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8 M`\n f] k_\ =lkli\ @dX^`e\ 9fjkfe )'*' Yi`e^j dXpfi kf 9: 9P AF< PL<E><IK =fi k_\ ?\`^_kj In front of a packed Robsham Theater, lawmakers, businessmen, and academics discussed the first Boston city-wide planning initiative in 50 years on Tuesday evening at the Imagine Boston 2030 Forum: “Making Choices for a Growing City.” The event, sponsored by Boston College’s Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy and the Joseph E. Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action, along with the City of Boston, was streamed online.

It involved introductory remarks by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, an overview of the Imagine Boston 2030 plan, a panel discussion, and a question-and-answer session with a panel of various policy experts.

“This is a visionary initiative to ensure that

in the years ahead Boston becomes an equitable, sustainable, welcoming city,” Vincent Rougeau, dean of BC Law School, said in his introductory remarks.

Rougeau proceeded to introduce Walsh, who, before discussing his vision and the process behind the new initiative, raised a cheer from the crowd by wishing BC men’s hockey luck in the Frozen Four this weekend. While he also discussed the financial and population growth of the city, Walsh focused his remarks on the civic engagement aspect of the initiative since it began in the fall of 2015. The city has used eight community workshops, social media surveys, and interviewed 6,000 residents through street teams to find out what Boston residents want for their city.

“It’s not just about imagining our city in the future,” Walsh said. “It’s also engaging the people of our city to help plan the city.”

After his remarks, Walsh introduced Sara

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an increase in administrative hiring within the department, this trend has led to an overwhelmed UCS. Following an anonymous donation and the March 11 approval of the 2016-2017 budget from the Board of Trustees, however, UCS will add an additional full-time permanent staff psychologist and full-

time clinical postdoctoral fellow for fall 2016, Vice President of Student Affairs Barbara Jones said. There are currently thirteen full-time staff members, and eight part-time.

“There is ever-increasing utilization

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;\YXk\ dXibj cXjk \m\ek Y\]fi\ \c\Zk`fej 9P K8PCFI JK% ><ID8@E 8jjk% E\nj <[`kfi Once questioning at the 2016 Diversity and Inclusion Town Hall came to a close, a student rose from the audience to ask Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) presidential candidate Joseph Arquillo, LSOE ’17, about a picture featured on his public Instagram account depicting him dressed as a Native American. This followed Arquillo’s condemnation of inappropriate Halloween costumes, and support for Diversity and Inclusion’s “Dress with Respect” campaign.

“I made a mistake,” Arquillo said.

Diversity and Inclusion’s Town Hall was held on March 30 in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room, in which candidates for UGBC president were questioned on their plans to support inclusion on campus.

The Diversity and Inclusion debate used to be included within the UGBC debate. Arquillo raised concerns in January about a possible conflict of interest having the subgroups of UGBC question candidates who are previously in UGBC. Since the campaigning process was extended to three weeks this year, instead of the usual 10 days, Diversity and Inclusion and the Elections Committee jointly decided to split up the two events to allow for more attention to diversity issues and to avoid any sort of conflict of interest.

Members of the AHANA Leadership Council, the GLTBQ Leadership Council, and the Council for Students with Disabilities posed questions directly to the three candidate teams: Russell Simons, MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, MCAS ’17, Nikita Patel, CSOM ’17, and

Arquillo, and Matthew Ulrich, MCAS ’17, and John Miotti, MCAS ’17.

At the start of the Town Hall, each team was given the opportunity to introduce its platform and share its support for Diversity and Inclusion.

The first questions were asked by ALC. Patel and Arquillo’s team was asked about ALC’s “Dress with Respect” campaign.

Patel drew on her personal experience as an Indian woman, and Arquillo brought up the inappropriate nature of Halloween costumes on BC’s campus.

Simons and McCaffrey said that they would attend diversity demonstrations and protests when appropriate if elected president and executive vice president.

Arquillo added that he thought that the blackout that was held in the fall in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri was an important step for BC students.

Ulrich and Miotti were asked what they think the purpose of ALC is, and what role they would play within the organization. Ulrich responded that he hopes to increase turnout for Diversity and Inclusion events.

All teams were asked what events they had attended that were held by culture clubs on campus. Miotti and Ulrich admitted that they had not attended any events this year because of student turnout in the past.

Once ALC finished questioning the candidates, the Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD) asked Simons and McCaffrey about the importance of providing greater opportunity for students with disabilities. One student’s issue is everyone’s issue, Simons said.

When Miotti and Ulrich were asked about disability within their platform, Ulrich brought up his personal

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Boston College Libraries are sponsoring the Edible Books Festival on April 1 in the lobby of O’Neill Library. Students can visit different displays of edible objects related to stories and novels. The event will take place at 12 p.m., and students can vote on their favorite entries.

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Sociology professor Regine Jackson will speak on April 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Devlin 101. Her talk will be about how Haitians have both experienced successes in Boston and faced severe inequality that undermines their inclusion in society.

Boston College bands will perform in the annual BC bOp! concert in Robsham Theater on April 2 at 8 p.m. The bands will perform a show titled, “Jazz Wars: The bOp! Awakens,” and will perform jazz and contemporary favorites for students, alumni, faculty, and the public.

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E\n :fi\ J\\e Xj JlZZ\jj]lc Through sur ve ys , course evaluations, and focus groups, Boston College found that the Core pilot programs that were added in 2015 are meeting the University’s Core renewal aims.

The new classes are successfully challenging students, getting them to question their values and beliefs, and allowing them to think about alternative career paths, the study found.

The University ’s findings were discussed at a meeting of the University Core Renewal Committee, which was created last year to strengthen the undergraduate Core curriculum.

Julian Bourg, associate dean for the Core in MCAS and associate professor of history, attributed the positive results to collaboration between faculty from different departments.

Last fall, the University implemented eight new pilot Core classes. Two classes were taught in the “Complex Problems” model, which were six-credit classes of about 80 students.

The courses are team-taught by professors who handle various aspects of contemporary problems. The other six courses were linked classes, called “Enduring Questions.” These three-credit courses, which have the same students in each, connect topics, questions, and readings.

“One longstanding issue is that faculty spend too much time in their own silos,” Bourg said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “As we’ve seen, the Core classes offer a means to put together resonant interests and work with one another.”

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Ian Appel, a finance professor, was recognized by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute for his work on “passive investors,” alongside Wharton School of Business professors Todd Gormley and Donald Keim.

Appel and his partners found that passive investors, who normally manage index funds, are much more active behind the scenes than business analysts currently believe. The IRRC believes that Appel’s work “has the potential to reshape investor thinking.”

His latest paper, titled “Passive Investors, Not Passive Owners,” will be published in The Journal of Financial Economics. It studies how these investors have more action behind the scenes in the marketplace than most believe. If these investors have significant ownership of shares, they can have a great impact, Appel said.

“By owning shares, they have a fiduciary responsibility to their investors to vote in their best interests,” Appel said to the Office of News and Public Affairs.

“That’s one reason why you may think they might make a difference and have an effect on the firms they own.”

Appel and his team have been working on this research for more than two years.

“To get recognition from practitioners in the finance world and also from experts in other fields who helped with the judging is really gratifying,” Appel said.

With growing bipartisan tendencies in the United States government in the last several years, Julie Winokur, an Emmy-nominated documentary maker, decided to delve into the causes of the conflict on the Hill.

Winokur spoke to a group of Boston College students in an event, which was sponsored by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, titled Bring It To The Table on March 29. Bring It To The Table is a campaign brought to universities across the country that seeks to bridge the partisan political gap prevalent in modern politics and on college campuses.

The event started with a screening of Winokur’s documentary, also called “Bring it to the Table.” In the film, she shows her own dining room

table. During dinner one evening, Winokur’s 17-year old son witnessed her disregard a political argument based on her personal beliefs. He referred to her as “the most intolerant person,” explaining that she dismissed other people’s opinions immediately if they were not in line with her own.

She was shocked in this moment of self-realization. Winokur soon realized that she was contributing to the divisive politics in America by relying on assumptions rather than hard-hitting conversation.

“I didn’t want to be part of [partisan politics], but somehow I was, without recognizing it,” Winokur said.

Winokur’s curiosity led her to create the Bring It To The Table campaign. In response to the conflict at her dining room table, Winokur bought her own portable table, which she would carry with her around the country, with the goal of hearing

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Winokur dicusses her journey in bridging political gaps on college campuses.

others’ political beliefs.

“It was time to leave my comfort zone and put the table to the test,” Winokur said.

In the documentary, Winokur travels the country, visiting public parks, churches, and college campuses to better understand why people create their political opinions. She took this time to listen to others, rather than debate, as she tried to determine if people were truly as divided as political party leaders.

Winokur investigated how religion plays a factor in political beliefs. After several interviews across the table, she learned that although religious people have mostly conservative values, they may not necessarily be Republicans.

There were several ideas presented from both the left and right that religious people seemed to agree with.

For example, the minister of a Baptist church is a registered Democrat even though he disagrees with the left’s opinions on abortion. Winokur began to see the light at the end of the tunnel—that maybe people are not so divided after all, and some compromises can be made.

Winokur also asked people’s opinions on topics such as government spending, health care, and immigration. Although people expressed a range of opinions, the most logical and coherent opinions were the ones they derived from experience. Winokur argued that some people who claim to have strong political beliefs may not have their facts straight. It was people’s personal experiences with immigration issues or race issues that helped them form solid political beliefs.

Winokur spoke to the BC stu-

dents about her growth after creating the documentary.

“When I am with my liberal friends, I now find myself defending conservatives,” she said.

During the next part of the event, Winokur asked for student volunteers to come up to the table and share their political beliefs. Her most crucial questions were asking why people carry their beliefs.

Winokur argued that the Internet and social media have perpetuated the partisan political divide.

Social media has provided people with access to communities of like-minded people. Winokur believes that this limits the ability for people’s views to be challenged.

“People are engaging less and less with people who think differently,” Winokur said. “It is incumbent upon us to mix it up.”

The event ended with students breaking off into pairs to discuss their personal political beliefs relating to race in America. Students discussed whether they believe there are racial issues in the United States, their personal experiences with racism, and how people can work together to combat exclusion.

She stressed that uncomfortable conversations are the most valuable ones.

Winokur pushed students to put all of their ideas out on the table without feeling like they would be judged. She challenged them to come to an area of agreement to show that politics does not have to be so partisan.

“I thought Julie did a great job tonight,” Nick O’Grady, MCAS ’19, said. “I was a little apprehensive about coming at first, but I am glad I came.”

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By Shannon Longworth Heights Staff After being wrongfully convicted of second-degree murder and arson, Victor Rosario was released from prison. He spoke in Devlin 008 last night about his experience.

Rosario’s lawyer, Andrea Petersen, and her partner, Lisa Kavanaugh, also spoke.

“How many of you have 32 years?” Rosario asked. “I’m just asking because for 32 years, I have been behind the wall.”

In 1982, there was a fire in Lowell, Mass., that killed eight people. In an article in The Lowell Sun, Rosario was identified as having started the fire, along with two other men named Edgardo and Felix Garcia.

The witness claimed that the men tossed Molotov cocktails into the building to start it. When he was interrogated, Rosario confessed to committing the crime.

There were several flaws in the evidence against Rosario. His lawyer, however, provided a feeble defensive argument at the time because he was facing his own personal legal problems. The lawyer was being charged for vehicular homicide, as

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he was driving under the influence of alcohol when he crashed and killed another person.

Thus, Rosario searched for another lawyer to defend him in court.

Rosario then came across Petersen, who accepted the job. Petersen described how Rosario persuaded her to help him The first time he asked her, she refused, and insisted that he find another lawyer to take the case. The second time they met, however, he told her the story of Solomon in the Bible.

Petersen was confused as to how that story related to their current situation. Rosario explained that because Petersen was willing to give the case to someone else, he knew that she believed the case was important.

Petersen told the audience that that was the moment when she accepted the task of defending Rosario.

Petersen then explained that the two main pieces of evidence were the witness identification and the cause of the fire—both of which Petersen found to be flawed.

She described her search for ways to prove that this evidence was not true. While doing so, she realized that she needed to find a way to

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vivid for the judge,” Kavanaugh said, pointing to some of the visual aids she had created on her PowerPoint.

She went on to discuss the new evidence they presented, and said that the day they won the motion was one of her greatest moments in life.

Rosario focused on what it was like during the time he spent in prison. According to him, hope for a brighter future played an enormous role in his attitude while he was behind bars.

“I want a wife, I want a house, I want a job,” he said. “That was my dream. And who was going to take that dream away from me? Only me.

Only I can throw that dream away.”

He directed the audience’s attention to his wife, who was sitting in the front row. He acknowledged her as one of his sources of hope while he was in prison, and explained that they did their best to stay faithful during their 20-minute phone calls.

During those 32 years, he trained for a marathon, married his wife, and was ordained a minister. As he concluded his lecture, he spoke directly to his listeners.

“You are the future, and I know that you can change the system,” he said.

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invalidate Rosario’s confession.

Thus, she ventured to find a psychiatrist who could find a reason why Rosario would have been unable to provide truthful responses when he was interrogated. Finally, she found one who uncovered a piece of information that turned out to be crucial to the case.

At the time of his confession, Rosario was experiencing tremors due to alcohol withdrawal. Thus, it could be argued that he did not know what was going on when he was interrogated by the police.

Petersen spoke about the immense difficulty she encountered with this case, but that Rosario’s positive attitude helped her to continue working.

“It was Victor’s compassion, his conviction, his faith that got me through this case,” she said.

Kavanaugh began by saying that the first time she looked at the case, she knew it looked just like any textbook example of a wrongful conviction case. Thus, she worked with Petersen on how to present their information regarding Rosario’s innocence in court.

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Speakers talked about Boston’s first city-wide planning initiative in 50 years.

Myerson, the Director of Planning for the Boston Redevelopment Authority, to present an overview of the Imagine Boston plan. Echoing Walsh, Myerson stressed the goals of civic engagement in the process to ensure the “preservation, enhancement and growth of our city.” Before discussing the goals of the initiative, Myerson discussed the past and present socioeconomic profiles of the city. While there has been a threedecade trend of growth in Boston, with a 6 percent population growth between 2010 and 2014 and profitable and growing medical and education industries, many of the same economic and racial inequalities still exist or have even been exacerbated by these trends. Forty-six percent of Bostonians are housing burdened due to increased real-estate prices.

After painting this picture of Bos-

ton, Myerson laid out the goals and strategies of the Imagine Boston 2030 initiative to harness the exceptional growth of Boston to better the city.

The four goals, shaped by months of civic engagement, surveys, and research, are to benefit the quality of life in accessible neighborhoods, inclusive economic growth, investments in open space and infrastructure, and the promotion of a healthy environment and adapting to climate change.

“These goals will set the direction for the plan that we will look to have completed by spring 2017,” Myerson said. “The work we have done this fall and spring is just the beginning of the conversation, and we will be working over the next year to engage Bostonians in the further shaping of the city.”

Following her presentation, Myerson introduced Meghna Chakrabarti to moderate the panel and Q&A por-

tion of the forum. Chakrabarti, the host of WBUR’s acclaimed show Radio Boston, encouraged the audience to submit questions either via question cards or through the Twitter hashtag #ImagineBoston.

“I couldn’t think of a more important set of ideas or issues to grapple with when it comes to moving forward together regarding the kind of city we want to see for the next generation,” Chakrabarti said before introducing the panelists.

The panel, which featured an economist, an urban planner, a businessman, a journalist, and a landscape architect, spent an hour discussing the problems and questions arising from the plan and its potential implementation. Many of the questions revolved around the role of business in the initiative, education reform, and environmental and transportation problems and solutions.

Once again, the theme of connectivity

and engagement of citizens showed up in the panelists answers.

“Victory is a city where a Roxbury resident worries about what is happening at the waterfront,” panelist John Barros, Chief of Economic Development for the City of Boston, said when asked what success for the initiative would look like.

After the panel, Neil McCullagh, the Director of the Corcoran Center, wrapped up the formal part of the forum and invited the audience to an interactive reception outside Robsham.

“Today we considered some of the most pressing issues of our day, and we did it with respect and openness,” McCullagh said. “Today demonstrates what makes our society great. This afternoon we all made a small contribution to a public process for this city and a contribution that will serve well into the future.”

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Nick Minieri, chair of GLC and CSOM ’16, questioned Miotti and Ulrich about what they would do to increase support for GLC issues on campus. Ulrich stressed again that outreach and student turnout for events would be the first step, as he thinks it is important to involve the majority of students.

“I know numbers don’t necessarily mean everything, but they do mean a lot to administrators,” Ulrich said.

Patel and Arquillo were asked about their past experience supporting GLC. Arquillo spoke about his personal experience in the community, but said that he has not done

he would like to hold events like this once a semester, instead of once a year.

Patel stressed the importance of hosting big speakers like Cox to get students talking. Miotti also brought up the Asian Caucus’ success in getting John Cho to speak at BC, and his team’s plan to support cultural groups’ efforts.

Simons brought up the fact that while he does not identify with a lot of the diversity communities on campus, he feels comfortable having conversations with students and administrators about these issues.

Miotti understands that it is difficult for him to fully understand these diversity concerns, which is why he said it is important for their campaign to include the vice president of Diversity and Inclusion within day-to-day

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The remaining UGBC candidates answered questions regarding inclusivity. enough to stand up in the past.

Simons and McCaffrey were asked whether they think that it is important to add gender expression to the University’s nondiscrimination clause. Simons agreed that it is vital to allow students to express themselves, and he said that he will work to modify the nondiscrimination clause if elected.

“Going forward, we need to make sure that these positive messages are being conveyed to administrators,” Simons said.

Candidates were asked about how they would handle GLC issues within the Catholic identity of the University.

“If we are not making sure that we have adequate resources for all students, we do not include all students, and all students are not comfortable here, then we are not living up to the Catholic identity,” McCaffrey said.

