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As the sun was setting Monday evening, Boston College students, faculty, and administrators gathered on O’Neill Plaza, holding advocacy signs and chanting “Muslim rights, human rights; gay rights, human rights.” A few hundred gathered to show their disapproval of President-elect Donald Trump, to share their fears and concerns about the future, and to demonstrate their support for one another during this time of uncertainty. The rally, which was sponsored by Eradicate Boston College Racism, began at 4:30 p.m. The crowd formed an inner circle made of BC community members who felt scared or saddened because of the recent presidential election, with the outer circle made of allies. “I know if anyone here has been feeling the way I’ve been feeling the past six days, it’s pretty paralyzing,” said Sriya Bhattacharyya, a member of Eradicate and BC ’16. “And it’s so valuable to see so many folks coming together to support one another.” Many in the inner and outer circles held candles to grieve. “We’re grieving our fears of losing our human rights,” she said. “We’re grieving for those who are Muslim, queer, indigenous, undocumented, black, minorities—communities all over the world who feel marginalized at this time.” The candles also gave students a sense of hope and resistance, she said.
It has now been over a week since Donald J. Trump was elected president, and across the country, people have both celebrated and grieved his victory. Protests and rallies have spanned 3,000 miles—from Los Angeles to here in Boston. With the country in such a divisive state, violence and hate-motivated speech have broken out on college campuses across the country. In the last week at Boston College, students have come together in solidarity, hosted safe spaces, and rallied against Trump. Among some BC students, there has been an outcry of emotion and fear, notably in social media posts and in a rally held Monday night by Eradicate BC Racism. The Graduate Student Association voted unanimously on Wednesday morning to internally approve the idea of turning BC into a sanctuary school. At a “sanctuary school,” undocumented students are protected by the university. This comes after Trump promised to deport 3,000 illegal immigrants in his first 100 days of office and to repeal Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA currently allows young undocumented immigrants, including undocumented college students, to apply for temporary protection from deportation. Craig Ford, the executive director of the GSA, said he will now begin to work with other student leaders to draft a formal petition. Russell Simons, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) president and MCAS ’17, said that the idea has been
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:Xikffej# ?ldfi ?\cg\[ :_Xjk :fg\ E\n Pfib\i ZXikffe`jk jgfb\ kf jkl[\ekj fe N\[e\j[Xp e`^_k 9P D@I8E;8 D:;FE8C;$JK8?C =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj As an award-winning cartoonist for The New Yorker, it was only natural that Roz Chast introduced herself with a cartoon. Titled “A Note on the Author,” it showed Chast as a girl curled up in bed surrounded by books like The Big Book of Horrible Diseases and Lockjaw Monthly. Like “A Note on the Author,” many of Chast’s cartoons use humor to expose people’s bizarre insecurities. Chast spoke to students and faculty about her work as part of Boston College’s Lowell Humanities Lecture Series on Wednesday night. She also read from her New York Times best-selling graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something
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More Pleasant?, which is about caring for her aging parents. Chast’s ideas often come from her own life. In a panel showing “When Moms Dance” she quotes her then 16-year old daughter: “Mom. Stop. You’re hurting me.” “There is almost nothing more revolting in the eyes of a teenager than the adult human body,” Chast said. She did not hesitate to bring in the current political climate, including a drawing of Donald Trump’s thought process as an assortment of random words such as “cyber,” “disgusting,” “fat,” and “great.” Chast always thought she would become an artist. She never thought she would become a cartoonist, but she began to develop a sense of humor in her artwork. “I would try to draw a serious horse, and it would come out prancing or something,” she said. When Chast submitted her first portfolio of 60 cartoons to The New Yorker in
1978, she had little hope of selling any. She thought the head cartoon editor would tell her that she was too young to create cartoons worthy of the publication. To her surprise, the editor bought one of her cartoons and invited Chast back the next week. She has worked as a contributor to the magazine ever since. Chast described her process of drawing each week as a “caffeinated frenzy” to submit ideas. Artists for the magazine submit a batch of up to a dozen cartoons every Tuesday and are lucky if even one is printed. Chast’s early experiences as a cartoonist were not always successful. For example, Chast gave a talk at Hallmark after printing cartoons such as “Narcissist Greeting Cards” with captions like “Hey, your birthday’s close to mine!” She mocked classic cards with dramatic poems and backgrounds like “A sunrise, or a boat, or a boat at sunrise … where the
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The Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center (BAIC) has been training student leaders to lead discussions on race, culture, and identity this year through the Bowman Advocates for Inclusive Culture program. The program was created by Tiffany Enos, assistant director of the BAIC. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) accredited the BAIC in the spring, allowing its staff to train student leaders who facilitate discussions on race. Boston College is the first university to receive ADL approval to train student leaders. The ADL has had a close relationship with the BAIC, according to Enos. Ines Sendoya, the director of the Center, was inspired by the ADL when she attended one of its events in Boston. The event, which was a peer training program for middle school and high school students, inspired her to create a student leadership training program at BC. She believed that students would rather listen to other students than staff members, so having student leaders on campus would be invaluable to hosting meaningful conversations. The Bowman Advocates are sophomores, juniors, and seniors who work to make BC a more inclusive community. The advocates went through a long
application process, in which they had to write several essays and attend an interview at the Bowman Center. Their first leadership opportunity was during Welcome Week, when they co-facilitated debrief sessions after the MOSAIC program, in which students talked about their personal experiences. Enos, who joined the BAIC staff in Nov. 2015, oversees the different programs the BAIC has, including the Campus of Difference workshops and the Dialogues on Race workshops. She also created the Bowman Advocates training program. The Campus of Difference workshops are for first-year students who would like to discuss diversity and identity. This program is a pilot program that reached 400 first-year students over the course of 25 workshops. Enos hopes that the program will eventually become required for all first-year students. Students who wish to continue with the program can receive a certificate if they participate in five other workshops. “Feedback has been really positive,” Enos said. “Overall, students are leaving the sessions feeling like they had a great experience and were happy to get to know their floormates a little bit better … and they’re looking for more conversations like this.” The Dialogues on Race workshops are open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and allow students to engage in peer-led discussions on issues related to race. These workshops occur several times a month. “I feel like our responsibility is very
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Mary Water, a sociology professor at Harvard, will speak to students on Nov. 17 at 12 p.m. on immigration. Her talk, “Racial and Legal Exclusion in the 21st Century United States” is a part of a four-part series on immigration after the Obama administration. The location of the event is TBD.
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Sherri Goodman, the former deputy undersecretary of defense, will speak on Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in Gasson 305. Her talk will focus on the threat of climate change to the country’s national security. Goodman will discuss why it is necessary to address global warming.
The GLTBQ Leadership Council will hold the GLC Formal on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Westin Copley Hotel in Boston. The dance is meant to celebrate and spread awareness of the GLTBQ community on campus. The event will also feature a guest speaker.
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The NCAA released its Graduate Success Rate rankings today, and Boston College athletics ranked fifth among the Football Bowl Division schools. BC followed behind Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern, and Duke on the list. The class of 2009, which was the class that was analyzed in these rankings, had a GSR of 95. Thirteen BC teams had a GSR of 100: women’s basketball, men’s golf, field hockey, women’s hockey, lacrosse, rowing, men’s skiing, women’s skiing, women’s soccer, softball, women’s swimming and diving, women’s tennis, women’s track and field, and volleyball. Specifically, BC football had a GSR score of 90. Football’s score was ranked ninth in the nation. Football moved up from a GSR score of 89 last year. On average, 82 percent of Division I class of 2004 athletes have earned a degree. The NCAA originally created the GSR assessment because college and university presidents wanted data that reflected college students’ mobility. Universities are responsible for transfer students as well. This is different from the federal government’s assessment, which does not take into account students who transfer universities. The GSR shows that studentathletes are more likely to graduate than a normal student.
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The Boisi Center for Religious and American Public Life sponsored the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Book-a-Thon on Tuesday afternoon in Campion 200. The Book-a-Thon featured Paul and Peter H. Reynolds, children’s book creators. Peter, who is a New York Times bestselling author, is the illustrator of the Judy Moody series, The Dot, Ish, Sky Color, and Someday. He has sold over 20 million books in over 25 languages. Twenty years ago, Peter created FableVision, a social change agency focused on blending positive media, storytelling, and interactive technologies. Paul, his brother, now serves as the CEO of FableVision. Paul has also taught at BC for over 20 years and now teaches digital media production. At the Book-a-Thon, students and faculty had the opportunity to learn about USAID, a governmental agency that works abroad to fight poverty and set democratic societies up for success. Attendees could also start working on their own children’s book. The books that were created will be uploaded to a website in several languages across the globe. The digital form of the book is meant to allow children from all income levels and backgrounds to have access to literature. “I think all of us can find our voices through writing and be able to use our writing as a way to help and serve others,” Omeed Alidadi, an event organizer and MCAS ’18, said to The Heights in October.
Daniel J. D’Amico, a visiting political science professor at Brown University, began his talk on Nov. 14 by posing a question to the audience: “Why do you think some nations jail more than others?” D’Amico’s lecture ‘Why Nations Jail?’ explored the United States’s mass incarceration numbers as compared to other countries around the globe. Although the U.S. makes up 5 percent of the world’s population, it locks up more than 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. D’Amico has dedicated his career to understanding mass incarceration, and he offered insights throughout his talk about how the U.S. can solve this problem. D’Amico showed students a map of the world, which revealed that the U.S. incarcerates higher numbers of people than similar Western democracies like France and England. In fact, U.S. incarceration numbers are closer to those of China and Russia. “My first hunch in looking at cross-country incarceration rates is that we must embrace the idea that institutions matter,” D’Amico said. He explained that various institutions in the U.S., like political, economic, and cultural systems, have rules that shape the ways people behave. People can peacefully live under these institutions, or attempt to break free, often increasing crime rates. In one graph, D’Amico revealed the drastic increase in U.S. mass incarceration rates over time. He explained that the slope of rates since 1920 to the present was so steep that the graph had become the shape of a hockey stick. He then compared
Harry Enten, a senior political writer and and analyst for FiveThirtyEight, spoke Tuesday about why many newspaper and data journalists were so surprised that Donald Trump won the presidential election last week. The talk was sponsored by Boston College’s communication department and co-sponsored by the American studies and African and African diaspora studies programs. Matt Sienkiewicz, an assistant professor of communication at BC, started the discussion with Enten by directly addressing the elephant in the room—that FiveThirtyEight and other news media organizations were incorrect in their nearly universal predictions that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would win the presidency. FiveThirtyEight, one of the media sites most bullish on a Trump victory, pegged Trump’s chances of winning the election at 28.6 percent. Many other journalists and pollsters were less so—the Princeton Election Consortium put his
POLICE BLOTTER Monday, Nov. 14 10:01 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny of a bicycle at 2000 Comm. Ave. 10:19 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Fitzpatrick Hall.
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Daniel J. D’Amico discussed the United States’ mass incarceration numbers compared to other countries in the world. the U.S. incarceration rates to other countries’ rates. He showed that if one combined the increase in incarceration rates of several other countries such as France, England, Portugal, etc, the U.S. would still have a higher rate of incarceration. D’Amico offered a few typical, America-focused explanations for the discrepancies between the U.S.’s incarceration rates that are often referred to in societal discussion. These explanations, however, are not sufficient to be the main cause of the U.S’s astronomically high rates, he said. He acknowledged that racial inequality and the legacy of Jim Crow may contribute to these large numbers. This reasoning, however, proves insufficient for explaining global trends. Although it is true that racial tensions exaggerate problems of mass incarceration, he explained that America’s past experience with Jim Crow is not
chances at less than 1 percent. Following Trump’s sizable victory, many commentators have lambasted pollsters for doing a poor job. Enten said he believes that such criticism is largely overblown, however, as most polling outlets only provide percentage chances, not guarantees, that a certain candidate will win an election. While FiveThirtyEight predicted a Clinton victory as the most likely outcome, Enten said that the commonly repeated refrain that data analysts like him led the nation astray is misleading. “If you flip heads twice on a coin, that happens about 25 percent of the time. I don’t think that people quite recognize how uncertain the result actually was,” Enten said. “Probabilities actually mean something.” Enten said that the most surprising results were in Midwestern swing states which, while their residents were expected before Nov. 8 to vote for Clinton in large numbers, ended up going to Trump. “Errors are correlated across states,” Enten said. “That is, similar
necessarily shared by a number of countries around world that have experienced growth in mass incarceration numbers. Another explanation is that the conservative politics of the Nixon and Reagan eras caused mass incarceration, because these presidents had “tough on crime” policies. Former President Bill Clinton has also been accused of causing mass incarceration for a similar policy enacted in 1994, which was an issue early on in this year’s election cycle. Because other nations have not endured the partisan trends the U.S. has experienced in the past, however, this explanation is not sufficient enough to explain global trends of mass incarceration. Finally, D’Amico explained that drug prohibitions in the U.S. could be a more realistic explanation for mass incarceration. Without drug offenses, however, the U.S. prison population would have increased
four times instead of five times since the 1970s. He noted that these statistics on the impact of the drug war are not significant enough to serve as the primary cause for mass incarceration. In the end, D’Amico suggested that mass incarceration came down to legal organization principles, and whether a country had a common law or civil law system. A common law country has a big economy and a small government, resulting in higher incarceration rates, and a civil law country has a small economy and a big government, resulting in lower incarceration rates. He suggested that instead of the reasons that Americans often state for mass incarceration rates, people should look first at the institutions and their failures to explain this phenomenon. “Our explanation for increased incarceration rates must be accountable with global trends,” D’Amico said.
states tend to vote together. When similar states have polling errors, they all tend to have polling errors, and that’s exactly what happened.” While Clinton did receive more popular votes than Trump, the Republican candidate won a majority of electoral votes. Enten cautioned against thinking that, had the Electoral College not existed, Clinton would have won the election. It’s impossible to know what strategies would have been employed by either candidate had the conditions of the race been different, Enten said. Most political prognosticators believed that Trump was doomed to fail due to his antagonism and lack of outreach to minority voting blocs, which now comprise a greater portion of the electorate than ever before, Enten said. Trump, however, by “running up the score” with white voters, managed to sidestep this hurdle. The low turnout among minority voters also hurt Clinton in critical voting districts. The idea that significant American demographic shifts, such as a shrinking white population, would
spell doom for the Republican Party was proven false, at least in the short run, Enten said. “Demography is not destiny,” Enten said. “Parties adjust in the ways that they need to in order to win.” While he said that it’s hard to pinpoint the precise reasons for the widespread underestimation of Trump’s support among voters, Enten singled out factors that might have contributed to the widespread inaccuracy of pre-election polling. Neither Gallup nor the Pew Research Center, two of the most respected polling institutions in the world, conducted presidential polls this year, Enten said. Journalists, therefore, made predictions based on less reliable sources. The use of robo-polls, which are less accurate than traditional techniques, may have also played a role, he said. Polling is not an exact science, and faulty predictions should not cause serious concern, Enten said. “Hopefully, the errors were random, and not systematic, and will work themselves out by the next time around,” Enten said.
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11/14/16 - 11/16/16 11:59 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an elevator entrapment at McGuinn Hall. 1:03 p.m. - A report was filed regarding confiscation of property at Roncalli Hall. 5:47 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm at Ignacio Hall.
10:36 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm at Stayer Hall.
Tuesday, Nov. 15 11:32 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Walsh Hall.
