students who look at this as a challenge, an even better opportunity to showcase their culinary prowess than had they been dealing with a fully stocked kitchen. Dining hall innovation is an art form that often goes unnoticed, but it’s more prevalent on campus than most other forms of creativity.

For instance, start with the Friday night dinner conundrum. “I have a friend who, almost every weekend, makes her own eggplant parmesan pasta with the dining hall resources. Since Lower always has eggplant parm in the hot subs, she goes and gets pasta with tomato sauce, asks for the eggplant parm without the sub roll, and

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then gets a nice piece of bread to go with it. It’s really funny because it always takes a little negotiating with the employees to let her do it,” said Mariana Eizayaga, A&S ’14. This is a good option for Lent, when a lot of BC students’ dining hall options are even further limited by their inability to eat meat on Fridays.

Depending on the night before, students often have some bizarre cravings come Saturday morning. This is actually one of the best times to mix-and-match in the dining hall because there are a variety of food options prepared individually and

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