Diversity and Inclusion brought up its success in getting administrative approval for Laverne Cox to speak at BC. While the event did fall through because of Cox’s filming schedule, candidates were asked how they would continue efforts like these in the future.

Simons responded saying that

affairs.

In the last 10 minutes of the Town Hall, students in the audience were given the opportunity to ask candidates questions about issues that were not covered.

One student asked how the candidates would get people to care about diversity issues on campus. Ulrich and Miotti stressed UGBC’s ability to increase student excitement around campus events. Patel thinks that UGBC’s brand and stigma must change before students will really begin to care. And McCaffrey thinks that to increase awareness around these issues, it must start with relationships. It takes personal connections across different student groups to get people to really care, McCaffrey said.

In addition to drafting their own questions for the Town Hall, the members of Diversity and Inclusion also took questions from students through an online form.

“This is something that we do care about and we can say that as much as we want, but it comes down to what we have done in the past and what we will do in the future,” Simons said in reference to diversity issues to close the Town Hall.

As a part of the Daniel C. Morrissey, BC ’88, and Chanannait Paisansathan, M.D., lecture series in Asian Studies, Dr. How Man Wong spoke in front of a packed crowd of students and professors inside of Stokes this past Tuesday. Serving as the president of the China Exploration and Research Society (CERS) since 1986, Wong discussed his career in exploration and wildlife conservation in China and the surrounding regions of Asia.

During his presentation, filled with videos and pictures from his travels, Wong talked about his four-decade-long work, which includes finding four river sources in Asia and leading numerous conservation efforts for endangered animals.

Born in Hong Kong, Wong studied journalism and art in college in the United States before returning to China to work.

“The whole world was open to me those days—with an inquisitive mind,” Wong said.

As an explorer, photojournalist, and creative writer, Wong has spent his career helping China ecologically by looking ahead before disaster strikes. His promising background led him to a job at National Geographic, and leading a group in 1985-86 from the worldrenowned environmental conservation organization to the Yangtze River, China’s largest river.

Wong described the team’s voyage through the often muddy and swampy terrain of China. They traveled by horse and car and slept in tents, he said and showed in pictures. They also used yaks to carry their equipment.

As Wong explained, he and his team succeeded in discovering a newfound source of water from a melting glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, which flows into the Yangtze River. And in tradition with all river expeditions, Wong further explained, he had to drink from this new, cold source.

“When drinking water, think about the source,” Wong said, quoting a Chinese proverb.

Wong said that as time went on and as technology improved, radar

from space allowed photographs to be taken of Earth’s surface and the what lies below it. This very satellite-driven technology, claimed Dr. Wong, led to the discovery of the lost city of Utrar—a city located on the ancient Silk Road—as well as some of the thousands of planes that were lost in the Himalayas during World War II. Dr. Wong expressed that with new technology at hand, he realized that he needed to reconsider his research on the Yangtze.

“I found out that 20 years ago I made a grave mistake,” Wong said.

Describing his return trip to the Yangtze, Wong assembled an even larger and more prepared team—both cognitively and technologically—that was able to find a new water source.

In subsequent expeditions, said Wong, he and his team pinpointed water sources for the Mekong and Yellow Rivers.

“The water … it’s not very yellow,” Wong said. “But I drank from it.”

By exploring China’s geography, Wong recalled how this naturally

brought him to studying and researching the animals there. One of those species, said Wong, was the Tibetan antelope. The problem, Wong noticed, was that poachers were killing Tibetan antelopes for clothing.

“A research project quickly turned into a conservation project,” Wong said.

To turn the tide, Wong explained, he and his conservation team had to change the market and the desire for shahtoosh, a specific kind of wool. To do so, they had to change the image of shahtoosh— and they did so successfully.

Wong described similar conservation efforts to protect endangered black-necked cranes in the Tibetan plateau. He also aided in rebuilding and preserving houses in villages that were being dismantled.

Although China has improved throughout the past four decades, Wong admitted, he would not allow this to stop his work from progressing onward and outward.

“Our work is still relevant as we expand out of China,” Wong said.

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PHOTOS BY OATH CRAFT PIZZA

Using the popularity of its advanced oven technology and innovative recipe for crust, Oath Craft Pizza plans to expanded across Boston, beginning with South Station and its most recent Chestnut Hill Square location.

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Oath Craft Pizza, which opened March 18, offers the Chestnut Hill community artisanal pizzas prepared at an almost-unbelievable speed of 90 seconds—a feat that showcases a delicate balance between a rapid demand and an attention to detail that is difficult to accomplish in the modern world.

But this business did not grow overnight—it was carefully honed and developed by co-founders Doug Ferriman and Max Seel over the past couple of years.

After competing in the annual National Pizza Show in Las Vegas, Ferriman won an award for his pizza, and a nomination for the following international championship that took place in 2014.

As a representative for the United

States, Ferriman’s self-invented crust won the award for Best Unique Product, and he began exploring how to turn his concept into a brand and product.

As time progressed, the concept gained solidity, and Oath was eventually able to open its first location in Nantucket in May 2015.

Although the Nantucket location is seasonal (it will reopen this coming May for the summer), its success allowed Oath to expand into the Boston area, first in South Station, and now in Chestnut Hill.

Each location showcases the Oath menu of artisanal pizzas, which ranges from more traditional selections, such as the tomato and mozzarella-based “Bella,” to more adventurous flavors like the “Spicy Mother-Clucker,” which features Sriracha chicken, rose-pickled onion, and Oath special sauce, and the “Luau,” which includes Maui BBQ pulled pork and pineapple atop mozzarella and scallions.

Th e m e nu a l s o i n c l u d e s “ Th e Selfie,” which is a make-it-yourself pizza that permits customers to create

whatever pizza they desire.

Craft sodas and dessert pizzas, like the “Triple Chocolate Cookie” pizza are also available.

Oath’s unique crust, along with its delicate flavors and carefully selected ingredients, set Oath apart from the

“When you look at and taste the crust ... it [has] a whole different flavor profile, a whole different texture.”

—Rick Wolf, President and COO of Oath Craft Pizza

area’s recent crop of fast-pizza businesses.

Ferriman developed this innovative

crust over the years while working with oven companies to develop the technology needed to cook pizzas in 90 seconds. “[The crust is made through] a unique process that no one else does,” Rick Wolf, President and COO of Oath Craft Pizza, said. “When you look at and taste the crust, you can see that one side it’s grilled and on the other side it’s an infusion of olive oil, so it gives a whole different flavor profile, a whole different texture.

“When you bite into the crust, most people find that it’s light, it’s crunchy, it’s got that unique flavor profile,” he said. “You know how many times you get pizza and it flops? Well this one doesn’t flop. [That’s] one of the unique parts about the crust, but it’s really about the flavor profile.”

Oath’s quick success is not only due to its careful attention to quality flavors and efficient production, but also to the founders’ commitment to fostering a close-knit community around their store and emerging brand.

Wolf notes that Oath values engagement and hospitality just as much

as creating excellent pizza. Staff members are chosen not only for their past experience working in a restaurant and their ability to cook a pizza, but also for their superior people skills and driven personality, according to Wolf.

Given its recent success, the coming months will hold exponential growth for the Oath brand both locally and on national level.

With a goal of expanding to eight restaurants in the Boston area, Oath looks to continue growing while maintaining a commitment to each community that it become a part of.

“I think that’s a big thing we’re looking at, not only growing the company, but more importantly, how do we create careers and opportunities for people [while] being involved in the communities?” Wolf said.

“How do we give back to the communities we live in, because every community is a little different, Chestnut Hill is different from Davidson Square, so how can we get involved in those communities and make a difference?”

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Founders Harrison Bert (left) and Michael Bertman (right) launched Add Me on Wednesday.

9P B<8KFE 9<8DJ ?\`^_kj JkX]] Emerging into a ruthless world of ambitious startup companies, this Monday, Add Me, an innovative social media application co-founded by Harrison Bert, CSOM ’19, launched yesterday on the app store.

This new app aims to centralize all social media accounts and contact information of its users under one simple interface, allowing them to connect to others quickly by scanning a barcode through the app, similar to the follow feature on the Snapchat app.

“Add Me is an app that tries to simplify making social media connections,”

Bert said.

He first came up with the idea behind Add Me with his fellow co-founder Max Bertman, who goes to the University of Miami, late in his senior year of high school.

When he began to contemplate the daunting task of developing the app, he spent the next few months, along with Bertman, collaborating with hired coders and industry experts to develop a way to simplify this process.

“In the first few weeks of college, when you meet like a million new people, it is impossible to really develop relationships with everyone you want to,” Bert said.

“A large part of this, I believe, is that we lose people in the rush of introductions— these brief moments of interaction don’t allow for genuine communication, he said.” “Add Me solves this issue by empowering users with the ability to exchange all their information with a single click.”

Although there are existing apps that attempt to address the same issue of centralizing all social media accounts into one, Bert said that Add Me is innovative in its approach, with its barcode scanning system that allows for the easy transfer of contact info.

Bert and Bertman do not claim to be

creating a market and acknowledge that one already exists.

Keeping in mind those apps that already exist, they can then learn from the mistakes others have made and in turn improve their own product to better meet the needs of users, they said.

While this inexperience is plentiful, as both co-founders are only 19 and neither has any prior experience coding or developing technology applications, Bert said that the success of Add Me has and will continue to rely on its founders’ aptitude for learning “on-the-go” and commitment to their company.

“The road here has been paved with speed bumps and [we] have braced ourselves for these bumps to grow into hills and mountains,” Bert said. “This is what we signed up for when we set out on this path.”

With the plethora of Boston-based venture capital firms—such as General Catalyst, Openview, Charles River Venture, and many more—eager for local startups with high potential, particularly social media applications.

A major step for Add Me is becoming an attractive prospect for investment—to, as Bertman put it, hammer away at the surface of the idea so that its potential can be seen through the cracks.

Bert and Bertman plan to spend the summer working on the tedious and testing process of finding investors.

“We are hoping that we really catch the next wave of incoming college students and this propels us into all of college social culture and that this, in turn, propels us into the lives of the everyday people we made this app for,” Bertman said.

The two co-founders are currently venturing into the world of coding along with their brainchild, attempting to develop the technical familiarity and knowledge they will need to continue to steer their company.

The fate of Add Me will be determined in the next few months. Now that the app is available for download, it must improve and expand in the face of inevitable issues.

According to Bertman, the current app is still “raw,” but it’s still the only application out there that does what it does the way it does it.

“It’s what people will appreciate when they download it right now and it’s what they will appreciate when they download it years from now,” he said. “The rest—the logo and the interface design—are just staging the principle service we are offering.”

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The new chairperson will aim to continue the success enjoyed by the Regatta during recent years under the previous administration, incluiding expanding the participants involved.

By Keaton Beams Heights Staff The Head of The Charles Regatta (HOCR) recently announced that its board of directors has elected Kathy Kirk as the new chairman of the Regatta.

Kirk previously served as the managing director of the HOCR since 2008 and succeeds Edward Smith, who has served as chairman of the board since 1987, and has established himself as an integral figure in the success of the Regatta.

Kirk takes the helm of the Head of The Charles as it prepares for its 52nd annual race, which is set to take place later this year on Oct. 22 and 23.

According to the Regatta administration, it attracts close to 11,000 competitors and more than 400,000 spectators annually, and expects to expand upon those numbers in this year’s event.

In its 51 years of operation, the Head of The Charles has become the

largest two-day rowing competition in the world and a cornerstone of the greater Boston community.

The appointment of Kirk as chairman marks what Fred Schoch, the executive director of the Regatta, called a “timely and exciting move” for the HOCR in a press release.

“I’m glad that the people behind the Regatta are passionate about it and that there is good leadership there,” Sean McOwen, CSOM ‘17. “I never really think of the people behind the scenes that make the Head of The Charles possible, but the success of the event really shows the level of their commitment, and I think it’s fair to say that it has become one of the greatest treasures of Boston.”

Along with her experience with the HOCR, Kirk also brings a passion for rowing cultivated during her career as a rower, including her time as a member of the Radcliffe lightweight crew team.

A long-time participant in the HOCR, Kirk graduated from Harvard

College in 1980 with an A.B. magna cum laude and then from Harvard Business School in 1984.

After 25 years of leadership, including 19 years as chairman of the board, Smith, Kirk’s predecessor, was honored for his hard work and dedication with a trophy in his name at the HOCR’s 50th anniversary last year.

The statement released by the Regatta earlier this month said that Smith “will continue to serve in an ex-officio role with the Head of The Charles.”

This year, however, Kirk will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of two new events and the expansion of the para-rowing events, which the HOCR announced in a statement released last week.

The two new events to be featured in this year’s regatta are the youth quad with coxswain and the Directors’ Challenge Mixed Eight.

“The youth events are among the fastest growing and most competitive events at the Regatta,” Schoch said in the press release. “These rowers and

scullers represent the future of the sport and the Head Of The Charles Regatta provides a wonderful opportunity for them to compete on the same stage as the top collegiate athletes, national team members, and current Olympians.”

Praising the recent expansion of the para-rowing events, Ellen Minzner, director of outreach for Community Rowing, Inc., and a U.S. paralympic coach, said in the same HOCR announcement that she is excited to see the Inclusion events move to medal status.

She said this inclusion would increase opportunities for high school and collegiate teams that will have significant long-term impact on rowing and paralympic teams.

The Directors’ Challenge Mixed Eight, while not new to the Regatta, will return after being discontinued 35 years ago. It will replace the Mixed Quad event. These additions bring the total number of events in HOCR up to 62.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (above) spoke to a packed audience during the NBSE convention and discussed the need for diversity in tech companies.

By Drew Hoo Heights Editor Twitter co-founder and current CEO Jack Dorsey spoke to a packed audience during the National Society of Black Engineers’ (NSBE) 42nd annual convention, “Engineering A Cultural Change,” in Boston on March 25.

After being re-appointed as permanent CEO last October, he discussed Twitter’s mission to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers and the role of technology as a tool for increasing the connectivity among people and communities.

The conference took place from March 23 through 27 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Other than Dorsey, the NSBE had many other speakers scheduled, including Pratt & Whitney Vice President of Engineering Thomas W. Prete, The Game actor Jay Ellis, Johnson Controls Director of U.S. Manufacturing Operations Larry Boswell and Air Force Maj. Gen. Stayce D. Harris.

In addition to speakers, distinguished guests at the convention included Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09.

“As members of the National Society of Black Engineers, we pride ourselves on our academic accomplishments and our efforts to increase the number of black engineers,” One Fiyah, board member of the NSBE planning committee, said in a press release. “The goal of the Convention Planning Committee this year is to support this vital work by presenting an event that will invigorate your spirits and energize your minds.”

The convention as a whole was geared toward preparing the next generation of black engineers and showing how diversity can be conducive to growth and ensuring that future generations of engineers is committed to making it happen.

“You just realize that it’s only people I know [in the company], instead of people who are really going to add a new dimension to my work,” Dorsey said during his speech. “That’s the natural

bias—first you acknowledge it, then you change it.”

One of the convention’s many goals is to showcase the talent at hand. It hosted several competitions, like the Collegiate Flight Competition sponsored by Boeing, which pitted teams of four against each other to design gliders made of balsa wood. Entries were judged based upon longest distance flown and best design.

The four-day convention also hosted four workshop tracks which focused on opportunities to positively impact the community, to understand corporate cultures, make strategies to excel academically, to cultivate leadership skills, and to understand the benefits of being a STEM professional.

The 19th annual NSBE Golden Torch Awards were also given out to talented high school seniors. The awards aim to recognize individuals and organizations that exemplify NSBE’s ideals of academic excellence, professional success, and dedication to the advancement of the black community, and have provided millions of dollars

in scholarships.

“It’s great to see the CEO of such an iconic company show a commitment to diversity,” Cameron Lunt, MCAS ‘17 said. “He’s right in saying that a team is most creative when it has a variety of inputs … I’m interested to see how Twitter and Square will act on these feelings and make changes in the makeup of their companies.” (Disclaimer: Lunt will be working for Twitter this summer).

Landing the chief executive of one of the largest tech firms in the country as the keynote speaker for the convention was a big step in advancing NSBE’s cause.

As a company, Twitter has been promoting diversity and inclusion among its employees. Since 2014, the company has been releasing the demographic makeup of the company, and has set target numbers for 2016.

“Beyond just disclosing our workforce representation statistics, we have also publicly disclosed our representation goals for women and underrepresented minorities for 2016, making us the largest tech company to put hard numbers around its diversity commitment,” Natalie Miyake, Twitter spokesperson, said to NPR. Yet Twitter, like many other tech companies has faced criticism for its’ lack of inclusion. From 2014 to 2015, Twitter’s leadership team went from 2 percent other, 2 percent black or African-American, 24 percent Asian, and 72 percent white to 28 percent Asian and 72 percent white.

“The only way we’re going to be creative is if we have perspective from all over,” Dorsey said.

According to former Twitter VP Leslie Miley, there exists a “pipeline problem” for leadership, citing lack of opportunities. He praised the return of Dorsey as having the potential to change the diversity trajectory for Twitter.

“It is my belief that Jack understands the use case of Twitter better than anyone else, understands how diversity can be additive to growth, and is committed to making that happen,” Miley said to Medium.

Few times in our lives do we get the chance to be truly transported to an era of old and feel perfectly in place. As I walked into the theater, popcorn in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other (yes, coffee in a theater, I have a problem, ok?), the whole setting opened up in front of me as if I had just stepped into the 1910s. Seats were all filled. Everyone at the Coolidge Corner Theater was there for the same thing, a special presentation of the silent film, The Sounds of Silents.

Silent movies saw their heyday in the late 1910s and early 1920s, before the time when the technology to set a soundtrack for moving pictures existed.

In that time, actors like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Roscoe Arbuckle became the predecessors of today’s A-listers. Chaplin in particular had enough pull at the box office that the mention of his name alone would sell out a theater.

The Sounds of Silents did more than pay tribute to these stars of old and entertain an audience for a few hours—movies like these brought viewers into a golden age of comedy when the actors could spark laughter with nothing more than their facial expressions or peculiar actions. Moreover, the theater brought the films to life by performing live compositions, courtesy of the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra.