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J\m\iXc ?le[i\[ Jkl[\ekj 8kk\e[ Xe Lei\^`jk\i\[ IXccp ?fjk\[ Yp <iX[`ZXk\ Rally, from A1 “As we hold onto each other and our grief, we hold up light for hope,”Bhattacharyya said. “So tonight we’re standing here together in solidarity, both grieving and fighting back.” Led by members of Eradicate, the crowd used several chants, including, “Muslim rights, human rights; gay rights, human rights.” It also adopted several chants used at various protests throughout the country over the past week, including, “No Donald Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA.” After several minutes of chanting, the crowd took a moment of silence to reflect on all that had happened in the past week. Eradicate held the event because it is upset with a perceived silence from BC following the elections. The group wanted students, faculty, and administrators to take a stand rather than allowing Trump’s rhetoric to go unchallenged. Over 200 faculty and staff have signed a letter to the editor in today’s Heights calling for the BC community to come together and heal any rifts caused by the election’s frequently divisive rhetoric. The Undergraduate Government of Boston College also issued a statement encouraging inclusion. Andy Boynton, the dean of the Carroll School of Management, and Gregory Kalscheur, the dean of the Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, sent emails to students in their respective schools addressing the events. Since the elections last week, various departments and student groups have been hosting discussion sessions and support groups for students who feel scared and upset from the results of the election. The rally also comes after a string of major rallies across the nation, including one onBoston Common on Friday. Bhattacharyya stressed the importance of condemning the hateful rhetoric used throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. “It is time to commit ourselves to take a stand,” she said. “Tolerance of racism, homophobia, islamophobia, misogyny, and other words of violence and oppression is not setting the world aflame.” The administration, Bhattacharyya said, should also take a stand to condemn the caustic rhetoric of the president-elect. Kim Ashby, a member of Eradicate and LGSOE ’17, agreed. “Tonight is a time to stand up against the neutrality that Boston College upholds,”
she said. Eradicate did not register the rally. Because it is not a registered student group, it does not have the right to register an on-campus event. After the moment of silence, students who wanted to speak were invited to address the crowd. Cedrick Simmons, a member of Eradicate and GMCAS ’17, asked all attendees to continue to show support for Eradicate even after the rally, and he condemned the administration for what he sees as unnecessary punishment against students who protest on campus. Simmons stressed the importance of defending what you believe and supporting others. “I hope you all will volunteer not just in the classroom or not just in a moment of pain,” he said. Chad Olle, a member of Eradicate and LGSOE ’17, asked the crowd how many people had heard someone talk about the importance of unity and civil dialogue over the past week. He said that Eradicate disagrees that all opinions are worth listening to. Instead, Eradicate wants to challenge Trump’s rhetoric and his message. “If the dialogue begins with you telling me that me or somebody I love is not valued, does not matter, is not worthy of respect, does not deserve equal opportunity, then you need to go look up ‘civil’ in the dictionary,” he said. “Because where I come from, that is not how a civil conversation starts with you telling someone that they’re not valued, that they don’t matter.” He believes that the dialogues need to be reframed, and that it is the job of administrators to take responsibility for changing these dialogues. “Vague calls for unity are not enough,” he said. “We need to take a stand.” The next student to take the megaphone was a white female student who said she was a survivor of sexual assault. She said she was thankful for the gathering. “I don’t feel safe,” she said. “I have to say, we call ourselves the United States, but we are a country united by hate. And I refuse to let that happen.” Shaun McGuffey, a professor in the sociology department, said he was proud to see everyone at the rally, but he knows that the next four years will require a lot of work. “This is just the beginning of a very, very long fight,” he said. “And that’s what
this is going to be—a fight. It’s going to be a battle.” Like Olle, he has heard many conversations about coming together and about unity. This is not unity, though, this is oppression, he said. “We have to name it as it is,” McGuffey said. “I refuse to have my humanity debated.” McGuffey called on everyone to help him. Everybody needs to have a plan for what they are going to do tomorrow, he said. He encouraged students to start as soon as possible, because one of his concerns is that if they wait, they will become too tired to fight. “The stakes are too high for you all—my family—to give up,” McGuffey said. Students can get involved by calling their state representatives tomorrow, he said. Conversations usually have certain formalities—when someone asks you how you are, you say you’re doing well, Shaun Glaze, LSOE ’18 said. But this week her response has been different. She encouraged students at the rally to respond honestly to this question and to get involved as soon as possible. Over the past week, Frank Garcia, who is the assistant manager for the Montserrat Office, has had students in his office crying and scared about the future. He said that he is just as uncertain about the next four years. “I can’t tell you it’s going to be okay because I don’t know if it’s going to be okay,” he said. Since he was born, Garcia has always faced discrimination, he said, so this is nothing new for him. Instead, what this election has done, in his view, is show that America is racist. This realization, though, will allow minorities to come together as they never have before, Garcia said. All people of different races, religions, sexualities, and genders, can come together to fight for justice and equality. “It’s about coming together as a unit and fighting as people who care about each other,” he said. Garcia said it is okay to admit to one another that we are scared or upset. He encouraged students to stop giving each other the “BC lookaway” and to get to know one another. “It’s about love, it’s about love, and it’s about love,” he said.
Ê:X]]\`eXk\[ =i\eqp1Ë :_Xjk ;`jZljj\j :Xi\\i Xj :Xikffe`jk Xk ÊK_\ E\n Pfib\iË Chast, from A1 person is trying to say I’m sorry, I’m f—ked up, but the poem is something obtuse like oh, the waterfall is flowing down.’” Suddenly, Chast realized that none of the Hallmark executives were laughing. Experiences like that, however, did not stop Chast from including dark humor in her work. As a child, she loved artists like Charles Addams, whom she discovered when her parents left her alone in the library at times over the summer. Addams’s work featured children, unlike the boardrooms and cocktail parties of other magazine cartoons, and greatly influenced Chast’s macabre sense of humor. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? also includes the intense themes of death and aging with humor. She described the challenge of navigating her relationship with her parents as she realized they were slowly leaving the sphere
of TV-commercial old age. For example, when Chast took her father shopping for underwear, he refused to wear a red sweater, whispering “Communism…”
“There’s so many things we experience that I was so naïve to, and I wish that it was more a part of the culture. We don’t talk about it, and we need to.” —Roz Chast, cartoonist for The New Yorker
“I don’t know if you weren’t supposed to wear red in the ’50s or if this was something he just dreamed up,” Chast said.
Chast also shared poignant sketches of her mother in the last few days that she visited her in the assisted living facility. She said that her parents will always be a part of who she is and what comes to mind when she sits down to draw. Chast ended by talking about her experiments with other artistic mediasuch as embroidery. She thinks of her unique drawing style as her handwriting, and said that she enjoys playing with that style. She believes, however, that the ideas behind the art are ultimately most important. Her goal with Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? was to use humor to expose the aspects of aging and family relationships that we keep hidden. “There’s so many things we experience that I was so naïve to, and I wish that it was more a part of the culture,” she said. “We don’t talk about it, and we need to.”
simply to offer a space for dialogue,” she said. “We’re not going to change hearts and minds in 90 minutes, but we do hope that it’s an introduction for people to engage in a productive dialogue around what it means to be who you are.” The Bowman Advocates have been trained to co-facilitate both workshops throughout the year. They had their first training in May and had a full week of training in August. During the training, they spent time learning social justice facilitation techniques and practiced them. They also focused on personal development, participating in activities on identity, race, and discrimination. The purpose of the training is to create
student leaders who are knowledgeable about social injustices happening around the world and who know how to lead an open discussion about these injustices. “For us that’s the most important thing because we want people to feel like they have something to contribute to the community—whoever they are,” Enos said. “And we hope that that comes across through the program.” The BAIC consistently gets requests for trainings throughout the year, especially from student organizations, Enos said. The Bowman Advocates will help lead many of those trainings. “It’s [about] being present, being vocal, and just encouraging and supporting each other,” Enos said.
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Gfc`k`ZXc JZ`\eZ\ Gif]j% KXcb KildgËj E\ok Jk\gj By Gibran Caroline Boyce For The Heights In light of Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency, the Campus Activities Board (CAB) hosted an event entitled “The New President’s To-Do List,” featuring three professors who engaged in a discussion about the current political and social climate in the United States. They also added their own insights and opinions and discussed what Trump’s next steps must be. The three speakers were Kay Schlozman, David Hopkins, and R. Shep Melnick from the political science department. Scholzman began the panel discussion by talking about how unprecedented the election was—the Democratic nominee was the first-ever woman nominee and the Republican nominee was a real estate developer and TV personality who had no prior experience in politics. Schlozman reminded the audience that Trump won the electoral vote, but Clinton clinched the popular vote. “Don’t make the classic [post-election] mistake of thinking everything Clinton did was wrong and everything Trump did was right,” Schlozman said. Schlozman said the most seismic changes are going to come because the Republicans now control the executive and legislative branches, giving the GOP appointments discretion over the judicial branch. The question, according to Schlozman, is now how that power will be converted into policy change. There’s no question that there has been a divide in the country between those who want more reform to many socio-economic issues and those who do not, she said. Schlozman also commented on how the odds may have actually even been stacked against Clinton in the election. “Clinton had a structural disadvantage being part of the party that was in power for the last eight years,” Schlozman said. “Once a party has had control for eight years, it’s difficult for that president’s successor in the same party to win.” What often happens, according to Schlozman, is the party that was not in power—in this case the Republicans—has a strong desire to regain political power. This may have contributed to a seemingly strong demand by some members of the Republican Party to get its candidate in office, focusing more on their party’s representation rather than the policies of the elected. Schlozman then closed her section by posing two hypothetical questions that seem to be on the minds of many individuals regarding the rhetoric used during the election season.
“What are our standards for campaign rhetoric? Is this a new normal trend for the future or a temporary departure?” Schlozman said. Following Schlozman, Hopkins talked mainly about the Republican Party, stating that this is the first time since 2006 that the U.S. has had unified Republican control. Hopkins also noted the current strength of the Republican Party with control of all three branches. “The Republican Party is as strong as it’s been in our lifetime,” Hopkins said. “However, the electoral victory is not the only sign of a party’s health. We do have reason to wonder about the governing health of a party. The Republican Party is currently challenging a lot of norms that’s been made in the Republican Party.” Trump has been challenging the U.S.’s role with respect to allies and institutions, and inviting foreign involvement into American domestic politics, Hopkins said. Melnick, the final speaker of the night, agreed with Schlozman that this has been a highly unusual election. He noted that he does not usually take a partisan position as a professor, but this year he couldn’t help it. In spite of this, Melnick gave a couple pieces of advice for those who are upset about the Trump win. Melnick advised the audience to not panic or engage in violent behavior. He then emphasized the importance of not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome. The final piece of advice Melnick gave came from John Newton Mitchell, the attorney general of the United States from 1969 to 1971, under President Richard Nixon. “Watch what [they] do, not what [they] say,” he said. Melnick clarified that he is interested in how Trump will govern rather than what he will tweet, a reference to the president-elect’s past use of vulgar language and inaccurate information on Twitter. The discussion closed with a question-and-answer period. One audience member asked whether Clinton’s loss has any implications for the future of women in politics and society. Schlozman said that she has never seen a campaign where such overt misogyny was accepted. She is unsure of how much of a permanent departure this will mean for women’s involvement in politics. Melnick also shared his opinion on the matter. “The president’s rhetoric affects people’s lives,” Melnick said. “We’ll see how this rhetoric changes. I hope that it does. I doubt that it will.”
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
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A s Th a n k s g i v i n g B r e a k quickly approaches and the oppressive weight of midterm season begins easing off of the shoulders of Boston College students , there is no better time to take a breather from the stacks in O’Neill and reflect. In recognition of this optimal opportunity, myriad fine arts clubs on campus will host a collaborative, creative showcase at BC’s go-to coffee shop, Fuel America, this evening from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Given that this event is one of the few opportunities that these clubs have throughout the entire academic year to share their work with the larger BC
community, the organizations participating in tonight’s event will showcase the works they have been perfecting since the beginning of the year. Members of groups such as the all-women’s literary magazine, The Laughing Medusa, and The Stylus, the oldest and largest literary magazine on campus, will perform readings of their pieces alongside members of BC Slam!, a spoken-word poetry group. “We did a similar event at Fuel last year that was without a doubt a success so we hope to establish this collaborative get together as an annual event,” said Nicola McCafferty, ’17 MCAS and editor-in-chief of The Laughing Medusa. “Keeping in mind that many have uneasy,
anxious feelings with respect to the results of the election last week, in addition to the fact that the arts groups don’t have the chances to exchange and share our work, the event promises to provide an easy-going and creatively cathartic atmosphere.” The event not only invites any and all BC students who can attend, but also welcomes members of the surrounding community. These arts groups hope to utilize the event as an opportunity to encourage the involvement of people within the community and to form relationships with those who might not normally encounter the works that these clubs publish. As an additional incentive, anyone in attendance of the event will be given a coupon
for one free espresso drink and unlimited drip coffee, courtesy of Fuel’s owners, as well as free Fuel pastries for those who arrive on time. The coffee shop hosts about two to three BC events each month, which adds up to about 30 each year, according to coowner Carlos Magalhaes. “Because we’re so close to Boston College, we’re hoping to reach out and introduce the laid-back and friendliness of our business to new potential customers, in addition to giving back to the plethora of BC students who fill our shop on the daily,” Carlos Magalhaes said. “On average, we host anywhere from two to three BC events at our shop per month, which adds up to about 30 for the whole
year. It’s definitely an enjoyable experience being able to give a space for our loyal BC customers to have a good time with one another.” While the “artsy” composition of these on-campus organizations may intimidate some potential attendees, club leaders stress that any such feelings are unwarranted. They hope the event will provide those who do not necessarily have time to participate in the arts given their academic schedules with a chance to uncover to the innumerable opportunities available on campus. The Laughing Medusa and The Stylus are the two main groups who in organized the event with Fuel, a process that began in late September. Mem-
bers of both groups hope to attract new writers and artists to submit works to either of their biannual publications. Allie Ward, editor-in-chief of The Stylus, talked about the distinct disciplines being showcased, including poetry, songs, creative non-fiction, paintings, and photographs. She is hoping that this exposure will display the diverse array of artistic talent BC has to offer to a larger community. “[This will] be an open, carefree space for artistic and creative collaboration of all types of medium, it is the optimal, if not the only time, other than the release events for the literary magazines, for people on campus and in the community to get involved,” she said.
9fjkfeËj :Xcc`e^1 JhlXi\j f] ?fg\ Xk GXib Jki\\k K Jkfg D8;<C<@E< ;Ë8E><CF Sometimes, when I have a particularly busy week, I can only find solace in writing down everything that I have going on. Inside the blue planner that my brother gave me, I cram the little boxes that represent each day with the assignments and meetings and events that I have. I separate each specific reminder with a short dashed line, and sometimes I even write each assignment down in a different color. I guess the variety just adds a little bit of pizzazz. After I finish writing ev-
erything down, I’ll just stare at those little boxes that I’ve filled to the brim with papers and tests and quizzes and marvel at just how much I have to get through in the next few days. And I don’t even have the worst of it! At this university, where students can range from spectacular underachievers to people who are more brilliant that I can even imagine, I probably fall somewhere in the lower-middle. I put effort into my work, but there definitely isn’t a chance of you mistaking me for a genius. But when I stare at the little boxes of my planner teeming with assignments that I have yet to begin, I actually don’t feel the sense of panicky stress that you might imagine. Instead of my throat tightening and the clenching of a knot in my stomach, I feel a weird
sense of satisfaction. Ha, I think to myself, look at all this. You see these boxes? I have every right to think that my world is mere seconds from imploding. Instead of fear, I feel a sense of righteous justification. Do I have any reason to feel anything close to justification? Most definitely not. Just writing down everything that I need to complete doesn’t actually guarantee that I will get it done. Even if I do get everything done, what’s to say that it’s done well? The fear, and the tightening of the throat, and the tight grip of stress—that all comes once I close my planner. Although it may seem counterintuitive, being unable to see everything neatly written down inside those tiny squares makes my assignments hover over my head like some kind
of invisible menace. And if I can’t see the problems that I have to tackle, how can I even begin to slowly tackle them? Unfortunately, following the results of last week’s election, the problems that people have been facing across the country are problems that carry infinitely more weight than the assignments that I write in a tiny box and immediately forget once they are complete. So I was shocked when the people of Boston actually began writing their real problems down inside of slightly larger (but still relatively tiny) squares last Friday night for an event titled Subway Therapy Boston. Inspired by similar Subway Therapy events popping up across the New York in wake of the announcement of
Donald Trump’s presidency, Subway Therapy Boston began in the Park Street T stop at 9 p.m., just after the nearby Love Rally in the Common drew to a close for the night. With volunteers providing sticky notes and brightly colored chalk, organizers of the event invited Bostonians to write messages of love and support for those who felt marginalized by the election’s results. On the sticky notes, some wrote short messages reminding readers that love always wins and that we cannot normalize bigotry, while other participants drew simple doodles of hearts, peace signs, and safety pins. The countless sticky notes were stuck around the station’s platform, creating a colorful mosaic against the white tile walls. With the chalk, organizers
encouraged people to decorate the outside of the Park Street stop with even more electioninspired messages. By the end of the night, these chalk messages had spread from the T stop’s walls to cover all of the nearby sidewalk. There was no missing them. Subway Therapy made a lot of sense to me. It gives people a platform to make physical and real problems that might seem more conceptual. And once the problem takes a form—even if that form is just words in a box—it becomes something that we can slowly begin chipping away at. Sometimes, once you can see a nightmare, it loses just a little bit of its power.
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The BSA’s newest exhibit, “One Room Mansion,” continues the conversation about the different available solutions to the affordable housing problem, all while giving visitors an interactive peek of what is to come. 9P C<F :FE=8CFE< =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Single person households make up 37.4 percent of Boston’s overall population, while only 6.1 percent of the city’s housing stock are studio apartments, according to One Room Mansion at the Boston Society of Architects Space. Opened to the public on Nov. 10 and running through Feb. 6 of next year, the exhibit proposes the concept of communal and compact living as a solution to the growing demand for urban housing. “The issue that [One Room Mansion] addresses is the housing crisis facing Boston and most metropolitan areas across the country,” said A. Quinton Kerns, a curator of the exhibit. “We are at a disadvantage of units that relate to our population, so as a solution we are promoting compact living and more sharing environments to allow for a larger demographic to be housed in the city.”
