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An entrepreneurial vision takes flight, A4

Small Talk, Funky Giant, Will Bolton, and others fought it out for performances at this year’s Arts Fest, B1

BC men’s hockey fell to Northeastern University in the Hockey East Semifinals, C6

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K?< >I<8K ;<98K< 9p gfglcXi mfk\# J`dfej Xe[ DZ:X]]i\p n`e Ô ijk L>9: gi\j`[\ek`Xc [\YXk\ n`k_ gi`dXi`\j j\k kf jkXik Kl\j[Xp% 9P K8PCFI JK% ><ID8@E 8jjfZ% E\nj <[`kfi On the eve of the primary ele ctions for Undergraduate Government of Boston College president, the Elections Committee held the 2016 UGBC Debate at 8 p.m. in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room. Russell Simons, MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, MC AS ’17, received the most votes from the student audience—45—to win the presidential debate. The team of Nikita Patel, CSOM ’17, and Joseph Arquillo, LSOE ’17, came in second place with 27 votes, followed by Anthony Perasso, LSOE ’17, and Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18, with 15 votes. The remaining teams of Matthew Ulrich, MCAS ’17, and John Miotti, MC A S ’17; Ryan Fairhurst, MCAS ’17, and Charlie Butrico, MCAS ’18; and Andrew Meck, MCAS ’18, and Jonathan Barbosa, LSOE ’18, received six, three, and one vote, respectively. “Going forward, we hope to engage the other candidates in greater conversation about how to accomplish our respective goals for next year, since we hope this will allow students to be more informed in their voting,” Simons said in an email. “We believe in our mission of “Strength

in Unity,” and are excited to continue sharing our ideas with the entire student body.” The six teams of candidates discussed issues ranging from diversity concerns to the effectiveness of UGBC in implementing policy. The Ele ctions Committe e received over 50 questions from students through an online form and chose the 15 most relevant for debate. The Elections Committee only asked one question that was drafted by the Committee. The first question asked candidates about how they would increase the support for the arts on campus. Simons and McCaffrey would like to subsidize some of the ticket prices of the performing art shows in order to encourage more students to attend events. Meck drew upon his own personal experience in the theatre department when encouraging the administration to become involved. The Committee then asked Fairhurst about what his efforts would be to make BC’s campus more eco-friendly. While he claims that his personal concentration is not on directly making the campus more eco-friendly, he wants to create a way for students who are interested in that area to

have the opportunity. When asked about gender equality on campus, Patel said she hopes to create a more equal playing field for women and men’s athletic programs. Ulrich and Miotti hope to create additional programming around women’s sports in order to increase campus morale as well. He hopes to organize pep rallies to help school spirit. Patel would like to create a campus calendar for culture clubs, furthering efforts to promote events on campus. Patel and Arquillo also hope to encourage students of color to take on leadership positions for different organizations on campus. McCaffrey countered Patel, adding that UGBC has already begun to create a cultural club calendar at BC. McCaffrey would also like to bring together organizations’ leaders in order to further discuss individuals’ goals and facilitate conversation on diversity issues. Meanwhile, Perasso plans on encouraging individuals to come together and have open conversation. He is aware that UGBC cannot solve the problem of diversity on campus, but it can encourage student efforts for inclusivity, he said.

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Boston College will be visited on April 9 by a female entrepreneur who began building her career the day she sold a stolen book on eBay. Since then, Sophia Amoruso has discovered more ethical ways of making money and has worked her way up from dumpster-diving and hitchhiking to running her own company. She named her online clothing retailer NastyGal and was CEO until 2015, when she announced that she was leaving the position. Amoruso is coming to BC as this year’s keynote speaker for Boston College’s second annual Women’s Summit: Own It. Own It is part of a series of events held throughout the semester that bring current female leaders from various areas of society to campus to teach young BC students about leadership. The summit’s board invited Amoruso to be its keynote speaker this year. The event was created last year to inspire the male and female students on campus to gain knowledge and leadership skills. Last

year, the summit featured two keynote speeches from high-profile speakers Carrie Rich, CEO and founder of The Global Good Fund, and Kate White, former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. “Our goal is to bring together likeminded students looking for ways to gain knowledge and leadership skills to amplify their personal and professional successes,” Alexis Teixeira, co-chair of the summit board and CSOM ’17, said. According to Teixeira, the board thinks Amoruso will do well to inspire and empower BC students so that they can better see their potential. They believe that her authenticity and success are a combination that will capture the audience’s attention, and ultimately motivate it. “What we find most interesting is her background—she wasn’t handed opportunities, she made them,” Teixeira said. “Through hard work, time, and passion, she has been successful.” As a young adult, Amoruso dropped out of community college and worked at a Bay Area art school checking student IDs in order to get health insurance. At this time, she began experimenting with eBay. She attempted to sell vintage pieces of clothing through the platform

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Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang and his transition team will speak on March 22 at 4:30 in the Murray Function Room. The talk will focus on the schools that the team visited and the planning that went into Chang’s first 100 days as superintendent.

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The undergraduate tuition for the 2016-17 academic year will be $50,480, bringing the overall cost of attendance at Boston College to $65,114. The Board of Trustees increased tuition, fees, and room and board by 3.65 percent. In order to allow students of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to attend BC, the Board also increased need-based financial aid for undergraduates by 4.1 percent to $114 million. BC is one of only 19 private universities in the United States that is need-blind in admissions, meeting the full demonstrated need of all undergraduate students. More than 66 percent of BC undergrads receive financial aid. The average financial aid package is estimated to reach $40,000. “Every effort goes into developing a budget that provides the best possible educational experience for our students through investing in academic priorities that advance the University,â€? Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead said to BC’s News and Public Affairs Office. “At the same time, the University remains committed to meeting the full demonstrated need of all accepted students through the $114 million we will offer for need-based undergraduate financial aid to ensure a BC education remains available to families with need.â€? The Board of Trustees also set tuition for graduate programs for the coming academic year. BC Law was set at $50,620, and the full-time MBA program in the Carroll School of Management will cost $47,340. BC ranked No. 35 among national universities on U.S. News and World Report’s list of “Best Value Schools.â€? It also placed 22nd in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s ranking of the 50 “Best Valuesâ€? among American private universities. “Boston College continues to invest in strategic academic priorities while maintaining our commitment to need-blind admissions and meeting the full demonstrated need of all admitted students,â€? Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley said to BC’s News and Public Aairs OďŹƒce.

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The Carroll School of Management is sponsoring a talk by Barbara Messing, the chief marketing officer of TripAdvisor, on March 23 at 7 p.m. in Fulton 511. Her lecture is a part of the Carroll School of Management’s Distinguished Marketing Lecture Series.

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By Brigid Kelley For The Heights Gregg Cassin, founder of Appalachia Volunteers, active voice for LGBT and HIV/AIDs communities, and BC ’80, will speak on the importance of building communities in Cushing 001 on March 22 at 8 p.m. Cassin graduated from BC with a degree in theology and then moved to San Francisco to join Jesuit volunteers. Cassin currently resides in California and works to create retreats and programs for long-term survivors of the HIV epidemic. Cassin is a 30-year survivor of HIV himself. Cassin was also honored with the Certificate of Special Recognition from the U.S. Congress, in addition to honors from the City of San Francisco. Cassin will also speak to a group of Appalachia Volunteer students on Sunday who recently travelled on Spring Break service trips. Cassin will share his story of the challenges of embracing oneself, no matter the roadblocks. “My message is that in the most challenging times we must find self-discovery and then selfacceptance,� Cassin said. “This is a sacred journey that everyone is

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Gregg Cassin, the founder of Appa, aims to get students to break down their walls and open themselves up to others. obligated to do.� In his message of spreading Jesuit values, Cassin asks the audience to consider questions about themselves in the hope of self-discovery. “Who are you born to be? Who are you called to be?� Cassin said. “Claim ourselves, no matter the institutions, society, or mainstream ideas. You get to self-define. You get to be the person you want to be.�

While Cassin is coming to BC to speak with the Appalachia Volunteers group, he also hopes to reach out to the broader BC community through the GLTBQ Leadership Council. Nick Minieri, chair of GLC and CSOM ’16, helped organize Cassin’s talk to BC students. Minieri wants students to understand that Cassin’s work with the LGBTQ community is connected to Jesuit values. Cassin’s goal is to

develop communities in which students are able to break down their walls and open themselves up to others. “The thing that I’ve always been drawn to is building community,� Cassin said. “In the humblest way, I’ve found comfort, inspiration, and joy with people with the intention of doing important work of helping another. We need to break the isolation of human experience.� „

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partment of the Treasury. Raskin’s focus in the Treasury Department is on the larger economic impact of student loan borrowing and cyber security. In her address, Raskin discussed the current state of the higher education loan system and whether the system is delivering on its promise to make higher education more aordable and accessible. After Raskin spoke, the ďŹ rst of three panels, “Did Privatization of the Student Loan Marketing Corporation (Sallie Mae) Work?â€? began the substantive discussion of the policies of student loans. Moderated by Rohit Chopra, a senior advisor in the U.S. Department of Education, the panelists gave prepared remarks about the privatization of student loans during the financial crisis from the perspective of the fields of law, public policy, and non-proďŹ ts. Following that discussion, the second panel, “Reforming Student Loan Servicing,â€? began with opening remarks for moderator Kathleen Engel, a law professor at Suolk University and a national expert on predatory and subprime lending and consumer credit. Unlike the ďŹ rst panel, which focused more on the economic side of the issues, the second panel was a policy-based discussion. After a luncheon address from Raskin, the ďŹ nal panel focused on one of the most pertinent aspects of student loans to college students: debt collection. The panel, titled “The Draconian Era of Student Debt Collectionâ€? and moderated

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Businessmen, scholars, and professors discussed the rise of student debt. by BC Law professor Patricia A. McCoy, reviewed the aws in the complex system that allow for predatory student debt collection. “Many students do not understand the differences in the loans they receive,â€? Dalie Jimenez, a law professor at University of Connecticut and a panelist, said. “Federal and private loans are very similar, and for most people it is hard to tell what kind of loan you have taken out.â€? The discussion on collection focused mostly on the legal aspects of what are permissible tactics for collectors to use. One of the main topics of discussion was the role of private versus public loans in collection. If a person defaults on payments for a federal loan, the tools available to collectors are much more extensive than if one defaults

on private loans. This means that collectors have no incentive to let the person know if they have a private or federal loan, Jimenez said. As the conference wrapped up after closing statements by Rappaport Center faculty director Michael Cassidy, many of the participants stuck around talking about the problems and solutions discussed during the conference. The majority felt the conference was a positive step in finding solutions to the varying problems that make up the student debt crisis. “With such a wide variety of experts from different areas, the discussion today provided a lot of innovative solutions to the burden of student debt that college graduates are facing,� Medvedow said. „

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Anthony Perasso and Rachel Loos were among the six teams participating in the debate on Sunday evening.

Debate, from A1 Meck and Barbosa’s team is also encouraging students to reach out to UGBC and have conversations about inclusivity. “We want every student on campus to feel supported by us, and if not us, then the BC administration,” Barbosa said. The Elections Committee also raised concerns about campus accessibility for disabled students. Ulrich drew on his personal experience with his disability when he was young, when he was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. “We obviously cannot change the campus in terms of layout, but we can change the accessibility,” Ulrich

said. “The role UGBC needs to play in this is getting students in touch.” Patel mentioned how she wants to publish updates of UGBC’s progress throughout the year, in order to connect further with students. Meck said that he will discuss their campaign’s three main platform points, “transition, reform, and health” in their first Board of Trustees meeting. The Elections Committee asked candidates how they would respond to the administration rejecting their policy points, even if they are backed by students. McCaffrey noted that their goals must be “realistic and necessary” when working withthe administration.

“We must come back and find different avenues to get the results we want,” McCaffrey said. Perasso realizes that his team’s goals are rarely going to be accomplished and they are being open about that within their platform, he said. He wants to create a safe space for students when they can’t always accomplish their goals and need to take a break from perfection. The Elections Committee then posed a question on BC’s Catholic identity and whether the University announces it too much, too little, or just the right amount. Arquillo noted that the University also has an obligation to diversity organizations like ALC, GLC, and other inclusivity groups, in addition

to focusing on its Catholic identity. BC must focus on the individual, Arquillo said. Simons agrees that the Boston College is a Jesuit Catholic institution before anything else. He thinks, however, that the University must provide students the opportunity to be a complete individual, despite the beliefs of the University. He referenced LGBTQ and sexual identity issues. “We need to be able to work within a Catholic framework to provide students with what they need,” Simons said. When the Elections Committee posed a question on mental health on campus, Barbosa and Meck responded that their platform is centered around creating support for both mental and physical health. Miotti said that his team hopes to promote counselors and a mental health center in order to make students more knowledgeable about help on campus. Perasso said he believes that the reason that BC students are the most documented students in the ACC for alcohol-related incidents is because the University’s policies are too strict. “I am not sure that I believe that BC’s alcohol-related policies are too strict,” Fairhurst responded to Perasso. The Elections Committee also asked candidates how they would better the experience for freshmen living on Newton Campus. McCaffrey hopes to increase the

frequency of Newton buses on the weekends and continue programming within the dorms to allow students to be more social. Ulrich added that BC should encourage more students to travel to Newton for events, like pep rallies. When asked whether UGBC has a tangible enough impact on students’ BC experience, Patel and Arquillo noted that freshmen often don’t know what UGBC is doing. “I will say that UGBC does do a lot of stuff,” Patel said. “I think it is more of an issue of students not knowing what is going on.” Perasso noted that the administration is the problem with UGBC’s inefficiency. He and Loos want to focus on issues that are within students’ control, like playing WZBC over the speakers in Lyons Dining Hall. To wrap up the debate, the Elections Committee asked the candidates what they thought was the most important issue that UGBC has to deal with in the coming year. Each team was given one minute and 30 seconds to answer the final question. Perasso believes that biggest issue that UGBC must face is mental health, and the president’s efforts need to be focused on hiring additional counselors. Simons, on the other hand, thinks that the president must encourage students to collaborate and work together. Miotti added that the strongest vehicle that students have is a sense of community.

Arquillo and Fairhurst touched on the same point in believing that the president must make resources available for students, while acting as a link between students and administrators. Barbosa and Meck believe that UGBC should be concentrating on a multitude of student concerns. “UGBC is huge, and we don’t have to focus on one specific thing,” Barbosa said. This year, questions for the debate were drafted by students and the Elections Committee. The Committee requested that students submit questions through its online form over its Facebook page, which was sent to students over email. In previous years, the ALC and the GLC were involved with the question creation process. Because there are six teams in the race, as opposed to last year’s three teams, the Elections Committee and Diversity and Inclusion decided to hold two separate debates in order to conserve time and allow more questions to be asked. Diversity and Inclusion will hold a Town Hall Event on March 30, the night before the final election for UGBC president. Nick Minieri, the chair of GLC, said that he is unsure whether the Elections Committee and Diversity and Inclusion will hold two separate debates in the future. It was more feasible this year because of the extended election period, which spans over three weeks instead of 10 days, he said.

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gan her own Web site. She simply turned to her MySpace followers for customers, and her company took off immediately after. Amoruso released a memoir in 2014 that was titled, #GIRLBOSS. The book made it onto the New York Times bestseller list, and it recounts her story while also providing readers with business advice. When looking at speakers for the summit, the board considers va-

riety, vocations, and passions. Thus, the 30 female speakers attending the summit will represent a broad spectrum of professions, backgrounds, and experiences. Teixeira described them as women who are breaking barriers and paving the path for future generations. “By attending the day, they will get to hear from over 30 extraordinary speakers from various industries, experiences, and walks

of life,” she said. The difference between the summit this year and last year is that this year the summit will focus more on vocations. Teixeira explained that there are many students with ideas to do things, but the problem is that they have always believed there was no way for them to possibly turn these ideas into realities. She hopes that the summit will push these students to follow through

with their dreams and reach their goals. The day will consist of Amoruso’s keynote address, panels, main stage conversations, round table discussions, workshops, and performances. It is supported by two different offices on campus: the Office of Student Involvement and the Women’s Center. Both were influential in spreading the word throughout the community about

the summit event last year. “We hope our role is much more than a one-day event—we hope to create a dialogue that extends throughout the year that encourages students to be authentically and unapologetically themselves by owning their successes, owning their opinions, and owning their differences,” Texeira said. “We need more women in leadership in the real world.”

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Maura McSweeney, MCAS ’17, was awarded the 2016 Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship on Saturday. McSweeney, a philosophy major and an international studies minor, has served as the vice president and president of Other Americas and has participated in the Organization of Latin American Affairs, Camino Ignatius and Ignatian Family Teach-In, while working in the Dean of Students Office and the philosophy department. One of three finalists, McSweeney won a scholarship of $25,000. All three finalists earned a scholarship of up to $3,000, as well as a $1,000 gift certificate to the Boston College Bookstore. The other finalists were Jenny

Penafiel, CSOM ’17, and Peter Laboy, MCAS ’17. The scholarship recognizes a Hispanic or Latino BC junior whose life demonstrates an understanding of and commitment to the values and ideals inherent in the life of Archbishop Romero. He or she must show involvement in and service to the Hispanic and Latino community at BC, as well as in the wider community. Jeans Santana, the scholarship recipient in 2009 and BC ’10, led this year’s ceremony. Santana is currently a medical student at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and has two children. In his opening remarks, Santana highlighted the responsibilities of those representing the values of Romero. He said that each person has a commitment to social justice and serving those in need.

