The Heights November 19, 2015

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After the city shut down its largest shelter, Boston’s homeless reveal their struggles, A8

Junior Vinny Roca discusses his drawing style, working in BC’s arts culture, and exploring Boston’s artistic venues, B3

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This afternoon, Afua Laast—vice president of diversity and inclusion for the Undergraduate Government of Boston College and LSOE ’16—and James Kale—

chair of the AHANA Leadership Council and LSOE ’16—organized a demonstration to bring awareness to the number of AHANA faculty on Boston College’s campus, which is disproportionately low compared to the number of AHANA undergraduates. The demonstration is a part of a campaign led by ALC, held from Nov. 17 to 21 to address the lack of AHANA faculty and administrators on campus.

The demonstrators marched from the statue outside of St. Mary’s to Gasson 100, where they held a sit-in demonstration to show their support for ALC’s new initiatives. The room was almost completely filled with students and faculty showing

their support for ALC’s cause.

“One thing that BC says that they like to see is students actually out together to support something,” Kale said. “So we had to have this campaign and this demonstration to make sure we are all in support of increasing AHANA faculty and staff for the administrators on campus.”

Originally, Laast and Kale planned to stage a die-in protest, where students would lie on the ground, showing solidarity with a cause. They decided, however, that a sit-in would be more appropriate as die-ins normally signify a loss of life, and they thought it would take away from the overall meaning of the demonstration.

Kale met with Dean of Students Thomas JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS STAFF

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Students gathered at the fountain outside of Gasson before moving inside for a sit-in.

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?\`^_kj JkX]] After 26 years in the position, Thomas McGuinness left his role as associate vice president and director of University Counseling Services (UCS) this semester to become associate vice provost. Craig Burns, formerly the associate director of UCS, is currently serving as interim director.

McGuinness worked in university mental health for 40 years and has been a counseling center director for 39 years. He said he felt it was time for a change—not only for himself, but for the leadership of counseling services.

Burns has been at Boston College for almost 11 years. Upon his promotion to interim director, Eileen Suhrhoff stepped in to become the interim associate director in place of Burns.

Suhrhoff has served as a senior staff psychologist at UCS, which oversees the mental health and well-being of the BC community.

Burns said he is grateful for the support and the trust from Vice President of Student Affairs Barb Jones, who made the decision to appoint him to the role of interim director. He is familiar with the department and the campus and hopes to have the faith of the community that he could take on the role.

“I think the fact that I was associate director made [the decision] a logical choice,” Burns said.

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Problem solving was the focus for the team of students participating in Meet @ Shea’s inaugural event on Tuesday.

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This feels new.

“Meet @ Shea” is one of the first student-driven initiatives to come out of Boston College’s nascent Edmund H. Shea Jr. Shea Center for Entrepreneurship—and the goal of the game is for everyone to touch the tennis ball. The program is a social solutions network for undergraduates, built as much around principles for social work like “Root Cause” as traditional concepts in management.

This particular group contains students with backgrounds in economics, computer science, management, communication,

and political science. (And this list of majors also comes with the assurance that another student from Lynch couldn’t make it Tuesday night.)

Within the interdisciplinary group, there remain clear imbalances: a majority of participants are male, and a majority come from the Carroll School—a trend that is pervasive, many students involved in entrepreneurship groups at BC say. But if the evening’s focus was indicative of the direction the culture is headed, this could soon change.

Information systems professor Mary Cronin is one of several faculty members pushing BC’s outlook on management beyond the conventional silos of business teaching. She has championed a new coconcentration on “Managing for Social Impact,” and if all goes as planned, this offering will run parallel to an interdisciplinary minor for students in the Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences. She has also been one of the early proponents of Meet @ Shea.

“We have a lot to learn from outside our traditional business disciplines,” Cronin said. She predicts deeper skills like “design-thinking” will increasingly be demanded of managers. With that in mind, she plans for the Managing for Social Impact co-concentration and minor to be a collaborative effort between the Carroll School and departments in the Morrissey College like sociology, economics, theology, philosophy, environmental studies, earth and environmental sciences, and political science.

On Monday, Cronin helped to bring a panel of social entrepreneurs to campus, including Anna Trieschmann, program manager at the Social Innovation Forum and BC ’12. The enterprises featured are tackling what Cronin categorizes as some of the biggest topics facing today’s managers: social justice, sustainability, and inequality. “There’s no getting away from it,” she said. “Those are the issues.”

On Monday night, a petition to make women’s sports worth the same amount of Gold Pass points as men’s spread across Boston College students’ Facebook newsfeeds. This petition began as part of a group project assigned for Sharlene Hesse-Biber’s class, Women and the Body. The group did not contact BC Athletics prior to beginning this petition.

As of Wednesday night, the petition had nearly 300 signatures.

“We started with just unequal representation in the media, and then we tried to concentrate on the Gold Pass,” Angela Jin, one of the group’s members and CSOM ’17, said.

The group of seven, including Jin; Abigail Kordell, LSOE ’17; Chloe Ewanouski, Annie Keller, Casey Mahalik, all MCAS ’18; Arantxa Medina, MCAS ’17; and Anna Seigel, MCAS ’19, decided to focus their efforts on the athletic department due to BC students’ active interest in athletics, Keller said.

“I also think that BC idolizes sports so much,” Jin said. “You see all of this attention in men’s hockey and football, but there is not nearly as much press or hype about women’s sports.”

Jin explained how the focus of the class is about how women’s bodies are received in all aspects of life. The project that they are currently working on is an activist project to fight gender inequality on campus.

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There are 80 institutions across the country that have joined to form the co-

alition, but Boston College is not one of them. BC officials are currently reviewing the benefits of joining the coalition before making a final decision.

Many Boston-area colleges and universities like Amherst College, Harvard University, Tufts University, and, most recently, Northeastern University have agreed to join this national movement that hopes to provide students with all of the necessary tools to ensure that they present a competitive and comprehensive application when they apply for admission to college.

The new website, which will launch in the summer of 2016, aims to improve the current application process by giving students of all economic backgrounds access to planning tools that will help bridge the opportunity gap between higher and lower income students. By providing a supportive platform free of charge, the group believes that “early engagement supports under-resourced students during the preparation process,” according to its newsletter.

The website itself is currently still in the works, but among its key features will be a collaboration platform, an application portal, and what the coalition calls “the locker”—a tool available to students

that will help them to privately collect select classwork, awards, journals, and letters of recommendation, among other documents.

The locker aims to be a place where students can keep all of his or her documents organized in one place and can be accessed as early as freshman year of high school.

“Starting to think about college earlier reduces some of the pressure of the application process, but more importantly, it sets the expectation that students should aspire to attend college,” Seth Allen, vice president and dean of admissions at Pomona College, said in a press release. “There are so many talented students who should

aim for a great school, but they often don’t understand the path to get there.”

In order to become a part of the coalition, public institutions must provide low-cost education to in-state students, while private ones must commit to meeting 100 percent of the demonstrated need of domestic students.

“Boston College is eligible for membership in the Coalition,” Kristine E. Dillon, president of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and member of the Board of Directors of the coalition said in an email. “Officials [from BC] have been determining if the college can participate

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There will be a multifaith celebration of Thanksgiving on Thursday at noon in the Heights Room in Corcoran Commons. The event is hosted in partnership with area food pantries to assist those in need during the holiday season. Canned food donations will be collected at the celebration.

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Kevin Swindon of the FBI will speak at the inaugural event for the newest degree offered in the Woods College of Advancing Studies, an M.S. in Cybersecurity and Governance. The talk, hosted by Weil, Gotshal and Manges, LLP, will be on Thursday at 6 p.m. at their law offices in Boston.

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Join M. Brinton Lykes, associate director of the CHRIJ, for the talk “Critically Engaging White Privilege Towards Institutional Change,” the third installment of the Center’s “Conversations on ‘Race’ and Racism” series.

The talk will be on Friday at 11:30 a.m. in Campion Hall, Room 139.

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Laurence is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

“Well before Friday’s attacks, Germany and Sweden froze their intake of refugees in the name of public order and to limit domestic political backlash,” he wrote.

“Now they must weigh carefully the long-term effects of this abrupt influx.”

In the article, he pointed out that Europe needs immigrants to sustain demographics. He wrote that Islamic radicalization is not exclusive to recent migrants, and that both a long-range view and a closer look at those who migrate to Syria are needed. Over 6,000 citizens and long-term residents of Europe have moved to Syria, he said, and French recruits make up the largest part of the Islamic State’s foreign members. There needs to be more scrutiny around the comings and goings of European citizens, he said.

“If refugees are granted permanent status and eventually exercise their right to family reunification, that would vastly increase the more than 1 million expected to arrive this year,” Laurence wrote. “This could quickly destabilize nascent Muslim institutions in Germany and other countries, which have crafted coalitions among competing Islamic organizations. European countries will thus also need to distinguish between temporary asylum and permanent migration policies, and consider their impact upon Islam as an organized religion and their Muslim communities more generally.”

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In The Washington Post, Kelly Rossetto, a communications professor at Boston College who studies the intersection of grief and social media, commented about the pressure of Facebook in times of grief.

Most recently, Rossetto’s work has focused on relational coping and resilience during military deployment. “Relational Coping During Deployment: Managing Communication and Connection in Relationships” was recently published in Personal Relationships.

The article focuses on misplaced solidarity on social media as well as “comparing levels of outrage to tragic events,” which, as author Jessica Contrera points out, is nothing particularly new.

Rossetto pointed out the public displays of grief on Facebook walls and feeds after someone passes away. The more of these posts there are, Rossetto said in the article, the more pressure there is to post yourself.

“Watching the waves of everyone else grieving can make you feel guilty,” Rossetto said in The Washing ton Post. “If you’re not changing your profile picture, if you’re not posting a message—you start to question your own grief response.”

In the Yawkey Athletic Center on Nov. 17, Margaret Grey declared that the innovations she has developed with her colleagues in the nursing industry over the past 10 years have the potential to truly transform population health.

As a part of the 11th Pinnacle Lecture Series, sponsored by the Connell School of Nursing, Grey was invited to speak to students, faculty, and the public about her discoveries in the self-management of chronic conditions.

Grey, the ninth dean of the Yale School of Nursing and an Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing at the university, opened by explaining that she is currently on sabbatical. After holding positions at both the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, she began working at Yale in 1993 and became dean in 2005.

After providing some insight into her more recent career, Grey began to talk about how self-management has evolved over time, and what that means for clinical practice, research, and the larger issue of the population’s health.

“Self management is a cluster of daily behaviors that individuals perform to manage a chronic condition,” she said.

She went on to explain that, when working with children and families who are dealing with a chronic illness, nurses should come up with self-management constructs in which the patient is in control. Thus, she acknowledged the many benefits of a revised self- and family-management

framework. In this new approach, there is an additional focus on the facilitators and barriers that come into play as an individual is making his or her daily decisions. These factors can stem from the patient’s lifestyle, health status, resources, environment, or health care system.

“So we all know that knowledge is fundamental to behavior change, but it’s not sufficient,” Grey said.

She discussed how an individual might know exactly how to take care of himself, but that these other barriers can impact whether he follows through with the necessary actions or not. She used a personal example to help the audience better understand the dynamic.

Like many people, Grey’s weight has fluctuated innumerable times over the course of her life. This may not seem to make sense, as she works with individuals who have Type 1 diabetes, and knows well what she needs to do to manage her weight. There are other factors in life, however, that crop up and prevent her from taking the needed steps to maintaining a constant, desireable weight.

After recognizing these facilitators and barriers, Grey explained the process of self-management itself, and the call to pay attention to an individual’s illness needs, activating resources, and adjusting to the new lifestyle. One of the most important and difficult, parts of this step is for a person to find meaning in their serious condition.

“How can you use this experience to be even better than you were before?” she asked. “That’s making meaning.”

The lecture hall Stokes 195S was standing-room only on Tuesday night as Rev. Pierre de Charentenay, S.J., offered his analysis of this past weekend’s terrorist attacks in Paris and the state of security in Europe— emphasizing the importance of deep thought and emotional self-examination in the wake of violent events. De Charentenay, the Gasson chair in residence in the political science department for the 2015-16 academic year, spoke as part of “Paris: After the Attacks,” a lecture hosted by the Jesuit Institute.

“This is an opportunity for us to reflect on the Paris attacks,” De Charentenay said. “We practice days of emotion and days of prayer because these are ways to prevent events like this from happening again.”

Rev. James Keenan, S.J., director of the Jesuit Institute, praised De Charentenay’s work during his tenure as the Gasson chair. The Gasson chair is Boston College’s oldest endowed professorship, an appointment the University created over 40 years ago and one that has a history for recruiting renowned Jesuit faculty.

De Charentenay completed his

doctorate in political science in Paris before serving as editor of Etudes, a Jesuit review of contemporary culture, from 2004 to 2012.

On the evening of Friday, Nov. 13, a group of eight assailants committed a series of coordinated attacks throughout the city of Paris. There were three suicide bombings outside of the French national soccer team,’s stadium the Stade de France, in addition to mass shootings and a bombing outside of a cafe. The deadliest attack came at Le Bataclan concert hall, where gunmen took concert attendees hostage, conducted a shooting spree, and later detonated explosives. The death toll for the attack has risen to 129, with 99 in critical condition and 352 injured, according to The New York Times.

Just hours after the attacks ended, ISIS claimed responsibility for the carnage.

“Paris has been at the top of the terrorist attack list of ISIS—France has actively attacked Syria, and is one of the only countries currently attacking the spread of ISIS in Northern Africa,” De Charentenay said. “However, this type of attack is new in Europe. The coordination of several groups of people shows a high level of planning and use of several methods of covert communication.”

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CSON brought the nursing dean at Yale to speak on campus this Monday Grey then transitioned to describing how these methods of self-management relate to her own research she has conducted with children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The study that she discussed most thoroughly was a randomized trial that determined the effects of coping skills training intervention compared to general diabetes education. With this study, Grey came to the conclusion that group-based interventions may be beneficial for adolescents.

The problem she found with the type of coping skills training they conducted was that it was done in small groups, and therefore was not available on a large scale. In order to make such education more effective for adolescents, she decided they would need to create a medium that would be flexible enough for busy teenagers to utilize it when their varying schedules would allow it. This led to the development of TeenCope—the Internet-based coping skills training program.