The three movies on display seemed to fly by due to their incessant stream of good-natured humor that, when combined with new compositions from the orchestra, created an atmosphere in which nothing beyond the walls of the room I was sitting in mattered. I felt as though if I got up, I could just walk into the film and sit on one of the rides at Coney Island.

The fact that something like this exists in the city is a testament to the Theater’s desire and drive to display the great features of a time long past, almost as a tangible time capsule, and show the new generations not only how individuals lived but also how they spent their leisure time.

The Coolidge Corner Theater is one of the few places in the city where individuals can go and experience, not see, history.

In such a historically relevant city, I wish a larger variety of establishments like this one existed.

Coming to the area as a college student having lived in places that greatly differ from Boston, I have tried to take all that the city has to offer, and being able to wander into a different century definitely ranks high on that list.

But as the city constantly modernizes, it faces the danger of losing that which makes it such an attractive and significant destination: its character. Brownstones are being replaced with high-rise apartments, office buildings, and subway stations are being remodeled. But Boston must not lose sight of what it is: the cauldron of liberty during the colonial period, and the catalyst of progress due to its countless universities.

That being said, I am not against development and progress, just one that plays homage to what the city is supposed to be. One prime example of this was the decision made by the Red Sox in 2003 to renovate rather than replace Fenway Park.

To lose such an iconic feature of the city would have been catastrophic.

Through all this, a much-maligned feature of Boston serves as much as a reminder of the “old” Boston, the T. It’s the rolling anachronism of the subway system that, given its downfalls, still provides the city that “It” factor it still desperately needs and deserves.

Looking back on the first time I visited Boston, the T was the feature that stood out to me the most since I had never seen anything like that before. I hope that in the future, visitors are still able to come away with similar feelings about the uniqueness of the city and are able to experience history in the same way that I have been able to in my time here.

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J`dfej Xe[ DZ:X]]i\p ]fi L>9: Gi\j`[\ek# <MG The 2016 Undergraduate Government of Boston College election season has stretched on nearly six weeks past its expected end date. In this time, the BC community has seen the pool shrink from three teams to one, and then, when the election was reopened, grow again to six and then shrink to three teams—one of which includes the former campaign manager of a team that previously dropped out. The ups and downs of this election cycle for the highest student government office have created an atmosphere of uncertainty, but all three of the teams that made it past last week’s primary have already proven themselves electable by the student body. Each of those teams has policy proposals that the student body cares about. But one team in particular has demonstrated its commitment to UGBC, as well as its support of reasonable, long-term policy changes.

The Heights endorses Russell Simons and Meredith McCaffrey, both MCAS ’17, for president and executive vice president of UGBC. Their platform presents the most realistic and well-rounded approach to the challenges facing UGBC in the upcoming year, which range from an uncooperative administration to a student body that can be fractured. By focusing on concrete and achievable issues that span a wide range of topics while also presenting long-term policy plans, they would enter the executive positions with the greatest potential for success.

Simons, the current vice president of student organizations, and McCaffrey, a senator in the Student Assembly, have a breadth of UGBC experience. McCaffrey was originally slated to run with Olivia Hussey, current UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17. Although Hussey has since opted out of the race, McCaffrey’s close ties with her makes her privy to the long-term plans that were a basis of Hussey’s platform with Thomas Napoli, current UGBC president and MCAS ’16.

Furthermore, delay in this year’s election means that the winning team has a much shorter period to learn from their predecessors. Simons and McCaffrey have demonstrated an ability to work with the student government, and would be less hampered by the truncated adjustment period. And, their previous connections within the administration mean that they will be able to spend their term having constructive conversations, rather than getting to know top administrators.

The platform presented by Simons and McCaffrey approaches every presidential responsibility realistically while also putting forward ideas that would promote concrete change, both in the short and long-term, such as creating a conduct audit feature on Agora Portal and advocating for increased AHANA presence in the faculty.

Their platform also avoids over-focusing on one issue, which would risk a wider platform failure if this one policy did not succeed. By having expertise in the many areas of UGBC and spreading their policies to encompass these, they present the best possible platform for enacting change and engaging in productive discussion with the administration. UGBC relies heavily on the administration—even if a policy passes in UGBC’s Student Assembly, nothing will change for the student body unless approved by the administration. When this doesn’t work, UGBC must find new and innovative ways to present ideas when the administration is unresponsive. Simons and McCaffrey have demonstrated an ability to work within these channels in their work on the incubation phase project and student guide proposal. Yet, they have also learned from the failure of many parts of the free speech proposal, and know that creative methods are often necessary.

Both the teams of Matthew Ulrich, MCAS ’17, and John Miotti, MCAS ’17, and Nikita Patel, CSOM ’17, and Joseph Arquillo, LSOE ’17, present important issues

not addressed by Simons and McCaffrey.

Ulrich and Miotti’s campaign focuses on enhancing the daily BC student experience by providing more student-focused events, like pep rallies, and encouraging attendance at athletic facilities. This would be an important step in unifying the BC community and establishing BC among its peers such as Villanova and Notre Dame, and the team deserves praise for this push to make BC more enthusiastic. But these programming proposals are largely the responsibility of the Campus Activities Board. Since its split from the programming division, UGBC primarily exists to draft policy and promote advocacy, while CAB exists to put on events and promote successful events, like rallies and talks. The Ulrich-Miotti platform relies heavily on these events and does not reflect an understanding of UGBC’s new role as an advocacy body, meant to pioneer longterm change.

Regardless of the election’s outcome, the ideas these teams present still remain promising and should be taken into consideration by groups such as CAB and UGBC. Working with BC Athletics to bring these proposals to reality could bring about serious and long-lasting change to student life at BC. As outsiders, they provide a fresh perspective that reflects the non-UGBC student body. The next UGBC leadership, as well as CAB leadership, ought to take their underlying ideas about promoting events into serious consideration.

Further, one of the most important parts of the Patel and Arquillo platform is the section about financial aid. The ideas presented in this section are relevant to every student and should be addressed by the next UGBC Cabinet. Ideas like sending out more frequent aid deadline reminders, creating a simple financial aid guide, and providing a financial aid open house are strong policies that should be considered.

But overall, the platform presented by Patel and Arquillo would be diffi cult to accomplish, due to a lack of realistic intermediate plans to enact their eventual goals. Although the color coding of the platform reflects an understanding of the degrees of difficulty they would face, the team does not present a well-thought-out plan to accomplish its goals, particularly those that seem more difficult, such as making “Backgrounds” a one-credit course.

Furthermore, the Patel and Arquillo team does not demonstrate the same level of communication effectiveness that Simons and McCaffrey have shown, due to previous commitments to other organizations and a lack of experience with UGBC. Patel and Arquillo have several good ideas that focus on marginalized communities, but they lack day-to-day plans that would enhance student life as a whole.

Simons and McCaffrey are UGBC insiders. In this role, they could potentially become stuck in the same, inefficient routine that UGBC is known for among students.

Despite promising ideas, they could find themselves mired in the administrative backlog that has made past UGBC administrations ineffective. They will need to actively step outside the UGBC bubble to see what the student body wants and needs.

Their ability to think creatively as well as their proposed survey of the student body should push them to enact proposals that reflect the needs of BC students. Moreover, their clear passion for UGBC—marked by the detailed platform created in the short time after the race was re-opened—indicates their devotion to positive change.

While the other teams present relevant ideas that should be considered, the Simons and McCaffrey team has the most potential to enact concrete change and solidify UGBC’s role as an advocacy body, meant to represent all students. By expanding their ideas to every responsibility of the board, while also presenting concrete ways to make these ideas a reality, we believe they are the best option for UGBC’s future.

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

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

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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. ” -Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves

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His voice sounds like a mix between a grizzly bear and a harp. While weaving in and out of traffic, he imparted words of true and undying wisdom upon you.

“When you’re young you always want muffins,” he said. “But when you grow old the muffins want you.” GASP! He might be on drugs, but he also might be our generation’s Socrates. After you get out of the car, you stand on the curb and watch as this enigmatic man of mysterious origins and inexplicable circumstances floats away.

NO LINE FOR OMELETS - In the wee small hours of the morning (9:27 a.m.) you walk into Lower. Expecting a line that stretches to Kathmandu, you head for the Egg McBCs, but then you see something miraculous, something unbelievable. No line. Not a single person.

Lifting both hands high above your head in victory, you jog over to the counter and order up a fine omelet filled to the brim with artery-clogging meats.

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS - There’s nothing more satisfying than ultra-productivity. Except for maybe a meaningful relationship or some lasting happiness.

But when we crank out papers, slaying our work like a mythic monster, there’s no feeling quite as salubrious.

PURPOSELY USING A FANCY WORD YOU DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF SO THAT YOU CAN SELF-AWARELY COMMENT ON IT LATER AND THEN LOOKING UP THE WORD AND REALIZING THAT IT ACTUALLY KIND OF WORKS IN CONTEXT, ALBEIT IN A ROUNDABOUT SORT OF WAY - Totally relatable feeling, right?

America has a problem, and it goes by the name of Donald J. Trump. It masquerades as a brash anti-establishment businessman from New York, but that is merely a surface act. It was born in the halls and offices of Washington, D.C., raised on the couches of the Koch brothers, and refined at the dinner tables of Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer. It is not a single dangerous man running in a single crucial election, though many people would prefer to believe it is. Rather, it is a deep systemic flaw by which millions of Americans have come to feel written off by their representative government, left behind by a wave of economic development that brought fierce growth to some regions and total stagnation to others, and wronged by the constitutional mechanisms that they thought were in place to protect them from such a situation.

Into this perfect storm of economic disappointment, political disapproval, and intervention of big money has stepped Trump himself, the figurehead of the movement and the nightmare of the establishment. He leads the Republican primary race by miles, offering disillusioned Americans exactly what they think they want. This is, of course, a classic political maneuver, and Trump is a classic sly politician—weaving a brazen web of economic illusions, refreshingly frank speech, and populist propaganda.

Trump’s policies sound ideal to the agitated working-class voter, despite the fact that they are based on dated economic assumptions barely reflective of reality.

He has catered to a harsh nativism that many assumed died with the last century, or at least was buried so deep under layers of political correctness and educated decency that it would never again be such a relevant political enterprise. He caught the establishment by surprise.

As a result of this, questions surrounding the Trump campaign thus far have mainly asked, with a certain amount of

APRIL FOOLS - This is a day of constant fear and unlimited paranoia.

In a world already filled with both of these things, this overload is crushingly painful. You wake up in the morning, already panting like a sick dog and soaked in sweat. They’re coming for you. The mole-men, the pranksters, the fooling foolers with their foolery. What will it be? A “kick me” sign on your back? Itching powder? Hand sanitizer down the back of your pants? What if they already got to you? What if it’s all just one big prank? You curl up in a small ball on your bed, unable to cope with the fools, be they April or not.

Eventually you rise from your bed, shaking like a decapitated chicken, and wander out into the world.

Slapping the first person you see across the face, you scream, “APRIL FOOLS! I GOT YOU FIRST! I GOT YOU FIRST! YOU’LL NEVER FOOL ME!” Sprinting across campus, you laugh maniacally, tears streaming down your face.

has become disproportionately representative of its elites. An enormous portion of Trump’s allure is that he is an outsider, supposedly beholden to no donors, lobbyists, or political precedents. In line with this, his supporters clamor for policies that seem to, on the surface, increase the economic well-being of the entire income spectrum, not just the donor class.

Trump’s proposed methods for achieving this may be entirely impractical, but they may not be unjustified in their intent. In addition to this, and on a more general, idealistic level, Trump’s supporters want to be able to elect representatives accountable for everyone’s well-being, not just the well-being of the most generous campaign contributors. To Trump’s supporters, America has failed as a true republic, slipping instead into something of a moneyed oligarchy, and there they may not be wrong.

To be clear, a Trump presidency would be a disaster for America, a country that, despite the suggestion of phrases like “Make America Great Again,” is an unmatched military and economic power, and the designated leader of the free world. But the political sentiment that makes his presidency even somewhat plausible will not just disappear with his defeat in a national election. It will resurface over and over in elections, from the local level up, until it is remedied.

Change needs to come from the top, with the admission of Republican leaders that their party is out of touch with the interests of its voters. They need a comprehensive strategy for reestablishing trust with their base. If they play the situation with adequate sincerity and appropriate action, they may be able to salvage their party without handing over power to Trump, and they may even find that the crude nativism of this election is only a trendy appendage to the economic disillusionment of his supporters.

Trump does not just need to be defeated in this election. Rather, he is the personification of a deep political malaise in America that needs to be understood and fixed.

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But you can’t, because the freaking light across from you keeps blinking, reminding you of the 17 months you spent working in an underground casino with bad electricity. It’s too much.

Strobe lights are for extremely regretful and slightly pathetic Saturday nights, not Monday afternoons. This must be fixed. No man can suffer this slight inconvenience any longer.

incredulity, “How is he winning?” The question that should be asked, instead, is “Why is he winning?”

The job of political pundits, party elites, and media figures should no longer be Trump-bashing—instead, they must begin the grand project of Trumpunderstanding.

There is a large section of the population demanding the change he stands for, and they cannot, rather, they should not, be ignored.

Not to shy away from reality—Trump is an utterly unqualified candidate whose fantastical economic policies, infantile approach to foreign relations, reactionary xenophobia, and vulgar mannerisms would do unequivocal harm to America if he were to be elected president—but the time for turning disdainfully to Trump supporters and asking them how they can possibly bring themselves to vote for him, a common reaction to his success by his ground-level opposition, is long past. The time for loudly deeming him a morally unacceptable candidate and bemoaning the state of the American political conscience is also over.

It is time, instead, to recognize the fact that Trump has won broadly across the country, especially within the white working class, the demographic backbone of the Republican Party for the last halfcentury. The size of Trump’s support base has swelled to a degree that can no longer be dismissed as politically irrelevant, morally misled, or intellectually inferior.

Perhaps, in certain circles of righteous indignation, the latter two designations will still be tossed around, but the first is empirically undeniable.

Trump’s supporters deserve answers.

This is in no way a suggestion that we even consider barring Muslims from the United States, building a wall on the southern border, attempting to close the trade deficit, or shredding the Iran nuclear deal. It is, however, a suggestion that we evaluate the political and economic circumstances that are weighing so heavily on the working class that it has turned away from the establishment and toward a candidate as wildly unorthodox and internationally toxic as Trump.

For a start, the establishment can begin by recognizing that the Republican Party

Earlier this month, a high school basketball playoff between Catholic Memorial (CM) and Newton North High School drew national attention— not for any outrageous buzzer-beater or display of athleticism, but for the offensive chants that were exchanged between student sections. Before tipoff, Newton North was shouting things like, “Where are your girls?” and “Sausage fest” at CM, an all-boys Catholic school. The boys responded, now infamously, by jeering back “You killed Jesus” to the student section of a school with a sizeable Jewish population.

There’s no defending CM’s chant or lessening the offense to any Jewish attendees at Newton North. As a graduate of Boston College High School, which holds CM as our traditional rival, I have no love for the boys in West Roxbury. In fact, the last time I thought twice about them was walking out of Fenway after a win in the annual Thanksgiving football game. With “For Boston” playing over the loudspeakers and surrounded by the dejected faces of CM supporters, I couldn’t have been happier. So, for the first few days after this scandal, I was happy to let them reap what they had sewn and leave them out to dry.

But media coverage only intensified, as did the school’s administrative response. Despite beating Newton North, CM banned its students from attending the semifinals at TD Garden.

I began to question the overwhelming attention this debacle was receiving.

The CM student section’s behavior had been reprehensible, no doubt, and I was not pleased with the way it had represented Catholic schools. But in every

single article I read or report I heard, Newton North’s role in the chanting was continually minimized. To retain journalistic integrity, its initial jeers at CM’s all-male population made it into most stories but almost unilaterally as an aside.

The ban left student-athletes who had sacrificed for their school and community throughout the entire season now deprived of the support that had sustained them, thanks to the actions of a small part of the overall student body.

I can’t fully blame the administration, because it needed to make a public gesture of disciplining its students, and its actions were positively received by the Boston branch of the Anti-Defamation League. But let’s stop and ask ourselves what message we send by overwhelmingly focusing on the biggest stone

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Newton North received only incidental, negative attention for its student section’s chants. But these chants were gender-discriminatory at best and homophobic at worst. As an alumnus of an all-male Catholic high school, I can tell you that I have seen and heard worse. I know where those chants go.

“BC High, BC low, that’s where all the gay kids go,” was a favorite of our co-ed, public rivals. Even Newton’s superintendent admitted, “Sometimes our kids can say crude things at sporting events.” Considering what Newton North students said that night, it is clear they should not have gotten off

scot-free. It sets a dangerous precedent that you can start whatever fights you want and avoid any repercussions as long as the other party hits harder. It sets a precedent that religiously charged insults are somehow more offensive than insults aimed at gender and sexual orientation, and that they should be punished as such.

Is there an absolute line? If so, we need national coverage for the next BC-BU hockey game when accusations of being a “Sunday school” inevitably fly toward our own fan section. But if there is to be a line, then how do we police and prioritize it? The lack of culpability and responsibility on the part of Newton North tells me that religious insults matter more than those targeting gender and sexual orientation. Do we sap support from athletes for actions in which they had no part in order to enforce it? Remember that this was before the ball had even been tipped and the chants were strictly between student sections. Though offensive, this event is a far cry from the discriminatory strife of half a century ago in athletics.

I would never deny that the perpetrators of this chant should have been punished and forced to apologize. CM officials at the game ensured that every student personally shook hands with and apologized to the principal. But Newton North never had to apologize for its chants because newspapers have labeled them as “joking.”

Nearly every community leader that commented on this event has called for it to be an opportunity for dialogue and growth, but there seems to be a monumental lack of concern for combating insults like the ones that were flung at Catholic Memorial that night. With this apparent lack of concern, we risk reinforcing an already-murky line between what is and isn’t too offensive.