“To whom much is given, much is expected,” Santana said. “We must pay it forward which serves as the fuel to level the playing field. We must serve the poor, putting an emphasis on the serving.” The e vent starte d with a buffet of traditional Argentinian food like plantains, chorizo sandwiches, and dulce de leche pastries, and ended with hours of dancing. In addition, the Tango Society of Boston, a traditional Argentinian dance group, performed three separate times. Rev. Don MacMillan, S.J., spoke of Romero’s work in El Salvador. Romero, he said, gave the people of El Salvador spirit and hope. He led the opening prayer for the ceremony. McSweeney had traveled to El Salvador for a Romero anniversary celebration. It was here

where she began to realize the sacrifices people must make in order to promote social justice. “I often find myself between two realities, that of Nicaragua and Boston College,” McSweeney said. “I could forget about the injustices in Nicaragua, but the example that Romero gives makes forgetting an unacceptable choice.” Eva Maynard, BC ’97, was recognized as the recipient of the Rev. John A. Dinneen, S.J., Hispanic Alumni Community Service Award. Juan Concepcion, BC ’96 and Law ’03, presented Maynard with the award. He referenced how the world today should focus on social justice, and building bridges instead of walls. Maynard serves as the assistant director of the Alumni

Affinity Program at the Alumni Association. She, along with alumni, conceived Reconnect, the largest gathering of AHANA alumni at BC, in 2009. In addition, she revived groups focused on the arts , Middle Eastern studies, and law enforcement, and also coordinated reunions for organizations such as The Heightsmen, BC Bop, and My Mother’s Fleabag. Maynard explained that her determination stems from her selfless family. “I urge you to not shrink in your pursuit of what you want out of life,” Maynard said. “Sometimes it may cost you and in the namesake of this award, for some people it cost them their lives to say that I am somebody, I matter, I was intended and so are you. It’s important to pursue everything we want out of life

wholeheartedly.” University President Re v. William P. Leahy, S.J., announced the winner of the scholarship. “I hope tonight renews us and helps us call on memories, adds to our sense of idealism and leads to a deepening of hope,” he said. McSweeney explained that as a freshman, she felt a culture clash when arriving at BC. She reminded herself of the injustices she saw at home and searched for ways to correct these while in Chestnut Hill. “As students of Boston College, we have a platform to speak out on issues of injustice and, therefore, a responsibility to use that platform,” McSweeney said. “My hope, then, is to encourage more students to make use of it to work for justice.”

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Amid the current political debate over single-payer healthcare, Paul Farmer, M.D. and Ph.D., of Partners In Health, may provide an answer to this hot-button issue. Farmer will deliver the inaugural lecture in the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series on March 22. The event is titled “Universal Health Care? From Slogan to Mantra” and will be held at 7 p.m. in Robsham Theater. Farmer is the co-founder and chief strategist of Partners in Health, an international nonprofit organization. Farmer founded the organization along-

side Ophelia Dahl, an advocate for the health of the poor, and Jim Yong Kim, now the president of the World Bank Group. Since 1987, the organization has provided health care, conducted research, and undertaken advocacy efforts for the impoverished across the world. Partners in Health operates in Haiti, Rwanda, Mexico, Peru, and other third-world nations. The organization has built hospitals and health posts in areas in which people would not otherwise have access to health care. According to its Web site, the organization’s two main goals are to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.

Farmer is described as “the man who would cure the world” in the award-winning b ook Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. This biographical work follows Farmer’s life from his work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital when he met Ophelia Dahl and formed Partners in Health. The book describes his journeys throughout Haiti, Cuba, and Russia as he worked to battle infectious diseases affecting impoverished nations across the world. Farmer served under former president Bill Clinton as the United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti. In June, Clinton presented Farmer with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

“I can honestly say that a great deal of the good things that have happened to me in my life … are directly on the shoulders of Paul Farmer,” Clinton said at the ceremony. “There are so many people all across the world whose lives he has saved, but countless others we will never know, whose lives he has touched.” Warren Buffett and Bill Gates were among the audience members applauding Farmer at the Forbes Award Ceremony. Farmer’s talk at Boston College will kick off the new Park Street Corporation Speaker Series in Health, Humanity, and Ethics. The goal of the series is to engage students in exploring values

and ethics related to health and health care practices. The series is funded by the Institutional Review Board at Massachusetts General Hospital. Amy Boesky, the director of the minor in medical humanities, is co-director of the Park Series. The medical humanities minor, a recent addition to the interdisciplinary minors at BC, is a humanistic and cultural study of illness, health care, and the body. “We [held] a series of workshops in which we talked about how could we come together from different disciplines to think about interdisciplinary approaches to health and healthcare,” she said. Courses in this interdisciplin-

ary minor are available through the Morissey College of Arts and Sciences, and include classes in social science, psychology, and natural science. Boesky also talked about the future speakers of the Park Street Series. She said that journalists and co-authors Nick Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn will speak on September 15 about the health inequities related to their work on gender and human rights. Boesky also announced that other speakers for next year will include Susan Reverby from Wellesley College on medical histor y, Rosemarie Garland Thomson on disability bioethics, and Meghan O’Rourke on chronic illness and the ‘future’ of illness.

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8k (0# =i\j_dXe ?\X[j Knf :fdgXe`\j# Lk`c`q\j ;ife\ K\Z_ 9P C<@>? :?8EE<CC ?\`^_kj <[`kfi If you haven’t heard of Branick Weix already, then you are late to the game. The CSOM freshman, who hails from St. Paul, Minn., has made major waves within the Boston College community, helping to create promotional videos for the school, and being featured on the BC News Web site for his notable extracurricular achievements. Currently, Weix is the president and founder of two different companies—Skylink Productions LLC and Demain Designs. SkyLink, a project born from Weix’s interest in videography and photography, was established on Weix’s 18th birthday after he spent a summer using drones in his job as a golf course employee. He did not know much about drone technology initially, however. “I just ran into drones online, and started reading about them until I knew a little bit,” he said. “I saw the opportunity to use drones for marketing materials and also for data analysis with that golf course.” Opportunities quickly spread from outside the golf course, when Weix was soon approached by realtors and schools interested in his work with aerial photography and data analysis. SkyLink is probably Weix’s biggest achievement, as his work with the company is heavily solicited. One project in particular, a data and research project conducted with Seeds of Change, has already changed some of the scientific process for a group of researchers in Costa Rica. Weix traveled to the

area over Winter Break to implement drone technology in the tracking of sea turtles by taking aerial images and videos of the island’s beaches. After proving that drones could streamline this process, as well as provide access to faraway beaches previously left unstudied, Weix hopes to set up a drone permanently at the organization’s base. “I’ll likely be returning sometime to train their scientists how to use it,” Weix said. “Hopefully in the long term they can start to use drones to make more decisions and whatnot, now that we know that it works.” Demain Designs, also established during Weix’s senior year, started as a favor to a family friend. The company works to take excess inventory from a home decor manufacturer in St. Paul, Velvet Pumpkins, and sell it online through Amazon and other websites. Weix put his efforts in the simplest terms. “We figure out how we can take their stuff, sell it, and make money,” he said. The project garnered $40,000 for the company last fall, and is only going to expand in the future—Weix is currently building Velvet Pumpkins a Web site and setting up two new sales channels within the project. The 19-year-old is already hiring employees, taking on an extra set of hands to help with the project over the summer. Having hiring power seems unusual for someone who’s only 19 years old, but Weix says that he doesn’t feel any strain based on his past accomplishments. “I think there’s always pressure, especially at BC—it’s just an intense school in general,” Weix said when asked about the expecta-

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Over Winter Break, Weix collaborated with scientists in Costa Rica by using drones to observe the migration patterns of sea turtles. tions of others. “But a lot of these things have come around from doing things that interest me and that I enjoy to do, so I think as long as I continue to do that, things will go well and I’ll hopefully keep learning new things and picking up new projects.” Speaking of new projects, Weix also mentioned a collaborative effort between him and BC’s Thomas Wyner, a CSOM professor, in which the two will map out the campus of BC with drone technology in order to create 3D printed models of the buildings. Weix’s interests reach beyond his work with his companies, a fact that is often overshadowed in interviews by the desire to find the secret to his success. He loves

to rock climb, and has been involved with the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship, the Information Systems Academy, and various Tech Trek programs with John Gallaugher, an information systems professor, since arriving at BC. He also emphasized that drone technology has remained a hobby for him, even as he capitalized on its business applications. “I love making videos,” he said when asked to describe his ideal extracurricular project. “For me, the ideal project is just going and exploring places that people haven’t been to before, that they haven’t seen before and just making videos of that. Just presenting a different view.” When asked if he had a proudest ac-

complishment, Weix was at a loss for an answer. “Ah, that’s a tough one,” he replied. “I don’t know about that.” Of course, any one of his various efforts would have been a reasonable answer—not many students can say that they don’t have a proudest accomplishment simply because there are too many to choose from. Weix cautions others against fearing their own shortcomings. “That’s part of the experience, not being afraid to fail,” he said. “The strongest attribute you can have is being willing to fail, and knowing that it’s not the end of the day.”

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ing individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?” – Irvin D. Yalom, Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy A gentle breeze, carrying with it the smell of fertilizer and grass, rocked the most eager of flower buds starting to peek out of the ground. Above, the sun was shining, and the sky was a crisp blue. Campus was filled with a renewed sense of energy due to the first signs of spring, and the weather would only get better from here. For

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once in my life as a biology major, I wasn’t drowning in lab reports, problem sets, and midterms. I could actually go outside and feel the sun directly on my face instead of through the library windows. I had to use my free time wisely, so I put some thought in what I wanted to do. It certainly was a beautiful day outside—so I decided to visit a graveyard. 2150 Comm. Ave. presses against the border of Evergreen Cemetery. The noise of construction on the new dorm permeated the normally still air around the cemetery, which only made me slightly concerned for the future residents who disturbed the restful dead. Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1850 by the town of Brighton and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Built in a rural cemetery style and following the natural curvature of the hill, the cemetery’s paved paths form concentric ovals and wind their way through graves dating back to the mid-1800s. On top of the hill in the middle of the cemetery stands a towering monument, topped with a soaring eagle, dedicated to the Brighton residents who gave their lives fighting for the Union in the Civil War. But despite all of the cemetery’s historical importance, it didn’t really live up to its name when I visited that day. Leaves from countless autumns past had accumulated into a thick orange carpet that muffled the sound of my footsteps. Pools of stagnant water from the previous rain submerged parts of the paths. Twisted tree branches had begun to slowly suffocate a crumbling footbridge on the outskirts of the grounds. Now

that I was in the middle of the silent cemetery, I was grateful for any sound that would remind me of the living, whether it was the nearby construction, the wind in the trees, or the birds poking around in the earth. The lateafternoon sun beat down on my head as I began to walk the circuitous path through the cemetery. The solid, lifeless faces of tombstones of every shape and size, all engraved with similar-sounding names, popped up everywhere I turned in a cold, cruel parody of the budding flowers back on campus. Even though the paths gave the cemetery some semblance of order, tombstones stuck out of the ground in random spots, making it impossible to walk in a straight line without stumbling on a tombstone sinking into the ground. Some graves were marked with a simple engraved stone in the ground. Others were obelisks rising into the sky, topped with statues of guardian angels. Married couples were buried side by side with matching tombstones. A mother and father engraved heartbreaking epitaphs on the tombstone of their lost baby. The earth slowly swallowed up older tombstones that had no one to care for them, with exposure to the elements erasing the inscribed names from memory. A name that had been freshly etched into a family tombstone shone a clean white compared to the older black cuts on the granite. Peals of laughter suddenly cut through the air, snapping me out of my reverie. From a distance, I could make out a group of students walking down one of the many paths that zigzags through the tombstones, no doubt using the cemetery as a shortcut to

Cleveland Circle, skirting death to get back to life. I realized I was making myself sad looking at these rows of tired tombstones leaning against each other, bearing the names of people whose lives I will never know and whose stories have been lost in time. Our society doesn’t like to face death—we allocate a small plot of land for death and keep it out of sight and out of mind until it inevitably strikes. Death seems to be the be-all and end-all of human existence, the bookend of our mortality, and I think it’s perfectly healthy to fear it while in the midst of life. But I like to regard death as one of the ultimate expressions of love. We lay our loved ones to rest and show our love by bringing them flowers and small gifts that they would enjoy. We place a monument of solid stone in the ground in a final act of defiance of death to mark the significance of one mere life. We share stories and keep their memories alive for as long as we can until it’s finally our turn to rest. I made my way back to campus, thinking of those quotes from Clarke and Yalom. Some of the people in that cemetery have been dead for well over a century, their tombstones neglected but still standing, as if demanding that they be acknowledged. I conceded to them, and also thought of my personal 30 ghosts standing behind me. And as I recall all of their names from my experience walking through Evergreen Cemetery, I only hope that they were able to live one last time and enjoy the beautiful spring day.

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9P C<8 CLE@<N@:Q =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Much more than flour, butter, and sugar goes into making the best cookies on campus. Haley House chocolate chip cookies are sold in the dining halls, where they have gained a reputation for their deliciousness. But there is far more to these cookies than just what meets the tongue. Every Haley House cookie contributes to the eradication of societal inequality. Haley House is a local non-profit organization that strives for social justice through its mission to “challenge the

attitudes and structures that perpetuate suffering.” Haley House was founded in 1966 when Kathe and John McKenna opened their apartment to Boston’s homeless. They began to provide these forgotten souls a warm meal, a place to sleep, and kindness and respect. A year later in the South End of Boston, the original Haley House soup kitchen opened its doors. Right from the start, Haley House took a radically different approach to helping victims of inequality than any other organization of its kind. In mission and practice, the Haley

House community relies on mutual respect, empowerment, and connection through food to remove the socially-constructed barriers that perpetuate inequality between people of different racial, educational, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Live-in volunteers and activists run the kitchen and programming, which creates a conscious community that embodies respect and connection for all. The McKennas’ hands-on approach to promoting social justice has remained integral to the mission of Haley House over the last 50 years, even as the organization has matured and expanded.

Today, the Haley House community has expanded to include a food pantry, meal services for the elderly, affordable housing, urban agriculture partnerships, and two eateries: a pizzeria called Dudley Dough and the Haley House Bakery Cafe. These two eateries are open to all and feed people from all walks of life. In addition to providing their communities with food, these restaurants are community hubs that provide programming catered to victims of inequality. In fact, it is the Temporary Employment Program at the Bakery Cafe that provides the Boston College community with 600 packs of its famous cookies each week. These cookies are made by individuals who have been incarcerated and isolated from mainstream society and employment, often due to the vicious cycle of addiction and incarceration. The Temporary Employment Program stops this cycle in its tracks by giving ex-offenders paid jobs, a supportive community, and mentoring. The program’s participants learn how to make cookies and gain the skills they need to secure a steady job after the program. The Temporary Employment Program has transformed the lives of many of its participants, who have then gone on to transform society. The relationship between BC and Haley House goes far deeper than just cookies. Haley House’s namesake, Leo Haley, was a BC alumnus who embraced BC’s Jesuit tradition of social justice. In 1976, the PULSE program began sending undergrads to volunteer with Haley House, a tradition that continues to this day. Luke Heineman, a PULSE council member for Haley House and MCAS ’17, works as a liaison between the 10 to 15 students in the PULSE program who volunteer at the soup kitchen each semester. At the beginning of

this year Heineman had to work overtime to schedule enough tours of the Haley House for the interested PULSE participants. “Haley House is traditionally one of the most popular PULSE placements,” Heineman said. Interest is not likely to die down any time soon, as the Haley House continues to attract a diverse and dedicated staff. “I was blown away by the [organization’s] sense of community,” he said, emphasizing how friendly and open the Haley House staff was. Haley House is all about connection and through PULSE, Heineman’s students get to connect with and “learn about relationship-building with people you don’t think about.” Getting involved with Haley House is a transformative experience for these students, and over the course of the year Heineman sees them mature, gain patience, and expand their awareness. Students are encouraged to step out of their comfort zones and form connections with the soup kitchen’s clientele. Heineman saw how interacting with the residents could overcome societal barriers when one of his students connected with a homeless man who was interested in astronomy. “[The homeless man] actually found a mistake in the Museum of Science’s astronomy exhibit and pointed it [out] and he was correct, which really undermines the stereotype that homeless people are uneducated,” Heineman said. The students’ experiences working at Haley House have long-reaching effects on how they view society, perpetuating the Jesuit mission for justice in the BC community. So if you ever need an excuse to eat a cookie, or three, remember that every Haley House cookie helps bring people together and promotes equality and social change.