“We developed this in a very patient-centered way,” Grey said.

With the help of her colleagues, she asked adolescents navigating their lives with diabetes what they see as attractive in a website. Essentially,

they called for characters they could relate to, and more interactive features, rather than daunting, lengthy paragraphs for them to read.

Grey explained that with this project and all of her work, she has learned the importance of engaging people. In conclusion, she emphasized that nurses need to help patients focus on their illness needs, as well as figuring out how to live with a chronic illness.

After she finished her prepared lecture, Grey answered several questions from members of the audience.

These included inquiries about the roles of school nurses in such studies, as individuals in attendance had personal connections to that specific career. Some of these women took the opportunity to share their experiences, insights, and questions on the matter. This ultimately led to Grey’s acknowledgment of the struggle to find a balance.

Grey asserted that the immense difficulty of finding and maintaining this equilibrium is just as hard for the parents of patients as it is for the children themselves.

“It’s a terrible responsibility,” Grey said. “We need to be sympathetic to parents because it’s not easy.”

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1:05 p.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a student in Gasson Hall.

1:52 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a well-being check on a student in Ignacio Hall.

3:57 p.m. - A report was filed regading damage to property by graffiti/tag in Stokes Hall.

7:55 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an assist to another deparment on Commonwealth Ave.

Tuesday, Nov. 17

8:28 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a vehicle stop on Campanella Way.

11:10 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person off

The recent attack stands in stark contrast to the Charlie Hebdo shootings that occurred in Paris in January. The shooters targeted specific individuals, while the targets in the recent attack were random.

“The public reaction to Charlie Hebdo was two to three days after the shooting, and when people reacted, the focus was on freedom of speech,” De Charentenay said. “This time was different. This time, the streets were empty the next day—a sense of longing, of fear, and of uncertainty of the future was present in Paris.”

Many ISIS affiliated groups have been thwarted in various areas of the Middle East. While they have been stopped elsewhere, however, ISIS is quickly turning to an international style of destruction, similar to the approach of Al Qaeda.

“This marks a change in force of ISIS—mass terrorism,” De Charentenay said. “We should expect in the future similar styles of attack, with fighters targeting anonymous, ‘soft targets.’”

De Charentenay took care to define how people should interpret the ISIS conflict, denouncing rush judgment of Islam.

“This is not a war with Muslims—all Muslims in Europe have denounced this attack,” De Charen-

tenay said.

He also clarified that this is not a clash of civilizations, nor is it a war.

“War is a conflict between two identified and visible enemies,” de Charentenay said. There is a definitive start and stop to the conflict.

With terrorism, the enemy is invisible: it can strike anyone, anywhere, anytime.”

He offered words of hope and encouragement to those in fear, as well as support for those seeking refuge from violence in the Middle East, particularly within the Syrian refugee crisis—a crisis that represents, De Charentenay said, a failure of the international political community for years.

“It would be too easy to call security on the refugees—they are paying for a war they never wanted—a war the international community continues to struggle to solve,” De Charentenay said.

As to how nations can continue to fight terrorism, De Charentenay believes that individuals can prevent others from being recruited into dangerous ideology.

“Terrorism is created by people, not government,” De Charentenay said. “These people are freely entering—we need to stop people from entering that deadly circle.”

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During the sit-in, Laast and Kale called up volunteers to speak about their experiences with racial discrimination at BC. Giancarlo Sanchez, MCAS ’16, spoke about how he is still afraid to speak in class and attend office hours because he said he does not always feel comfortable with his professors.

“There is a lot of ignorance on this campus and the reason why is because [students] are not being educated, and they are not being educated by people that know the other side of the story,” Sanchez said.

Kyle Katamba, MCAS ’19, then spoke about his experiences discussing race in class. He said that racial topics are uncomfortable because students look to him to carry the discussion as a student of color.

ALC hopes that, through its efforts to create awareness among students, the University will take the initiative to employ more AHANA faculty, create positions

of leadership for current AHANA administrators, and expand the curriculum to include a greater diversity of writers and histories.

“We tend to talk about diversity within our student body, but we don’t ever really look towards our faculty, administration, and staff,” Lisa Edouard, director of policy for ALC and LSOE ’16, said. “That was our intent: to get people to start thinking, ‘Have you ever had a professor that was not white, or have you ever taken a class because you wanted to have a professor that looked like you if you are an AHANA student?’”

Earlier in the week, members of ALC hung up posters around campus with statistics about the number of AHANA faculty members at BC and quotes from students, faculty, and administrators about their experiences at BC. ALC held a series of three-student focus groups to discuss the issues and solutions that are being presented to the administration.

Laast also created a Facebook campaign called “#TakeNoteBC,” for students to share personal stories of marginalization, discrimina-

tion, and racism on campus. She hopes that students will document their stories with the hashtag #TakeNoteBC to build grassroot momentum to address the issues.

Edouard sent out a letter on Monday to students, faculty, administration, and alumni with information about the campaign and a letter to sign to show support for the new initiatives. As of Tuesday night, the letter had almost 200 signatures.

Currently, 14 percent of faculty at BC identify as AHANA and there are no AHANA vice presidents in the administration. There are 117 AHANA faculty and 700 Caucasian faculty members, the letter said. While there are eight Caucasian students to every Caucasian faculty member, it said there are 28 AHANA students to every AHANA faculty member.

“Essentially the consensus when you research is that a majority of [AHANA faculty] feel over-burdened because they are not only representing themselves, but are representing those who come after them,” Edouard said. “They are not only teachers and researchers, but

they are also mentors for a lot of students on campus. They kind of feel obligated to do it because there is this idea of ‘who else would do it?’”

Associate professor of history Martin Summers agrees with Edouard’s statement that AHANA faculty are spread too thin. Summers believes that this is also due to the professional responsibilities that AHANA faculty have, such as sitting in on panels and serving as representatives for discussions on diversity.

“Boston College has more resources than public universities do,” Summers said. “There shouldn’t be an issue of not being able to afford or expand the faculty in order to diversify it.”

ALC hopes to create a new position for the University—vice president of diversity and inclusion—and a Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for AHANA scholars as part of their initiative to diversify campus.

Edouard said that one reason BC has not made great strides in attaining more AHANA faculty and administrators is because of the University’s location in Boston.

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Students and faculty processed on Linden Lane and sat in Gasson.

“People from backgrounds like my own probably don’t want to come and teach in Boston—it’s not a very friendly city to be in,” Edouard said. “If people do want to come here, there are other universities that seem more attractive.”

In recent months, other schools around the country, including Brown University and Yale University, have created action plans to increase the number of AHANA

faculty members on campus.

Brown has pledged to double the number of AHANA faculty on campus within the next 10 years, while Yale has allocated $50 million to diversifying the faculty and administrators.

“We are benchmarking against other schools, but what we have noticed is other schools have taken steps to try to remedy the situation,” Edouard said.

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To promote their petition, the group sent the link to friends and posted it on their Facebook pages.

“The bottom line is that it should be equal,” Keller said. “You shouldn’t value anybody over another, especially when there is legislation that you cannot value men’s sports over women’s.”

The most surprising part, Keller said, was the fact that people who they did not know were commenting on the petition, talking about the importance of this movement.

The group spoke to a member of the women’s hockey team who thought that if the team was given a better game time and their games were worth more points, then more students would attend the games.

For the group, it is the principle of the Gold Pass that bothers them the most.

“It’s not like the Gold Pass is maliciously doing this to be unequal,” Keller said. “But it’s perpetuating and adapting to the inequality norm.”

In response to this criticism, Jamie DiLoreto, associate athletics director in charge of Marketing and Fan Development, has expressed a willingness to speak with this group of students and talk about their ideas for how to improve the Gold Pass, BC’s relatively new ticketing system in only its third year of existence.

“If it means the end result is getting more students to support our games, that is why the Gold Pass was created,” DiLoreto said Wednesday afternoon.

DiLoreto clarified that the discrepancy between the total amount of points is structured around ticketed and non-ticketed events. BC

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During the Dot-Com Boom of the late ’90s, Cronin introduced a course in E-Commerce to BC. With a smile, she’ll recall how many of her colleagues, at the time, viewed Internet business as a fad. For the champions of social entrepreneurship at BC, this isn’t going away either.

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eaving Dschang, Cameroon, meant leaving family. It meant adequate treatment for his mother, who suffered a stroke. And ostensibly, it meant a different life for Loic Assobmo, founder of the Global Enterprise for Medical Advancement (GEMA) and BC ’15. Assobmo knew entrepreneurship mattered, and coming to BC as a biology major, he knew that he wanted to do something for health care in Africa.

He just didn’t know what or how.

Assobmo, who went on to win the BC Venture Competition Seed in April 2014, found a scarcity of resources for upstarts in the Morrissey College. He felt his classes didn’t provide the background he needed to put his learning to practice, and the prevailing view among his peers was that business-oriented clubs were more internal offerings for Carroll School students. “There’s a stigma that entrepreneurship is supposed to be a CSOM thing,” he said.

He credits the success of his company—which focuses on mobile technology for health care in Africa—to his experience with TechTrek Ghana, a course offered through the Carroll School and led by professors John Gallaugher and Betty Bagnani.

“I can’t even put into words how profound that experience was to me, but literally TechTrek Ghana was the most valuable experience I had at BC,” he said.

The course inspired Assobmo to join the BCVC Seed competition, through which he won the initial funding he needed for GEMA. From there, he said Gallaugher, Bagnani, and Professor Laura Foote—who leads BCVC Seed and also teaches

a course on social entrepreneurship—were instrumental in helping to get his concept off the ground. He also was supported by the Soaring Startup Circle for BC alum, which was founded by Tom Coburn, CEO of marketing startup Jebbit.

Assobmo still sees room for BC to grow in terms of social entrepreneurship and, more broadly, innovation.

Schools like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he notes, have conferences for entrepreneurship, and looking to the future, Assobmo said he hopes BC could host something similar.

He also sees a gender divide when it comes to interest in startups, and believes this is partially due to a disproportionate number of male faculty teaching in entrepreneurial fields and serving as role models for students interested in founding businesses.

BC was awarded the Ashoka Changemaker award in 2013 for its progress in social innovation and entrepreneurship. In the time since, the Carroll School has launched the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship and also founded a co-concentration in entrepreneurship.

Foote, who in her research looks at the offerings in social entrepreneurship at other universities, considers the offerings at BC to be in an earlier stage of development. The difference between traditional service work and social entrepreneurship, Foote said, is that the latter involves shaping solutions. Foote believes BC’s service culture provides an important background for students.

“One of the things you need to have as a social entrepreneur is you need to have empathy, and you need to have an understanding of the need in the community,” she said.

Foote argues that, when it comes to social enterprise, you have to be prepared to do spreadsheets—to look at how many people you can help, possible revenue streams, and how that compares with costs.

In the context of other Ashoka Changemaker campuses, Foote’s research found that BC is lagging in that it doesn’t have a dedicated

clearinghouse or point person for social enterprise projects yet. It also does not offer the interdisciplinary majors in social entrepreneurship you could find at universities like Northeastern.

“I have done a lot of investigation of what other universities are doing in this field, and there’s a ton more BC could do,” she said. “We’re starting.”

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aria Venuto, vice president for social entrepreneurship club Enactus and MCAS ’17, wanted to make coffee cups out of coffee grounds.

With Foote’s guidance, she met up with students from the Olin College of Engineering in Needham, and through Enactus, prepared to change the world of coffee waste.

“It ended up not working out—the FDA and everything,” Venuto said.

“But then we went and presented this project in front of a bunch of entrepreneurs and business owners.”

Venuto stayed with the organization, and is now helping shaping its presence at BC. She said that when she first joined, it was mostly students from the Carroll School. That demographic has shifted slightly, but she still finds recruiting to be hard, and believes opportunities like Enactus can be daunting for students in the Morrissey College.

“I think that I fought my way into it,” she said. “I was really persistent about it, because I know it was what I wanted to do.”

Venuto, who is a communication major, joined Meet @ Shea for its inaugural session. She said she was excited to see this kind of meeting at BC—and hadn’t given up on the coffee grounds yet.

“It’s always in the back of my head,” she said. “And I know now I have some contact who would be willing to work with me, but I don’t have the time or expense to do it by myself.”

At the meeting’s end, the group revisited the tennis ball exercise. They discovered the closer they got, the quicker it went. Their first time was 11 seconds, and their last 0.65.

Athletics wants to reward fans who attend the University’s four ticketed sporting events—football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and men’s ice hockey—while providing incentives to attend the non-ticketed events. Each of these four sports receives points for all of their games which occur during the Academic Year.

After that, each non-ticketed event (this semester, that included men’s soccer, women’s soccer, women’s ice hockey, field hockey, and volleyball) worked with the BC Athletics External Operations Department to deem five to seven games per sport as worthy of point allocation. According

to DiLoreto, a big reason not every game a non-ticketed sport plays centers on the amount of staff Athletics has. The department, however, has expressed an interest to increase the marketing of the non-ticketed sports, especially women’s hockey, given the team’s immense success over the last two years.

Prior to implementation of the Gold Pass, DiLoreto noted that there was no incentive for students to attend non-ticketed events outside of personal interest or convenience.

With the Gold Pass, students who were not interested now have a reason to accumulate points for sports that were not previously given

incentives.

Nevertheless, the onus lies on the students to actually go to those games. On average, 4,519 fans attend a BC men’s hockey game, based on the six games the Eagles have played this season. Meanwhile, the average attendance of BC women’s ice hockey games this season has been 355 fans in nine games, and much of that is based on estimation given the fact that there is no exact swipe-in system at Conte Forum for those events.

“That’s where we want to see results,” DiLoreto said. “If we do offer those incentives, we want to ensure that we’re getting the support and attendance for it.”

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THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, November 19, 2015

LY\i `ekif[lZ\j ÊJX]\kpE\kË `e 9fjkfe kf j\k i`[\ij Xk \Xj\ 9P C8LI8 >8CC@>8E For The Heights Busy Bostonians have a new way to ensure their safety when travelling around the city via the ubiquitous Uber cars. The ride-hailing service’s new feature, dubbed, “SafetyNet,” was released last week and enables riders to share their estimated time of arrival (ETA) with the simple click of a button.

The update comes at a timely manner, as Uber drivers have recently been accused or convicted of sexual assaults in the area, the company has been sued for passenger negligence, and multiple bills in the Massachusetts legislature regarding ride-hailing regulation have been introduced, according to Boston. com.