The upstairs of BSA Space, located near the South Station T stop, has been transformed into a model communal residence. A series of corridors and partitioned rooms showcase studio, one-bedroom, and twobedroom apartment living spaces, in addition to a shared living space and laundry area. These rooms are unique in that they have been architecturally engineered below the city’s minimum square footage requirement but still provide ample living space and necessary amenities. For example, while the city’s minimum size for a one-bedroom apartment is 625 square feet, One Room Mansion displays a potential one-bedroom residence requiring only 355 square feet. Such conceptualized apartments are not meant to stand on their own. Rather, they are meant to be grouped together, with residents investing in communal living spaces rather than larger apartments that may utilize space
inefficiently or simply be bigger than a resident requires. This provides an economical solution that looks to counter the high average rent prices in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Boston. “From modular build, which could save on construction time and costs, to co-housing situations, in which private residents can ban together to save money on land costs and building, and then of course, aggregating more units in smaller spaces to allow for larger density of diversity within the housing typology,” Kerns said. “And so that will bring people into the cities, and hopefully once the supply reaches levels that are higher than demand, cost can be stabilized.” Along the corridor walls, the exhibit highlights examples of compact housing in other countries such as China, Argentina, and Spain. These panels provide photos of the exemplary residences, and explain the innovate architectural techniques used to turn a relatively small amount of space into
a viable place to live. While providing tangible examples of the possibility of communal living, One Room Mansion also explains why the development of new styles of housing units is necessary. One colorful chart conveys the disparity between the number of one- and two-person households and the number of studio and one-bedroom living options available in major cities across the country. Another emphasizes that many neighborhoods in Boston above the city’s median price per bedroom are those in major urban areas such as Midtown and the Back Bay. Residents seeking cheaper housing are generally forced to search in the city’s surrounding neighborhoods like Allston and Jamaica Plain, demonstrating the need for more affordable housing within Boston. The “uhü,” a compact, factory-built residence, is also on display at the BSA Space. This form of housing is meant to be combined with other modular units and
ultimately form affordable, multi-family apartment buildings. The “uhü” comes in two sizes to accommodate different kinds of households, and two units can be combined to serve a larger family. The “uhü” was produced by the BSA in conjunction with the Mayor’s Innovation Lab and LiveLight for only $50,000, making it an economically efficient alternative to traditional urban housing. Visitors can tour the inside of a “uhü” unit at the BSA Space. As the goal of One Room Mansion is to draw attention to the housing crisis facing many prominent urban areas across the country, Kerns hopes that visitors would feel inclined to continue the conversation about this issue after leaving the exhibit. “There is an issue of housing in the city, and in most cities, and the only way to address it is to be active and to be informed,” Kerns said. “And so this is gathering awareness, keeping the conversation going, and seeing what we can do to solve this issue.”
N`k_ =`ijk 9li^\i 9Xj_# K_\ Jki\\k Glccj 9: <X^c\j kf :_\jkelk ?`cc K_\ j_fgg`e^ Z\ek\i n`cc _fc[ X g\g iXccp k_`j JXkli[Xp 9 P N @CC 9 8K:?<CFI ?\`^_kj JkX]] This Friday, The Street at Chestnut Hill will host its first Burger Bash and Pep-Rally for the Boston College Eagles on the eve of their game against the University of Connecticut Huskies. The event, which runs from 6 to 9 p.m., will take place at Shake Shack where the BC community can indulge in delicious food and take part in outdoor activities. The pre-game festivities will feature lawn games, free juice samples, and special appearances by Baldwin the Eagle and the BC cheer squad to help promote school spirit ahead of the final home football game of the season. The event is an opportunity for students to get away from campus and venture outside of the BC bubble without breaking the bank. Those in attendance who wear official BC gear or maroon and gold colors will be given an exclusive BC shopping pass and can avail themselves of buy-one-get-one -free burgers from Shake Shack. This BC shopping pass also offers limited-time-only discounts to The Street’s most popular retailers, like Juice Pre ss , Jonathan Adler, and Miniluxe. Famous East Coast burger chain Shake Shack will serve as the primary
location for the Burger Bash and PepRally. The sought after fast-food joint is sure to draw in large crowds by serving their renowned burgers, fries, and custards. Shake Shack is a natural fit to host the event as it has an already established relationship with B C . Every year, Shake Shack contributes to one of BC’s biggest events, The Red Bandana Run, by providing post-race refreshments for participants. Annie Lagasse, the marketing and operations coordinator for The Street, believes that the event will be a way to connect with the BC community on a larger level while putting themselves on the map of places to go around campus. The Burger Bash and pep-rally will be its largest event to date and looks to formally welcome everyone under the BC umbrella to The Street. In the future, The Street aims to maintain a close relationship w ith the B C community by holding regular events and involving more of its tenants. The pep-rally aims to be a fun and festive way to bring about positive school spirit ahead of the Eagles’ final home game after a long and grueling season. Stewart Johnson, MCAS ’20, hopes to attend the event in light of Saturday’s big game. “Our football team has had another tough season, hopefully the pep-rally can lift our spirits and guide the Eagles to a final win at home,” he said. Lagasse views The Street as an extension of the BC community, hoping families and friends will make the The Street a more regular destination. Its
close proximity to the BC campus gives students and faculty access to over 40 different retailers. The outdoor street mall’s lively, suburban feel attracts a varied mix of students and Chestnut Hill locals. The event is an occasion for the entire community to soak up the last bit of mild fall weather before the harsh winter kicks in. In the past, The Street has worked with specific student organizations on smaller scale events with many of its
tenants hosting fundraisers for specific groups at BC. Lagasse explains that they have also benefitted from social media as a way to connect with the Chestnut Hill community. “This will be our first small step, hoping in the future to include more of our other retailers,” she said. Cu r r e n t l y, Th e S t r e e t h a s a n ongoing student discount program that many of its retailers participate in. Students can present their school ID’s to be allotte d spe cial perk s .
Considering this, Lagasse’s ambition is for The Street to establish itself as a go-to destination for students. Lagasse sees the value in having a strong BC student presence at The Street as a boost in business, but reiterated that the event is more of a way to connect with the community and let them know what is going on. “We are hopeful that this event will be the first step towards an even bigger relationship with Boston College,” she said.
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With its close proximity to BC’s campus, The Street hopes that its first Burger Bash and Pep Rally will get students to keep coming back.
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FROM THE EDITORS Giving Thanks I’m thankful for Shannon and my sister, for the Mets, and for the #RegisWeDaBest crew. But most of all, I’m thankful for all of you who read The Heights every day, from friends and family members of our writers to the Boston College community, past, present, and future. Without you, my Sundays and Wednesdays would be a lot less entertaining. Michael Sullivan, Sports Editor I am thankful for my girl squad headed by Connor Murphy, Archer Parquette (the answerer of many questions), the head sports editor and our strictly professional relationship, mac and cheese (all kinds), Amy Poehler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mindy Kaling, and for all of my fans who keep me humble. Thank you, everyone, for this award (is that not what this is?). Shannon Kelly, Associate Copy Editor I’m thankful for my amazingly loving family, incredible school, the cool cats on the board of this newspaper, and a country that stands tall in the face of adversity. E pluribus unum. Griffin Elliott, Systems Manager Every day, I am eternally thankful that I’ve made it this far without succumbing to the constant urge to flee to the woods and live out my days as a humble, field jacket-wearing weirdo. That’s only been possible thanks to my parents, K-Town (the 262), Fish and Cheese, Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down, a persistent rejection of hygienic norms, New Hampshire, and Johnny Cash. Also, I’m always thankful for exaggeration, sarcasm, parody, and irony for allowing me to bury any trace of sincere sentiment under a pile of absurdity. Archer Parquette, Opinions Editor I’m thankful for HRC, the president of my heart. I’m also thankful for the winky-face emoji and Late Night chicken, both of which I overuse recklessly; for Shannon, my partner in shade and a true em-dash queen, and for Kaylie, who’s somehow put up with us for literally a year; for Archer, who always lets me take, like, six hours to read A7; and for everybody else, for never telling me to shut up when I sing T Swift and for making me so, so happy to be here. Connor Murphy, Copy Editor I’m thankful for earl grey tea, TapeACall, dried mangos, CNN news updates, geotags, LifeProof phone cases, and Carolyn’s mini fridge. Sophie Reardon, News Editor I’m thankful for Uber, White Mountain, and the endless joy Fifth Harmony’s “Work From Home” gives me. Chris Russo, Assistant News Editor I’m thankful for the knowledge that there is still love in this world. Kayla Fernando, Assistant Features Editor I’m thankful for my mom who raised me singlehandedly. I’m thankful for my family. I’m thankful for my friends. Most importantly, I’m thankful for the adventure I call life. Zach Wilner, General Manager I am thankful for all of my family and friends that surround me, as they are the best support network anyone could ever ask for. I’m also thankful for all of the opportunities I have been blessed with—and Archer, can’t forget about Archer. Juan Olavarria, Metro Editor I am thankful for soy milk in my coffee on Thursday and Monday mornings; Joe Biden memes, for always brightening my day; Archer, for always encouraging me to “write more stories;” JHops, for being my life-long protest buddy; my family in Willy 2, for having my back no matter what; and Sophie and Chris, for making me love the news. Taylor St. Germain, Associate News Editor I am thankful for all of my families: my family back at home, my family in 45 Rad, and my Heights family. Also, at this particular moment, I am very, very thankful for Joe Biden memes. Keaton McAuliffe, Layout Editor I am thankful for my family and friends, especially those that I consider to be both. Tom DeVoto, A1 Editor I am thankful for my family, my wonderful roommates (both past and present), the Saturday Night Live sketches that keep me endlessly entertained,
The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the Editorial Board. A list of the mem-
the color salmon, and BC for introducing me to the family that is The Heights and all of the great people I’ve met on campus thus far. Meagan Loyst, On-Campus Ads Manager I’m thankful for the friends I’ve made at BC, for Bruce Springsteen, for finally having a kitchen in my dorm, for El Pelon because I’m lazy and don’t use my kitchen, but mostly for Joe Biden memes. Gus Merrell, Collections Manager I am thankful that each night I can close my eyes and relinquish control of my consciousness to the sweet, tender embrace of a blissful sleep. I am also quite fond of stuffing. Caleb Griego, Associate Arts Editor I’m thankful for Addie’s acai bowls, “Stay A Little Longer” feat. Connor Murphy, side tables in Bapst, veggie egg flatbreads on Sunday mornings, Christmas lights, LL Bean fleece flannels, my sneaker collection, Calvin Klein, Gasson at 1 a.m., no lines for Tuscan Chicken, blue pens, drinstas, Charcoal’s couch, apple cider, New York bagels, my various families (in NY, NC, and MA) and what every single member of each has taught me over 20 years, and what they will in the future. Grace Mastropasqua, Assistant Layout Editor I’m thankful for the em-dash’s unparalleled versatility, roomies past and present, chocolate milk, hot (caffeinated) beverages, and the joys of Spotify Premium. Hannah McLaughlin, Assistant Arts Editor I’m thankful for 28B and Mod sweatpants, denim backpacks, lentil soup, and Comfort Colors. I am embarrassed to be thankful for pumpkin spice lattes and Brut Andre. I am not (at all) thankful for the LSAT, but I am thankful for the two forgiving humans in Maryland who have put up with the insanity it has induced for the past eight months. I’m thankful for my second-to-last semester in Chestnut Hill, and for the next few months I get to spend in this beautifully chaotic place. Most of all I am thankful for the three years I have had the chance to spend in and around McElroy 113, the amazingly high-functioning people it has given me, and the memories I will take with me moving forward. Sarah Moore, Outreach Coordinator I am thankful for camp, my sleeveless-striped turtleneck, the Adobe Suite, Google, the “Gail Corner,” Brett Ingram’s in-class analysis, people who call me “Abigail,” my dad’s pork tenderloin, cheese curds & ranch, gold chains, Graphics Boi, Auntie Anne’s, camping people, the stars, my dog Nellie (R.I.P.), penny loafers, all my fellow Man Repellers, Kelsey McGeek (and all my other Loyal Haters), graphic inspo, pink glasses, the Cubs, Bruce’s “Rosalita,” and the Midwest for its wonderful people (but mostly for its Portillo’s). Abby Paulson, Graphics Editor I’m thankful for the greatest family on planet earth, my most-baddest best buds, my wonderful better half, the fearless delinquents of RIP Guiseppe, the countless people (to whom I owe everything) who helped me get here or have offered even an ounce of help over the years, the beautiful people of The Heights, the basement of Mac, the Wright brothers, the inventors of seltzer water, and you. James Lucey, Features Editor I’m thankful for my parents, brothers, family, and friends, in Boston and across the world. I’m thankful for The Heights and all the people I’ve met here. I’m thankful for Chris Pratt and John Krasinski. Most of all, though, I’m thankful for dogs, especially my dog Kirby. Annabel Steele, Assistant Sports Editor I’m thankful for my friends, family, dogs, and a nice warm breeze back home in California. I’m thankful for the winter/Oscar movie season that’s about to hit the nation in full force. But, at least in this moment, I’m most thankful for The Heights and all the love that it’s made up of and goes into it. Christopher Fuller, Arts Editor I’m thankful for my family, the squad that still hasn’t managed to put together a dinner party yet, the boys back home, Harambe the Hedgehog of 55 Algonquin Street, and especially that one person who always hogs the blankets. Jack Donahue, Account Manager
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I’m thankful for my family and friends, my Girl Gang, the Chocolate Bar, Adobe, tea, Gail (sometimes), and golden retrievers. Kelsey McGee, Assistant Graphics Editor I’m forever grateful for The Heights and all of the people who’ve made this organization my family on campus over the past three years. Bennet Johnson, Business Manager
I’m thankful for long nights working on previews, multi-purpose whiteboards, losing streaks coming to an end, and Madison Bumgarner. I’m grateful for the people I’ve been able to share these moments with, and, most importantly, for my family, which has been so supportive from 3,000 miles away. Riley Overend, Associate Sports Editor
I’m thankful for my friends and family, turtleneck sweaters, tea, Connor and Shannon for loving grammar as much as I do, and for a wonderful year on The Heights! Kaylie Daniels, Assistant Copy Editor
I’m thankful for ctrl-z, Spotify Premium, flannels, golden retrievers, muffins, family of all kinds, Stayer 311 and our HBO shows, and the patience of everyone on The Heights not to give up on me or this website as it loads. And Archer. Obviously Archer. Alec Greaney, Online Manager
I’m thankful for those who will stick with me through the best and worst of times. Also, coffee. Coffee is great. Francisco Ruela, Assistant Online Manager
I’m thankful for The Heights for keeping me young and hip while simultaneously aging me about 20 years twice a week. Magdalen Sullivan, Managing Editor
I’m thankful for my fellow occupants of Walsh 321, Christmas lights, sparkling grape juice, Butters in South Park, my absolutely wonderful older brother, climbable trees, edamame, and everyone behind the scenes of this groovy newspaper. Heidi Dong, Executive Assistant
I’m thankful for my family and friends, for the froomies of 123 and the chore chart, and of course everything and everyone Heights-related. Avita Anand, Account Manager
I’m thankful for the ability to receive an education (inside and outside the classroom), for the selfesteem boost from BC athletics (I’ll never be as disappointing as football), for denim (for helping me feel like I have a sense of style), for my friends and family for supporting me (shoutout to Walsh 508 and R.I.), and for coffee and The National (for keeping me sane). Julia Hopkins, Photo Editor I’m thankful for gummy bears, pancakes, that smell inside a book, pasta, scary movies, my Chelsea boots, the silk pajama trend, and the eternal style icon that is Mick Jagger (all in no particular order). But most of all I’m thankful for my families, both the ones that I have here in Boston, and the amazing one that I always have waiting for me back home. Madeleine D’Angelo, Assistant Metro Editor
Most importantly I am thankful for my dog. I would also like to give thanks for BC and all the people who have made it feel like home, especially The Heights for all the incredible opportunities I’ve been given the past year, my family, and my camera. Savanna Kiefer, Assistant Photo Editor
I’m thankful for the drop in “Hannah Hunt,” the drum solo in “In the Air Tonight,” and the people who will always celebrate both with me. Carolyn Freeman, Editor-in-Chief I am thankful for Chipotle, basketball, dogs, naps, and, most importantly, my friends and family. Jack Powers, Advertising Manager
I am thankful for good people, good food, and good vibes. Special thanks to my family for supporting and encouraging my adventures, Heights Photo, Walsh for keeping me entertained (shoutout to the Walsh Penthouse), clear blue skies, and friends I can always count on. Amelie Trieu, Associate Photo Editor
QUOTE OF THE DAY “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. -Jack Kerouac, On the Road
LETTER TO THE EDITOR A Response to “Not Your President?” Mr. BeDugnis, you have a fundamental misunderstanding as to why these protests occurred. I attended the one in Boston Common last Wednesday, and I’ll try to explain. There was no intention to remove Mr. Trump from the presidency. Instead, the purpose was to take a stand against his policies. If we’re to take Mr. Trump at his word, there’s little reason to be optimistic. His proposed policies and rhetoric are hateful and target marginalized groups. Since the election, there has been a spike in hatebased crimes and incidents. I refuse to be complacent in the face of such despicable behavior. You also take issue with protesters who promise to block Mr. Trump’s policy initiatives. I don’t know which political party you belong to, but let’s take a moment to evaluate Republicans’ actions. Since President Obama took office, Republicans have used the politics of obstructionism to block his policies. Congressional Republicans embody this style of governing—or perhaps refusal to govern would be a more appropriate phrase—particularly well. To scorn the millennial generation in particular for saying “he’s not my president” is misguided when it has been the de facto mantra of the Republican Party. Mr. Trump’s loss of the popular vote has an impact on his mandate to rule. Supporters who live in rural areas tipped the Electoral College in Mr. Trump’s favor. These Americans feel ignored and spurned. They are right to have these feelings. I don’t believe that a Trump administration is some-
how the answer to their problems. Further, I disagree with the blame that some seem to place on people who don’t look like them, pray like them, or love like them. Now, that isn’t to say that all Trump supporters are racists or hateful in any way. In a two-party system, it’s nearly impossible to know why voters cast their ballots. It’s not right to see a vote for a candidate as a full endorsement of that candidate’s views. However, it’s inherently privileged to be able to vote for a candidate who espouses hateful rhetoric at marginalized groups. Privilege is often misunderstood, but is defined as a set of unearned benefits given to people in a social group. To be able to put aside Mr. Trump’s comments throughout this election cycle is the ability to say, “that does not affect me enough to vote against him.” Many people throughout the country weren’t in a position to be able to say that. You wrote that protesters are separating themselves from people who voted for Trump. You’re right. I recognize that we’re a large and diverse country that isn’t going to agree on every issue. Expressing disagreement is healthy and, in this case, imperative for the betterment of this country. Instead of condemning protesters , perhaps you could honestly consider why you didn’t feel called to attend a protest. For those who did, it wasn’t a matter of whining or protesting reality. It was a sign of solidarity and a promise to choose love over hate.