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KAYLA FERNANDO It was freshman year all over again. Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, the Five Dialogues, and the Nicomachean Ethics formed a small pile on top of the desk. The names Sophocles, Plato, and Aristotle brought up memories of sitting around a table with my classmates and discussing the nuances of each text as if we were Greek philosophers ourselves. While freshman year is all a blur to me now, it was recent enough that I can recall memories of when everything was still shiny, new, and terrifying. Though I was never one for philosophy, for the time I sat around that table I came to appreciate the importance of conversation and other ways of thinking. My personal copies of those Greek texts take up an entire bookshelf in my room back home. I can’t bring myself to let go of the memories of that formative period of my life associated with those books. I’ve never bothered to re-read them, though—at the end of the day, it’s all Greek to me. I reached back into the bag and picked up a heavy tome, weighed down with the authority of the Word of God. Of course the Bible had to be in there. After 16 years in Catholic school, I’m pretty sure I learned a thing or two about the Bible. Catholic Bibles are marked with imprimaturs, stamps of approval from a bishop or other highranking clergy member indicating that the Bible has been published in accordance with Catholic teachings. The New Oxford Annotated Bible car-

ries no such distinction as an ecumenical study Bible, but even though it’s not explicitly Catholic, the lack of an imprimatur makes it universal in a refreshingly unique sense of the word. I chuckled when I saw a calculus textbook in the bag. The fact that it was the only hardcover in the bag seemed to make a statement about the importance of calculus in one’s education. It’s interesting how only a handful of definite equations can quantify rates of change. Calculus is the gateway to many careers in the similarly dynamic fields of science and technology, and it’s only after becoming fully immersed in my science classes that I’ve been able to go back and appreciate the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of calculus. Like it or not, calculus will always be an integral part of science. The gleaming cover of Plato’s Republic now stared up at me from the top of the pile. It’s almost impossible to make it through a liberal arts education at BC without reading the Republic and pretending to know what the Form of the Good is. A year later, I still don’t know what the Good is, and I may never understand what it means to be just, but I guess that’s exactly why I’m here in the first place, looking for answers as I stumble my way out of Plato’s cave. If my freshman year taught me anything, it was that in order to grow, you first have to hit rock bottom. We resolved to go deeper into the cave to see what other books were lying in wait.

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the bag contains several brand-new books—though neglected books from a wide range of academic disciplines. After a bit of pondering, we came to the conclusion that the random sample of books found in this bag is an apt look at an average variety of books that a Boston College student might encounter—something of a liberal arts sampler. We decided to finally go through them one by one and see how each one contributes to painting a comprehensive picture of BC’s liberal arts education.

JAMES LUCEY First impression upon pulling up Texte et Pastiches—une initiation á la littérature? Yikes. Personally, I have no academic experience in the French language, and my incompetence of the French language, despite eight years of studying Spanish in high school, is extensive to the point where I needed to use Google translate to decipher the title—it’s roughly, “Text and Pastiches – an Introduction to Literature,” if you were wondering. Looked at broadly though, I think that the study of language is essential to the liberal arts. Formally a student of Spanish and currently a student of German, studying language is more than just learning how to speak a foreign tongue. It’s a means of discovering a new world outside of your own and learning how to interact with that new world on cultural and linguistic levels. Looking back at my own experiences studying language and now leafing through the indecipherable pages of this book, it’s clear that there’s a little more to it than flashcards and conjugations. It’s a cultural exploration which makes us better as humans, and if that thought doesn’t just wreak of liberal arts, then I don’t know what does. The next book was a welcome relief, a liberal arts classic: a Norton Anthology on American Literature. Though notorious back-breakers, Norton Anthologies are a staple in English Literature and related disciplines, filled with classic stories and insightful essays that provide a variety of perspectives and readings on the most important and significant ideas in each specific field. In a variety of ways, this model of analysis, multi-perspective discussion, and criticism is much like this liberal arts approach to education we’ve all encountered. To look at a broad spectrum of literature, encourage dis-

cussion of differing opinions, and synthesize new ideas is, in itself, a demonstration of the broad spectrum of exposure that studying the liberal arts encourages. Right as things were looking positive, the next book up is Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. But what is an education if it simply consists of the flowery stuff? Without delving too much into plot, Northanger Abbey, like many Austen novels, is a dark exploration of Gothic obsession and maturation into adulthood. In this same vein of well-roundedness, scrutinizing a wide variety of movements in each field of study adds a level of diversity to education. To be excessively singular in thought and experience is a dangerous thing, and the mission of the liberal arts education is highly geared toward avoiding this threat of the single narrative. It’s a positive thing that our mystery student is mixing his or her calculus with a side of American Gothic literature—it’s an eclectic mix that makes for a multifaceted individual. The final book in our mini collection actually made total sense to me—we had explored philosophy, religion, calculus, language, and literature, so what pursuit should follow to round out the pack? Art. A dense paperback with the informative title Theories of Modern Art runs through the various movements and time periods of which modern art is composed. Opinions with regards to modern art certainly have varying degrees of approval, but it is undeniable that it is a part of the human discourse. To neglect the importance of visual art would be to overlook a huge part of the human experience and to fail to align with the philosophy of the liberal arts.

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=fi =lcc ;`m\ij`kp :fm\iX^\# Kfne ?Xcc E\Z\jjXip At the presidential debate for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) last night, candidates were questioned on the arts at Boston College, the role of student government, and mental health. On March 30, a Diversity and Inclusion town hall will serve as another opportunity to hear candidates answer questions, this time directed entirely toward issues of diversity and inclusion. The inclusion of a separate town hall debate exclusively devoted to questions from the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC), the Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD), the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC), and the Diversity and Inclusion Programming Board (DIP) came about due to the unexpectedly extended election season as well as the inclusion of six presidential teams in the initial debate. The last time the debates were separate was three years ago. As Diversity and Inclusion is the largest subsection of UGBC and has the most programming and funding, it is important that its concerns are addressed. In a six-team, one-night debate, this would not have been feasible due to time restraints. Although the Elections Committee did ask some questions on Diversity and Inclusion issues, this separate town hall will allow every issue to be addressed specifically by each candidate in a way that otherwise would not have been possible. It is uncertain whether this practice of holding a separate town hall will be continued in the future, due to the potential return to a normal 10-day election period, instead of this year’s

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three-week cycle. Each year, the decision regarding this separation should be based on the number of teams running. When six teams are running, it is nearly impossible to adequately represent the interests of Diversity and Inclusion in one debate. A separate town hall forum solves this problem and ensures that they can ask their questions. On the other hand, when two or three teams are running, it is preferable to bring everything into one debate, including questions regarding Diversity and Inclusion.

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“I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.” -Norman Mailer

LETTER TO THE EDITOR In Regards to “African, African Diaspora Courses Added to Social Science, History Core” On March 3, The Heights published an article that informed the community about the recent inclusion of African and African Diaspora (AADS) courses being added to the history Core. I would be lying if I said that when I received emails from people across the campus congratulating me that I took a deep sigh of relief. Instead, I shook my head in despair. A visionary, a giant, a prophet—one who is often forgotten about and pushed to the side— once explained in response to a reporter’s question about racial progress: “No, no. I will never say that progress is being made. If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it out all the way, that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They won’t even admit the knife is there!” While changes are coming, the question about whether or not we, as an institution, are progressing must still be raised. Symbolic gains are not the same as systematic ones. While future students will be able to capitalize on this opportunity to learn about the African Diaspora for Core credit, this was not a giant leap, but rather an inching drag forward. It seems that we have to walk the University through each course in order for them to review its eligibility for Core credit. Why were courses such as African American History and those related to Asian Studies, Latino Studies, and Native American studies not also granted the green light? Has there been a call by the administration for faculty to develop courses to enhance

the Core and have departments step up to the task? What are departments doing to enhance cultural diversity on this campus? We now address the University directly. We have presented a guide and offered to assist you in reaching an improved state, yet we continue to receive push back. You must take ownership of what is happening right here on the Heights, which only some of us can call home. We expect the University to make visible, positive changes and to begin healing its wounded students. If we do our due diligence and truly live out the Gospel message of justice, the Eagles that graduate from this institution can go forth and set the world aflame by working for the societal changes we so desperately need. Let’s focus on our mission: the holistic formation of our students. Inform and challenge people to engage with issues of diversity and inclusion. This message is a direct request for genuine and exhaustive effort and commitment to improving diversity and inclusion. The Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center said, “BC, Let’s Talk.” Organizations under United Front umbrella have maintained the conversation on diversity among students, and the AHANA Leadership Council created a space in which they elevated this conversation to a University dialogue. Now that we have accomplished these difficult feats, administration, it’s your turn to get to work.

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Sophia Amoruso will come to Boston College on April 9 as part of the BC Women’s Summit: Own It. She will give the keynote speech at the summit, which aims to bring female leaders to campus in an effort to provide empowerment and foster leadership in BC students. Amoruso gained fame during her time as CEO of NastyGal, an online clothing realtor, and for her 2014 New York Times bestselling memoir #GIRLBOSS. Amoruso provides a perspective that can often go unseen at BC. Her story is filled with difficulty and poverty, including a period of homelessness, until she eventually managed to achieve business success that culminated in her time as CEO of NastyGal. Entrepreneurship is of key importance to Amuruso’s success and is a theme of her memoir, in which she provides business advice. Having Amoruso speak at BC provides support for another effort at BC, by the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship. As BC increases its efforts to encourage students to pursue their own startups and ventures, a clearly difficult and risky road, the presence of role models like Amoruso on campus goes a long way toward legitimizing these efforts. She provides a hopeful perspective and serves as an encouraging example to BC students hoping to find entrepreneurial success. She also serves as a reminder of the privilege BC students have in being able to earn a college diploma. As someone who can share the oppo-

site view, Amoroso should remind BC students of the opportunity they have been given and the many people who have not received the same. To many students living on a campus surrounded by other BC students, this perspective can sometimes be lost, and it is important and valuable to ensure that it is remembered. Amoruso provides these multiple perspectives and students should take the time to attend her speech and support the efforts of the Own It summit. The Women’s Center, the Office of Student Involvement, and all those

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

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

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D@:?<CC< B8E> ARNOLD PALMER - The drink, not the golfer. Toss in a little tea, a little lemonade, and a whole lot of freedom. Think of the lives Palmer has touched with this simple, yet ohso-beautiful, concoction. It brings a tear to our eyes just thinking of it. And by “our,” I am referring to the collective alien conscious from the planet Bueskytter that writes these thumb-tastic little thingies. THUMBING YOUR NOSE AT PEOPLEWhile this is a somewhat common idiom, what we’re referring to here is literally placing your thumb against your nose and then staring at people. No one will have any idea what you’re doing. Often this leads to new friendships and great conversations. SUBSERVIENCE TOWARD YOUR ALIEN BETTERS - Clearly your best option.

EARWAX - While probing the cavernous tunnel of your inner ear with a pinkie, you suddenly discover that your ear is filled with a disgusting, sticky, yellowish substance packed against your supple hearing-skin like gunpowder in a musket. Removing your finger, you stare at the filth that has accumulated on it. You think about that last sentence and realize you are a disgusting animal. In a fit of cleanly fury, you sprint to CVS in search of an ear wax cleaning kit. A RUMBLING STOMACH - On the topic of things your body does wrong. One of the most uncomfortably embarrassing moments known to the indigenous college student is sitting in a quiet classroom surrounded by your peers while your stomach rumbles like a bloodthirsty saber-toothed tiger. No amount of contorting and squirming will make it stop. You can only cough so many times. Your only option is to live in the awkwardness, to make it your home, to revel in the essence of discomfort. TRYING TO GO TO SLEEP EARLY ON THE WEEKEND - For once in your miserable life, you decide to be responsible, to take control and be the ultra-efficient machine that you know you can be. It’s Friday night and you’re going to get in your bed and drift away to dreamland at 10 p.m. on the dot. Then you’ll rise bright and early, take a run along the Reservoir as the sun peeks over the trees, take care of all your papers and homework, reconcile with your long-lost love, and save a small hamster from asphyxiation. You’ll be the hero Chestnut Hill needs. You feel the sweet tug of sleep. Next thing you know Neil Diamond is singing “America” while you and your kindergarten class sail on a small tugboat toward the Statue of Liberty. But no! There’s a hole in the tugboat and under that hole is your great-uncle Gerald with a bloody steak knife, screaming, “Shut up and dance with me.” What? You wake up confused and terrified. Then you hear the music from the room next door. Groaning, you lay in your bed covered in sweat for 17 hours, unable to sleep a single minute. RESISTING YOUR ALIEN OVERLORDS - It’s futile.

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I don’t mean to brag or anything, but I’m kind of an expert movie-watcher. I can spend days, probably even weeks if life allowed it, watching films: gory, colorful Tarantino action films, meticulously plotted courthouse thrillers, overthe-top comic book superheroes, minimalist introspective character studies, and on special occasions—provided a blanket and a space to scream in—those gritty, high-budget CGI horror movies. But being a chronic moviegoer means dealing with the valleys along with the peaks—and in this expert watcher’s humble opinion, no film genre has more peaks and valleys than the romantic comedy. This is, believe me, no rag on the rom com. Even by my standards, too much of my Spring Break was devoted to watching feel-good, happily-ever-after love stories: love stories in Seattle, love stories in New York, love stories in Sacramento and Chicago and Austin. But it became quickly evident that the memorable characters and the emotional stickiness of the last couple decades, perfected in original and creative films like When Harry Met Sally, Say Anything, and even the seemingly airheaded Clueless of the ’80s and ’90s are slowly regressing to a pervasive, chronic laziness. The normalization of happilyever-after endings in rom coms may be feel-good, but it has led to the decline of the genre: a timid and uninspired adherence to formula. Although there are and always will be exceptions, so many romantic comedies now seem to depend on vapid plot contrivances and character choices that contradict the way humans actually act, putting the movieverse into an alternate space-time continuum until it’s filled with characters that are practically inhuman—people who bend the rules of human interaction until the whole movie fills itself with sociopaths. Even

the “classics”—or at least the mostloved—of 21st century rom coms have these bizarre, sci-fi-esque plots that normal people would never find themselves in: In The Proposal, a woman forces her younger male secretary to marry her to avoid getting deported to Canada. Warm Bodies depicts the intensely relatable teen drama of falling in love with a zombie. She’s the Man, bless that movie’s heart, has a girl preposterously pose as her brother to play soccer and fall in love with her roommate in the process. These may be pleasing, adorable pieces of candy, but anything that is meant to be watched with a grain of salt or three has not been well-seasoned in the first place (if you’ll forgive the metaphor). While one can argue that perhaps these ridiculous plots only mean to mirror the issues we do face in our lives, we as consumers shouldn’t have to forcibly derive that meaning for ourselves—to make up for the lazi-

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except dating—How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, 27 Dresses, and This Means War—rarely ever work, because love is always mixed up with all kinds of other complicated, life-altering issues. Art is meant to make a statement, and whether that’s about humanity, grief, unwanted change, or class struggle—art has to have something to say and has to say it loud. The best romantic comedies, then, are the ones that reflect life for itself, defining our characters in frames of living retrospect. They have elements of real sadness and real emotion even within their humor, like the depressed mental instability of the Jason Segel’s lonely Peter Bretter in Forgetting Sarah Marshall or the complexities of human interaction found in Notting Hill. People still like rom coms. There’s a reason people still watch them. But those reasons can’t last if studios continue to generate slop for swine. Continuing to make lackluster, careless, and disrespectful films hurts us, as both movie lovers and members of society—they make people feel justified in using “chick flick” as a misogynistic insult, inevitably accompanied by an eye roll and a wave of the hand. They make people who care about love trifling and valueless. They make us, by association, pathetic. Just like any genre of art, this genre needs to evolve to survive, to find its audience and serve it what it deserves, and this calls for a change in perception of what a rom com is and what it should do for its audience. We millennials are not the starry-eyed consumers that our parents were. Blame it on the fact that the Baby Boomers have sunk the economy for us, or on the fact that we grew up on dystopian revolutionaries and reluctant anti-heroes rather than epic space explorers and idealistic Western cowboys. But we are a discerning generation, cynical and terrified for the unknowable, uncharted futures before us, and we need, and want, movies that reflect the complexities of our living concerns.

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:FEFI J?<<?P Hillary Clinton is not the inevitable nominee for the Democratic Party in 2016. She was not inevitable in 2008, and she is not now. Democratic voters as well as Independents will vote for the candidate who shares their values and views so long as they still believe that candidate can win in the general election. Most mainstream media outlets have propagated the idea that Hillary Clinton is inevitable, and that voters should rally behind her immediately to save her chances in the general election. Generally, these pundits’ arguments rely on beliefs that Hillary is the moderate candidate who can sway people away from Trump. It is not over for Bernie. Sanders has extremely passionate supporters, and he has consistently polled better than Clinton in hypothetical general-election matchups against the Republican frontrunners. As of March 18, Hillary Clinton has 1,147 pledged delegates, and Bernie Sanders has 830 pledged delegates of the 2,383 needed to get the democratic nomination. In total there are approximately 4,768 delegates, pledged and unpledged, which means that there are plenty more to go around. But Sanders will need bigger wins in states such as Arizona and Washington in the coming months in order to make up his current deficit. Sanders will have a difficult final stretch in the primary season. While he has maintained significantly higher favorability among younger voters, the young are generally less likely to turn out to vote than the old. Politico recently pointed out that between March 5 and March 26, over 500,000

college students are on spring break when campaigns will be heading to campuses. Early primaries and caucuses are predominantly Southern, and the proliferation of voter identification laws is disproportionately preventing young voters from voting, even when they’ve already registered. Charles Blow of The New York Times recently pointed out that Sanders’ civil rights advocacy is “strangely devoid of southern touchstones,” and that hurt his numbers among black voters in the South. The best thing that Sanders can do to get ahead of Hillary is to accentuate their differences. Sanders has stood up for liberal values for a much longer time than Clinton. He was arrested in Aug. 1963 for protesting segregated housing owned by the University of Chicago, while Clinton campaigned for Barry Goldwater who supported repealing the Civil Rights Act in 1964. On May 11, 1995, Sanders accosted a representative on the floor of the house for his derogatory use of his phrase “Homos in the military,” referring to homosexual men and women whom Sanders said were being denied their basic human rights. Hillary supported the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, and has only supported gay marraige since 2013 despite her previous claims that she believes marriage is a sacred bond between a man and a woman. The most radical difference is that Sanders intends to remove the corrupting influence of corporate money from politics. Sanders’ intense focus on getting money out of politics completely contrasts with the efforts of Clinton. Sanders has raised the vast majority of his money in small contributions directly from individuals. Clinton and many other politicians rely on political action committees that can receive unlimited amounts of money to fund major campaign activities. To evade laws prohibiting direct coordination with PACs, campaigns usually put out hours of

footage and audio of the candidates that PACs can edit on their own. Clinton has said that she wants to get money out of politics, too, but this can be seen as disingenuous. Sanders has called her out on her claim numerous times. He has talked about how a certain “other candidate” in the race has super PACs and most of the individual contributions to her campaign come in the form of the maximum amount of $2,700. Sander’s average contribution is only $27. Nobody really wants to spend all of their waking hours fundraising, but if she were really serious about getting the corrupting influence of money out of politics, Clinton would lead by example like Sanders. The companies that portray Clinton as the inevitable nominee would be best served by her hypothetical pro-business administration. Clinton is the business candidate. It is plain to see that she is beholden to the Wall Street firms, private prison companies, and the other special interests that donate to her campaign, philanthropic organization, and super PACs. The recent debate in Flint, Mich. encapsulated exactly what kind of politicians Clinton and Sanders are. Clinton has attempted to deceive the public about Sanders’ record by picking out negative components of larger pieces of legislation in order to make Sanders look like he is against the policies and interests which he has always claimed to work for. Most notably, she twisted Sanders’ universal health care plan by arguing that it would eliminate people’s insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act. Clinton is always very well-rehearsed, and she usually goes for the easy one-liner. She does this to get political points, while Sanders says what he believes.