Boston is one of three cities piloting the new feature in the United States. It will be implemented everywhere by the end of the month, Uber Boston Spokesperson Carlie Waibel said. According to the company, SafetyNet lets riders preselect up to five contacts to receive information about their trip, including the name and vehicle of the driver and their location on a map that indicates where

the driver is bringing the customer.

The company explained that SafetyNet is designed to enhance safety, which it considers to be the main priority of the trip for both riders and drivers. “Uber believes that safe and reliable transportation should be reliable to everyone,” its website reads. The company said it is confident that SafetyNet will help Uber reach this goal.

Uber argues that transparency is one important way that the company’s technology improves safety in transportation, and SafetyNet is taking the anonymity out of the trip by keeping driverpartners, riders, and the rider’s loved ones informed about whom the rider is with at all times, according to Uber.

Waibel added that the feature makes drivers more accountable, since friends and family outside the car are informed of their loved one’s whereabouts.

Waibel explained how the process of sharing an ETA was previously much more difficult on the Uber app, and that SafetyNet makes the process very easy.

“It’s a neat feature that makes the ‘Share My ETA’ feature a one-step process, so riders can quickly and easily share their ETA with contacts that the

choose from their phone,” she said. “You just create the list and then share it with whomever you want.”

Waibel said that Uber is always looking to improve its overall experience and that, as far as she can tell, Uber users have praised SafetyNet so far. Uber is incredibly popular in the Boston area and used by many young people, including Boston College students, very frequently.

Haydn White, MCAS ’18, first heard about SafetyNet when she received a text message from Uber, indicating her roommate’s ETA, which enabled her to see where she was and when she would arrive back at BC. White agrees that this is a great addition to the app, and although she has always felt safe in an Uber and has never had a problem with the company, she would most likely use the feature.

“I wasn’t very aware about what this was until I got a text from Uber sharing my roommates ETA,” she said. “I think it is a good idea for Uber, and I think it will provide more safety within the company.”

Although White has never felt that her safety has been compromised while

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Boston is one of the first cities to have access to a new safety feature from the company. travelling with Uber, she always makes sure to double-check with the driver to ensure that she is getting in the right car.

Additionally, her parents require that she keep them informed about her driver, and make sure that she notifies them when she arrives at her destination.

“One of the things my parents make me do is have me send them a screenshot of the Uber ETA and Map page so they

know who the driver is and what the car looks like,” she said. “Sometimes they make me take a picture of the driver as well.”

White thinks that she will start using the SafetyNet feature, especially because it will help put her parents at ease, and give her friends up-to-date information on when she is going to arrive at her destination.

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ARCHER PARQUETTE An entire year of writing about the city of Boston and cities as a larger concept has led me to the conclusion that I don’t want to live in the city.

That was how I ended my penultimate column. Not much has changed this past week. I heard the collective gasp from my multitudes of devoted readers. There was much moaning, wailing, and garment-tearing as they realized that I had forsaken my facade of city-loving cheerfulness.

But if there’s one thing I always do in these columns, it’s tell the total and completely unadulterated truth, which is that I don’t like cities very much and I don’t want to spend an extended period of time living in one.

After reaching my ear-poppingly unprecedented conclusion, I spent this past week thinking about how one goes about writing a final column.

Without an exceptional amount

of material I decided I should attend a goodbye dinner thrown by some of my more devoted fans and protegees.

Sitting in the Boston restaurant banquet hall, staring with intense hatred at a wall painting of a beach, I was approached by an ardent fan who asked me to involve myself with the inanity of the party.

“Well, golly gee willickers” I said, plastering a gigantic and terrifying smile across my face. “I guess I can say a word or four.”

I walked to the front of the restaurant, stepped onto a small podium, and looked out at the people who were all expecting me to say something original, inspiring, and insightful. I took a deep and slow breath through my nose, causing a high-pitched whistling sound to echo across the room.

“Boston is a city,” I said.

The room was dead silent.

“A city you love!” someone in the back prompted.

“Meh,” I said, shrugging. “I’d rather be in Wisconsin.”

Catcalls and angry shouts came from the crowd.

Filled with the fury of 1,000 Chihuahuas, I began grabbing glasses and bottles from every table and

throwing them against the wall. Glass shattered and people screamed. I leapt around like a creepy little leprechaun, hurling various shatterable things against hard surfaces until I grew exhausted and was faced with a room full of wide-eyed and painfully disillusioned fans.

With a huge heaving breath, I exited out of the back door of the restaurant into a dank, smelly alley where I sat down on an overturned milk carton and rested my chin in my hand.

Over the past year I’ve written 17 columns, including this one. Have I changed lives? Have I made the world a better place? Have I single-handedly saved the print journalism industry?

Have I established a place for myself in the hallowed halls of Boston lore?

Yes. Yes, I have done all of those things and more.

But I refuse to say, even one more time, that you should appreciate the city. This is because, it seems to me, that after saying it so many times it has had the exact opposite effect on me. Perhaps prolonged exposure always breeds contempt. I can’t pretend to be very enthusiastic about city-life anymore.

As someone under the age of 30, it

sometimes seems like I’m required to crave the cultural adrenaline rush of a city, to bask in the mass exposure to humanity while relentlessly pursuing success like a wolfhound to a bloody steak.

This past year of semi-full immersion into city life and fast-paced pursuit of stimulation has made me realize that this lifestyle is stupid and I don’t like it. The city-life is like having your eardrums rubbed down with sandpaper while someone pokes you repeatedly in the eye. In the end it’s a painful, ultimately pointless emptiness.

Now that I understand this, chances are looking higher and higher that I’m going to end up working in a taxidermy shop in the deep recesses of northern Wisconsin. But then, I’ll still be writing down my thoughts and observations, even if it’s just in a small fur-covered journal.

These columns have helped me make it through these past semesters relatively unscathed.

If you’ve been reading these longwinded manifestos of nothingness, I’d like to say thank you. You’re one step closer to being a good person. I don’t have any final-column-look-at-howmuch-I’ve-grown-condescending-

advice for younger students. I’m not going to restate a painfully obvious life lesson that’s been said millions of times by better people than me.

To end the year, all I can do is write about the city, about spending time by yourself, and about very, very bizarre idiocy.

These thoughts and more were running through my head as I sat outside the restaurant in the freezing cold November air of the dark night.

It was the end of an era: The Year When I Was a Metro Columnist.

Looking up I saw a ghostly figure standing at the opposite end of the alley. I recognized the silhouette immediately and a small, genuine smile broke out across my face. Raising my hand, I waved once to the man at the end of the alley.

“I’ll never forget you Great-Uncle Jerry,” I said.

He nodded once, firmly, and then saluted.

“You’re a useless idiot, Henry,” he said, gently, before disappearing.

And then I was alone again.

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SARAH MOORE I stood precariously perched on the stone ledge that juts out from the first, much-needed break in the Million Dollar Stairs. The mid-November wind whipped my hair across my eyes and stung my face, but I smiled as big as ever and motioned toward the hazy distance behind me.

It was the last stop of the last tour I would give this semester for Student Admissions, and I had the group of 15 or so eager students and parents appropriately positioned to look out across Lower Campus and toward the city. It is where they told me to end every tour, with a quick speech about how we are just 5 short miles outside of Boston, and that from here you can always see the top of the Prudential Center peeking out from behind the New England fall foliage.

Every week I spend countless hours and hundreds of words trying to convince people that I know what I am talking about when it comes to this city. I ignore the fact that most of my metropolitan adventures are guided by Snapchat filters and the promise of a sale on Newbury St. I lead them to believe that the 75 columns and articles I have written about Boston grant me some actual expertise when it comes to this place. I persuade them that just because I now live within walking distance of a T

stop—and I am not afraid to talk about it—I am justified in claiming some exaggerated tie to this city that I still don’t know if I am allowed to call home.

After a year of letting this facade draw on, of assuring myself that I know what I am doing, that I am a happy, Ttaking Bostonian without a care in the world, I am calling myself out.

I sat down to write this column—my last, the culmination of all of this expertise and knowledge that I am supposed to have—and I had nothing. I needed to convince myself that I was good at this, that the past year hadn’t been a convenient series of miracles that allowed me to earn my place on the masthead.

I needed inspiration—so in the most cliched way, I took to the streets.

I am not a runner, no matter how much I may try to convince my mom and the Chestnut Hill LuLulemon employees that I might be. Regardless, I spend so much effort leading people to believe that my proximity to the city has had such a profoundly beneficial impact on my life, it seemed the most appropriate means for this journey.

I slipped on my shoes, tied up my hair in a scrunchie, and was off on some grandiose gesture to make up for the year of ambitious claims I had upheld until that morning.

As I sit here, typing in the library— with my legs still in pain three days after my dramatic attempt to pick up the pieces and find my place in this city—I’ll be the first to tell you that my tie to Boston isn’t as easy as I made it appear, but I should have known that a connection can’t be simply defined by Bean Boots and cannolis.

Somehow, Commonwealth Ave. is one perpetual hill that leaves you gasping for air not even 1 mile in. Once you come to Packard’s Corner and finally find level ground, the appearance of the ever-present Citgo sign tricks you into believing that you are much closer to the city than you actually are. Obstacles in the form of everything from cracked sidewalks to Patagonia-clad college students block every other stride. Cars constantly zoom by uncomfortably close, threatening your existence with every passing Massachusetts license plate.

It took me one year and 4 miles to realize that being close to Boston can be hard, lonely, and not nearly as straightforward as I had made it seem. It also took this artificial need for inspiration for me to realize that, as oversimplified as my claims may have been over the past year, I will always have a stake in this city.

For every heavy stride that Boston forced me through on my Saturday run, it also scattered little hints of clarity and connection along my path. The entirety of my run paralleled the B-Line, reminding me of cold treks home from the Beanpots won and lost, and countless columns of issues past. I ran past Otto and memories of vegan pizzas and good conversations. I nearly collided with a street sign at Kenmore as I gazed toward the Green Monster and longed for the familiarity of a few innings at Fenway.

Thoughts of Wednesdays spent at MIT frats and in front of computer screens flashed through my mind as I stopped to take a breath before I reached Back Bay. By the time the foot of the Prudential Center was in sight, I had a better vision

of the places and people that make this city mine. Despite my oversimplification of my reliance on this city, my claims weren’t completely empty. Over the past few years, I might have actually developed some of the expertise I had been questioning that morning. I may not have the map of the T memorized, but I know that each stop will bring to mind a memory.

After 45 terrible minutes of running past street corners that I have done everything from shop to cry on, I saw that no matter how close or far I might be from Boston, it will always be integral to my experience here, for the good and the bad. Despite how distant I may let

it seem, I will never be able to separate from this city.

This Tuesday I finished my last tour the way I was told to, with a wobbly step up on the ledge and a hand outstretched toward Boston. With weak legs, I told the questioning eyes that on better days the skyline would be in sight. It was a cloudy and miserable Tuesday afternoon and I recognized how removed they might feel. They would just have to trust me.

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One of the city’s famous landmarks, the Citgo sign, guided the running path into Boston.

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, November 19, 2015

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POINT COUNTERPOINT

SHOULD PARKING APPS BE ALLOWED IN BOSTON? It’s not easy to find a parking spot in many major American cities—especially Boston. Many Bostonians will drive around endlessly trying to find parking spots on the street. If you’re making your way into the city for a Red Sox game or the Boston Marathon, you know that it is nearly impossible to find a place to legally park your car for a few hours.

In the past few years, a handful of apps have emerged to help with this problem. Haystack was the most notable app that emerged in Boston, but even it failed to gain traction, and was eventually banned due to legal complications. Many cities are currently debating whether to permit these types of apps, acknowledging the possible benefits to consumers as well as any ethical consequences. We, at The Heights asked: Should these parking apps be allowed in Boston?

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Parking in urban areas has long been a stressful and inefficient process. I remember being about 8 years old and going with my mother into Manhattan for work. Parking is always contentious, but luckily my mom found someone who was about to pull out of her spot, so she pulled up behind her to wait and not block traffic. The other car left, and my mom begun to pull into the spot when a large SUV pulled up next to us. The man inside rolled down the window and started yelling at my mother, saying he was going to take the spot and she had to move. My mother, steely-eyed, looked at him and asked how he would feel if someone did this to his mother or sister and laid the guilt on so hard that I could feel it second-handedly from the back seat. Needless to say, he drove away.

The truth is that parking in urban areas is not an effective system. One way to look at the issue is through the lens of opportunity cost. A study was conducted in a 15-block area on Manhattan by a public group, Transportation Alternatives, which

found that drivers in this area drove 366,000 miles a year just looking for parking. They also found that 28-45 percent of traffic in some areas is created by people searching for parking.

Assuming that people circling were driving 20 miles per hour on average, that’s 18,300 hours spent simply searching for parking.

This is evidence of something beyond a daily inconvenience—this is an efficiency drain. Time that could be spent on economic productivity is spent circling for spots in a vehicle that actively harms the environment while wasting fuel that costs money and resources.

There is simply no upside.

Industry has attempted to capitalize on this system for decades. Private parking garages and lots that charge fees are one option to generate revenues. Take parking garages and lots in Boston—parking for just an hour can cost upward of $20. This is an industry taking advantage of the scarcity of parking in urban areas. Garage companies use private property to offer this service. A newer parking facilitation concept that has been on the rise with the popularity of mobile devices are parking apps—programs that allow drivers to seek out available spots based on data inputted by a network of users and developers.

One thing we must consider here is creative destruction. This is the idea that when there is opportunity to restructure a system that would create a more efficient operation, it should be done at the expense of the old way. We saw it with Netflix replacing Blockbuster. We are seeing it with Uber fighting the taxi industry. It is happening all the time, and it is vital to understand that this is how progress is made. Reviews for the apps have not been great, but most users attribute their negative experiences to a lack of people who use these apps.

As the popularity of these applications grows, so will their utility.

More people who understand the way they work will increase the client base. One thing to think about is the standardization of systems with this premise. Perhaps instead of there being a fee for the spots, the apps could be supported by advertising revenue and government commissions, allowing companies to develop these systems within legal parameters.

It is a fine line. There certainly needs to be a reform on the current public parking system. But if implemented correctly, there could be incredible change in quality of life for car owners in cities and commuters.

