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In the six days since the 2016 presidential election ended, students and faculty members have expressed differing p ersp e ctives —all primarily negative—on the election of Donald J. Trump. Many are protesting the results, some fearing the future, and others working to mend the divisions within the country. Faculty and student groups across Boston College are hosting discussions, holding open houses, and emailing students to invite them to vent, reflect, and debate.

This afternoon, Eradicate BC Racism is holding a “Stand Against Hate Rally” in the O’Neill Plaza. The rally will begin at 4:30 p.m.

According to the event’s Facebook page, the rally is meant to stand in

A vote on a resolution for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) to affirm spiritual formation was postponed on Sunday night. The resolution was proposed by Raymond Mancini, CSOM ’19, and Michael Proietta, MCAS ’19. After presenting, discussing, and debating the resolution, the Student Assembly (SA) moved to postpone the vote to next Sunday, allowing the two co-sponsors of the resolution time to amend the bill.

The proposed resolution called for an active affirmation of spiritual formation by UGBC. The bill echoed BC’s values of developing and educating the whole person—intellectually, socially, and spiritually. This affirmation of spirituality would not focus on certain religions, but rather would encourage and welcome people of all faiths to explore their spirituality and engage in faith-based dialogue. Proietta and Mancini asserted that while UGBC was created to enrich the lives of students academically, socially, and spiritually, currently, UGBC has a heavy focus on social advocacy and needs to direct some resources to spirituality.

Proietta and Mancini stressed that UGBC has lacked influence and focus within the spiritual realms of students’ lives. Proietta sees spiritual reflection, dialogue, and formation as an integral facet of human development, and thus important to UGBC’s goal of enriching the student body.

“If we were to affirm the importance of spirituality in education, I think that

it would better UGBC’s relationship with the Boston College administration, and the community as a whole,” Mancini added.

In the future, Proietta sees the establishment of a greater committee dedicated to spiritual formation.

Speaking in support of the bill, Hagop Toghramadjian, MCAS ’17, mentioned the division in the nation right now and provided an anecdote of how spirituality brought him and his Muslim neighbor together.

“Not much brings us together,” Toghramadjian said. “But I think that spirituality can.”

After a brief question-and-answer period, the members of the SA began the debate period. The members voiced their support, concerns, and suggestions about the proposal during the debate.

A few recurring concerns were expressed by the SA. Several members asked for Proietta and Mancini to give examples of practical applications that the proposal would bring. They wanted to hear what specific actions UGBC would take to promote spirituality and how that would differ from the existing spiritual organizations, such as Campus Ministry, that welcome students from all faith backgrounds.

This bill, which does not have a clear action path for deliverables, is meant to send a message to BC’s community that focuses on inclusivity as it relates to spirituality, Mancini and Proietta said.

Historically, UGBC has focused on issues within student’s lives that they feel the University has neglected to address adequately. This resolution differs in that there are established University organizations that address faith. UGBC’s status as an advocacy organization

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solidarity with students who have been “victimized or continue to fear the prospect of targeted violence” following the election results.

“In the face of such hatred, neutrality is acceptance,” the event’s Facebook page said. “None of us can afford to opt out. It’s time to permit ourselves to take a stand.”

Eradicate is planning to give students the opportunity to speak at the rally as well.

Throughout the last week, over 200 faculty and staff signed a letter to the editor that encouraged students and staff to engage in discussion concerning the election. According to the letter, faculty members hope that the country’s differences in political ideals will not lead to bullying, intimidation, or intolerance.

Several academic departments held forums for students to discuss the election and sent out emails addressing the results.

On Friday, students met with a group of faculty members from the history department to discuss the Trump

presidency.

At the meeting, students and faculty expressed disdain for the media’s coverage of the election. Many students felt that major outlets did not adequately inform voters, as many news sources chose to focus on covering the scandals and rhetoric of each candidate rather than their policy proposals and platforms.

Some students noted a tangible difference on campus since Wednesday.

Several expressed that they now, more than ever, do not feel welcome at BC. They think that the election of Trump demonstrates that many Americans hold values that contradict the supposed foundation of the country, like discrimination against minority groups.

While many students have expressed solidarity with their peers who are afraid following the election results, some students feel others have tried to belittle their concerns. The group acknowledged that BC’s lack of diversity directly contributes to this lack of

In an effort to empower and support young women, the Boston College Women’s Summit: Own It brought together nearly 400 attendees on Saturday to spark discussion about what it means to “own it.” Riham Osman, the director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s (MPAC) national digital media and communications strategy, gave the keynote address, which was held in St. Ignatius Church.

The third annual Own It Summit began with an opening ceremony, in which members of the Own It board and Vice President of Student Affairs Barbara Jones, the guest speaker, explained the importance and goals of the Own It Summit. Though this is the third year of the event, this was the first year that Own It was held in the fall semester.

The Own It Summit strives to encourage, inspire, and educate the female leaders of the future and demonstrate that they can make a change. The summit works to equip women with the courage to own their voices, their opinions, and their differences. Alexis Teixeira, Own It co-chair and CSOM ’17, urged women to band together to

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Riham Osman gave the keynote address at the third annual Own It Summit on Saturday.

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Boston College political science professors will analyze the outcome of the presidential election and discuss the key issues of the race in a debrief hosted by the Campus Activities Board. The event will take place on Monday from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room.

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Researchers at Boston College discovered that two strains of the same bacteria combat a common antibiotic with mostly different sets of genes and their underlying genetic networks, pointing to the need to develop antibiotic-sensitivity profiles for different bacterial species and the strains within them. The researchers reported in the leading microbiology journal PLOS Pathogens that their observation of two strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae found that each withstands the common antibiotic daptomycin using different genes.

“Contrary to generally held beliefs and expectations, we show that different strains of the same bacteria may respond to the same antibiotic in completely different ways,” Tim van Opijnen, assistant professor of biology and the lead author of the report, said to The Chronicle. “These varied responses contribute to what makes it problematic to predict how resistance evolves in bacteria.”

S. pneumoniae causes diseases that kill millions of people around the world every year, particularly the young and old. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of streptococcus leaves many people vulnerable to potentially lethal infection.

“We believe that these types of analyses can be used to uncover the bacterium’s weakest links in the presence of an antibiotic and thus identify novel targets that could work synergistically with existing drugs,” the team concluded in its report.

9: I\d\dY\ij M\k\iXej The 16th annual Boston College Veterans Remembrance Ceremony took place on Friday at the Veterans Memorial on Burns Library lawn, where BC students in the ROTC program read aloud the names of those graduates who died during the nation’s military conflicts.

The e vent followed a Remembrance Mass in St. Ignatius Church by Robert Keane, S.J., rector of the Jesuit Community at BC and BC ’71. Keane served more than two decades as a United States Navy chaplain before retiring from military service as a captain.

Nursing professor Ann Wolbert Burgess, an internationally acclaimed leader in the treatment of victims of trauma, was the guest speaker at the event.

In her remarks, Burgess discussed the evolution of the ways that soldiers and scientists classified trauma of combat, from the descriptions of “nostalgia” in the 18th century to the present-day diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The ceremony ended with the introduction of a commemorative pin for BC alumni veterans, which was composed of the American and BC flags. Every veteran at the event had a pin placed on his or her lapel. The Connell School of Nursing also held a public panel discussion with VA Hospital representatives on the present state of mental health care for veterans.

“War impacts everyone, leaving visible and invisible wounds on the warriors who fight, disrupting their families and communities, and leaving lasting imprints on communities and countries,” Burgess said, according to The Chronicle.

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John F. Baldovin, S.J., a professor of historical and liturgical theology at the School of Theology and Ministry, will explore the Eucharist as the source of energy of true life in Christ in a presentation on Tuesday.

The event begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Heights Room.

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The Carroll School of Management will host an information session for the summer Catalyst Program on Wednesday from 5 to 6 p.m. in Fulton Hall. Catalyst is a 10-week program designed for non-management students to develop a solid foundation in management.

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By Leo Confalone Heights Staff Immigration has been a hotly discussed political topic this year, especially with the divisive rhetoric of the 2016 presidential election. On Thursday night, artist and Harvard professor Krzysztof Wodiczko spoke to students about his work and how it relates to the topic of immigration.

Wodiczko began his talk by displaying a photograph of a non-white immigrant avoiding the glares of two natives on a train in Switzerland. He described how the photograph represents the discrimination immigrants face as a result of a person’s fear of their own differences.

“Why do they fear this person?”

Wodiczko said. “Because his very presence invokes something that ought to be hidden: their own strangeness. The presence of this other person brings out all the repressed difference that they feel, so rather than confront this coming out, they would just deport this person.”

Throughout his career, Wodiczko has tried to address this misunderstanding and lack of communication between immigrants and native citizens in modern society. One of his practices, interrogative design, seeks to combine art and technology to draw attention to and solve cultural issues.

At the event, Wodiczko shared a video showcasing his Alien Staff project that took place in several cities across Europe during the early ’90s.

The Alien Staff was a conglomerate walking stick that helped to tell the story of an immigrant.

The staff featured a small video monitor and speaker at its top, which would display a recording of the owner sharing his or her story and struggles as an immigrant. The middle portion of the staff was made up of a number of clear tubes, each one containing an important relic from the immigrant’s life, such as photos of his or her family or visa documents. The goal of the project was to prompt increased communication between members of the marginalized immigrant community and the general public.

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Krzysztof Wodiczko spoke to students about how his work related to the controversial issue of immigration. because of this object, it is too late not to start a conversation, and that’s the idea,” Wodiczko said. “The walking stick is unnecessary afterwards.”

In light of the results of the recent presidential election, Wodiczko believes that his and similar work may soon become imperative.

“It’s quite possible that, if [the] president-elect was actually to follow his own speeches in relation to immigrants, perhaps we, as artists, especially those who work with media and public space, will have to do something,” Wodiczko said.

“To bring more understanding and connection between those who are strangers and those who claim to be non-strangers.”

Wodiczko is most famous for his large-scale projections that turn building façades, statues, and memorials into canvases. He animates these surfaces with images of either live or prerecorded video and sound to bring social issues to the forefront of public discourse.

“Buildings are silent faces,” he said.

“They see with their blind eyes and they hear with their deaf ears what is happening around them, and they cannot say anything.”

Wodiczko believes buildings are suffering a sort of post-traumatic condition. Those who might suggest the possibility to speak through monuments are monuments to their own trauma themselves, he said. He believes these people are silent monu-

ments to what they live through.

In 2001, he carried out a projection project in the Centro Cultural in Tijuana, Mexico, a border city dominated by factories called “maquiladoras,” in which North American corporations utilize cheap Mexican labor. Women in Tijuana are often discriminated against, mistreated, and abused in the workplace and by police, and Wodiczko sought to create a way for women to speak out against this injustice.

He designed a helmet with a video camera and a microphone that projected the face of the wearer onto a building while he or she spoke. Wodiczko chose the spherical facade of the La Bola IMAX theater in Tijuana as the medium for a symbolic purpose.

As women factory workers had their testimonies of struggle projected upon the building, a film glorifying the relationship between the United States and Mexico was being shown in the theater.

“It’s a blast of truth,” Wodiczko said. “There is still public space, at least, on paper. But the fact that there is such a thing called public space doesn’t mean that it is public. It is public in the moment when you actually try to say something that seems to be inappropriate to be saying in public, that belongs to some private world.”

Wodiczko has also done a number of projects with the the war veteran community, people whom he believes are alienated like immigrants within

their own countries.

In 2008, he redesigned an army Humvee by replacing the projectile launcher mechanism on its back with a video projector and speaker set. The War Veterans’ Vehicle debuted in Denver just days before the Democratic National Convention was set to take place in the city.

The vehicle broadcasted interviews with veterans about their difficulties in society as their words flashed upon the side of a building.

Warfare sounds, such as gunshots, could also be heard, in an attempt to communicate the realities of war to the public. Wodiczko has done similar projections with the War Veterans’ Vehicle in Liverpool and Warsaw.

Wodiczko was awarded the prestigious Hiroshima Art Prize in 1998, an award given every three years that recognizes an artist who promotes global peace through his or her work.

He has developed a proposed plan to build the World Institute for the Abolition of War in Paris, which is outlined in his book, The Abolition of War, in order to analyze and discuss the issue of war and hopefully avert war altogether.

“It will work on various levels theologically, culturally, artistically, politically, and technologically to analyze and discuss the issue of war and peace, and also to open up channels of possible engagement that will lead to the averting of wars,” Wodiczko said.

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By Andrea Ocasio For The Heights Students and faculty gathered to hear Kanan Makiya, an author and a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at Brandeis University, speak about his book The Rope on Thursday in McGuinn 121. In the lecture, which was hosted by the Islamic Civilization and Societies Program, Makiya discussed his spin on the Iraq-American War. Makiya read an excerpt from his newest novel, a political fiction in which he explores the Iraq-American War from solely an Iraqi point of view.

There are no American characters in the novel, and American occupation is only in the background. This

sparked an audience member to ask how Makiya could possibly separate the American shadow from the Saddam shadow in the Iraq-American war, as the two are intertwined.

Makiya reiterated that this was political fiction, not an account involving all sides of the story, as he only focused on the Iraqi side of the story, not the American side. Consequently, American presence in the novel is only alluded to.

“All the characters I’m alluding to are Iraqis, not Americans, because the characters of this book are all victims,” Makiya said.

He chose political fiction as the genre for the book because it gave him more room to highlight certain aspects of the story. “‘Might we hazard that fiction and

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real human behavior are mutually supportive and reinforcing?’” Makiya said. “My answer is yes.”

Makiya began to read an excerpt from his novel, in which the main character, a Shiite Muslim, has a conversation with Saddam Hussein on the day of his execution. “‘The only justice I recognize is you,’” Hussein said in the novel. “‘Death will be my redemption.’”

The main character struggles with wanting to believe what Hussein was saying and believing in the righteousness of the American presence. Meanwhile, Hussein is trying to convince the main character that he feels no guilt.

“My point is that when Hussein speaks, thinks, acts, out of the diplomatic realm, he did view himself in

this manner,” Makiya said.

Taking creative license with what the characters said, however, does not mean Makiya gave himself license to twist historical events. Makiya said that he had done research on the facts and events for several years prior to writing the book. At that point, he did not know what form the book would take, but was just looking for the most relevant research.

Before the Iraq-American War, Makiya had been quite critical of Arab intellectuals and had become a strong advocate for the American invasion of Iran. After it did not turn out the way he or most people hoped, Makiya turned to literature. “[A] work of literature can shed light on one of the most tragic moments in history,” he said.

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Wednesday, Nov. 9

Friday, Nov. 11

9:36 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Gasson Hall.

12:29 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage, intoxicated person on College Road.

Thursday, Nov. 10

12:37 a.m. - A report was filed regarding vandalism to a residence in Walsh Hall.

5:19 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident in Voute Hall.

7:56 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person at Lower Lots.

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There was an apparent split in the assembly. While many agreed with the proposal and felt that they should already have this resolution, others felt that the proposal isolated those who did not identify as spiritual, directly contradicting UGBC’s goal of being inclusive to all students. Others raised the concern of the timing of the bill, given the distress many are feeling on campus after a divisive elec-

tion outcome.

After debating, the SA decided to postpone the vote, and they proposed amendments to the bill. The assembly members suggested changes be made to the wording of the proposal as well as to include an emphasis on advocating for all faiths.

“Spirituality can and does inspire people to see beyond their own experiences and their own interests, and it inspires people to come together in the name of dignity and of love,” Toghramadjian said.

“It’s not the only way to do this, but it is a way for people to come together.”

Renowned playwright Sheri Wilner engaged an intimate audience of Boston College students on Saturday afternoon about how to launch their own writing-based careers in the arts. She spoke in the Bonn Studio in Robsham Theater.

Wilner’s wealth of work has been produced at several major theaters, both regional and national, and has been published in over a dozen anthologies. Wilner will teach two courses in the BC theatre department next semester as the Monan Professor in Theatre Arts.

One course will be about contemporary female playwrights. Wilner plans to collaborate with multiple female writers native to Boston for this course. She will also teach an issue-based course, in which students will address hot-button problems relevant in current events through their creative playwriting.

In the spring, Wilner will bring Kingdom City to BC’s stage, a play surrounding a real-life incident of conservative hostility toward a female director’s work.

Wilner opened her talk by explaining how she must begin with the impractical notions surrounding playwriting before moving onto the practical.

“The most important thing we can address is talking about what you’re writing, how you’re writing it, and why you’re writing it,” she said.

Wilner stressed the importance of finding a unique voice and materializing that voice

in ways that may clash with current trends.

Wilner encouraged students to delve into their passions through nonlinear forms of storytelling.

“It’s not just building something,” Wilner said. “It’s what you’re building. Go crazy, experiment, and explore.”

She next addressed the phase between having capable vision and creating work incapable of reflecting such vision, a phase that tends to prevent writers from reaching their full potentials. The only way writers can breach this period is to write incessantly and to never stray from the vision that motivated them in the first place.

Wilner transitioned into explaining the practical aspects of playwriting by reviewing resources in Boston that foster new writers.

She recommended StageSource.com, a website that lists production as well as acting jobs in the area and offers a profile page feature that can be useful for networking with other people in the field.

She also recommended PlaywrightsPlatform.org as a means for setting up readings of original plays. She said that readings are essential to a blossoming playwright because they create a low-stakes environment in which to gauge audience responses. Local theatre companies such as Speakeasy Stage offer internships and script submission outlets that can assist in networking and possibly getting a foot in the door of production.

On a larger scale, Wilner urged prospective playwrights to join playwriting organizations. Membership in the Dramatists Guild

of America, a guild of playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists, offers creative guidance through interviews and talks with established playwrights and legal guidance through reviewing contracts initiated by theatre companies and protecting writers from unfavorable theaters. The Playwrights’ Center, a non-profit theatre organization that supports playwrights, provides connections to fellowships as well as resources to begin workshopping one’s work.

Wilner emphasized submitting in great multitudes plays to any and all festivals and theatrical spaces. Statistics worked in her favor through the amount of her submissions, and they led to the further exposure of her work.

She explained that cultivating contacts whenever possible is also beneficial, and forming writers’ groups among these contacts aids all parties involved because they provide each other with feedback.

Concerning MFA programs, Wilner stressed taking an interim between undergraduate and graduate studies, so as to allow growth through real-world experience. She assumed this same position regarding experience when faced with the issue of finding an agent—agents only become a factor after a writer’s work is already in production.

Wilner concluded by framing her pursuit of playwriting as a passion rather than a results-focused effort. She encouraged persistence in this journey, saying that with hard work, you will find an audience.

“Keep at it,” she said. “If you build it, they will come.”

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Within the next week, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) will release a new social media campaign aimed at challenging traditional views of masculinity both at BC and in society.

The campaign, organized by UGBC’s Women and Gender division, is a series of brief photoshoots and interviews with students conducted every Friday and Sunday. The photos are similar to Humans of New York, in which the subjects are interviewed and posted online alongside a candid photograph. The project focuses on the constraints stereotypi-

cal masculinity places on a male adolescent.

Russell Simons, UGBC president and MCAS ’17, and Meredith McCaffrey, UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17, have wanted to put a greater focus on masculinity issues for some time now. Their official platform states that they will work to “...expand conversation about the culture of masculinity on BC’s campus.” This year, Simons and McCaffrey have begun to implement more concrete steps to address the issue. These efforts include the photo project and an event entitled “Decoding the Bro Culture.”

The goal of the project, however, as explained by Megan Flynn, the director of women and gender programming for UGBC

and MCAS ’17, is not to just focus on masculinity. It is intended to spark a discussion on campus about gender roles in a larger context.

Flynn wants to explore the interplay between feminism and masculinity.

“When I signed up to do women and gender at UGBC, I was thinking, ‘You know, feminism and empowerment,’” Flynn said. “I think in a lot of ways that movement requires men. You can’t ignore half of the people, and I think feminism and the overall goal of kind of breaking down gender stereotypes helps everyone.”

UGBC’s campaign does not aim to solve the issues pertinent to masculinity, but rather begin a constructive conversation within the

context of campus that can have an impact beyond BC, Flynn said.

“We wanted to focus on masculinity as a concept in order to show how these stereotypes of women being lesser and women being objectified have not just hurting women, it’s also men who feel pressure to act a certain way,” Flynn said. “[They] feel pressure to take on the opposite role to feel dominant.”

This pressure manifests itself in different ways on BC’s campus, perhaps most notably in ‘Plex culture,’ the reality that BC men often feel pressure to exercise to attain a culturally defined aesthetic rather than maintain health, Flynn said. In Flynn’s opinion, gender roles are also reflected in personal relationships—by

breaking down the false premises of gender roles, students are better able to interact with the individual, rather than their gender stereotype. The campaign is intended to shed light on those smaller interactions and how they connect to the larger issue.

Even though the photoshoots and interviews were focused on masculinity specifically, the project aims to challenge all gender roles. By focusing on one gender stereotype, Flynn hopes to facilitate a conversation about individual experiences that can help a greater population.

“Hopefully people realize how feminism and gender equality benefits everyone, it’s not just for women,” Flynn said.

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“I think for women especially, achieving more success lies in how we inspire, share, and support the success of others,” she said.

At the opening ceremony, Osman gave her keynote address.

Through the use of social media and activism, Osman combats Muslim American stereotypes and fights for their civil rights in her job as a digital media and communications strategist at the MPAC. Her speech centered around her own struggles as a young Muslim American and explained that for years she was ashamed of her religion, until she decided to embrace it in college.

She shared the story of her long and arduous fight with AirFrance, which employed here while she was in college.

She was fired her for wearing her hijab, so she worked with the U.S. Equal Employ-

ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against religious discrimination. Eventually, AirFrance changed its national dress code.