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Free college tuition is not the answer. Disregarding any political affiliation, I want to challenge Bernie Sanders’ stance on free college tuition. While his education platform has several other components, including revising the system of student loans, I will focus exclusively on how free college tuition will affect universities themselves. I am not promoting the typical “Who’s going to pay for it?” question, but rather arguing that free college tuition will drastically devalue higher education in America. On the surface, it seems as though free college education would invariably improve the country. After all, human capital theory states that by investing in personal skills, through means such as higher education, individuals can increase their productivity. Thus, removing tuition costs will allow everyone to substantially invest in his or her own human capital. By creating a better-educated workforce, overall productivity would increase and thereby promote economic and social growth. The quality of college education, however, would greatly suffer (let’s assume that the government will only be able to affect the tuition of state universities). Consider the issue of public high schools in America. Since these schools are guaranteed a certain level of revenue, they do not need to compete for students and therefore are not effectively incentivized to improve. Conversely, private schools must evaluate both tuition price and the quality of education offered in order to optimize enrollment. Private schools follow the same principles of an open market wherein competition is necessary for efficient and cost-effective results. Hence we can recognize why there is a disparity between the education offered at public versus private high schools (on a national average). Importantly, our system of higher education is one of the best in the world simply because the competition between colleges, whether public or private, forces them to improve. Essentially, the free-cost principle that has weakened our public high schools would shatter America’s higher education. By instituting free tuition, public universities will lose the competitive edge that makes them so elite. The value of public degrees will significantly decrease, and private colleges will begin to excel in comparison. This sudden gap in quality will allow private universities to increase their tuition, since their enrollment will be in higher demand. A truly advanced education will be less available to the middle and lower class, creating an elitist system—the very thing Sanders is trying to avoid. We need to redirect the conversation about free college tuition. It should not focus on comparisons between military spending or a plan to tax Wall Street. We must not sacrifice the quality of education in the United States if we hope to create a competitive workforce in the global market. I absolutely support educating our population, but the answer cannot be free tuition. Schools need to remain competitive. Reform must be implemented in other aspects of America’s education system. I completely agree that a student should never be denied access to higher education due to his or her socioeconomic status. Government policy should aim to increase financial aid programs that accommodate the poorest of eligible candidates. Secondly, there needs to be a better system of student loans that does not prey on the likelihood of students defaulting. While it would be counterproductive to have student loans erased, there should exist safeguards that give graduating students leeway in payment time, allowing such individuals to find stable jobs. Unfortunately, the issue of education is far too complex for me to appropriately offer the “right” solution. But I believe it is much more critical to focus on reforming the early stages of education before college. These early stages involve not only changes to elementary and high school, but also to issues of family life and childhood development. The conversation should not begin with free college, but with improved primary education, more effective welfare, and greater income distribution for teachers. Free college tuition is not the answer. It will devalue the quality of America’s higher education and perpetuate an elitist system. I believe that education, of all levels, is a natural human right. But it must be made more accessible through other means.

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9P A8D<J CL:<P =\Xkli\j <[`kfi “At first I was afraid,” Layla Aboukhater, MCAS ’18, said before breaking out into a surprisingly light-hearted laughter. “That sounds like the beginning of the song,” she laughed, amused by her unintended reference to the Gloria Gaynor classic, “I Will Survive.” I couldn’t help but laugh along to this playful outburst with a hint of incredulousness—Gaynor surely wasn’t referring to fear on the same scale of that which Aboukhater was alluding to. The fear occupying Aboukhater’s mind night after night was rather a product of the noise from far-off gunshots and rockets, which until recently kept her awake at night in her home city of Aleppo, Syria. “When you’re not used to the noises and how loud they are, it’s kind of terrifying, but then you really get used to it,” she said. A recent transfer student to Boston College, Aboukhater escaped Syria’s escalating violence in Nov. 2014 alongside her father, who was allowed entry after a multitude of failed attempts to acquire a visa. The two landed in Boston and began the daunting process of migrating the rest of the family. Though raised from the age of four in Syria, Aboukhater was born to her Syrian parents during their time studying in the United States, making her a U.S. passport holder. Though this citizenship made her own entry into the country a relatively simple one, it provided no benefit to her parents, particularly her mother. “My parents had no visa, no green card, nothing,” Aboukhater said. “They decided to send me by myself, but miraculously my dad got a [professional] visa. We started setting things up, my sister and brother followed with the cat and the dog—who was pregnant—and it took another five months to get my mom here.” This flight from war-torn Syria is unsurprisingly quite common among Aboukhater’s peers, she explained, several of whom are now scattered around the United States and the world. Despite her success at finding a home in the United States, resettlement in the country is rare among the families of her friends and classmates. “They ’re countable—it’s really, really rare,” Aboukhater said of her Syrian friends with the United States as their final destination. “Most people ended up in Canada, Sweden, or Germany. I could go there and find my whole city packed into one of those places. “Right now what’s happening is, anyone who has enough money to leave would get to Lebanon [and] get a plane ticket from there,” Aboukhater said. Urgency became an ever more palpable

sensation in Aleppo over the last five years due to escalation in violence, best illustrated by one detail in particular—darkness. As regime and rebel forces fought their war, power lines were destroyed day in and day out, leaving thousands of Syrians without electricity and in a constant state of cold and literal darkness. This darkness provided a stark reminder of the world outside of the walls of Aboukhater’s home. Recalling the first power outage with a shrug, Aboukhater explained that the power

was heated up really slowly and eventually he boiled to death.” “ We were b oiling to death,” she explained. In the face of this violence and death which daily shook the foundation of her home and her relationships, Aboukhater insisted that life had to go on. For a brief moment of playful inquiry, we talked about the Aleppo party scene. “You’re kind of dirtier because you’re not as showered,” Aboukhater said, laughing at the

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was only out for an hour. As the violence escalated, the number and duration of these outages became increasingly frequent, escalating right up until the bitter end of her stay in Syria. In the month before her departure, the instability was such that during one twoday span, she had electricity for a total of one hour. The typical “buy a generator” response to this darkness, however, implied a level of acclimation or admission of defeat to Aboukhater’s family, one which she feared deeply. To Aboukhater, her family’s purchase of a generator would be a gesture of acclimation to the violence escalating around them. With this in mind, the Aboukhater family came to a resolution—they would not buy a generator. They determined that if things were bad to the point where they would need a generator to get by, they would simply leave the country rather than adjust based upon what the situation demanded. But the darkness grew. “We went through a really, really dark year,” Aboukhater said. “Literally dark—like candles and flashlights. But then we adjusted like everybody else and got a generator, and you just live life like everyday. Your entire family comes home—that’s cool—but maybe not.” Aboukhater spoke candidly about living in this hostile environment and the terror of adjusting beyond the point of seeing the need to leave, likening it to the story of two frogs told by her father. “One frog was put in boiling water so he jumped out and survived,” Aboukhater recounted. “The other was put in water that

absurdity. “But that look became the trend.” Aboukhater found that this violence, though undoubtedly an exercise in hardship and pain, was also an agent for community building. In her description of the mentality of a community plagued by death and violence, one expression that she emphasized stood out: “YOLO mentality.” “The people that were left became such a tight community, everyone was going through the same hardships, and the social life was really interesting,” Aboukhater explained. “Our cafes had never been fuller at points when I was there. People would sit outside even when it was really unsafe to do so.” Taking a moment to be lighthearted was essential to the people of Aleppo—an escape from the cold and dark quarantine of a barricaded basement. Aside from a physical escape, carrying on in ways like this worked to remove oneself from the shackles of emotional confinement. Maintaining a feeling of purposefulness in the face of extreme violence was crucial to survival. “I mean you go to a funeral in shock like, ‘Oh my God, they were so young,’” remembered Aboukhater. But as violence began to escalate and the funerals became more regular, the mourning which accompanied each funerary procession necessarily began to likewise become more regular. Much like the lack of electricity and the constant sounds of far-off shelling, death and mourning became nothing more than facts of life for a young girl in her teens and early twenties. “If you want to lose a week every time

someone dies, that’s a lot of weeks lost,” Aboukhater said plainly, a frightening reminder of the massive amount of bloodshed with which every Syrian inevitably comes face-to-face. “You have to get work done and get on with life.” Physically distant now from the battleground that was once her homeland, Aboukhater brings parts of Syria with her, which is not always an easy thing. Having escaped from Syria, the burden of awareness is often a backbreaking weight. Hot water, electricity, security, and ample opportunity are now realities of Aboukhater’s daily life in the United States. Realities that, with one eye back on Syria, weigh on Aboukhater with a feeling of helplessness. She describes it as a feeling of gratitude that is haunted by an underlying guilt—a feeling that while her new life is good, her old one still exists for countless innocent people living in fear in Syria. The feeling of obligation which comes with this freedom is not merely a peripheral sensation. “I’m basically just sitting out there in O’Neill Plaza on the grass, and it’s sunny, and looking up at the sky knowing nothing is going to fall on me right now,” she said. The burden of this knowledge, fears of checking Facebook and learning of neighbors’ deaths, and overcoming the language and cultural barriers of new surroundings are all certainly large loads to bear. But Aboukhater’s positivity is as unmistakable as it is improbable. Aboukhater’s enthusiasm was self-evident throughout, and her face lit up when she talked about her recent experience of fearlessly wearing a dress to class, a novel experience for her. “I could not believe myself, I was on such a high,” she said, laughing. “I’m so used to trying to be invisible when I walk, and now I’m here where everything is green and everyone is undressed.” Certainly, walking out of our conversation I saw the world around me with a very different filter, like I had stepped into Syria for an hour-long verbal tour. The grass was a little greener, the sky a little bluer. A distinct mix of contagious hopefulness and unseen ordeal pervaded our conversation—a complex mix too difficult to fully put into words appropriately, either in conversation or publication. It’s a mix that can only fully be lived, not written. When I inquired about any last-minute requests before walking away, however, the response was an appropriate mix of sincere poignant geniality and BC-student enthusiasm: “You should mention the Harry Potter club,” she said with a laugh.

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Music is cyclical. Musical elements come in and out of fashion. New sounds pop into existence and exit the scene as quickly as they appeared. Years later, these sounds may resurface, revitalized by an artist who uses them in new ways, incorporating them into the current scene. Music lends itself to itself—a sort of self-sampling occurs as the constant exchange of ideas takes old ideas and creates something new. I believe that is what is happening today, as we arrive on the cusp of a new musical age, artists are embracing old elements. The paradigm shift in music has been a long time coming. Since the early ’00s or even the late ’90s, the progression has tended in favor of pop and electronic foundations. In a 2014 interview with Howard Stern, Chris Cornell, lead singer of the band Soundgarden, had much to say about the fate of modern music when looking at the past. Cornell recognized that electronic dance music (EDM) and more synth-pop music dominates the younger generations playlists. Its popularity was in constant ascent. But it likely will not last forever. “I don’t know how much more it can go up,” Cornell said. “ The only thing I can say is that tends to be the beginning of a really great new movement in rock, which is the same thing that kind of happened when disco was dominating.” After disco died, punk rock and other genres of music took off in popularity. In part a response to the dissatisfaction with disco and the desire to create something new, the giant hole left in the cultural scene allowed new kinds of artists to break into the mainstream. The parallels with the disco age and the EDM age are substantial, and we may find in time that it will be the big fad of our decade. Only time will tell. But Cornell’s point also highlights where we might be going. Just as ’70s disco faded into ’80s punk and metal, the EDM and synthpop of the ’00s fades into retrowave and new alternative rock. We might be close to breaking into a new musical horizon as older ’80s sounds are coming back into play in retrowave electronic, which uses more atonal, imperfect sounds, reminiscent of the time period. EDM, though a party genre, has become primp and proper as the technology allows for near-perfect sounds to be created. Just as the imperfect, grating, and distorted guitar sounds of ’90s grunge contrasted the conventional powercords and sounds, new music, like retrowave, will throw away modern conventions in favor of something more raw. This seems like a natural progression, fleshing out old ground, while incorporating it into new media. Retrowave may be the natural predecessor. The umbrella term ‘alternative rock’ may simply function as a catch-all phrase for uncategorizable rock bands, but it is also the home of artists who push the boundaries of rock music. The 1975’s new album, I Like It When You Sleep, for You are Beautiful Yet Completely Unaware of It, is a prime example of this. Though frontman Matt Healy is not shy about stating that genre is dead, the band recognizes that the sounds of the ’80s are present. Incorporating more reserved and classic uses of synth in several of its songs, listeners will notice the similarities while appreciating the differences laden in the work. The boundaries are being pushed farther back. And this band is representative of a larger shift in music toward a new kind of rock that Cornell references in his interview. Maybe this new era has a certain irreverence to genre, maybe it will continue to employ older elements in new and exciting ways. In any case, being on the edge of a musical shift is exciting because it suggests that there are more artists out there to find and sounds to be explored. Music has always been as dynamic as the people who create it. Individually, we are an amalgamation of nature and nurture. It is natural for us to keep a pulse on everything going on around us. As an industry, collective of people, music keeps a pulse, too, evolving with every turn. Disco is dead. Punk is dead. Grunge is dead. EDM is dead. Genre is dead. Music is alive.

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9P IP8E ;FN; ?\`^_kj J\e`fi JkX]] Nick Rocchio-Giordano, MCAS ’18, his bass hanging limp for the moment, leaned into the microphone and declared: “We are Funky Giant.” And it echoed across the Rat, partly due to the state of the audio system, but also because of the sophomore bassist’s insistency. The sophomore trio Funky Giant went on to provide the promised funk in a set that made up for its lack of vocals with a sound straight out of HBO’s nostalgic, fiery Vinyl. The setting in the basement of Lyons helped. With tapestries framing the stage and center aisle, the Rat proved a more robust venue than the Cabaret Room has usually provided. At the end of the night, hosted by a programming triumvirate of the Music Guild, Campus Activites Board, and the Arts Council, it was music scene stalwarts Small Talk and William Bolton, and then earnest newcomer Funky Giant, which earned the golden ticket to the final showdown at Arts Fest later in the year. The bluesy Matt Michienzie, MCAS ’17, kicked off the battle. The band has an earthy, full presence with your basic band equipment (plus a little bit

of saxophone) that backs Michienzie’s voice. He sang under, over, and through the arrangement in “Skylines,” where the Foxborough native sings about an imagined journey through Chicago to Memphis and, of course, New York. His best work was seen in “Drunk.” Alone on the stage for most of the song, he used a stomping guitar riff and his deep, breathy voice to bend and hold notes in a rambling fashion that epitomizes what it’s like to be drunk and a bit sad. Backed by a drummer and a set of samples cycling from his laptop, Bolton fit a five-song set in just over his allotted time. “Bad Girl,” “Summer Breeze,” “Fading,” “Bud Light,” and “Let’s Stay Together” are all infectious, tightly wound pieces of pop music. Bolton is a precocious master of crowd engagement, and his set got the crowd on its feet moving and grooving along with the Detroit native. It was the best he has ever sounded live. “Let’s Stay Together” remains an irresistible bundle of earnest soul and pop. While a veteran of now four Battles of the Bands, Small Talk holds the distinction of battling with a different lineup each year. With the addition of Kaitlyn and Meghan Kelleher, CSOM ’18 and LSOE ’16, the band employs a dramatically

different sound than it did two years ago with more traditionally indie songs like “A Different Gravity.” The band has moved in a more textured, psychedelic direction, and with the absorption of the Kellehers, the band’s vocals are now as textured as its arrangements, as Sean Seaver’s, MCAS ’16, voice mixes with the Kellehers’. Small Talk treated the audience to two new songs. It kicked off the set with “Eclipse” and finished with “Aquarium.” “Eclipse” is as peppy as Small Talk gets these days. If most songs are a lap around the track, then “Aquarium” is a marathon, a slow burn of Chris Southiere, Berklee ’16, on the drums and Seaver and the Kellehers’ vocals filling the proverbial aquarium of sound. Last year’s Singer-Songwriter Competition champion Wynnm Murphy, MCAS ’18, teamed up with Ryan Bradley, MCAS ’18, to form Sixtowns. Murphy, who in the past used an acoustic guitar and a kick drum, has moved in a more electronic direction. With Bradley on keys and Murphy on guitar and wielding a looper, Sixtown has an airy sound that leaves more than enough room for Murphy’s

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a Lady,” choreographed by the Dance Ensemble Officers, showcased all members of the Ensemble and highlighted the complexity of their performance. The dancers took to the stage with glowing personalities that, coupled with their colored tutus, made for a commanding start. The dance was dynamic with many moving parts, utilizing the entirety of the stage. The troupe’s ability to gracefully drop to the floor allowed for the girls behind those front and center to add flourishes with arms, legs, and quaint jests to add even more movement to the performance.