=fi K_\ ?\`^_kj When I was little, my mom told me I had to share my Barbies with my younger brothers. After much confusion and pain, I finally mastered the technique, “sharing” not only the Barbies but also the Ken dolls. Just when I thought I had mastered this whole sharing thing, I started realizing that I had to share everything—even my food. It took a while, but I eventually became a competent sharer, and today I am proud to say that I can even share the ice cream that I get all too regularly, with only mild internal pain.

Over the past few years, developments in the hectic world of parking in downtown Boston have revealed that—much like me during younger years—many others struggle with the complex concept of sharing. But sharing ice cream and sharing public spaces are two very different issues, especially when you live in a city like Boston.

In July 2014, Haystack, an app developed

by Baltimore-based entrepreneurs, launched in Boston. In theory, Haystack promised to revolutionize city parking by providing parked cars with a way to alert other drivers when they were about to vacate their spot. These drivers, who could be desperately hunting for a spot in packed areas like the North End or Cambridge, could then bid on the advertised parking spot, and part of the resulting profit would go to Haystack, while the rest would go to the car already parked in the spot.

Although this may appear to be an objectively good idea on a day when you need a parking spot in the trendy areas of Boston more than anything else in the world, it actually warps the concept of public property. Parking spots, elusive as they may be, belong to the public. They are equal opportunity, and their usage should be based on whoever is determined and lucky enough to find them, not based upon whoever can pay the most in a bidding war.

If apps like Haystack are permitted to thrive, scouring the city streets in the early hours and snatching up coveted spots could become its own business, allowing people to make their living off public spaces that are maintained by taxpayers’ dollars.

As Curt Woodward points out for BetaBoston, “It’s a bit of social etiquette that a kindergartner would recognize as true: When you’re sharing something with the group, it’s not right to just grab ahold of that thing and start acting like it’s yours.”

Just a month later, in August 2014, The Boston Globe revealed that the City of Boston voted to “prohibit the sale, lease, or reservation of public ways in the city, an ordinance that effectively bans the mobile parking app Haystack from operating in the city. In response,

Haystack said it would suspend operations in Boston until further notice while continuing to work with the city to find an acceptable solution to Boston’s parking woes.”

Even though the City of Boston made its position on operations like Haystack abundantly clear, it has still endeavored to ease Boston’s parking nightmare over the past few months by mimicking the successful dynamic parking approach taken by San Francisco in 2011.

According to a recent Globe article, “Under a prop o sal announced Thursday

by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, [WCAS ’09] the city would b o o s t th e price of select parking meters at peak times near Fenw ay Pa rk and other commercial districts, hoping to free up spaces and ease congestion.”

Though this approach would certainly raise the cost of parking in some areas of Boston, it would hopefully decrease the congestion in city streets by encouraging people to park in other areas of the city, or even take public transportation.

Wa l s h h a s n o t yet announced when these changes might o c c u r, a n d p e r haps Bostonians will change their transportation habits in the meantime. Who knows, maybe a few trips on the T will remind people about the importance of sharing public space.

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The City of Boston has not initiated a comprehensive city-wide master plan in half a century, but now Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, is looking to the residents of Boston to decide what the city should look like by 2030.

Walsh recently launched an initiative that will commemorate the city’s 400th birthday called “Imagine Boston 2030.”

In the 50 years since the General Plan of 1965 was conceived, Boston has exceeded its expectations in terms of industrial and population growth.

In order to effectively harness the incredible powerhouse Boston has become, however, Imagine Boston 2030 executive director Sara Myerson explained that the city’s resources must be preserved wisely, and enhanced equitably.

As a former Goldman Sachs analyst with a masters degree from Harvard in urban planning, Myerson commands the initiative for Imagine Boston 2030 with an articulate, clear vision that resonates in both her voice, and also within the distinct structure in which the initiative is rooted.

When Boston placed its bid for the 2024 Olympics, Myerson worked as the Mayor’s point person through the effort. After the bid collapsed, Myerson’s passion for the city shifted toward a more immediate goal, and translated into leading Imagine Boston 2030.

“Imagine Boston is designed to engage the entire city, and all those who live, work, and play within Boston in a conversation about what we envision for the future, and ultimately establishing a shared vision for the future of the city,” Myerson said. “We are creating a framework to guide our policies going forward to achieve that

goal and vision.”

Unlike previous city initiatives, Imagine Boston 2030 approaches issues on a community and interdepartamental level that truly allows all individuals take action and voice their opinions in themes that range from housing and public health to job opportunities and access to education.

“We are looking to involve the city in ways we’ve never involved it before,” Myerson said. “And we are trying to have conversations which extend beyond just the conversation many of us are used to by making sure we are going to where the people are.”

In order to do so, Imagine Boston 2030 functions across platforms that are both accessible and innovative.

Utilizing digital tools such as social media and texting, as well as street publicity and face-to-face conversations, Myerson hopes to access the entire city in a way that will inspire

neighborhoods to promote sustainable growth. Individuals may submit their recommendations with a few taps in the comfort of their own homes; suggestion boxes will be located in well trafficked areas, such as public libraries and local businesses; staff members will be present at pre-existing meetings that are occurring.

“We don’t want to just grow in general—we want to grow responsibly,” she said.

Taking on a project of such scale and extent, however, is accompanied by obvious challenges.

Myerson hopes to see a push toward connecting the problems of each individual citizen, to the city as a whole.

“We are really trying to learn and understand how people engage with their own neighborhoods or the areas they experience most on a daily basis,” Myerson said. “In doing so, we are able to access ways to encourage people

to collaborate on a city-wide scale.

Moving beyond our own spheres, and into the context of the entire city, has definitely been a challenge.”

Myerson remains inspire d and hopeful for the trajectory of the project as it continues to take root.

With the vision, principles, and goals already underway for spring of 2016, the draft development of the plan is expected to be presented by the winter of 2017.

As this initiative continues forward, however, Myerson stresses the importance of gaining feedback from the public in order to create the largest impact.

“What is most important now is to join the conversation,” Myerson said.

“We are not creating a singular, physical vision for the city, but rather, we are looking at all visions and collaborating with people and between departments to make our united goal a reality.”

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8 Y\kk\i >fc[ GXjj i\hl`i\j nfib n`k_ k_\ 8k_c\k`Z ;\gXikd\ek On Monday night, a group of students released a petition calling for equal distribution of Gold Pass points between men’s and women’s sports.

The petition, made on change.org, was created as project for Women and the Body, a class housed within the Women and Gender Studies program.

By the time of publication, it had 293 signatures, while shares on Facebook included sentiments saying that it was time for equality and that this was long overdue.

It’s worth noting that the athletic department never received any complaints on this issue prior to the release the petition. The Gold Pass point distribution was built around incentives offered to students for attending revenue-generating sports, replacing a previous season-ticketing system. Point consideration for non-ticketed sports was a marketing bonus of the new point system. The athletic department’s decision to weight some sports higher was economically motivated, not because it aims to value some sports over others—three of the four revenue sports just happen to be men’s sports.

Considering more equitable point distributions is certainly a change worth considering, but such change will require conversation with Athletics, and cannot be affected by petition alone.

The Gold Pass is only in its third year. The bottom of each email from Athletics says to reply to them with questions or comments. They are incredibly accessible, and they strongly encourage communication to help the Gold Pass grow as a viable and fair ticketing system.

Jamie DiLoreto, associate athletics

director of Marketing and Fan Ticketing, said that the discrepancy between the total amount of points is that Athletics wants to reward fans who attend the University’s four ticketed sporting events—football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and men’s ice hockey—while providing marketing benefits for the non-revenue generating games.

The challenge Athletics faces in providing these benefits is that the current point system is prone to abuse. While

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Men’s and women’s sports should be treated equitably, and ultimately, this change will only happen when students begin to attend more nonrevenue sporting events. This is partially a question of marketing, but more importantly, a change that fans can bring about through concerted efforts to offer female athletes stronger support. It cannot be achieved through check-ins and Gold Pass points alone.

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Interdisciplinary majors, minors, and co-concentrations offer unique opportunities for students to broaden and deepen their understanding of issues and topics, and the recent development of the co-concentration “Managing for Social Impact” helps to continue articulating this point.

With a pending parallel minor in the Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, “Managing for Social Impact” looks to bring social-justice-minded students into an environment where they can develop enterprises, nonprofits, and business practices to better treat the institutional issues that they encounter in the world.

The co-concentration will, and the minor should, allow students to take classes in the disciplines of sociology, economics, theology, philosophy, environmental studies, earth and environmental studies, and political science in addition to management courses.

So far, the forthcoming co-concentration has gotten large amounts of attention and interest, and there would be similar opportunities for the Morrissey College minor. The minor would help eliminate the stigma that those who pursue degrees outside of the Carroll School of Management cannot be involved in entrepreneurship, and allow for the insulated environment of the Carroll School to become more integrated with other schools on the campus. Connections in a classroom environment where some individuals might have different strengths—that, say, one philosophy and theology student better understands the issue of homelessness, while a co-concentrator might under-

stand the social enterprises in Boston that deal with homelessness—will allow for students to collaborate and create worthwhile results.

Boston College, in the past, has received accolades and recognition for its social enterprise and innovation. In 2013, The Ashoka Changemaker Award was given to BC in recognition of its progress in these areas, with extracurricular programs such as BCVC Seed competition and TechTrek piquing students’ interests.

Now, with the co-concentration and hopefully, the future minor, the re-

The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the

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

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The Medical Humanities Minor, which was instituted last semester, is an excellent example of an interdisciplinary minor that allows for students to be challenged in new and interesting ways. The “Managing for Social Impact” minor and co-concentration can reach students in the same manner. As the trend continues, hopefully more areas of study at BC will include all four of its schools, allowing for a myriad of interactions that contribute to the greater community.

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Showing support on Transgender Day of Remembrance “If you are reading this, it means that I have committed suicide,” wrote Leelah Alcorn, 17, on her Tumblr page before taking her life last December. She was born Joshua Alcorn and was transitioning to female, but struggling emotionally due to depression and her parents’ refusal to accept her gender identity. “The life I would’ve lived isn’t worth living in because I’m transgender,” Leelah wrote in her suicide note. “To put it simply, I feel like a girl trapped in a boy’s body, and I’ve felt that way ever since I was 4.”

Leelah’s case is shockingly common. According to the Trevor Project, about 50 percent of young transgender people ages 10 to 24 have considered suicide, and one in four attempt to take their lives, because of the challenges they face not fitting into a gender-defined society. This year alone nine other transgender teens committed suicide in the US (and these are just the reported cases).

Rather than being perpetrators of violence, as recent local debates over public bathrooms would have you believe, transgender people are, in fact, frequently the targets of violence. Sixty-four percent of transgender individuals have experienced sexual assault in their lifetime. A study reported in the Boston Globe found that transgender children who are rejected by their families are 60 percent more likely to attempt suicide than those who are supported by their parents. Nearly 80 percent of transgender people were harassed at school because of their gender expression. Transgender women of color are 1.6 times more likely to experience physical violence than other members of the LGBT community, as one in 8 are likely to be murdered. In the US, this year, 21 transgender people were reported murdered, with the latest killing occurring in mid-October, according to the International Business Times.

This Thursday, Nov. 19, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual international commemoration day. Transgender Day of Remembrance began in honor of Allston native Rita Hester, an African-American transwoman. On Nov. 28, 1998, Rita’s body was found, having been stabbed over 20 times. Most believe this was a hate crime, evidenced by the lack of theft or forced entry and the cruelty of the assault.

The violence against transgender people is often due to bias against one’s gender identity and expression. Gender identity refers to how an individual identifies oneself in terms of gender, regardless of one’s sex assigned at birth, and gender expression refers to how an

individual demonstrates one’s gender such as through their clothing and language. For example, a transgender woman refers to a woman whose sex assigned at birth is male but identifies as a female.

But gender nonconformity is normal, say many scientists, not a mental disorder. “It’s not a disease. It’s not perverted. It’s just a natural part of the scope of human diversity,” said Jonah Yokoyama, the Transition Care Services Director at the Heartland Trans Wellness Group in Ohio. “Nothing that the parent or anyone did made this child transgender. That is the way they were born and they can’t change who they are.”

Leelah’s last words were, “Fix society. Please. My death needs to mean something.” Violence against marginalized groups are often due to fear of something “different.” Nonetheless, fear should never justify oppression. We could all emulate Pope Francis, who when asked about his views on homosexuality, replied, “Who am I to judge?”

This idea is also reflected in a core Jesuit principle, cura personalis, or caring a person as a whole by respecting one’s unique circumstances. As a cisgender woman (meaning I identify with the gender to which I was born), I can’t fully understand the struggle that transgender people experience every day. But I can empathize with them, respect their dignity as much as mine, and be their ally.

We, as individuals and in community, can work towards creating a safe, welcoming spaces for everyone, where no one feels left out or despised.

Differences in our race, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression should not make us a target of discrimination or violence. Echoing transgender actress Laverne Cox, “It is okay to be different.” We can learn to value difference rather than fear it.

In remembering transgender and gender non-conforming victims of violence and discrimination, let us keep vigil against hatred.

Please join the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC) on Transgender Day of Remembrance, this Thursday, Nov. 19th at 5 p.m. in O’Neill Plaza for a candlelight vigil to commemorate our departed friends, loved ones, and community members.

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A letter on conversation between Salzmann, Perasso, & Aaron The conversation between Karl Salzmann, Anthony Perasso, and Kwesi Aaron seems to epitomize the pitfalls of conversations on race in college campuses and the broader problems with the politicization of the race discussion. Both sides contributed valid points, but they quickly devolved into general partisan sniping thinly veiled by the language of American race relations.

This type of argument is unproductive, and especially unhelpful to the minorities at Boston College. I write to the editor to help clear the air on the original issue, and, more generally, to reposition the place of political correctness in our society today.

Karl correctly pointed out the inappropriately detailed description of Gasson 100 as “ a hall lined by portraits of BC’s 24 white Jesuit presidents.” This description clearly indicates contextual support of Eliminate Boston College Racism, and although many, including myself, see their agenda for BC as constructive, that does not change the political nature of that agenda.

Karl attributes this to a larger problem he sees at BC, a “liberal hegemony” enforcing “orthodox ‘progressivism’” among its students.