Last year, Osman was given the opportunity to interview President Barack Obama via a Google Hangout. Though the prospect terrified her, she said yes to the opportunity and turned it into an opportunity to raise issues impacting Muslim Americans.

Osman noted how long it took her to own her voice and beliefs. “‘Owning it’ is a process,” she said.

She challenged the members of the audience to say “yes” to the opportunities that scared them the most, not to be paralyzed by the fear of failure.

“Don’t let anyone ever tell you that your identity could stand in the way of following your dreams, and, most importantly, surround yourself with other ambitious women who want success for you as much as you want it for yourself,” Osman said.

After the keynote address, students divided up to go to individual conversations, panels, and workshops.

Osman and mentors were there to facilitate discussion and encourage the attendees to think about their passions, motives, and purposes. Attendees were free to choose from 15 different workshops.

Topics ranged from gender inequality, female sexuality, and body image to entrepreneurship.

In the future, the Own It team is looking to recruit more alumni speakers. It has partnered with the Council of Women for BC to grow the alumni base at the event.

“My favorite aspect of the day is seeing the community of women really come together,” said Rachel Simon, director of alumni and CSOM ’18. “I think that’s a really strong community to begin with, but when you bring everybody in, and then bring allies like men that want to come as well, I think it creates this unity and solidarity that people can really connect to and feel empowered by.”

Editor note: Below is a letter from UGBC executives to the community following the 2016 presidential election.

Dear Members of the Boston College Community, This past Tuesday, our nation voiced its collective opinion regarding our president for the next four years. As your student representatives, we would like to add our voice to the ongoing dialogue in our community and country.

The Undergraduate Government of Boston College has dedicated itself to the task of building an inclusive student community that celebrates the diversity of its members. We work on behalf of those whose interests and needs go either unheard or unmet—and stand up for the right of all students to exist free from intolerance—with the ultimate goal of improving our campus community.

We believe that only through acceptance and respect can our university meet its mission of excellence.

We are committed to representing every student at Boston College. Despite the polarizing dialogue of the election season, UGBC has encouraged critical and active exchange of thoughts and ideas across political lines by hosting educational events with collaborators from the Division of Student Affairs’ Civic Engagement Committee.

However, some of the rhetoric and debate of this election cycle has strayed from respectful political discourse, inciting acts of hatred and violence. As a result, many of our students—especially students of color, queer students, students with disabilities, students who have experienced sexual trauma, immigrant students, and Muslim students—have felt the need to defend their livelihoods and identities from prejudice on this campus and in our country.

Such language and actions have been labelled as political, suggesting they are topics for debate. Yet the right of students to feel safe on this campus and in this country is not up for debate; the

right of students to feel welcomed into, and included in, our campus community is not up for debate; the right of students to discover and develop their authentic selves free from fear is not up for debate.

As individuals at a Jesuit, Catholic university, we are uniquely charged to be “men and women for others,” meaning that we live to care for the common good. In times of division, we are especially charged to care for those whose voices are suppressed and identities undervalued.

As a result, we all must stand up to bigotry and intolerance directed toward anyone in our community or country. We all must exercise empathy and compassion and remember that they cannot be reserved for a select few.

How we deal with hardship defines us. This process begins with identifying our values and the ways in which we will defend them. We do not have all of these answers now, but we can move closer to them as we engage in dialogue and action together.

For our part, UGBC will never stop fighting to improve the student experience and to ensure that students of all backgrounds and identities feel protected and accepted.

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In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, I, along with many of my peers, needed time to comprehend what happened—and to be honest, I’m still trying to come to terms with the results. It was hard to articulate my emotions—primal ones of grief, fear, despair, and rage—into rational thought, and top off a facade of complacency by slapping on a fake smile before heading to class, all the while being acutely aware of my identity in this country. I didn’t sleep that night—instead, I watched the sun rise from my room and saw the dawning of a new chapter in the story of America.

Soon will be the much less vitriolic elections for the members of the 2017 Heights board, marking the end of my time as features editor. Granted, the future of the free world isn’t completely dependent on The Heights elections—nevertheless, it’s a time of transition and a time of reflection.

My first lesson as a student of science that has since solidified during my time with features is that I will always be a perpetual student, always seeking knowledge and so changing the way I see the world. The lessons I’ve learned on The Heights have been magnified on a national scale, with changing demographics and emphasis on various social issues making apparent that cultural metamorphosis is in our nation’s genetic makeup, resulting in a story woven by a thousand different threads. And my personal story at Boston College, a fractal of other unique stories from individuals I have come to know through my affiliation with The Heights, is itself one of those threads that weave into the fabric of our nation.

By writing for features, I sampled all that this University had to offer by living vicariously through others, even if it was only for a 30-minute interview. I pause and think of what could have been, as I think everyone else does once in a while—how history’s ripple effects influence the stories I have come to know, which have ripple effects of their own that influence what comes next. I think of the stories I didn’t get the chance to write, the stories I could have written better, the people I would have liked to meet, and I question if I managed to reach my full potential. But after some time to reflect—and in light of recent events— I’ve come to reconcile the feeling of coming up short.

BC’s motto is “Ever to Excel.” As individual students, we’re constantly pushing our limits in our quest to learn more about ourselves. As a collective, as The Heights, that means we’re constantly changing, constantly improving, to keep up with the times and keep our readers interested.

Despite all that we do to improve the newspaper, however, I don’t think we’ll ever reach the height of our

existence for which we are so named.

We’re only human—we might neglect our responsibilities, we might crank out a poorly written article, we might anger a few readers. We’re not perfect, but I think that’s a good thing. Think about it—should you plateau, you will stagnate. It’s that dynamic ebb and flow of life on the Heights—whether the campus or the newspaper—that’s the lifeblood of the newspaper, much more so than the ink and toner of the office printers.

With all that in mind, I’ve accepted that I will never reach that height—I’ll never perfect my writing style, I’ll never have a definitive opinion, I’ll never write the end-all and be-all of articles.

And for that I am thankful. Because every time I’ve attended an event or interviewed someone and listened to what they had to say, I became undeniably different. The stories they chose to share with me became a part of my story, just as they have become a part of the newspaper’s, and by extension, the University’s. And every time I’ve sat in front of my computer, every time I opened a new Word document, every time I wrote an article, column, or review—indeed, every time I wrote—I was not the person I once was.

I believe that writing for The Heights comments on what makes us human. Writing for The Heights is just a more formal, organized way of storytelling, really. But why do we tell stories? Why do we want to hear others’ stories? Yes, we can learn more about our society this way, but it also gives us the opportunity to learn more about ourselves, juxtaposed with the people around us. Thus, being acutely aware of that storytelling tradition, knowing how to tell a good story, and constantly striving to improve yourself are so important to be able to write effectively, especially for features.

So with each page we turn of the newspaper, we turn to a new page in our own stories, and turn to a new page in the story of The Heights that began almost 100 years ago. Looking back, I can say with confidence I have become a part of features just like those individuals who have wandered into the pages of the newspaper since its inception.

So as I watched the sun rise the first day after the election, I resolved to be unapologetically myself that day, the next day, and always, since it’s the best way to fight homogeneity. I’ve learned that learning is not confined to the classroom—rather, it is out there in a strange, wide world that I have only begun to know from my time with features. With the current state of the nation, I am blessed to have been able to grow up in a community that encourages diversity, where each person’s story deserves to be told.

Storytelling is written in our genes, and I hope that one day, I’ll be able to tell my children a good one before I tuck them into bed. But for now, in my own little world at BC, I’ll start here: what’s your story? I’d love to write about it.

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The political cartoon is one of many types of media through which American political ideology has been conveyed in over the years. Through their work, cartoonists present a serious, often controversial topic in a more light-hearted way. But political cartoons often surpass simple slapstick humor—they include biting commentar y and satire as a means to comment on or even attack a certain candidate or topic. And, if done correctly, political cartoons have the power to influence and affect popular opinion.

“It’s a part of the process of vetting a candidate, it’s part of discussing politics and it’s a form of free speech for these cartoonists,” said Julia Hughes, a research librarian at Boston College and one of the people responsible for putting on this exhibit.

While showcasing what material O’Neill has to offer, the Campaigns and Cartoons exhibit seeks to educate students on what makes up political satire and how it has progressed.

Not only that, but the hope was that it would spark conversation among students, especially amid a severe and seriously polarized political atmosphere.

“I wanted to do something that would bring some kind of levity to this topic of the presidential election,” Hughes said. “This was such a contentious campaign season and a very seri-

ous election.”

Of the many cartoons in the exhibit, a few are strikingly relevant to the 2016 political campaign. One page of comics, which relates to the election of 1948 ,shows a similar kind of controversy.

In 1948, people were certain Thomas E. Dewey would win against President Harry S. Truman, so much so that The Chicago Daily Tribune famously printed the headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” in an early edition of the next day’s paper, which was printed before East Coast states had fully reported their results.

Similarly, based on popular polls, people believed that this year Clinton would win the presidency.

The very last cartoon in the exhibit looks dramatically different from the rest. Instead of intricately drawn caricatures on classic yellowed paper, the XKCD cartoon depicts stick figures printed on stark white paper. Hughes decided to include this piece in the the exhibit to show students that there has been a shift in media from paper to the web. Naturally, this shift has come with both positives and negatives.

“I don’t know if there’s been a transformation but there’s been an evolution,” said David Hopkins, an assistant professor of political science at BC. “An evolution in both the way media cover politics and the way citizens consume media.”

Within in the past decade or so, citizens have relied more and more on the internet and social media to get our news, rather than traditional newspapers. On one hand, more people than ever have the opportunity to create and share content of some sort as well as comment and critique. On the other,

there has also been an intense increase in the speed and passion of these criticisms and reactions. People can rapidly rally supporters and spread fabrications, allowing for similar thoughts to spread almost instantly. Consequently, audiences and the media often overlook the actual satire and the point of a cartoon entirely. This cultivates a culture that values clickbait and sensationalism rather than conveying the most informative picture of what is actually happening, Hopkins said.

“To some extent, the media is a business,” Hopkins said. “They are in the business of providing service to customers, so they have an incentive to cover what they think the customers what to read or want to see.”

This has been particularly true considering the nature of the media during the supercharged 2016 campaign. There has been increasing focus on the presidency and presidential election, at the expense of other aspects of American politics, and that was especially true this year, Hopkins said. Moving forward, he suspects the media will have no interest in anything other than the Trump administration.

Ultimately, no matter through what medium cartoons are consumed, they will remain an integral part of American political media and will continue to impact popular culture and opinion. “[Political cartoons] will remain an important way to entertain the electorate and to provide feedback to politicians,” said Jonathan Laurence, another BC professor of political science who has shown support for the exhibit.

“Cartoons are an important instrument of press freedom and an outlet for the frustrated.”

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“Age quod agis” is a Latin phrase familiar to many throughout the Jesuit tradition It is often translated as “do well whatever you do,” but for a young man growing up in Hyderabad, India, it was a challenge to not just do well, but to do good.

After over 25 years at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Gautam Yadama was named the new dean of the School of Social Work at Boston College this month, and he will officially assume the role this July. With his new job, Yadama is bringing in his own ideals and reminding the students in the School of Social Work and at BC about the many problems facing the people of the world today, and what they can do to help.

Yadama’s ideas about helping the less fortunate were instilled at an early age, the same way they are being instilled in many students at BC—through Jesuits in his life who educated him in ideals

to live by.

Not only did they teach him to do well, they taught him to think about his place in the world.

Yadama is excited to return to a Jesuit university for this very reason, as he believes it is a place where students are driven by something deeper than the idea to succeed in a traditional sense—they’re driven by the potential to affect change around them.

“As a Jesuit institution, we have students in the undergraduate and graduate schools that are focused on making a change for societal impact,” he said.

“If it is all about ‘men and women for others,’ we give a reason to exercise and experience that, not just as an ideal, but in practical and pragmatic ways.”

The way to experience being a man or woman for others is through the tenet Yadama believes is at the core of social work—placed-based work with communities to understand and improve the lives of the poor, work that is then used to understand larger problems.

Academic institutions often do great research about how those in low-

and middle-income communities and countries live, and people do work with those communities to help the problems facing them. But to reach success in a sustainable way, the research and the experience must be combined to understand and intervene in the longterm, he said.

“Once that intervention is introduced, then piloted, and recalibrated, we can really begin to deploy it and scale it as we see it’s working,” he said. “That’s translating knowledge that we build with communities in a place and across disciplines, translating it for impact. So that we are not just doing data collection for the sake of doing it and writing up an article. But we are going beyond that … to effect change.”

It is especially exciting for Yadama to lead a place where many are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving.

He said that when different parts of the University join forces, they can begin to design and craft interventions into real problems.

And Yadama has come at a time

when there are plenty of interventions that need to be crafted.

Environmental, educational, health, and societal issues seem so numerous that many feel overwhelmed with the depth and complexity of challenges, especially in the aftermath of the presidential election.

Yadama believes that with each unique problem, a unique person is needed to help find a solution. And often he says it takes many people with different backgrounds to come together and share their perspectives to have the most powerful impact.

Yadama’s own background is largely focused on research into poverty and the environment. He sees that those in the United States often take for granted the ability to turn on a light, run water, or charge a laptop, but there are millions around the world who have no such luxuries.

“That’s my focus,” he said. “How to power the poor. How to get them into clean systems of energy so that we can get them out of poverty over the course of a generation. But even as we’re work-

ing on that long-term plan, how to get them renewable energy today.”

To do this, Yadama applies his own ideals of place-based work and research.

For more than a decade, he has visited communities around the world to establish relationships and experience firsthand challenges people face today.

With the current state of the U.S. and the world, Yadama directly experiences the depth and breadth of many issues facing many people. He also understands how disheartened many feel about how much change they can directly influence.

But for Yadama, in the face of setbacks he believes one must respond with even more tenacity to approach problems, and more audacity to create solutions.

“How do the poor live? The poor are tenacious. They get up every day.

That doesn’t mean they’re satisfied.

They just don’t give up,” he said. “They are the ones taking risks at the margins every day. Those of us who are fortunate should understand and learn from that.”

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N`k_ ?ldXe`q`e^ Gf\kip# >XiZ`X Hl\jk`fej ;ife\ NXi]Xi\ 9P 9<IE8;<KK< ;8I:P =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj As a young mother, poet Kim Garcia stayed in a Benedictine Monastery, where she was exposed to the peaceful solitude and firm routine of monastic life.

She lived the way the monks did— simply: rising each morning for prayer and meditation, eating together in peaceful silence, listening to the chants, hymns, and psalms that, to Garcia, sounded like poetry.

“One day, a monk smiled at me and said, ‘Writing is your prayer,’” Garcia recalled, smiling.

Garcia, a creative writing professor at Boston College, now uses silence and the ordinary to create enchanting and haunting poetry that brings readers to question what it means to be human.

Garcia’s latest project is her awardwinning book of poetry, Drone, Winner of the 2015 Backwaters Prize. The collection marries the personal and political aspects of war, prompting readers to wonder where the boundaries of a warzone end and begin.

Drones—unmanned aerial vehicles controlled by pilots in secured locations on the ground—are frequently utilized by the U.S. military in combat zones in Iran and Iraq. From the time of the drone’s conception, the weapon has been subject to criticism and debate.

Supporters argue that drones save countless lives, sparing innocent pilots and aerial technicians from the violence of combat zones.

In contrast, critics argue that drones dehumanize warfare and remove pilots from the stark reality of murder, specifically from the deaths of innocent civilians overseas.

“From the time I first learned of drone warfare, I was haunted and bothered,” Garcia said. “Drones are silent and hidden. Front lines are completely redefined by them—anywhere can be a warzone where a drone is present.”

In her poem, “Drone: The Pilot’s Wife in Church,” Garcia details the divisive effects drone warfare has on humanity, marriages, and a soldier’s relationship with his conscience. The poem highlights a contrast between a secular, modern world, a war-torn world in the Middle East, and God’s safe, grace-filled world, the world intended for his people.

As the pilot’s wife stands quietly in church, listening to the words of her pastor, she cannot help but wonder what or whom to pray for. Is it just for her to ask for her husband’s hands to stop shaking, for his mind to stop escaping him, if he ended dozens of lives? He was following the orders of superiors, but in the end, he was the one who killed—all with the push of a drone-controlling button.

“What should she pray?” Garcia writes. “How can God answer?”

In “Drone: The Pilot’s Wife in Church,” and a variety of other poems from her collection, Garcia brings her audience to explore answers to life’s most difficult questions.

Though war has been a part of human existence for centuries, American pilots have never been quite as powerful and removed—almost omniscient—in times of war as they are when flying drones.

“People speculate that directing a drone is a lot like playing a video game,” Garcia said. “But that’s not the case.

Pilots may be physically removed, but they are so intimate with their targets.

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Professor Garcia’s collection of poetry explores the dehumanization of modern warfare with the advent of drone technology.

They have to stay and watch, watch the consequences of their shots. And that marks soldiers for life.”

As a poet, Garcia takes an intimate approach to writing, accompanying her words from their origins in her mind, to their translation onto the page, to their absorption into the ears of those around her. She wants to hear their effect, their impact.

From the time she was a young girl, Garcia loved books and reading, and imagined herself writing for the rest of her life.

“I always wrote a heavily poetic kind of prose, but I had no idea what poets would do or how they would support themselves,” Garcia said.

During her days in high school and

throughout her undergraduate career at Reed College, Garcia found herself supported by a wonderful variety of teachers—from 11th grade English teacher Mary Weidner, to Lisa Steinman, the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Reed.

Through this support and her commitment to writing, Garcia’s love of literature culminated in a career as an award-winning poet and beloved professor.

In addition to Drone, Garcia is the author of The Brighter House, recipient of the 2015 White Pine Press Poetry Prize; Tales of the Sisters, winner of the 2015 Sow’s Ear Chapbook Contest; and Madonna Magdalene, released by Turning Point Books in 2006.

As a creative writing professor, Garcia supports and instructs her students in a similar style to that of Weidner and Steinman.

“I do with my students exactly what’s worked for me,” Garcia said. “I teach my students to be consistent in writing in the morning, before anything else breaks in.”

Garcia’s poems leave an impact on her audience members, floating in the forefront and background of their minds and drawing attention to issues and sensations they may not be aware of.

“Your eyes / which were not your eyes, but / the large saucers of fairytale dogs / in my blue book. I will hold you,” she writes in “Home Front, Pilot’s Wife.”

:Xi\\i :\ek\i @eZi\Xj\j Flki\XZ_# <e^X^\d\ek 9P IF><I :?8DG8>E< =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Grappling with maintaining a steady GPA, the Eagles’ football record, and a social life can be a lot for a Boston College student, and often post-graduation career plans are forced to take a back seat. With the arrival of Joseph DuPont, the associate vice president for student affairs, however, the Career Center has undertaken an initiative to increase student outreach.

The Career Center works to provide BC students with a resource for all facets of their career-related needs, including resume building, finding internships, and figuring out what career they may want. Having worked for the career centers at New York University and at Brandeis University, where he headed the program, DuPont was well-versed in the operation of such an program.

While the Career Center has typically relied on word of mouth to get students in the front door, DuPont, upon his arrival in 2014, set to change that through making the expansion and reach of their message an immediate priority.

Under DuPont’s leadership over the past two years, the Career Center has drastically increased its outreach to students on campus through the creation of new programs and a skyrocketing social media presence.

“The Career Center is more outward facing,” DuPont said. “We’re trying to let students know that they don’t have to know what they want to do to come here and make that a much bigger part of our mission. There’s almost this myth that to come to the Career Center students need to know what they want to do when in fact it’s almost the reverse, we’re really here to help students figure it out and walk them through the career selection process so they can graduate with a plan in hand.”

DuPont has worked to create new programs for students in order to provide services and make students aware of what the Career Center can do such as Launch, Endeavor, and Careerfest. As opposed to the past when events were more broad in scope, each event caters to specific career-related needs, with Endeavor being a three-day career exploration event in January, and Launch, a daylong conference in October for juniors and seniors to understand the rapidly approaching job hunt.

While the Career Center usually kicks the year off with the Fall Career Fair, this year DuPont instead opted to start the year with Careerfest. Unlike the formal and sometimes intimidating nature of a career fair, Careerfest was lighthearted and carnival-like in nature, showcasing the different opportunities the Career Center provides in a fun and approachable manner. The event was a massive success,

with over 700 students in attendance.

“We understand that students want services that are tailored to them and customized for where they are,” DuPont said. “So with Careerfest people can come in and see the wide array of things that we do that becomes a lot more clear.”

DuPont’s social-media blitz reached a high point this year, with the debut of the Peer Career Advisor Marketing and Outreach teams. The Peer Career Advisors are made up of outstanding undergraduate students who are then trained by the Career Center on various career-related topics. Made up of 10 students and headed by a graduate student, the teams focus on promoting the Career Center to students via social media and through pairing with groups, clubs, and organizations already present on campus. Coupled with those functions, the Peer Career Advisors also hold drop-in hours, during which students can take Linkedin photos, polish up resumes, and explore possible career paths, along with other career-oriented activities.

“We saw that there was a need for the Career Center to be more involved on campus and to get the word out to students about all the programs, services, and resources provided,” said Alyssa Rametta, the graduate assistant at the Career Center.

With the absence of Erin Gallagher, a Career Center professional who heads marketing, due to maternity leave, the PCA Marketing team has been working on improving the social media outreach to students in ways that regular Career Center staff would not think of.

One of these is Career Tip Tuesday videos, a series of weekly videos produced by the marketing team, in which it showcases a career tip or trick such as how to make a first impression in a somewhat humorous way.