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Mindfulness classes have finally made their way to Boston College’s campus, and all students need to be practicing these techniques. Seniors are stressed about securing job positions and moving away from their friends and family. Underclassmen are worried about finding internships for the summer. Everyone wants to do well on final projects, papers, and exams, while still having fun social lives. Balancing all these responsibilities and activities can be overwhelming.

The best way to cope with all the craziness?

Mindfulness.

The practice of mindfulness stems from meditation. These two methods are similar, but mindfulness involves learning to get out of our heads, while meditation exercises strengthen the brain muscles to help us do so. The goal of mindfulness is to be truly present in current situations, something college students can especially benefit from.

Students are always on their phones and laptops, making it hard to connect with others and pay attention to surroundings. Mindfulness can help students be more present and focused in class, job interviews, and while working on assignments.

Elizabeth Cronin of Brookline, Mass. teaches a course on mindfulness and offers a different lesson each week. Her lessons include mindful eating, mindful listening, body scans, and breathing exercises. Most mindfulness classes follow similar lessons so participants can all reach their desired goals.

You might think college students are so busy that they don’t have time to improve their listening skills, eating habits, and breathing. But a lack of time makes mindfulness an even more important skill. College students are ideal candidates for these classes because they’ve reached an advanced maturity level, allowing them to appreciate alternative ways of thinking. They’ve left their family homes on their own and must learn to cope with their problems and succeed.

College freshmen come into school to find new friends, professors, dining halls, and assignments. Many students adapt well to the changes, but challenges arise throughout the four years of college, showing that all grade levels should be practicing mindfulness.

Mindful eating helps participants focus on what they’re eating and notice when they’re full. This a great tool for college students who often eat on the go, in dining halls, and in restaurants that are full of distractions. This mindfulness practice helps students maintain a healthy weight and enjoy their food more.

Mindful listening teaches participants to focus on their conversations and the people with whom they’re speaking. This technique would help college students during interviews, when they need to be attentive to their interviewers. Classes, lectures, and everyday conversations also provide perfect opportunities to use this technique and practice holding better attention. Breathing exercises, another lesson in mindfulness, help practitioners relax and feel in control of their bodies, something over-stressed college students could definitely benefit from. These methods are all intertwined, making them even more vital. For example, healthy eating leads to less stress and better focus. Mindfulness helps create well-rounded people.

The benefits of mindfulness include decreased stress, stronger focus, better productivity, and an increased ability to be present, making it one of the best psychological practices for a college student. It’s therapeutic and helps students accept their current worries. For example, if their thoughts start wandering to job applications during class, it’s important to bring the thoughts back to the current activity, in order to maintain focus and perform well. Mindfulness means learning how to seriously pay attention to what’s happening in the moment. If any distractions arise, it’s important to come back to the present without feeling angry for straying. College students feel immense pressure to succeed and to do it quickly. Learning how to understand and accept these feelings leads to greater relaxation through mindfulness.

Mindfulness takes practice and positivity, but the results are worth it. There are constant interruptions in life. The goal of mindfulness, however, is not to stop being distracted but to learn how to gently and efficiently bring thoughts back to the present, an important skill for college students, and for everyone.

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On Wednesday morning, Boston University authorities reported that the body of a young male was discovered on the rooftop of Kilachand Hall, a BU dorm, at approximately 9 a.m. According to BU Today, the body was later identified as that of a a freshman male,

who was currently enrolled at BU. The identity of the student will be withheld from the public until the family releases the information.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said the student did not live in the dorm.

He referred other questions about the death to BPD, saying it was the primary investigative agency, according to The Boston Globe.

Although the death is under inves-

tigation by the Boston Police Department, Boston.com reports that it is not being treated as suspicious.

The BPD media relations department confirmed that it is investigating the matter. “[The death is] currently being treated as a suicide, so we will not be releasing any further information,” a representative from BPD said.

In an email sent to the BU com-

munity, President Robert A. Brown informed the community of the situation and said that the university was working closely with the relevant public authorities. Brown also announced that counseling ser vices would be available to any individual in need of assistance.

“We strongly encourage people to turn to our experienced counseling and pastoral staff,” Brown said.

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of the UCS resources by the BC community,” Craig Burns, interim director of UCS, said in an email. “Our mission at UCS focuses on reducing mental health barriers to student success.”

Burns will be in charge of the hiring process of the new psychologist, while the postdoctoral fellow will be determined through a national process in which the fellows look at schools of their interest, while they interview those interested in BC and then a matching process takes place. The postdoctoral positions are also one-year positions, and will change each year.

The position for the postdoctoral fellow came as a result of an anonymous donation, which granted the position for a four- to fiveyear time period starting in the fall, while the position for the psychologist is permanent and was derived from the extraordinary budget process from the Board of Trustees.

“It’s not every year that you get a position approved and so it’s pretty exciting when it does happen,” Jones said, adding her hopefulness for the expansion of the department.

“We think the two new positions will allow us when we’re at our peak time and students are at their peak stress to get students in more quickly and provide services that we’re already providing but in a way that gives the students more opportunities.”

Last year revealed a 25-percent increase in student demand for UCS over the previous three years, pushing usage of UCS to over 20 percent of BC students. As a result of the increase in the number of students UCS has seen for initial intake appointments, follow-up appointments, and emergency appointments this year, the department has had to work on meeting the needs of students and engaging students in new ways, Burns said in the email. Burns explained that this flexibility has included the implementation of focus groups for first-generation college students

at BC, collaborations with the Undergraduate Government of Boston College to spread awareness of mental health issues and of the resources available on campus, work with the Office of Health Promotion to support it in offering skills for managing anxiety, and continued work from UCS’ Diversity Committee to understand and meet the needs of the full range of students on campus.

Despite the new tactics, Burns said that UCS still made a request for increased staff, which was supported and officially requested by the Board of Trustees by Jones. Associate Vice Provost and previous Director of UCS Thomas McGuinness explained that he also requested an increase in staff last academic year, when he was still in office. He also said he made the argument for an increase in positions for many years throughout his time at UCS. “We at UCS are gratified to see that our resource is one which is both highly utilized and recognized as highly valuable by the University,” Burns said. “We believe that the addition of two more clinicians will help decrease the wait for initial intakes, and increase the range of services we can offer.”

Though the two new positions are welcomed by the office, concerns remain. Burns explained in the email that he has found when there is increased availability, there is often increased demand, as well.

“It’s nice, but it’s still not enough,” McGuinness said. “You could double the staff and they’d still be busy.”

UCS currently has 21 clinicians, with a breakdown of 10 full-time psychologists, three full-time postdoctoral fellows, three part-time psychologists, two part-time social workers, and three part-time psychiatrists for BC’s 9,154 undergraduate students, and the UCS has between 350-375 attended appointments in a typical week.

Meanwhile, the University of Notre Dame’s counseling center consists of a se-

nior counseling staff of 13 members, one psychiatrist, one consulting nutritionist, two staff counselors, three psychology interns, one practicum counselor, and four administrative staff members for its 8,448 undergraduate students. Georgetown University’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services are composed of seven staff psychologists, three psychology externs, one psychology staff, two psychology associates, two social workers, one staff psychiatrist, and two psychiatry residents for its 7,595 undergraduate students.

Burns also said that students can always be seen that day when there is an emergency need, and initial appointments are scheduled within 1-2 days, while intake appointments given to assess the condition of the student are typically available within 10 days. Both McGuinness and Jones noted that after the initial intake process, however, students can wait up to two weeks for an appointment at busy times of the year.

Burns noted that the increased group offerings at UCS this year were put in place as a way to meet a wider range of students’ mental health needs. Still, McGuinness explained that last academic year as director, he implemented group therapies as a pilot as well, but found that students did not do well in these settings and did not want to open up in groups.

The continual increase in demand at UCS comes as a product of various causes, both McGuinness and Jones explained.

“This is happening all over the country,” McGuinness said. “University counseling centers and mental health services are being inundated with requests for services, which is a good thing that students feel more comfortable seeking psychological services.”

McGuinness said that, in addition, more students are coming in with previous experience in the mental health system. While the need from UCS continues to increase, the number of students entering BC with diag-

nosed mental health issues and/or who are on psychiatric medications is increasing, as well. McGuinness also said that there’s a lot of research that is coming out showing that students are more depressed and anxious than in the past, as well as that there is less resiliency among certain students, with an overall movement toward greater impairment of students.

Simultaneously, on Tuesday, March 29, Inside Higher Ed published an article citing a study recently released that stated that students on college campuses where there is “wide support for mental health issues” are over 20 percent more likely to receive services for mental health issues and 60 percent more likely to receive that help on campus. As a result, UCS requires greater support and resources to meet this demand, but also other resources need to be utilized, McGuinness said.

The push for increased resources at UCS has also been a goal of UGBC, which dedicates an entire committee to mental health. UGBC President and MCAS ’16 Thomas Napoli and Executive Vice President and MCAS ’17 Olivia Hussey included the increase in staff as a part of their campaign’s Big Five goals.

“This is a tremendous victory for BC community members, especially those who struggle with mental illness.” Napoli said in an email, in reference to the new hirees.

Molly Newcomb, co-director of UGBC’s mental health committee, director of UGBC’s mental health policy, and MCAS ’18, explained that she believes the new positions added come as a result of the efforts that students have put toward giving voice to mental health issues, noting the work students in UGBC have done, as well as students involved in groups such as To Write Love on Her Arms.

“I really think that it goes to show that students have made this a priority and administrators have realized it is important for all students and that that need is there and very present on campus,” Newcomb said.

8[d`e`jkiXk`fe 8eefleZ\j ?`b\ `e :fjk f] Kl`k`fe 9P :FEEFI DLIG?P ?\`^_kj <[`kfi Undergraduate tuition for the 201617 school year will be $50,480, part of a 3.65 percent increase in tuition, fees, and room and board announced last week by Boston College’s Board of Trustees.

The increase brings the total cost of attendance for next year to $65,114, up from the $62,820 set for the current academic year.

According to a press release from the Office of News and Public Affairs, the tuition hike will be accompanied by a 4.1 percent increase in the financial aid budget, to $114 million.

Last year, the University increased the financial aid budget 5.9 percent for the 2015-16 school year, reflecting BC’s commitment to need-blind admissions, according to Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley.

More than 66 percent of undergraduate students receive financial aid, and the average aid package exceeds $40,000.

“The University puts forth a tremendous effort to develop a balanced budget that provides the best possible educational experience for our students through investing in academic priorities that advance the University,” Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead said

in an email.

The average increase in tuition, fees, and room and board for private universities in the 2015-16 school year was 3.6 percent, according to the College Board, consistent with BC’s increase leading into this school year, which was also 3.6 percent.

This year, BC is ranked 35th by U.S. News and World Report in the “Best Value Schools” category, up from 37th last year.

“As we conclude our ‘Light the World’ campaign, our investments continue to yield significant results in enhancing the quality of our undergraduate academic programs,” Quigley said.

BC recently announced a new University Strategic Planning Initiative, which will replace the 10-year Institutional Master Plan that inspired the $1.5 billion “Light the World” campaign.

The goal of the new initiative, which will be led by Quigley and Lochhead, is to identify spending priorities for the next decade.

“There are certain fundamentals to this place, to our culture, to our values, to how we come together as a community that I would not want to lose,” Quigley told The Heights after the initiative was announced in January. “And I think going forward we need to think about ‘How do we preserve those?’”

In the summer of 2014, Boston’s tech community was burgeoning. HubSpot, the company known for inbound marketing, was set to file for an IPO. This was big news for Boston, and people took notice. HubSpot had the potential to become Boston’s next unicorn—a term used to describe a company valued at over $1 billion. After Facebook, Reddit, and Dropbox all opted for opportunities in Silicon Valley and New York years earlier, Boston was desperately looking for the next big thing.

But just weeks before HubSpot went public, a software company nestled in Newton called CyberArk filed for an IPO. The company has since taken off—growing from $47 million in revenue to a whopping $160 million in the 2015 fiscal year. And this occurred just a few miles outside of downtown Boston.

Ever heard of CyberArk? Very few have.

Practically nothing has been written about the software giant other than a few brief snippets in the Wall Street Journal.

CyberArk’s story illustrates a greater problem for Boston: a lack of a centralized news source that is all-in on Boston tech. Our city prides itself on being a hub of innovation and technology, but if Boston wants to be taken seriously as a top entrepreneurial community, we need to do a better job of promoting local companies and disseminating their stories.

Our options for Boston tech news appear to be nearly obsolete. BetaBoston recently announced that it will no longer be a standalone web site, and will instead shift its content over to The Boston Globe, requiring readers to pay up after reading five stories as part of the newspaper’s paywall.

I may be one of the few who still pays for a newspaper subscription, but it is clear that millennials will not want to pay to read content on The Globe’s site.

The few free outlets that cover Boston startup news, including BostInno, the Boston Business Journal, Xconomy, and VentureFizz, among others, serve as local cheerleaders for many startups, but none are go-to sources for tech-related news.

They are all based in Boston and do not receive the coverage needed to garner national attention. The majority of tech news is lopsided toward Silicon Valley, and the main outlets like TechCrunch, PandoDaily, and Re/code all call the Valley home.

Boston has recently done a great job of promoting its image as a startup powerhouse. Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, has spearheaded many initiatives, including working with Gov. Charlie Baker to lure GE to Boston—making the industrial giant the biggest company ever to relocate to the city.

Walsh also hired Rory Cuddyer, BC ’11, as the city’s “Startup Czar” to help shape the future of Boston businesses. Cuddyer and Walsh serve as community builders—frequently meeting with business owners, city officials, and professors to sell the city and deliver on the ecosystem promised to entrepreneurs. Our city was even chosen

by Forbes to host its “Under 30” summit in October, which will bring four days of events intended to help boost Boston’s brand.

Podcasts have also been hugely popular lately to tell the stories behind Boston businesses. Tech in Boston launched two years ago, and has over 58 episodes and 50,000 downloads from listeners. Traction, by NextView Ventures, has also been successful at generating positive buzz around Boston tech and sharing the creative and clever ways that entrepreneurs find early results.

We are clearly doing some great things here in Boston, but we need to do a better job of sharing our successes with others.

A centralized news source that would give exclusive coverage to local companies would help Boston better contend with Silicon Valley as a hub for startups.

Instead of relying on The Globe’s Scott Kirsner and BostInno to churn out content on a daily basis, we should have our own bureau with reporters to share the stories of our companies. Boston needs its own TechCrunch.

The rest of the world should know what Boston companies are up to. So let’s do a better job of communicating it.

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PERCEPTION & REALITY

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‘Batman V Superman’

DIRECTOR ZACK SNYDER BEGINS TO FORGE HIS CINEMATIC JUSTICE LEAGUE, PAGE C4

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There’s nothing quite like a packed movie theater. Everybody scrunches in as tightly as possible, only leaving those awkward single seats between different friend groups open for those who got to the theater late. You might find yourself next to an obese Dumbledore at a midnight premiere of a Harry Potter film or beside a middle-aged mom who had the unfortunate luck of being the parent to take Billy and his friends to see the new Star Wars.

With either case, you get a good glimpse of the people that make up a fandom and, unless you make it to Comic-Con each year or have friends that are really (obsessively) into cosplay, there are few instances in film series’ life spans when you get a look at the people that share your love for a franchise.

Usually, the only times I’ve ever seen full theaters are at midnight and evening showings of new movies. That’s when you see lines spilling out of the Boston Common AMC Theater or down the street from my local Big Newport 6. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve miscalculated how long the line would be hours before the evening or midnight showing of a new movie. Then I’d have to drive around trying to find parking (there was none) while gearing up for the knot I’d have in my neck the next day from staring up at the screen for two and a half hours. Sometimes, though, my calculations were on-point, and my friends and I laid out our folding chairs 30 or so people into the line, just where you still get a good seat, but don’t come off as an obsessive fan of what you’re about to see. We’d crack a few sodas open, watch the uber-fans in their Batman cowls nerd out, and talk to a few friendly faces that had gathered to see whatever was playing that night.

This is how midnight premieres had operated for me for the better part of my life. It wasn’t until this last December, when The Force Awakens was released, that I had this notion of the “midnight movie experience” turned on its head.

Tickets for The Force Awakens went on sale around mid-October, about two months before the release of the actual movie. Needless to say, I was prepped to buy my friends and myself tickets the second they went on sale. When the floodgates opened, Fandango’s servers crashed within minutes. I did manage, however, to secure six tickets at a Braintree theater.

These weren’t just normal tickets, however. These were reserved seats.

We scrambled to get out to Braintree that night. It’s a long way out from Boston College as it is and traffic was horrendous that night. About an hour and a half after we left, and only a couple minutes before the movie (not the previews) started, we arrived at the theater, waltzed in with our tickets, grabbed popcorn, and found ourselves in our retractable seats in, what I consider, unthinkable time.

The same thing happened last weekend with a midnight showing of Batman v.

Superman (a terrible movie, by the way).

Most everyone there had his or her tickets hours beforehand and, since there was no competition for seating and no need to wait in line, people just came to the theater and went to their seats a few minutes before the show started. There wasn’t any of the jubilance you’d see after a line trickling down the street was finally allowed in the theater. There wasn’t anyone dressed up as Batman, fighting injustice in the line. It was just another day at the movies.

I’m not saying that I don’t like reserved seating at theaters. It’s convenient to be able to arrive at a movie minutes before it starts and have a good seat waiting for you, but it’s notable that a big part of the “midnight movie experience” has been lost to this new and popular theater format. Sure, I curled up in a big ball with my popcorn at The Force Awakens, snuggling into the corner of my huge, retractable seat, but part of me wishes that I’d been tightly squeezed in between a buddy of mine and some dude dressed as Leia. There was more excitement in the air back when we were packed into theaters tighter than sardines in a can.

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Jgi`e^ `ekf =Xj_`fe n`k_ ;\e`d Xe[ :Xikffe 8ggXi\c 9P D8;@JFE J<D8IA@8E ?\`^_kj JkX]] Forget the typical, demure pastels and florals that normally accompany the spring weather, and try New York Fashion Week’s must-have styles instead.