Although this conclusion is based on a strongly conservative ideology, it comes from indisputable evidence, and points towards an invaluable lesson in today’s political environment on campus.

The political reductionism today surrounding socially progressive issues does exist, as Karl theorizes, but it is not the result of a carefully colluding group of liberals. In fact, political correctness has always come from the methods of social construction in any society. As a social tool, political correctness functions as a way for societies to continue advancing socially without having to change the social environment of their discussions.

Because students at BC communicate more with the outside world more than at any other point in the University’s history, an inclusive, liberal reductionism naturally occurs. This does not mean

that conservatives have no place in BC, nor does it mean liberals are wrong in their beliefs.

The solution to political reductionism to stop practicing it. The solution is not a knee jerk reaction from conservatives who claim that white Christians are on the defensive at a school that could only be described as white and Christian. Although this line of reasoning constructively criticizes political correctness, it also completely ignores or misunderstands the problems of BC minorities today.

However, the solution cannot be to suppress any viewpoints short of progressive. What is the use of promoting a progressive agenda aimed at inclusion and diversity when it fights both of these in the discussion of race on campus?

The solution is to have a discussion of the issues without striking any point down for the sake of political correctness. The Heights should recognize that implicitly endorsing Eradicate Boston College Racism, although a popular choice, is still a political statement that has a place in the editorials section. Karl Salzmann should not worry about being under personal attack for being Christian at a Jesuit, Catholic institution. And Anthony Perasso and Kwesi Aaron should not mistake the popular political opinions they’re representing as facts.

Even if the opinions in Perasso and Aaron’s article widely perceived as correct, they are still political opinions. They, along with all other popular progressive ideologies our society takes for granted, should be contested and questioned just as much as Karl’s letter to the editor was. Even if this eliminates the crutch of popular opinion that marks conversations on race or the social direction of America, at least it will be a rational discussion.

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Why Boston College has a responsibility to divest I had the chance to be part of something truly special this month.

Two weeks ago, I was at the University of Dayton for their conference entitled “Divest/Invest, Taking Dramatic Steps to Create Lasting Change.” I spend many weekends away from campus doing fossil fuel divestment work, but this conference was different. Never before had I been surrounded by university trustees, executive directors of philanthropic foundations, members of the clergy, renowned journalists and financial dynamos who were working on divestment. The movement was started and is led by college campuses in solidarity with frontline communities—but it was invigorating to see how much it has grown.

Last Spring, BCPD showed up as I attempted to deliver a letter to our president asking for an earnest conversation on divestment.

What’s past is past, but let’s use that moment as a point of comparison. At UDayton, I ate dinner with the university’s provost, president, and trustees. I was invited there as a plenary speaker. “We are so grateful for student activists. We want to support you however we can,” they told me. You can imagine how alien this felt.

UDayton divested from fossil fuels in 2014, and they’ve been working to reinvest their funds into a just and sustainable economy.

Since divesting, their returns have broken even, and donations to the university have tripled. “We got more push back when we changed our school’s logo,” provost Paul Benson joked. Wealth managers explained UDayton’s success by getting into the market details, and in the process unraveled the financial argument against divestment.

A panel on board politics was given by George Hanley, a trustee at UDayton. A trustee himself, he said that the arguments against divestment, especially for a Catholic university, are weak.

He advised “If your trustees refuse divestment by citing fiduciary responsibility, the mythical hypocrisy of divesting while living in a fossil-fuel dominated society, or false desires to remain apolitical, I’d doubt their motives.”

The moral argument for divestment was discussed by people representing Catholic universities and religious orders. Instead of summarizing, I’ll make a request: look at Boston College’s ethical

investment guidelines. Repeat our mission statement to yourself.

Read Laudato Si. Then watch the news. It’s a no-brainer.

UDayton is now using its endowment to answer the cry of the poor that Pope Francis begs us to hear. Divestment is simply the right thing to do, but it takes commitment and freedom from special interests. Speakers encouraged students to be aware of special interests within university leadership. They told us to get to know our trustees. Do it. Google our board. Look up divestment finances. Listen to faith leaders who are divesting. Look to the global movement that has moved upwards of $2.6 trillion out of fossil fuels. There is no such thing as an apolitical endowment. BC and its money do not exist in a vacuum. Not having a conversation is in fact saying something big.

At BC’s post-Laudato Si climate change conference, there was little talk of divestment. There were discussions about “ecological conversion” and an ethical summons to tackle climate change. But almost two months later, I ask you—what has changed? Nothing. It appears that the conference paid lip service to Laudato Si without intending on challenging the systemic issues on and off campus that are perpetuating the climate crisis.

The only official response concerning divestment from BC higher-ups in the past year has been a series of “no’s” delivered via trite editorials, praising CJBC’s passion but dismissing divestment for the usual uninformed reasons. Yes, we’re passionate. We’re also right. If BC waits long enough to break its ties to an industry that jeopardizes our future, it will fall behind.

I love BC. This University has given me everything, and I want to be proud of it wherever I go. When talking about BC at the conference, people were disappointed that a Jesuit school as influential as ours refuses to discuss divestment in a genuine way. At this crucial point in history, BC has an undeniable responsibility and enormous opportunity to act. We should be the leaders we’re called to be.

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FRIENDS FROM BACK HOME - College is a time of late nights, long days, and plenty of fun. It’s where you can meet and connect with an entirely different group of people from the ones that you grew up with—people with different interests, hobbies, opinions, and sentiments. You might even find, when coming to college, that you connect more strongly with the new people that you’ve known for a brief period of time than you do with the ones you grew up with.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

Or, maybe, in another case, you connect with people at school well enough, but you can’t help but think of that original friend group from home. Maybe you don’t text the latter as much as you know that you should, or you’re afraid you won’t be able to pick up where you left off when you get back home for Thanksgiving. It’s in the small moments with those friends that you realize that there’s still something very much there, and just because you go off to study for a couple months out of the year somewhere they’re not, it doesn’t mean your friendship is going to, in any way, fade. To get a letter in the mail, or a book that they bought off Amazon because they thought you’d enjoy it, or a simple text message saying they’ve been thinking about you, and that they hope all is well in your new ’hood, is a small reminder that what you’ve worked so hard to build will not crumble because of distance.

NOT CRAMMING THE WORK IN - The two-day slip of time between this weekend and the Thanksgiving break could be a student’s worst nightmare: thinking only of going home to a comfortable bed and good food, or thinking about enjoying the last weekend before having to ship off, things can get complicated when a huge paper or exam is squeezed in that narrow interlude. So, here’s to raising a glass for the teachers that cancel classes and keep the big stuff for after the break—we’ve worked hard and we’ve earned a break, and we appreciate you guys and girls understanding that.

NOISY EIGHT-MAN ROOMMATES - Everybody is looking for that eightman life when sophomore year comes around. Coveted like the holy grail, as important to students as fashion suddenly is to Kanye, no one can deny the thrill of getting a spot on Lower Campus for the next year. What you’ve begun to realize now, sophomores with “luck,” is that living with seven different people isn’t as glamorous or as easy as you thought it would be.

When everyone’s on different sleep schedules, with different interests, and different comings and goings, trying to maintain some kind of order in the only space that really belongs to you throughout the year, it can be a nightmare.

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As a former cross country runner, I thought that running the five miles from Boston College to the Mass. Ave. Bridge would prove no sweat—but when I stopped for the third time, less than halfway through the run, I realized that no sweat was the problem. I wasn’t really tired—my body wasn’t in pain—I just didn’t feel like continuing the discomfort of my run. I realized in that moment an uncomfortable distance between the effort I expected of myself and that which I had completed.

My high school cross country and track coach, Coach Kent, cared for his athletes’ performances from a holistic perspective, as evidenced by his oftenquoted philosophy: If you walk, you don’t run. He didn’t mind if his athletes weren’t the fastest, but he expected them to push themselves. Those who succumbed to laziness were not allowed to compete in races. Kent required this effort for the sake of both the team and the individuals who composed it. In expecting and delivering full, focused effort, each athlete demonstrated respect for herself and her teammates.

I remembered Kent’s philosophy as I sat on that stone wall somewhere along the B-line. My fault lay not simply with pausing—he wouldn’t have pushed a runner past her capabilities—but instead with pausing when I knew I was capable of running the full distance. I lacked the discipline to continue when my breathing grew labored and my stride weighted.

What I faced was a crisis of the individual arising from a fear of discomfort. I was

trying to distract myself from the pains of my body as I exercised because I believed the pain too uncomfortable to tolerate. I was creating a pink elephant for myself, as I fixated with greater intensity upon both the pain and my apparent incapacity to handle it.

This avoidance of pain bespoke a deeper issue: my desire to avoid the discomfort of the present. I had already begun to notice a tendency that extended to other aspects of my life. I allowed myself to be distracted from even minute, daily discomforts. I was constantly distracted by thoughts of the past, future, and those portions of the present that were irrelevant to my current situation—in the process, I was absenting myself from my own life.

This same dilemma is exhibited to the extreme in the lye burning scene from Fight Club. Indulging in distracting thoughts and images of sex, spirit animals, and calming environments, the nameless narrator (Edward Norton) attempts to avoid the agony of the chemical lye burn.

He attempts to avoid present pain. But Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), who actually gives him the chemical burn, forces him to confront the pain at hand: “Come back to the pain. Don’t shut it out.” Norton’s character again attempts to avoid the pain, and Tyler finally snaps: “This is the greatest moment of your life and you’re off somewhere, missing it.”

We each demonstrate this weakness daily. We can’t focus on a Friday lecture because we’re mulling over party plans for that same night. We can’t focus on the party because we’re worrying about the school work that awaits us. We mull over the past and work to secure our future—striving, as Blaise Pascal explains, to “arrange things over which we have no control for a time we can never be sure of reaching.” Part of this tendency is biological and necessary for survival. We

look to the past to understand and learn from mistakes and trends, while planning (looking to the future) better secures present desires and/or comforts. We avoid the present most often, however, because “the present usually hurts” (Pascal). The aches and pains of sore joints, of a headache, of cold rain, of a dull lecture, of a long conversation. can all be ignored to some extent by distractions of the mind. We continue to avoid the time that designates life itself: the present. When we walk, we don’t run. Reducing ourselves to the most basic motions, we reduce our lives to the same. We cut ourselves short of fulfillment and enjoyment by hiding from pain and discomfort. In order to master our lives, then, we must master our pain and force ourselves into the present.

The next time that I ran, I focused on my pain instead of resorting to distraction.

As I ran, I meditated upon the soreness of my legs, the cramp in my stomach, and the dryness of my throat. I discovered that, as I focused upon the pain, it became less prominent. Eventually, I even grew bored with it. I completed the run to the Mass. Ave. Bridge without stopping once. Even at stoplights, I jogged in place.

I realized that the pain was an obstacle inferior to that of remaining focused upon the present. The pain faded in and out, whereas my distractions continued throughout the run.

“Best do it at a bit of a run,” Mrs. Weasley advised Harry Potter when he balked at the prospect of running through a solid wall. And she was right: on the other side lay Platform 9 3/4. In throwing ourselves forward regardless of the pain that we anticipate, we encounter our own Platforms 9 3/4—counterintuitive lives that harbor their own degree of magic and joy.

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FRANCESCA WILLIAMS Social media can be toxic. Despite this common idea, countless people are hooked on every form of it: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. As a notable social media guru, I always rolled my eyes at adults or pretentious kids who would scold people’s usage of social media.

“Instagram is stupid,” they’d say.

“You’re not connecting with the real world.”

I never listened. I think social media is an amazing way to connect with people all over the world. It serves as a means of communication to keep in touch with old friends as well as new ones. It’s the perfect tool for self-expression. And for a long time, that’s what I used it for. I made jokes on Twitter, posted beautiful photos of nature and meals on Instagram, and shared thoughtful articles on Facebook.

But I slowly began experiencing the bad side of social media. It first occurred at the start of freshman year of college.

But now, over the past couple of months, I’ve particularly noticed how obsessive I’ve become about posts. Seeing group photos of gorgeous girls on Facebook or Instagram made me feel jealous, insecure, and inadequate. Just coming across a post on Facebook could ruin my entire night.

So I decided to take a break.

I used to scoff at people who took social media hiatuses, but I know I’m doing it for the right reasons. If you feel as

though social media is in any way altering your mood or your feelings about other people, it’s time to take a break. This isn’t to say that I think social media is the devil’s weapon to brainwash the youth (as many baby boomers seem to think is the case). This isn’t a problem with social media—this is a problem with me.

Recently, an Australian Instagram model named Essena O’Neill “quit social media” after recognizing that she had spent the majority of her teenage years obsessing over the life that was constantly projected onto Instagram. She edited each of the captions on her Instagram photos to say, “NOT REAL LIFE,” and

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Several days after O’Neill radically exposed the falseness of her Instagram photos, several of her friends (also Instagram models) came forward to criticize O’Neill. One of her friends said, “Instagram isn’t fake, you are.” This definitely holds some truth. Social media can be the perfect platform for displaying your incredible life. If you heavily edit your photos or straight-up photoshop them, however, you’re projecting an image of yourself that isn’t real. This is no fault of

social media. This is your fault.

Social media needs to be used correctly. If you forget that people only post the highlights of their life on social media, if you find yourself obsessing over a photo that Jessica from high school posted exhibiting her amazing new body, if you’re only posting simply to impress people, it’s time to take a break. You need to recognize that other people view your social media profiles the same way you view theirs. You look like you have tons of friends and are having a blast. We need to recognize that social media doesn’t display the whole truth.

We can all benefit from taking a hiatus from social media. This is coming from someone who really thought it was pretentious and ridiculous to think yourself as above social media. I don’t think I’m above it—I just need to come back to reality for awhile. I wish I was level-headed enough to use social media, but right now, I’m just not. It can warp your perception of others and, worse, yourself. In taking a break from social media, you’ll find you’ll have more time on your hands, more confidence, and a less glamorous perception of your friends.

We should all consider putting a little distance between ourselves and our social media accounts, if not deleting our apps entirely for awhile. If you can scroll through your Facebook newsfeed and not feel even the tiniest pang of envy, more power to you. But for the rest of us, those types of negative feelings are simply not necessary. And, quite frankly, you won’t miss it nearly as much as you think you will.

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Last Tuesday, the undergraduate student government of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities rejected a proposal for a moment of recognition on future anniversaries of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The proposal was a response to the university’s lack of a commemoration regarding the attacks and was denied in a 36-23 vote (with three abstentions).