“Prior to having the marketing team this year, we didn’t have much of a social media presence,” said Kaitlin Poor, a peer career advisor and LSOE ’17. “Now we post on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram about events, article highlights, profiles on alumni and faculty, and our Career Tip Tuesday videos.”

DuPont’s efforts have been wildly successful, with the Career Center seeing a 22.2 percent increase in student advising appointments during the past school year, with an additional 17 percent increase in student contact in the first two months of this year.

The 2016 Fall Career Fair also saw the largest attendance in the event’s history with over 2,000 attendees.

Building off of this success and with an eye toward the future, DuPont plans to continue increasing use of social media and consequently the Career Center’s reputation as an easily accessible resource for students.

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by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The book has received the Bancroft Prize and multiple other accolades.

The book, which offers a close reading and analysis of James Madison’s notes during the Constitutional Convention, tells the story of how this founding father contributed to writing the U.S. Constitution, yet also how Madison might not have been the man that everyone is familiar with.

“This is a really important text,” Bilder said. “Most people have read these notes about what [Madison] does at the convention, but I wanted to look deeper.”

The book is a culmination of about eight years of research, which included the reading of thousands of pages and multiple trips to the Library of Congress. At first, however, the idea for this book arose out of a desire to avoid research trips so that Bilder could stay at home with her two young daughters.

But after all, as she describes, it didn’t work out like that.

The trips to the Library of Congress and years of research spawned from the need for more information and more detailed manuscripts, something that Bilder, a University of Wisconsin graduate in English, had not initially anticipated. Nevertheless, she in-

sisted that this was a positive venture that was actually fun.

“The plan was that I was just going to stay in this office and read,” she said, acknowledging her desire to draw on her undergraduate reading skills. “But as I looked through earlier and earlier versions, that’s where the big puzzle opened up.”

As with any great work of history, however, the book has drawn criticism in conjunction with its praise. Especially in the highly political atmosphere currently present in America, Bilder’s work has been denounced by some for describing the Constitutional Convention as a ‘politicized event.’ In this sense, Bilder said, some people really liked the thesis behind the work. Others, on the other hand, wish to see the founding fathers as flawless heroes at the helm of a new nation, Madison in particular. Bilder argues that this was not the case.

“Do we want to think that those who wrote the Constitution are people, or are they heroes who have ideas that are fixed for all time?” Bilder asked. “We have to understand that they were people trying to fix problems, but that they saw the world differently and were not perfect.”

Bilder uses slavery as an example here.

Although Madison was deeply involved in how American federalism arose, he was also essential to the protection of slavery in the Constitution.

“He was much more involved in these protections than a lot of people like to think, so some people are not so happy,” she said.

The founding fathers were also not best friends, which is an oft-held notion in the minds of many Americans. Madison’s personal notes exemplify this. Madison and Alexander Hamilton, another currently popular American historical figure, came to

detest one another. Madison and Thomas Jefferson were also at odds for the entirety of the convention.

“This book reminds us that this convention was comprised of people working out both government and personal issues,” she said. “In that sense, both liberals and conservatives both like and dislike it.”

Praise and criticism notwithstanding, Bilder is passionate about the subject. For her, this was a work for which she drew both from her literary experience and her historical perspective, something that continues to give her satisfaction in her educational career.

In spite of this, she chose not to make her book 800-some-odd pages for the purposes of readability and brevity. She even said that she began to adopt Madison’s succinct writing style. Therefore, she said, be thankful if you are ever required to read this piece for a class.

“I worked really hard not to make it too long,” she said. “In part to keep it interesting, but also partly because I thought some poor undergrads would be forced to read it.”

Madison’s Hand, Bilder’s recognition in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and, in fact, Bilder herself, have come to represent BC’s mission in research.

She adopted this project as her own for eight years, which—although it is no marathon by academic standards—has been half of her own daughters’ lives. Thinking back on that, she reflected on the accomplishments of all women in law, which is a particularly important demographic to recognize following this year’s presidential election.

“This is meaningful because of all the women who have done all sorts of different things in Massachusetts,” she said. “After all—everybody’s doing the best they can, and that’s important.”

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n 1996, Leahy arrived at BC from his former position as executive vice president at Marquette University. Back then, the acceptance rate for incoming freshmen was 37 percent. Since then, the applicant pool has increased from 16,680 to 29,486, and the acceptance rate has dropped to as low as 29 percent. But even before that, John Mahoney was here. In 1990, he became the director of the Office of Undergraduate Admission, a position he has held ever since.

Mahoney cited three key reasons for BC’s rise in the academic world since 1996. First, the academic reputation has improved. With the 1999 arrival of Alan Wolfe, a political science professor who Mahoney described as a “public intellectual,” and the 2001 hiring of prolific author Juliet Schor to teach in the sociology department, the University became a destination for faculty members. Wolfe was the first director of the Boisi Center for Religious and Public Life, and had been at Boston University before coming to BC. “The impact, in so many ways, put Boston College on the map as a powerful academic institution,” Mahoney said.

The relationship between the applicant pool and the academic reputation of the faculty is something of a chicken and egg situation: with better faculty come more qualified students, and with more qualified students, the academic reputation of a school increases, and more faculty are inclined to come.

“We’re attracting a larger applicant pool.

We’re attracting a more qualified applicant pool,” he said. “We are enrolling a more talented student body today than 20 years ago.”

Mahoney noted some other things that have upped the academic quality of the school in the last 20 years. The Institute for the Liberal Arts, begun in 2008, funds interdisciplinary, unique projects like Joycestick, a multidisciplinary effort to create a virtual reality video game. And in 2015, the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship opened its doors to students interested in a career at a startup.

But it takes more than brilliant faculty and niche centers for a University to climb up in the rankings. What it takes to draw students in is a picture-perfect, coordinated, social mediaready campus. And that is exactly what Leahy wanted to accomplish. Mahoney points to the

expanded physical campus as an important factor in the more competitive admissions process. Under Leahy’s tenure, Maloney Hall and Stokes Hall were both built. In Stokes, amid the gleaming wood and buzzing chatter from the cafe, tour guides typically pause to talk to their groups about the benefits of BC’s rigorous liberal arts education. The building is a hallmark for BC’s commitment to the liberal arts, and an attractive one. Higgins Hall, a centerpiece for many science and nursing classes, has also been renovated, and so has Gasson Hall, the University’s trademark. These renovations were part of the 10-Year Master Plan that began in 2008.

The third element Mahoney noted is BC’s religious grounding. The Center for Ignatian Spirituality, established in 1997, helped to foster an increased religious consciousness on campus. He said that as BC becomes stronger academically, it is critical that its Jesuit values are not left behind. Former University President J. Donald Monan, S.J. was the architect of the modern BC, Mahoney said, and Leahy was the builder.

“It’s Father Leahy talking to upper-level admin, and talking to trustees and all of that wisdom has to be collected, priorities have to be set, fundraising goals have to be established,” he said. “He’s the nexus … decisionmaking has to happen at that very high level to determine what direction we want to go in, how we want to achieve excellence.”

But the rigorous academics, postcard campus, and core morals will only go so far if the Admission Office can’t reach potential applicants. So, in the last two decades, under the directorship of Mahoney, things have changed.

A broader applicant pool necessitates a broader geographical area from which to pull students. Between the early 1990s and about 2010, the Admissions Office particularly pushed to recruit more students from the western and southern states. Recruiters also travel to Asia, Europe, and South America to entice foreign students, whose numbers have nearly doubled as a proportion of the student body. They have also begun to recruit more aggressively on social media with a partnership with the Office from News and Public Affairs.

The efforts have paid off: the median SAT score of a BC student has gone from between 1150 and 1300, in 1996, to between 1300 and 1440, in 2016. There were 24 faculty chairs in

1996, and 84 now. Three and a half percent of students were international in 1996, and now international students make up 6.1 percent of the total student body. Alumni chapters have sprung up in Sao Paulo; Madrid; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Tokyo, among other cities.

And as the University continues to grow and to attract the best and brightest students from around the country and the world, it has jumped up in the rankings. From 37 to 30 in the U.S. News and World Report represents a significant jump, Mahoney said. It might be harder to get up into the top 25 or even 30: those schools in the elite category tend to stay in the same position. These schools have long-established, powerful academic reputations and larger endowments, which presents a particular challenge to the Office of Admissions.

“We are the window to the University, to so many people,” he said.

‘GROWTH POSSIBILITIES’

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C’s Light the World campaign exceeded its $1.5 billion goal this June, and reached $1.6 billion, the highest amount of money raised in a campaign since the University’s inception. Light the World raised more than triple the amount of money of the last financial campaign—Ever to Excel, which ran from 1997 to 2003, raised a comparatively paltry $441 million. One hundred forty thousand parents, alumni, and friends contributed to the campaign, which began in 2008. The two capital campaigns that ran during Leahy’s presidency raised over $2.41 billion combined.

Georgetown University is BC’s biggest rival for applicants. Its last capital campaign, which ended this October, also raised about $1.6 billion, though it began in 2006.

BC’s successful campaign designates its funds to specific divisions: academic excellence, financial aid, Jesuit Catholic heritage and student formation, athletics, facilities, annual giving, and a category for donations that are pending designation. Some of the categories were overshot, notably athletics, which raised over $136 million, well above its original goal of $100 million.

From this campaign, $247 million will go to financial aid.

In 2005, Leahy noted that one of his goals was to grow the endowment, which in 1996, upon his arrival, stood at $600 million. Now, the endowment is at $2.2 billion, significantly over Georgetown’s $1.5 billion. The endowment provides support for BC’s institutional success—money from it goes toward research,

faculty chairs, and student formation programs. The money from Light the World is distinct from the endowment.

Despite the fundraising successes of the University, Senior Vice President for University Advancement James Husson noted that there is still work that could be done. He hopes to get more alumni donating yearly to the University. Right now, about 85 percent of seniors contribute to the class gift, which is up from 27 percent in 1996. Husson did not disclose the number of alumni who contributed to the capital campaign, but noted that one of the challenges faced by the Advancement Office is reaching alumni who are too busy to have an active relationship with BC. “Our community of alumni, parents and friends were motivated by a desire to partner with the University to achieve these goals and experienced the Campaign as a call to action—a rallying cry that brought us all together to strengthen a University that means so much to so many,” Husson said in an email.

Annual giving reached $128.4 million this past year. When Leahy took over in 1996, $24.7 million was being gifted to the University each year.

The money from the Light the World campaign, and previous ones, make it possible to implement a 10-Year Master Plan.

Right now, the University is in the middle of a Master Plan that was first submitted to the city for approval in June 2008. One of the foremost points of the Master Plan involves moving all undergraduates into on-campus housing, which would make the University the first in Boston to do so. Another proposal is the integrated science center, which would augment the scientific research on campus and push the University into a higher academic echelon.

Campus has expanded beyond Main Campus since Leahy’s arrival. Perhaps most significantly, the University acquired the 43 acres that now makes up the Brighton Campus. Formerly the site of Archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law’s residence—now the remodeled McMullen Museum of Art—the purchase was a watershed moment for the University and a necessary symbolic change for victims of the sexual abuse scandal in Boston perpetuated

by Law. In addition, the Yawkey Athletics Center was completed in 2003, the Connors Retreat Center in Dover, Mass., was renovated in 2005, Maloney Hall was completed in 2011, and the Cadigan Alumni Center and Stokes Hall were both completed in 2012. Three buildings finished construction in 2016: 2150 Commonwealth Avenue, 2000 Commonwealth Avenue,

and the McMullen Museum.

All told, BC has expanded from 185 acres to 338, and from 90 buildings to 159.

Many of the administrative offices have moved across Commonwealth Avenue to the Brighton Campus, where the School of Theology and Ministry is also located. With the recent acquisition of nine acres of land on Hammond Pond Parkway, more offices are poised to move off of Main Campus, though none have specifically been named.

“To have doubled our size, and to have acquired land that was adjacent to our main campus, was an enormous boon to the growth possibilities for Boston College,” said Vice President for Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment Kelli Armstrong.

Under Leahy’s administration, planning for the future of the University has taken a more data-centric approach, according to Armstrong, who began at BC 12 years ago as an institutional researcher. Data includes benchmarking peer institutions, showing the demonstrated need for the investment, and mapping outcomes.

The University is constantly in the middle of writing or implementing a strategic plan, with new plans being written in the middle of every decade. When Leahy began as university president in 1996, he was tasked with implementing the strategic plan of the mid ’90s, as part of the University Academic Planning Committee (UAPC). As the University headed into the 21st century, the UAPC sought to develop BC’s academic programs, through the promotion of graduate and professional education in the University and the support of research as central to the mission of BC. “The council’s recommendations emphasize rigorous intellectual development and personal formation as the distinctive marks of a Boston College undergraduate education,” reads a 1996 issue of The Heights.

Funding from the UAPC allowed for new academic programs that made BC a national competitor with other institutions of higher education.

“The UAPC—that is, the plan of the ’90s—really made us a research university,” said former Vice Provost for Faculties Patricia DeLeeuw. “We have been building on that plan ever since.”

Beyond the implementation of the UAPC, DeLeeuw counts the steady growth in national rank, the creation of Church in the 21st Century Center, the increase in the endowment and number of endowed chairs among the faculty, and the renewed commitment to diversity as key successes of Leahy’s tenure.

“All these marks of a great university have happened during his tenure,” DeLeeuw said.

Now the institutional and financial future of BC rests in the hands of the University Strategic Planning Initiative, which will identify which facets of the University the next capital campaign should focus on. Looking ahead, University Advancement has not yet determined a focus, or even a name, for the next capital campaign.

“We want to follow the lead of the current strategic planning process and take the time to engage our constituencies in those outcomes as they develop,” Husson said. “This dialogue will inform the priorities and timing of the next comprehensive campaign.”

THE HEIGHTS

Monday, November 14, 2016

‘A MOM-AND-POP OPERATION’

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hen DeLeeuw began as a faculty member in the theology department in December of 1979, Boston College was a very different institution.

“BC was smaller, and frankly, it felt more like a community, because it was a smaller, less complex place,” DeLeeuw said. “Fondly, we called it a ‘mom-and-pop’ operation. It was more sophisticated than that, but it had that kind of mom-and-pop feeling about it.”

Similarly, Sharlene Hesse-Biber joined the faculty in the late 1970s, as a demographer and assistant professor in the sociology department. For Hesse-Biber, the University presented a chilly climate for women and minorities.

At that time, the University was a regional school, made up of mostly commuter students from the New England area and faculty who, in most cases, were from the Boston area and had been undergraduates at BC. BC had gone fully coeducational in all undergraduate programs just nine years prior, in 1970.

“Nobody was really asking about gender when I came here,” Hesse-Biber said. “Nobody was asking about issues of diversity or women’s achievement when I came here. And this is not just unique to Boston College, these issues were going on across the spectrum of colleges.”

Decades later, women now comprise 54 percent of the student body. The regional ‘mom-and-pop operation’ of the late ’70s would become a nationally ranked research university, with a student body and faculty demographic that reaches far beyond the New England area.

Eventually, DeLeeuw would go on to become the associate dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and, later, vice provost—a post she held for 17 years, until her retirement last May. In these 37 years, DeLeeuw witnessed the institutional fabric of the University grow, change, and diversify to meet the needs of the time. DeLeeuw credits much of this growth to the strategic institutional planning of the past 20 years, under the leadership of Leahy.

“As a Catholic university, we are the place where the Catholic Church does its thinking, and Fr. Leahy recognized that BC could become a real leader in imagining what the Catholic Church should look like in the 21st century—in a university setting, where it’s an intellectual enterprise, thinking about the church,” DeLeeuw said. The Church in the 21st Century was created as a way to address Church reforms after hundreds came forward about sexual abuse within the Boston Archdiocese.

As vice provost, DeLeeuw was tasked with promoting diversity within the faculty, an aim that has informed the hiring process.

Institutional diversity has become an increasingly significant priority—and challenge—for the University. This comes at a time when race is at the forefront of the discussion on college campuses nationwide, seen in the wave of student protests and student activism across universities and on BC’s campus. As a nationally ranked university, BC shares the priority of diversity among faculty and students with many other institutions of higher education.

“In order to educate our students adequately for the 21st century, the University has to look like the world, and the demographics of the world are changing,” DeLeeuw said. “The University has to keep up with that.”

In an effort to address this aim, some institutions, like Brown University, have outlined strategic plans to create a more inclusive and

diverse faculty. Georgetown announced in September that descendants of slaves would be given preferential status in the admissions process, a strategic and highly lauded step to atone for the institution’s past—in 1838, the Jesuits who led Georgetown sold 272 slaves to pay the university’s debts, which many attribute to its survival. In January 2015, UGBC called upon the University to create a comprehensive plan to address problems of race on campus.

While BC has not created any strategic plan to address diversity, DeLeeuw cited the notable increase of faculty of color as indicative of the University’s commitment to diversity. In 2000, AHANA faculty comprised 11 percent of the total faculty. Currently, AHANA faculty make up 16 percent of the total faculty, and the faculty pool has grown to include nearly 200 new full-time faculty positions since 2000. Throughout her tenure as vice provost, AHANA faculty were 25 to 35 percent of the new faculty hired each year.

While these statistics speak to an increased commitment to diversity, the experience of faculty and students of color on campus remains divisive, with several rallies and protests against institutional racism. For Hesse-Biber, the University’s relationship with diversity has improved over the years, though there is still much work to be done at the structural and institutional level.

“This idea is that we have the numbers, but what have we done to make real structural

gender studies minor program in 1990 and the founding of the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center as markers of progress in the University’s commitment to diversity.

“All of those issues have been really flipped, in so many ways, as we fast forward decades later,” said Hesse-Biber. “We do have LGTBQ and AHANA [students], but, in reality, have we dealt with the real issues of diversity on campus?”

Hesse-Biber noted the need for increased funding, oversight, and accountability for the institutional structures currently in place that support AHANA and LGBTQ students. For the women and gender studies program, she noted, increased financial support is necessary to create a broader curriculum that addresses more aspects of gender identity, such as transgender studies.

“We have complex genders and sexual identities, and we need to address those issues without compromising people’s ability to feel comfortable in their gender and with their sexuality,” she said.

‘THE LEAST RESPONSE TO ACTIVISM’

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n the spring of 1997, five months after Leahy’s October inauguration, the University’s student-run Catholic newspaper, The Observer of Boston College, published a cartoon that depicted three scenes:

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Since first arriving at the University in the late ’70s, Hesse-Biber, a professor of sociology and director of the Women’s Studies & Gender Studies Program, has studied the experience of minorities and students of color at the University. The institutional climate toward women was not always welcoming, Hesse-Biber said, as her research reflects. A 2012 survey found that female students report lower self-confidence at the end of their senior year at BC than they do at the beginning of their time. In her earliest years at BC, Hesse-Biber researched the divergent, gendered patterns in men’s and women’s career planning, the collegiate classroom experience for women, and racial identity for African-American women on campus. She found that women were often outperforming men academically, yet their experience was one of being silenced in the classroom.

“It was co-ed, in terms of having women on campus, but had the structures really accommodated women’s needs?” Hesse-Biber said. “And here we’re talking about gender on a binary, men and women—never to mention what kind of women, or what kind of men. We didn’t talk about gender identity.”

Presently, women comprise more than half of the student body, and there has been considerable improvement in the institutional commitment to women and minorities. HesseBiber notes the creation of the women and

the KKK, a Nazi rally, and an abortion clinic.

The title of the cartoon was “Which one kills more blacks?”

Sparked by the cartoon, students held a town hall discussion, and then groups of students banded together to rally. The group started small. But then it grew, and soon the incident became about more than just the cartoon. Leahy was one of the administrators who spoke at the town hall. In a Heights archive photo, a younger Leahy vigorously gestures among a crowd of students. He commended the student body by saying that they showed “admirable civility,” and expressed his hope that the student body can convey differences.

“I know racism exists on campus,” he said.

This fall, after a sign in the Mod Lot was vandalized with an anti-gay slur, students came together to protest from several different stripes of activism: LGBTQ students, students with disabilities, and students of color came together in a march around campus.

The swarm of young people was flanked by Dean of Students Thomas Mogan and Vice President of Student Affairs Barbara Jones.

Though they were not standing in solidarity, exactly, they were there—a meaningful act at a protest called Silence Is Violence. The protest was aimed at the sign, on one level, but on another level, it was aimed at the lack of institutional response from high levels of the administration. Namely, Leahy.

But he hasn’t always been so silent. In the early years, at least, The Heights recorded

A7 several times that he spoke with students on their level. He held roundtable discussions.

He wrote at least one letter to the community discouraging racism. When, in the fall of 1998, he addressed the undergraduate community at the first student Convocation—an event he started—The Heights noticed that it was the first time in two years he had made a public address, and that that was momentous. But then, a few weeks later, he attended a town meeting hosted by student leaders representing the AHANA and LGBTQ communities to condemn a recent act of hate speech.

In the early years, then, his response to campus activism is spotty, but there. By fall of 1999, the campus attitude seemed to have turned more sour. Many of the problems that the “Silence is Violence” march focused on were noted as early as that year.

“We have a president that you can only meet if you hold some leadership role at this school,” one student wrote in a letter to the editor in The Heights. “I would not recognize Fr. Leahy if he walked up to me in the Mods and slapped a beer out of my hand.

In 2000, in a column in The Heights, a student wrote, “I wonder, Father Leahy, if you truly are a moral man, yet let the race problem on this campus persist.” And in a humorous list of tips for freshmen from September 2001, Leahy is noted as the “least-seen individual on campus.”