Denim on Denim on Denim For all you Canadians, it’s time to whip out your tuxedos. That’s right folks, the denim-on-denim look is making a comeback. Previously a fashion faux-pas, February’s fashion week seemed to make the Canadian Tuxedo the next “it outfit.” But like all it-girls, the faster the rise, the quicker the fall.

So, before you go dropping hefty bucks on those coveted Vetement jeans, do you think this trend is here to stay?

Chanel seems to think so. Taking a twist on Coco’s original tweed, Karl Lagerfeld sent the models down the runways of this spring’s Mercedes-

Benz Fashion Week sporting denim skirt-suits. Other designers, such as Balenciaga and Michael Kors, quickly followed suit. Since these high-end designers are not necessarily collegebudget-friendly, this look can easily be replicated by matching your favorite jean-jacket with an old denim skirt that has taken residence in the back of your closet. Better yet, go all-out and wear your boyfriend’s jeans. There’s no such thing as too much denim this season.

Chokers Channeling their inner Sabrina the teenage witch, fashion icons have been strutting the streets of NYC in their favorite, fashionable dog-collars. Choker necklaces are back this spring by popular demand. While some prefer the classic black velvet, other designers like Oscar de la Renta, Alexander Wang, and Calvin Klein are changing up the choker game with buckles, pendants, and cutouts.

“Weren’t chokers a thing of the ’90s?” you may ask. Well yes, but outdated is the new up-to-date, and chokers are just the beginning of it. Expect myriad halter tops, jelly sandals, and iridescent eye-shadow to grace the covers of all your favorite fashion magazines these upcoming months.

Orange Orange is the new black this season, and fashion fans don’t know if the popular TV show or fashion week is responsible. As Boston College students come back from Spring Break overly orange from their sunny getaways, models flood New York in their tangerine runway garments. Designers like Dion Lee, Adam Selman, and Baja East insist on making it this season’s shade, despite some controversy. Orange is making its way out of the prison cells to the streets, and some people are a bit weary of this. Is it too in-your-face? Who knows, maybe

orange will finally be the color to replace black.

Cartoons Who said comic strips were only meant for paper? This spring, you’ll get to see all your favorite cartoon’s walking around on people’s clothing. Why? Designers have responded, “Why not?”

Character is being added to fashion this season, in quite a literal way.

Clothing is talking this spring, and quite loudly. This trend first appeared in street style this season on the back of jean jackets, and the fashion world is awaiting its runway appearance. Beat designers to the punch this spring and wear your Saturday morning cartoons on your back.

Designers are daring students to venture outside of their usual Vineyard Vines and J. Crew attire this season. The fashion is loud, clearly trying to make a statement. Will BC students listen and be up to the challenge?

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Is your red the same as my red?

The concept of color perception is a commonly debated one. Perhaps because the final answer is hidden behind an explanatory gap, perception is such a fascinating subject for just about anyone with even a remote interest in how the human mind operates. When I look at the mid-afternoon sky, I see blue, and I recognize that it has a similar color to the ocean, to blueberries, and to Marge Simpson’s hair. I make note of these patterns and live my life by them, but who’s to say that the color I call blue wouldn’t be recognized by my friends as yellow?

Though it may not be apparent at first, this line of logic can be directly applied to the world of artistic expression as well.

This thought was fresh in my brain as I exited Regal Cinemas Fenway with my friends last Friday night. I had just seen Zack Snyder’s newest film, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and was sorely disappointed by its incohesive plotline and weak character motivation.

As we stepped out of the front doors of

the theater into another cold, Boston night, my friends and I were locked in a heated debate over what we had just witnessed.

Some had forgiven the movie’s story-based shortcomings in favor of its fiery, fast-paced action scenes. Others outright rejected the very merits of the movie, arguing that it retconned far too much DC Comics lore to be of any interest. I fell somewhere in the middle, thinking that Snyder’s latest work was a mixed bag of both strengths and weaknesses. As we argued our points, it occurred to me how wildly different our opinions were.

Why do these differences in opinion exist? The answer seems simple, and truthfully, it is: different people are wired in different ways to enjoy a vast variety of art and media. And though this is a relatively easy conclusion to come to, the ramifications of how we perceive artistic intent, as well as how we delineate highquality work, are extremely interesting to discuss.

Return to the color analogy and consider the possibility that each human being sees every color in his or her own unique way. If this is the case, is there one objective, metaphysical answer as

to which color it itruly s? It doesn’t seem so. No perception of these colors is, by definition, right or wrong. Colors of the world only exist insofar as they are perceived by the humans that experience them.

As it goes with physics, so it goes with artistic intent. Philosophers refer to these differences in perception as qualia.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides a helpful definition of qualia as “intrinsic, nonphysical, ineffable properties of sense data.” There is an inescapable gap that lies between the creator and the audience, one that can be defined, perhaps, as qualia. Regardless of what Zack Snyder sought to give audiences with Batman v. Superman, philosophically or otherwise, the only relevant reality to me is the perceptions I actually walked away with.

Naturally, each person that takes in a work of art comes away with a different perceived meaning, often one that is personal and self-defined. Does this mean that, much like the act of color perception, the intent behind the artist’s work lacks any inherent value? It certainly seems that way. Without any one, strictly defined meaning, every piece of media is subject to the subconscious whims of the

audience members that take it in.

Artistic intent, much like any metaphysical truth about color, will always fall by the wayside in favor of the viewer’s perception. As it should. That, after all, is the beauty of going to see a movie with friends. Each person walks away with his own lessons, his own perceptions, his own thoughts on the artistic quality of what he just saw.

I’m aware of how postmodern of a viewpoint this is, but the reality is that we live in a postmodern society. It’s time to do away with the archaic principles of good art and bad art. Every creation, every piece of media, draws its own qualia for the viewer: “the intrinsic, nonphysical, ineffable properties of sense data” that cannot be defined. This is not to say that Michael Bay’s Transformers holds a candle to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction—yes, there is such a thing as technical skill. But here’s the truth: we would do well as a society to remember that, in the world of artistic expression, perception is far more important than reality.

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BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | ASST. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

ACOUSTICS SPRING CAFE (SATURDAY AT 7 P.M.)

CHARLIE PUTH (TUESDAY AT 7 P.M.)

This weekend, McGuinn 121 is your destination for an entertaining a cappella performance. The Boston College Acoustics will perform inventive covers of both classic and contemporary songs at their highly anticipated Spring Cafe on Saturday night.

Next week, the American Singer-songwriter will take his catchy pop tunes to the Brighton Music Hall. Secure a ticket now to hear a lively performance of infectious hits straight of his debut solo album Nine Track Mind.

‘BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE’ (NOW PLAYING)

‘MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2’ (NOW PLAYING)

This action film pits two beloved comic book characters against one another in the ultimate superhero showdown.

The fictional cities of Gotham and Metropolis collide for this year’s fast-paced fight of epic, super-power proportions.

In this sequel to the unforgettable 2002 romcom, lovable characters Toula and Ian are back and battling with a rebellious teenage daughter and an aging marriage.

BC BOP! - “JAZZ WARS” (SATURDAY AT 8 P.M.)

MFA EXHIBIT- MEGACITIES ASIA (APRIL 3 THROUGH JULY 13)

Buy your tickets now for this weekend’s Star Warsinspired jazz show in Robsham Theater. BC bOp! will play an epic collection of diverse new songs and old fan favorites.

Featuring creative collages of plastic, metal objects, and bicycle parts, the captivating new exhibit is an artistic nod to the accelerated rise of megacities in Asia. Just like the sprawling megacity it’s modeled after, the exhibit extends to all areas of the MFA.

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‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’ (NOW PLAYING) Throughout the month of April, the Boston Opera House will play host to this charming rendition of the 1965 film. Purchase your tickets for this Broadway in Boston event that chronicles the Von Trapp family’s captivating WWII-era story.

VANCE JOY (FRIDAY AT 7 P.M.) This weekend, popular Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy will bring his infectious indie-folk to Boston’s House of Blues. Get your tickets now to hear him perform hits like “Riptide” and “Fire and the Flood” live. doctors everywhere are baffled.

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Killin’ the crowd How three top comedians have changed and shaped the industry’s landscape

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Saturday Night Live, since its inception way back in 1975, has always been a haven for powerful comediennes of the day. Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, and Tina Fey comprise just a small portion of the funny femme fatales that have mesmerized audiences live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. It’s near impossible to mark who of these women has left the strongest impression on SNL viewers in its 40-year run, seeing as the comedic landscape has evolved to an unthinkable degree since the days of Vietnam and Saturday Night Fever.

It does seem, however, that each generation of SNL has had a leading lady. In the early 2000s, Fey led the pack of comedians as the head writer of the show and as a co-anchor of SNL’s Weekend Update. After Fey and the wildly popular Amy Poehler left the program, viewers saw that Kristen Wiig quickly filled the hole left by the comedic power couple. Wiig won over SNL fans with her long list of wacky characters—characters quite unlike anything anyone had ever seen. Wiig, like her predecessors, quickly found popularity outside of SNL, starring in films like Bridesmaids, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and The Martian.

In this sense, SNL has acted as the launching pad of more than a handful of careers for comedians throughout the last couple decades and lately, probably to no one’s surprise, it seems as the immortal entity has chosen its next protegee. Since her SNL debut in 2012, the same year Wiig left the show, Kate McKinnon has consistently stolen the spotlight in almost every skit she’s been featured in.

It’s easy to liken McKinnon to Wiig.

Both became the leading women of their SNL generations in an extraordinarily quick amount of time, launching from the featured cast to the repertory cast in around a year. But whereas Wiig gained her popularity with characters like Target Lady, Penelope, Gilly, and Dooneese, McKinnon has garnered a reputation for doing spot-on, off-thewall impersonations.

It’s easy to imagine that McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton impersonation is one of the factors that got her the job at SNL in the first place. That impression alone could have earned her spot on the pro-

gram until Clinton falls out of the political limelight, but McKinnon’s abilities reach much farther than just the presidential candidate. Over the last few years, McKinnon has introduced audiences to her iterations of Justin Bieber, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Dame Maggie Smith. Few SNL stars have ever topped McKinnon’s long list of impersonations and, this only being her fourth season on the show, McKinnon has more than enough time to introduce more celebrities to her version of them.

While impersonations are, on the one hand, McKinnon’s strong suit, the comedian has many more abilities to boast.

For one, she does not simply perform her characters, she becomes them. The only time McKinnon has notably broken character is in the hysterical alien skit, where McKinnon’s character has a rather unexpected encounter with extraterrestrial life. After explaining that the aliens would take turns “gently battin’ [her] knockers around,” McKinnon let a slight grin grow across her face and trampled over a quick stutter before saying that the aliens’ tests “felt super off-the-books.” McKinnon has this stunning ability to separate herself from her characters, never allowing the hilarity of the situation to present itself in her performance. Instead, McKinnon merely provides a vessel for comedy, in its purest form, to flow through.

SNL, at least in the last 20 or so years, has always needed a reigning queen to preside over the rest of the cast. These queens have gone on to shape the world of comedy, imprinting their marks at the heights of the television and movie industries. Fey went on to write and star in 30 Rock, Poehler made the wildly popular Parks and Recreation, and the two have come together for collaborative hits like Baby Mama and Sisters. Wiig wrote and starred in Bridesmaids, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and is now starring in the Ghostbusters remake (alongside McKinnon, no less).

As McKinnon takes her next few steps in the entertainment world, will she follow in the tracks of her famed predecessors or go on to blaze her own trail?

Only time will tell, but for now we can all rest assured that SNL’s reigning queen has a strong hold over her castle.

Long live the queen.

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Anthony Jeselnik hits us with a humor so dark, audiences do not know whether to laugh or cringe. His brand of comedy wields a wit so sharp that it cuts through the facade of “family-friendly comedy” and embraces a comedy as dark and morbid as the world we live in.

Real comedy has an edge. Jeselnik is dark. He is mean. He is ruthless. He is just what the world needs right now.

Jeselnik is a master of his craft. His brand of comedy champions one-liners that are expertly forged to steal laughs from audiences with his brevity. Jam-packing content into each joke, Je-

selnik crafts a self-contained story that ends as quickly as it begins. Much like Steven Wright, Mitch Hedberg, or Demetri Martin, Jeselnik’s jokes often find their punchlines in a single word or phrase. His speech is directional, making audiences think one thing, then ending in a darker place than anticipated. He has honed his skills well as an artist. He remains one of the best comedians because he finds ways to make a joke that embraces elements of subversion. He achieves this through his impeccable timing and delivery, as audiences slowly follow his every word until they are hit with the punchline they never saw coming.

“I had to go to Catholic school when I was a kid. Hated Catholic school. [...] The nuns were vicious. They would hit me with a ruler. Slap me in the face. Anything,” he continues, “...to defend themselves.”

As he begins to mercilessly jab at taboos, he does so in a pointed, precise way. In this manner, Jeselnik challenges audiences by leading them down paths they might not expect or want to find. His jokes may garner visceral reactions, as he tugs at uncomfortable conventions or off-limits subjects. He grasps that there is as much of an emotional component to comedy as there is a cerebral one.

When joking about subjects often deemed inappropriate, off-limits, or genuinely unfunny, Jeselnik looks to these topics as challenges. He will joke about death, violence, molestation, rape, murder, disfiguration, religion, or any

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aziz ansari A far cry from what the title of his Netflix series Master of None might suggest, comedian Aziz Ansari has mastered all of the television roles handed to him over the course of his ever-expanding career. From the cocky and mischievous Tom Haverford of NBC’s comedic gem/goldmine Parks and Recreation to his Netflix mega-hit’s sensitive but strong-willed protagonist Dev Shah, Ansari’s characters are insanely likeable—thanks not so much to the witty writing, but rather to Ansari’s hilarious delivery, infectious enthusiasm, and impressive acting versatility.

Ansari is the proud owner of a unique comedy style that’s hard to pin down. He’s sarcastic and honest without being smug. He’s socially aware and gentle without being a bore. The comedian has a firm grasp on his moral compass, but not nearly to the extent of being pompous or pretentious. Though incredibly optimistic at times, Ansari also has a funny habit of slipping into the somber, stark realities of humanity that most people would rather not acknowledge. See any Master of None episode for a smorgasbord of social issues like racism, gender equality, and public indecency—you name it, Ansari has already comically, critically, and intellectually examined it.

He covers it all: life, death, horrifically awkward social situations that might make one crave the cold and unforgiving hand of death rather than live with embarrassment. In doing so, however, he allows for open conversation about social issues that aren’t too pretty, ultimately coming up with one of those grand, silver-lining, why-not-make-thebest-of-it kind of conclusions.

If the comedy realm was a microcosm for society, and comedians were akin to personality types, Ansari would be that unnaturally positive kid who skips all the way to the ice cream shop and enjoys the first three licks before his cone crashes to the ground.

He would look down at his once-delicious dessert for a while—pondering life’s uncertainties and vocalizing deep existential worries, perhaps brooding over the futility of our efforts and the brevity of human life—before shrugging his shoulders with a smile and saying something downright adorable like, “Well, if I can’t enjoy a tasty ice cream cone, at least that little pigeon can!”

His show is like that, too.

Almost every episode, just an average day-in-thelife of Dev, is as bubbly and optimistic as its quirky protagonist, despite being rife with societal concerns and r i g ht i n g o th e r

people’s wrongs. There’s always a racist boss or some deviant masturbating on the subway for Dev and his ragtag friends to bust Scooby-Doo style. The gang saves the day by calling people out for their misdemeanors, ruminating over the sordid state of society for a hot second, then looking to the bright side of things as the episode culminates in an enthusiastic group high-five. Ansari’s is both a pleasant and painful kind of comedy, a refreshing lightheartedness that isn’t afraid to tread into the mire of societal flaws and mourn the loss of human decency for a bit. Considering all that’s been going on in the world these days, there’s never been a better time for Ansari’s special kind of comedy.

Ansari’s stand up is equally as timely as it is entertaining. He’s quirky and fun, trendy and a frequent user of hip lingo the kids are into, like “dope” and “sweet.”

Everything about Ansari is relevant and relatable, from his Converse All Stars to his accurate jokes and analogies.

An excerpt from his book Modern Romance easily and humorously explains the nature of millennial relationships, but with a notable Ansarian twist. “Today we’ve become far more accepting of alternative lifestyles, and people move in and out of different situations: single with roommates, single and solo, single with partner, married, divorced, divorced and living with an iguana, remarried with iguana, then divorced with seven iguanas because your iguana obsession ruined your relationship, and, finally, single with six iguanas (Arturo was sadly run over by an ice cream truck).”

Everything he says just makes sense, regardless of how silly or nonsensical it may sound. He itches to talk about the important things in life, all the while avoiding sexually explicit content and out-of-line statements most comedians use to elicit cheap laughs.

Though Ansari’s TV show has recently propelled him to a high level of popularity, the reign of this up-and coming comedy king is just beginning, his 15 minutes of fame nowhere near its end. Arguably one of the most influential comedians and effective communicators of his time, Ansari is well-deserving of his immense success thus far.

With a refreshing and relaxed comedy style chock-full of witty one-liners, Ansari is the gentle and thoughtful comedian that the world needs right now.

Neither harsh nor unfair, Ansari’s comedy goes down smooth, dares the audience to embrace the uncomfortable, and ultimately leaves a fuzzy feeling by the end. It’s like sitting down with delicious hot chocolate on a cold winter’s night—that is, until the piping hot liquid spills all over your new striped pajamas and onto the floor.

Then again, Ansari might add, you really didn’t need those extra calories to begin with, did you?

combination thereof. In joking about these things and garnering big laughs from them, he explores a human fascination with the obscene and crude. We ask “How could he?” and he asks “How could we?”. In his latest Netflix stand-up special Thoughts and Prayers, Jeselnik elaborated on his process of finding the funny side of tragedies or otherwise off-limits topics in the world and in his own life.