When I first read about the vote, I was enraged. As a Minnesota native, I could not believe that the university’s student government elected to disregard an event that fundamentally transformed the United States. But after thinking about the issue, I began to understand the student government’s decision. The rejection was not eliminating an already established moment of remembrance, but rather disallowing the implementation of a new one. I do not believe that the student government wanted to downplay the significance of Sept. 11, but rather was genuinely concerned for the safety of certain minority populations across campus—especially given that “Muslim students have reported repeated harassment each year on Sept. 11 and had concerns about how this proposal might impact their community” (as stated by student government president, Joelle Stangler).

Thus the proposal was rejected to secure the safety of minority students.

Once again, I understand the student government’s decision. I admit that I ignorantly went headline-hopping in order to fuel a misguided and therein misplaced sense of anger regarding the situation.

Yet, I still cannot agree with the decision.

Given the current social climate in America, we must consider the role of race and how it affected the rejection of the proposal (I am assuming that race and religious affiliation are correlated).

Initially, we might incorrectly assume that Sept. 11 is completely independent from race—after all, it was not an attack on white Americans but rather an attack on all Americans. Christine Rousselle, a writer for Townhall.com, raises a valid point on the issue: “The victims of 9/11 aren’t remembered because they were killed by Muslims—they are remembered because they were killed by terrorists, who happened to be Muslim.”

Unfortunately, we must recognize the pervasive bigotry in the United States.

We must understand that racism is and will be an undeniable response to Sept. 11 memorials. It is because of this very sense of narrow-mindedness that the University of Minnesota rejected the proposal.

While Christine’s comment is completely accurate, it is wrong to believe that the Muslim community would not be further marginalized had the proposal been accepted.

Hence race is inevitably rooted within this discussion. But we should not make this proposal a divisive issue of race. And being a white male, I recognize how easy it is for me to misunderstand the scope of racism and its affects, but I think we are losing sight of what Sept. 11 represents: terrorism. The Sept. 11 attacks radically changed the way we perceive terrorism, national security, and involvement in the Middle East. It severely changed America and we have a duty to remember the victims and soldiers who have died as a consequence of Sept. 11. More importantly, I believe that all American universities have a responsibility to commemorate Sept. 11 because of the important dialogue it promotes: that terrorism is not dead.

Especially in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks this weekend, we need to be aware that there are people in the world who wish to destroy the foundations of our civilization with the cry “death to democracy.” And we need to be reminded that this conflict does not exist only in the Middle East. The attacks not just in Paris, but also in Kenya, Beirut, and Nigeria over this past year are devastating examples of how we are not safe—the war on terror exists in all corners of the world.

So while I understand the decision by the University of Minnesota’s student government, I cannot condone it. The threat of terror is too great a reality to ignore and commemorating Sept. 11 helps Americans remember that threat.

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As a result, McGuinness oversaw the areas of counseling, health services, and the Office of Health Promotion. Since Burns has only taken over the position of director, the oversight of those departments has shifted, as has the role of associate vice president.

In his job in counseling services, McGuinness said the work came to him. The biggest difference in his role as associate vice provost, he said, is that he has to generate the work and market himself. In this new position, McGuinness is interested in working with faculty on various projects and policies to promote student resilience.

Students encounter many things for which they do not have to go to counseling services and McGuinness said he hopes to help faculty manage those things on their level. He is currently meeting with faculty—individually, or in groups—to get a sense of what their experience is in dealing with students’ emotional issues and trying to support them in that part of their work.

“A student may not be able to complete an assignment and they go to a faculty member and say, ‘I can’t get this paper in on time,’” McGuinness said. “It could be that the student is struggling with something and there are lots of ways in which you can deal with that as a faculty member, and some people might say, ‘Well, why don’t you go to counseling services?’ rather than saying, ‘Well, tell me what’s going on?’”

McGuinness said although there are times when psychological services are required for students, often they are not.

Many of the things students are struggling with are everyday problems in life, and they need some support and advice from faculty, McGuinness said. He hopes to mobilize people to look at their opportunities to be helpful to one another.

McGuinness said that there has been a 10-percent increase in student requests from counseling services every year for the last five years. He said that the number of students appearing in emergencies has doubled in five years and there has been no increase in staff. McGuinness expressed his hopes that UCS obtains more resources, as well as that his work helps to reduce the need for these services “People in counseling services, in some ways, get overwhelmed,” McGuinness said.

“There are just so many students who are requesting services.”

As interim director, Burns’ ultimate responsibility is to manage the work of UCS. He said that he does some, but less clinical service than he used to as a staff psychologist. He also conducts outreach consultation with students, but the primary responsibilities involve coordination of care within the department. This includes coordination of the services UCS offers—within Student Affairs, in particular—as well as staying on top of both campus trends and national trends, and responding and reporting to colleagues and his superiors, including Jones.

UCS has three departments that work closely together: the Office of Counseling Service, the Office of Health Promotion, and the Office of Health Services. UCS also works in collaboration with the Office of Residential Life, the Women’s Center, and various other offices and departments around campus. “[Being the director] is always a new challenge—something new each day,” Burns said. “There are many different people to respond to, and many different concerns.”

Burns said that he is meant to act as interim director until the end of this year, but the plan is beyond that is yet to be determined. McGuinness said that he expects Jones will be initiating a national search for director after Jan. 1.

For the time being, Burns said he hopes to continue to respond as best he can to an ever-growing set of demands on UCS. His biggest goal is that students flourish in their time at BC, with the help UCS can provide in removing barriers to success.

“I’m certainly very happy in this role and hope to serve the community well,” Burns said.

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etween the Copley Square T station and the Old South Church, you’ll often find a bearded man in a Red Sox cap holding a cardboard sign that reads: “Listen folks, I just need some help until I can get some work.” This man, James Tacchio, is one of the many people displaced after the closing of the city’s largest shelter in October of last year.

The closure of the Long Island Shelter, which housed up to 600 people in the coldest months, occurred after a state inspection found that the 64-year-old Long Island Bridge was unsafe for vehicles to cross, cutting off access to the island. The decision to close the bridge, though abrupt, was not entirely surprising, as it had been neglected and deteriorating over the years.

“The Long Island Shelter was a refuge for us, and it’s a shame that it had to go,” Tacchio said. He noted that in addition to the loss of 450 beds, people also lost their spots in recovery and addiction treatment programs provided on the island.

In response to the closure, the city quickly set up temporary shelters and, in June of this year, opened a new shelter on Southampton St., which holds over 400 nightly guests at full capacity.

“The only way to really fix this is to get to the root of the problem,” Tacchio said, still flashing his cardboard sign as the sun set over Boylston St. “Right now, we have nowhere to go, so we’re flooding the streets. What the hell else are we going to do?”

Tacchio’s friend Danny, sitting on a crate nearby, nodded in agreement. Danny, a tall, middle-aged man often found donning a beanie, is also a familiar face in the square, where a community of people without homes has developed around the churches and the public library.

Churches are instrumental in providing programs, food, and support for the homeless, especially during the winter months. Churches do not allow people to sleep inside overnight, however. That task is reserved for the shelters, which grow increasingly busy as winter nears.

“If you don’t get there early enough, you’re screwed,” Tacchio said. “Pine Street is actually pretty good about that, but once it starts getting cold, you’re going to have to get there at 3 o’clock.”

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rank Flaherty, a regular on Boylston St. and Tacchio’s close friend, believes shelters should be more selective in terms of whom they admit, rather than operating on a first-come, first-serve

basis.

“They should prioritize a regular guy who goes to work every day over an alcoholic like me,” Flaherty said, emphasizing that there are a surprising number of homeless people with regular jobs. “I’d sleep in the alleyway outside so that this guy who has work the next morning has a place to shower and rest at night.”

At the Pine Street Inn mens’ shelter on Harrison Ave., men poured in from the street as the evening progressed, seeking refuge for the night. The men are searched, screened, and given admission to the shelter, which offers beds and lockers on a first-come, first-serve basis. Some of the men are regulars, and greet the director, while others are newcomers.

“With the severe weather and closing of the Long Island

Shelter, last winter was the most challenging we have ever had in Boston, and we were able to get through it without any deaths or serious injuries,” said Barbara Trevisan, spokeswoman for the Pine Street Inn. “As this winter approaches, we will make room for those who show up at our shelters and increase our outreach efforts to bring people in from the cold. We all made it through last winter, and we are better prepared for this one.”

The 52-year-old Flaherty said that last winter was miserable.

“They closed down the T stops, and we had no place to go,” he said in his raspy, Popeye-like voice, which contrasted sharply with his kind blue eyes. “Not to be funny, but we had to literally dig in the snow to keep warm. We made like an igloo.”

Tacchio talked about the brutal winter last year, noting the number of people he’d seen sleeping in hallways of apartment buildings and other unconventional places in an effort to keep warm.

“Even the cops were nice to us last winter, ’cause they knew there was nowhere else for us to go,” he said. Usually the police would move homeless loiterers to shelters, Tacchio explained, but last winter many of them accepted that there was just not enough room.

In terms of money made from begging, some days are good and some days are bad. Sometimes, a day on the street will yield more than a day working at minimum wage.

“It’s hard to get work, especially when you’re a felon,” Tacchio said, recounting how he spent 18 months in prison. “But most of us just want an opportunity, a second chance. Just because you’re homeless doesn’t mean you’re a bum.”

Tacchio talked about his former life. He had a job in construction, a wife, and a decent apartment.

“A lot of folks walk up and down these streets and just see us as these foreign beings,” he said. “But we were all people too. Me, Danny, Frank … we were all real people once. I do this because then at least I can look in the mirror and say I’m not a criminal. I’m asking people for help. It sucks, and it’s degrading, but at least it’s honest.”

Before being homeless, Flaherty had many jobs, and even said he attended Tufts for a week. Mainly, he worked in the pest-control field, at Clancy Brothers Pest Control.

After his mother and father passed away one after the other, he fell apart.

“We may be homeless, but we’re a community,” Tacchio said, offering Danny half of his turkey and cheese sandwich, which Danny declined in favor of some Cape Cod potato chips. “We’re not all crack heads and thieves.

Some of us just had some hard times and need some help getting back on our feet.”

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n an effort to deal with the issue, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, has introduced a plan to end chronic and veteran homelessness by 2018. The Boston Public Health Commission continues to offer resources to the homeless during extreme cold weather conditions, while Walsh has created a task force to put homeless individuals on a path to permanent housing.

“The best solution would be giving city jobs that need to be done to guys like us,” Tacchio said. “I’d be happy to clean out the gutter, or push a broom around all day. Just give us local city jobs and we’ll do them. I mean, some guys won’t, because they’re lazy bums, but most of us would do it.”

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When asked about BC’s position in relation to the coalition, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management Nanci Tessier said that BC became aware of preliminary discussions regarding the possible new application in the fall of 2014.

“Representatives … attended a meeting in summer 2015 at which time the Coalition was discussed,” Tessier said in an email. “In addition, we have, along with many others in our professional associa-

tions, attended sessions at the National Association for College Admission Counseling and the College Board National Forum.

We are currently reviewing the benefits of membership.”

One of the most discussed aspects of the new online portal has been the virtual locker and the potential benefits it can afford students across the nation.

A main reason many institutions have joined the effort has been the prospect of both presenting students with the tools necessary to put them on the path to go to college while also ensuring that they can go

to an affordable college, according to the coalition’s newsletter.

Being a part of the coalition, however, will also increase each institution’s national exposure, an attractive prospect for BC. “Boston College endeavors to raise awareness of the benefits of its educational experience to talented students across the nation and the world,” Tessier said. “Prospective students who utilize the coalition may become aware of member colleges and universities that they had not previously considered thus prompting them to further explore those institutions.”

Every day I walk past the Evergreen Cemetery on the way back to my offcampus apartment after class. I give a casual head nod to Sullivan, McCarthy, and O’Malley—the names engraved on the stones that stretch across the space behind Walsh Hall.

I’ve always thought of the cemetery as very ironic. Isn’t it odd that a graveyard is positioned next to Boston College—a place of such vibrant life and energy? At this age, the last thing we think about is ending up in the ground.

But as I pass by the hundreds of gravestones each day, I stop for a moment and forget about my classes, the Heights articles I still have to edit, and the party on Friday night. Instead, I think about what I’m doing here and how BC is shaping what I think is important in my life.

As I sit in a coffee shop in downtown Boston on a cold, windy Saturday morning, I think back to my two years covering Greater Boston, and what I want to share in this space for the last time. I’ve had the opportunity to write about countless startups, restaurants, and events in the city. I’ve interviewed the mayor of Boston and a presidential candidate. I’ve questioned Uber, student off-campus housing, and Boston’s failed Olympic bid. I’ve sacrificed so much time, sleep, and GPA points learning more about the city and everything it has to offer—but what have I learned from it all?

Let’s go back to the beginning. Two years ago, I wrote my first column about finding your Boston—your own version of the city and the components that make it special for you. As a second-semester freshman, Boston meant singing “Sweet Caroline” at Red Sox games, watching street performers outside of Faneuil Hall, and having dinner at Nico in the North End. Now, as I look back at my time as a metro editor, I realize that my perception of Boston has evolved. Last week I came across a line in a book by St. Augustine that said we are “restless until our hearts are at rest with God.” This really resonates with me, because I now realize the city is what allows me to be at rest. The city helps me reflect on what is important. It is where I can find peace at a time in my life when nothing ever seems to slow down.

Boston is my own form of a retreat.

Going into the city is like my own mini Kairos or 48 Hours. It’s an escape. A change of scenery. It’s a way to break out of the BC Bubble and find the simple joys in my life, like a damn good cup of coffee, reading a book along the Charles River, or walking around Coolidge Corner on a classic New England fall day—things that I too often don’t experience on a daily basis rushing from class to class, handing in that poetry essay I stayed up way too late writing the night before.

As I sit here in this coffee shop thinking back to my first column, I realize that I thought I had Boston figured out freshman year. I’ve spent the past twoand-a-half years writing about this place that my parents and relatives told me would significantly impact my college experience—even though it seemed like BC students had everything they could possibly want right here in Chestnut Hill.

But I’ve found that all of my time spent off campus has helped me redefine the value of the city and its ability to help me reflect on my time at BC. By the time this column is printed, I will have made my last walk back from the Heights office well past midnight on a Wednesday.