After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, Leahy wrote an email to the campus community that was reprinted in The Heights and appeared on a panel in Boston hosted in conjunction with The Atlantic. And then, in 2002, when the Globe broke the news of a sexual assault scandal, Leahy wrote an editorial in the Globe about “the joy of the priesthood,” according to an editorial in The Heights that expounded Leahy for not being critical enough about the problem of sexual abuse in the clergy. The editorial also noted that Leahy’s piece was especially notable because he is generally so publically reticent. In response, University Spokesman Jack Dunn, who has been the director of public affairs since 1998, wrote a letter back in April 2002.

“Sometimes, in the face of adversity, students must discern for themselves what is right and what is wrong and reach their own conclusions about the subtleties and complexities of life,” Dunn wrote. “This is what education and self-discovery is all about, and it is, above all else, what we as your teachers, administrators and admirers expect of you.”

This response is a shift from Leahy’s earliest days as president, when it seems as though he actively sat among students to communicate with them. Global events in the early 2000s, like the Iraq war, compelled students to call upon Leahy for a response condemning the war. He chose not to make a statement, instead attending a peaceful prayer ceremony. However, a few years later, in 2004, he addressed the entire student body about the forthcoming Master Plan and land acquisitions at an event sponsored by UGBC. But the lack of public response on largely social and political issues, and Dunn’s assertion that this is Leahy’s way of compelling students to make their own decisions, is consistent with the administrative response to activism today. Last month, The Heights asked Dunn what Leahy’s rationale is for staying so silent on issues, like race, LGBTQ rights, and global affairs, that are so important to students. “[Leahy’s] belief is that students should discern for themselves what’s right and wrong and formulate their own opinions, and that they’re best suited to do that independent of comments, statements, or letters from faculty,

staff, and administrators,” Dunn said. “We have every faith that our students can make their appropriate judgments. … We’re not an elementary school where the principal can send a note home.”

Consistently during Leahy’s tenure, students have felt otherwise. A 2006 column states that a University president ought to lead by example by making public statements about hateful events on campus—in this case, the writer is referring to an event where a young, black, male BC student was assaulted. In that same issue, in reference to the attack, the president wrote a letter to the editor calling upon students to treat each other with respect and report any similar incidents. And 10 years after that incident, the Silence Is Violence march demanded much the same thing of the University’s most-powerful, least-known administrator after the act of anti-gay hate speech. That time, however, the president’s office was publicly silent. Instead, Mogan addressed the defaced sign in a letter authorized by Leahy, and offered resources to members of the student body who wished to speak about the event.

The most recent letter to the editor written by Leahy was after the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013. Then, he wrote to encourage students to come together in prayer to honor the lives of those killed. The last campus-wide email sent out by the president was in December 2013, when he encouraged students to attend a baccalaureate Mass to celebrate the close of BC’s 150-year anniversary activities. Since then, he has not publicly addressed issues of activism on campus, or issues of national importance, as he once did, closer to the beginning of his tenure.

“Faculty have noted that the president has historically been the least responsive to activism that has a lot of publicity that is critical of the University,” said theology professor John McDargh, who has been at BC for 37 years.

McDargh noted that other Jesuit universities seem to have less of a problem surrounding campus conversation on activism because they have been proactive on social issues, rather than reactive. He cited the example of Georgetown, which installed a Gay and Lesbian Resource Center in 2008 after a hate crime against a gay student on campus.

But, in spite of consistent communication issues between the student body and the administration, two important pieces of activism have occurred on campus under Leahy’s tenure. First, in 2003, he approved a gay-straight alliance called Allies after significant campus activism.

And, in 2005, Leahy approved an addition of sexual orientation into the non-discrimination clause, after a referendum by UGBC indicated 84 percent student support.

Though his voice is largely absent from student-run campus media, Leahy has sat down with The Heights a few times. A profile written in 2005 focuses on his journey to BC, his goal of growing the University endowment, and his regret that he cannot spend as much time with students as he was able to at Marquette University, when he lived in a residence hall for five years.

Most recently, in 2009, he spoke to The Heights about his role as an adviser to several students. Neither article touched on his response strategy to divisive campus issues.

The 2009 article reads: “Leahy says he does take the time to understand the interests and goals of the students he interacts with. However, constraints on his time make it impossible to engage with as many students as he would like. ‘It’s all a function of time,’ he said. ‘As I’ve said to a number of students, there are 9,000 undergrads and only one of me.’”

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As a freshman, I often saw University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. walking on College Road, dining in Eagle’s Nest, and passing through Maloney Hall. We had never been introduced, so I would smile softly—quick enough to show respect, but not long enough to make it awkward.

Imagine my surprise when halfway through my sophomore year I discovered this man that I had been smiling softly at for the last 18 months was not in fact Fr. Leahy, but Fr. Joe Marchese, then-director of First Year Experience.

I believe this memory illustrates how many students experience Fr. Leahy. Unless you are one of the few freshmen he advises, or a member of a favored student group, it is likely that you have not had much interaction with our University’s president.

Consequently, student perception of Fr. Leahy is complicated to unpack. Most students view him as a disconnected figurehead, if they think of him at all. Some student leaders interpret his limited interaction with student life as a means to obstruct social progress. Still other students understand his decisions to use his time to prioritize the

University’s financial future over campus involvement as a business decision.

I spent the beginning of my BC career in the first camp. I knew little about Fr. Leahy’s decisions or their impact on students. My perception of Fr. Leahy was almost nonexistent, other than thinking how nice it was that he was always out and about on campus back when I thought he was Fr. Marchese.

I was president of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College in 2014. As someone who prioritizes diversity and inclusion not only in her daily life, but also in her leadership and advocacy efforts, I eventually came to understand Fr. Leahy’s absence as a predictor of campus culture. For many of us students, Fr. Leahy’s refusal to speak out on social justice issues was antithetical to the Jesuit values promoted by the University.

To add to the frustration, Fr. Leahy did very little to acknowledge or validate student concerns about real, pressing issues. As time went on, few of us could make sense of a leadership style that felt so far removed from the student experience. What was he prioritizing as president, if it wasn’t the students?

For those of us who had the opportunity to work with the University to improve student life, Fr. Leahy’s absence created another hurdle. In countless meetings, we faced

rejection without proper explanation, but the specter of Fr. Leahy was ever-present.

Although unspoken, there was often a sense that administrators wanted to do more to improve student life but were forced to align with a vision handed down by the University’s leadership. Whether administrative fear was real or imagined, it was our reality.

During my time at Boston College, I had the opportunity to engage with Fr. Leahy exactly three times—once as an orientation leader, once as UGBC president, and once as a resident assistant. With orientation leaders, statements were filled with pleasantries and platitudes, no one asked any difficult questions, and the conversation overall lacked any real substance.

As UGBC president, I found it much more difficult to organize a meeting with Fr. Leahy. If you thought that he valued the insight of student-elected representatives, you would be wrong. It took nearly a year for us to schedule our first and only meeting.

When pressed about supporting LGBTQ+ students on campus, Fr. Leahy expressed his desire for the University to promote “education, not advocacy.” I asked numerous times for clarification on this statement, but never received an answer. I began to wonder if he himself even knew

what it meant. Similarly, he expressed that it was not the University’s role to take a stance on social issues, a statement that was baffling to me in the context of the institution’s Jesuit values. In this same meeting Fr. Leahy asked us, “Why are you even here?”—making it clear that he believed his time was best served elsewhere, rather than meeting with student representatives.

This understanding of his leadership became clearer to me the following summer, when he came to speak at RA training. Faced with questions about the University’s efforts to support students of color, LGBTQ+ students, high-financial need students, and other underrepresented groups, Fr. Leahy struggled to provide meaningful, relevant— or even coherent—answers. This meeting finally confirmed my suspicions. Whereas I used to see his actions as intentionally dismissing student concerns in favor of another agenda, I now viewed him as someone completely unable to address student concerns.

Of course, this does not excuse his dismissal and invalidation of student experiences. It did, however, force me to consider his leadership in a new way. He clearly does not see himself as an arbiter of the student experience—he has the Division of Student Affairs for that. Instead, he chooses to

focus on the future of the University. In that regard, Boston College has tremendously benefited from Fr. Leahy’s leadership.

In particular, the success of the “Light the World” campaign has cemented the University’s financial strength among other elite institutions. Furthermore, it brings Boston College that much closer to Fr. Leahy’s loftiest goal: to become “the world’s leading Catholic University.” There are plenty of students who recognize and admire this use of his leadership. Yet I, and many others, are left wanting.

It is true that many students do not give Fr. Leahy a second thought and feel unaffected by his leadership. But it is also true that there are many students who are struggling to feel safe and welcomed on campus, who are looking for institutional support or recognition and are left with nothing to validate their fears and experiences. Until these students are reassured otherwise, in policy and in practice, Fr. Leahy’s leadership will be remembered by many as one that prioritized financial security at the expense of the University’s most marginalized populations.

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The 20 years since have seen Boston College achieve some of its greatest successes, including its ascent to being a nationally recognized research university. On the other hand, students have repeatedly expressed frustration over a perceived silence from the administration on relevant social issues, most recently in the form of the ‘Silence is Violence’ march this year after the vandalization of a parking sign with an anti-gay slur.

An editorial written in The Heights in 1995, before Leahy took office, advised him on the best path forward as he assumed the presidency. Some of the suggestions were: “Make yourself more accessible to students than Father Monan does,” “Build a consensus on the academic life of BC,” and “Confront student life issues head-on.” Looking over the 20 years of Leahy’s administration since the publication of that editorial, as The Heights did in this issue’s “20 Years Later,” shows some remarkable achievements and fulfillment of those goals, while also some ways in which those goals were not met.

Notably, academic goals have been met and surpassed throughout Leahy’s tenure as president. Since 1995, the acceptance rate has decreased from 37 percent to 29 percent and the applicant pool has increased from 16,680 to 29,486. A larger group of highachieving applicants have been attracted by the improving academic reputation, rising national rank, increased emphasis on research, and better faculty. All of this came as part of Leahy’s efforts to improve and expand the physical campus, grow undergraduate and graduate programs, and widen recruiting efforts. These accomplishments deserve commendation, as they improve the University for all graduates and current students by bringing it into an upper tier of academia.

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Heights made in the 1996 editorial have largely remained problems over Leahy’s 20 years as president: inclusivity and administrative silence. Up until 1999, Leahy’s record of student accessibility was relatively good, including roundtable discussions, a letter discouraging racism, and attending a town meeting hosted by student leaders representing the AHANA and LGBTQ communities to condemn a recent act of hate speech. This was not perfect or consistent, but since then there has been less obvious accessibility to the student body. A Heights letter to the editor written in 1999 read, “I would not recognize Fr. Leahy if he walked up to me in the Mods and slapped a beer out of my hand.” The issue has persisted up to now, as the ‘Silence is Violence’ march, the activities of Eradicate Boston College Racism, and the work of Climate Justice at Boston College have all been met with silence from Leahy.

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Leahy’s work toward building the University has been invaluable, but that long-term building has neglected the short-term needs of students. Leahy has prioritized growth over immediate responses to his students.

In the long run, this is to the benefit of the University. Yet, his job ought to also include becoming a more accessible figure to students who feel as though he should be a role model. Going forward, Leahy and the Office of the President need to consider whether his hands-off approach to student problems is to the benefit of the majority.

“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it’s fun in the end.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Over 200 Faculty Members Respond to Trump’s Win To the Boston College community: In the aftermath of a highly contentious presidential election with unprecedented levels of negativity and uncivil rhetoric, our community is unsettled. While some are pleased and optimistic about the election’s outcome, others are distressed, fearful, and apprehensive. In this time of uncertainty, it is essential that we come together as a community and work to heal the divisions that have intensified over the last few months.

Boston College’s mission statement closes by underscoring our community’s “deep concern for all members of its community, with a recognition of the important contribution a diverse student body, faculty, and staff can offer, with a firm commitment to academic freedom.” In keeping with the spirit of this statement, we encourage students, faculty, and staff to discuss and engage with the many issues raised by this election. We must respect different viewpoints—however strongly held—and not allow our differences to devolve into intolerance, bullying, or intimidation. We must create and maintain a respectful dialogue that reflects our values of diversity and inclusion and helps us learn from one another.

As faculty at Boston College, we remain committed to diversity, inclusion, and civil discourse, and, in the words of our mission statement, “the pursuit of a just society.”

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Monday, November 14, 2016

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8]k\i Kildg N`e# k_\ Gfc`k`ZXc `j G\ijfeXc Efk Pfli Gi\j`[\ek6 ?<@;@ ;FE> PENULTIMATE - Great word. Ever since Lemony Snicket introduced this into our vocabulary, we haven’t been able to stop using it.

WHOEVER PICKED THE EARLY-MORNING MUSIC IN LOWER - You stumble into Lower at 7:30 a.m. after being forced out of bed an hour earlier to attend to some unexpected business. After peeling a piece of seaweed off of the bottom of your shoe and checking your arms for any lingering tentacle parts, you take a deep breath and go get yourself a good ol’ Egg McBC (the finest of the McBC product line). Sitting in that little loner cove in the back, you quietly eat in the nearly empty dining hall and feel the depressing weight of the early morning quiet. That broken light is still blinking in the corner of your vision, despite that impassioned TU/TD plea last year. Life is tired, freedom is morose, victory is bitter, and overwrought writing remains healthy. You slowly lower your head onto the table, overcome by the cruelty of the world. Then the speakers crackle briefly above you, and the sound of string music starts to play.

Lifting your head, you listen closely.

What is this? Is that ... Hurt? Yes it is.

Someone in Lower is playing a string quartet cover of Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt,” and it is the best thing to ever happen at a Boston College dining facility. You take another bite of your Egg McBC (available at a dining hall near you) and lean back.

Lifting two fingers to your lips, you pretend to smoke a cigarette and gaze wistfully out the window as the first students leave their dorms in a cloud of morning haze. For a brief moment, you are one with “Hurt” and “Hurt” is one with you. All is right in the world.

TRYING TO MAKE A LITTLE CASH ON THE SIDE - Hey BC Dining, did you see how naturally that Egg McBC pitch fit into the story up there? Maybe a little casual product-placement money coming the Thumbmeister’s way? A little cheddar? Benjamins?

Big ones? Dead presidents? Lettuce?

Moola? Stacks? … No? … Ok. SELF-RESPECT - Never mind all that.

TU/TD has too much self-respect to try to get product-placement money. Our self-respect is strong, vibrant, flavorful, and savory, just like the steak and cheese available at Corcoran Commons and Carney Dining Hall.

SERIOUSLY THOUGH, WE’RE NOT GETTING PAID - So if you want to help us out, feel free to leave dollar coins on the bench approximately 7/4 of a mile down the Res if you start on the right. Only dollar coins and only that one bench. We will accept nothing less.

THE SUB-AQUATIC FORCES OF DARKNESS - For the past year, TU/TD has been engaged in many monumental and doomed conflicts with all that is evil in the world. Mostly minor inconveniences. But as we approach the end of what will forever be known as The Golden Age of TU/ TD, it is important that you never forget that the Thumbmeister will always be around to fight for what is right in the world (i.e. lower laundry prices) and against the encroaching darkness (i.e. cash-only vending machines) (also: Hnarqu).

On Wednesday night, I went downtown to the anti-Trump rally on Boston Common to report for The Heights. When I returned, I reflected on the backlash against the protesters and the emotion they displayed. Though I reported on the story as objectively as possible, I could not help but identify with the protesters.

Through the streets of Boston, members of the LGBTQ+ community, Black Lives Matter activists, Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, women, Fight for Fifteen activists, and immigrant and refugee activists alike linked arms and joined voices to chant “NOT MY PRESIDENT.” In an act of solidarity and a showcase of dissent, Bostonians, like those in many other cities across the nation, asked President-elect Donald Trump, and the 47 percent of Americans who elected him, “Can you hear us? Do you understand?”

Many don’t—don’t want to hear us, and don’t understand. Many are fed up with the volume and frequency of protests and movements. I get it, we all wanted this election, and the division and conflict that it came with, to end with election night. I understand. I’m tired, too. But please hear us, and please try to understand.

My plea is hypocritical, I know. We are on the streets shouting and protesting about how the nation has turned its back on us, while for too long too many hardworking citizens had been neglected by Republican and Democratic elites alike. I understand the anti-establishment sentiment, and I understand why people voted for Trump after the rest of the nation’s leadership refused to acknowledge their needs. But the success of one movement does not necessitate ignoring another.

Progress is not partisan.

We are on the streets of our cities, screaming into megaphones, because our message is one that must echo through cities. This is the man that will be representing this nation at the diplomatic table.

He will have a direct hand in the process of steering our education system, our environment, our access to basic health care, and our foreign involvement. He is the most powerful player on a global stage.

We march and chant because we do not agree with many policies that Trump has vowed to push. But deep down, what gets students, workers, elderly, and disabled citizens out on the streets, is how personal Trump has made this.

I do not believe that all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, or classist bigots. I do not believe that all Trump supporters are undereducated and entitled. I do not believe that all Trump supporters hate Muslims and want to neglect humanitarian crises across the globe. Many areas that decided the election for Trump also supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries. But I will argue that Trump supporters are supporting, or tolerating, a racist, sexist, classist, entitled, Islamophobic man.

Whether out of ignorance, indifference, or active support, the Americans out on the streets today, tomorrow, and the next day believe that you have turned your back on them.

This is personal. As a woman, I am heartbroken that so many citizens were able to look past or accept how Trump has treated women. My body is mine; it is not up for grabs. Our president-elect has been groping, forcibly kissing, body shaming, and just plain objectifying women since he decided he has the power to. No one has that power. I am more than the length of my legs and the size of my waist. I am more than my appeal to men. Women who have come forward about assaults that Trump has perpetrated on their bodies have been shamed, ridiculed, and threatened. Trump has said that after the election, he will sue them. As a woman, as a survivor of sexual assaults, as a survivor who has been cornered into reporting, I am heartbroken. I know the courage and the fear and the shame and the hesitance that come with reporting to one stranger. These strong and beautiful women have stepped on the national stage with their experiences, trying to show their country who they have been rallying behind. And to be met with a pointed finger, a promise

of a lawsuit, and the subsequent applause and cheering of other Americans? I am heartbroken.

This is the man that 47 percent of the nation that I live in has rallied behind.

Whether or not they believe the comments that Trump has made regarding women, Trump supporters have shown me that they tolerate this blatant disrespect and degradation. For that, I feel abandoned by my nation, and for that, among other injustices, I ask that you respect and try to understand the emotion that citizens are demonstrating in their streets.

We are coping. We are scared for ourselves and our loved ones, and rightfully so. Violent and unacceptable hate crimes are already being perpetrated onto minority groups across the country in the name of “making America great again.”

We are not acting out—we are asking for your help and your understanding. In the future, the protests will dwindle as we find other avenues to incite change toward what our founding fathers built and fought for—“liberty and justice for all.” Please hear this, and please understand this.

I am not hopping on a bandwagon of protesters. I have homework to do, a social life to revive, and a job market to compete in, too. I don’t need to be out on the streets of Boston casting my voice into echoing unison with thousands of others. But I choose to, and thousands of others choose to, because, America, everything feels backwards. Everything feels backwards because 47 percent of our country chose to turn their backs on respecting us. Since kindergarten, my day started with the Pledge of Allegiance— “one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Our nation is divided. We have half a nation screaming for the other’s attention. Please, I ask you to open your ears, open your hearts, and open your minds to what we are saying. I have done and will do the same for you.

Can you hear me? Do you understand? Trump is not my president. But I need him to become it.

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I enthusiastically joined the squad because of my love of dance and my desire to perform under the lights at Alumni Stadium. Shortly after doing so, however, it became apparent that I had vastly underestimated the hard work involved.

I spent my first week at BC, a time typically filled with ice cream socials, info sessions, and icebreaker activities, trying to learn over 35 dance routines.

After a long day of yelling “Go Eagles,” I dragged my tired body up the stairs to Upper Campus.

When I returned to my dorm, I collapsed on my bed. I wanted to join my classmates, chattering excitedly outside my window, but I could not muster up the energy.

Not understanding the work involved with the sport, my friends laughed when I complained of exhaustion. But when my honors professor had a similar reaction, I took notice. Being my freshman year adviser, she set up a meeting to get to know me better. After the typical questions—where are you from, what’s your major, how are you adjusting to college life, etc.—she asked what I was involved in at BC. I proudly responded that I was a member of the Pom Squad.

Noticing her blank stare, I added that we were somewhat like cheerleaders,

but based more in dance than gymnastics. I watched as the lines around her eyes creased, and she broke into a chuckle. I wasn’t surprised. Most people saw us as pure entertainment, instead of dedicated athletes.

The training did not get any easier after the first week of school.

We practiced for two hours, three times a week, and not being a morning person, the 9 a.m. Sunday practices were especially painful. On gamedays, I would wake before everyone in my dorm, the sunlight not yet creeping in from the edge of the curtains. Fumbling around in the dark, I would throw on my uniform, curl my hair and head to Alumni Stadium four hours before kickoff to receive my assignment. Some of us would hand out flyers advertising

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Two hours before the game, we would lead the football team from its religious service in Gasson down the Million Dollar Stairs. And then, it was onto the field for our pre-game routine with the BC Marching Band. For the next three hours, we were forbidden to sit, or even stand still, except for the 20 minutes during halftime when we ate lunch.

Just when football season ended, and we thought we could catch our breath, basketball season was already underway. The games were shorter, but we often had to dance at multiple

games a week. Simultaneously, we were preparing for our debut at the College Dance Team National Championships in Orlando, Fla., where we would compete against some of the best dance teams in the country. The coach expected our routines to be performed with perfect synchronization. Mistakes were not tolerated.

Pom Squad is more than the pretty uniforms and photo opportunities.

The next time you’re at a BC football game, take some time to watch the girls with the maroon and gold pom-poms.