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The joy present in the eyes of the dancers infectiously invigorated the audience. “Hotel California,” choreographed by Carissa Burns, MCAS ’17, brought a commanding performance to the Eagles’ famous song. The dancers donned red dresses and elegantly moved in front of the red backdrop. The production behind this piece is indicative of the simple, yet effective design and use of stage seen in the rest of the show. The next performance, “Waking Up,” choreographed by Olivia Duddy, MCAS ’17, uses light to impressive ends from start

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to finish. Bathed in a light golden hue, the dancers brought life to the slow song, while creating an aura truly embodying the titular process of waking up. The lights, which dimmed and intensified at key points, enhanced the movements of the dancers, creating a more visually striking image on stage. The first guest dance group, BC Irish Dance, truly owned the stage with a powerful performance. After several seconds of synchronized tapping with the

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The Committee of Creative Enactments puts their stamp on the improv game as they masterfully engage the crowd wittily and with tact.

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extremely impressed with the display it had just witnessed. As the lights fell to signify the end of the first event, onlookers filled the room with much-deserved applause. Much to the joy of everyone watching, March Radness only went uphill. It was refreshing to see multiple talents integrated into the show—at one point, a musical theatre-esque performance was given. Audience members shouted out film genres as inspiration, and CCE actors proceeded to not only improvise scenes that correlated with the suggestions, but also perform music on the spot to set the mood. More than anything else, this was the most impressive event of the evening. The ability to produce a tune without any prior warning is notable, and any praise that CCE gets for its talents is not nearly enough. Perhaps the greatest piece of March Radness was the connections CCE members made with the audience throughout the night. One improv game stands out: “Pillars.” For this event, audience members were selected to sit center stage as CCE members acted out a scene around them. When the time came, actors would tap the chosen audience members on the shoulder, who would then produce a line out of thin air for the performers to follow along with. Needless to say, this created some priceless moments—from the predictable to the outright bizarre and inane, the cast was well equipped to handle any and all situations, a mark of truly incredible improvisational

actors. In truth, it was this aspect of March Radness that made the show stand among other types of performances. When Boston College students makes their ways to an on-campus event, they may be seeking entertainment, but they rarely expect to be able to participate in a show themselves. This is precisely what CCE afforded audience members Friday night, and while this was potentially a recipe for disaster, the troupe handled it with precision and poise. Admittedly, not every single piece of the show was perfect—the lighting was not entirely spot on, and certain scenes ran longer than they maybe should have. This is only to be expected, after all. But if these are the only flaws that CCE makes in one night of above-average comedy, any mistakes are easily forgiven. As the show came to a close, onlookers exited the auditorium with smiles on their faces. True humor can, unfortunately, be difficult to come by. But when the stresses of schoolwork and housing are running high, a little bit of laughter may just be the key element in soothing some tense days at BC. With its latest show, March Radness, the Committee for Creative Enactments has undoubtedly proved that it is an excellent source for this laughter. If all students on campus took the time to watch a CCE improv show or two, they might find their daily stresses easier to carry.

vocals to breeze in and out. The band closed with “Take Me There,” and despite a stumble that may have ultimately hurt the band’s reputation with the judges and forced the band to restart the song about a minute in, “Take Me There” remains four minutes of accomplished indie-pop. It has a transporting quality, much like Murphy’s earlier acoustic work, but the electronic shift adds a distance that makes Murphy’s voice even more compelling. Funky Giant, the trio of RocchioGiordano, Mario Borges, both MCAS ’18, and Henry Ricciardi, CSOM ’18, was the last to take the stage, but it threw the gauntlet down. They’re mad technicians of funk. Funk

needs no words. Funk needs no (verbal) rhyme. Words, apparently, just get in the way. The band blasted through two long jams, but it was Ricciardi’s solo in the second section that might have secured the young group a spot in the finals. The band had reached a groove by then, the crowd nodding and stomping along like they were in some NYC club. It felt like the band, to finish the set, needed to launch into something resembling a bridge. And it became clear that it wasn’t going to a chorus of any sort. RocchioGiordano and Borges, on the bass and drums, settled their pace and turned to Ricciardi. And boy, did he lean in, climbing up and down the neck like a warlock of funk.

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Wynnm Murphy, Will Bolton, and others duked it out Friday night for a spot at Arts Fest.

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song, the music stopped, leaving the five dancers alone on a quiet stage. Robsham echoed with the sounds of stomps and clicks, emanating from the dancers’ shoes. The cohesiveness between the dancers made a melody of beautiful sounds and stomps as they owned the stage through their own dancing prowesses. After intermission, “Six En Pointe,” choreographed by Kelsey Ortiz, LSOE ’16, displayed the always-impressive technical skills of pointe. Deft movements and seamless transitions with the music made for a stunning level of precision as the dancers moved synchronistically about the stage en pointe. Never faltering in the face of the demanding number, the dancers exercised a different kind of stage presence as the audience looked on. The dance exuded a subtle contrast to the loud personalities of other dances. Synergy performed toward the end of the show, employing its numbers to an eclectic mix of songs and dancing styles. The hip-hop company members moved every part of their bodies, stretching and bending, creating another interestingly complex set of advances around the stage. As its name suggests, the energy is not simply poured out on stage by the group, but coalesced into a unified force. The shared movements of so many create a beautifully harmonious image.

In a sentimental moment, the Dance Ensemble seniors came onto the stage to offer up a final performance. Aptly named “Started from the Bottom,” the seniors’ performance was rife with sisterhood and amiable affection. The final dance, the titular “Roulette,” again brought the entire ensemble to the stage. Much like the beginning, the troupe dressed in costume, this time as showgirls, to conform to the number’s Las Vegas theme. The dance was another flash of quick and smooth movements, and girls kicked, spun, and waved while adhering the larger movements of the ensemble. As the final piece, the dance captured the nature of the show as a whole. Much like a river, there was a larger current to follow, and plenty of room for smaller tributaries to branch away and reintegrate later. Each dancer exuded her own personality, while uniformly fitting into the larger context of the dance. Dance Ensembles’ Roulette took the best aspects of dance and showcased them in quick and poised fashion. The production of the show was simple and striking, all aspects done in such a way that the movements of the dancers were not only more visible, but augmented through their design. The duration of each dance was refreshing as they seemed to be structured to be the perfect length. Never overstaying its welcome on stage, each dance seemed to have a story to tell. Stopping after that story was told made their endings all the more poignant.

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Guest performances from Irish Dance and Synergy kept ‘Roulette’ a versatile show.

The dancers, their energetic figures illuminated purple from the glow of the stage lights, sprang across the stage as the 16th Annual Southeast Asian Student Association (SEASA) Culture Show commenced Saturday night. The room was an almost eerily black, but the bright lights and energy emanating from the stage seemed to dissipate the darkness. Much to the delight of the eager audience, the show began with an entertaining modern dance number by a visiting dance group from Brandeis University. The theme of the night, The Seven Deadly Sins, was brought into the show through a comedic kidnapping of SEASA’s president Peter Soewardiman, CSOM ’17, and the ensuing quest to save him by the club’s freshmen representatives, Ben Koh, Dennis Phan, Elaine Hartono, and Khanh Le, all MCAS ’19. The interplay and story set on stage introduced different mythical monsters hailing from the folklore of different Southeast Asian nations to the audience as well as set an introduction to each dance number. Following the introductory performance, the show

graduated into more traditional Southeast Asian dances, but with some modern flare. The first traditional dance of the night was a Vietnamese fan dance, choreographed by Mai Hoang, MCAS ’16. The dance was visually stunning and elaborate, as the fans seemed to spin gracefully upon the stage. According to Vietnamese culture, the fans symbolize friendship and respect for one another, and the dance often embodied grace, nature, and subtly. The following performance, a traditional Malaysian Joget, was a couples’ dance featuring modern, upbeat music that was well-danced-to and entertaining. Next was the Maglalatik, the Filipino Coconut Dance, which was one of the many highlights of the night. The performers, with coconut shell halves secured to their bodies and hands, tapped the the shells to produce a hollow sound as they danced. The red spotlight that shone across the stage in the beginning of the number was a fitting touch for the mesmerized audience. The final show before the intermission was a traditional Indonesian Saman/ Lenggang Nyai dance. Choreographed by Elaine Hartono and Matt Mikrut, both MCAS ’17, the performance was fast-paced, and the common harmony between the

dancers was impeccable and exciting to watch. This excitement and upbeat vibe was continued after the intermission with the final traditional dance of the night, the Filipino Escrima—a class of martial-arts fighting using sticks. The performance was carried out with both a sense of grace and fortitude, and had been expertly choreographed by Gary Kim, MCAS ’17, and Dennis Phan. The night then continued with a swift transition into modern dance numbers with a performance aptly entitled Modern Girls. This performance was followed by Modern Boys, and then finally by Modern Couples. All three performances were entertaining, well-danced, and incited great excitement from audience members. The show came to a close with the eventual rescue of the club’s president and a final dance performance that culminated with the entirety of the show’s participants and club’s members together on stage. Overall, the SEASA Culture Show was spectacular. It was a fun, exciting evening that featured beautiful traditional dances with a modern flare and wonderfully chore ographe d mo dern dances by enthusiastic and talented performers.

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The Southeast Asian Student Association held its 16th annual culture show, ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’ in Gasson 100 Saturday night.

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Monday, March 21, 2016

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Jgi`e^k`d\ ]fi K_\ 8Zfljk`Zj 9P :?I@J =LCC<I 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi The phrase “sharing is caring” was aptly embodied at The Acoustics Spring Invitational this past Saturday night in Gasson 305. The cacophony that was the crowd’s anticipation seeped out of the packed lecture hall, as people swarmed in to find space on the floor to sit. The lack of seating didn’t deter anyone from squeezing in to see one of Boston College’s premier a cappella groups perform a few renditions of current pop hits and classics. Alongside The Acoustics were BC’s newest a cappella crew, The Common Tones, and Surround Sound from nearby Stonehill College. Though the performance ran under an hour, The Acoustics Spring Invitational gave attendees a filling dose of soulful and intriguing covers that rang through the chockfull classroom. The Acoustics kicked off the night with a rendition of Christina Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man” that set the passionate tone of the overall performance. Dominique Alba, CSOM ’17, took on the number’s lead vocals, displaying a versatile, stunning vocal range that garnered several shouts and whistles from the audience throughout the song. Sophomore Liz McGovern, MCAS ’18, blew the crowd back with her cover of Lady Gaga’s “Speechless.” Interjecting a few funny comments throughout the song, McGovern captivated the crowd with apparent ease, tackling a song that demanded a gravelly and quaint sound. After The Acoustics’ opening set came The Common Tones, the newest a cappella crew of BC singers. Laura Galligan, LSOE ’18, led The Common Tones in an epic play through of Justin Bieber’s “Sorry,” which had everyone in the audience snapping, stamping, or clapping. Reaching back to the ’80s, Sarah Rooney, MCAS ’18, took a stab at The Outfields’ “Your Love.” Both songs showed off the newly formed group’s prowess, proving to the audience that The Common Tones are just as talented as some of BC’s most reputed and oldest a cappella groups. Next, it was time for Stonehill College’s

Surround Sound to take the spotlight. Apparently “Sorry” was on more than a few of the performers’ minds, as Surround Sound had its own rendition of Bieber’s hit up its sleeve. While it’s easy to imagine that the duplicate song might’ve been unappealing to the audience, it was actually engaging to hear a second version. Sometimes, different groups’ styles sort of meld together, making the distinctions between groups hazy. With “Sorry,” the audience got to see an example of the varying approaches that a cappella groups will take with one song. While The Common Tones had the entire ensemble chanting the hook for “Sorry,” Surround Sound left that job to only one of its members. Returning with Billy Joel’s legendary “Piano Man,” The Acoustics began the closing set of the night. Josh Behrens, MCAS ’18, lent his vocals to the song’s main melody and brought out a harmonica throughout the number. “Piano Man” had the audience collectively swaying back and forth to the sullen, yet beautiful classic. The Acoustics closed out the night with an astounding mash-up of Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” and Willy Moon’s “Railroad Track.” While at first the crowd seemed a bit flustered, expecting to hear “Jesus Walks” in full force, the audience members settled back in their spots once they realized what was unfolding before them. Alex Rougeau’s, MCAS ’18, quick, seamless rap took the audience by surprise, but resulted in overwhelming applause at the end of the song. Some might have felt that The Acoustics Spring Invitational should have featured more from The Acoustics, which performed just four songs. Having the three groups, however, exhibited The Acoustics’, Common Tones’, and Surround Sound’s distinct styles. Onlookers also got a glimpse of the heartfelt community that the BC a cappella scene makes up. It was generous of The Acoustics to feature an up-and-coming a cappella squad, giving the Common Tones backing and viewership that might not come easily to a new group performing on its own.

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Singers Ben Stevens, Will Supple, Paul Wagenseller, and Aram Barmakian took the stage for the a cappella show in McGuinn Hall.

9fjkfe`Xej :X]\ =\Xkli\j J`eXkiX# K_\ B`cc\ij 9P :8IFC@E< D::FID8:B ?\`^_kj JkX]] With their latest performance, the Bostonians lived up to their name. At Saturday’s Spring Cafe, the group made Boston proud, playing to a packed room in McGuinn Hall. The audience was filled with friends, family, and Bostonians alumni, who sat in the second row. The men and women of the Bostonians donned black dresses, heels, and button downs. Dimly lit with twinkling lights, the room was set to create an intimate environment for the audience. These lights illuminated the singers of each set and allowed for a special focus on the individuals of the Bostonians. During many of the songs, the entirety of the Bostonians were involved, with a soloist singing the melody and chorus of a song, while the rest of the

group provided background music. The majority of the group pieces were led by music director Paul Wagenseller, MCAS ’16. One of the freshmen in the group, Will Supple, MC A S ’19, re cently won this year’s Sing it to the Heights competition. The talented singer sang “So. Good.” by Johnny Stimson. The second he finished, people jumped out of their seats to give him a standing ovation. Ben Stevens, CSOM ’18, performed the song Supple won Sing it to the Heights with—“Tennessee Whiskey.” It was a different, though still great performance. After beatboxing in most of the previous songs, it was a nice change of pace to hear Stevens solo. Paul Wagenseller’s “Mr. Brightside” was another standout. The senior had such energy and animation throughout his performance. He was jumping,

lunging, and fully engaging himself in his performance. Part of his performance also had an interactive component, as Wagenseller reached out his hands to the members of the alumni section of the audience. He had so much fun performing that it seemed as though the audience couldn’t resist being absorbed. On of the most memorable performances was “ You Make Me Feel So Young,” performed by Aram Barmakian, MCAS ’18. The singer sounded just like Frank Sinatra and caught the audience by surprise. At the very end of the show, the Bostonians called up their alumni to perform one last piece with them— “Love the One You’re With” by Crosby, Stills, & Nash, which is often performed at the end of Bostonians’ performances. Three of the freshman girls in the group each took a turn on a verse.

E\k]c`o Xe[ 9`e^\1 N_\e Fm\i$NXkZ_`e^ K\c\m`j`fe >\kj ;Xe^\iflj LEIGH CHANNELL The day has finally come. After soldiering through 42.5 hours of Arrested Development on Netflix, I have finally reached the last episode of the series. Once this last episode, “Blockheads,” is removed from my Netflix queue, I feel like a huge weight will be lifted from my shoulders. You see, watching the show is no longer an enjoyable pastime for me—at this point, I’m so sick of the Bluth family that I can barely bear to watch the final half hour. The first three seasons flew by in a blur of binge-watching. I started the series over Spring Break while staying at my sister’s, while I attempted to catch up on rest and she nursed her emotional and physical wounds from working well past 2 a.m. the night before. We weren’t up for anything beyond sitting on the couch for hours at a time, eating pretzel nuggets and mindlessly switching our attention

between our phones and the television screen in front of us—excluding the short moments after every episode in which we had to press the “continue watching” option on the side of the credits screen. We had finished the first season by the afternoon of the next day. Even after I had left my sister’s apartment, I kept moving through the series with unparalleled speed. In around a week, I had finished the second and third seasons. I was hesitant to start the fourth season, however, as I had been cautioned against its comparatively worse quality. The Netflix reboot of the series was around five episodes shorter than the original series, filmed eight years later, featuring a new host of actors hoping to buy into the franchise’s success. All of these ingredients added up to a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately, I found my fears confirmed after watching only one episode of the reboot. The series was now set five years after the original

unexpectedly cut off and spent an extravagant amount of time in forced and confusing flashbacks trying to explain how the characters ended up in their current roles. Big names in comedy like Kristin Wiig, Seth Rogen, and Ed Helms joined the cast, but distracted from the series’ original quiet humor, based not on one-liners but on the irony of real-life situations. The Bluth family had also fallen apart into many separate divisions, with many of the characters barely interacting with the others—since the first few seasons were entirely focused on the family’s inner workings and collaborative struggles, this was a disappointing change. So why did I keep watching even though I knew I would be disappointed by each following episode? To be honest, I really don’t know. One possible explanation is that I don’t like to quit things I’ve started, but that seems a little ridiculous in the context of finishing a TV series. There would be no consequence of me losing interest

in the Bluth family, unlike if I stopped painting my room midway through painting a wall, for example. For other shows, I often explained this obligation to finish the series as a result of my investment in the characters’ well being—I at least needed to know where these people ended up, after spending so much time following their stories. Yet in season four, I grew so irritated by the Bluth family’s antics that I couldn’t be bothered to care whether they thrived or failed. The best explanation that I can find for this need to complete the series is that binge-watching has changed the way I view TV series on the whole. Instead of viewing the series as multiple installments, I think of it as a “super movie” of sorts, which is much harder to justify leaving unfinished. I can’t remember the last time I failed to finish a movie, aside from the times I fell asleep while watching something. Netflix has expertly solved that problem by saving your place after periods of inactivity, leaving the story

to pick back up right where you left off. The Web site is designed to encourage as much viewing as possible—the more seasons a subscriber is coerced into watching, the longer he or she will send monthly checks to Netflix’s corporate headquarters. Thinking about binge-watching as part of a conspiracy theory about Netflix’s rise to power is a bit of a stretch, but it does make sense. I have finally made it to the last episode of Arrested Development, and I can’t wait to be done with the show. I must admit, though, that I was completely unable to stop the show once I lost interest. Somewhere along the hours I spent binge-watching, I became entirely hooked, much to my disappointment. It’ll be a while before I stray from my typical movie-watching to start another TV series. I’ve learned that binge-watching is much too hard a drug to quit.