And as I walk past the graveyard, I won’t be thinking about tomorrow’s to-do list or my plans this weekend. I will be thinking about Boston—and the next time I’ll be making my way into the city. I will acknowledge Sullivan, McCarthy, and O’Malley once again before crossing the T tracks on Comm. Ave. toward South St. And I’ll feel alive.

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A buddy once explained why he liked being a pretend journalist. He said something along the lines of “being a journalist/writer helps channel my natural nosiness, my curiosity.” I really liked that.

And to boil that down, I think, The Heights let me be nosy. Just like it did for my friend and former colleague, it let me channel the characteristic that often makes me a social deviant and helped me meet folks who I consider the coolest people on campus.

This is the last Reasonable Dowd, by the way. I know you’ve been counting the days ’til I sail onward into the undying lands of second semester senior year.

Please, for all our sakes and your own dignity, hide your tears. Pull yourself together. This is, so far, the easiest column I’ve ever written. There’s no elaborate jump to make from the Star Wars trailer/ Jon Snow/Angelina Jolie’s ovaries to BC culture. There’s no proposed cultural dilemma (yet) that gets solved with a few choice anecdotes and a shrug. All that’s left is the period.

And I promise, this isn’t a ruse of a finale at the end of the semester to stir up discussion and debate before I come back next semester. This is it.

For those who haven’t followed this column’s every wake (so everyone except my mother and Anthony F.), some of the light topics we’ve tackled here are, in general order, hope, internal inertia, objective and subjective truth, snobbery, hope again, censorship, the sandwich method, country music (just once?), the true meaning of Halloween, and nostalgia with a bunch of Westeros references along the way. Wow, that was cathartic (for me).

I’ve been thinking a lot about an episode of You’re the Worst lately (here it comes!). You’re the Worst is about two endearing, sh—y people (Jimmy, a British “novelist” and Gretchen, a born-to-beWASP publicist) who together try to form one generally-functionable couple.

And after their meet-ugly and subsequent alternative courtship, the second season has gnawed at the delicate dance of their relationship.

In “LCD Soundsystem,” Gretchen, who has recently revealed to Jimmy she’s clinically depressed, follows a neighborly couple around for a day as they go about their apparent cool, hip adult lives.

Gretchen—our mischievous, sarcastic redhead—watches them watch television from the bushes out in the street, with popcorn. She steals their pug (yes, a pug) named Sandwiches.

Rob and Lexi seem live a good life.

They have a nice house and do nice things for each other. But what’s lying under this surface of a life—the same surface any run-of-the-mill sitcom offers—is the same debilitating fear of roads and opportunities lost that Gretchen has begun to feel, though it’s not ’til the end of the episode, when Rob confesses his alarming dissolution that Gretchen realizes that things, apparently, don’t get easier. Things never suddenly click and settle down.

And it’s a terrible moment for Gretchen, as she stumbles out of Rob and Lexi’s nice house back to Jimmy’s with Jimmy.

Things on the other side of the fence are just as she’d feared—empty, acidic. But oddly, that half-hour episode of television was comforting to me. I’ve spent the past year peeking over fences, into other people’s yards and lives, trying to broach in the most honest ways I know how their deepest, darkest feelings. Maybe it has been your roommates, someone you’ve been in class with. It must be. To wonder if they’re like me, like us, if they have the same hopes, fears, desires.

“LCD Soundsystem” reminded what I had learned over the past year. That we all bury (more or less) the same hatchets in the backyard. And that, as bizarre as it may sound, it’s the most comforting thing I’ve learned in a while, that life is hard and complicated for everyone. And I think, I hope, Gretchen will realize that the hard things are the ones worth the most while, and are the most fun—really fun.

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IX`[\ij f] k_\ cfjk Xik1 k_\ jkXk f] gfjk\ij `e k_\ [`^`kXc X^\ CALEB GRIEGO Once upon a time, children and adults alike marveled at Luke Skywalker as he stood with lightsaber raised in The New Hope (1977), or looked hesitantly at the light emanating from a shrouded figure in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982).

True movie posters are a lost art. In the past, posters served as an integral piece to the movie experience. The level of attention and care put into these posters made them worthy additions to our wall space and gave us a representation of our favorite films in one stunning image. The posters we have all seen lining the outside of theaters everywhere serve as a constant reminder of why we go to the movies. Posters of great films show us why we came in the first place, and those of films yet to be released remind us of the future. Sadly, the craft gone into most movie posters has faded away, replaced by cheap tricks and industry standards, leaving the craft a remnant of its former self.

Like most of print media, posters have fallen victim to the digital age as creators resort to online marketing, creation, and advertizing in place of the prints that could be circulated en mass to fans everywhere.

Though digital media has arguably brought such art to more people, it has also cheaped the process and taken away something more tangible.

The creators behind great posters, as artists of different crafts do, seek to represent something in an image. In this case, it’s a movie. This is quite a feat to take a standard run-time film, and craft an image that captures the feeling or sentiment of the movie. In this way, the poster tells us things about what the movie is about without saying anything.

The Godfather poster tells us all we need to know about the nature of the film with a white marionette hand and white text on a black background. Without seeing a second of film, the notion of social control and influences is deposited on Vito and the Corleone family.

The classic Friday the 13th (1980) poster gives a fantastic glimpse into the killer, literally, as we peek at a moonlit scene of the victims near a wooden cabin, housed in the outline of the killer. The bloody knife dripping onto the text below is a beautiful addition, which elevates the poster to another level. Close-ups on the eyes evoke powerful emotions from a wide range of movies.

They Live (1988), Scream (1996), and Silence of the Lambs (1991) offer up piercing stares that surely spook those who stare back.

Provocatively framed, these posters linger in the mind.

And posters can also depict more elusive aspects of a film and enrich a film for attentive viewers. The Alien (1979) poster does this. The stark black background is set against a single alien egg, cracking forming a “V”

representative of female anatomy. This plays right into the sexualized tension seen in Alien, as the idea of “birth” was used to make viewers feel discomfort throughout the film.

All this is to say that these posters were intrinsically tied to the films themselves. It was art begetting art. In varying degrees, these were inventive works that were more than simple advertisements meant to get us to see the movies. They were conversation pieces and means by which we could further connect ourselves to the big screen. Moreover, they were intentional pieces of art that were meant to hold our gaze as much as they were to catch it. The best movie posters are works of art that can stand on their own.

In the modern age, image manipulation is quick and easy. In mass marketing ploys, it is often best to get some image, any image, out so that it may meet the largest audience possible. Quality suffers. Bluntly, the posters we get now are boring. They’re all the same.

Head shot after head shot swing out from the background to slap us with the biggest stars face front and center. Adjacent to the floating heads, everything else is bathed in blue and yellow which bleed into one another. This assemblage of complementary colors is a safe and unchallenging visual juxtaposition. No doubt, the colors works but they remain uninteresting. The Bourne Identity (2002), Avatar (2009), Transformers (2007), and even The Dark Knight (2008) are all guilty of this. Clearly the quality of the

poster is not directly linked to the quality of film, which begs the question: Why do studios with cinematic gold settle for a mediocre poster? Such an investment would serve to ossify great films’ places in time and on our walls.

Not all hope is lost, however, as the advent of the digital age also opened the door for amateurs to try their hand at representing a film in one, deft image. Alternate posters, remade posters, and minimalist interpretations can be found all over the Web. Some of these do more justice for the film than the theatrical poster ever could. And that is simple, because the fans behind them sought to bring something special about the film to the picture. Though a lot of passion may have vacated itself from those who commissioned the design of these posters, the fans ultimately give back much more as they hope to create what many studios and production companies cannot.

The movie poster is an art like no other.

It seeks to interpret and share what a film is about in one image. Hopefully, in the modern age, we will continue to see compelling pieces light the way to our seats in the theater.

Now, if only taglines could make a comeback.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | HEIGHTS STAFF

‘BIG LOVE’ (THURSDAY-SUNDAY, 7:30 P.M.)

DROPKICK MURPHYS (SUNDAY, 11 A.M.)

Watch the Boston College theatre department perform Big Love this weekend in Robsham. This love story combines comedy and drama while tackling issues of today.

Watch The Dropkick Murphys perform at this year’s Fenway Hurling Classic & Irish Festival. Head into the city for this celebration of music, sports, and Irish culture.

HEIGHTSMEN FALL CONCERT (FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M.) Join BC’s all-male a cappella group this Friday night for the Heightsmen Fall Cafe. Featuring a full range of genres from classic Billy Joel to today’s R&B hits, The Heightsmen will host their first show of the year in Devlin 008.

STIX AND STONES (FRIDAY, 7 P.M.) This Friday, grab a seat in Gasson 305 for a can’t -miss a cappella collaboration. Be there to hear the Bostonians and Acoustics team up to sing some popular songs at this season’s highly anticipated show. Admission is free.

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JUICE @ LANSDOWNE PUB (FRIDAY, 7 P.M.) Break out of the BC bubble for this live show at the Lansdowne Pub just yards away from historic Fenway Park. The band will play original tracks and inventive covers at a pep rally in preparation for the big BC vs. ND game.

ASININE (FRIDAY, 7:30 P.M.) This weekend, Fulton 511 is your destination for original comedy. On Friday, BC’s Asinine Sketch and Improv Comedy group will present their free “Faces for Radio” fall show.

‘HUNGER GAMES MOCKINGJAY PT. 2’ (OPENS FRIDAY) Katniss Everdeen and her closest friends fight the sinister President Snow to protect the people of Panem in Mockingjay Part II. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson star in this week’s big box office release.

‘THE GOOD DINOSAUR’ (OPENS FRIDAY) After a meteor misses its mark and fails to wipe out the entire dinosaur population, Arlo is separated from his family and must find his way back home.

Sam Elliott and Frances McDormand star in Pixar’s latest animated movie.

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or someone so reserved, Vinny Roca, MCAS ’17, wound up giving me a lot of advice. Real advice—advice I wish someone had given me sooner than November of my senior year.

If I’m being completely honest, I was a little nervous to interview him. I’ve spent all of this past semester dreading the times I have to share my work in an art class i’m taking, mostly because it’s laughable that we are allowed to take the same level course. He sits with his legs tucked under him or with arms draped lazily over the backs of chairs, clearly intent on what’s going on, but also with the comfort of someone who has spent many, many hours on the fourth floor of Devlin.

He’s crazy talented—the type of talent that you feel privileged to touch once or twice over your academic career, a talent you know will go on to do really amazing things. On top of his bananas amount of talent, he’s also reserved and initially comes off as difficult to grasp—distant, but with an easy smirk, and ideas about art that are big and smart. You can’t tell if he’s selfimportant or just operating in a dimension far beyond you.

On the surface, Roca does not subscribe to the mainstream Boston College culture. He is the antithesis of the BC bro—small, with unruly, dull copper hair he’s constantly taming with his hands, parting to the left. He models outfits like white high tops with a Keith Haring T-shirt covered by a corduroy jacket with a dream catcher zipper pull. He seems like he’s filling European stereotypes. He’s sensitive and well dressed.

His yellow cigarette box and multi-colored swirled lighter are a distracting presence on the table behind him as he talks.

But there’s something beyond the whole Euro-aesthetic. It’s the reason I’m here—his art. Roca prefers drawing. The pieces he chooses to show me are sketchy but precise, layered with meaning. His main fascinations are with the human form and lines. Sure, this sounds abstract—so many pieces of art deal

is very engaged with different people and different groups, body by body. He was the senator for arts and performance groups in UGBC and is the co-president of the art club. “I’ve been really involved, I think, trying to get arts to be more important on this campus,” he said. Not just for the art students, either. “I think there are some things arts can teach about us and there’s a joy, in even poetry and movies, even if you’re not making it you should be engaged in it. Because it does make you a more sensitive person.”

I asked him to tell me more about this. How does he think that the average BC student can be involved with arts? The tone with which he responded aged him. He sounded much older than 20.

“Go to the Museum of Fine Arts when your teachers tell you to, don’t just look at images online. Go to First Friday.

There’s free wine. Really, there’s just free alcohol.” Same goes for exploring the Coolidge Corner theater and other arts venues in Boston. “There’s no shame in being engaged in arts,” he said “I think it just gets put to the wayside, when it becomes about pre-professional and art just seems inessential when all you’re worried about is a career. It seems almost like a distraction, when the exact opposite is true.”

Hearing him talk about careers raised a whole set of questions for me. “Do you want to … like … continue to pursue art after college?” I asked tentatively, because I thought it was better than asking ‘if he wanted to be an artist.’ Because that thought, to the average, career-driven BC student like myself, sounds absurd. Or at the least, a very hard life.

But if anyone is on the right track, it’s Roca. He wants to get his Masters of Fine Arts but he’ll probably take a year off and be a studio assistant or get a job to make some money, “as unfulfilling as it seems.” He’s realistic, he knows there are loans to pay.

For now, Roca works at the MFA in Guest Relations. “I just like being there, around the art. I just walk around the museum for a lot of hours.” He also has a fellowship in the fine arts department, working for professor Sheila Gallagher.

“She swears I’m not her assistant, but sometimes I can be her assistant. It’s fine. I enjoy it,” he said, laughing a bit with that smirk. Because being a professor’s research fellow means 20 minutes in the car together, chatting, and travelling to Wesley to help install an exhibit, like Roca got to do last week. He helped arrange smaller ink drawings into a larger piece. There was a lot of hemming and hawing from Gallagher, making sure everything was just so as she and Roca worked. But even the mundane work of moving pieces of art around has value to Roca. “The best moments are when I get to put something down and she’s like, ‘perfect.’ It’s my own little piece,” he said.

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with the human form and/or lines—but in Roca’s busy black and white drawings, these are really the forefront.

This style is what he prefers, but in some ways the work he doesn’t specialize in is more impressive. He has showed me a video piece and a painting, taller than both he and I, covered in a stencil work of Chance the Rapper overlaid with a mimic of Sargent. The way he talks about himself as a painter, you think it would look inexperienced and crude. “Oil painting?” he said.

“When I got here—I mean, everyone experiments with acrylic in high school, but the first time I painted for real was here.”

But really, his piece is one of the most eye-catching ones in the all of the cubbies on the fourth floor of Devlin.