Their routines may seem easy, but that ease is the result of many sweaty and frustration-filled practices. Unlike the average fan, they cannot leave the game whenever they want. They cannot look defeated when the other team throws a perfect touchdown pass or makes a 3-pointer. Regardless of the score, they keep a smile on their face and jump up and down like the game has just begun.

I don’t find fault with my friends or my freshman year adviser for not realizing the hard work involved with being a member of the squad. Many times in life, individuals underestimate how much is involved in a certain activity.

We think we understand something, when in reality, we do not.

I fall into this trap more frequently than I would like to admit. A couple years ago, I decided to ski down a black diamond with my best friend and captain of my high school ski team, thinking that the couple of lessons I took were enough to keep up with her.

Instead, I ended up needing ski patrol to escort me down the slope.

Take the time to learn about your friends’ activities—whether it be soccer, debate, or theatre, try to avoid making assumptions. Instead, take the time to learn. You’ll be surprised how much you discover.

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In the days since Donald J. Trump emerged as president-elect of the United States, protests have broken out in cities across the country. Thousands of people flocked to Boston Common on Wednesday night. The protesters held signs and shouted chants calling for impeachment and the abolition of the Electoral College.

They champion the slogan “Not my president,” and yet, in just a few short months, Trump will assuredly be just that.

This is how our democracy works. I can understand the frustration that many have with the archaic Electoral College system, but I can still acknowledge that Trump was rightfully elected to the office under the system we have always had. If the protests were simply about the Electoral College, the questioning of a system where the winner of the popular vote loses? Well, I would probably support them. I believe that such an antiquated system needs reform as well. But these protests are about a man, a man who lost the popular vote by only a narrow margin but still legitimately won the presidency.

The truth is that I’m not pleased about his election either, but I also wouldn’t have been pleased with Hillary Clinton’s. Like Governor Charlie Baker, I refused to vote in the presidential election because I firmly believed neither candidate was a conscionable choice.

I resolved to abide the outcome of the election whichever way it went, and in this way, some part of me understands the protestors’ frustrations.

But there are no consolation prizes or participation trophies in politics. Trump will be our president, and no amount of stomping through the streets will change that fact. The protest culture in our society has reached the frenzied point where people will now protest even unshakeable realities. One of the protesters I saw on the news held up a sign saying “Now we protest everything,” and I can’t imagine a more fitting motto for this era and this generation. It’s worth noting that these same protesters were among the people who called Trump petty and insolent for insinuating he might not concede if Clinton won the election. I have little doubt that if the situation were reversed, and Trump supporters were in the streets protesting Clinton’s rightful election, many of the people in the Common Wednesday night would have been calling them disrespectful threats to our great democracy.

Similarly, these protestors are some of the same people who parade around the theory that if only millennials voted, the country would be overwhelmingly blue.

Unfortunately, that fact doesn’t matter now any more than it will in 30 years.

Millennials didn’t vote in numbers that were meaningful for this election, and there is an argument to be made that the “blue” candidate bears some responsibility for not capturing our collective imagination. Will this upset election be the thing that causes my generation to sit up and take notice? This remains to be seen.

But I do know that there have always been elections when some were elated and others were not. It is, in fact, the very basis of our democracy. One person wins. One person loses. Throughout history, the thing that has endured is the orderly transition of power. In spite of our frustrations, we will have this again.

Clinton and President Barack Obama have shown tremendous grace and an amazing generosity of spirit in their reactions to the election. Their example should lead the way for all of us. Perhaps we need to stop denying and raging against the reality of our situation, and instead turn our focus toward doing the best we can with what we have. Anyone claiming Trump is not their president is drawing a clear line between themselves and a significant portion of Americans who voted for him. While they may not look like you, live near you, or think like you, they are your fellow Americans.

Clinton said it best this week with the words, “We owe Donald Trump an open mind and a chance to lead.” And although I wasn’t on Tuesday, on this particular point, I’m with her.

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Founded in 1979, BC women’s rugby has enjoyed some big wins and tournament success in its illustrious history, but nothing quite like its achievements this season. Last season, the team was knocked out of contention for a national title in a loss to the University of Connecticut—a team that would go on to win the national championship that year.

The Eagles instead played Princeton in the Ivy Rugby Conference, to whom they also lost.

This season, however, has been a different story entirely. After beating UConn this month to earn a Northeast Conference title, the team places in the top eight in the nation. The team will be competing in a quarterfinal match next weekend at Vassar against the University of Northern Iowa.

For women’s rugby this is not just another tournament, but rather something much more momentous.

As Molly Collins, MCAS ’17, put it, it’s a fresh start to redefine the team.

“It’s a team that has integrity, it’s a team that works hard,” Collins said. “No one has expectations of us and that’s really exciting, to be able to define your own path.”

Rugby, a fast-paced and physical game, has gained popularity in the United States in recent years for both its similarities to and differences from typical American sports. The objective of rugby, like most sports, is to maintain possession of the ball and score by reaching the other team’s goal. Teams consist of 15 players, divided by position into forwards or backs, and matches typically last 80 minutes.

Each goal counts for five points, the ball can only be passed backward or laterally, and full tackles are allowed. After violations, play will often restart with a ‘scrum,’ the distinctive

huddle of both teams in which players use their legs to try and gain possession of the ball.

Despite the intimidating nature of the game, nearly all of the current members of BC’s team had no experience playing rugby prior to college. Teaching rugby is not just about learning the rules, but also about demystifying misconceptions.

“I think there’s certain stereotypical labels assigned to the sport, and I love that my team is breaking barriers,” Collins said. “It doesn’t matter, a person’s a person—whoever you are, you can come play. You’re my teammate, you’re my family.”

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Also speaking to the misconceptions of the sport, Katie Murphy, MCAS ’18, noted that the aggression of the sport often drives people away. She was sure to emphasize that there is nothing to fear about a little blood and sweat.

“People hear rugby and they get scared and think ‘oh, I can’t play rugby, I’m not tough enough,’” Murphy said. “But there’s a spot for everyone regardless of your toughness level, how athletic you are, how fast you are, how strong you are—it doesn’t matter. As long as you are willing to put in the work, you will succeed.”

The true identity of the team, however, relies not on skill or success, but rather on the bond the players share with each other. The quintessentially BC desire to find a sense of home on campus is what brought several current members to the

team. A love of the sport is what drives the team’s current success—the relationships between players are an integral aspect of BC rugby.

Rugby has the potential to be a dangerous sport—one ugly tackle or wrong move in the scrum could leave a player badly injured. For this reason, trust within teams is vastly important—every player needs to know that her teammate is watching out for her.

This trust is particularly evident in the Eagles this year.

Every new player has a few games at the beginning of her career when she is still not confident in her knowledge of the sport. It is during this time that the more senior members of the team not only direct their less experienced counterparts, but put in extra effort in order to protect their safety.

Team trust transcends performance on the field. BC women’s rugby makes a conscience effort to focus as much on the character development aspect of the sport as they do on athletic growth. Every returning member of the team is assigned a “little sister” they they not only coach on the field, but mentor throughout their BC career.

For Emerson Boone, MCAS ’18, lessons learned from rugby have helped form her as both a player and a person.

“You learn a lot about your own strength,” she said. “Once you bring down a girl who’s twice your size, you’re like, ‘All right, look what we can do.’”

As the team practices at its usual time and place on Clements Field, the late fall sunlight fades enough to warrant the end of practice. Despite the darkness creeping in, however, the Eagles are not done just yet. The team is still running sprints, practicing passes, and talking strategy with coaches even after it becomes remarkably difficult to see. To end practice, the whole team stands in a circle, stretching and enthusiastically naming which exotic animal each player would like to have as a pet.

Whether the team wins or loses, its love and determination never wavers—even as the sun sets, it is women’s rugby’s guiding light in its ongoing venture into uncharted territory.

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Andy Boynton, the dean of the Carroll School of Management, sent an email to students on Nov. 11 acknowledging the powerful emotions that many students are feeling. Boynton noted the current divide in the United States and encouraged students to use discourse, thoughtfulness, and compassion when dealing with sensitive issues.

He urged students to engage positively and compassionately with one another, regardless of the differences that many may face.

“We do so in the spirit of Boston College, which calls on each of us to search for truth, wisdom, and understanding, and to act reflectively and respectfully,” Boynton said in the email.

Allison Adair, an English professor, posted five fliers throughout Stokes South on Friday afternoon, signing her name as an ally for students feeling upset or scared from the results of the election, and encouraging students and

faculty who were also allies to sign it.

Adair had heard several stories of discrimination and hostile acts toward students both on and off campus. She wanted to figure out a way to help students on a small scale. Adair was also frustrated that neither the University nor the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences released a statement on the election.

In response, Adair decided to post the fliers. She also posted the fliers out of concern that many of her first-year students may not necessarily know where to go for support if they need it.

Adair did not request University permission to post the flyers around campus.

So far, Adair has not received any emails from students who found her information on the fliers.

Adair, however, has been meeting with students from her classes who want to talk about the elections. She also allowed students who were interested in talking about the elections in class to do so, but she said there is no criterion on how to handle a situation like this.

The English department is hosting

a meeting this week with BC graduate student teachers to help them navigate classroom discussions about the election. It is hard to tell them what to do because many of the faculty don’t know exactly what to do, Adair said.

“In this case, respecting all opinions is a catch-22,” she said. “There is no precedent on how to approach it.”

English faculty members are also holding a discussion for English students, faculty, staff, and administrators on Monday from 12 to 2 p.m. in McGuinn 521. The department wanted to provide a space for an open discussion.

In addition, the environmental science department is hosting a forum at 4:30 p.m. on Monday to discuss how a Trump presidency may affect climate change and the environment in the coming years. John Ebel, an earth and environmental science professor, noted in his email invitation that there are no definite answers available, but the event will give students and faculty the chance to voice their opinions.

Several student groups have also reached out to students, providing

spaces for people to reflect on the election and share their concerns.

The Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) released a statement Sunday afternoon reaffirming the organization’s mission of creating an inclusive campus community. The statement encouraged students to contribute to the exchange of active and critical ideas, while maintaining compassion and empathy.

UGBC also said that it is students’ responsibility to stand up to bigotry and intolerance, despite the election results. The statement stressed the Jesuit mission of being “men and women for others.”

“Yet the right of students to feel safe on this campus and in this country is not up for debate; the right of students to feel welcomed into, and included in, our campus community is not up for debate; the right of students to discover and develop their authentic selves free from fear is not up for debate,” the statement said.

The Graduate Pride Alliance also held an event titled “Here’s to Us” on Sunday afternoon. Graduate and un-

dergraduate students who are a part of the queer and allied community met to co-process the feelings and events following the election.

In response to the hate that has followed the election, the organizers of “Here’s to Us” hoped to celebrate “identities, worth, and existence.” Attendees were provided with a safe space, filled with tea, coloring books, comfort food, and music.

On Monday at 6 p.m., the Campus Activities Board is holding an event titled “The New President’s To Do List,” in which political science professors David Hopkins, Kay Schlozman, and Shep Melnick will discuss the election.

Students will have the opportunity to hear the perspective of experts and ask questions concerning the results.

Schlozman, who has been teaching a class called Parties, Elections, and America, said that she hopes the event will help students become better citizens. She hopes to take an analytical approach to assess the results.

“Obviously this is a big surprise, but it turns out there are things that follow analytical trends,” Schlozman said.

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Arizona State men’s hockey has to fight for respect.

The NCAA’s newest program only ascended from Arizona State 1 the club ranks Boston College 3 last year, and got off to a rough start with a 5-22-2 campaign. With a young roster composed of a disproportionate amount of transfers and Canadian players, the Sun Devils struggle mightily defensively—they rank second-tolast in the NCAA by allowing 5.1 goals per game. Therefore, they must win by playing

tougher than everyone else, praying opposing teams get unlucky in the offensive zone, and escaping with a goal or two.

The only problem? When they get tough, they get a little too tough. Arizona State averages 25.22 penalty minutes per game, most in the country by a five-minute margin.

Opposing players don’t like it when they get tripped or slashed. When that happens, they take revenge—especially when the opposing goaltender does it.

So when ASU’s Joey Daccord interfered with Boston College’s Colin White behind the net, giving the Eagles a power play a mere 1:20 into the game, the Ottawa Senators prospect took revenge.

Matthew Gaudreau began a play at the top of the circles. He dished the puck behind the net to Ryan Fitzgerald, who found White streaking in at the bottom of the left circle.

White launched it bar-down past Daccord’s right shoulder, and the onslaught began.

White’s blast was the first of 41 shots that the Eagles took on Daccord in a 3-1 victory against Arizona State on Sunday afternoon.

With the victory, BC extended its unbeaten streak to 10 games and is the first team in the country with 10 wins.

“Offensive zone, we generated tremendous pressure and quality chances,” said head coach Jerry York, who returned to the bench after missing the last six games because of eye surgery.

Despite dominating Arizona State (2-9) in the first period with a 15-5 shots on goal advantage, 15-5, the Eagles (10-2-1, 5-0-1 Hockey East) couldn’t escape the frame perfectly. The offense had several turnovers that were turned away at the last second by Ryan Edquist and the defense. One in particular came from Graham McPhee, who had to dive to stop a breakaway by Steenn Pasichnuk AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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The Eagles celebrated around David Cotton (17) after he scored the go-ahead goal against ASU.

FOOTBALL

D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E When I saw that Boston College men’s hockey scheduled a game on Tues., Nov. 8, I was relieved.

Thank goodness, I would have something to escape to on that day.

While the rest of the country would be glued to FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, or CNN updates, I could sit back and relax at Kelley Rink. I could take myself away from what was happening in real life and focus on what Joe Woll was doing in net, or the progression of BC’s plethora of unheralded freshmen, or which defensive pairings looked best. Following the game, I’d chat it up with players and coaches, and spend my night shirking homework and writing my story.

As I imagined this as my reality, it relaxed me about whatever was to come. And then I remembered that I had to live tweet.

On game days, my feed is generally filled with Eagles fans chirping about the game. If it’s a hockey game, they’re happy. If it’s a football game, they’re not. But on this day, I had nothing but updates on the voting results as they flooded in, state-bystate, across the country. I tried to avoid it, but I couldn’t. It haunted me.

Even if I muted the big media outlets that I followed, one of my friends would retweet something. Like Patrick Towles against the Louisville pass rush, I just couldn’t escape it.

The stress of the constant inundation of this life-altering information grew too much for me to ignore. As I spoke to Greg Brown and JD Dudek in the postgame press conference, my eyes were fixated on counties drifting red or blue. I couldn’t ask any tangible questions for a game that seemed so trivial in the wake of what was affecting millions of Americans.

Surely, though, writing would help ease my nerves. I love the liberation of creating my game stories. It allows me to tap into my imaginative side as I describe goals or touchdowns to readers, while channelling my stress into something productive by forcing me to meet my self-imposed strict deadlines.

But even that grew to be a chore that night. For one night, I wanted an escape. And sports, the thing I always turn to in an attempt to remove myself from the real world, couldn’t help.

The next morning, I had several texts from my younger sister, Sarah.

Her tone wasn’t snarky or sarcastic like she usually is when bragging that mom and dad took her out to Beniha-

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Boston College defense had a simple plan for No. 20 Florida State: Shut down Dalvin Cook and force Deondre Francois to beat them.

It worked against North Carolina State. The Eagles held Matthew Dayes to under 50 yards, and Ryan Finley struggled when the offense turned one-dimensional.

This time, the opponents would be harder, but the goal would remain the same.

Florida State came in with a plan, too: Send pressure at Patrick Towles. Let him make the mistakes. And guard the run up the middle, because there’ll sure be a lot.

The Seminoles’ plan worked to perfection. The Eagles’ plan burned up in flames brighter than the fire atop Osceola’s staff.

With Marines flying in from above and emotional family reunions, the Seminoles put on a masterful show for the 73,000+ in attendance for Doak Campbell Stadium’s first Friday night game since 1957. But the real fireworks came from their on-field performance.

With efficient performances from Cook and Francois, and complete and utter domination by the defense, the Seminoles kept rolling. And the Eagles, in a 45-7 loss to Florida State, keep floundering against the ACC’s best.

“When momentum doesn’t come naturally, we have a hard time pushing back against it,” head coach

Steve Addazio said of his team’s performance in these blowout games.

Unlike previous games against Louisville, Virginia Tech, and Clemson, Florida State (7-3, 4-3 Atlantic Coast) didn’t use explosive plays to beat the Eagles (4-6, 1-6). Rather, the Seminoles began the game by having Francois mix in short and mid-range passes against the Eagles’ secondary. On FSU’s first drive, Francois hit four different receivers on six passes to get into the BC red zone. That set up Auden Tate, who pushed away from Lukas Denis, on a four-yard slant and a 7-0 lead.

That shouldn’t be a surprise. The Seminoles came

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INSIDE SPORTS THIS ISSUE

Men’s Basketball: Big-Time Upset

Women’s Hockey: Eagles Sweep UNH

BC showed it still has a lot of growing pains to come, losing to Nicholls State, 79-73...B2

Led by Delaney Belinskas’s hat trick on Saturday, BC took two from its Hockey East foe...B5

TU/TD...................................B2 Field hockey...............................B2 Women’s basketball...................B4

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Monday, November 14, 2016 FIELD HOCKEY

THUMBS UP CAN’T KILL KELLY  All it took to end BC men’s soccer’s season was one loss in the ACC Tournament against a top-25 team. But head coach Ed Kelly and senior midfielder Zeiko Lewis thrive in the postseason, making a run to the semifinals to likely extend their season and earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

COLLEGE BBALL IS BACK  Kris Jenkins’s iconic 3-pointer at the buzzer against UNC was the enduring image of the 2015-16 college basketball season. With college hoops kicking back into gear this weekend, get ready for another year of madness—even if BC’s opening weekend on the hardcourt didn’t exactly inspire you.

EAGLES STREAK UP TO 10 - Men’s hockey became the first team in the nation to reach 10 wins, extending its winning streak to double digits with a victory over Arizona State. With a seasonhigh 41 shots on goal, it looks as if the Eagles are only getting better, too.

THUMBS DOWN UGLY DUCKLING OF THE ACC - On Friday, the ACC went a combined 13-2 in football and men’s basketball. The two losses? Both courtesy of Boston College, furthering the notion that the Eagles are an arm and a leg below the rest of the conference when it comes to the major forprofit sports.

TEARS IN TALLAHASSEE - FSU demolished the Eagles in a Friday night matchup, 45-7, handing them their fourth 30-point loss of the season . Between 1999 and 2015, BC had four 30-point losses—combined.

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Following a loss in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament against No. 7 Virginia, No. 11 Boston College field Boston College 0 hockey Connecticut 5 received a berth to the NCAA Tournament with a first-round matchup against No. 6 Connecticut. It was a rematch of the regular-season finale that saw the Huskies down the Eagles 4-3 in overtime to spoil BC’s senior day.

With an opportunity to make a run in the tournament and avenge its prior defeat, the Eagles looked to

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off of a broken corner—their fifth of the half—to make it 4-0. The final exclamation point came a minute later when Svea Boker hammered a shot by Hampsch to add on and make it 5-0. It was truly a dominating effort by Connecticu t, as it outshot the Eagles 20-3 en route to a 5-0 win that ended BC’s season.

“I thought UConn brought energy both on defense and on the attack that we didn’t match,” head coach Kelly Doton said to BCEagles. com after the season-ending defeat.

“Audra played a fantastic game in goal and kept us in the match for the most part.”

The Eagles fall to 3-12 all-time in

the NCAA Tournament, and they are now 0-5 in NCAA Tournament play against Connecticut, who has also ended BC’s season, both this season and last. Despite the large margin of defeat, Hampsch did all she could to keep the Eagles in the game with 10 saves. The senior class, as whole, will truly be one to remember, as it is the only in program history to advance to the NCAA Tournament in each of its four seasons at BC. “It’s unfortunate that our senior class’ last game had to be this one,” Doton told BCEagles.com. “But we thank them for everything they gave to the program over the past four years.”

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Heading into the weekend, it looked like Boston College volleyball was finally on the upswing. After suffering 13 straight losses, BC had managed to win three straight matches in what head coach Chris Campbell described to BCEagles.com as “not really a streak yet, let’s call it a trend.”

Unfortunately for Campbell and the Eagles, any upward trajectory was rerouted after two tough losses against No. 18 Florida State and Miami.

Miami (13-15, 7-9 Atlantic Coast) and BC met earlier this season, and—to put it nicely for the Eagles—it wasn’t pretty. Miami had previously routed BC (8-18, 3-13) this season, taking the game in three dominant sets. Early in the first set, the Eagles appeared to have learned from their previous mistakes. Miami and BC exchanged points early and, thanks in large part to aggressive offensive play from Julia Topor and Cat Balido, BC clung to a lead in the set. Just when it looked like BC would take the early advantage, the Hurricanes went on a 9-1 scoring run to take the set and the early momentum for the game.

The Hurricanes carried their success into the second set as Miami quickly went up 10-5. The Eagles, not wanting to let another set slip through their fingers, responded with resolve.

The Eagles went on an 8-3 scoring run, punctuated by back-to-back serving aces from Camille Oemcke to tie the game 13-13. BC kept the score close, but Miami eked out a second set win with the help of five errors committed by the Eagles as the set came to a close.

With Miami now up by two sets, it was now or never for the Eagles. The third set was kept close with neither team ever leading by more than five points. Whenever one would surge slightly ahead, the other would push back to tie the game and build its own lead until the process repeated itself.

BC found itself on the right side of this cycle, as the Eagles won the set 25-23 despite a late 5-2 run by the Hurricanes.

BC seemed too worn down by the excitement of the previous set to put up much resistance in the second set.