“People will say, ‘Anthony, what’s funny about Aurora? What’s funny about the Boston Marathon? What’s funny about your grandmother’s funeral?’” Jeselnik says in his comedy special on Netflix. “Nothing. Nothing is funny about those things. That’s where I come in. [...] And I think, ‘How can I make someone laugh today?’”

What purpose does a comedian serve other than to bring about laughter? Jeselnik does not speak safely and his brand of comedy does not care who or what is the butt of the joke. His comedy resonates with the impurity

in the world and states adamantly that terrible things and atrocities will not bring us down or depress us, but will make us laugh. Comedians like Jeselnik allow for that to happen. As he cleverly forms a joke and delivers it, it is up to the audience to take it for what it is. Will it take what Jeselnik says as jokes, or be offended by his content?

Jeselnik is the best kind of comedian because he tells jokes that linger in your mind. His jokes stay with you and challenge you. Though he may take you to dark places, Jeselnik’s ego, delivery, and cleverness will have you smirking. In the Thoughts and Prayers special, he says it best himself when explaining why his kind of comedy stands on top. It’s not about mental sanitation, political agendas, being PC, or appealing to everyone.

It’s about comedy.

“I don’t tell dark jokes because I’m a comedian,” he says. “I’m a comedian because I tell dark jokes.”

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?8EE8? D:C8L>?C@E Ever since books were first published with covers, and back when adults first realized they could boss young kids around by disguising life lessons with dumb metaphors and idioms, people have for centuries preached the same sing-songy phrase. “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” they say with a haughty little smirk, almost always wagging a chastising finger at the listener while they’re at it.

While I completely understand the sentiments behind that tired, old saying, I was certain I could justify judging an overly hyped rap musical by its petticoat.

When the Broadway show Hamilton first hit the stage in Feb. 2015, I found myself totally incapable of stifling my incredulous laughter. Think about it. The performance features one of America’s most famous founding fathers spitting rhymes instead of signing documents, honing his hip-hop moves when he should be penning eloquent letters.

As an incredibly enthusiastic critic of all things arts and entertainment, I thought the whole thing sounded pretty darn preposterous. After reminiscing about my longtime career as a student enrolled in various Massachusetts academic institutions, I couldn’t recall a single iota of theatrical enjoyment any history classes had ever provided me. Here I was in the birthplace of the American Revolution— my entire life spent mere miles from Winthrop’s glowing “City Upon a Hill”—and not one of my history teachers ever got me hooked on American history. So I thought stubbornly while glaring suspiciously at the critically acclaimed Hamilton soundtrack on Spotify, why start now?

Of course, I can appreciate a quality rap song when I hear one, but I wouldn’t say I’m at all enthralled by the genre. If I wanted a modern spin on my fourth grade American history lessons, I’d simply dust off my brother’s old Liberty’s Kids VHS and play Kendrick’s Untitled Unmastered in the background in place of the animated adventure series’ (undeniably catchy) theme music. Why pay hundreds to watch a glitzy Broadway bioplay of an adulterous historical figure beatboxing when you could spend that money on, well, anything else?

I began compiling a list of things one could buy today that would prove far more valuable than Hamilton tickets—400 average-looking goldfish, 25 of those weird child leashes, a $200 Blockbuster gift card—when my curiosity got the better of me and my finger pressed play on Spotify’s Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) soundtrack. “Pff,” I thought to myself with a scoff. “Considering all the hype surrounding it, this thing better be the greatest contribution to society since Sour Patch Watermelon and the implementation of instant-replay review in major league sports combined.”

To my surprise, and initial chagrin, it is.

Every song on the soundtrack is an unquestionable hit—a perfectly produced, rap-infused ode to one Alexander Hamilton, who turns out to be a pretty kickass supporter of the Constitution. Of course, if someone slapped an impressive rap/R&B album and intricate dance choreography onto my relatively ordinary life story, I’m pretty sure I’d seem like the coolest college kid on the block, too. But the thing about Hamilton is that it isn’t ordinary—not in the least. Rather than detracting from its quality, the musical’s outlandishness and blatant, bizarre nature only adds to its ever-growing hype.

Ultimately, I blame Boston College’s Easter break for providing ample time for me to check this thing out. The more I think about it, though, I blame myself for being so close-minded. I let my initial, knee-jerk reaction—one that said “no way” when Broadway began boasting a Burr vs. Hamilton rap-duel instead of a real one—limit my idea of what art qualifies as worthy.

If there’s one thing I’m sure of, though, it’s that I blame Hamilton. Soon, I’ll be out a few hundred bucks when the show comes to Boston in 2017. You can bet that I’ll be there.

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Day and night. These words describe more than just the differences between the Bat of Gotham and the Son of Krypton.

Day and night exemplifies the triumphs and shortcomings of Zack Snyder’s somewhat-epic heavyweight Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. By day, the film shows viewers all that it could be, while by night, it regresses to the point of complete collapse. The word “dawn” is aptly present in the title. Day does break in this film, giving rays of hope and excitement through its cast, but Batman v.

Superman remains enveloped by the darkness of a cluttered narrative that challenges viewers’ resolve.

Following the destructions of Metropolis at the hands of General Zod (Michael Shannon) and Superman (Henry Cavill), Batman (Ben Affleck), from the neighboring city of Gotham, vows to put an end to the threat of humanity’s destruction at the hands of Kryptonians. Using his skills and intelligence amassed over 20 years of fighting crime around the city, Batman intends to challenge Superman’s unbridled authority. All the while, Lex Luthor ( Jesse Eisenberg) devises his own plans to bring an end to the unrestrained powers of the Man of Steel through more nefarious means.

The most compelling elements of the film lie in its first half. Throughout this half, the narrative progresses through a thoughtful lens, regarding morality and responsibility as the world grapples with the notion of a “super-man.” What

kinds of power does he possess?

Who can hold him responsible?

These concepts and struggles are examined most clearly through Cavill’s performance, which sees Superman dealing with his position of power and what he should do with it. Throughout this first half, Cavill makes viewers question where Superman sees himself in relation to the masses.

Does he feel more god than man?

As the world looks on, we see Clark Kent evolve as a man who sees his responsibility to friends and family clash with his perceived duty to the world.

“Be their hero, Clark,” Martha Kent says. “Be their angel, be their monument, be anything they need you to be. Or be none of it. You don’t owe this world a thing. You never did.”

In direct contrast, Bruce Wayne (Batman), holds a more cynical view of Superman, as a threat and unknown. Affleck does a marvelous job exuding a kind of grizzled pessimism that could certainly take root in the aged crimefighter, with a hell of a performance as both Bruce Wayne and Batman. In every scene in the first half, viewers might wonder whether Batman is playing Bruce Wayne or Bruce Wayne is playing Batman. Their respective aspects are fused into a dark and brooding man, who has seen honor and respect fall to the wayside all too often.

This is much to the credit of Affleck, as he embodies the haggard look of the Dark Knight, while still maintaining an air of conviction and strength. However grim the future may look, Bruce Wayne still believes in something.

This notion is best exemplified by the Bat himself, who says

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,“Twenty years in Gotham. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?”

This incarnation of Batman is one of the most striking, as he has to maintain an air of myth and legend. Those he saves still fear him and cops remain in awe of his presence. He is not a hero.

He is a vigilante.

In this world no one looks to the Batman with admiration, only with fear. His punches are brutal and his eyes concede no notion of mercy. This Batman was certainly born in darkness and viewers are able to understand this point, despite being placed in the latter half of his crime-fighting career. His mythos is given a foundation in the world, exuded by Affleck’s demeanor and interaction with other characters . Batman is characterized by a lot of showing and a lot less telling. His deadened eyes say resolutely that he fears no god or man. In many ways, this may be the best on-screen Batman to date.

As the film breaks into its

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second half, the true intentions behind the film begin to reveal themselves. The film chiefly serves to set up the upcoming Justice League film. It makes references to the future blockbuster shamelessly, as characters are introduced for nothing more than hype. These shoehorned inclusions are distracting and add to the disorder seen in the latter half of the film. As the plot struggles to maintain a sense of direction and as characters fall in and out of relevance, the Justice League nods represent wasted time that could have been better spent bringing clarity to the film’s narrative.

Even Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), whose inclusion has been lauded by critics, serves no other purpose in the plot than to be present in the final fight and place the future Justice League in full view.

Much like the plight of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as it eyed The Sinister Six, these references leave the film feeling cluttered with inconsequential characters who serve to garner hype in place of elevating the story at hand. In Batman v. Superman, one can get the sense that the heart of the film lies elsewhere. Being two hours and 31 minutes long, all of these needless inclusions bog down the latter half of the film and diminish the effect of the thought-provoking aspects present in its first half.

Despite this issue, the title fight in Batman v. Superman is far from disappointing. Superman taking hard falls and punches to the chin will have viewers all but cheering for Batman. Seeing these comic book titans square off is a sensational experience, but one may wonder if it could have been even more so, with more time invested in the battle the audience came to see. But as this fight comes to a close, the heroes must face a

common foe, in one of the most overdone climactic fights ever seen on screen.

The final Doomsday fight brings Snyder-level destruction to an abandoned wharf, with little in the line of true consequences. Though one of the main criticisms of Man of Steel was its disregard for life in Metropolis, the final fight with Doomsday was done with no repercussions to most of the destruction.

This contrast makes for its use of nukes, energy pulses, and explosions rather lackluster.

The flip from immense death and destruction in Man of Steel to relatively little is a noticeable difference. Doomsday himself ser ves as little more than a precursor foe against whom Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman can develop some teambuilding skills. Again, this aspect is seen plainly and employed with little to no tact.

Within the final act, the heroes themselves act believably.

Superman takes full advantage of his powers and takes serious thrashings with poise. Batman looks impressive as he remains the only mortal in the fight. As he grapples away from Doomsday, the imperative of his evasion is felt a little more strongly.

Batman v. Superman is rife with promise that is ultimately squandered in pursuit of another film. These failures do not rest on the shoulders of the actors, rather on those of executives that are intent on creating a franchise in place of individual films. The promise of future films headed

by Affleck’s Batman and Gadot’s Wonder Woman may make for a hopeful future founded in a desire to explore characters rather than the wallets of movie goers.

But, maybe it’s just the Gotham City in me. We just have a bad history with suits dressed as filmmakers.

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Defined by a certain raw, uncensored truth-telling that is entirely unafraid of forays into bleak or controversial subject matter, C.K.’s television writing—from his short-lived HBO sitcom Lucky Louie to his FX series Louie—injects meaning into everyday events in a way that seems entirely inadvertent, as if his thoughtful portraits of human interaction exist merely as byproducts of a sincere, undecorated writing style.

In this same modest vein comes CK’s latest project, Horace and Pete. Sporting an especially talented cast (Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, and Alan Alda), the show tells the story of two brothers who own a cherished family heirloom—a 100-year-old bar in Brooklyn, N.Y.

When C.K. appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to reveal the previously unknown and unadvertised project, he described the essence of his show as “what the bar that Cheers was based on was probably really like between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.” Indeed, the staged-play format of Horace and Pete decidedly avoids a grandiose set or anything truly visually stimulating. This tone is set in the first scene of episode one with a several-minute segment, in which Horace and Pete sweep up the dark empty bar while half-dancing in that way middle-aged men do. C.K. seems to consciously substitute the gimmicks of traditional television with engaging dramatic dialogue, an impressive feat considering the enduring assumption that stand-up comedians can’t successfully make the transition to television. Not only has C.K. proven to be an exception to this rule both in Horace and Pete and in other series, he has also demonstrated a rare ability to avoid the pretentious, groan-inducing one-liners that often plague the drama genre.

Though C.K. does typically succeed in providing a bare portrayal of the way we think, he seems to have overestimated his responsibility to discuss contro-

versial issues in Horace and Pete.

Every single episode includes an argument about race, politics, religion, or sexuality.

Viewed as isolated scenes, these discussions are astute and relevant. Though these topics are certainly not unnecessary— and do, in fact, add dimension to individual characters—the exploration of such issues often feels forced. Put simply, it’s difficult to imagine the day-drinking regulars at any bar having a nuanced conversation about heavy topics like the afterlife.

Of course, this kind of criticism has to be evaluated against the fact that C.K. essentially controls every aspect of this show. The lack of studio regulation is demonstrated most overtly in the fact that episodes range from around 30 minutes to well over an hour. Even the show itself is accessible only through C.K.’s web site, where individual episodes are available for purchase.

While giving C.K. the creative go-ahead has almost always proven to be a successful

strategy (most notably in his FX series), it serves as a reminder that his work is effectively selfserving—in the best sense of the phrase. The artistic autonomy of Horace and Pete breeds a kind of television that is fulfilling and meaningful to C.K., not a studio executive or a target demographic or group.

With that in mind, even the most devastating critic of Horace and Pete would have to concede that regardless of its potential f laws , it is unapologetically original and different.

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“AM I PRETTY?” THE MAINE

While The Maine may hold the reputation of catering toward young listeners, it has shown more growth between its first full-length album in 2008 and its latest 2015 release, American Candy, than most do in a lifetime. Starting with a repertoire of sugary altpop anthems, the band followed frontman John O’Callaghan into a period of introspective and dark productions. American Candy is the combination and true culmination of reflective, sober lyrics with the earnest pop score.

The Maine’s newest music video, “Am I Pretty?” perfectly exemplifies this newfound niche the band is exploring. The video opens with black and white images of the band’s equipment accompanied by a quiet voiceover playing.

“I was born an only child to a single mother. Some of my first memories in life are sleeping in cars,” the narrator says before his face is revealed. The young man stands in the center of an empty frame, visibly bearing the signs of social stigma against him: facial tattoos and piercings, long hair, and a backwards baseball cap. “People tell me I’m goin’ nowhere in my life,” he says as his voice breaks.

“People tell me that I’m never going to amount to anything.”

He’s not the only one to speak to his insecurities, as other strangers speak to challenges they face due to their race, sexuality, and disabilities in a state of heart-wrenching honesty before the band even appears. As The Maine steps into the frame, color slowly seeps into the screen, and an upbeat guitar riff begins. Primed to hear tragedy, the viewer hears painfully relatable lyrics describing conformity.

The screen is alight with band members and candid strangers dancing in a safe space of inclusivity, in a way best described as carelessly goofy. It’s a joyous, beautiful celebration of their insecurities.

Ending in black and white, the same people state where and how they find joy in their lives. The final line: “I am pretty!”

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WAR ON DRUGS “Touch of Grey” A preeminent example of artful post-punk and a driving new single from its upcoming album Nocturnal Koreans, Wire’s “Internal Exile” is influenced by bands like R.E.M with its punchy, guitar-based tunes. While the band gained acclaim from the early 80s, Wire proves that it still holds relevance in today’s music scene.

“Touch of Grey” may be one of The Dead’s best-known and most recognizable songs. This cover version stays close to the original with some added modern flourishes. The guitar is clearly reverbed out and plays well with intermittent synth textures. The brightness and optimism of the song remains youthful.

Formed from the ashes of a popular lo-fi act, Whitney was started by Smith Western’s former lead guitarist. “Golden Days” is a soulful nod towards classic twang rock. The song stays light and carefree, but also ambitious with harmonica and orchestral segments. “Golden Days” offers a mature outlook on songwriting.

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

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Baseball returned at last to Shea Field on Tuesday afternoon with a home opener against the University of Connecticut, allowing Boston College its easiest commute this season, after starting with 21 away games. Yet no one had an easy time taking the hill for BC. Thomas Lane didn’t have everything going for him, struggling to consistently locate his fastball. The freshman starter had a decent handle on his off-speed stuff, mixing in an effective slider and changeup to get three two-out strikeouts, but the lack of control with his primary pitch prevented him from going deeper into the contest.

He hit one UConn (12-11) batter and walked three over the course of 5 1/3 innings, the last of which proved to be the final batter he faced in the fifth inning. Head coach Mike Gambino opted to go to the pen in a 1-0 game—one in which the Eagles (13-9, 3-6 Atlantic Coast) looked apathetic at the plate, often leaving the bats on their shoulders and taking seven looking strikeouts in the eventual 9-4 loss.

Lefty Dan Metzdorf entered in relief of Lane, but proceeded to hit the first and walk the second batter he faced, bringing Gambino back out for the short hook. Though Metzdorf would eventually be tagged with the loss, he didn’t fare any better than John Nicklas and

Kevin Connor—two of BC’s best relievers this season—who in the ninth managed one combined out while surrendering a walk, five hits, and eventually four runs. The final man to pitch for the Eagles, John Witkowski, also gave up an RBI base hit before putting UConn away.

In between that time, it was Bobby Skogsbergh on the mound for the Eagles. Even he didn’t start off sharp, allowing the first man he faced to crush a two-RBI double, the second to hit a sacrifice fly, and the third to walk. But after that, Skogsbergh settled in. With the help of catcher Stephen Sauter, who in place of an injured Nick Sciortino threw out two UConn base-stealers, Skogsbergh faced the minimum number of hitters over the next 3 1/3, giving him a career-long outing.

“He’s been great for us, he’s done a great job coming out of the pen,” Gambino said.

Skogsbergh now has a 1.72 ERA for BC, the lowest on the team for any pitcher who has logged at least six innings. He has been the most-used guy out of the bullpen in terms of both innings and appearances, a stark contrast from just one season ago for the righty reliever, who appeared in a total of just three innings.

When he thinks back on it, Skogsbergh says he never felt quite right last year.

The pain started even before the season, arriving as he began throwing in the Bubble over the winter. His shoulder bothered him regularly as he began loosening it up on Alum-

ni Stadium’s turf. It started to limit his ability to prep for reprising his role as a top reliever for BC baseball, after he had a bullpen-best 2.22 ERA as a freshman in 2014. At the start of 2015, he wasn’t merely feeling the usual bit of rust that oxidizes over the offseason—this was something more.