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Monday, March 21, 2016

:feÕ `Zk\[ :f[\# >i`jcp 9ilkXc`kp Gle`j_ ;Xi\[\m`c `e J\Xjfe ) 9P G8KI@:B 9LIB< =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Whenever popular shows change showrunners, it can be easy to think that the show will change for the worse. So naturally when it was announced that Daredevil’s showrunner, Steven DeKnight, was leaving, fans were scared for the future of the show. Thankfully, new showrunners Doug DAREDEVIL Petrie and Netflix Marco Ramirez take Matt Murdock’s tale of justice in Hell’s Kitchen to new heights. Part of what made the first season of Daredevil so great was that it committed fully to its slow-burn storytelling approach. While this approach hooked fans on season one, it seemed like the show spun its tires a bit toward the end. Season two continues the slow-burn approach, but instead of building toward a single end game, the show instead weaves several smaller story arcs that then

come together in the last few episodes. This approach gives season two a much quicker pace but still gives adequate time to evolve the story. Additionally, the smaller story arcs give great introductions to new characters Elektra and the Punisher. The Punisher, in particular, steals any scene he appears in. Daredevil does a great job of making a character best known for mass murder of criminals relatable. Credit also goes to Jon Bernthal for his great performance. Elektra, however, comes across as a casual sociopath. She seems just as willing to snap Matt’s neck as she is to ask him to dinner. Speaking of snapping necks, the fight sequences in Daredevil continue to be the gold standard in the current crop of superhero TV. The fights are well-choreographed and often leave viewers surprised by their brutality. Matt Murdock may refuse to kill as Daredevil, but he certainly is a fan of brutally breaking criminals’ bones. The fights do a great job of reminding the viewer that other than his super sense, Matt has no true super powers. He is just excellently trained. Where characters like Captain America knock out villains with single punches and rarely seem

to tire, Murdock must attack bad guys repeatedly to take them down and often collapses of exhaustion soon after. The addition of these new anti-hero characters also brings a clash of morals. Elektra and Punisher are more than willing to kill those they deem villains, as they see their enemies’ deaths as permanent solutions to their problems. Matt’s code of no killing is continually tested by these new characters. Throughout the show they chide him for only taking half measures or simply putting a bandage on the problem. This conflict of philosophies brings about several surprisingly good moral discussions between Daredevil and Punisher. The moral aspect of the show also carries over into Matt’s everyday life as a lawyer. This part of the show sees a balancing act between Matt and his best friend and law firm partner Foggy Nelson. The two must choose between representing the down-trodden or taking better-paying, morally questionable cases. The show does a good job of preventing either Matt or Foggy from becoming the true moral compass. Instead, whenever one of them seems to falter, the other takes up his slack. Foggy was a problem character in season

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‘Daredevil’ is able to stimulate an interesting moral conversation as characters butt heads. one because he couldn’t seem to get over the fact that his best friend was a vigilante. Last season, Foggy kept giving the same “you’re going to get yourself killed” lines over and over again. The writing for Foggy is much improved in season two and even gives him some heroic moments both in and out of court. He does, on the other hand, still fall back into nagging Matt about his safety far too often, to the point that it becomes annoying. The inclusion of a weird love triangle between Matt, Foggy, and their secretary, Karen Page, also seems out

of place and makes viewers less sympathetic to Foggy. Overall, Daredevil’s second season finds ways to improve on everything that made the first season work. The gritty fights, the great character progression, and strong storytelling all return better than ever. The show makes attempts at fixing its biggest weaknesses, such as Foggy, but still doesn’t fully fix them. These problems, however, detract little from the overall experience. Daredevil is still one of the best superhero shows on TV.

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8jjk% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi “I feel so weird right now,” Gwen Stefani said at the end of a Nov. 2015 interview, suddenly breaking her cool and confident demeanor with a nervous glance around the room. Sitting opposite radio host Ryan Seacrest, the pop singer fidgeted anxiously with her tangled, layered necklaces. “I feel nervous, like I said too much. I feel like I wanna throw up.” She does a whole lot of this on her new album—feeling, that is. Stefani feels deeply, and, THIS IS WHAT THE as eviTRUTH FEELS LIKE denced Gwen Stefani by her characteristically unapologetically honest lyrics that have survived her solo career’s decade-long hiatus, she’s never been one to hide it. Though she was only referring to their intimate interview, in that she provided a detailed account of her harrowing divorce and other personal struggles, Stefani’s sentiments about having revealed too much could easily be applied to the pop princess’ new, emotion-heavy EP This Is What the Truth Feels Like. The 12-track collection is a narrative about toxic love gone very wrong, and the transition into a new romance done right. It’s an intimate conversation with millions of fans, an

unabashed admittance of vulnerability in musical form. Simply stated, the tellall album is Stefani’s raw inner turmoil available for purchase on iTunes. The album’s fluctuation from sarcasm to elation and back again reinforces the notion of relationships as a baffling mobius strip of conflicting feelings. Telling the all-too-complicated tale of her tumultuous split with Gavin Rossdale and subsequent relationship with country star Blake Shelton, This Is What the Truth Feels Like feels overwhelmingly optimistic. The new album is astoundingly similar to her previous releases (both as a solo pop artist and lead vocalist of American rock band No Doubt), complete with all the bells and whistles expected from Stefani—literally. Most of Stefani’s background instrumentals, though clearly influenced by the pop realm’s reliance on bass-drops and over-produced synth in today’s hit songs, sound like they could have come straight off of Sweet Escape, Stefani’s widely popular 2006 release. Many tracks on the new album are surefire chart-toppers. “You’re My Favorite” and the punchy “Make Me Like You” are speckled with all those aforementioned bells and whistles—familiar airy xylophone tones and the occasional sound of a whimsical slide whistle. Though a clunky melange of musical instruments, these songs are more intriguing than annoying, and the use of quirky instruments reinforces Stefani’s propensity for taking risks. As usual

for the singer, who throws caution to the wind by including musical oddities that could potentially ruin a track if not employed imaginatively, the unconventional elements strewn throughout the songs pay off. As expected, her familiar vocals are breathy and atmospheric one moment, but powerfully shrill the next. Her sultry tone in “Send Me A Picture” gives way to the jarringly punchy refrain. The catchy song is Stefani’s stab at fl irting in the digital age, yet the lyrical subject matter does little to persuade listeners that her sound and style have changed at all since her early-2000s heyday. Unfortunately for the 46-year-old popstar, not all of her new tracks are lyrical or musical home runs. The repetitive “Asking 4 It,” featuring Fetty Wap, sounds as silly as its use of the digit “4” in place of the three-letter word. “Naughty” is a whiny, immature, and awkward attempt at seduction, complete with cringe-worthy moans and botched bass drops thrown in periodically for good measure. From start to finish, the album is choppy, messy, and difficult to consume. Oddly enough, however, Stefani’s lack of fluidity or melodic continuity from one song to the next works really well in some parts. The new album feels like Stefani hasn’t changed all that much since her debut in the late ’80s. It feels familiar, but rejuvenated in a way. This Is What the Truth Feels Like is an entertaining rollercoaster ride to emotional recovery—and it feels good.

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6. THE GANGSTER Clive Cussler 7. THE STEEL KISS Jeffery Deaver 8. THE WATERS OF ETERMAL YOUTH Elizabeth Strout 9. COMETH THE HOUR Jeffery Archer 10. GO SET A WATCHMAN Harper Lee SOURCE: New York Times

@e Dff[p ÊGfjk Gfg ;\gi\jj`fe#Ë @^^p Gfg 8jZ\e[j kf Ê8d\i`ZXe MXc_XccXË 9P :8C<9 >I@<>F 8jjfZ% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi Few artists have truly spanned the decades and survived to tell the tale. Iggy Pop is one who defies the odds. In his latest album, Post Pop Depression, Iggy Pop collaborates with guitarist Josh Homme and bassist David Ferita of Queens of the Stone Age, as well as drummer Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys. As the title would suggest, Post Pop Depression POST POP is an alDEPRESSION bum full Iggy Pop of emotion and melancholy, as it seems like Pop says goodbye to his own bygone era in music. In a sense, both postpop and post-Iggy Pop are at play here. Entering into the twilight years of his career, Pop positions himself for a graceful exit, as Post Pop Depression upholds what fans have come to know and love about Pop, even as he embraces darker tones that signal his

inevitable departure from the scene. Pop has said himself about the album that, “I feel like I’m closing up after this.” Though fans knew that the 68-year-old rocker would one day close up his lucrative shop, the point is still hard to swallow. One can immediately draw parallels to the late David Bowie and his album Blackstar. There are some tonal and situational similarities, which is sad, as many great artists seem to be penning their final chapters. But Post Pop Depression calls to mind all the varied sounds and ideas Pop has often brought to the table while emotionally saying he will not go out quietly. Pop makes his intentions for the album clear during the first track “Break Into Your Heart,” as the catchy tune infiltrates the mind, as the title suggests. As in other tracks, Pop seems to strive to “break into the hearts” of listeners as his era comes to a close. In an instrumentally unchallenging but effective way, the keyboard embellishments, catchy chorus, and swelling guitars achieve that decidedly. The infectious single “Gardenia” is a song with a bumping bassline and guitar oscillations that will quickly grab listeners’

attention. Lyrically, Pop explores what may be considered a lustful love for a woman, possibly a prostitute, adding another layer of intrigue to the song. One of the most interesting songs on the album, “American Valhalla” seems to scratch at the core of Pop’s thoughts behind the album and his place in the music scene. Dark and dirty bass tones and light keyboard notes carry Pop’s lyrics which speak to his concern for his legacy. His words, “Where is American Valhalla / Death is the pill that’s tough to swallow / Is there anybody in there?” speak to his concern as he wishes to be invited to the “afterlife” of his era. Later he sings, “I have nothing but my name” and later ends the song with several poignant spoken repetitions of the phrase. Again, Pop seems to call into mind the legacy he has accrued for himself, wondering what it is worth in the end. Other songs like “Sunday” have more unique elements, like a distorted guitar that aids in solidifying its more thought-provoking lyrical content. Additionally, the end of the song fades into an interesting non sequitur style of orchestral music that carries on with the melody. The somber nature of the

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As his career reaches its twilight hour, Pop reflects on his fame and what and lies beyond it. song becomes clearer as it symphonically approaches the finale, a clear nod to Pop’s own feelings. “Vulture” has a south-of-the-border feel, while the overall effect of the song evokes feelings of unease in listeners. Post Pop Depression is an uneasy, weird, and moody set of tracks that seems to signify the end of a great artist’s career. Every track has a different instrumental mood, which plays nicely into the subjects of each song and the overall feeling of the album. This works to the album’s advantage, as it points

to an understandable disposition to have as an artist. And the album represents a fitting end with Pop’s aged and worn voice, which is still touching and moving. Though Pop may fear the future of his legacy as he ventures into the twilight of his career, fans will know that his songs will continue to roll on in our hearts and ears. Depression may take root, but all one has to do is look back at a life of accomplishments. No matter his age, Pop is still a modern guy.

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SPORTS MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2016

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the game sweaters—remains out of reach. The Eagles (40-1-0) fell in their first loss of the year to Minnesota in the NCAA National Championship, 3-1. With the win, the Golden Gophers (35-4-1) have accomplished back-to-back wins on the biggest stage of women’s college hockey. This will be the third time Minnesota has achieved back-to-back championship wins. For comparison, many consider Minnesota’s conference, the

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THUMBS UP SKARUPA THE SAVIOR When it looked like women’s hockey’s undefeated season may have been in jeopardy, Haley Skarupa came to the rescue. Less than a minute into overtime against Clarkson, Skarupa scored the game-winning goal to send BC to the national championship. SPEEDY SIMMONS  Justin Simmons impressed a lot of NFL scouts at BC’s Pro Day last week with his speed and determination. On an happier note, the speculation is that Simmons may be a New York Giant next year. I guess you can win them all. STEVENS’ STREAK - Freshman phenom pitcher Jacob Stevens started his BC career off with a bang. He hurled 29 scoreless innings before Clemson’s Eli White homered to end the impressive streak. Looks like an illustrious career is ahead for Stevens at BC.

THUMBS DOWN DISGRACE AT TD GARDEN - Men’s hockey looked seriously out of sorts in the Hockey East semifinal game at TD Garden. After defeating Vermont in three games to advance, the Eagles couldn’t overcome cross-town rival Northeastern and lost the chance to crown themselves Hockey East champs. The game was much more lopsided than its 5-4 score would suggest. LOSING LATE - Adding insult to injury, the start of the BCNortheastern game was delayed by two and a half hours after the Providence-UMass Lowell game went to triple overtime. The 10:33 p.m. start time meant that the game did not end until 1 a.m. ALMOST UNDEFEATED - BC women’s hockey was SO close to capping off a historic season with the final prize of a national championship. Yeah, going 40-1 is a pretty respectable record, but going 41-0 with a national championship is even better.

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9\\i C\X[j :c\djfe GXjk 9`i[YXcc `e N\\b\e[ J\i`\j Baseball vs. Clemson, from C6 ing out four in 7.2 innings of one-run ball. As was the case throughout the series, BC attacked the starting pitcher early but actually took worse at-bats as the game progressed, especially against Clemson’s lights-out bullpen. On Friday, the Eagles lost 6-2 in a game that was closer than the scoresheet reflects. Mike King did his best to keep BC within striking range, but timely (and somewhat lucky) hitting by Clemson ruined an otherwise solid performance from Gambino’s bonafide ace. Despite consistently hitting his

spots on the outside corner, King found himself in trouble in the second inning while working against Andrew Cox with two outs and runners at first and second. Cox poked a blooper into center that fell just in front of Michael Strem, scoring Robert Jolly from second and giving Clemson a 1-0 lead. Adam Renwick would take Cox’s cue and fight one off the end of his bat—this time to right field—that dropped in front of Casey and scored Beer from second in another piece of clutch hitting. When a nationally ranked team puts runs up on the board early against your ace on the

into right center, and Beer could only watch as it sailed over his head to even the score at 2-2. But once again, it was Beer with an emphatic answer. Before the Eagles could bask in the glory of their unusual burst of power (they only have six home runs all year), Beer belted a two-run, go-ahead homer on one of King’s few mistakes of the day. The moonshot would be all the Tigers needed, as Schmidt settled nicely into a groove, allowing only two hits the rest of the way and striking out a career-high 11 in seven innings of work. Let’s face it: BC will be facing Top-25 teams all season

long, and it can’t rely on its bats to win such games. Gambino knows the importance of pitching and defense to this veteran group, and it needs to be reinforced throughout practice this week. But the Eagles shouldn’t be too upset. It would’ve felt nice to come home from South Carolina with at least one win to show for their efforts this weekend, but they ran up against a hot-hitting ball club in Clemson. The ACC is a hotbed for young MLB talent, and Seth Beer reminded BC of the conference’s raw, unstoppable talent the hard way.