Miami took an early 7-1 lead and never looked back. The one bright spot for the Eagles was the outstanding play on the part of Sol Calvete, who had seven kills in the last set alone. Calvete had the highest hitting percentage for BC and secured 10 much needed points for the Eagles. Her play, especially in the fourth set, was crucial for BC, but it was not enough to stop the momentum of Miami, as the Hurricanes went on to take the set—and with it the match—25-14.

Miami, once again, was too much for the Eagles, as they were forced to face the fact that history does repeat itself. The same sentiment held true earlier in the weekend as BC faced Florida State in an ACC rematch.

At the start of the first set, BC appeared to have carried the momentum from its three previous wins going into this match. Led on by excellent play from McKenna Goss and Topor, the Eagles staved off early advances from the Seminoles.

As the first set progressed, neither team established a rhythm due to both teams’ incapability of holding possession for more than three serves

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Redshirt freshman Natalie Canulli prepares to hit a serve during a conference match at home earlier this month. at a time. As BC led 23-22, the tension was felt throughout Power Gym. In these moments when tensions are high and nerves are running rampant, controlling anxiety is important to avoid making undue mistakes. BC did just that, as the set came down to an attack error by Florida State to give BC the first set.

The Eagles had just accomplished something that they haven’t done all season: win a set against No. 18 Florida State. This achievement was short-lived. The Seminoles found the spark that they lacked in the first set to quickly take a 10-6 lead. As the second set progressed, the Eagles kept the Seminoles close, but could not catch up. BC couldn’t pull back Florida State as the Seminoles went on to capture the second set 25-17 to tie up the game.

The third set very much followed in the footsteps of the second. The Seminoles took a big lead early, and the Eagles clawed back but never tied the game or established any lead. Despite the less-than-stellar play by the Eagles as a unit, Goss and Jill Strockis shined in the third set. Goss recorded six kills in the third set on her way to setting a season-high total of 16 kills on the day, while also leading the team with a .387 hitting percentage.

Strockis also had an impressive day, as she completed her third doubledouble on the season by recording 12 kills and 15 digs. Despite these season-defining performances, the Seminoles pulled away from BC in the third set as they went on to take it 25-17.

While the score came within two at points in the fourth set, the

outcome was never really in doubt.

Florida State went on to take the set 25-18 and with it the match, ending BC’s winning streak.

For the Eagles, the two games this weekend can either be a bump in the road or a turning point in the season. If BC can return to its winning rhythm and put these two games behind it, the season may still be salvaged. If, however, the Eagles return to the mindset they held during the 13-game losing streak, they will become a self-fulfilling prophecy incapable of winning even when the situation and talent demand it.

“We have got to make sure that we keep our focus on what we have been doing these last two months and keep addressing the areas we have to improve in practice,” Campbell told BCEagles.com.

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Clemson 56, Boston College 10.

The last time the Eagles played the Tigers, it was a blowout. But that was the other Boston College 0 kind of Clemson 1 football.

This time, BC was determined to turn the tide as it headed into the semifinals of the ACC tournament after an upset victory over No. 4 North Carolina last week. Clemson won a hard-fought battle against Syracuse in penalty kicks last week. The game promised to be a close one, and it was, but No. 25 (8-8-3) BC couldn’t quite get the W,

falling 1-0 to the No. 3 Tigers (12-2-5) on a last-minute heartbreaker.

The Eagles started off shaky, tested on defense early in the game. The Tigers earned a free kick 11 minutes into the match from 22 yards out, but Aaron Jones’s shot was saved by sophomore Cedric Saladin. About 10 minutes later, Clemson had a good chance in the box but Abe Bibas emphatically slid to block the shot. The Tigers were knocking on Saladin’s door.

Clemson was awarded a penalty kick with 3:43 left in the first half when Thales Moreno was taken down on the left side of the box after a late tackle from freshman Younes

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to pin BC back in its own end, and they outshot the Eagles 9-3 as Connecticut carried a two-goal lead into the locker room at halftime.

The second half wasn’t any better for BC, as Connecticut continued to apply pressure and construct offensive attacks. The Eagles stifled many of the Huskies’ shots on goal, which resulted in a lopsided 15-1 Connecticut edge at the start of the second half. At the 59:29 mark, however, the Huskies didn’t just cash in—they exploded. Collins registered her second goal of the game and her 22nd of the season that increased the Huskies lead to 3-0. Three minutes later, Anna Middendorf converted VOLLEYBALL

9P 8IK?LI :IFQ@<I PAINFULLY SLOW START - Men’s basketball suffered a brutal loss to Nicholls State, which scored the first 12 points of the game as part of a 16-1 run to open the game. The Eagles couldn’t recover, despite 15 points from freshman point guard Ty Graves.

send the Huskies home early with a first-round exit.

BC (10-10, 3-3 Atlantic Coast) got off to a rough start. Connecticut (21-1, 7-0 American Athletic) broke the scoreless tie early as Amanda Collins poked a feed from Antonia Tiedtke past goaltender Audra Hampsch, giving the Huskies a 1-0 lead just 10 minutes into the game.

While the Connecticut attack calmed briefly, the Eagles struggled to establish any sort of offensive attack that would remain nonexistent for most, if not all, of the game. The Huskies broke through again at 27:31 with a goal by Amelia Iacobucci, making it a 2-0 game. The Huskies continued

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Boudadi. Diego Campos took the shot, but Saladin, once again, made a monstrous diving save to keep the Eagles in the game.

“The penalty save is obviously huge for us by keeping us in the game.”

Simon Enström said. “Conceding a goal before halftime just could not happen for us.”

At halftime, Clemson had three shots on target to BC’s two.

Coming back from the break, the Eagles’ internationals were determined to turn the match around. The rest of the game was all maroon and gold. Eleven minutes into the second half, senior Zeiko Lewis created some space at the top of the box, moving to

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his left and firing a hard shot on goal, although it was saved by Clemson’s Ximo Miralles. A few minutes later, freshman Lasse Lehmann stole the ball in the defensive half, feeding a streaking Enström to his left. With a man on him, Enstrom fired, but the ball sailed wide of the target.

In the 81st minute, after a successful counter-attack, Maximilian Schulze-Geisthovel got a shot off but it was stopped by the Tigers’ solid defensive effort.

Against the course of the game, a foul call gave Clemson an unfortunate free kick from 30 yards out on the left side in the waning moments. Aaron Jones sent the ball into the middle

of the box, where Frenchman Alex Happi, in mid-air, whipped a header into the back of the net for the Clemson win with 89 seconds left.

It was a disappointing finish for the Eagles, who held advantages in shots (10-8), shots on goal (6-4), and corners (3-1).

“I think we don’t deserve how we came out of the game but that is soccer, everything can happen,” Enström said.

Although the ACC tournament is over for the Eagles, they await a bid for the NCAA Tournament on Monday.

At No. 25, BC is likely to win a spot, even without a conference final appearance.

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na or my other favorite places.

This time, she was scared. She had questions that shouldn’t have been my responsibility to answer. But with no one else in our family that shared her values and way of thinking, she had only me to turn to. My 14-year-old sister is now fearful to take the New York City Subway to school because she is a woman, fearful for her friends who are minorities, fearful for her future. How do I—an equally nervous young person in this country, albeit one of more privilege than she—explain that things will be okay?

And just when they lost me for a brief spell, sports pulled me back in. If you know anything about me at all—and you’ve been reading this column for two years now, so you probably should know a good deal—you’d know I turned to the New York Mets. I relayed to her the message that Tug McGraw screamed to the 1973 Mets when they tried to roar back and win the National League Pennant, despite being 11.5 games out of first place as late as Aug. 5 of that year.

“Ya gotta believe!”

Because this sentiment applies to every team, every game, and every fanbase the way it does to our country right now.

Ya gotta believe love trumps hate. Ya gotta believe that it’s always morning in America.

That yes, we’ve made a lot of progress in many areas of our nation, and yes, there are plenty of ways that America still needs to be fixed that those of us who live in New York, California, and Massachusetts didn’t realize or ignored. But ya gotta believe that as long as we’re strong in what we believe and fight for what we want—after all, isn’t that what the U.S. was built on?—we won’t roll back.

It’s why, in moments of fear and uncertainty, sports have always brought me back to strength. There’s nothing else on this planet that can give you that hope and feeling in the face of adversity without the consequences other than the real world. It’s no safe space— it’s just something that reminds me that, if people can be as strong as they are to overcome the odds in games, we can in real life, too.

I haven’t gotten to cover too many moments of overcoming on gameday. But, once in a while, I get a chance to see BC will itself to victory, with comebacks and thrills guided by hope when the team had nothing else. Not in football, of course, but in men’s hockey and baseball. A third-period comeback last year at Matthews Arena when the Eagles scored three in the third; Ian McCoshen’s last-chance goals against BU; the 2016 Beanpot Final; Ryan Fitzgerald’s overtime winner against Vermont; Jacob Stevens’s shutout of Louisville; forcing Miami to a third game of a Super Regional. Each time, the Eagles laughed in the face of defeat and willed themselves to win on belief alone.

Like McGraw back in ’73, I have no way of guaranteeing any of that to Sarah. But it’s comforting to feel the hope, like you have a chance to rise above. Sports gives that to me every day. Capturing these rare instances of joy from hopelessness, that’s why I’ve done this job the last two years. If we can hope through sports, we can hope through the real world.

And even when we’re down, that will make everything okay.

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Patrick towles:

Deondre francois:

3 11, 29 yards

16 24, 183 yards, 3 td

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myles willis:

dalvin cook:

3 att, 41 yards

18 att, 108 yards, 1 td

jonathan hilliman:

deondre francois

11 att, 15 yards

10 att, 15 yards

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michael walker:

auden tate:

1 REC, 21 YARDS

6 rec, 101 yards, 2 td

tommy sweeney:

travis rudolph:

1 REC, 19 yards

6 rec, 81 yards, 1 td

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So when Myles Willis bounced off the Florida State defensive line and reversed direction for a 39-yard run, the Eagles made it appear like they had an answer to a top-flight ACC defense.

Yet that run would be the last time BC had a first down until six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.

A failed Jeff Smith sweep pushed the Eagles back six yards after Patrick Towles nearly threw an interception.

Caught between the too close to punt, but too far for Mike Knoll to kick a field goal range, Addazio went for it—the right call, but an ultimately futile effort.

The wheels fell off following that drive. They bounced out of Doak Campbell, down Pensacola Drive, and into the Gulf of Mexico, never to return.

BC nearly stopped Francois and Cook on the ensuing drive, but a roughing the kicker penalty on Michael Walker gave the Seminoles new life. Francois exploited BC’s overzealous pass rush, bouncing off the edge to set up another red-zone chance.

Francois then found Nymer Murray on a sliding catch in front of John Johnson, pushing the lead to 14-0. Addazio affirmed that his team prepared for those running plays by Francois, but

just couldn’t execute.

“We had good calls,” Addazio said.

“We didn’t set the edge well enough.”

After trading sacks and three-andouts on a couple of drives, Cook came alive. Eyeing to break Warrick Dunn’s school record for career rushing yards, Cook danced into the end zone untouched from 19 yards out.

By the second half, the Eagles appeared cooked. Because of those long FSU drives and BC’s ineptitude on offense, the defense got stuck on the field for extended periods of time.

That allowed Cook and the Florida State offense to, well, cook.

Before he left with a right shoulder contusion, Francois attacked through the air again by pump faking over the defensive line to hit Travis Rudolph.

His injury allowed senior Sean Maguire, who lost his starting job to the redshirt freshman prior to the season, to play in his last game on the Panhandle. Surely the backup would make a difference for BC’s doggedlytired defense.

But Maguire didn’t miss a beat, not one bit. He hit Tate for a six-yard score on another long drive to push the game to a five-touchdown lead.

A failed punt by Mike Knoll gave FSU a short field, letting Ricky Aguayo hit a 53-yard field goal. Then Maguire went after the BC secondary again with a touchdown pass to Freddie Stevenson.

“We’ve got to move the ball better on offense,” Addazio. “We can’t leave the defense on the field that long.”

It wasn’t until then that Addazio waved the white flag. He replaced a struggling Towles with redshirt sophomore Darius Wade. Initially, Wade didn’t have a lot of success, but

he orchestrated a late drive against the Seminole backups that allowed BC to save some semblance of face when Richard Wilson pounded home a one-yard touchdown run.

The damage has been done to the Eagles’ season, and to the reputation of the coaching staff. With the loss to Florida State, BC has been outscored by its top-four opponents by a whopping 202-24 margin. BC held those same four teams to a 91-41 difference last year. And Addazio offered a theory as to why BC has suffered in those big blowout games.

“We attract people’s best games, their best shots, because people respect the fact that our team is going to play hard,” Addazio said. “And we attracted their best shot here tonight.”

There’s no way to confirm that statement. But BC’s reality is this. The Eagles have lost four times by 30 or more points this season. That matches the amount of 30+ point losses the program had between 1999 and 2015.

With two games remaining, BC must win both to guarantee a bowl game.

This upcoming Saturday against Connecticut should be a gimme. The following week on the road against an already bowl eligible Wake Forest team will not, not even close.

“We’ve got to swallow this, and get over it to go out and beat UConn,” said defensive end Harold Landry, who had two sacks to make him the nation’s leader in the category with 11.

The Eagles know that this is their reality. Now they must accept it, move forward, and salvage something out of a year that has been full of misery. The whole BC community will be watching closely to see if Addazio and Co. can do it.

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Travis Rudolph (15, B.L.) dove as he caught a touchdown from Deondre Francois, one of three the Florida State quarterback threw against the Boston College secondary in a 45-7 rout on Friday night.

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The Eagles (0-1) were supposed to open their season with a win over the Colonels (1-0), a Southland Conference school accustomed to blowouts by Power Five programs. Instead of validating all the buzz surrounding the team, from the athletic guards to the prospect of a turnover-inducing pressure defense, Friday night’s 79-73 loss did the opposite.

Deandre Harris scorched the B C defense for 28 points on 10-for-20 shooting, leading the charge for a Nicholls State squad that opened the game on a 12-0 run. It took five minutes until a Jerome Robinson free throw put the Eagles on the scoreboard and seven minutes until they registered their first made field goal.

BC looked lost on offense and overmatched on defense. After a sequence of turnovers and air balls, Christian had enough of his starting five. He plugged in Ty Graves and Jordan Chatman, who sparked the scoring effort.

Both new guards drilled two 3-pointers each in the first half as

the Eagles hung around thanks to their long-range shooting. Jerome Robinson and A.J. Turner also added triples, cutting the deficit to single digits at the break.

The occasion seemed primed for a BC comeback against a weaker opponent in the second half. But every time Christian’s squad inched within six points, Nicholls State would respond with buckets to extend its lead again. Harris exposed an undersized frontcourt and scored 17 second-half points, including 7-of-9 shooting from the freethrow line. A graduate guard who came off of the bench, Harris also ate up the Eagles on the boards, grabbing two offensive rebounds and totaling seven overall.

The Colonels also took advantage of BC’s inexperienced ball-handlers, implementing a full-court press and zone defense in the second half. Nicholls State registered eight steals and forced 16 turnovers—exactly what the Eagles were trying to avoid following their 16-turnover performance against Stonehill in last week’s exhibition game.

But once BC broke free of the Colonels’ pressure and settled into an offensive rhythm, the lineup began to chip away at the deficit.

Robinson hit a pair of free throws, Turner drilled a 3-pointer, and then Robinson assisted Turner on a layup to make it 66-65. After a Jahvaughn Powell trey, Mo Jeffers and Robinson responded with back-to-back buckets. With 2:28 remaining, the game was tied at 69-69, and as sloppily as the Eagles had played, they had a

legitimate chance of coming away with a victory.

But the last few minutes of the game were nearly as painful as the first few.

With the game on the line, BC coughed up the ball, failed to penetrate, and settled for lousy shots.

The result was six straight Nicholls State points, a streak broken only by a Kyran Bowman layup with 20 seconds left. By then, it was too late.

“We just gotta stick with them,” Christian said of his young players.

“You can’t get frustrated with it.

We all gotta get better.”

Understandably, the 79-73 defeat threatens to shift the narrative of the 2016-17 Eagles from bright future to more of the same. But even in the loss, there were bright spots that suggest optimism isn’t completely futile—yet. Graves scored a team-high 15 points in his first real game, Chatman was an efficient animal off the bench, and Turner was perfect from downtown.

Robinson wasn’t at his best, but he found a way to make an impact from the charity stripe nonetheless. As a team, though, BC shot just 12-of-23 from the line.

On 11/11, the Eagles’ wish for a win symbolic of a changing program failed to be realized. The hype surrounding the lockdown defense wasn’t completely invalidated, but the young guards need to be disciplined enough to avoid committing the same turnovers they’re trying to force on the other end. With a 15-point disadvantage in points off of turnovers, BC was simply beat by its own model.

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Jerome Robinson beats his defender off the dribble in BC’s home opener against Nicholls State on Friday.

9P 8EE89<C JK<<C< 8jjk% Jgfikj <[`kfi Conte Forum was loud. Fans stood, whistled, stomped, and clapped. On the court, Boston College men’s basketball trotted to the bench, exuberant. Down along the sideline, Nicholls State University head coach Richie Riley had just called a timeout.

You might think the timeout was because the Eagles were running up the score, and that the fans were loud because somebody had just executed a perfect dunk. It’s a reasonable thought.

After all, BC plays in the most competitive basketball conference in the country, and Nicholls State does not. Furthermore, coaches and sports information directors predicted that Nicholls State would finish in last place in the Southland Conference.

Heading into the game, all bets were on the Eagles to win by a wide margin and start the 201617 season with a statement.

You’d be wrong, though. BC was not winning. It had not been winning all game. In fact, with four minutes to go, the Eagles had just cut the Colonels’ lead to one. Despite being the better team on paper, BC was down 66-65. And although the Eagles managed to tie it up at 69-69, Nicholls State pulled ahead and padded its lead in the final seconds, finishing with a 79-73 victory.

The game was not what BC (0-1) wanted or expected to start off the season. The Eagles allowed the Colonels (1-0) to jump out to a 12-0 lead early in the game and never recovered.

“We practiced well, we practiced hard,” head coach Jim Christian said after the game.

“And then tonight, for the first 10 minutes of the game, we probably didn’t do one thing we practiced.”

They cut the lead to eight or six multiple times throughout the second half, but for the most part just couldn’t come any closer to chasing the lead. Here are some observations from the game.

Experience Fans of BC athletics are probably pretty accustomed to hearing excuses like “It’s a young team.” Most of the time, that doesn’t really apply. But here, there is something to be said for the experience of the starters on both squads.

The Colonels returned all five of their starters from last season. Ja’Dante’ Frye is a redshirt senior, while Liam Thomas,

Johnathan Bell, Adam Ward, and Luka Kamber are all seniors.

This lineup has a lot of experience playing together. Frye finished with 11 points and eight rebounds, while Thomas added four rebounds and 14 points.

The player who torched BC the most was grad transfer DeAndre Harris, who finished with 28 points and seven rebounds. The point is, the squad that Nicholls State put on the floor for most of the game is experienced in the game and experienced playing together.

BC, meanwhile, started Ky B owman, Jerome Robinson, Connar Tava, AJ Turner, and Mo Jeffers . Bowman, a true freshman, is the only player completely new to college basketball on the squad. Robinson and Turner both returned from last year, while Tava and Jeffers transferred to BC last year. It’s not that this lineup is inexperienced when it comes to basketball—it is undeniably inexperienced together.

The offensive output from the BC starters needs to improve heading into the season. Turner put up 12 points and Robinson contributed 14, but Bowman and Tava both scored only four points while Jeffers added six.

The only player to come off the bench and score more than eight points was another true freshman, Ty Graves—the leading scorer on the night, totaling 15 points.

After the game, Christian acknowledged the team’s relative inexperience, but refused to make excuses for his team’s performance.

“We’ve got to hold ourselves to a much higher standard,” he said.

Free Throws Oh, man. If there’s one thing the Eagles absolutely must work on this week, it’s free throws. As the saying goes, they’re free for a reason—but the Eagles only managed to go 12-for-23 from the line.

In the end, although the Eagles trailed by as many as 15 points , they only lost by six points. BC missed 11 free throws. That’s the game right there. And it’s an even bigger gap than it looks, because several of the missed free throws were the front end of a 1-and-1.

Nicholls State was a little more accurate from the free throw line, but not by much.

While the Eagles were 52.2 percent in that area, the Colonels were 56 percent after going 14for-25 on the game. The Colo-

nels also had more free-throw attempts toward the end of the game, when BC began fouling to stop the clock and put Nicholls State on the line.

In a game like this, a loss is incredibly frustrating for BC. It’s e ven more agonizing to know that the game could easily have gone the other way had the Eagles been more accurate from the free-throw line. Heading into the season, the ACC teams are going to be a lot tougher than Nicholls State. Even when the Eagles begin to adjust to actually facing opponents together, they must be more precise from the line or else it will hurt them time and time again.

Defensive Output Before the season started, I wrote that the Eagles needed to imitate VCU’s havoc defense in order to be successful and competitive this season. I came to the game expecting to see a hint of what might lie ahead for the Eagles. I wasn’t all that satisfied.

The game started out with a 12-0 run for Nicholls State. During that time, BC just looked bad.

10 of those points came from layups. BC needs to toughen up in the paint and put pressure on opponents to prevent these easy baskets.

Throughout the rest of the game, though, BC fluctuated on defense. The first half just looked bad. There wasn’t enough energy on the court, and the Eagles allowed the Colonels to build up a sizable lead. But in the second half, there were extremely promising stretches for BC. With 9:25 to go in the game, Nicholls State had 62 points.

The Colonels only managed to score four points over the next four and a half minutes, thanks to tough pressure and great defense from the Eagles. And BC forced 10 turnovers from the Colonels. In the end, the game was one hell of a lot closer than the score may indicate—Nicholls State only won by six because it was put on the foul line so much at the very end.