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9I@KK8EP JD@K? A YEAR OF THUMBS - After this issue of The Heights, this particular Thumbmeister will disappear back into the rugged and untamed wilderness from which he came (known in some parts of the world as Wisconsin). TU/TD will still be around, but it will sound different, look different, and, above all, smell different. A new voice, most likely a slightly more stable one, will take over. So before I run out of space on this page, I think it’s time to toss out a few final thumbs before we all grow old and die. SUDDEN AND UNNECESSARILY DARK REMINDERS OF MORTALITY - This has really been the main goal of TU/TD this past year, because everyone knows that the core of college journalism is reminding students that their lives are passing in front of their eyes. 10 O’CLOCK MASS ON UPPER - Monday through Thursday, a candlelit Mass is held at 10 p.m. in St. Joseph’s Chapel. It’s one of the few things that I would sincerely give a Thumbs Up without any of the absurd nonsense that usually makes up the content of these things. ‘THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH’ - In 1886, Leo Tolstoy wrote one of the best stories of all time. It takes a few hours to read at most and will affect the way you live every day. THE FRENCH AMERICAN - After all of this talk of mortality and literature, it’s important that we don’t forget about the bread and butter of TU/ TD: bread and butter. On Monday morning, Lower had this strange and delightful meal option: a French toast sandwich with egg, sausage, bacon, and all that good stuff. It left us stuffed for a couple of weeks, but it was worth it.
I am insulted by all of the “grieving,” talk-back, and small group sessions that are now happening as a result of Hillary Clinton’s loss in the presidential election. It honestly hurts my feelings that it had to take a white woman’s loss in a presidential election for her supporters to suddenly be “woke” to the problems and concerns about America that social activist movements had pointed to long before this election. When Terence Crutcher was shot and killed a few weeks ago in Tulsa, I was expected to be in class like it was any other day. There was no discussion, there was no school-wide letter from the Law School dean acknowledging what happened, and so there was no loss felt within and around the campus community that sparked a week of events and small group dialogues in the way that happened this past week. That disturbs me the most about this election, as Clinton’s supporters mourn her loss. Racism and racist pandering and whistle-blowing were seen on both sides. It is obvious that it was up front and center with The Donald, but it’s disturbing to me that it’s ignored with regard to Clinton. On the campaign trail, Clinton equated black people, writ large, with poverty. On a morning show whose listeners are primarily people of color, and black people specifically, when asked what she has in her purse, she responded that she has “hot sauce,” pandering to her (black) constituency. Then there was the fact that Clinton largely underestimated her opponent and the intelligence of her voters of all races. She assumed that Donald Trump’s overtly racist ethos was so appalling and shocking to her voters and to racially marginalized voters that it would dissuade their vote. She was wrong. Clinton did not fully appreciate the reality of living on the margin as a person of color living in America. In fact, in Clinton’s concession speech she
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Then there is the sexual abuse issue. I am not sure which is worse: the fact that Trump has been accused of sexually assaulting women or that Clinton indeed has a history of accusing women of being liars when they come forward about their own alleged sexual experiences with her husband, even going so far as verbally assaulting women who came forward with their truth. Another of his big-ticket policy agenda items is law and order with respect to increasing the level of police power amid existing strained relationships between police and communities and black communities, as well as repealing Roe v Wade by way of nominating a conservative Supreme Court justice. Again, the shock element of his election tells me a lot. It’s confirming what I know to be true. There is in fact a White America, Black America, Latino America, Muslim America, Asian America, and Arab America. The lack of acknowledgement for this fact means that Clinton didn’t fully understand the people she was engaging with on the campaign trail, but yet expected their full support. Is that not white privilege? Or privilege breeded from being a member of the establishment? Many of those who weren’t drawn to Trump for his racism were drawn to him because he is anti-establishment. I acknowledge that Trump may not, in fact, act upon his claims, but part of his charisma and charm to some of the Others of America is that he talked about jobs and the economic insecurity that people feel, especially in the Rust Belt and in the Midwest, parts of our nation that have strong histories of manufacturing and industry, and where people of all colors are feeling the hurt of slashed pensions and outsourced jobs. People want to feel that they can contribute to their households in economically substantive ways. “The Donald” gave language to the economic instability of the working class and middle class of America using a racist ethos. But it must be acknowledged that his racism is not uncommon in America.
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THE END - Walking down a back alley somewhere in the Greater Metro Boston area, as I do most days, I pondered the quickly approaching end of my Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down columns. There were so many ideas I was never able to implement. I always wanted to embed an anachronistic code that spelled out my name. That was it. That was the idea I never got to. It would have been kind of cool. But now it’s too late, the bottom of the page is approaching and the fictional version of me is walking out of the alley and onto the street, which symbolizes leaving this gloomy year of bizarre thumbs and entering the inscrutable future (the rat chewing on a bag of old Chinese food behind the alley garbage can symbolizes pretentiousness). Standing on Commonwealth Ave., I looked around and noticed my Great-Uncle Jerry on the roof of the apartment building across from me making an obscene gesture. Nice. Looking down at my hands, I formed a fist and stuck my thumb out. Pointing it forward I gave the world a big Thumbs Up. After a prolonged and dramatic pause, I began to walk down Commonwealth Ave. and turned my thumb sideways, hoping that someone might give an old and tired Thumbmeister a ride home.
acknowledged that we as a country are more divisive than she thought. That remark alone is significant. It speaks to why she lost this election and to the America that she has been living in up until now. From that remark alone, she is saying that she has been living in an America devoid of racial implications. So then why did she automatically expect support from people of color? I think the answer comes from white entitlement. Clinton and her supporters largely underestimated the sophistication of voters of color, which is to say that there was not a complete acknowledgement of the America that people of color are conscious of and have experienced, and then, given this lack of understanding, the shock value of racism. As a black, working-class woman, I was shocked by very little that Trump said. I assume that the 30 percent Latino vote and the 8 percent black vote that Trump received feels similarly. America is racist, and has been since the beginning of its existence. This is a country whose economy was built on slave labor and still benefits from its effects. I am shocked that Clinton and her supporters are surprised at the outcome and at the overtly racist tactics used on the Republican side to secure votes from some white voters, such as playing on ignorance and white, working-class fear of the “other” with rhetoric about a wall to be built to keep Mexicans out of the country. Trump spoke to the ridiculousness of the supposed Mexican takeover of “American” jobs, never first realizing that the term “American” is as diverse as it is native. He also terrified his base about people who are not Christian, especially in regards to Muslims, being that Muslims should be feared if not seen as potential terrorists first. This motivated his proposed limitation of travel to the U.S. by Muslims living outside of America. We can’t forget the way he proposes securing our borders and making America great again by deporting “illegal” immigrants living inside the U.S., with his first priority in actualizing this task being to deport “illegal” immigrants who are identified as criminals, never mind that statistically most criminals in this country are white males.
Well. That happened. And no one, it seems, predicted it. You can add my name to that everexpanding “unable to predict” list. It was exceptionally likely, I wrote, that Hillary Clinton would be elected president, though I thought that the election would be far closer than some pundits and pollsters believed. Well, as I’ve written before—it ain’t over till it’s over, and that certainly held true in this case. As we all know, Donald Trump is now the president-elect of the United States, a statement that would have been unthinkable just this last Monday. Trump’s victory is extraordinary, one of the greatest surprises in American political history, and it will without a doubt go down in the history books. It’s appropriate that this column will be my last for the semester, for Trump’s win is a vindication of everything I’ve been writing since “What is a Conservative?” in September—nay, even since my first letter to the editor last year. Conservatives, admittedly, have to be cautious: Trump is not a conservative—yet his election, like Brexit before it, has so powerfully shaken our liberal elites that the conservative must resist a kind of Schadenfreude! I was not (need I write it again?) a Trump supporter in the primaries, but I have argued long and hard that a Trump presidency would be far better for our country than a Clinton presidency, and in the end the American people agreed. Why did Trump prevail, overcoming just about every poll and sending pollsters and political scientists scrambling for answers? We have to be cautious here—we always tend to rationalize after the fact. As Jonah Goldberg said the other day on Fox News, “I’ve been eating
a lot of crow, which tastes remarkably like black swan.” I highlighted Taleb’s black swan theory in a previous column, and perhaps everybody (myself included) should have heeded the theory more. Wildly unexpected events do happen, more often than we expect, and we cannot measure them scientifically or statistically. Voilà—here we have one, and the world feels like it has flipped on its head. Yet, to make a rudimentary analysis here, I will say that this election is a triumph for the little guy, the forgotten man, the people, often blue-collar workers, who feel forgotten, trampled, and insulted by those in power. These individuals were largely once Democrats, but the Democratic Party, by going the route that you and I hear every day on a college campus, that of socially and culturally liberal elitism, has lost them. Yet they are a powerful group, conservative in the primitive sense of the word—they feel that the little platoons, as Burke so memorably phrased it, of family and community, held together by decency, chivalry, and honor, are being trodden underfoot. Trump is the first spokesman in ages for these people, and they have now sent him soaring to the White House. We conservatives, who have been so pushed to the sidelines and who now only spy each other in passing in this sea of liberal hegemony, we who are hidden like Homer’s gods in the world of men, now have the chance to smile again. The Republican Party is now, remarkably, on the ascendant, and of all the results of the election this last one is by far the most satisfying. Just about every media personality said—two short weeks ago!—that the Republicans were doomed, in shambles, ruined, had to change or die—and, gee whiz, folks, look what happened! We have kept majorities in the House and Senate, added the presidency, and, with God’s help, will soon have a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. This is wonderfully reassuring of the fact that we do not mindlessly goosestep along to the march of progressivism. Rather, we fight
battles that go on from age to age; we have triumphs and routs, victories and failures, and we conservatives lose many battles but never the war; and, though Trump is no conservative, those around him are, and thus we begin our journey down an infinitely better path. The modern left, in its—ahem—wisdom, has decided not to heed the statements of Obama or Clinton to accept the results of the election and rise above the fray. On the contrary, we are now seeing progressives, many of whom are college age, who have decided not to accept the results of a democratic election and protest in the streets. This is not particularly surprising—vide “Occupy Wall Street” and “Black Lives Matter”—but it is worrisome: when the result is not what the left wants, it resorts to violence on the streets and calls of “Not My President!” To repeat it once more, it seems increasingly likely that this new wave of liberals cares not a whit for the American republican experiment; if they do not get what they like, they will refuse what happened as a fair result and rather protest against reality. So much for a peaceful transfer of power! (In fact, wasn’t this what leftwing commentators were railing against when Trump was down in the polls? How quickly things do change.) This is anarchy masquerading in the sainted name of equality, and it will benefit no one in the long run. I think, in the end, that the Trump administration, anchored by honest, decent conservative figures like Vice Presidentelect Mike Pence, will be a force for good in a weary world. It is very satisfying that these columns of mine have ended on this happy note. Let’s see together where our great country will go from here, shall we? Being a conservative is difficult in this progressive and egalitarian age, but the small victories, in the end, make it all worth it.
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8EE@< >I8P 9LI>< I was first introduced to rap music through the arresting lyrics of Tupac Shakur’s posthumous single “Ghetto Gospel.” The song, which features samples from Elton John’s “Indian Sunset,” is a lyrical reaction to racial difference and the perpetuating marginalization that results from poverty. It is a plea to end, in the words of Tupac, the “war in the streets.” Years later, I came across Tupac’s “Hit ‘Em Up,” an aggressive collaboration with other ’90s rappers, in which Tupac raps “Now it’s all about Versace, you copied my style / Five shots couldn’t drop me, I took it, and smiled / Now I’m bout to set the record straight with my AK / I’m still the thug that you love to hate.” With over 3 million more YouTube views on “Hit ‘Em Up” than “Ghetto Gospel,” it is clear that, until now, it has been the greedy and aggressive side of Tupac that is most popular in society. And this is not without warrant. While aggressive, the Tupac of “Hit ‘Em Up” projects a power that, for many, is alluring, even promising. It is a power derived from wealth, physical strength, notoriety, and intimidation. It is a power that oppresses more than it exalts, that prefers stagnation to progression. But it is power, nonetheless; as of late, however, it is a power that rap culture, as a reflection of changing social tides, has turned its back on. And where better to note the prevalence of this societal 180 than in the verses of the once notoriously crude—now still crude but apparently God-fearing—Lil Wayne? In early October, Lil Wayne released Gone ‘Til November, a book compilation of prison diary entries from his time spent at Rikers Island. The entries reflect a raw poeticism that is at once vulgar in its language (Lil Wayne has never been one to shy away from profanities) and graceful in its honesty. While pondering the possibility of rapping in God’s name, Lil writes, “It would be way bigger than having a million m*****f*****s walking around with tattoos every-d***-where with dreadlocks or saying s*** like ‘bling-bling.’ I would truly have the power of having pop culture turn to God. I would have straight killers in church every Sunday.” This is not the Lil Wayne of the Tha Carter albums that we have come to know and, yes, despite some of his heinous lyrics, love. This is a reflective Mr. Carter, a conscious Mr. Carter with a sense of social obligation. This is the Mr. Carter of a new generation of rap music, spearheaded by Chance the Rapper, supported by Kanye West, and reflective of Tupac’s good fight. In Kanye’s song “Ultralight Beam,” Chance rejects a power derived from money and notoriety in the name of a power with its roots in lyrical affect: “He said let’s do a good ass job with Chance three / I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy / Let’s make it so free and the bars so hard / That there ain’t one gosh darn part you can’t tweet.” The presence of these lyrics in a mainstream rap album that is destined to be a bestseller suggests a wider move toward artistic integrity and away from monetary preoccupations. In his own song “How Great,” an excitedly religious, pop-culture infused hybrid of church hymn and soft rap, Chance raps “Hear, for I will speak noble things as entrusted me / Only righteous, I might just shrug at the skullduggery / I couldn’t stand to see another rapper lose custody / Exalt, exalt, glorify.” A couple of things are happening in these lines. First, Chance calls for recognition of the rapper’s word as valid and consequential. He then, like the Tupac of “Ghetto Gospel,” pledges to move against the perpetuation of marginalization by rejecting the preoccupations of the aggressive, arrogant rapper (Chance often raps about his love for his daughter). Lastly, in just three words, Chance reflects the intentions of many rappers today: to exalt, rather than oppress; to shed light, rather than darkness. The rappers and re-made rappers of the new generation reflect a societal shift from power-hunger to social obligation. Lil Wayne is right when he posits that rap culture has the ability to turn pop culture. If the new generation succeeds in this aim, then we will find ourselves in a society that is, in the words of Biggie Smalls, “all good, baby, baby.”
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Why do we write? Every time I sit down (or stand when I like to be adventurous) to write something, whether it’s an insignificant social media post or a gradedefining term paper, I’m mesmerized by the blinking cursor in front of a white expanse of possibility. I am the deity of this realm—my words, literally, are its command—I am in control of what happens here, unlike in the world that we live in. The precise moment right before I strike the first key brings exhilaration impossible in the material world. I evaluate the infinite possibilities of the keys and use them to craft something new reminds me of humanity’s greatest achievement: words. How is it that these indiscriminate signs can bring meaning to both the reality we experience and the inner machinations of our minds? Are these marks that we make on a page somehow connected to an inherent language imprinted deep in the confines of our brains that long ago we managed to tap into? If so, will we ever acquire the capacity to comprehend our own thoughts in their own terms and in their original form without having to go through the filters and limitations of language? Regardless of the answers to those questions, language is our reality, through which we interpret the world and convey complex ideas in a way that is universally understood, to an extent at least. Words allow us to communicate and connect with others in a meaningful way: their arrangement dons us with the power to impart on others our own feelings in a way that is unique to us. From this arises the genius of the system: it is sturdy enough that if we follow certain rules it is accessible to all, but it’s flexible enough to impart our own touch to every syllable. Words have the power to create images and foster emotions within us without actually having to be at the place being described or speaking to the author. It is a tool of endless possibilities that grants us the gift of communication. But, back to the original question: why do we write? Well, there are several answers that are all valid in their own right, but I choose a threefold one. Firstly, we write because we can—it’s within our own hubris to showcase any ability we may have, and this much is not surprising. The aesthetic of a printed page brings many an unrivaled feeling, as seeing the fruits of your work and the offspring of your intellect in a physical form only but feeds the ego. Secondly, we write because we have something to say, whether it’s a political opinion or an unpopular sporting belief (yes, I think LeBron is actually better than MJ). But lastly, and most importantly, at least for me, we write because we want to be heard and understood. Interpersonal communication ranks among the greatest challenges of our lives, but, if you find at least one person that can see beyond the veil of banal platitudes imposed by this arbitrary system and catch a glimpse of your inner being, it is worth it. This is the real gift we are afforded, the power to share a bit of ourselves with others. So, every time I see the intermittent cursor on a blank page, I remember both the realm of possibility afforded to me as well as its ability to bridge the chasm between two individuals and enter into each other’s minds. In a world filled with uncertainty and fear, we must remember that we have a way to escape it all and enter into a dimension of our own creation, one filled with the joy of potential.