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Despite winning 12 of its last 13 games, including a five-game win streak, Boston College softball’s momentum was stilled after a weekend series against Virginia Tech. Unlike in their previous stretch of games, the Eagles could not sync their offense with their pitching, and were unable to avoid big, gamechanging innings from the Hokies. BC (17-12, 3-3 Atlantic Coast) fell in all three games to Virginia Tech (14-14, 9-2). While BC played two close games against a talented Hokie team on Sunday, the weekend ended on a low note for the Eagles, as they were defeated 11-3 in five innings. Virginia Tech scored early and often, plating four runs in the second inning off an RBI single and a three-run home run. BC starter Allyson Frei was chased

after the second inning, but the aggressive offense of Virginia Tech could not be contained. It added another four runs in the third inning, the result of three singles and a fielder’s choice. The Eagles got on the board in the top of the fourth inning. Freshman Carly Severini hit an RBI groundout that scored sophomore Chloe Sharabba, and later in the inning senior Megan Cooley hit a double down the left-field line that scored freshman Loren DiEmmanuele. BC could not slow down the Hokies, however, and Virginia Tech added three more runs on another three-run home run to center field. The Eagles picked up one run in the top of the fifth on a groundout from sophomore Jordan Chimento that scored junior Tatiana Cortez, but it was not enough to avoid an early end to the game. The first game of the Sunday

doubleheader was a back-and-forth affair that Virginia Tech ultimately won 8-7. The Eagles drew blood first as Cooley scored on a sacrifice fly by Sharabba in the top of the first inning. The Hokies immediately struck back in the bottom of the first inning, scoring three on a pair of hits and a passed ball. BC tied the game in the top of the second as Virginia Tech’s Maggie Tyler lost control briefly and threw two wild pitches. Severini then singled to the shortstop, scoring DiEmmanuele. In the top of the third, Cortez hit a solo home run to center field, and in the top of the fourth BC stretched out its lead even further to 6-3 as the Hokies walked in a run. This lead was short-lived, as the Hokies exploded for five runs in the bottom of the fifth, taking the lead back for good. BC relief pitcher Jessica Dreswick walked in a run, which was followed by a double to left field

that scored two Hokies. Virginia Tech then hit another double to left field that scored two more runs before the Eagles finally secured the third out in the inning. The Eagles went into their last at-bat down 8-6, but did not go down without a fight. Cortez got on base for the third time of the game, and was driven in on a double by Annie Murphy to bring the Eagles within one run. Despite the two losses, there were still offensive highlights for the Eagles on the day. Cortez finished the day 5-6 with one home run, two doubles, one RBI, and four runs scored, and DiEmmanuele picked up her team-leading 13th stolen base of the season. The first game of the Virginia Tech series saw BC fall 4-0, ending the Eagles’ five-game win streak. This was the 14th consecutive opponent that BC held to four runs or less. Frei’s relief appearance continued

her streak of seven straight games allowing only one run or fewer. This game saw strong pitching from both the Hokies and BC starter Dreswick, as neither team could get its offense going in the early innings. Tyler held the Eagles hitless throughout all seven innings, only allowing one baserunner on a walk. Dreswick kept the Hokies off of the scoreboard as well until the fourth inning, when Virginia Tech hit a two-run home run to start the scoring. An unearned run also scored in the fourth off of a throwing error. In the bottom of the fifth the Hokies added another run from an RBI double, which was all the scoring they would need. The Eagles have a short stretch of games before they return to conference play, in which they will need to be strong in pitching, defense, and offense in order to remain competitive.

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just 56 seconds into the game. Despite BC’s early goal, Syracuse remained calm, cool, and collected, and responded with an expertly executed offensive set culminating in a well-placed shot from sophomore Riley Donahue to level the playing field. The mentality and play of both teams in the first half can be summarized as “anything you can do, I can do better.” BC and Syracuse alternated goals for the remainder of the first half, staring each other down, neither team willing to blink. For every call there was a response. A free position goal from junior Tess Chandler capped the scoring for the first half and gave the Eagles the 7-6 edge heading into halftime. The parity would prove to be temporary, however, as BC took control of the second half. A nice save from junior goalkeeper Zoe Ochoa led to another beautiful score from Mannelly, who beat the Syracuse goalkeeper while diving through the air. The goal gave BC its first multiplegoal lead of the game, and the Eagles never looked back. The

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Eagles proceeded to go on a 3-1 run, dominating time of possession and frustrating the Orange, which was scarcely able to mount any sort of offensive threat. Now down 11-7, Syracuse was forced to take a timeout. After returning from the huddle to the ensuing drop, junior Kate Weeks delivered the dagger. She and Mannelly executed a masterful breakaway, barreling down the field, right through the heart of Syracuse’s back line to score. It took BC just nine seconds to score following the Syracuse timeout. With all the momentum and a five-goal lead to protect, it became clear that the Eagles were firmly in the driver’s seat. The Eagles would score another to push the score to 13-7 before Syracuse would respond with one of their own. Despite Syracuse’s desperate attempts at a comeback, Ochoa repeatedly rose to the occasion, swallowing up every shot that the Orange could muster en route to recording 10 saves on the day. Head coach Acacia Walker, when asked about Ochoa’s performance after

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Sarah Mannelly scored four goals to lead the Eagles past Syracuse for the upset. the game, said she was absolutely in the zone. As the final horn sounded with the scoreboard reading 13-8 in favor of BC, the Eagles rushed the field and celebrated their upset, as Syracuse watched from the sidelines. Walker credited the secondhalf dominance to increased composure, which she said had been a main focus in practice the previous week.

“I don’t think the girls ever lost faith,” Walker said. “A good win can help your confidence.” Despite the big win, Walker was hesitant to get too caught up in the moment since a matchup with rival North Carolina still looms on BC’s horizon. “It’ll be a hard week of practice and hopefully we’ll improve even more,” she said. “We’ve got Carolina on Saturday, there’s no time to celebrate.”

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The Eagles couldn’t stay out of the penalty box on Friday against Northeastern at TD Garden.

The Huskies’ Zach Aston-Reese began the rout by completely undressing McCoshen. After receiving a pass at the BC blue line from Nolan Stevens, AstonReese two-stepped the BC defenseman to beat Demko five-hole to knot the game up late in the first. Moments later, BC had a collective mental lapse. Dylan Sikura stole the puck away from Zach Sanford in the left corner. The forward found Mike McMurtry between the circles, who dished it over to Adam Gaudette. Somehow, no BC defenseman saw Gaudette, allowing him to tap the puck in easily with a mere .9 seconds on the clock. BC came out of the locker room strong in the second, appearing to shake off the sleepies that probably came with the 10:33 p.m. start—UMass Lowell and Providence, the early game, went into triple overtime. Colin White beat Ruck glove side after an excellent backhanded pass from Matthew Gaudreau to tie the game at two. But the defensive lapses just kept continuing for the Eagles. Even their best unit couldn’t stay strong. Steve Santini’s roughing penalty set up Stevens to blast one past Demko’s blocker side. It was the first goal BC allowed on the power play in its last 26 attempts and since Feb. 20. Soon after, the Eagles crumpled again on the kill. Again on the power play— this one because of a Casey Fitzgerald holding call—the Eagles allowed freshman defenseman Eric Williams to find

space at the right circle, blasting it past Demko on the glove side on the high corner. Once is a coincidence. Twice signifies a trend, one that’s going in the opposite direction for BC. Wood got one back on the power play. He capitalized on a slashing call on John Stevens, picking up the puck from Ryan Fitzgerald to beat Ruck under his right pad to cut the lead to 4-3. Don’t be deceived by the goals, though. The Eagles struggled mightily on offense. They managed a mere four shots in the first period, the lowest they’ve had in a period this season, and only seven in the second. York expressed his frustrations about the lack of shots. “That’s not enough for our team,” York said. In the final frame, it was the turnovers that burned BC one last time. Casey Fitzgerald attempted to clear the puck toward White at the blue line. White then tried to pass it to McCoshen on the left. Yet he made an inexcusable error, dishing it right to Lincoln Griffin in the slot. And Demko, who had stood on his head with some incredible saves in the period—one in particular, he stopped with his wrist while falling backwards—was left out to dry. The Dog Pound, Northeastern’s notoriously raucous student section, was rocking, while the (very) few BC faithful who made the trip were sent running to the T hoping to catch one of the last late-night trains back to campus. Even once Alex Tuch scorched a backhanded beauty past Ruck, it would

make no difference. The Eagles failed to capitalize on a power play, and committed two penalties in the last three minutes that ensured they wouldn’t get a real chance to make a rush at the net. After the game, York listed all of the things his team will have to work on in practice: controlling the puck in the neutral zone, generating more offense, and reworking the fundamentals. And he noted that it doesn’t get easier the rest of the way. BC will only take on good teams, ones that are better than Northeastern. Instead of reclaiming the March magic they have become so famous for, BC instead had to wait around for the NCAA Selection Show this Sunday at 12 p.m. The loss blew BC’s chances at earning a No. 1 seed, and the Eagles will now play against Harvard on Friday in Worcester, Mass., at 8p.m. The winner of that game will take on the victory between Minnesota-Duluth and Providence. The ever-competitive York is determined to not allow his team’s failures in the conference tournament affect his quest for another national title. “Our goal is to put a sixth star on that game sweater, and we’ll find out Sunday where we go, and who we play, and you know, you’ve got to win four games to do that,” York said. “I’m disappointed in tonight’s effort, but we’ll key it up and start on Sunday.” But if BC’s efforts are any similar to Friday night’s, a team that looked like the title favorite after the Beanpot may face the indignity of a one-and-done trip to the national tournament for the second year in a row.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Efik_\Xjk\ieËj :fpe\ 9\Xkj Flk :Xig\ek\i =fi GXkkp BXqdX`\i 9P J?8EEFE B<CCP ?\`^_kj <[`kfi NEW CASTLE, N.H. — Amid the overtime games and the upcoming NCAA Tournament Finals, Boston College women’s hockey took a short break Saturday morning in Newcastle for the 19th Annual Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award banquet. The award is given to the player who best exhibits the qualities of Kazmaier, one of the first collegiate women’s hockey players, who died of a rare blood cancer at age 28. When the top 10 finalists were announced, the list featured three Eagles— Megan Keller, Haley Skarupa, and 2015 Patty Kaz Award winner Alex Carpenter. The final three came down to Carpenter, Northeastern’s Kendall Coyne, and Wisconsin’s Ann-Renee Desbiens. Their talents were highlighted at the banquet following speeches from Kazmaier’s husband and sister, and former Kazmaier

award winners AJ Mleczko and Angela Ruggiero. At the end of the banquet, Ruggiero announced that Coyne was voted the winner of the prestigious award. Voting for the Kazmaier Award is based on regular-season play, academic achievement, and service to the community. Coyne excelled in each of those areas this year, notching 84 points total this season while maintaining a 3.8 GPA. She also volunteered at various charities and organizations, including the Make-AWish Foundation. Coyne expressed her gratitude to her teammates and coaches, but also noted that she wished the team’s departure in the NCAA Tournament wasn’t so early. After her speech, she took photos with youth hockey players and fans who attended the banquet, as well as with her parents and three of her fellow teammates, who surprised her in a Northeastern shuttle shortly before the ceremony. Though Coyne’s season is over, her

hockey career is not. Next week she will join teammates and rivals across the country to prepare for the IIHF Women’s World Championships in Kamloops, B.C., Canada. She also was taken by the Boston Pride as the third pick in the first round in the National Women’s Hockey League’s (NWHL) inaugural draft. “It’s hard to accept an individual award because there is so much of a support staff behind the award,” Coyne said after her speech. Had Coyne not won the trophy and the honor had instead gone to Carpenter, it would have been the first time in the award’s history that it would be given to the same player in back-to-back years. Though BC head coach Katie Crowley did not have the winning player on her team, she delivered praise to the crosstown rival. “It’s great to have another Patty Kazmaier in Hockey East,” Crowley said. “She’s had a tremendous year this year.”

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Northeastern forward Kendall Coyne accepting the award with her parents.

K_i\\ :_\\ij ]fi Nfd\eËj ?fZb\p1 k_\ 9\jk K\Xd `e 9: ?`jkfip D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E In a year of utter turmoil for Boston College athletics, one team has stood above the rest. We know it was NOT football or men’s basketball. The Olympic sports—the two soccers and field hockey—both performed admirably, with men’s soccer and field hockey putting up their all-time best results. Even men’s hockey has given plenty of reason for doubt, struggling to shore up its defense against Vermont and Northeastern in the Hockey East Playoffs. In reality, there was one team, from beginning to end that gave reasons for promise of bringing glory back to the Heights. That team was BC women’s hockey. Last season brought heartbreaking results for the Eagles. Katie Crowley’s team didn’t lose a game for the first three months of 2014-15, before falling to Harvard in the Beanpot Final. BC continued that trend of struggling only when a trophy was on the line, falling to Boston University in the Hockey East Championship Game and again to Harvard in the NCAA Semifinals. This year was different. The Eagles opened as the consensus No. 2 in the country, blazing out of the gate with 40 wins in a row. They took home the two trophies that eluded them last year by crushing Northeastern 7-0 in the Beanpot and BU 5-0 in the Hockey East title. BC beat those pesky Huskies from across town six times this year. Throughout it all, Crowley’s crew set numerous program records as a team and as

individuals. In heartbreaking fashion, Minnesota took down BC 3-1 in the national championship game. Throughout those 60 grueling minutes in Durham, N.H., Golden Gophers goaltender Amanda Leveille stoned the nation’s top-scoring offense repeatedly. Minnesota’s devastating top line—2013 Patty Kazmaier Award winner Amanda Kessel, 2016 Kaz Top-10 Finalist Hannah Brandt, and NCAA Rookie of the Year Sarah Potomak—was simply too dangerous for BC’s stifling defense to hold back. Minnesota dashed BC’s hopes of an undefeated year. It would’ve been the second perfect campaign in the history of collegiate women’s hockey, along with Minnesota’s own 2012-13 team. But instead of writing their names into the annals of sports history, the Eagles were handed a New England perfect season: lots of wins with one giant loss. And, like the 1972 Miami Dolphins do every year when the the last undefeated football team goes down, those Golden Gophers will pop the champagne. Rather than spend too much time lamenting the ending, let’s take a moment to salute one of the greatest teams, and a few of the most outstanding players, that have ever taken to the ice in Chestnut Hill. I’ve covered just about every team at BC over my two years as sports editor, but it’s hard to say any team has been more entertaining than my runins with Crowley and her bunch. I’ll miss the most dangerous partners-in-crime in the history of BC hockey: Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa. Carpenter, the 2015 Patty Kazmaier Award winner, is, without question, the best player to lace up the skates—male or female—at Kelley Rink. She’s the school’s all-time leading scorer, regardless of sex, with a

career 279 points: 134 goals and 145 assists. Twice, Carpenter, the daughter of NHL star Bobby Carpenter, has led the nation in points. And she destroys her opponents as the team’s primary center, with an intense glare off the draw that helps set up many of BC’s goals. No player controls the ice quite like Carpenter. Skarupa has often played second fiddle to her linemate, but by no means is she any less talented. She joined Carpenter in the scoring race, finishing this season with 79 points and 244 for her career. Skarupa also wrote her name into BC lore with her overtime game-winning goal on Friday in the National Semifinal against Clarkson. Her goal stands as the best moment in program history to date.

9lk k_\i\Ëj gc\ekp f] _fg\ ]fi k_\ ]lkli\ f] k_`j gif^iXd% 8e[ `kËj _Xi[ kf `dX^`e\ k_Xk k_\ <X^c\j nfeËk Y\ i`^_k YXZb _\i\ `e k_\ jXd\ jgfk e\ok j\Xjfe% We may not get to watch those two at BC anymore, but they’ll still be teammates for years to come. The two team up in international play—they’ll represent the United States at the IIHF Women’s World Championships next week, and there’s no reason to believe Skarupa won’t join Carpenter on the Olympic team in 2018. Plus, Carpenter and Skarupa were selected first and fifth, respectively, in the inaugural NWHL draft by the New York Riveters. They’ll join fellow graduating senior Dana Trivigno, one of the most fun players I’ve had in a postgame interview and one of the

scariest to see on the ice. But there’s plenty of hope for the future of this program. And it’s hard to imagine that the Eagles won’t be right back here in the same spot next season. Goaltender Katie Burt has been another one of my favorite players to cover at BC. The now-sophomore was the first feature I’ve ever wrote. I had never had a sitdown interview with a player, and she hadn’t ever had one with the media. Needless to say, there were a lot of “um’s.” But when she mentioned that she lived in the room above me in Cheverus Hall, and we shared a few laughs about our love of Cory Schneider (but hatred of the New Jersey Devils), it made for 30 of my most memorable minutes with an athlete. Over the last two seasons, I’ve loved watching Burt become a dominant netminder. She has fought criticism that BC’s spine-crushing defense prevents her from seeing any real attempts at the net. The stats somewhat back that up, too. But if you saw the national championship game, it’s not hard to notice that Burt is the most viciously hungry goalie in the country. She fought off unbelievably hard attempts from those dynamic Minnesota forwards. And her drive to win has been incomparable. Take one look at her face when she’s knocking shots off her pads left and right. Burt is one of those players who can’t be stopped when she wants a win. On the attack, there’s no reason to think the Eagles will slow down any time soon. Five BC underclassmen joined Carpenter, Skarupa, Trivigno, and Lexi Bender on the nation’s top-75 scoring list. BC will return speedy juniors Kristyn Capizzano and Andie Anastos, the latter of whom was a captain this season. It’ll have Kenzie Kent, the two-sport superstar who has

played with Carpenter and Skarupa on the top line in each of the last two seasons and whose fire for winning compares only to Burt. BC has the most lethal weapon in the country from the point in Megan Keller—she led the nation in scoring among defenders. Like the Golden Gophers’ Potomak, BC has a young sensation in Makenna Newkirk. The freshman was second to Potomak in the country with 49 points among newcomers and will look to take over the reins as BC’s best scorer next season. And there’ll be more coming next season. BC landed one of the nation’s top recruits, Caitrin Lonergan, a twotime member of Team USA. But, best of all, the Eagles will still have Crowley and assistant coach Courtney Kennedy. The two have become the most revered coaching staff in the sport. Their recruiting ability is unparalleled, and they can out-coach anyone in the country. And, along with Crowley’s bubbly 2-year-old daughter, Camryn—who is, without question, the best reason to cover a game—she has the best locker-room environment in the country. Just look at this tweet that she sent out only minutes after the game was over. “Thank u to all of the fans who supported our team today! Players played their hearts out for all of u! So proud of what we accomplished!” At the end of this trying year for BC fans, women’s hockey gave everyone reason to hope. The team didn’t finish the job this year. But with a cast of All-American talent and the nation’s best coach, the Eagles proved they have staying power. Even without Carpenter and Skarupa, they’re out to do it all again next season. And every team in the nation should be on notice.