Despite the discomfort he felt, Skogsbergh pushed himself to keep pitching. He had two rough outings in mid-February, allowing two runs and getting just three outs. After that, he didn’t make an appearance for over a month, hoping the pain would pass with time. In his return to a third and final outing of the season on March 24, he held Northeastern scoreless over two innings—but he knew he couldn’t keep going.

“It didn’t feel too good, all three of those innings, so I knew something was definitely up,” Skogsbergh said.

The reliever had been open with the training staff and Gambino about the injury, and after the game they quickly decided to get him an MRI. The results: a frayed labrum, for which the doctors recommended he get surgery.

Both his parents and Gambino were up for him getting what was necessary to heal his shoulder—a procedure that would certainly put an end to his season, but has a faster recovery period than other operations, such as Tommy John. He flew back to his hometown of Chicago around the end of March, where he saw a doctor who knows the family—and who

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After last year’s season-ending surgery, Bobby Skogsbergh has become vital to BC’s bullpen. works for the Chicago White Sox. “I don’t want to say it was a blessing, but the timing was nice,” Skogsbergh said.

He was still able to qualify for a redshirt, giving him a full three more years of eligibility in NCAA baseball. So far, he’s making the most of it, recovering well this fall and so far this season succeeding in keeping the ball low in the zone, the golden rule of being a groundball pitcher.

“I’m just trying to get ahead with strike one, and then go from there,” Skogsbergh said.

While Justin Dunn and Donovan Casey are the two guys who will be seeing most of the action in the highest-pressure situations for BC, Skogsbergh isn’t far behind. He has

one of the four BC saves this season, and will continue to be a top option for Gambino in the coming weeks. Having solid relievers beyond Dunn, the closer, will be especially important for the Eagles on days when Dunn might enter a situation in the middle innings, as Gambino has been unafraid to do this season.

Skogsbergh deflected much of the credit off to his pitching coach, Jim Foster, and catchers, Sciortino, Sauter, and freshman Gian Martellini, whose preparation and in-game management have led a young staff—which was far from its best on Tuesday—to the fifthbest ERA in the ACC so far this season.

“We just gotta throw what they give us,” Skogsbergh said.

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While many students returned home from the Heights for the long Easter weekend, No. 12 Boston College lacrosse (6-4, 1-3 Atlantic Coast) was hard at work, as BC welcomed in No. 3 North Carolina (8-2, 2-0) to the Newton Lacrosse Field on Saturday afternoon. To do so, the Eagles would have to use some of their homemade magic to upset the national Goliath, just like they did in their most recent game against Syracuse.

But UNC got off to a fast start, and dominated the first half, forcing the Eagles to play catch-up for the whole game.

A second-half surge fueled a big BC

comeback, but despite their best efforts, the Eagles fell just short of upsetting UNC and lost by a score of 13-12. The loss was BC’s first at home this year, and it dropped the Eagles’ all-time record against UNC to 2-13.

The scoring began early on, as UNC’s Sammy Jo Tracy scored off of a pass from Aly Messinger five minutes into the game. But the Tar Heels didn’t sit back to wait for a BC rebuttal, and went on to net five more consecutive goals in the first 20 minutes of play.

After falling behind 6-0, BC finally got on the board courtesy of Kenzie Kent’s first goal of the season, her first game for lacrosse after women’s hockey’s extended postseason. The Tar Heels and

their juggernaut offense didn’t miss a beat, though, as Tracy and Kelly Devlin each scored to set the score to 8-1, the biggest deficit that BC would face all day.

But with just over three minutes left in the half, BC came alive. Kent would score another goal for the Eagles that would spark an offense that had been struggling up to that point. Kate Weeks would score 18 seconds later, and Caroline Margolis would notch her first goal of the game before the half ended, setting the score to 8-4 and giving BC a much-needed boost heading into the second half.

The second half was all BC. Margolis scored her second goal of the game two

minutes into the half to extend BC’s scoring streak. Molly Hendrick would end the Eagle run with a UNC goal, but BC was firing on all cylinders.

The two teams exchanged blows like boxers, with BC getting the better of the round. Mannelly and Brooke Troy would capitalize for the Eagles, each notching a goal to set the score at 9-7. UNC would score two more goals, only to be neutralized by two BC goals coming off of the stick of Tess Chandler.

Weeks would tack on another Eagle goal to make it a one-goal game at 1110. But the Tar Heels would match pace with the Eagles for the rest of the game, ultimately winning 13-12. The early lead that UNC had established early

on proved to be just enough of a buffer to get by the BC surge, and it handed the Eagles their first home loss of the season.

The game was as close statistically as it was on the scoreboard, with the teams tying in most categories. UNC had narrow categorical advantages in draw controls and ground balls.

The loss drops the Eagles to 1-3 in ACC play, and with three conference games left to go in the season, the team will need to hold on to this toughness going forward, as its ACC schedule doesn’t get any easier. UNC’s offense showed just how dominant it can be as well, which will certainly be a focal point for the team going forward.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

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If the Bulldogs can do that, they can keep the pressure on opposing defensemen by pounding the goaltender with a barrage of shots.

Early in the first, the Bulldogs had the Eagles right where they wanted them.

Calnan dashed down the ice to beat an icing call, fighting the puck off the boards from a Duluth defenseman. With his back to the zone, Calnan dished it to Zach Sanford. The big man fired on Kaskisuo, who pushed it off his pads. But the rebound was juicy enough for Doherty to reel it in for his second goal of the game and a 2-0 lead for BC. “I wanted to make sure it wasn’t the last game for us,” Doherty said.

BC ever made anything easy, anyway?—York’s crew made everyone sweat.

Shortly after Tuch was sent to the box for a high stick, UMD’s Austin Farley went top shelf on Demko. Karson Kuhlman joined him in the scoring column by beating the stout BC goaltender low on the pads. Suddenly, a commanding Eagles lead turned into a shootout with four minutes to go. Sandelin praised his team’s ability to fight back so well late in

Through the first 10 minutes, BC managed just three shots while fighting off rockets from Duluth’s Adam Johnson and Tony Cameranesi. When defensemen Ian McCoshen and Casey Fitzgerald weren’t locking down the Bulldogs’ top forwards, Thatcher Demko was doing his best to sprawl out from side-toside to block any attempts by the Bulldogs.

But with five minutes to go in the first, the Captain reminded everyone who’s in charge.

Adam Gilmour split a couple of defenders with some strong work along the boards, before dishing it back to Teddy Doherty at the far circle. The senior blasted the puck at Kasimir Kaskisuo.

For a brief moment, Kaskisuo appeared to handle it, but it trickled off his glove and into the net to give BC a 1-0 lead.

Helped by a Travis Jeke penalty, Duluth came out firing to open the second period. A couple of turnovers by BC nearly helped the Bulldogs knot the game up.

It’s a good thing the Eagles have Chris Calnan back in the lineup.

The junior and alternate captain was slowed for several weeks with an ankle injury. Often, he was on the bench, but even when he was back in action, he lacked the bursts of energy that convinced the Chicago Blackhawks to draft him three years ago. Yet one play by him changed the whole game.

Then that BC defense came back from the grave yet again.

Demko stymied the Duluth attack at every turn, standing on his head while Scott Savage, Steve Santini, and Casey Fitzgerald blocked everything that dared to threaten their goaltender. On one shot by Austin Farley, Demko stuck his right pad in the air to push the puck away.

Thanks to some chippiness by the Bulldogs, BC had the opportunity to control the puck for much of the second. Though the Eagles couldn’t convert on either of their power plays in the middle frame, they consistently maintained possession to just kill off the clock.

By the third, their power-play drought was over.

With a perfect chance to seal his 100th career point and time expiring on a Colton Soucy hold, Ryan Fitzgerald fired a shot from the point up high past Kaskisuo to give BC a 3-0 lead with 13 minutes left.

It’s a good thing he did, too.

The Eagles needed every bit of that extra cushion.

Throughout the remainder of the game, Duluth went into overdrive. Head coach Scott Sandelin emptied everything he had. The Bulldogs continually ran their top liners in a desperate attempt to break through the brick wall that was Demko on the goal line.

For a brief moment, it looked like Duluth had. Instead of an easy ending for BC—when has

the game, something the Bulldogs have had a knack for throughout March.

“How many of you thought we’d be in this game in entering the third period?” Sandelin asked the media.

Yet, once again, the Eagles are thankful they have their secret weapon.

Wood sat in the box while Kaskisuo went to the bench with one minute left. Now on a 6-on-4 advantage, the Bulldogs bombarded Demko. As the puck crossed in front of Demko, the goaltender quickly swiveled his head to the left. It slowly bounced toward the net as Farley was, again, bearing in on the goal line.

Farley swung and missed.

Demko lunged out with his glove and dove for it.

Neither would be the hero.

That distinction goes to Austin Cangelosi.

With cat-like reflexes, the junior swooped in with his stick and pushed the puck out of danger. It immediately shuffled over to McCoshen, who sent it flying down the other side of the ice. For the second night in a row, a big defensive play by a forward saved the game for the Eagles.

“That’s how you win games,” York said. “You’ve got to play in crunch time.”

Demko and Doherty’s worries were for naught. In an instant, their minds switched to dancing on.

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Cangelosi was there, as he has been all season. His tip gave BC a 2-0 lead.

Once again, Cangelosi’s contributions on the draw paid huge dividends for the Eagles. The center won 15 of his 20 faceoffs—and BC won 38 of 59 overall against Harvard—to set up prime offensive chances.

“I don’t win the puck cleanly every time, but I count on [my wingers] to help get the job done,” Cangelosi said of his prowess off the draw.

That masterful offensive jolt can also be credited to head coach Jerry York. With Matthew Gaudreau sidelined with an undisclosed injury, York shuffled his lineups.

Teddy Doherty and Zach Sanford moved up with Adam Gilmour in the top line, while Tuch played alongside White and Ryan Fitzgerald. In addition, he kept his most successful line—Wood, Cangelosi, and Christopher Brown—fully intact. For his players, York’s gamble was a worthwhile, albeit expected one.

“The lines don’t matter, we’re all best friends on the team,” Doherty, the team captain, said.

“But Coach made the right decision. Alex had a big game, Cange had a big game, sticking with Miles, so we’re looking to build off that and move forward and keep those lines similar.”

But BC’s strength didn’t just come from its offense. Remember all those turnovers last week?

Casey Fitzgerald, Ian McCoshen,

changed the momentum of the entire game.

With the Crimson bearing in after controlling the boards, Criscuolo lifted a shot toward Demko. The puck bounced off the post before deflecting off the BC goaltender and trickling toward the net, reviving shades of last week’s late first period goal by Northeastern’s Adam Gaudette.

But Fitzgerald was luckily in position to use his skate to poke the puck away from Vesey, the Hobey Baker Award finalist, who was eyeing an easy goal.

In the second, Tuch kept up that energy that carried BC through the first. He received an excellent feed from Scott Savage across the DCU Center logo at center ice. While along the sidelines, Tuch flamed Brayden Jaw, blazing past the Harvard defenseman for an open look at Madsen.

The Minnesota Wild prospect wound and fired the puck past Madsen’s left shoulder to give BC a dominating 3-0 lead. Instead of his normal one leg up and screaming celebration, Tuch remained subdued and confident.

Once again, BC’s stellar defense took control. Save for a goal

by Seb Lloyd that beat McCoshen in the slot, the Eagles’ defense was impenetrable for the final 30 minutes. Every time Vesey came at the net, BC’s Shaka Smart-esque havoc defense collapsed on him.

The superstar senior, who will be courted by several NHL teams if he turns down the team that drafted him—the Nashville Predators—never looked comfortable when putting up attempts on Demko.

And when the defensemen

Harvard player and used his pads to stuff a Crimson threat.

“The bench got so excited on that play right there,” York said.

Even the special teams was back in prime form, most notably the penalty kill crew. Last week, Greg Brown’s defensive unit was burned by Northeastern for two power-play goals. This time around, the Eagles weathered the storm, particularly a 6-on-4 late in the third with Madsen on the bench. BC swarmed around that dangerous top line to keep the Crimson unsettled. And with one swift movement, Cangelosi used his small frame to poke the puck away from a Harvard forward to dash down the ice for an empty-netter to seal the game for BC. The win marks the departure of one of Harvard’s all-time great players in Vesey. After the game, he shared some touching final words about the future of head coach Ted Donato’s program, which has seen a revival in the last two seasons.

“Harvard hockey’s not going anywhere,” Vesey said. “I won’t be surprised to see a national championship any time soon.”

But, as the great North Carolina State head coach Jim Valvano once said, it’s the Eagles who will survive and advance. Sixty minutes on Saturday against a bruising Bulldogs club will help determine if BC can survive and advance the path for a sixth star to Tampa, Fla. And teams across the country should point to Harvard to blame for allowing the Eagles to get back into the rhythm that makes them the best team in the nation.

“I didn’t think we were playing

and Steve Santini definitely do.

The Eagles’ trio of star defensemen helped Thatcher Demko stand on his head as Harvard’s top line of Vesey, Alexander Kerfoot, and Kyle Criscuolo rarely let up.

Some of these were your typical body blocks or sprawling Demko saves. One may have

weren’t getting the job done blocking shots, the forwards got into the game, especially Ryan Fitzgerald.

The elder Fitzgerald routinely threw his body in front of the Crimson’s forwards to prevent any pressure. York praised one play in particular, in which Fitzgerald slid out underneath the stick of a

great hockey the last four weeks of the season, and it was good to see us bounce back with one of our better games all year,” York said.

“But tonight, we were excited about playing a crosstown rival, excited about playing in a regional, so there’s a lot of good and positive vibes in our locker room.”

K\[[p ;f_\ikp ?Xj I\XZ_\[ 8 Le`hl\ JkXklj 8dfe^ 9: :XgkX`ej Teddy Doherty, from C8 mance that gave the Eagles a win in the Northeast Regional helped etch his name into all-time BC lore.

A big reason comes from the coaching staff’s decision to make Doherty a swingman. Last season, York was forced to place Doherty on the offensive side of the puck given BC’s lack of depth there. He did reasonably well, with six goals and 17 assists in a majority of the games played on the front end.

This year, it was expected that, with Matheson and Noah Hanifin off to the NHL, Doherty would return to the blue line. After all, that was projected to be BC’s weak spot.

Entering the 2015-16 season, the Eagles only had three returners on defense, all juniors: Ian McCoshen,

Steve Santini, and Scott Savage.

They’d be welcoming in Casey Fitzgerald and Josh Couturier.

Surely Doherty could bring some stability to the back end.

It didn’t exactly work out that way. Fitzgerald was far more college-ready than had been anticipated, making his transition easy. York also welcomed another defenseman, Michael Kim, to Kelley Rink during late December.

He quickly made an impact on the roster. In total, these two freshmen gave BC a deeper defense than had been foreseen.

Rather, it was the offense that was struggling. After an 11-game winning streak through the easy of BC’s season, the Eagles hit a wall, blowing a late lead to tie with Northeastern and losing three in

a row to Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Providence. In particular, BC’s two 6-foot-4 forwards—Alex Tuch and Zach Sanford—had fallen into a sophomore slump. Unlike Kim, there would be no first-semester freshmen York could call down from the heavens to solve the problem.

But the solution was simple.

Just move Doherty, the only true two-way player on the roster and the one man willing to do whatever is necessary to help the Eagles reached the Promised Land that is scenic Tampa, Fla. Once Doherty teamed up with Tuch and Sanford, BC’s offense began firing on all cylinders. Since Doherty fully joined the ranks of the forwards, the Eagles are on a 15-3-4 run. He has made a huge

effect on the success of BC’s power play. He can act as a forward with the hockey IQ to place a proper tipin or redirect a rebound, a defenseman to run the attack from the blue line, or a grinder to chase down the puck in the event of a breakaway attempt. This season, Doherty has accumulated 13 goals (six on the power play) and 12 assists.

That’s not a coincidence made solely by a smart coaching decision.

That’s a player who has jumped into an upper echelon of talent and merits serious consideration from numerous teams as he comes close to his pursuit of a professional career in hockey. Doherty’s meaning for this team is as strong on the ice as it is off it. Given the narrative that has surrounded Doherty over his tenure in Chestnut Hill, his

indispensability as a player can get lost in the shuffle in comparison to how necessary he is to the Eagles as a captain. But it’s certainly not lost on York.

“He’s really been a pleasant surprise for us, because he really hasn’t played a ton for us over his career, at least not in key, key situations,” York said. “This year, as a captain, he took it upon himself to improve his game in different parts. … He’s a fiery guy. He’s small in stature, but he really is a dynamite leader.”

As for Doherty, he’s resorting back to those York-esque cliches.

After Saturday’s game, he was proud of his individual accomplishments, saying that maybe it’s something he can think of fondly in a few years. Right now, there’s only one thing on his mind.

“It’s great, but I really wanted to go to Tampa,” Doherty said. “Just to extend the season by two weeks and practice in Conte Forum again is something I value way more than two goals.”

But given his contributions to this team, and his outstanding impact during an already memorable season, Doherty will be one of those rare captains who any BC hockey fan will immediately remember as a leader and player.

So go ahead and smile, Teddy.

You’re getting those two extra weeks for the team. And it wouldn’t have happened without you.

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Against Minnesota Duluth in the Northeast Regional final, Teddy Doherty (4) scored two goals, solidifying his status as a legendary captain in Boston College men’s hockey both on and off the ice.

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C\[ Yp :ife`e Xe[ Jki\d# 9: ;fnej LDXjj 9P K8IPE 9I8Q =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj While Boston College baseball has struggled at times to keep its offense consistent and aggressive, its victory against UMass was an impressive show of power, speed, and clutch two-out hitting. BC (14-9, 3-6 Atlantic Coast) scored early and often against UMass (5-11, 1-2 Atlantic 10), and never let its guard down, putting up at least two runs in four separate innings and tying a season high by ripping 16 hits off of Minutemen pitching. Its 27 total bases and four stolen bases were a season high, and the Eagles completely turned their offense around in the 24 hours since their deflating home loss against UConn.