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When you walk up to the door of Zaftigs Delicatessen, you immediately feel like you’re walking into a family member’s apartment. Once you are out of the cold and into the warmth, you are greeted by a generous hello from the manager, who escorts you to a comfortable booth in the corner of the restaurant. From here, you could see how Zaftigs got its name. The word “zaftig” is Yiddish, and means a “voluptuous full body,” or, as depicted in this restaurant, “a plump Jewish mother.” Once seated, you find yourself surrounded by brightly colored acrylic paintings of various scenes. The largest and most repeated portrait is of a large woman in a red dress with a serving spoon held above her head, scolding you. This character is Nanny Fanny, and she is the woman who wants to please throughout this dining experience. As this “zaftig” looks down on her restaurant, cus-
tomers remember their childhoods, with their grandmother saying, “You are too skinny, you must eat one more plate, and if you do not like it I will make something else for you.” Established in 1997, this all-specialty, non-kosher delicatessen was built to serve as a meeting place and dining room away from home. This restaurant combines mixes of the old with combinations of the new to make it truly unique. The family-owned business prides itself on the quality of the meats and the freshness of the bread. But most of all, it prides itself on the service and experience it provides. Robert Shuman, the founder and owner of these delis, began his culinary career in the South End. Growing up in Boston, his family remained very close—so close, in fact, that they all lived in a single apartment with each other. This theme remains prevalent in the way the restaurant conducts itself in the day-to-day dealings. You feel as if you are part of the family the moment you walk
in. Shuman’s daughter is now the manager of the Brookline location, and his son is the catering director. This eatery keeps the culture alive by keeping it within the family. There is a large sign in the back of the restaurant that says “Caviar,” and that seems out of place—another of the many quirks that makes Zaftigs appealing. Throughout the experience, it is obvious that a great many relationships have been built across the wood tables. The regulars are seated in each of their special booths and seats scattered throughout the restaurant, and they are greeted with a “How are you, my friend?” each time a new waitress passes. The food here is not meant for a single person to eat alone. Each dish forces you to share it, unless you want to become a zaftig yourself. Once the platters are placed on the table, one realizes that there is some “comfort food” aspect to each and every dish. The Zaftigs Combo, a smorgasbord of sweet and savory items from cinnamon sugar noodles
to a crepe-like pastry filled with heavy ricotta cheese and blueberries—you are full before you even start the actual meal. Yet, as a good Jewish mother would prompt, the waitress returns with more suggestions of what she can serve you and the belief that yes, you may be stuffed, but for her and the portrait watching you, you can do another round of food. Toward the bathroom, the walls are lined with “Best of Boston” accolades and clever Jewish-American jokes like “got rye?” The kitchen, in the corner of the restaurant, is heard before it is seen. Angelica Bachour, a waitress, said that Zaftigs differentiates itself from other Jewish-American delicatessens throughout Boston in a few ways, like how each member of the staff prides him or herself on the suggestions he or she gives customers on a daily basis. “Even regulars who stop in every morning for coffee and a pastry still try new things when we bring something up,” she said.
Kildg# :c`ekfe Jlggfik\ij Efk\ ?Xk\]lc I_\kfi`Z Reaction, from A1 presented to him in the last couple of days, but as of right now, UGBC has no official plan to push the initiative. In a Facebook post on Wednesday night, Eradicate Boston College Racism released a bias, oppression, and hate crime report form. Eradicate is looking to inform allies, collect data, and direct students to support. While student groups have lent support over the last week, there have been several alleged incidents of hate speech reported at BC. In the last week, students on both sides of the political spectrum have been verbally attacked or targeted for their views on the election. According to Dean of Students Thomas Mogan, last Tuesday, the Office of Residential Life filed a report between two roommates who were involved in a verbal altercation. According to the report, a derogatory comment was made toward one of the roommates, which led to the incident report. Mogan noted in an email that the Office of the Dean of Students does not normally release these reports, but because of the gravity of the situation over the past week, students must be made aware of the resources available. He encourages students who have been victims of bias-motivated intimidation or actions to report their experiences to Residential Life, the Office of the Dean of Students, or BCPD. Over the past week, several professors have chosen to discuss the election with their classes. Eve Spangler, a sociology professor, surveyed her students to assess their feelings following last Tuesday night. Students shared their personal experiences of hate-motivated speech, but Spangler did not feel comfortable sharing the students’ names. One of her students—whom she characterized as a white, wealthy woman—lives in a Mod adjacent to an all-male Mod. On the night of the election, when the results were announced, the men in the adjacent Mod started to shout, bang on pipes, and celebrate Trump’s victory. When the female student leaned out the window and shouted “Hey, some of us are trying to sleep here,” the men replied with a derogatory comment: “Shut your f------g mouth, you c---t, Trump is president now.” There have been other incidents, according to Spangler. A gay student was walking across the lobby in McElroy Commons. He passed by a group of three white, male students, who watched
him cross the room. As he walked by, one of the men allegedly said, “God, I’m so glad that Trump is president, ‘cause now I can say I hate f-gs.” Another added, “Yeah, f-g bashing is going to be okay now.” This hate and discrimination do not only apply to anti-Trump supporters, however. A male student in the Carroll School of Management, who is known among his friends as an outspoken Republican and Trump supporter, was also allegedly the victim of hate speech and threats following the election. The student chose to remain anonymous for safety reasons. Following election night, the student said he heard three people say that if they saw him, they would “assault” him and punch him in the jaw. The student said several people also told him that they did not want to speak to him because they were upset with him for voting for Trump.
Estrada’s class said that her mother called her on the night of the election and warned her to be careful on Wednesday morning. “This is really different for different social classes,” Levenson-Estrada said. About 400 students and staff came together to protest Trump at Monday’s rally. Students spoke about their feelings and experiences following the presidential election. Rusty Cosino, MCAS ’19, whose parents are both immigrants, said that those who were thinking of leaving the country because Trump was elected are cowards. Instead of emigrating, he encouraged students to come together to support each other. “Remember this moment and remember how you feel,” he said. “Let it drive you, don’t let it stop you.” Armani King, MCAS ’20, spoke about how her parents called her the morning after the elections—they were scared for her safety.
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Deborah Levenson-Estrada, a sociology professor, also chose to discuss the election in class. She found that students have felt threatened based on the incidents that have occurred on and off campus. She described her students as scared, both of the future and of the discord caused by the election’s result. Levenson-Estrada did not release the names of the students for privacy reasons. One of her students described her job in Student Services at a school in East Boston. The school has a large Latino population. The student said that at work the day after the election, a little girl came in crying because she was afraid her mother would be deported. Another of Levenson-Estrada’s students said that their friend needs an operation that is currently covered by insurance obtained via the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. They worry that their friend will not be able to receive the necessary treatment if Trump and the Republican Congress repeal the law. An Asian-American student in Levenson-
“I tried to tell my mom that I’m a strong black woman,” she said. King encouraged students to call their parents at the end of the night and let them know that they are safe. She said her parents think that she is alone, but she is not alone because she has a supportive community at BC. As the rally was going on, however, the divide between students was still there. One student walking through O’Neill Plaza mentioned to his friend, “look at this b------t.” Another rally was planned for Wednesday afternoon but was cancelled because the organizers, which included FACES, felt that Monday’s rally accomplished what they set out to do. Although the rally aimed to provide students with a supportive space to talk about their feelings and experiences, students struggling to navigate the cultural climate have also turned to other resources for help. According to Boston.com, Samaritans, a local suicide hotline that several students
volunteer at through PULSE and 4Boston, received a 40 percent increase in calls on the night of the presidential election. The number of texts the hotline received doubled. Jian Zabalerio, MCAS ’20, had her first placement at Samaritans on Saturday night. Throughout the night she received 15 calls, while on average, a student will receive around eight, she said. Three of the calls concerned the election directly, but she described callers as feeling cornered, trapped, and helpless. They felt as though the results directly affected them, she said. Students working the hotline are not allowed to give advice, she said. It was difficult for Zabalerio to hear these emotionally charged experiences and have to hold back words of encouragement. Craig Burns, the director of University Counseling Services (UCS), said he was not sure whether more students have been seeking therapy in response to the election. He did note that students have been more interested in talking about the election and the cultural climate during therapy sessions. Burns explained the process for getting an appointment at UCS—students who are interested in seeing a counselor as soon as possible will get an appointment that day, while students interested in setting up a regular therapy sessions may have to wait a few days. In addition to its normal therapy sessions, UCS is inviting students to come to a postelection conversation hour. The meetings will be held in Gasson 001 on Thursdays at noon for the rest of the semester. Students can attend one of the meetings or all of them. The goal of the sessions, Burns said, is to provide students with a place to talk about their reactions to the cultural climate. “It is a space to process individuals’ responses and feelings about not just the election but the climate more broadly from an emotional and mental health perspective,” he said. Burns said it is hard to advise students on what exactly to do or how to respond to roommates with differing viewpoints. “There’s such a range of where people are on these issues,” he said. “I think people of good will on either side of the political issue should be able to have civil discussion about their experiences and beliefs and to keep an open mind about the validity of each other’s experiences.”
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
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I’ve always had a thing for a good ending. Whether they are from iconic Hughesian ’80s movies or a critically-acclaimed hardcover, I love the way some resolutions slowly piece themselves together and tie every stray subplot into tidy, logical little bows. At the same time, I still bask in the breathtaking gravity of an unexpected twist. As far as cinematic masterpieces are concerned, the final few minutes before that fabulous fade to black often tell you all you need to know about a film. How do the characters truly feel about each other? Observe their final, on-screen interaction. Will the spandex-clad hero triumph over his evil adversaries? Wait until the final scene to find out for sure. Do the star-crossed lovers escape their tragic predicament? Watch their escape plan disintegrate during the movie’s dramatic denouement. It is the endings that become iconic, their profound implications rendered powerful as the director’s final seconds offer a last-ditch effort to convey all intended meanings. Since the earliest days of Hollywood’s glitzy golden age, the industry has been teeming with fantastic and memorable film endings. Remember that iconic Casablanca exit? After Bogart’s character bids a tearful goodbye to his love interest, the actor’s recognizable voice predicts the beginning of a certain beautiful friendship. The last lines—spoken as the characters walk directly into a thick cloud of fog—suggest the men bravely move forward with their lives, regardless of their inability to see what exactly is in store for them. It’s bittersweet, sure—slightly sad, in a way—but simultaneously exciting and optimistic. During my time as an unofficial film aficionado, I’ve noticed an interesting pattern. A lot of movies adopt the same glimmer of hope at the end, despite any decidedly somber situations that precede it. Take Miloš Forman’s 1977 adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, for example. Our beloved “Chief” Bromden discovers the great McMurphy in a vegetative state, performs a mercy killing on the once-fearless leader, casually tosses a heavy sink through the window, and gallops across a dew-covered morning to the cadence of the emphatic whooping cheers from his fellow inmates. It’s glorious and exciting—justice finally served to a cold and unfeeling, linoleum-lined hospital ward. In The Breakfast Club, a self-professed criminal thrusts his adolescent fist skyward in an expression of unbridled teen angst. At the end of a different coming-of-age classic, a priceless sapphire gem is tossed overboard and a seafaring young Leo DiCaprio waits expectantly for his onscreen lover in a dream-like transition to the next life. The paragon of melodramatic romance movies, Titanic suggests the eventual reunion of once-severed soulmates. In The Dark Knight, a more recent masterpiece, Morgan Freeman walks purposefully away from a self-destructing system control panel. Meanwhile, a mustachioed Gary Oldman solemnly mumbles something about a, “hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.” Confused and on edge, viewers are left wondering what will become of the masked hero. Moviegoers find themselves searching anxiously for closure—for a satisfying solution that just isn’t there. But they can still hope. For me, the best thing about a movie’s last moments is not the epic CGI explosions or those melodramatic last lines. Instead, I’m a big fan of those endings that allow viewers to imagine an entirely new life for their favorite characters. I like the ones that offer us a brief glimpse into a bright future. I like to be assured that the possibility for a prosperous and joy-infused future is not just possible for our protagonist, but probable. This column will be the last I publish as the assistant arts editor for The Heights. Saying a short, sweet goodbye to this, my comfortable corner of the internet, isn’t all that easy to do. “It’s been a hell of a ride,” and all that (sappy, cliched) jazz. But I’m ready for a new kind of adventure. Cue the inspirational instrumental music, and fade to that familiar black screen.
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ÊD`jXek_ifg\Ë @em\ikj >\e[\i Xe[ Lg_fc[j <og\ZkXk`fej 9P >I@==@E IF9@CC8I; ?\`^_kj JkX]] “No fault is worse than that of writing frigid lifeless verse,” declares an impassioned Avelaine on the stage in The Misanthrope. Thankfully there is no shortage of memorable verse in Boston College’s production of The Misanthrope, which runs Nov.16 to 18 at 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. in Robsham Theater. BC’s production of The Misanthrope immediately makes one thing loud and clear: the women. Directed by Theresa Lange, the production offers a fitting twist. “This season’s theme is gender parity and connects to the conversations we are having in the American theatre in terms of whose stories are being told and whose voices are being heard,” Lange said to The Chronicle earlier this week. Molière’s Le Misanthrope ou l’Atrabilaire amoureux was first performed June 4, 1666, without a doubt occupying a world far different from our own. A comic satire of French aristocratic society, The Misanthrope centers upon the titular misanthrope himself, Alceste, who detests all
of society and those around him, save for Clémienè, a flirtatious woman unworthy of his affection. Women pine for Alceste who are recognizably more virtuous than Clémienè, such as Éliante and Arsinoé. Alceste knows the aforementioned are more worthy of his affection than Clémienè, yet he cannot be dissuaded. Alceste insults a sonnet written by Oronte, a significant noble, where he stands trial. With the result of the trial and the discovery of Clémienè’s promiscuous letter-writing, he makes the famous ultimatum of the play: he offers forgiveness in exchange for her renunciation of society to run away with him in his self-imposed exile. Although BC’s production is not vastly different from the original, it does successfully diverge in flipping the genders of the main characters. One only has to look at the notable changes made in characters’ names: the leading roles of Avelaine (Erica Fallon, CSOM ’18) and Celestine (Nicholas Swancott, MCAS ’19) are presumably the results of a fusion of Alceste and Clémienè. It’s both refreshing and fitting to see the character of Avelaine as strong and witty. It’s hard to say whether the world
could have bore witness to another ‘faithful’ interpretation of a patriarchal classic, and one cannot miss Fallon’s strong performance. In the same way that Julie Taymor’s casting of Helen Mirren as Prospero (technically Prospera) in her 2010 production of The Tempest inevitably changes the play, Avelaine’s usurpation of the lead ‘male’ role in The Misanthrope is a funny and timely adaptation. “The characters written as men are now played as women, and those who were women are men,” Lange explained in her interview with the Chronicle. “We changed names and pronouns, but other than that are just exploring how those characters would be played and seen as another gender. Part of this swap was also re-visioning the period, looking at the world of the play where women are the ones in power.” Though Avelaine is obviously the star, Pleasance (Noelle Scarlett, MCAS ’18), Avelaine’s trusted friend, rounds out the leading women into a nice duo. Perhaps the funniest role is that of Odette (Mishy Jacobson, MCAS ’17), who never fails to provide the utmost form of mockery in conjunction with her equally as absurd counterpart, Alair (Sarah Lambert, MCAS
’18), who jeers in a Cali-girl twang. In a production that tends toward the female roles, it’s not totally unwarranted that the male roles will be, well, a bit on the weaker side. Perhaps this is because the female performances are so strong that one notices the males’ lack of presence. While Avelaine dishes out fiery lines with gusto, Abelino (Dan Quinones, MCAS ’19) hardly seems to be a match. Of course, the characters are meant to be on a level playing field: it’s not so much that the male performances are lackluster so much as they lack the necessary energy to keep up with the women of the play. Of course, if this were a more faithful production of The Misanthrope, then the females of the play might just as easily be labeled as such. It’s a two-way street. The only other two men, Celestine and Eliott (Brett Murphy, MCAS ’18), do a fine job, and one can probably chalk some of their hesitation all up to dress rehearsal jitters. The audience is everything. This pedantic criticism is all relative, which is why Avelaine says it best: “There’s no point in printing tedious riot—unless one writes for bread.”