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<X^c\j =Xck\i kf D`ee\jfkX `e EXk`feXc :_Xdg`fej_`g >Xd\ National Championship, from C1 women’s Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) to be the SEC of women’s hockey. Minnesota and two other members of WCHA—Minnesota Duluth and Wisconsin—have claimed all but one NCAA National Championship title, which went to Clarkson. It would have been BC’s, as well as Hockey East’s, first championship in the series’ 16-year history. Thirteen seconds into the game, the Golden Gophers made their first strike, showing just how deadly their first line— composed of National Rookie of the Year Sarah Potomak, Patty Kazmaier Award top10 finalist Hannah Brandt, and 2013 Kazmaier winner Amanda Kessel—can be. After Burt stopped a puck and directed it behind her, Brandt fished it out and passed to Potomak, who was waiting behind the faceoff circle. She moved to between the circles just in front of the crease

and hurled the puck, which sailed into the left corner of the goal. But, unlike the goal that BC faced in the Frozen Four game against Clarkson, it didn’t seem that it would make or break the game. The Eagles put up a strong performance for the remainder of the first period, evening their shots with Minnesota’s at 12-12 to end the period. “We had all the faith in the world in our team,” Burt said. “All the way down to the last minute, we thought that we could do it.” Both BC and Minnesota adapted to each other’s play for the second period, resulting in a stalemate. The Eagles’ best chance came in the sixth minute of the period, when Lee Stecklein and Megan Wolfe were called within minutes of each other to result in a 5-on-3 power play. The scene was a familiar one, as in the Frozen Four semifinal against Clarkson, BC also stumbled upon such luck.

And like the 5-on-3 on Friday, the Eagles could not capitalize. They had several good opportunities that Leveille picked up, but they did not display the aggression or urgency that the power play warranted. Minnesota’s defense stopped the forwards in their tracks, and toward the end of the power play, Makenna Newkirk was called for holding, squandering the gift presented to them. The Eagles are usually unstoppable on the power play, but met their match against the Frozen Four teams. None of their 11 power-play opportunities over the weekend resulted in a goal. On the other end of the ice, Burt remained as strong as ever. She was a wall for 39:47, save for the first 13 seconds in the first. After the goal, she deftly snatched every puck out of the air and laid out for tough ones on the ground. Nearly halfway into the third period, BC got another dose of that fatal first line.

Kessel skated by the faceoff circle and shot hard at Burt, nailing the net with a force that landed the puck just in front of the goal line. The goal and win mean more for Kessel than what there is at face value, as the senior has only just returned to the ice in February after a concussion she suffered in 2014. “These are games that you don’t get back,” Kessel said. “We laid it out on the line, and I really couldn’t be happier with our team’s effort.” The happiness for Kessel’s recovery and return was felt on both sides. “It’s a tough thing that she went through, and it’s awesome that she was able to come back and play this great game,” BC head coach Katie Crowley said. Later in the period, Kelly Pannek snuck it past Burt’s left side for Minnesota’s third and final goal. Pannek passed the puck back to her teammate as she skated closer to the

goal. Her teammate passed it back, and while Megan Keller tried to clear it, Pannek stripped it from her and shot the puck in between Burt and the left pipe. Minnesota knew then that the game was in its hands, jumping up and cheering. Less than a minute later, Newkirk made up for her penalty with a shot past Leveille on the left side of the goal. Keller passed the puck to Andie Anastos, who gave it to Newkirk waiting at the crease. With goalie Amanda Leveille distracted, Newkirk slipped it past the uncovered left side of the net. Newkirk has been a standout freshman this season, and only stood behind Minnesota’s Potomak in points, with 49. It is easy to examine the season as a success, especially when the Eagles have lost all but one game. But senior defender Lexi Bender felt otherwise. “The 40 wins didn’t really matter today,” she said. “Whoever won today won everything.”

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BC women’s hockey mustered up all the offense it could against Minnesota’s Amanda Leveille, but Amanda Kessel (center) was too much for an Eagles’ team that failed on three power-play opportunities.

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Alex Carpenter (5) smiles at linemate Haley Skarupa after her game-winning goal. 9P J?8EEFE B<CCP ?\`^_kj <[`kfi DURHAM, N.H.— Alex Carpenter darted down the long stretch of ice at Whittemore Arena, and passed to her linemate, Haley Skarupa. 2 Clarkson Skarupa Boston College 3 wound up and shot hard at Clarkson goalie Shea Tiley by the crease, and the puck found its way into the net. No big deal for Skarupa—with 35 goals this season, she does it a lot. “[Carpenter] couldn’t have put it in a more perfect place for me to just hammer it home,” Skarupa said. “I just slid it in there.” But this one was different. This one came 58 seconds into Boston College women’s hockey second overtime game of the year,

and gave the Eagles (40-0-0, 24-0-0 Hockey East) the edge over Clarkson University in the National Semifinal. If you watched the first period, you would not believe that BC would ever make it to overtime. The Golden Knights (30-6-5, 14-3-5 Eastern College Athletic Conference) dominated the Eagles, who suddenly had a feeling that they weren’t in Chestnut Hill anymore. Three minutes in, Rhyen McGill shot from the crease, and the puck slipped in between the right pipe and Burt’s right hand. The Golden Knights knew that a one-goal lead would be a big one, as the Eagles’ offense was brought to a grinding halt. Clarkson displayed a level of play unmatched by any of BC’s opponents in Hockey East this season, and it showed.

Amid the yelling of the Clarkson faithful, the Eagles were stifled by the Golden Knights’ defense. BC’s dynamic duo, Carpenter and Skarupa, was broken up, unable to connect on its usually seamless plays. It stifled their typically deadly onslaught of shots, and left BC struggling to find the puck. Even when on the man advantage, it seemed that the Golden Knights far outnumbered the Eagles. BC went into the locker room down by one, the first time the team has done so all season. Even with half of a power play to start off the second period, the Eagles could not capitalize on the man advantage. The Golden Knights stood attention at the goal, not even letting BC get through to face Tiley. Every shot was blocked, and no one could get through the traffic. Five minutes into the second period, Clarkson struck again, this time taking a hard shot from the left faceoff circle. The puck hit the crossbar and landed in the goal. It didn’t look like BC would come out with win No. 40. The Eagles were out of gas. But Skarupa didn’t just score the overtime goal. After a long drought, Carpenter tried for her shot but fell once the puck deflected off Tiley. Skarupa picked it out of the mess and shot it into the low right corner of the right pipe. Tiley’s hand stretched out to reach it, but she couldn’t stop it in time, and the Eagles were now on the board. “They really kicked it into gear halfway through that second period,” head coach Katie Crowley said. Even with the goal, however, it seemed like BC couldn’t catch up. That is, until Kaliya Johnson showed up on the scene. The senior defenseman shot between the faceoff circles after Megan Keller passed the

puck to center with less than four minutes left in the third period. The shot went in, and fans were treated to an entirely different atmosphere. With a tie game, anything could happen. A penalty on Carpenter with 2:06 left on the clock gave the Eagles a scare. Clarkson forced its way into BC’s defensive zone, and well-placed shots on goal kept fans on the edge of their seats. But the third period’s last few moments occurred without a goal. BC and Clarkson headed into overtime, during which Skarupa would play Savior again and clinch the win for the Eagles. Carpenter skated over to hug Skarupa, and every BC player swarmed the ice. The team even made sure to thank its

supporters, banging on the glass where BC fans with signs sat. For some, the win was never doubted. “[Assistant coach Courtney Kennedy] said before the game today, ‘We’re gonna win, because they’re not gonna lose,’” Crowley said. After a season of disappointment last year, in which the Eagles fell in the Beanpot, Hockey East Finals, and National Semifinals, the Eagles have found a way to come through in the clutch. BC took home the first two trophies of the year. Clarkson gave the Eagles a little reminder of last year’s woes. But with plays like that from Skarupa, it’s hard to imagine the Eagles will be stopped on the path to making a clean sweep of the hardware this year.

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The Eagles mob Skarupa after her overtime goal sends them flying past Clarkson to the final.

9:Ëj Jkil^^c\j fe ;\]\ej\ J_fn I\Xjfej kf Nfiip 8Yflk E:88j Hockey Struggles, from C6 likely know the Eagles better at this point than most of the other teams in the tournament. Whereas the Eagles are loaded with depth from top to bottom, the Crimson claims one of the best players in college in Jimmy Vesey, a few very capable linemates to complement him in Kyle Criscuolo and Alexander Kerfoot, and not much else below that. Harvard’s top line makes up more than a third of the team’s total points. The most interesting matchup between the two teams, especially given BC’s play in recent games, will be between the specialty units. Harvard boasts the No. 4 power play in the country, while BC has the No. 4 penalty kill in the NCAA. Looking forward in the bracket, assuming the top seed wins each game, the Eagles would face Providence College—another team with which it is very familiar—in the Northeast Regional Final. In three consecutive games against the Friars over Winter Break, BC lost at a neu-

tral site, won at home, and tied on the road. But more importantly than the seeding and the potential opponents, the Eagles simply are not playing their best hockey of the season when it matters most. Thatcher Demko’s final stat line doesn’t read like that of a Hobey Baker Award nominee, but he was clearly the best player on the ice for the Eagles, making two of the most impressive saves that anyone has seen this season. As Demko’s defensemen allowed Northeastern skaters open shooting angles from all sides, Demko flew around the net, blocking pucks in any way that he could. None of the goals were really Demko’s fault—one came on a twoon-one chance from point-blank range, two came on the power play, and two came off careless turnovers in the defensive zone. There was only so much the goalie could do to stop the superior Northeastern attack. Following a lackluster three-game series against the University of Vermont in the Hockey East Quarterfi-

nals, the loss to Northeastern should serve as a wake-up call for the Eagles heading into the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies sit firmly on the NCAA bubble, so the remaining games for BC will only be tougher. After the game, BC head coach Jerry York said that the team would specifically focus in practice this week on getting “better,” in a lot of facets of the game. There’s a big difference between improving skills that have already been mastered and adding (or re-learning) new skills to the repertoire. Based on York’s comment and the Eagles’ game on Saturday night, it seems that they’ll be doing the latter. That’s not the type of improvement a team should be looking to make just a week before its biggest game of the season. But if the Eagles don’t get “better” at each end of the ice, they’ll reach the end of the road sooner than they’d prefer.

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Ian McCoshen had a particularly poor game against Northeastern on Friday night.

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9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi BOSTON — It was almost too quick. Right off the opening draw, Boston College’s Miles Wood darted down the bench side of the ice. He received the puck on a backhand pass from his linemate Christopher Brown in the neutral 4 Northeastern zone as he made a run at Northeastern’s Ryan Boston College 5 Ruck in goal. The freshman fired five-hole, giving the Eagles a 1-0 lead on the first shot of the game, a mere 15 seconds in. It seemed like the perfect start in the Hockey East Semifinals against Northeastern, the hottest team in the country. That would be the last time BC held the lead the entire game. From then on, the Eagles completely broke down. Clearing passes out of the neutral and defensive zone. Generating offensive production. And, oh yeah, the turnovers. Nothing went right for the Eagles (26-7-5) in a 5-4 defeat to a Northeastern (21-13-5) team that will continue its magical march into a trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Huskies would later play Saturday at 7 p.m. at TD Garden against UMass

Lowell, taking home their first Hockey East Championship since 1988. And the Eagles, after dominating the conference for so many years, will go without one for their fourth year in a row—the first time head coach Jerry York has had a senior class that will graduate without raising the Lamoriello Trophy. After Wood’s goal, things quickly soured for the Eagles. All year, we had wondered when BC’s thin defense would break down. At once, it appeared each one caught the yips. In particular, Ian McCoshen—a man who will soon lace up the skates for the NHL’s Florida Panthers—was a mess in the Eagles’ own zone, perhaps playing his worst game as a collegiate player. McCoshen and the defense routinely turned the puck over. BC struggled to get shots on net in large part because the defense couldn’t clear it to the neutral and offensive zone. That prevented goaltender Thatcher Demko—who, despite the five goals, played spectacularly—from getting much-needed breaks. The pressure just never seemed to stop. “That was kind of our Achilles heel,” York said regarding the defense and turnovers.

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BOSTON — For much of the 2015-16 season, Boston College men’s hockey looked like a dominant force primed to make some serious noise in the NCAA Tournament. But the team that showed up last night in the Hockey East Tournament Semifinals would be lucky to advance past the first round. The Eagles (26-7-5) turned in a lackluster effort brimming with careless turnovers and needless penalties in a disappointing defeat at the hands of Northeastern University (21-13-5). BC didn’t look ready to play, and the Huskies frustrated the Eagles on each end of the ice with their physicality. Based on what happened pregame, we should have seen this loss coming a mile away. BC sat in the locker room at TD Garden, waiting anxiously to take on Northeastern in a much-awaited contest to send one team to the championship. The first game of that night’s doubleheader between UMass Lowell and Providence—a 2-1 win for the River Hawks—went into triple overtime to significantly push back BC and NU’s start time from 8 p.m. to 10:33 p.m. When the Eagles finally charged out of the tunnel and onto the ice, they looked sluggish, took unnecessary penalties, and dropped the contest to the underdog Northeastern squad by one goal. That game was a little over a year ago, in the 2015 Beanpot semifinals. But the same exact thing happened Saturday night. After scoring two goals each in regulation, UMass Lowell and Providence needed to play nearly an entire additional game to score one more. The River Hawks finally ended the marathon with a deflection off a skate in the third overtime period, but by then, it was already an hour after BC and Northeastern should have started their game. Factor in the 55-minute warmup period allotted between games, and it was clear that it was going to be a long night. So it was deja vu all over again for the Eagles, who presumably want nothing to do with the Huskies with a trophy on the line late in the season. And while that game is over, BC’s season is not. So where do the Eagles go from here? BC was an obvious lock to appear in the NCAA Tournament field, but it played itself out of a chance for one of the top four seeds with the loss. As the top overall No. 2 seed, the Eagles will take on a familiar foe in Harvard University on Friday in Worcester, Mass. The only time the teams matched up this year was in the first round of Beanpot—BC took that game by a score of 3-2. The Eagles got what the seed and opponent deserved, but it’s unlikely that the team is thrilled about playing Harvard once again. BC had to come back from an early deficit to win in this year’s Beanpot, and the Crimson

See Hockey Struggles, C5 BASEBALL

:c\djfe Jn\\gj <X^c\j 8]k\i J\k_ 9\\iËj NXcb F]] fe Jle[Xp 9P I@C<P FM<I<E; 8jjfZ% Jgfikj <[`kfi It was the cherry on top for Clemson baseball. After Boston College right fielder Donovan Casey gunned down the potential winning run at home plate in the bottom of the 9th inning to preserve a 2-2 tie, Seth Beer sent John Nicklas’ breaking ball sailing over the rightfield fence in the bottom of the 10th to hand the No. 22 Tigers (16-3, 5-1 Atlantic Coast) a 3-2 walk-off win that completed their weekend sweep of the Eagles (12-6, 2-4). BC entered the weekend on the

wings of a series win against No. 8 NC State that garnered the program national attention as a team on the rise. But Beer wasn’t impressed. Ranked by Perfect Game as the No. 1 outfielder in the nation in his class, Beer skipped his senior year of high school to join Clemson in January, and he hasn’t missed a beat. Beer tallied two doubles, two home runs, and three RBI as part of his six-hit weekend—the last of which gave the Tigers their seventh consecutive win. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone quite like him,” BC head coach Mike Gambino said. As disappointing as the weekend

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was for Gambino’s club, the outcome certainly wasn’t a product of a lack of effort. The Eagles scraped across one run in each of the first two innings to take an early lead in the series finale. Freshman Jacob Stevens tossed six innings of shutout ball before an Eli White solo homer in the 7th inning sent him packing. Closer Justin Dunn couldn’t hold the slim lead in the 9th inning, but Casey’s cannon of a throw to catcher Nick Sciortino delayed the walk off until the following frame. Saturday’s contest saw BC’s strong suits—pitching and defense—go down the drain in a 6-1 defeat which marked the squad’s first back-to-back losses of

the season. The Eagles opened the scoring in the 2nd inning in textbook Gambino fashion. Casey led off with a double, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Sciortino, and advanced home after Stephen Sauter finally rolled a chopper to shortstop to cap off a nine-pitch at-bat against Clemson starter Charlie Barnes. Unfortunately for Gambino, small ball only works if you avoid big innings on defense. The Tigers broke the game open with a four-run 4th inning, and the catalyst of the scoring barrage was none other than Beer. The 6-foot-2 lefty smashed a double off of the wall to start the inning

Women’s Hockey: Eagles Can’t Close BC’s hopes for a perfect season were dashed by a talented Minnesota team in the season’s final game............C5

before starter Jesse Adams walked a pair to load the bases. It appeared as if Adams would escape the inning unscathed after he induced two straight infield popouts, but a bases-loaded, two-out walk quickly erased such hopes. Clemson tacked on three more runs before Adams could stop the bleeding, thanks to a bad hop on shortstop Johnny Adams and a dropped fly ball by Casey. Three walks, two errors, and four easily preventable runs that essentially put the game out of reach with Barnes on the rubber for the Tigers. Barnes allowed just four hits, strik-

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