As the away team, BC batted first, and the Eagles took full advantage of this. The Eagles put up three runs in the first inning, starting with sophomore Jake Palomaki, who led off with a double to the rightfield corner. He advanced to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a second wild pitch to put BC up 1-0. Senior Joe Cronin walked on the wild pitch, but was not on base for long before Stephen Sauter blasted a home run over the rightfield wall. Gian Martellini followed with a single down the left-field line, but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double, and a ground ball to short ended the inning for the Eagles.

Zach Stromberg started the game, only allowing one baserunner in the first inning.

The top of the second inning con-

tinued what the first inning had started. Michael Strem hit a solo home run to left field and was followed by a single from Johnny Adams. Freshman Anthony Maselli then ripped a fly ball to the wall in left center, but UMass center fielder Dylan Morris tracked it down for the first out.

Palomaki picked up his second hit of the game, and both runners moved up on another wild pitch. Cronin walked for the second time in the game, and after a pitching change, Casey hit a sacrifice fly to score Adams.

Stromberg allowed a single to leadoff batter Hunter Carey in the bottom of the second, and then a double to Cooper Mrowka that Carey scored on, giving the Minutemen their first run of the game. Stromberg settled down after that, however, getting a groundout, a flyout, and foul out to end the inning.

The Eagles led off the top of the third with two straight hits by Logan Martellini and Hoggarth, but the inning ended as quickly as it began, as Martellini and Hoggarth found themselves in a baserunning gaffe.

They were both caught between bases on a wild pitch and were tagged out, and the inning ended on a ground ball to the shortstop.

UMass struck back in the bottom of the third, as Dylan Morris and John Jennings both hit solo home runs off Stromberg to right center and left field respectively. Stromberg bounced back effectively and got the last two batters of the inning to strike out swinging to end the Minutemen’s momentum.

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Joe Cronin dominated the Minutemen with four walks and two RBIs. Adams led off the top of the fourth with a double to the centerfield wall, and was moved to third on a fly out.

Palomaki walked to get on base for his third straight at-bat, and both runners moved to second and third on a wild pitch. Cronin followed up with his third walk of the day, and Casey walked after him to bring in the sixth run of the game. In the bottom of the inning, UMass could only get one baserunner off of an infield single off of Stromberg.

The Eagles were held scoreless in the fifth inning, but Cronin led off the sixth inning with a triple to right center and scored on a wild pitch to put BC up 8-4. Sophomore Brian Rapp came in to pitch in the bottom of the sixth and induced four ground balls, one that shortstop Adams could not handle, to end the inning. UMass did not score until the bottom of the seventh, when back-to-back base hits

put runners on first and third with no outs. A run scored on Carey’s fielder’s choice, but a groundball to short ended the inning.

Cronin led off the top of the eighth with another walk, his fourth of the day and the most of any BC player in a game this season, and followed it up with a steal of second. With two outs, Martellini ripped a single to center to score Cronin. Senior Gabriel Hernandez beat out a bunt single to put two runners on, and Strem doubled to center to put the Eagles up 11-5.

Casey pitched a 1-2-3 eighth inning, and the Eagles put one runner on in the top of the ninth but did not score. Justin Dunn came in to the pitch the bottom of the ninth, and pitched a 1-2-3 inning, ending the game with a strikeout swinging.

Stromberg picked up his first career win, and the Eagles improved to 14-9.

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For seven innings, BC couldn’t time up any of the Huskies’ arms, stringing together shockingly passive plate appearances despite the desperate need for runs. There was no urgency and no fire in the home opener at Shea Field.

“I thought they were completely non-competitive,” Gambino said of his team’s at-bats. “I don’t know how we can come out flat first game at home, back in the Birdcage, rivalry game … I’m really disappointed in this group right now.”

In the eighth inning, the Eagles finally showed some signs of life at the plate. Jake Palomaki singled to right, and Strem popped one into shallow right field that was misplayed by the second baseman.

With the bases loaded and two outs, Stephen Sauter delivered the big hit that had eluded BC all afternoon, hammering a bases-clearing double to left field that cut UConn’s lead to 4-3. But Martellini followed up Sauter’s clutch hit with another strikeout to end the inning.

The Eagles (13-9, 3-6 Atlantic Coast) couldn’t pull off any lateinning magic after their bullpen collapsed in the top of the ninth

inning, allowing five insurance runs for the Huskies (12-11) and losing 9-4 on a sad, cold, windy day at Shea Field.

Nearly two dozen games into the season, it’s becoming clear what type of team Gambino is trying to build in his sixth year on the Heights. This is a malleable lineup that, from top to bottom, can play anywhere on the field and hit anywhere in the lineup. These players aren’t flashy—they’re scrappy.

It’s a team built on pitching and defense, throwing strikes and making plays behind a solid rotation.

The cleanup hitter bunts. The ace pitches to contact. What they lack in raw talent they make up for with experience and high baseball IQs. But for a veteran team, Gambino’s squad made too many rookie mistakes on Tuesday.

First, it was an error on Palomaki that set up UConn’s first scoring opportunity. Then it was the inability of starter Thomas Lane and the bullpen to find the strike zone, walking six and hitting two batters against a Husky lineup that didn’t need to be pitched around.

And then it was failing to take advantage of fastballs over the plate in the middle innings, an overly-patient mentality that contributed to 13 total strikeouts for BC. Finally, worst of all, two errors in the ninth inning officially pushed the game

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Sports Editor If you had asked me this question one week ago, even after BC baseball got swept by Clemson without getting blown out, I would’ve told you that there was a good chance the Eagles could win this series. But then yesterday ’s pitiful performance against UConn happened.

Mike Gambino has done wonderful things with this team, but the Eagles don’t look mentally ready to go through the gauntlet of the ACC.

Prediction: Florida State 3-BC 0 RILEY OVEREND

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BC racked up 13 strikeouts, included seven looking, in the 9-4 loss to UConn. out of reach as the wheels came off for Birdball.

Tuesday marked the third time this season the Eagles committed three errors. Although they have shown flashes of brilliance this year, a pattern of shaky defense, bullpen struggles, and poor approaches at the plate is starting to emerge.

Now, at risk of suffering their seventh loss in the last eight games, Gambino needs to find a way to end this slump.

One of the lone bright spots in an otherwise frustrating offensive outing came from Logan Hoggarth.

The senior had two of BC’s first three hits, piecing together aggressive plate appearances when the

rest of his team went quiet.

“I was just staying with a simple approach: Think fastball, react to curveball,” Hoggarth said. “We need to improve on two-strike hitting. We’re taking too many fastballs for strike three.”

It’s a problem of energy and assertiveness that is surprising given the gritty feel of the team.

Gambino’s ballclub has the heart, and it has the pieces needed for success. But enough with waiting at the plate—the Eagles need to ditch their docile attitudes, lace up their cleats, and step in the box against UMass on Wednesday with the same confidence they had two weeks ago.

Assoc. Sports Editor Save for a 11-5 win over lowly UMass, Birdball has been playing its worst baseball of the spring as of late, dropping six of its last seven before the victory in Amherst. But what better time for the Eagles to turn it around than during their first ACC home series against powerhouse FSU? The weather will be brutal, the Seminoles will be drained from their flight, and they will have to put runs on the baord against B C ace Mike King . That’s a tough task. The low-scoring affair will favor the Eagles—if they can rediscover their bats, that is.

Prediction: Florida State 2-BC 1 ANNABEL STEELE

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With the weather warming up and daylight lasting a little longer, it officially feels like spring in B oston. The students on campus lounge on the green and break out shorts the second the thermometer is over 60 degrees.

But one thing is missing: action on the diamond. Thanks to the mild winter, the fields are ready, and Boston College softball could not be more psyched to begin playing close to home.

The Eagles (19-13, 3-3 Atlantic Coast) opened up play in the North against two city rivals, the Harvard University Crimson (10-11) and the Boston University Terriers (11-16, 0-3 Patriot). The team hoped to bring back two wins before

its home opener in Chestnut Hill, but the team fell short and returned to campus with one win under its belt.

On Wednesday, the Eagles headed down Comm. Ave. for a battle against the Terriers.

After a quiet first, BC opened up scoring in the second inning.

With Madison Paulson on base, Chloe Sharabba hit an RBI single to put BC up 1-0. Allyson Moore then hit a single of her own to send Sharabba home, giving the Eagles a 2-0 edge. BC continued to extend its lead in the third inning after Jessie Daulton singled to plate Loren DiEmmanuele.

Down 3-0, BU looked to answer back in the fourth inning.

After loading the bases , BU successfully got within one after singles from Brittany Younan and Emma Wong. In the fifth,

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Tatiana Cortez made it a 4-2 game after sending the ball over the right field fence for a solo home run. But the Terriers kept on fighting. BU’s Gabi Martinez responded with a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth inning to knot the game at 4 apiece.

The Eagles were determined to come back to campus with a win against a heated rival, and they did just that. In the top of the eighth, with Jordan Chimento on third, Sharabba hit an RBI single to plate the winning run and give BC a 5-4 victory.

On Tuesday, the Eagles headed over to Cambridge where their bats were just as cold as the weather. After being knotted at zero for two innings, Harvard started things off in the third.

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second, and then advanced to third on a wild pitch. Meagan Lantz hit an RBI single to bring Rich home before Savannah Bradley’s RBI double, making it a 2-0 game. Allyson Frei continued to stay strong on the mound and recorded a complete game, during which she gave up three hits and two runs, but notched seven strikeouts.

The Eagles finally got things going in the sixth. With one out, Megan Cooley walked. A throwing error by the Crimson’s pitcher allowed DiEmmanuele to reach base and advance to second. Daulton stepped up to the plate with DiEmmanuele and Cooley both in scoring position.

Daulton singled, bringing Cooley home, but DiEmmanuele was thrown out at the plate, causing BC to fall 2-1 to the Crimson.

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Asst. Sports Editor Birdball heads into April with a threeg a m e h o m e s e r i e s a g a i n s t F l o r i d a S t ate .

Though the Eagles are coming off a commanding victor y against UMass Amherst , B C won’t be able to overcome the talented Seminoles this weekend. B C is just 3-6 in conference play after being swept by Clemson and dropping games to N C State and Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, No. 8 FSU is 6-1 in conference play, with its sole loss to Pittsburgh. Birdball will take one game off Florida State, but ultimately will lose the series 2-1.

Prediction: Florida State 2-BC 1

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9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi WORCESTER, Mass. — Teddy Doherty and Thatcher Demko stood in agony, waiting for the referees to emerge from the replay booth in the box.

The zebras were checking a multitude of things.

How much time should be left on the clock? What should they do when they’re done taking a look?

And, most importantly, did the puck really stay out of the net?

When you see the replays now, it may seem obvious. But Jerry York’s two chief leaders didn’t want anyone in the press room getting the wrong idea.

Boston College men’s hockey was centimeters from an all-time breakdown.

“It’s way closer than people thought it was,” Doherty said. “It was right there.”

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Three agonizing minutes passed. But soon, the referees emerged. There would be no goal. There would be no more time.

Instantly, pandemonium ensued.

Pack your bags, but don’t forget the sunscreen.

BC is heading back to Tampa.

With a 3-2 win over the University of Minnesota Duluth, the Eagles advance to the 25th Frozen Four in program history, passing Michigan for the most of any team in college hockey. BC (28-7-5) will take on Quinnipiac in the national semifinal on Thursday, April 7. The win also improves BC’s record to 14-1 all-time in Worcester’s DCU Center.

“We’d like to keep on coming back here,” York said.

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9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi WORCESTER, Mass. — It was a Good Friday indeed.

Forget everything you saw against Northeastern at TD Garden last Friday. This is what the opposition should expect from Boston College men’s hockey. One week after playing their worst game of the season, the Eagles put up perhaps their best performance at the expense of Jimmy Vesey and Harvard University.

Led by two goals apiece from Alex Tuch and Austin Cangelosi, No. 6 BC (27-7-5) downed No. 9 Harvard (19-11-4) 4-1 in the opening game of the NCAA Northeast Regional at the DCU Center.

Despite another late start from Duluth’s 2-1 double-overtime win against Providence, the first

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period couldn’t have gone better for the Eagles—it was so good, you’d be surprised to know that Harvard actually outshot them, 12-8. After tossing it around in the neutral zone for the first seven minutes, Tuch got BC on the board first. The sophomore single-handedly pounded the puck through a mass of Crimson defensemen, pushing goaltender Merrick Madsen onto his backside and into the net. With a little push from behind, Tuch used every bit of his 6-foot-4, 220pound frame to will the Eagles to a 1-0 lead.

Late in the period, the team hitched a ride onto the Wood Wagon. After a Lewis Zerter-Gossage hooking penalty, Miles Wood knocked two pucks off the post. The freshman then reeled in his own rebound off a block by defenseman Desmond Bergin.

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Boston College men’s basketball has made its first big offseason move. Western Michigan University senior Connar Tava will transfer to BC to play for the Eagles next year as a graduate student in his final year of varsity eligibility, as first reported

by Zack Spears of Eagle Action on Tuesday evening. Not long after, Tava himself con-

firmed his decision via Twitter.

Tava, listed at 6-foot-7, has played power forward for the Broncos and reportedly chose BC over Michigan. He sat out and redshirted his senior season at WMU after breaking his left foot last October.

Tava cited returning with A.J. Turner, his former high school teammate, and BC’s excellent MBA program as reasons for his decision to join head coach Jim Christian’s crew.

In his first three years playing for the Broncos, Tava made a big impact on the court. He started and played in every game throughout his sophomore and junior seasons, averaging 11.8 and 12.3 points per game, respectively. As a junior, Tava also averaged more than six rebounds per game. He was given an All-Mid-American Conference (MAC) Honorable Mention for his sophomore and junior campaigns.

Tava is a welcome addition for the Eagles, who lost center Dennis Clifford this year after a first-round ACC Tournament exit. BC will need someone to step in and provide the same leadership and talent Clifford showed this past season. With a

proven track record at WMU, Tava may be that person. As a junior, he led the Broncos in rebounding and assists per game.

Over his career at Western Michigan, he accumulated 101 steals, including 39 as a sophomore and 36 as a junior.

He will face challenges related to his height, however. The average NCAA Division I power forward is at least 6-foot-7, with the average center clocking in at over 6-foot-9—Clifford measured at 7-foot-0.

Tava is on the shorter end for power forwards, and in a highly competitive conference like the ACC this may create issues down the road. Additionally, it is unclear what Tava’s role will be on the team next

year—BC’s most glaring need is at the 5, with the departure of Clifford, yet the 4 could use help as well. Considering BC’s failures under Steve Donahue of putting a natural power forward at the center position (read: Anderson, Ryan), it would be hard to justify Tava checking in there.

Even so, it’s good news for the Eagles.

After last year’s woeful performances, they need to show that they are actively working to improve the program. Recruiting Tava to the program does just that.

It may also appeal to younger potential recruits. Tava’s announcement is the first step of many for the Eagles to take this offseason.

BASEBALL

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D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E WORCESTER, Mass. — “Would it kill you to crack a smile?”

Boston College head coach Jerry York laughed as he teased the man sitting to his left, Teddy Doherty.

York’s senior captain sheepishly followed his coach’s commands, while Thatcher Demko—the Eagles’ sterling Hobey Baker candidate in goal—pushed him back on the other side. Clearly, smiling is not Doherty’s thing.

It’s an odd sight from my end. Watching the business-like leader of the Eagles attempt to show emotion other than complete and total focus on the goal ahead of him is a sight rarer than a Northeastern-Harvard final in the Beanpot. Last year, after BC’s 5-2 loss to Denver in the first round of the NCAA East Regional, Doherty, the captain-to-be, sat alongside York and Mike Matheson to face the music. Many of the questions were directed at Matheson, who was poised to leave the Eagles and join the Florida Panthers.

But when it came to looking toward the future, the media tested Doherty. Throughout the interview, the Hopkinton, Mass. native who spent his high school days at Shattuck-St. Mary’s in Fairbault, Minn. remained poised and professional.

“Sometimes the puck doesn’t go your way, so that’s that,” Doherty said that late March day in Providence, summing up his reaction to his team’s blowout defeat.

In our 2015 Hockey Preview, we compared Doherty to Pat Mullane and Patrick Brown—a captain who, as a senior, has been a steady rock over four years and showed gradual improvement, but was never the team’s MVP. It’s not a consistent formula that has occurred at BC over the years—Matheson was arguably the team’s most NHL-ready player last year, and superstars such as Marty Reasoner, Brian Gionta, and Mike Mottau have all held the position under York. But it’s the kind of captain York prefers: the man who puts it all on the line for the good of BC. Doherty gives all the correct answers. He never strays from York’s message. He fills whatever role needs to be filled. Doherty is that ideal captain. And everyone on the Eagles knows it.

“He’s a team first guy, there’s no doubt about it,” Demko said.

But after his two goals in Saturday’s 3-2 victory over Minnesota Duluth that lifted BC to its 25th Frozen Four—the most in college hockey history—Doherty now finds himself in a unique place. His stellar perfor-

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BC’s offense couldn’t get anything going on a windy Tuesday against its rivals from the University of Connecticut.

9: :fccXgj\j `e ?fd\ Fg\e\i 9P I@C<P FM<I<E; 8jjfZ% Jgfikj <[`kfi With Boston College baseball down 4-0 to the University of Connecticut, cleanup hitter Donovan Casey strolled into the batter’s box looking to spark a BC offense that had only mustered three hits on the day.

Instead of swinging for a gapper like a traditional No. 4 hitter, Casey squared to bunt. He missed. Four pitches later, he struck out.

The decision to bunt in the face of a four-run deficit was especially puzzling given the previous at-bat,

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where No. 3 hitter Michael Strem bunted back to the pitcher for the first out of the sixth inning.

Desperate for baserunners in the seventh inning, head coach Mike Gambino turned to freshman Gian Martellini to start a rally. The designated hitter walked up to the tune of Yvis’ laughable, viral, 2013 hit “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)”—chosen for him by the team’s upperclassmen, as is the new tradition for freshmen.

What did the umpire say? Strike three. The strike-

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