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as the audience. Featuring music from The Sound of Music, Jurassic Park, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Home Alone, and Mary Poppins, there was something in this show for everyone. Each selection was a melody composed of tracks from the soundtrack of each film. The transition between different songs in the arrangements was seamless, just like a change from scene to scene in a movie. Each classic movie soundtrack appeared to be selected with great care to be relevant to each member of the audience. Grandmothers and granddaughters alike were able to tap their feet to the melody of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” or sway back and forth to “Sixteen Going on Seventeen.” The favorite collection of the night seemed to be The Sound of Music. A beloved film in countless households, the movie’s songs brought smiles to the faces of many. The horns warmly introduced
the song “The Sound of Music” with flutes chiming in to replace some of the higher-pitched voices. Following this came a cascade of other pieces from the remainder of the movie including “Doe a Deer,” “My Favorite Things,” and, of course, “Edelweiss.” Many members of the audience mouthed the words during the rendition on the oboe. Listening to this music brings people back to the time in their lives when they originally heard the music and watched the movie. For some, it was a tradition during the holidays with hot chocolate by the fire. For others, it was during family movie nights with popcorn and candy. The conductor, David Healy, assistant director of bands at BC, specifically addressed how much he loved the music in this concert. He noted that he loved how he was able to share in the music with his children. The music they were all listening to was something almost everyone should
be able to relate to in the same way, with the same admiration and wonder. Each member of the ensemble made the pieces come to life by singing out the melody in some spots and harmonizing in others. The Boston College Symphonic Band is composed of 83 members, many of whom have either graduated or are at a higher level than the undergraduates. The conductor made a point of this by asking every non-undergraduate member of the group to stand. It was surprising to see so much of the group standing. There is also something to be said for people who make time to keep pursuing their passions for music. Music is a gift, and it is a wonderful thing to be able to express oneself with and to share with others. It can make people laugh, cry, and, perhaps most importantly, it can make people think. Tuesday night’s performance was able to bring people together with music selections loved by all.
THIS WEEKEND in arts
BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | ASST. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR
‘CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL’ (SUN. AT 2 P.M.)
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This Sunday, ready yourself for a full afternoon of fantastic instrumentals and dazzling music performances. Enjoy a wide array of Chamber Music pieces performed by BC students and a host of the University’s esteemed guests.
Attend this illuminating lecture to learn about the Beauvais Missal and the rise of American “biblioclasm.” Join Lisa Fagin Davis in the McMullen Museum of Art to discover just how destructive dismembering ancient books can be.
ELLE KING (MON. AT 7 P.M.) The House of Blues will play host to rebellious American songstress Elle King. Known for her infectious fusion of country, rock, and blues, King will bring a soul-infused setlist of high-intensity tracks to Boston.
‘FANTASTIC BEASTS’ (OPENS FRI.) Newt Scamander has just returned from a global excursion to discover new species of magical creatures. Drama ensues after a number of beasts escape. Magic and suspense converge in this American spinoff of the Harry Potter series.
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INGRID MICHAELSON (FRI. AT 7 P.M.) Head to the House of Blues this weekend to catch the singersongwriter perform hits off of her popular indie albums. Fans should expect to hear songs from the singer’s seventh studio album, It Doesn’t Have to Make Sense.
‘MASSED MEDIA’ AT THE MFA (OPENS SUN.) This new exhibit showcases various artists’ boundless creativity through patterns derived from common household materials. Jewelry, sculptures, and collages create colorful social criticisms intended to evoke powerful emotional responses.
‘EDGE OF SEVENTEEN’ (OPENS FRI.) Constantly compared to her popular older brother, Nadine is tired of her social outcast status. Hailee Steinfeld stars in this coming-of-age dramedy about teenage angst, social awkwardness, and all the debilitating drama that accompanies those hectic high school years.
‘THE MISANTHROPE’ (THUR. THROUGH SUN. AT 7:30 P.M.) This week, the Boston College theatre department presents one of Molière’s most famous comedic satires, The Misanthrope. Get your tickets now for a hilarious look into a world of unrequited love, bad poetry, and hypocritical aristocratic society.
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To be human is to strive for a better tomorrow. The human soul pays no heed to walls or roads. Boundless and undying, the human spirit prevails in the face of trouble, unafraid, like the first rays of dawn claiming the morning from darkness. As the sun sets on one side of world, there are those elsewhere embodying this ceaseless spirit. Refugees of the Syrian Civil War have been a complex topic in today’s world, but Jordan Mindlin, MCAS ’17, hopes her exhibit Flux, debuting in December, will help to clearly humanize the endeavors of the nearly 6.5 million people displaced by the conflict. Mindlin is not yet sure where the exhibit will be on display. Through a dynamic show of photos, video, and other forms of media, the exhibit is a testament to the human will, bringing an individual touch to those often viewed as a horde of faceless migrants. (Mindlin is a former graphics editor for The Heights). The title Flux represents the flow of migrants and refugees, and also speaks to the flow of ideas from artists like Mindlin. In choosing such a topical and
heavy subject matter, Mindlin hoped to combat a sense of aversion to the topic. As she explained, it can be easy to turn away from news about refugees, as it is emotionally charged and politicized. “I thought that having another way to express what was going on and raise awareness about the subject matter would be helpful and something that I would want to explore more,” Mindlin said. The art of the exhibit is meant to show and visualize the history unfolding before our eyes, rather than offer commentary on it. Mindlin explained it would be very easy to say, as is often said in the media, that the events are horrible. It would be hard to argue that the displacement of so many from their lands and homes would be anything but. It is of considerably more import, then, to bring a face to these peoples and their struggles. “We look at all these migration patterns and we almost forget that these are real people,” she said. Facts and statistics are used to supplement the larger ideas of the exhibit, diffused in a non-intrusive way. For example, 59.5 million people were displaced at the end of 2014, compared to 51.2 million at the end of 2013, a change in part spurred by the onset of
the Syrian Civil War in 2011, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees. Mindlin finds that there is no need to say explicitly or overtly, “Think this,” but rather point viewers in the direction of the unadulterated reality of the situation. Though the exhibit is to be supplemented with statistics about those displaced around the world, the elevation of the human element remains paramount. “I am trying to get people to look at this in a different way,” Mindlin said. Elaborating on the background of the exhibit, Mindlin explains how the media often portrays such events in terse terms, which can lead to the diffusion of empathy. Fostering a meaningful dialogue by looking at facts and at the human element is key to spurning change. Rooted in her own sympathy, Mindlin’s Jewish heritage fueled these sentiments, as this story details hardships similar to the historic migration of Jewish people. Photos of the damage done to the infrastructure of Syria will be used to frame the world Syrians are fleeing. The broken-down walls, blocked roads and destitute nature of the country are ample reason to justify flight. The more emotionally pressing images,
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:?I@J =LCC<I Just about two years ago, a bright-eyed and energized 19-yearold stood behind a small lectern staring out across a sea of about 40 faces. These people, at least to him, looked and sounded a lot more mature than he was, though they were really only a year or two older. That boy, dressed in colorful plaid pants and donning a Chewbaccafur sweatshirt, choking through the speech he had to present to the group, was vying for a spot on the board of The Heights. I was that 19-year-old. Now, just under two years later, I’m relinquishing my spot on the board as the arts & review editor in an attempt to fly the coop that is the U.S. and lose myself for a while in an Italian landscape for the next semester. Before I go, though, I wanted to share some final thoughts on my experience with BC’s arts community, my hopes for its future, and a few pieces of advice to those that work so tirelessly to put on the countless shows and exhibits my colleagues and I have written about throughout my time with this newspaper. It might be a little difficult for me to talk about the artistic and creative talent that this school holds. I don’t really have a fair comparison for this school’s arts landscape. I can say, however, that over the last two years I have seen some of the most captivating performances, art, and music that I have encountered in my life. The theatre department’s rendition of Servant of Two Masters was the most fun I’ve ever had in a theater. Last Friday’s Southeast Asian Student Association Dance Showcase gave me a fantastic view of the spectrum of styles that BC’s
dance crews cross (I haven’t been to Showdown before). Faculty and student art shows and exhibits, both large and small, have shown me the variability of mediums that people of all ages at BC are capable of manipulating to make something both beautiful and original. The many bands and singers I have come across here, of which many have graduated and some are just coming into the limelight, garner some of the arts culture’s biggest crowds and have been bold enough to bring their music into several city venues. Simply put, in my time here, there hasn’t been a subset of the BC arts community that is lacking. As was especially apparent at the BC bOp! rehearsal I attended last week, you all put an extraordinary amount of work, study, and dedication into your crafts. Over the last two years, my fellow editors and I have attended many such rehearsals, writing features on several groups across campus. We’ve been given just a brief look at the work behind the scenes of the many acts that grace venues across and away from campus. With these glimpses, we’ve had a taste of what goes into the planning and enacting of some of the artistic expressions seen around campus. Sadly, though, I think these efforts go unnoticed by many that come to see these performances and exhibits. I’ve heard time and again from students and professors alike that they have this same fear—that viewers have this perception that what they’re seeing on stage was thrown together with minimal effort. It’s a sad, yet understandable mentality, and it applies to viewers of all types of arts coming from anyone. This is where the arts & review section is supposed to come into the fold. It has been and will continue to be our job to show anyone who picks up a copy of The Heights or finds themselves on our website that the students and faculty here put their hearts and souls into the
work that they put around campus. Artists here might not be performing on the world’s stage or in front of tens of thousands of people, but it’s our job to act like they are and to encourage them that their work is as meaningful as the work of any of the world’s megastars—which, to some degree, it is. We work tirelessly to uphold our mindsets and constantly think of new ways to express our investments and interests in the projects we write about. There is always room for improvement in this community on campus, as well. I’ve always been fascinated with the collaborations that I’ve seen throughout my time here. There should be more, though—collaborations expanding across types of performances. Student bands playing with dance groups. A cappella groups being incorporated into theater productions. These types of unions would give performers a sense of the larger community at play in BC’s arts world, and I guarantee future Heights writers would go crazy for these kinds of things. And with all this, I bid a fond adieu to The Heights and all those I’ve worked with to promote and review art on campus. It’s been a blast. I’ve spent a lot of time talking about music, movies, and TV shows that were meaningful to me, but I know I also did my best to promote what I thought were some of the most creative and expressive people on campus. When Jon Stewart signed off from The Daily Show for the final time, he had a lot to say about leaving, but he wanted to make it clear to viewers that that wasn’t the last time they’d see him. “Rather than saying goodbye or goodnight, I’m going to get a drink,” he said. “I’m sure I’ll see you guys before I leave.”
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however, are ones documenting Syrians on their journey beyond their broken country. The exhibit will contain images of boats inundated with refugees making their way to shore, floods of people surmounting hills, and the sheer size of the camps housing the masses. These images illustrate the volume of people that this situation has affected, but their presence carries with it the unseen aspects of food, shelter, and resources needed to sustain a populace of such size. Though these images are striking in their own right, Mindlin finds that the photos of more merit are those that focus on individuals among the crowd. The expressions on these individuals’ faces are pointed. Their unique experiences are reflected in their image, and yet these singled-out details and people also lend themselves to explaining the greater conflict the group as a whole must endure. A video will play containing two separate reels of film. The first segment will be one released by the Syrian tourism board. As it tracks long stretches of beach and resort properties aerially, the scene is set as one of merriment and prosperity. Immediately follow-
ing this video, a second will play, chronicling the damage wrought on buildings and metropolitan areas. Filmed using the same kind of aerially tracking shots, the juxtaposition will offer a stark contrast between aspiration and reality. More abstract and dynamic images come into play for this exhibit. The title of the exhibit, Flux, will be projected onto a wall. On a black background, the large letters will contain a video of a beach front with the tide rolling in and out. Within the same letters, chainlink fence will seemingly separate the viewer from the beach. Mindlin explained that this is representative of the reality of the lives of refugees. As so many make their way to foreign lands by the sea, the image is a kind of reversal. The refugees hope to be on that side of the fence, looking out at the sea—not trapped behind it among the rolling tide. An additional element to be present in the exhibit is a display of paper cranes hanging from the ceiling. Each crane is supposed to be representative of the refugees. The form of a crane was chosen for several artistic and symbolic reasons.
“Cranes are symbols of hope and happiness,” Mindlin said. “They
sit on top of the water.” The form of the crane is symbolic of the hopes of the refugees as they sit, waiting for admittance into a host nation. The exhibit is set to explore one of today’s more pressing crises in a meaningful and compelling way. But, Mindlin is quick to point out that this exhibit and this crisis is but one of many. “There are so many crises that are happening that people aren’t aware of,” she said. “There are so many people in the state of flux, not really knowing where to go.” By displaying information, both factually and abstractly, Mindlin is engaging viewers on multiple mental levels, demanding the utmost integrity when tackling such a profound human plight. Mindlin hopes the exhibit will be one small spark to ignite a larger conversation. “If you are passing by this one day, maybe you don’t know I am putting this on, but you see the cranes hanging from the ceiling and say, ‘That is beautiful,’” she said. “Then I hope you look closer and see this has another meaning.”
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Nineteen years ago, J. K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone if you’re American) and began one of the most popular book and movie franchises in history. On Nov. 18, Harry Potter fans from far and wide can see the ninth movie within Rowling’s magical universe. It was also recently announced that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them would be the first movie in a series of five. So, expect another magical journey into the wizarding
world every two years for the next decade. Rowling makes her screenwriting debut alongside David Yates (director of the last four Harry Potter movies) with Fantastic Beasts, based on the companion book of the same name. Set in 1926, this is a prequel to the original series. The film’s main character, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), has just arrived in New York City after traveling around the world gathering research for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, his book on Magizoology, the study of magical creatures. His stay in New York is intended
to be brief, as he is on his way to Arizona to release Frank, a Thunderbird, after rescuing him from Egyptian traffickers. Scamander is quickly side-tracked, however, after a run-in with Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler). Kowalski is a No-Maj, which is short for No-Magic, the American term for muggle. After accidentally swapping his briefcase full of magical creatures for Kowalski’s conveniently identical briefcase full of pastries, many of the creatures are released. Newt, while trying to retrieve his lost creatures, is pursued by Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), an ex-Auror from MA-
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CUSA (the American counterpart to the Ministry of Magic) seeking to arrest him for ownership of magical creatures, an act that has been outlawed in the United States. Meanwhile, Kowalski shares a “romance” with the other Goldstein sister, Queenie (Alison Sudol) a “bombshell” legilimens (mind reader) more than a little reminiscent of everyone’s favorite animal advocate, Luna Lovegood. At the same time, Percival Graves (Colin Farrell) searches for an Obscurus with the help of Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), adopted son of abusive Second Salemer/witch hunter Mary Lou Barebone (Samantha Morton). All of this takes place under the shadowy threat of Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), the “Voldemort” of the 1920s. Fantastic Beasts is a movie with many plot arcs. As the first in this proposed series, it does suffer from the “origin story problem” because it is forced to set up the universe that it takes place in. Some of the burden is lifted because audiences already understand magic from the previous eight films, but due to its being set in an earlier time period, a multitude of characters have to be introduced and explained for the benefit of audience members who haven’t spent hours on Harry Potter Wiki.
The movie is two hours and 13 minutes long, and it seems like the majority is spent on world-building. It’s still very enjoyable, though, especially when the movie treats viewers to scenes with the wide variety of magical creatures within Newt’s briefcase. The creatures are computer-generated, but rendered beautifully, as they should be if the title of the movie has anything to say about it. The plot arcs don’t feel too confusing most of the time, and they do all intertwine with each other, so the transitions between them aren’t noticeably forced. Fantastic Beasts is a good movie. It has all of the fun and adventure of a Harry Potter movie—but it isn’t a Harry Potter movie. There are certainly plenty of nostalgic moments, Easter eggs, and nods to the previous franchise. But, somehow, it doesn’t hit with the emotional impact that the later Harry Potter movies do. There is certainly, however, a comparison to be made between Fantastic Beasts and the first two Harry Potter movies. Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets are not the best movies in the first series, yet the series as a whole was great. Despite the weaknesses of Fantastic Beasts, it sets up a magical world in which the storyline can only get stronger.