The Colonels came out of the gate ready to apply pressure on the Eagles. BC should have imitated this strategy. Nicholls State instituted a full-court press and a tough zone defense that stifled the Eagles. BC committed 16 turnovers over the course of the game. Had the Eagles implemented a defense that was a little more similar to the Colonels’, they probably would’ve left Conte Forum tonight feeling a lot happier than they did.

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9: J_fnj @kj Pflk_# =Xccj `e J\Xjfe$Fg\e`e^ Cfjj Xk ?Xik]fi[ 9P J8D<<I D<?K8 =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj With the team’s youngest starting lineup since the 2011 season, Boston College women’s basketball took the court for the first time this season against the Hartford Hawks. The Eagles’ starting five consisted of two freshmen, two sophomores, and only one senior, but despite their inexperience, BC had great confidence coming into the game, as it leads the all-time series against Hartford, 11-1.

The team had all the proper tools necessary to beat Hartford with standout sophomore Mariella Fasoula leading the way, but throughout the game, the Hawks took advantage of BC’s inexperience and exposed the Eagles’ weaknesses. In their first game of the 2016-17 season, the Eagles lost to Hartford, 65-56.

I n th e f i r s t q u a r te r, th e Hawks’ stingy defense caused BC to commit several turnovers, and Hartford jumped out to an early seven-point lead. With the help of great 3-point shooting of Kelly Hughes and Georgia Pineau, the Eagles cut this lead

to three by the end of the quarter. The Eagles seemed to hit their stride on offense going in to the second quarter, but after four early turnovers and several missed layups, the Hawks quickly took control.

Hartford went on a 17-0 run in the first five minutes of the second quarter, extending its lead to 35-13. The Eagles finished the first half somewhat strong to cut the deficit to 13, as Emma Guy and Fasoula pounded the paint for a combined 10 points in the final four minutes of the second quarter.

In the third quarter, the Eagles came out with a greater sense of urgency, improving their ball movement and setting their teammates up for open shots as they cut the lead to 10. But even so, the turnovers continued to rack up for BC due to forced passes, and the Hawks extended their lead to 18 once again.

Similar to the second quarter, the Eagles once again attacked the basket with their bigs to get easy layups, and their inside-out game helped BC trim the lead to 14 going into the final quarter.

Despite its improbable chance of

making a comeback, the Eagles refused to let up, and in easily their best quarter of the game, the team played tremendous defense and went on a 10-2 run in seven minutes to come within six points. But its comeback attempt was too little too late, as great free-throw shooting from Hartford iced the game.

The most important adjustment that BC must make is limiting its turnovers. The Eagles had 22 turnovers, which resulted in 19 points for the Hawks. It seemed as if any momentum that the Eagles had gained was killed by a careless pass . A large majority of the their turnovers were caused by Hartford’s full court pressure, which BC struggled with throughout the entire game.

For that reason, a focus of BC’s moving forward must be to improve the team’s press break.

Another aspect of the game that BC needs to improve is its defensive rebounding. BC gave up 13 second-chance points, and it will be vital for the team to work collectively to limit these extra opportunities.

Nonetheless , B C showe d

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Emilee Daley, Mariella Fasoula, and the cluster of new faces on the Eagles stumbled in their road-opener. flashes of greatness throughout the game and especially in the fourth quarter, where it outscored Hartford 16-11. BC also limited Hartford to only 37 percent shooting, and its defense

was consistently impressive during all four quarters.

Although it was a disappointing loss for BC considering its dominance against Hartford in recent years, the team should

not panic yet.

With the graduation of captains Nicole Boudreau and Alexa Coulombe last year, the team is still working on filling the leadership void.

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BC’s mistakes came back to finally kill the team with three minutes to go in the frame.

Nicholas Gushue flipped the puck over the heads of Michael Kim and Scott Savage, who sold out too far up by the blue line.

That pass gave Jordan Masters nothing but clear ice in front of Edquist. The sophomore went top shelf, tying the game.

Yet those penalty problems came back to haunt the Sun Devils in the second. A long stretch of man advantages , including 33 seconds of a 5-on3, gave BC fresh legs against a tired Arizona State defense. As the clock expired on the power play, Kim launched a pass at the boards beyond Daccord. The puck took an odd bounce away from Daccord, right onto David Cotton’s stick. Defenseman

Jakob Stridsberg didn’t react quickly enough, and Cotton took advantage to go low into the net.

Still the Eagles came away in the period needing something more. The team outshot Arizona State 17-6 in the second frame, yet still had only two goals. Despite the good pressure, team captain Chris Calnan noticed this frustration, and mentioned it as something the team needed to work on.

“A big piece to that is getting into that high heart-rate zone, you want to make the other team’s heart-rate go up,” Calnan said. ”It’s nice to have 40 or 50 shots on net, but at the end of the day, it’s about getting goals.”

So Calnan decided to do something about it himself.

A largely flat third period nearly allowed the Sun Devils to get back into the game. Most

notably, Cole Murphy broke away from the BC defense before Edquist pushed away the puck at the last second.

York considered that the play of the game, while comparing the Sun Devils’ fight and transition to college hockey to Penn State’s ascension to the sport in 2012-13.

“They put us in a situation where Ryan Edquist had to make a big save to save the game,” York said. “Big credit to their program, and I think they’re going to be a major player in college hockey circles over the next couple of years.”

But with three minutes to go, Connor Moore thread the needle between the circles and launched a shot at Daccord. The ASU goaltender couldn’t reel in the rebound, and Calnan ate up the rest for some much needed insurance.

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the nation’s longest winning streak, one which has helped the Eagles open a five-point advantage in the standings over second-place UMass Lowell.

This streak has come, however, despite only playing two ranked teams—No. 3 Denver and No. 10 Providence, both wins. That soft stretch won’t continue, either. The Eagles have five more ranked opponents—Minnesota, Harvard, North Dakota, Notre Dame, and Quinnipiac, plus two games against perennial rival Northeastern—before the calendar turns to 2017.

But for now, the Eagles are winning the games they need to win to keep that cushion. And Arizona State, a team searching for a conference while playing one of the nation’s toughest schedules, will keep on looking for an identity and respect in the highest ranks of college hockey.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Scott Savage throws a shot on net in the Eagles’ win over the Sun Devils.

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Ryan FItzgerald stays focused on the puck behind an Arizona State opponent.

While it’s said that you may miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take, Boston College men’s hockey proved it’s still hard to make the shots you actually take.

While BC beat Arizona State 3-1, it took a total of 41 shots, compared to ASU’s 24. The No. 3 Eagles (102-1, 5-0-1 Hockey East) should’ve come away with more than five points against one of the worst defenses in the nation. BC was rested and ready to take on the Sun Devils, but it just couldn’t find the back of the net. After Arizona State arrived on a long trip from the West Coast, BC expected to see a team a little tired coming into Kelley Rink, but that wasn’t the case.

As a first-year Division I program, the Sun Devils (2-9) look poised to become a team worth watching on the national stage,

and the Eagles got a taste of that during the game. While the puck seemed to consistently be on the Sun Devils’ side of the ice, getting it past goaltender Joey Daccord proved to be a challenge. During the second period, when ASU was called for too many men on the ice and Robert Levin was called for slashing, BC had a 5-on-3 player advantage but still couldn’t capitalize on the power play.

“Our offensive zone generated tremendous pressure and quality chances, I thought their goaltender did extremely well,” head coach Jerry York said after the game.

It had looked like BC would win by a large margin after taking 15 shots to ASU’s five in the first period. The Eagles consistently had multiple players ready to get the puck in the back of the net off a rebound, but Daccord seemed to gravitate toward the puck. ASU surrenders an average of 5.22 goals per game, the second-highest rate

in college hockey. Despite this, BC scored once in each period, and two of those goals were during a power play.

ASU has the most penalties in the entire country, but BC still sent more players into the box than the Sun Devils. Casey Fitzgerald was called for a penalty twice, once for tripping during the first period and another for interference only 45 seconds into the second. Fitzgerald was also the only player to head into the box more than once. With six penalties during the last three games, Fitzgerald has brought his total number of times in the box to nine—the most on the team’s roster other than Colin White.

With five penalties during the game, BC has brought up its total to 95 for the season, compared to its opponents’ 77. Even with such a high number of players heading into the box, the Eagles have been slowly reduced the number of penalties they’ve committed as the

season has progressed. The new rulebook makes it much easier for a player to get called, something that has proved difficult for the Eagles so far. Going into the rest of the season, BC will want to keep that number as low as possible to minimize the chances of its opponent getting an advantage on the ice.

The third period proved to be very tame compared to the first two—there was only one penalty throughout the entire period. The first seven minutes were played with uninterrupted hockey, each team playing in a more controlled manner. The streak didn’t last, as BC sent Ryan Fitzgerald into the box for slashing 18 minutes into the period. Even though the Eagles had more penalties than the Sun Devils, ASU could not wasn’t able to score any points on the subsequent power play, allowing BC to extend its winning streak to 10 games, the longest unbeaten streak in college hockey.

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9: FlkjZfi\j E\n ?Xdgj_`i\ ()$) `e Knf$>Xd\ Jn\\g 9P J?8EEFE B<CCP ?\`^_kj <[`kfi Delaney Belinskas is having a hot streak. And when Belinskas has a hot streak, she gets really hot.

1 UNH The Boston College 7 freshman, a standout for Boston College women’s hockey who shows significant offensive depth this season, saw her goals total balloon to 11 for the season after scoring yet another hat trick.

Her first , a four-goal effort against the dismal 3-10 University of Maine squad, announced her arrival.

The Eagles used her three goals to lift them over the University of New Hampshire in a 7-1 blowout. Showcasing its talents from top to bottom, BC (9-3-2, 8-2-0 Hockey East) also saw multiple-goal days for Andie Anastos and Kristyn Capizzano.

Gabri Switaj started out in net for the Eagles, giving Katie Burt a break after a successful 5-1 campaign the night before at the Wildcats’ (3-10-0, 3-5-0) home ice.

BC jumped into its groove quickly in the first period, scoring back-to-back goals toward the middle of the period. For the first, Caitrin Lonergan shot from behind the faceoff circle, but it was deflected off of a UNH defender.

Anastos found the puck and passed it behind her to Belinskas, who buried it from right in front of the crease to put it past Kyra Smith.

The Eagles received another chance shortly after, when Amy Schlagel was sent to the penalty box for hooking. With Kenzie Kent behind UNH’s net with the puck, she fed it to a wide-

open Lonergan, whose shot was again deflected. Kent pushed the puck to a waiting Belinskas, who found an open space on Smith’s stick side.

BC’s defensive corps staved off two penalties, which overlapped for a short time to make a 5-on-3, and made it through the end of the period with a man advantage that lasted into the second period.

Though a checking penalty on Toni Ann Miano could have cancelled out the benefit, a simultaneous holding penalty for Carlee Turner maintained the Eagles’ advantage. BC jumped on the shorthanded Wildcats, with Kali Flanagan taking the puck up from the Eagles’ goal.

Executing a perfect play, Flanagan passed to Lonergan, who skated up the boards and made a cross-ice pass to Anastos. The play brought Smith out too far left from the goal, and Makenna Newkirk blocked Tori Howran from backing Smith up. Anastos fired into the open right side of the goal while still skating. She’d notch her second goal as the teams returned to even strength, forcing the puck in from the back door as chaos ensued near the crease.

Anastos initially looked unsure about whether the goal would count, but the goal was good. The Eagles, now with a 4-0 lead, had no intention of stopping.

Capizzano, not one to buck trends, scored her two goals back to back, too. She trailed the UNH defensemen until Miano passed her the puck. She broke away from the defensemen and faked out Smith to put the puck in on Smith’s stick side in one effortless motion. Capizzano later opened up the third period in a similar fashion. Newkirk bar-

reled toward the Wildcats’ goal but couldn’t time her shot, so she passed it behind her in a lastditch effort. Capizzano picked it up and slid it past Smith and the right pipe, not even waiting for the red buzzer to start her celebration.

With a win secured, head coach Katie Crowle y pulled Switaj out for freshman Molly Barrow’s debut. Having only seen ice time in BC’s exhibition game against the Boston Pride in early October, Barrow held her own for the remainder of the game.

“I think that’s huge that they put her [Barrow] into a game this early into the season for her, and she’s only going to get better from here,” Switaj said.

Belinskas notched her third of the day with less than five minutes left, soaring up the ice and shooting the puck high to beat Smith, who could not pin the shot down.

Barrow faltered in the last two minutes, putting an end to the shutout Switaj had built up.

Carlee Toews shot from behind the right faceoff circle, and the puck skidded in between Barrow’s legs.

By then, the Eagles didn’t have anything to worry about.

With a six-goal lead and only a minute or so left, the win was theirs.

Crowley attributed the strong play throughout the game to the increase in stamina and hustle in her players.

“Yesterday I would say we played a full 40 minutes really well, and then today I thought we played a full 60 minutes,” Crowley said. “That’s what we’re looking to do, and that’s what we’re gonna need to do here as we get into the second half of the season.”

9P K8IPE 9I8Q =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj After a dominant season last year, this new season has thrown a lot at Boston College women’s hockey. There have been Boston College 5 regular UNH 1 season losses, a thought that would have been unheard of last year. There have been mix ups and different match ups in an attempt to figure out the best line combinations out there. And yet, the Eagles have remained in their familiar spot at the top of their conference.

Certainly not where they are playing, when they are playing, or who they are playing, as evidenced by a road win against University of New Hampshire.

Despite going down early, the Eagles roared back to score five goals in a row to down the Wildcats, 5-1.

BC (8-3-2, 7-2 Hockey East) was the aggressor early on, keeping the puck in its own offensive zone and keeping the Wildcats out of their own.

But it was UNH (3-9, 3-4) who struck first, scoring less than five minutes into the game. Meghara McManus scored an unassisted goal to put the Eagles down early, picking off an attempt from the Eagles to clear the puck and ripping a shot from the faceoff dot.

A shot on goal from Ryan Little was

reviewed during the first period, but the call on the ice stood and the Eagles remained down one goal. BC had two power plays during the period but could not capitalize on either of them.

Despite UNH being up one goal, the Eagles outshot the Wildcats 12-4, a sign of good things to come in the next two periods.

Right on cue, at 5:58 in the second period, on BC’s third power play of the game, Megan Keller gave Caitrin Lonergan a perfect pass that Lonergan one-timed into the goal, finding space between the post and UNH goalie Hilary Cashin. Exactly 1:30 later, Makenna Newkirk’s wrister found the back of the goal after Keller gathered the puck in BC’s offensive zone and passed it to Lonergan. This was BC’s first lead of the game, and the Eagles did not squander it. The Eagles held off two more penalty kills to go into the third period up by one goal.

The third period was arguably the most impressive one the Eagles have displayed this season, as they scored three times to put the game away for good. The period began with Katie Burt making a huge save to keep BC’s slim one-goal lead. At 11:26, Newkirk intercepted a UNH pass and fed the puck to Kristyn Capizzano. Newkirk then raced down the ice and tipped a pass from Capizzano into the back

of the net. Thirty-two seconds later, Keller’s pass tipped off of a UNH skater and found Toni Ann Miano who was undefended. Miano effortlessly created the space needed for a shot, and beat Cashin to score BC’s fourth goal of the game.

With just under one minute left in the game, Kenzie Kent won the puck after a defensive battle on the boards, and passed to freshman Delaney Belinskas near the blue line. Belinskas skated down into BC’s offensive zone and found the back of the net for BC’s fifth and final goal. This game was Keller’s first game since Oct. 22, when she went to represent Team USA, and win gold, at the Four Nation’s Cup, and she came back just as good as ever.

Keller had three assists in the game, which was her third multiplepoint game of the season. Newkirk record her fifth multiple-point game of the season and her second three-point outing in as many games. Miano’s goal was her 50th career point, and she is only the eighth defenseman in BC history to reach the 50 point mark.

“We came out a little flat, but we were able to finish strong tonight,” Katie Crowley told BCEagles.com after the game. I’m really happy that we were able to keep things simple in the third and finish the game playing well.”

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The Eagles celebrate after scoring a goal in their 7-1 home victory over New Hampshire on Saturday afternoon.

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On screen, 12 mysterious black ships suddenly materialize at different places across the world. Col.Weber (Forest Whitaker) and a few soldiers arrive at acclaimed linguist Louise Banks’s (Amy Adams) doorstep to bring her to speak with the aliens. The aliens, large cephalopod-like creatures, nicknamed heptapods due ARRIVAL to their Paramount Pictures seven appendages, can speak, but not in any language that humanity can understand. Banks, along with Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), regularly meets with the aliens at the ship that appeared in U.S. airspace in an attempt to establish communication.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the mind behind Prisoners and Sicario, Arrival is this Oscar season’s best sci-fi movie so far, even though science fiction isn’t a category in the

Academy Awards. In a cinematic wasteland full of sequels, prequels, remakes, and reboots, Arrival is one of the few truly good movies this year. It shows that Hollywood is still capable of producing original content, or at least content based on original stories.

Movies that make audiences think and ask them interesting questions are few and far between these days. If aliens were to arrive on Earth, could we communicate with them meaningfully? If they arrived in multiple countries, how long would it take before governments decided to blow them out of the sky? Could humanity work together long enough to figure it all out?

Arrival tries, and succeeds, at answering these questions within its own universe.

Banks and Donnelly work with the two heptapods on the U.S. ship to form a system of communication. In one of the most incredible scenes in Arrival, Banks manages to get the aliens, affectionately nicknamed Abbot and Costello, to “write.” Heptapods do not write like any known written language on Earth. They convey large ideas, like sentences and paragraphs, with large circular symbols made from the black material they

can exude from their feet. The heptapods also have a very different concept of time.

Their words do not have tenses. Instead they speak in terms of large feelings and impressions. Banks breaches this language barrier by using a device not previously seen in any science fiction movie to date: a dry-erase board. While the tools may be rudimentary, they constitute a major breakthrough. The wonder and relief that Banks and Donnelly emote are palpable.

In response to the other questions, one of the major obstacles Arrival sets for its characters is bureaucracy. Col. Weber is constantly asking Dr. Banks to work faster, to try to ask the heptapods the “big” question, “What is your purpose on Earth?” His position is very sympathetic, however. He must report to the generals, the Defense Department, and the president. Banks, and the audience, would obviously choose to spend as much time as possible learning with the aliens, but the government demands answers. If none come, it will take any action necessary to eliminate the threat. Arrival also shows the media frenzy that would undoubtedly result from such

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Proving language is a powerful thing, ‘Arrival’ shows salvation can be found on a whiteboard. an occurrence. The movie provides an incredibly realistic and believable glimpse into the way Earth might react to an alien “invasion.”

Adams gives a stellar performance as Banks. Her character has a very emotional experience throughout the movie, and Adams expresses this very well. Renner and Whitaker both do a very good job in supporting roles.

The visuals in Arrival are stunning.

Every shot is bright and vibrant without being overwhelming. The movie shows the action on screen clearly and without inter-

ruption. Too often, alien movies suffer from too much or too little of the actual aliens.

Arrival holds just enough back, leaving the audience wanting more of the heptapods.

What truly drives Arrival, however, is its story. The acting and visuals only serve to complement this fascinating plot. The film is like an iceberg: any knowledge of the movie gleaned from trailers is only surface level. Arrival is a welcome and fresh experience after a year of tiresome, unoriginal films. Fans of science fiction will love this movie, but they will definitely not be the only ones arriving at the theater.

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What happens when you take a rugged, old-school, outdoorsy man and put him in an office with online content-creating millennials who can’t look away from their screens? CBS explores this concept in its new show, The Great Indoors.

The central and pretty much only conflict in this show stems from this exaggerated generational conflict. Quips like, “You’re like the human dial-up,” “Do you want me to text you these beers?” and, “What are you doing for your date?

Blockbuster and chill,” fly back and forth between people on both sides of the age gap. While this concept could be way more offensive than it is to viewers young and old, the quick writing and the skilled cast make the show enjoyable for a wide demographic.

The Great Indoors sticks to the classic fishout-ofTHE GREAT INDOORS water set CBSTelevision Studios up. The show takes place in the digital headquarters of a prestigious outdoors magazine, which, due to budget cuts, is shutting down its print operation, and going online. To aid in the transition, the editors bring in from the field their legendary explorer Jack Gordon (Joel McHale) to help lead the digital team.

The team consists of three young workers, stereotypical nerdy millennials.

They are smart and successful, but fall

apart on dates, need work to be fun, and require trophies for participation. In the pilot, as Jack struggles with whether to accept the job of what he calls “running digital daycare,” he tells his boss, Brooke (Susannah Fielding), “You mean I could forge a lasting, meaningful relationship with a younger generation? And who knows, even though I’m the teacher, maybe I could end up blah bleh bleh.”

The rhetorical question defines the show, setting up its traditional premise of two unlike groups finding each other, but the show is still self-aware enough that it doesn’t take itself too seriously.

The second episode improves on the first by moving away from just setting up the premise to actually exploring it.

After being beaten up at a bar in a fight because of a date gone awry, Jack enters the world of digital dating. Plagued by arrogance and a lack of online awareness, he reluctantly accepts the digital division’s help. In a Steve Jobs-style presentation, the team revamps his profile, but before his training is complete, he goes rogue. It’s a disaster, and after his first date, his identity is stolen. The episode somehow works again, and while it laughs at millennials and their outof-touch elders, it does so with enough heart that no one is offended.

The show’s charisma comes from McHale, of The Soup and Community.

While the show and its characters are widely different in nature from the digitally savvy host of The Soup, or the anti-traditionalist, pro-meta Community, his timing and chemistry still shine through brightly.