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The phrase “Blast from the past” may not be the most academic way to describe We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, but it certainly is an accurate one. For those who don’t know, A Tribe Called Quest, formed in 1985, has not released a new album in 18 years. We Got It From Here sounds like a collaboration straight out of the early ’90s hip-hop scene, but this is more a good thing than a bad thing—nostalgia, more than anything else, is the main idea at play here. A Tribe Called Quest’s newest foray into the industry is by no means flawless, but it rides the coattails of rap from 20 years ago, and somehow, it works meaningfully. Before a We Got It From Here listen-through, be prepared for what is about to happen. The album does not slow down at any point—it is a verbal accosting. From the getgo, A Tribe Called Quest’s style of songwriting and performance is a double-edged sword. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service is aggressive, fiery, and moves at a breakneck pace. In this sense, the album is true to its message—it is clear that the trio’s chief desire is to make its music, regardless of its reception. On only one or two occasions does We Got It From Here
take pause for a slow(ish) song. Much as this enthuses listeners and hardcore fans, it does make We Got It From Here progressively more and more difficult to listen to. At certain points, the work is even entrancingly impassioned, lulling listeners into a near-hypnotic state of attention. The fire of We Got It From Here melts together song and song. It’s a strange feeling. And, with that being said, some of these songs stand out far more than others. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service opens with “The Space Program,” making use of light background beats and pure vocal mastery. Intermittently mixed into the work are eerie laugh tracks and excerpts from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). This move certainly gains points in the originality category, and it works surprisingly well leading into “We The People….” The second song of We Got It From Here is a glaring attack on racism in modern society. “We The People….” serves as a parodic insight into the mind of those attempting to marginalize minority groups, an alarmingly relevant topic in 2016’s America. The verse of the song makes the attack clear: “All you Black folks, you must go / All you Mexicans, you must go / And all you poor folks, you must go / Muslims and gays, boy, we hate your ways /
So all you bad folks, you must go.” A Tribe Called Quest makes its voice heard very, very clearly, and the message is a solid one—the people who marginalize groups weaker than themselves are the evil ones, not the marginalized. The real beauty of We Got It From Here is just how much the album relies on repetition to get this message across. Lyrics and sounds are played over and over and over, seemingly to drill this one central message into the skulls of those who will listen. In no way does A Tribe Called Quest fear its controversial
statements. The best song from the album, “Melatonin,” links mental illness and drug abuse with racism and gang violence. “Dis Generation” is a sharply-worded criticism of older generations in America. Nothing is off limits in We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, and this is incredibly refreshing. It would seem as though A Tribe Called Quest has returned with a bang. Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White sound as strong as ever. Their lyricism continues to be unrivaled. We Got It From Here may sound
like an album ripped from the ‘90s, but there is no doubt that it is a work for a new iteration of hip-hop. Not everything is perfect—some songs are not as polished, and the album can be a beating to listen to from beginning to end—but We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service is still one of the best things to arise from the rap industry in the last five years. Fingers crossed that A Tribe Called Quest does not end its triumphant return here—if it presses forward, the best is (hopefully) yet to come.
Five stars isn’t enough praise to describe the success of Planet Earth II. After a nearly 10-year absence from the documentary-style film scene, Planet Earth has finally made its long-awaited return in the form of a sequel, Planet Earth II, an episodic version of the documentary so dearly loved by its viewers. It’s everything fans had hoped for and more. Its only
downfalls are that technically it hasn’t been released in the United States yet, and that it is released one episode per week, which means viewers are unable to cater to the needs of our binge-watching habits. Sir David Attenborough, Planet Earth’s producer, promised “unparalleled” cinematography in Planet Earth II. Frankly, even that is an understatement. The trailer for Planet Earth II was nothing short of jaw-dropping, featuring footage of sloths swimming
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through crystal blue waters, monkeys leaping between rooftops, penguins surfing tsunami-sized waves, even two golden eagles battling it out with their talons. If the trailer itself is a work of art, imagine what an hourlong episode holds in store. Planet Earth II is the result of 117 filming trips in nearly 40 different countries. The newest UHD and HDR formats were used in conjunction with ultra-lightweight cameras and drones, enabling the crew to capture
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wildlife in a much more immediate and intimate form than ever before seen in cinematic film. By using remote-controlled cameras, the crew not only could film animals just inches away, but strategically put cameras in places where it would be impossible to put a camera-man. The many ways animals also take part in the production is amazing, as cameras are triggered by their movements. As a testament to the game-changing technologies, episode two, “Mountains” captured the living habits of snow leopards on camera for the first time. According to producer Mike Gunton, the snow leopards “were filmed on the end of a telephoto lens about a kilometre away. What we’ve done is go back to the same location and stake it out with dozens of these remotely-operated cameras.” The effect is that although only four snow leopards live within 40 square miles of each other, with this technology the crew was able to capture four leopards on camera at once. Attenborough says of the cinematography that these kind of shots just simply weren’t possible 10 years ago, which is to say that in a large way the
success of Planet Earth II lies in its shock value. If you think you’re in for a boring documentary about Earth and its various species, characterized by dull, monotonous background narration, think again. You’re in for a cinematic masterpiece. What if we were a newborn marine iguana on the run from a pack of racer snakes or a sloth desperate to find its mate, but swimming oh so slowly at our top speed? Well, Planet Earth II takes us there. Though Planet Earth and other Attenborough documentaries have always sought these kind of quotidian, mini-narratives in nature, Planet Earth II is the first of its kind that has the technology to really capture this drama. Nature is more than meets the eye. Though this message may seem trite, the goal of Planet Earth II is to say exactly this. But rather than tell, it shows us exactly what we’re missing. Though at the start of the series it may seem that Planet Earth II’s only goal is to strike awe into its viewers, it’s clear that the series is slowly moving toward a focus on humanity’s impact on the natural world and perhaps, at the series’s end, to have inspired a new generation of nature-lovers.
John Legend’s music video for his single “Love Me Now” travels the world, exploring love in its many forms in the wake of tragedy and controversy. The sweeping, symphonic introduction transitions to the people and places focused on throughout the video. The couples shown in each location—young and old, gay and straight, multiethnic—all express their passion for each other amid their pain. The first couple, filmed in the Domiz Refugee Camp, a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq, faces poverty, but still smile. Resistant to letting oppression win, they get married and show that their love for each other remains. Orlando sets the stage for the next couple’s story, as two men mourn those lost in the Pulse Nightclub shooting that took place this past June. Consoling one another and displaying their affection publicly, the couple embrace the challenges the LGBTQ community has faced. In almost every shot of the next couple in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, there is massive pollution. The destitution they face is illustrated as they are filmed sleeping on a mattress in a semi-enclosed space and walking among trash. The hardship in their lives may be an obstacle, but not one that hinders their friendship. The final couple are elderly Native Americans in Standing Rock, N.D. Drawing from current events, the viewer can conclude that the man and woman featured are facing the threat of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Despite this looming over them, they simply take a walk hand-in-hand. Each story is intermittently dispersed with clips of Legend by himself, with his wife, Chrissy Teigen, and their daughter, Luna. The flashing images of love, family, and compassion from all of the scenes express a true appreciation for those that make us feel secure in the most threatening situations.
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LITTLE MIX “Nothing Else Matters” Vaults merge profound introspection with classical instrumentation in “One Day I’ll Fly Away,” venturing into the realm of haunting mysticism. Blythe Pepino’s warm, emotionally stirring lyrics and light piano accompaniment, coalesced with string splendor, build into an epic musical and lyrical peak.
“Nothing Else Matters” pivots from the promiscuity typical in today’s pop and offers a fresh revival of a deeper kind of love. Lifted by a playful techno beat and chipper snapping, Little Mix’s harmonies, albeit generic, create an enjoyable anthem preaching how “nothing else matters like us.”
“Be Mean” channels DNCE’s retro-pop vibes once again, forming a cheeky, cheesy new hit for the youthful rock band. Electric guitar enlivens smoky vocals from Joe Jonas and equally provocative lyrics, including “Torture me all night,” to fuel a punchy desire for flirtation and lustful torment.
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Coming off another nationally televised blowout loss at the hands of Florida State, Boston College football once again finds itself looking to rebound in a must-win game if it wants a shot at postseason play. With two games remaining on the schedule, the Eagles (4-6, 1-6 Atlantic Coast) must win out to become bowl eligible for the third time in four years under head coach Steve Addazio. The postseason push begins this weekend as BC celebrates the jersey retirement of Matt Ryan on Senior Day against Connecticut (3-7, 1-6 American Athletic). The spotlight did not bode well for the Eagles in either of the last two weeks. Granted, these games were against two of the nation’s toughest opponents, but the country saw the Eagles get embarrassed on both occasions. BC watched Heisman Trophy candidate Lamar Jackson account for 416 total yards and seven touchdowns in a 52-7 beatdown by No. 7 Louisville, followed by a 45-7 defeat in Tallahassee against No. 18 Florida State, in which the Eagles put up a mere 146 yards of offense. After dropping these two games, BC has now been outscored by ACC opponents 261-79 on the season. In many ways, the Huskies are similar to the Eagles, especially offensively. Connecticut has the worst offense in the country in terms of points per game at 16.5. It ranks in the bottom 15 in rushing yards per game with 123 and total yards per game with 341. If you’re wondering where BC finds itself in these categories, you don’t have to look far. The Eagles are right behind UConn as the fifth-worst-scoring offense in points per game at 18.2. They have the ninth-fewest passing yards per game with 144.1, and they have the worst total offense in the country with just 296 yards per game. While BC can still
rely on its 17th-ranked defense against UConn’s dreadful attack, the offense needs to make sure it does enough to push the Eagles past the Huskies in what’s likely to be a low-scoring affair. The Eagles have made efforts to add creativity to their offensive scheme, as seen by Tommy Sweeney’s game-winning touchdown catch from running back Davon Jones a few weeks ago against North Carolina State. Nevertheless, the Eagles’ trickery and game-to-game schemes haven’t led to many positive results beyond that one play. While BC’s 17th-ranked defense will hold an edge, Addazio is aware that UConn’s defense could also cause problems for the Eagles’ already struggling offense. “On defense, they’re strong,” Addazio said. “They are 32nd in the country against the run. Very tough to run against them. They are 76th in total defense. I think they’ve got some good, strong, stout players.” Addazio isn’t the only one taking notice—quarterback Patrick Towles recognizes the talent and threats that exist on that Huskies defense. “They’re really good upfront,” Towles said after Tuesday’s practice. “They’ve got a pro player upfront. They’re good in the back end, especially at safety. They’re going to bring some kind of particular pressures that we’ve got to be ready for.” For a BC offense that runs the ball on almost two-thirds of its offensive plays, that could pose major problems for Eagles. A major key for the Eagles will be Towles’ ability to develop a passing game that has been lacking to expand the field and open up BC’s running attack. In an effort to shake up the offense, an interesting strategy to pay attention to will be Addazio’s utilization of his running backs. While the Eagles’ offense relies heavily on pounding the ball on the ground, its prime running back and former all-ACC
preseason running back Jon Hilliman has been slumping this season, especially recently. Hilliman is averaging just 3.2 yards per carry on the season, and in the past two weeks he only has 36 yards on 21 carries—just 1.7 yards per attempt. Although they’ve seen significantly fewer carries than Hilliman, Myles Willis and Jones have brought energy and production to a lagging offense. Both players have quietly put together solid seasons for the Eagles, averaging over 4 yards per attempt. If the offense continues to struggle, look for Willis and Jones to get some touches in the backfield. In a game featuring two of the nation’s worst offenses, it may come down to the turnover battle. Although BC personnel lauded UConn’s solid defense, the Eagles hold the advantage in this phase of the game. Despite the Huskies’ poor offense, however, it manages to hold onto the football, as Connecticut ranks 17th in the nation for fewest turnovers, while the Eagles are 85th. UConn’s defense, however, is the 18th worst in the country at forcing turnovers, while BC is the 54th-best. While the Huskies don’t turn the ball over, they don’t take it away from opponents either. If the Eagles’ defense can come away with some key plays and win the turnover margin, BC will likely have an opportunity to become bowl eligible against Wake Forest in the season finale. “Our goal for the entire season has been to play in the postseason,” Towles said. “We dropped one or two that we shouldn’t have dropped. But we still have an opportunity. These next two weeks are huge, but if we don’t win this one, then the last one won’t really matter.” Regardless of all the regional rivalry and bowl eligibility chatter surrounding the team, the message is loud and clear for the Eagles on Saturday : beat UConn.
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Connecticut starts a freshman at quarterback, Donovan Williams, pictured here dropping back for a pass vs. Temple.
9P :?I@J EFP<J ?\`^_kj JkX]] On Saturday afternoon, Boston College football (4-6, 1-6 Atlantic Coast) will engage in the time-honored tradition of Senior Day. Four years of blood, sweat, and tears culminate in one final appearance in front of the home crowd. Usually a family-oriented celebration of contributions to the program, Senior Day often gives off a wistful and nostalgic vibe. There is a profound sadness at the impending loss of men who meant a great deal not only on the field, but also in the locker room and around campus. For the Eagles, however, there is a different kind of sadness hovering over their Senior Day. On a day where the team will retire Matt Ryan’s No. 12 jersey at halftime, the fans’ nostalgia will be directed toward a time when scoring multiple touchdowns didn’t make them do a double take. Coming off of a 45-7 loss at the hands of No. 18 Florida State, the Eagles have now lost 202-24 to the four ACC opponents who were ranked as of last week. On Monday, Steve Addazio described this latest non-competitive affair as bluntly as possible. “We played a good team in a tough venue,” he said. “We didn’t play well.” Much as he did for the spate of explosive touchdowns conceded by his secondary, BC’s head dude had a theory for these massive defeats. “We attract people’s best games, their best shots, because people respect the fact that our team is going to play hard,” Addazio said following the FSU game. Though there is absolutely no way to verify the validity of that statement, the Eagles do have some good fortune this week. In renewing a local rivalry with the University of Connecticut (3-7, 1-6 American Athletic)—the two teams last played in 2004—BC faces an opponent whose “best shot” still shouldn’t be enough for a victory. In fact, the Eagles will enter Saturday afternoon’s contest favored by a touchdown, a comforting fact for a team that has only scored one touchdown in each of its last two games. After earning a bid to the St. Petersburg Bowl in 2015, the Huskies have taken a major step back in Bob Diaco’s third season at the helm. UConn ranks dead last in the country in scoring offense, averaging a paltry 16.5 points per game, a struggle with which BC fans can empathize. The Huskies are the only FBS team without a touchdown in the first quarter this season and are coming off of back-to-back blowout losses to East Carolina and Temple, losing by a combined 62-3 score. In fact, UConn has the secondlowest touchdown rate in the country. According to Football Outsiders, only the lowly Rutgers offense scores touchdowns less frequently. They’ve pretty much struggled in every aspect of offense, ranked 99th in passing offense and 125th in rushing offense by Football Outsiders’ S&P system. The Huskies can’t generate long drives or quick, explosive plays—ranking
124th in Football Outsiders’ IsoPPP + metric, which tracks explosive play capabilities—largely because their offensive line struggles to hold blocks on run plays or maintain a clean pocket on passing plays. Only three teams have more plays that end in tackles for loss per game. About the only thing UConn does well on offense is maintain possession of the ball—the Huskies rank fifth in the nation in turnover rate. With the season slipping away and the team clearly lacking the characteristics of bowl-eligible teams, Diaco decided to go with a quarterback change before the game against Temple. Junior Bryant Shireffs, a two-year starter, was benched in favor of freshman Donovan Williams. Shireffs was a capable dual-threat signal caller, throwing for 2,010 yards and running for 326 yards in 2015. But in a program looking for its first star at the quarterback position since Dan Orlovsky, Shireffs’ potential had already been explored. Though Williams was expected to redshirt this season, Diaco said that he actually would’ve been inserted as the starter earlier in the season if he hadn’t sustained an injury in practice early in October. At 6-foot-4 and with good speed, Williams brings a stronger, more athletic presence to the quarterback runs that UConn likes to use on offense. In the shutout loss to Temple, with a simplified offense, he completed 12-of-21 pass attempts for just 69 yards. Williams also added 66 yards on the ground, including a 43-yard scamper down the middle of the field. Though undeniably raw in reading defenses and lacking touch on his throws, Diaco is starting him for his high ceiling. “[Williams’] ceiling is as high as any player at his position in America,” the coach said last week. On the ground, Williams is aided by junior running back Arkeel Newsome, whose 549 rushing yards lead the team. Though he stands just 5-foot-7, Newsome is a bundle of energy and physicality, weighing a solid 185 pounds and having great burst through the few holes that his offensive line creates for him. He also contributes in the passing game, particularly on screens, ranking third on the team in receiving yards. The main target for Williams through the air is senior wideout Noel Thomas. With 87 receptions and 1,090 yards, Thomas is responsible for over half of the Huskies receiving yards this season. He has good deep speed, but will now run a lot of shorter routes as part of UConn’s simplified passing attack. For a young quarterback, this top-flight receiver is a calming safety blanket. On Saturday, expect the UConn offense to struggle against the Eagles in ways similar to Buffalo. With a new signal caller, Diaco will likely call for a lot of early down run plays. Even if he uses heavy doses of quarterback runs—which have given the Eagles fits over the last few weeks—the Huskies’ offensive line will not be able to handle the BC front seven. Expect UConn to spend the majority of the afternoon
facing third and long scenarios. Here, the pass rush can get after Williams and force the already unsure freshman into rushed decisions. The secondary must blanket Thomas throughout the game, daring any other receiver to beat them. Though they will likely not concede many long drives to such a weak offense, due to their own subpar offense, the BC defense will need to force a few turnovers to give Patrick Towles and Co. a field position advantage that can lead to points. On the other side of the ball, UConn is only slightly better. Though senior safety Obi Melifonwu is a stabilizing presence in the secondary—with four interceptions and 83 tackles—the Huskies rank 118th in pass defense. A big piece of this is an inability to force turnovers or pressure the quarterback—UConn ranks 105th in turnover rate and 118th in Football Outsiders’ adjusted sack rate. The Huskies have had good success against the run this season, ranking 32nd nationally in run defense. They have a physical front seven that doesn’t give up large holes often and has the strength to penetrate into the backfield before a run play has a chance to fully develop. They excel in short yardage situations, ranking 27th nationally in Football Outsiders’ Stuff Rate, which measures the percentage of runs on third or fourth down, with two yards or less to go, that achieve a first down or touchdown. This stout front seven is a big reason why the Huskies rank 11th in defensive red zone efficiency. On Saturday, given the recent struggles of the Eagles’ rushing attack and the nature of UConn’s front seven, this game is one final chance for Towles to prove himself as something other than a disappointment. To stave off Darius Wade, he will need to do significantly better than completing 3of-11 pass attempts. Since the Huskies don’t often pressure the quarterback, Towles has no excuse if he struggles against this defense. Likewise, the game presents a matchup that the Eagles’ receivers must take advantage of. Jeff Smith needs to put his drops behind him and focus on being a reliable target down the field. Despite the bleak nature of the program, bowl eligibility is shockingly still in play for the only ACC program with six conference losses. Though six wins guarantees the Eagles a spot in a bowl game—and likely allows Addazio to keep his job for next season—as few as five wins might give them the opportunity to go bowling. When there aren’t enough six-win teams to fill bowl slots, five-win teams are selected by their rankings in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate, a ranking in which BC stands favorably. With that in mind, Saturday’s game is a must win for the Eagles. It’s a fact that hasn’t been lost on Addazio. “We have to win on Saturday for anything to even be a conversation,” he said on Monday. Shortly after saying that, Addazio left the press conference. And really, there wasn’t much left to say. His closing statement can only come between the lines.