Even though Jack is brutally sarcastic, absurdly arrogant, and a laughably

out-of-touch newcomer to the office, McHale infuses him with enough charm and subtle warmth that the audience can’t help but fall to his side.

While McHale is the clear star of the show, the rest of the cast is adept at wringing laughs out of their often one-note characters. Out of the three main digital employees—Clark, Mason, and Emma—only Clark, played by Superbad’s Christopher Mintz-Plasse, gets any fleshing out. He is a classic nerd, but has an open obsession with his childhood idol, Jack. This dynamic, while not original, proves to be a consistent source of laughs.

Fielding and McHale have an obvious chemistry, as their characters have history. The back-and-forth between these two provides the show its emotional heart. The most bizarre casting is that of the CEO, played by Stephen Fry. Fry is wildly underused and even though he generates the most laughs per line, one cannot help to feel that for an actor and celebrity of his caliber, this show and his minimal role in it are miles beneath him.

Overall, and despite its flaws, the simplest thing to say about the show is that it is funny. It is not going to be considered premier TV or high-brow humor, but if you don’t look too hard or ask what an explorer is going to do to help run a digital office or why Jack, who isn’t older than 40, has pretty much never seen a computer before, it can be pretty enjoyable.

The show makes you laugh, and the jokes come quick enough that before you realize a joke didn’t land, you’ll already be laughing at the next one.

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Immediately, we’re immersed in a somber and gloomy color palette. The show makes an effort to destabilize any of our previously-held notions about the glitz and glamour of royal living. Not only does it make for a more humble picture of royalty, but it makes

the intensity of the series’ soundtrack less alarming and, oddly enough, more quaint—in a word, cute.

It’s entirely overdone and entirely underwhelming, perhaps because £100 million in production can only achieve so much.

Yet in all its intensity, the characters—not including King George, played

by Jared Harris, who was previously known for his role as Lane Pryce in Mad Men—seem underdeveloped and overplayed—well, at least at the show’s start.

As the plot develops it becomes clear that The Crown is an image of the House of Windsor under a fixed cultural microscope, analyzed with acute detail so that we might better acquire an accurate, psychological portrait of each character.

That said, the plot is meant to retain focus mainly on the private life of Elizabeth II (Claire Foy), the very woman who sits on the British throne today, as she dons the crown. Nevertheless, writer Peter Morgan, known for

his work on the 2006 film The Queen, chooses to front load the drama of the show so that it weighs heavily on the health of the king and, as an extension, the well-being of the state.

This has the effect of helping us understand the gravitas of his sudden death and the underpreparedness of Elizabeth II. The Crown is likely to draw new subscribers to Netflix, arguably from an older demographic, exactly the sort of audience attracted to epic costume drama much like the popular series Downton Abbey.

According to The Telegraph, the royal family was anxious about the release of the series, as Morgan declines all offers from Buckingham Palace to assist with research for the script.

This is not to say that the show is historically inaccurate, but with this artistic freedom, Morgan was better able to humanize the royal family with compassion and a human quality that we all hold deep within us but prefer not to share. It’s an image of a family at

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Deglamorizing notions of royalty, ‘The Crown’ finds success in detailing the woes of monarchy. its core, and we can’t help but imagine our lives as queen or king in such circumstances.

As we get past the initial feelings of fear and intimidation, we are able to set aside our own impressions of what it might be like as we watch Claire Foy give us a complex image of Princess Elizabeth, and then Queen Elizabeth.

The acting is deeply satisfying to say the least. Each performance outdoes the last. Harris’s King George seems an un-

likely match to Colin Firth’s of the King’s Speech, though it works with all its quiet depth and affliction. We’re heartbroken by his demise and anxious for the rise of the Queen, who consistently outplays Mirren’s performance, as she achieves the image of the queen as girlish at worst but with an unexpecting grit at best.

The Crown is worthy of our attention and our binge-watching tendencies— the same psychotic compulsiveness we grant to our favorite shows.

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Monday, November 14, 2016

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Nov. 9 was either the worst or most perfect time for the documentary Indivisible: Love Knows No Borders to be screened on campus. After the recent election of Donald Trump, it is questionable whether illegal immigrants will have a path to citizenship.

Regardless, it is important to speak about this highly contested issue that impacts the lives of countless individuals, both inside and outside the United States.

Indivisible goes beyond the borders this country has set between the U.S. and the other countries of the world.

The story follows the accounts of three undocumented immigrants in the U.S., each fighting for the right to become a citizen. The film shows each person’s personal battle toward citizenship, as well as the struggle to visit his family coupled with the actual visits to his family back in his country of origin.

All of the main characters of the movie had lived in the U.S. from a young age, but a piece of documentation kept them from being legitimate U.S. citizens. The three each became a part of the political process, to be a part of America and to tell their stories. These young people came to understand what policy battles actually mean and to understand firsthand what it is like to fight for legislation. It is devastating watching people vote on aspects of other’s lives, like whether or not they will get to see their families again.

Two of the main characters, Renata and Evelyn, grew up in Boston, while Antonio grew up in Queens, N.Y. All of them were, however, born in different parts of the world—Antonio from Mexico, Evelyn from Colombia, and Renata from Brazil. Each of them had different reasons for coming to the U.S., but they all still had the same love for the country. The country had raised them, had kept them safe, and had given them opportunities that often were not universal in their countries of origin.

All three of these illegal immigrants had been separated from their families for long periods of time. The film actually documented the first time Antonio, Renata, and Evelyn had seen their mothers since

they had been separated from them through different circumstances. This reunion was through a fence between Mexico and America. These poor children and mothers had to hug each other and tell stories through a fence. All they wanted to do was reunite, but instead it seemed as though they were positioned like animals, communicating with one another through fences. It was both sad and horrifying.

Finally, the movie ended with scenes of Renata, Evelyn, and Antonio returning to their countries of origin to reunite with their families. Although heartbreaking, these reunions held a sense of hope and promise for the future that has yet to come. The love between these children and parents was palpable and beautiful.

Whether it was in a loving greeting at the airport with cries of joy calling out, “Ay! My little treasure!” or a simple conversation over breakfast, the love between these families was beautiful.

After the movie, members of the audience engaged in a discussion. The first topic they talked about was what had changed in regard to the events depicted since the movie. The election was the most obvious and most devastating aspect. The recent election promised to remove the ability for illegal immigrants to receive work permits to see their families. The message that rang loud and clear, however, was that “we will continue doing this work.”

One of the most relevant questions of the night was, “What can college students do to help?” The answer came in many parts. First off, we need to put in the effort to understand the policies we have in the U.S. and how they affect certain people in our country. As uncomfortable as these questions and conversations are, we need to continue to have them in order to understand the positions of the rest of the country. We actually need to care about each other as human beings. Additionally, it is important for students to connect with organizations that can help, in addition to making calls and writing letters to Congress members to stop deportations.

Although the election is over, issues like immigration will still affect countless numbers of people both inside and outside of this country.

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On Friday and Saturday evening, the University Chorale of Boston College a n d th e B o s to n C o l l e g e Sy mp h o ny Orchestra collaborated with Newton Country Day School’s Cantilare to present Carmina Burana. Carl Orff composed this masterpiece in the 1930s upon discovering a book of poems that demonstrated the vitality of the human experience he aimed to capture in his music, and he did exactly that when a production of the work hit the Frankfurt Opera stage in 1937. Nearly a century later, Carmina Burana still illuminates stages around the world, and there was no exception on the stage of Trinity Chapel.

John Finney, the conductor for the choir and orchestra, opened the night with “O Fortuna,” the iconically powerful introduction to the entire work and particularly to the first of three scenes that comprise Carmina Burana. The enormity of sound immediately struck the audience and continued to hold members’ every sense, as percussion invigorated layers of strings, drums, trumpets, and trombones, accompanied by rich male and smooth

female vocals from the University Chorale rang throughout the room. The melody shifted back and forth from an eruption of music to a poignant hush, simultaneously engaging listeners and fueling a rush of wonder that would carry the tone of the entire night.

Upon the inauguration of the first part of Carmina Burana called “Primo Vere,” every instrument softened into nymph-like buoyancy, coronating the oncoming spring with the particular delicacy of the triangle.

Introduced by a merry xylophone scale, the baritone soloist stepped into the spotlight to voice the overwhelming benevolence of springtime, melting the audience with the depth of his range.

The music then brightened into a frolic-inspiring tune, with soprano vocals perfectly mingling with the joyous bounce of the tamborine. The flute took the reins in the solely instrumental “Tanz, ” a sequence that in staged productions of Carmina Burana evokes radiant dance.

The angelic female voices of the Chorale then conveyed the union of nature and a plea for love in “Floret silva nobilis,” singing in Latin “The wood is in bloom everywhere, why does my love delay so long?” An anticipatory call and response between the male and female voices of the Chorale was amplified by a rotation of strength by the cymbals and drums and of softness by the flute. A mischievous pluck of the strings shifted into a summoning by trumpets, ending the first part in a storm of punchy instrumentation.

The second part displayed what the conductor equated to a night at Mary Ann’s.

In “In Taberna,” a primarily masculine sound driven by the baritone soloist mastered the contrast between vivifying buz z and galvanizing re verberation, expressing the highs and lows of the tavern experience. The scene ended in a fastpaced rattling of every person who drinks, summarizing in entertaining grandeur the unity cast by a beverage.

“Cours D’Amour” reverted the mood back to splendor through flute and triangle instrumentation and introduced purity in the form of Cantilare, the all-girls choir of Newton Country Day School. The young choir fostered a bright awakening that was supported by the entrance of the soprano soloist Susan Consoli, whose satin vocals embellished lyrics about “lascivious love and modesty.”

The robust volume of Carmina Burana culminated in “Blanziflor Et Helena,” a composition of honor that showcased the seasoned skill of the entire symphony and allowed a dynamic shift into the final stage of Orff ’s composition.

The collaboration of the Chorale and orchestra closed the way it began, thrilling the audience with “O Fortuna” once again. Every person within Trinity Chapel remained on the edge of his or her seat until the final note of the song, when a standing ovation welcomed the deserving musicians.

Beaming faces left Newton Campus that night, mystified by the embrace of riveting vibrations and already eager to attend University Chorale and the Symphony Orchestra’s next event, “Christmas on the Heights,” in December.

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Picturing Paradise: Cuadros from the Peruvian Women of Pamplona Alta as Visions of Hope is an appreciation of hope in the harshest of places, as well as a celebration of female empowerment and ambition. Located in the Atrium Gallery in the Theology and Ministry Library from Oct. 24 to Dec. 16, the exhibition is alive with vibrant colors and three-dimensional designs.

The result of artistic expression and political motivation, the unique cuadros were created by the the women of Compacto Humano and Manos Ancashinos, two art cooperatives located in Pamplona Alta, a shanty town situated on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.

“With bits of cloth, textured fabric, and colored thread, the women of Pamplona Alta craft images that underscore the events that shape their lives,” said Rebecca Berru Davis, Con/Vida Associate and curator of the exhibit.

The cuadros they stitch by hand are visual testimonies to their resilience, persistence, and efforts to create beauty in a harsh world.”

While the exhibit is locally sponsored by the Boston College Libraries, the School of Theology and Ministry, and the Church in the 21st Century Center, it is officially sponsored

by Con/Vida–Popular Arts of the Americas, which is a nonprofit organization that strives to celebrate diversity throughout the Americas.

The collection of art is the product of three separate commissioned projects: Hopes and Dreams (January 2006), Inspirations and Motivations (January 2007), and ¿Quien soy yo?

(Who am I?) (July 2008), all of which explore

each woman’s ambitions for herself, her family, or the world, as well as discuss the communities in which they live.

Some cuadros, if not most, depict pastoral scenes that speak to the beauty that surrounds these women. Botanica (Flower Garden), by Karina Heredia Vela, features intricately woven foliage that support this notion. The trees and cacti envelope a teeming mass of vibrantly colored flowers. Scarlet, fuchsia, and lavender, among other colors, bloom in multitude. Las Islas Ballestas (Paracas National Reserve), by Milagros Aliaga Montesinos, illustrates the Ballestas Islands. The overwhelmingly crowded heaps of sea wolves, penguins, seagulls, fish, whales, flamingos, dolphins, and pelicans illustrate the chaotic and wild atmosphere. The several hues of blue act as the scene’s backdrop.

Las Pallas, by Fidencia Liñan Retuerto, uses various fabrics to add more depth to the cuadro.

The complexity of this piece is rooted in this quality. The shining lace and shimmering cloth creates a magical scene in the midst of dire circumstances.

Other pieces hold strong political messages.

Conflicto en la Selva (Conflict in the Jungle), by Grupo Compacto Humano, is a violent image that encapsulates the pent-up frustrations of the women.

“In June 2009, tensions between the Peruvian government and the indigenous population of the jungle erupted into violence as land and mineral rights were contested. Protests supporting the indigenous took place in the streets of Lima, Peru,” reads the caption. The pure, lush surroundings ironically set the stage for savagery and aggression. The slain are depicted fallen on the ground, while those still

in combat fight on.

This pattern continues in Violencia en el Pueblo Joven (Violence in the “Young Town”), by Maria Esther. “Depicted in this cuadro are the challenges and particularities of violence of life in the shanty towns,” she writes in the caption.

The lively colors illustrate a disconcerting image. The figures of the piece tear at each other’s clothes and hair. One can almost feel the tension.

The aspirational pieces take a step back from either theme and focus on the lives the women hope and wish for. Verónica Príncipe Liñan’s installment in Hopes and Dreams portrays an opulent wedding, which offers a universal image of love and celebration.

“My dream is to finish my degree and become a professional,” she writes. “Like many women, my dream is to then find a nice man to fall in love with and marry.”

Haydee Delgado Quispe’s piece in Hopes and Dreams shows the inherent beauty of the landscape and ruins.

“This cuadro represents my personal dream.

I would love to travel with my whole family to Machu Picchu in a plane or a car,” the caption states. The intricate coloring of the birds flying by the mountains highlights the majestic nature of the scene.

The women of Compacto Humano and Manos Ancashinos know true struggle and understand the strife that can come between a government and its citizens. They also know what it means to dream for what seems like the impossible. The cuadros they have provided us with aren’t just colorful crafts, they are windows into the lives we rarely get to see and will most likely never experience ourselves.

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A voice is a beautiful thing. People forget all the things you can do to morph and shape it. Voice can be used to reach screeching highs and reverberating bass lows. People think that they have one voice, but in reality, they have thousands.

Like a muscle, all it takes is practice. The voice is drastically underutilized, but beautiful nonetheless.

Even from a young age, I remember trying to speak like other people. My brother and I often would incorporate different voices into the stories we would create with Legos or action figures. The voices we took on gave the characters more personality and helped us flesh out the stereotypical aspects of our heroes and villians. Voices helped us better create the stories we wanted to tell.

Accents were the way we did it. The classic British villain spoke with force and anger, while the hero spoke with a stern, but never overbearing American accent.

As children we would flub words and the illusion would break, but with time we became better at it as our voices matured.

The floodgates were really opened when we realized that the sea of accents was ours for the taking. With so many possibilities, we started to piece together a mental map of accents through similar and dissimilar sounds, syllables, and vocal machinations.

This realization helped me see the world as a bigger place with myriad ways of life. The way that English could be spoken was multifarious and varied throughout the world. In the United States, the different manners of speaking add to the collective air of uniqueness that this country has. And all this is but a microcosm, a subset of English dialects.

It was at this time that the words themselves seemed to adopt different meanings. It really did depend on how you said things, with respect to accents.

“Water” could be said “wadder,” “woetuh,” or “watah.” Especially in the world of swearing, the efficacy of swearing depends on from which part of the world the speaker hails.

As I got older, and watched more more film and television, I began to try to emulate the people I heard. Impressions fascinated me, as some of the greatest impressionists were, to my ear, indistinguishable from the actual individual.

And my investigations in just how to do that was very interesting. The voice of a person is supported by his experience and his life. To better try to emulate it, the best thing to do was try to think and act like the other person. How would Robert De Niro look at this situation?

What posture would he adopt? Speaking in this sense became more of a full body exercise, as every detail was important in influencing what sounds our vocal cords could make.

Impressions bring us closer to people we would not otherwise know. When we try to speak like them, we are really trying to understand them on a more fundamental level. Because of all the factors that influence a voice, trying to deconstruct various components is an enlightening task.

Impressions and accents are a high form of flattery because there is so much that can be said about a person based on how they speak. It gleans insight into culture, the history of language in a region, personal affectations, and so much more.

The voice is a beautiful instrument that can ring many different notes true. It is the key to communication and can help us become closer to others by emulating and understanding a little clearer what makes us people. It is often said that our personalities are an amalgamation of the personalities of those we interact with.

If this is true, I would like to believe that there is a little Aussie, Brit, or Scot, and even further, maybe a bit of Nic Cage, De Niro, and George W. Bush in all of us.

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GET DOWN TONIGHT SEASA’s Dance Showcase unites different sides of the BC dance scene 9P :?I@J =LCC<I 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi For a lot of people, tight spaces are really uncomfortable. Tight space might not literally mean tight space, though. For some, “tight space” could mean an area with a clutter of things lying around or too many people in one room. For these people, waiting outside the Murray Function Room in the Yawkey Center for Friday night’s South East Asian Student Association and Conspiracy Theory Dance Showcase might have been absolutely torturous.

A host of students belonging to 11 of Boston College’s dance teams squeezed into the Murray Room lobby, waiting around for the doors to open so that everyone could pile inside. The excitement that defined the atmosphere in the lobby was palpable, as many students practiced their moves, silently singing to themselves, drowning out the overwhelming amount of noise in the room with their headphones.

Others assembled for group photos in any free spaces that they could find. If anyone in that room was uncomfortable with the amount of people there, it at least wasn’t visible at all. The amount of genuine, big grins on everyone’s faces was, on the other hand, uncountable.

If the melange of students doing their gigs in the Murray Room lobby wasn’t a good enough show in it and of itself, the performance that soon followed this frenzy of motion and noise was inarguably so.

The best thing about collaborative dance shows at BC has always been the variance that such a collection of different dance types and groups cultivates. Friday’s Dance Showcase was no exception and, aside from the annual spring Showdown, it probably provided the widest array of dances that is ever seen in one show. Seeing groups like Masti and Boston College Irish Dance perform side by side is really a rare and delightful occasion, as the difference in styles and the variety of skills needed to perform each specific dance is more obvious than ever. These both larger and less pertinent details and differences in performances are what keep BC’s dance landscape evolving over time, as teams incorporate new styles into their routines, making new dances and new dance types. These changes are especially apparent when a viewer sees

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one dance among different styles, contextualizing the individual dance for the inexperienced eye.

SEASA and Conspiracy Theory came together to host their fourth annual Dance Showcase not just for the fun of it, but also for a great cause. The proceeds of the show went to Kamayan American Youth in Action, or KAYA, a program operating out of the YMCA in Lynn, Mass., that seeks to inspire kids to express themselves creatively and to be active members in their communities. The group also tutors children, gives college tours, and provides a space for kids to talk about the problems in their lives without facing judgment.

Throughout the night, high school students involved in the program spoke, reading speeches that they had written for the occasion. These talks highlighted many of the great experiences that kids are open to having with KAYA and did a great job of contextualizing and promoting the organization that the evening’s ticket sales contributed to.

While every separate performance Friday night was special in its own way and brought something unique to the stage, there were a few dances and teams that deserve special note.

Sporting Girl Scout garb, half of the team wearing pink shirts, the other half wearing white, F.I.S.T.S. put on a spectacular step-dance routine melded into a skit about competing Girl Scout chapters and their debate over where to sell the year’s cookies. Not only was this combination unique, but it was also very funny. The team’s moves are impressive enough, but this comedic aspect that the group injected into its set, both in the skit and in its dance, was masterfully balanced.

Though those that attend BC dance events have probably seen it before, Full Swing’s Grease dance, set to the iconic “You’re the

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One that I Want,” is undeniably fun and enthralling.

While most are probably used to seeing many members on stage at any Full Swing dance, only six of the group’s dancers were on stage for this number. Fewer people did not equal a lesser performance, in this case. Just having six people perform the dance lent Full Swing’s set an intimacy that other groups throughout the night couldn’t necessarily boast. Sure, other groups performed with a similar number of people, but the close-quartered, romantic nature of Full Swing’s style was made even more apparent with just three couples on stage.

Speaking of tight spaces, some groups throughout the night seemed rather tightly positioned on the assembled stage, as this space is probably not as large as some of the spaces these groups work with. Some groups visibly had trouble with this, as there were some scary moments where it looked like dancers might just plunge off of the stage. At one point, a dancer did knock down a section of the curtain at the back of the stage.

Fuego, on the other hand, despite having a rather large ensemble, notably did not have any issues with this set-up. With the ladies dressed in bedazzled, shiny sequins and the men in their suave and graceful apparel, Fuego mashed elements of hip-hop with more traditional aspects of Mexican dance to deliver a pop-infused melting pot of dance styles to those in attendance. While the night generally was a perfect display of the variety present in the BC dance scene, Fuego was the perfect encapsulation of this aspect of SEASA’s Dance Showcase.

Between the huge amount of people pouring into the Murray Function Room, the expansive list of dance groups that made up the evening’s show, and the tight space these two groups of people had to work with, it’s easy to say that SEASA’s Dance Showcase was overwhelming. But this isn’t at all a bad thing. If there’s any facet of the BC arts community that should put on this kind of over-the-top performance and should draw in that large of a crowd, it’s the dance teams. This tightness shows perfectly just how devoted BC dancers are to their craft and how devoted their fans are. If people have to squeeze together to enjoy seeing and being a part of these dance groups, then that’s fine. The audience will survive to see another show.

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