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pull ahead. The Eagles scored 21 points to comfortably take the lead for good. Yet the head coach still sees a lot of room for improvement, especially with conference play around the corner. “We’re still nowhere near where we need to be to win games at the highest level, but we did make a step forward from where we were a few days ago,” Johnson said. Yet with the lead in hand, the night again became about Hughes. The senior is looking to take Monday’s momentum into BC’s next game on the road at Seton Hall. There, the Point Pleasant, N.J., native is expecting over 100 friends and family members, as she continues a successful end to a stellar career. But both her and Johnson are happy to get the inevitable out of the way. Hughes entered the season only 10 three-pointers behind last year’s captain, Nicole Boudreau, who set the record in her final game last year. And even though it came at the expense of a close friend, both her and Johnson knew it was inevitable. “Nicole Boudreau broke it in the last game of her career last year,” Johnson said. “It didn’t take long for Kelly to take that back. But we knew that was going to happen.”
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With her deadly shot from deep, Kelly Hughes (23, left) scored a game-high 21 points, tied with sophomore center and inside threat Mariella Fasoula (34, right).
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<X^c\j N`e =`ijk >Xd\ J`eZ\ ;\Z% *'# )'(, MBB vs. UMES, from B8 sharpshooters on the perimeter. BC hit seven shots from behind the arc, four of which came from the hands of Jerome Robinson and A.J. Turner. Robinson and Turner contributed double-digit scoring performances for the second consecutive week. Despite being inconsistent at times, Robinson’s stroke from mid-range and 3-point range incited offensive runs for the Eagles. In the second half, the sophomore guard hit backto-back threes from the left wing, forcing the catch-up Hawks to dig deeper into an even more urgent desperation mode. Turner, who head coach Jim Christian said is gaining more confidence, shot 50 percent from deep and 5-of-7 from the field overall. Before the season, Christian advertised his unit as the fastest he has ever coached. Yet that speed failed to propel the Eagles to a fast start in their loss to the Colonels. In fact, it inhibited them. So Christian made an adjustment. He moved Ty Graves, who scored a team-leading 15 points off the bench last Friday, into the starting lineup, replacing Ky Bowman. This way, Bowman, a player who occasionally forgets to put on the brakes, could settle in before contributing off the bench. Not too far behind the Eagles’ scoring tandem was Bowman. After checking in for Graves, the freshman guard chipped in, according to Christian, “probably the best early stretch he’s had.” Bowman showcased his handles late in the first period, crossing up defenders and sinking shots on two straight possessions. In
addition, he tallied four assists on the night. Most notably, he found Garland Owens for a beautiful backdoor alleyoop dunk toward the latter portion of the game. But Bowman did turn the ball over four times. And it wasn’t just him. The Eagles lost the ball 16 times. Most of the turnovers resulted from sloppy passing and unnecessary finesse play. Christian emphasized that from this point on, his team needs to consider the kind of turnovers it is forfeiting. Nevertheless, Eastern Shore could not take advantage of these mistakes. After narrowing the deficit to just five points with five minutes remaining in the first half, the Hawks failed to surmount a comeback for the rest of the game. This was largely due to an embarrassing shooting performance, as the team that put up at least 70 points in each of its last two appearances shot just above 36 percent from the field. The only bright spots were Bakari Copeland and Logan Mcintosh. Copeland featured a midrange and post game that befuddled BC’s defenders, as the senior forward ended with a team-high 14 points. And Mcintosh simply found his touch, hitting 3-of-6 jumpers and finishing with 11 points. BC’s first win of the season may have come a few days later than many expected, but for the Eagles, the loss against the Colonels and their infamous 2015-16 season are in the rearview mirror. “All summer we had a bad taste in our mouths, and obviously Friday we didn’t play very well, so it was all about improvements,” Tava said. “We really said the season started today.”
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years, the intensity applied to crashing the boards at both sides of the court was a welcome sign. The defensive effort from Eagles was aggressive and effective. They forced the Hawks into 14 turnovers while simultaneously limiting their opponent to 36 percent shooting from the field. In addition to playing effective one-on-one defense, BC functioned efficiently as a unit, making quick rotations leading to stifling help defense. When UMES drivers had open
lanes, a helping BC defender was almost always in position to cut out the threat. The helping defender could easily force a turnover, a contested shot, or a block on a number of occasions. The best example came from redshirt freshman Johncarlos Reyes, who almost sent a monster help rejection through the backboard. The help defense did occasionally mean that the Eagles were left out of position, allowing the Hawks to come away with 11 offensive rebounds of their own. In fact, UMES outscored BC 12-8 in second-chance points, a surprising stat considering it had
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fewer offensive rebounds. The Hawks crashed the boards with passion and took advantage of defensive switches to execute a number of heads-up second-chance put-backs. But on the vast majority of possessions, the Eagles capped off successful defensive stands with a strong rebound, enabling them to get out in transition effectively. “You need to get stops,” head coach Jim Christian said. “Tonight we got more stops. You can’t run if they score. We got stops and rebounds… that’s how you can run.” The Eagles pushed the ball at a blistering pace throughout the game. While only 10 of their points were considered “fast-break points,” the effect of pushing the ball was certainly more significant. The UMES defense never seemed comfortable in its sets, and was off-balance for a majority of the game. Of the Eagles’ 30 field goals made on the night, 22 of them were assisted. The BC offense was at its best when it was sharing the ball with pace and getting its big men involved. Passes to the interior sucked in UMES defenders, leading to quick kick outs to perimeter shooters. Despite shooting just 30 percent from beyond the arc, BC created a number of clean looks at the rim for perimeter shooters, a welcome sign for a struggling team.
The one thing that plagued the Eagles all night was the presence of seemingly rushed and unnecessary turnovers that might have proved costly against a higher quality opponent. BC ended the night with 16 turnovers, which consisted of a combination of heads-up defensive plays from a very quick UMES defense and careless mistakes. It seemed as though BC occasionally became too caught up in pushing the ball down the floor leading to a number of sloppy passes that bounced off hands or were deftly picked off by expectant Hawks defenders. In a game like this, against a small conference team, this deficiency can easily be swept under the rug. As the Eagles move forward to conference play, however, they will need to take better care of the ball. With ACC opponents waiting in the wings, it is imperative that the Eagles use these games as a way to work out the kinks. While they may impose their will against UMES, BC will have a much tougher time with the top teams in the nation’s best conference. But Christian insists that he isn’t intent on worrying about the future. “I try not to worry about ACC play until ACC play starts,” Christian said. “Right now we’ve got to get better by Sunday.”
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upset isn’t totally out of the question. And to upset the villain would be the most amazing feeling ever. Kansas is probably feeling like Virginia, too. And there are a whole host of other schools that take this whole villain thing and turn it into extra motivation—extra sprints, extra shots at practice, extra reps in the weight room. The point is, Duke and Kentucky’s being put on a pedestal doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way all season. That pedestal can crumble. No team is going to walk into Cameron Indoor Stadium or Rupp Arena thinking that it doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell to win the game. That’s not how sports work. Upsets are a part of the game, and upsets are possible for anyone and everyone. I mean, BC almost beat UNC
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last year, and if the Eagles can push it to the last few seconds, anyone can. Okay, but a plausible scenario is that Duke and Kentucky just dominate all of their opponents all season long and nobody manages to pull off an upset. That’s still all right—being the villain means you’re sometimes guaranteed to win. LeBron is living proof, unfortunately. There’s also something so exciting about witnessing a historic run to a championship. When the Warriors went all the way in 2015 and set the win record last year, it was thrilling. The same principle applies here. Either way, it’s not like having these two villains at the top of the sport is going to have a negative impact on men’s college hoops. It’ll make
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games more competitive, even without upsets, and competitive games get views. Just Tuesday night my timeline blew up with friends marveling over the stunning last-minute finish of the Maryland/Georgetown game. Imagine competitive games like that on a consistent basis. It’s a fan’s dream come true. And even if they don’t get upsets, the competition and thrill of dominant seasons is enough to satisfy fans. So don’t feel upset that Duke and Kentucky seem to be untouchable right now. Feel excited. We’re standing at the very beginning of a long college basketball season. Anything can happen.
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Assoc. Sports Editor UConn’s offense ranks at the bottom of the FBS, but don’t expect a BC blowout on Saturday. The Eagles’ offense is nearly as bad. Against Florida State last week, Patrick Towles completed just three passes and, consequently, the offense only amassed 146 yards of total offense. Luckily, the Huskies’ defense is incomparable to the Seminoles’ defensive unit. Towles and the rest of the offense will bounce back on Saturday, and BC will be one win away from bowl eligibility.
Prediction: BC 20, Connecticut 10 ANNABEL STEELE
Asst. Sports Editor After a brutal stretch of the schedule, the Eagles get an easy opponent in Connecticut. The Huskies are just plain bad, and BC should roll over them easily. Even though nothing is guaranteed, especially with how the Eagles have looked the past two games, they will coast to a win over the Huskies. It won’t be the blowout it should be, though. On paper, you’d think the offense should run up the score, but there’s nothing to suggest that Patrick Towles will lead the offense to a win. The defense should limit the Huskies pretty well, though.
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Go on, admit it—you watched the trailer for the upcoming live action Beauty and the Beast when it came out on Monday. There’s no shame in it. I personally watched it a couple of times, even though I only saw Beauty and the Beast for the first time two weekends ago. (Although I played Maurice in a camp production of the play this summer, to overwhelmingly positive reviews.) From what I’ve seen, most of the online chatter about the trailer centers on the brief moments we get to see Luke Evans as Gaston. And there’s a good reason for this—everybody loves a villain. Just as Maleficent got her own movie a couple of years ago, Gaston seems to be what everyone is looking forward to the most here. Villains are present in reality, too. We’ll soon have a real-life villain living in the Naval Observatory in D.C.— how exciting! But the biggest source of actual villains is definitely sports. You can single out individual players, like LeBron, or entire teams, like the New England Patriots. Both LeBron and the Pats are villains, but—and it pains me to say this—they make everything a little more interesting. The same goes for Duke and Kentucky men’s basketball. Both the AP and USA Today currently rank Duke at No. 1 and Kentucky at No. 2. With the college basketball season kicking off, the Blue Devils and Wildcats seem to be on their own talented platform looking down on everyone else. Duke and Kentucky are both historically successful programs. There is something special about saying you play for the Blue Devils or the Wildcats. Not to mention Mike Krzyzewski and John Calipari are two coaches who will go down in the history books as geniuses. These schools are on a pedestal right now, with their legendary coaches and their golden history. The top freshmen in the country want to come to these schools because they can pitch success in the NBA. Kentucky boasts all-star grads like John Wall, who tested the waters in college before moving on to the NBA. Duke alums in professional basketball include recent champion Kyrie Irving. As a result, both schools have unbelievable talent on their rosters this year. According to ESPN, six of the country’s top 10 freshmen play at Duke and Kentucky. In its ranking of the country’s top freshmen, the worldwide leader in sports ranks Duke’s Frank Jackson at No. 1, while the No. 2 is Kentucky’s Malik Monk. With stacked rosters, a champion mentality, and all the swagger you might need, Duke and Kentucky are poised at the top of the college basketball world. This is a good thing. This is perfect. You need villains in sports. You need to have dominant teams that are a little cocky about it, too. Earlier this year I argued that UConn is good for women’s college basketball. This argument is a little bit different—men’s hoops doesn’t need the same attention that the Huskies bring to women’s basketball—but there are some similarities here, too. UConn’s dominance has not led to a lack of rivals. Notre Dame and Stanford are two notable schools that have heated rivalries with the Huskies. And in much the same way, Duke and Kentucky’s being the dominant villains will only serve to make other teams that much more competitive against them. In fact, we already saw it on Tuesday night, when a buzzer-beater from Frank Mason carried Kansas over a shorthanded Duke. The Blue Devils were missing Harry Giles, Jayson Tatum, and Marques Bolden for the entire game, and star Grayson Allen temporarily left the game because of an injury. Kansas took advantage of these shortcomings and played a hard-
(CALENDAR) YEAR LIZZY BARRETT / HEIGHTS STAFF
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sus the Hawks. Aggressively crashing the boards on every possession, the former Western Michigan forward bodied up defenders. And with an and-one conversion 1:40 into the game, Tava broke the only tie of the game, lifting the Eagles to a 5-2 lead—one it would never concede, finishing with a 73-57 BC victory. He finished with 10 boards on the night, half of which were on the offensive side of the ball. His teammates fed off of his intensity, ultimately out-rebounding the Hawks (0-3) 49-33. The dominant work on the boards led to transition opportunities. As soon as BC (1-1) controlled each rebound, all five players were off to the races. Often, Eastern Shore struggled to keep up with the Eagles’ tempo, freeing up
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?\`^_kj JkX]] Blow the dust off the party supplies and ready the champagne: Boston College men’s basketball has won its first game in the year 2016. After squandering perhaps its best chance at a win since Dec. 30, 2015, and suffering its 20th straight loss against Nicholls State on Friday, the Eagles rebounded—both literally and figuratively—to secure a no-doubt 16-point victory against the visiting University of Maryland Eastern Shore, 73-57. The key to the game for the Eagles (1-1) was the constant punishment they doled out on the boards from the tip to the final horn. BC collected 49 rebounds on the night, out-rebounding its opponents by 16. Seasoned veterans
Connar Tava and Mo Jeffers were the ringleaders of the operation, combining for 23 boards on the night. “I was just trying to do little things for the team to get us going like offensive rebounds,” Tava said. “Just try to bring in energy, because we didn’t bring it on Friday.” And bring it he did. BC was active on both ends of the court from beginning to end. The undersized Hawks (0-3) were at the mercy of a BC rebounding barrage that seemed to snag the ball at will. With just one player in the rotation above 6-foot-7 compared to BC’s four, the Hawks were outsized, outmuscled, and outworked, leading to BC pulling down 17 offensive rebounds. For a team that has struggled rebounding in recent
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With her 3-pointer in the third quarter, senior guard Kelly Hughes broke the program record.
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With 3:38 to go in the third, Kelly Hughes did what she always does. She waited along the perimeter as Mariella Fasoula and Emma Guy created havoc inside. Her point guard, Martina Mosetti, attempted to move the ball around with the centers down low. Mosetti distracted the Boston University defenders just long enough to allow Hughes to knock down a wide-open 3-pointer. But instead of polite claps and a tremor from the bench, Hughes got a different reaction: a raucous, standing ovation that kept going through the ensuing defensive possession. This 3-pointer wasn’t like the others—it was the 254th of her career. And it put Hughes atop the record books as Boston College women’s basketball’s career 3-point leader. It was just three of 21 points—tied with Fasoula for the team’s lead—that Hughes knocked down in the Eagles’ 67-49 victory over their crosstown rivals. And, with a cheering section of about 25 in the crowd, it provided a special moment, not just for her personally, but for the team. “I know I’m a shooter, but someone’s got to get me the ball,” Hughes said. “I wouldn’t have been able to do it on my
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own.” Of course, Monday night wasn’t just about lauding Hughes. BC (1-1) needed to get back on track after falling in the season opener to Hartford, a team it beat 62-28 last season. Early in the first, the Eagles appeared to return to Erik Johnson’s desired strategy of heavily utilizing his bigs. BC tended to work the full 30-second shot clock in the opening frame, primarily through Fasoula. The 6foot-5 center towered over the Terriers, using her strong frame to punish them under the basket. She helped the Eagles jump out to a 20-8 lead over BU (0-2) in the first frame after scoring 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting. Defensively, Fasoula, Guy, and Katie Quandt limited Terrier attempts by standing on the edge of the paint on both sides. That strategy clogged the lanes for BU, forcing the team to put up heavilycontested mid-range shots or low-chance layups. This caused immense frustration among the Terriers, who travelled six times in the first quarter. The Terriers nearly pulled even in the second quarter on the back of their own 6-foot-5 center, Sophie Beaudry. She hit all four shots she took in the frame for eight
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