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younger Roca used to pour over a “how to draw monsters and ghouls” book that an art teacher gave him (he got his start drawing by taking art classes at the local high school over the summer when he was in elementary school). It’s easy to imagine Roca folded up bird-like, intently sketching these strange forms, filling sketch books with creatures not of this world. His work is nothing like that now, but it’s where he thinks his interest in the form began. “My interest in the figure now is way more conceptual,” he said. “It’s less about portraying and drawing the figure than what the body means as a symbol. When you come in contact with someone else it’s just one body next to another body. For me, the whole world is navigated by other bodies, body by body by body.”

He meant this symbolically, esoterically, a lens to look at life that becomes art. But it is also how he navigates BC. Many people think of the arts community as a fringe group, but Roca

oca is good at carving little spaces of success for himself. He did it last summer, as well. After completing a summer class in Venice, he used an Advanced Study Grant to fund some time in Paris. “What it was, was ... they essentially paid me to do tourism, to engage in tourism but to really try and understand the architecture of the city and capture the city in drawing,” he said. He connected with a group called Urban Sketchers Paris, allowing him to draw the architecture of the city, alone or with the group, for hours at a time. Another piece of advice: everyone should do an Advanced Study Grant, especially art students because they can do it their junior year too.

After running through his credentials and the things he has managed to achieve here, I began to think Roca might actually be the model BC student. More than any resume point he can accrue, is his view of a liberal arts education, and the

interaction of art in that equation. He has this way of half joking by saying a statement in a wry voice about things that are important or grandiose. I assume it’s a defense from sounding too lofty or obnoxious, but it doesn’t stop what he’s saying from being wise or any less serious. He is earnest about art, and he wants you to care.

“It’s invaluable to the liberal arts education,” he said. “It helps you see things better. I don’t know, there’s this quote from

Winston Churchill, it’s from World War II.” He grasped for an easy summary, a way to tell me what it all means, before getting frustrated and setting the scene for me.

“They’re running low on the military budget and so the senate, or whatever they’re called, the Parliament, was all right like, ‘I think we should cut the endowment of the arts budget so we can pay for more tanks,’ and he was like, ‘Then what the hell are we shooting people for, if we cut the the arts budget?”

The consequences are not that dire here. But that is the question that Roca and I grappled with as we walked out of Devlin into the deep, inky November sky that felt too expansive and full of depth for just around 6 o’clock. We were talking about why, as students, we choose to push ourselves in extracurriculars that ultimately are pretty inconsequential. We were talking about our privileged, top-40 University generation’s “what the hell are we shooting people for?” I offered a reflection my professor used to think about Infinite Jest that felt important and not obnoxious because we were beyond the point of seeming obnoxious to one another. “How do we deal with something that is so vitally important and inconsequential at the same time?”

I left him silhouetted against the back door of Devlin, the spark of his lighter going up in the darkness, a scene that seemed deeply poetic and out of the ordinary at BC. I felt pensive and a little sad as I walked away, knowing that this connection was over, thinking to myself that meeting people who awe and intimidate me but who I choose to connect with on a level that I don’t get on a daily basis, this is what my education can—and should—be about. This is what we are shooting for.

I’m a very stubborn guy, especially when it comes to accepting new things.

Get a Snapchat? No, thank you. Post everything on Twitter? Maybe someday.

Listen to all my music on Spotify? Absolutely not. With most new things, my obstinacies are usually based on some prejudice or apathy toward whatever is being presented to me, but when it came to Spotify, I felt pretty justified in refusing to join. Sure, with Spotify I might have access to more music than ever before, but I’ve been building my iTunes library since I was 10 years old. For a while, there wasn’t any reason that could convince me to have switched over.

A couple weeks after I heard about Spotify, I started feeling the pressure. I heard that people could share their playlists and I started to realize that having access to as much music as Spotify has would be incredible. What was holding me back? Was I just too lazy to go and gather the library I had on iTunes on Spotify? Hell, I could even do some housekeeping while I was at it. I didn’t want every song I had in my iTunes library—I wouldn’t need to go and get everything. Yeah, it might take me a few days to collect everything, but I wouldn’t mind too much. Plus, I’d never need to buy another song from iTunes or pirate anything off YouTube. After a couple of weeks of thinking about it, I was starting to see the benefits of Spotify and I was almost certain I was going to get one.

Then Apple reeled me in again. They unleashed Apple Music. The company has a tendency to have that effect on me.

To quote Al Pacino from The Godfather: Part III, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” At first, I wasn’t into the concept. I didn’t like the fact that Apple Music would directly compete with Spotify. It’s not that it didn’t make sense that they would—it’s just that, in this situation, I tend to favor the original creator of a concept that companies swarm to. It’s like when Netflix started online streaming and then Hulu and Amazon started their own streaming services and production companies.

Netflix started it and Netflix still does it the best. I felt like the same would be true in the case of streaming music.

During the summer, I used to love riding my bike miles up the beach. I’d put in my headphones, throw on a bathing suit, grab a towel, and fly out the door. The beach has terrible service, so I never got texts or calls while I was on my rides (a great excuse for getting out of an extra shift at work now and again). But on one of my rides, Apple Music took over my phone. It deleted everything off my phone, assuming that I would want to stream my music off the cloud. On the beach with no service, this wasn’t much of an option. I was livid. I already wasn’t interested in Apple Music, but this was the nail in the coffin. I wasn’t going to pay Apple for it.

Then I got home. My dad was busy at his computer, blasting his music.

“Hey, I just got the family plan for Apple Music, I sent your email the invite to our account.”

You can’t argue with something that’s free (at least on my end). I started browsing their playlists and Apple Music’s tight and funky aesthetic. I was hooked. I might not be able to share playlists with friends, but the Apple editors’ playlists are pretty great, especially for my ’60s and ’70s searches. I grabbed about 25 songs in an hour and that left me pretty satisfied with the new setup.

Later, on the other hand, I realized something. Not only had Apple brought me back in, but they’d tied me down, too. Those aren’t my songs anymore, they’ll always be Apple’s. If I wanted to quit Apple Music, all of the songs I’ve grabbed would be gone. Now I’m more cemented than ever in Apple’s system. I can’t take those files with me if I decided to leave. It’s like when I bought a Droid for a couple years to get away from the iPhone for a while. Sure, it was a nice phone and I could transfer over some of my music, but it was difficult to get onto the phone and a lot of the files just wouldn’t transfer. Here, this time with Apple Music, Apple found another way to get my family to keep throwing money at it.

It might just be exploiting our laziness and complacency, but Apple does a nice job of keeping its customers with them. Just when you think you’ve found something better, they pull out their flashier version of the same thing, and we flock to it in our droves. Maybe one day they won’t just be hypnotizing us with new iTunes and iPhones.

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Fe\ ;`i\Zk`fe jkXpj k_\ Zflij\# Ylk jk`cc d`jj\j DXc`b 9P :8IFC@E< D::FID8:B ?\`^_kj JkX]] On Nov. 13, One Direction released its fifth album, Made in the A.M. This is the band’s first album since the departure of Zayn Malik in March. His exit caused a great stir among fans and has left them wondering what the band’s music would now sound like. The change was quite noticeable on the album.

Being one of the strongest vocalists in the band, Malik’s presence

is definitely missed. With Malik gone, fans get to hear more highlights from members who previously didn’t have as many solos. Despite Malik’s missing vocals, the album still remains a cohesive collection of the quartet’s talents.

This album on the whole is fairly slow with many reflective tracks. The tempo and tone, however, are picked up with songs such as “Perfect,” “Drag Me Down,” and “Temporary Fix” that have a more upbeat vibe.

The album starts off with “Hey Angel,” which features the band’s high-pitch vocals in their typical fashion. The next track, “Drag Me Down,” has a much more upbeat melody. The airy drum and light guitar riff complements the effect. The catchy chorus is sure to leave the listener singing along. This song ’s music video has 200 million views on YouTube. The video features the group flying up in a rocket with NASA to literally demonstrate that nothing

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could drag this group down.

Following “Drag Me Down” comes another single from the album, “Perfect.” The music video was released in October and has nearly 50 million views on YouTube. This video features a black and white scene of members of the band looking out onto the NYC cityscape from a hotel window.

“Perfect” is rumored to have been written about Harry Styles’ ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift. The line that stands out to listeners to suggest this is, “And if you like cameras flashing every time we go out and if you’re looking for someone to write your breakup songs about.” Also, the music video of the song was shot in one of Taylor Swift’s home cities.

“Infinity” is next up on the album. One line that stuck out the most was, “Eyes can’t shine / Unless there’s something burning bright behind.” The lyrics are at once poignant and enlightening.

The song starts off pretty slow, but by the end it picks up with a strong electronic guitar riff that makes up for what “Infinity” was lacking. This track was not written by One Direction, but

by John Ryan, Jamie Scott, and Julian Bunetta who also wrote the One Direction hit “Story of

My Life.”

The rest of the songs on the album that made up the middle of the album were “End of the Day,” “I Want to Write You a Song ,” and “Histor y.” These songs again feature more solos from members of the band like Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson who were not featured as often when Malik was still a part of the group.

The album wraps up with “Temporar y Fix.” This piece picks up the pace the rest of the album lacked and featured a catchy chorus and a strong and flowy instrumental. Niall Horan co-wrote this song and the goal behind it was for it to be a rock song.

With the release of this album, many fans are nervous this may be the last they hear of One Direction. In Oct. 2015, the group decided they were to take at least a year hiatus so they could focus on individual projects. They will continue promoting this album through February of 2016, going on a national tour, but it may be a while before fans hear the group together again. With this album instilling hope in One Direction fans, hopefully this is not the last we hear from them.

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A Billboard Chart powerhouse— yet the most traditional genre in its adherence to industry standards of old—country music has been waiting for its Beyonce. Perhaps the holdout for a country adaptation of Queen B’s increasingly ubiquitous, surpriserelease tactic was simply a holdout for an artist with enough clout and appropriate timing.

Enter Eric Church. Enter Mr. Misunderstood. Without warning, the North Carolina native’s fifth fulllength LP arrived in the mailboxes of premium fan club members on the eve of its unannounced Nov. 4 release, which coincided with the 48th annual CMA awards. The follow-up to two consecutive platinum albums in 2011’s Chief and 2014’s The Outsiders, Mr. Misunderstood arrives with a commercial and artistic momentum that transcends any of its promotional methodology, novel for the genre as it may be.

The self-proclaimed “parking lot down-and-outer” has often treated country, rock, blues, and pop as a stylistic “Four Corners” monument, with his limbs stretched across their boundaries, defying categorization if it weren’t for his conspicuous twang.

Mr. Misunderstood continues in a similar vein but provides a bit of mediation between Chief and The

Outsiders. Just as its 10-song tracklist eschews any “Drink In My Hand”type celebration of the boozing everyman, there’s also no eight-minute epic like “Devil, Devil” or straightforward rock showcase like “That’s Damn Rock & Roll.” Rather, Mr. Misunderstood is a hybrid of its two predecessors.

Musically, the album’s most ambitious cuts are the first pair. “Mr. Misunderstood” is slick and effortless in its numerous tempo changes, never allowing rhythmic shifts to distract from the potency of its central message. “Mistress Named Music,” meanwhile, is a complex affair behind its straightforward vocals—layers upon layers of guitars and keyboards make stealthy entrances and exits as the song marches toward an eventual climax, courtesy of a blazing, ’70sinspired guitar solo and some vocal assistance from a belting choir.

After a bit of early experimentation, the LP settles into a logical sampling of Church’s various sonic avenues. “Mixed Drinks About Feelings,” a duet with blues singer Susan Tedeschi, abandons country almost entirely and thrives in its direct pop sensibilities. Ever since 2011’s nostalgia-laced “Springsteen” pushed him beyond the country label, Church has become synonymous with The Boss, whose influence continues to reveal itself in not-so-subtle ways on the stadium-ready “Knives of New Orleans,” one of Mr. Misunderstood’s

energetic peaks. Elsewhere, “Chattanooga Lucy” welcomes funky guitars into the fold, while “Holdin‘ My Own” and “Round Here Buzz” both favor a minimalist approach.

Despite its crafty blend of styles, Mr. Misunderstood places a bulk of its weight on lyrical content, a department in which it particularly excels.

Church forgoes the topical cliches that have plagued much of mainstream Country in the past half-decade.

Absent are accounts of partying, various modes of transportation, or any combination of the two—no buying of boats, drinking on planes, or

cruising of any kind. As a wordsmith, Church has become reliable for penning narratives that are as vivid and as focused as they are clever. The brilliant title cut pulls double duty as both an inspirational autobiography and an anthem of solidarity for Church’s more alienated listeners. “Kill a Word” executes its motif with careful precision—a crusade against unwelcome members of the English language and the negativity they represent.

He also continues to sprinkle in the occasional homage to his musical influences, name-checking everyone from Stevie Wonder to Elvis Costello

to James Brown in both the title cut and the witty double-entendre “Record Year.”

At a concise 39 minutes, Mr. Misunderstood engages its full potential without a wasted note. No corner of Church’s musical realm is left untouched, yet the album’s merit as a complete, cohesive statement is never in question. Mr. Misunderstood provides further justification for Church’s stardom—the ability to harness country, rock, blues, and pop into a singular body of work that is equal parts maturity and digestible fun is an ability unique to Eric Church.

While eason 11 of Grey’s Anatomy left fans in a fragile state—thanks to emotions evoked in part by the temporary disappearance of Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), the will-theywon’t-they relationship of Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) and Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen), and the inconceivable death of one sweet-talking, chiseled-jawed Dr. Mc-

Dreamy (Patrick Dempsey)—season 12 returns to the relatively optimistic roots of Grey’s Anatomy.

With the winter finale of season 12 looming ominously in the not-so-distant future, fans anxiously anticipate a signature Shonda-Rhimes shake-up.

The TV producer has played it safe so far, as the first seven episodes of the newest season are unusually lacking in drama. As if acknowledging the emotional strife she imposed upon her loyal Grey’s groupies, Rhimes treats

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her recovering fans to a light-hearted start for the show’s 12th season.

The new season takes on touchy social issues like white privilege and homophobia, includes more awkward sexual encounters, and is sprinkled with surprise reunions of the most uncomfortable sort. Maggie (Kelly McCreary) follows in the footsteps of her surgical superiors by having supposedly meaningless sex with an intern. Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) skirts awkwardly

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around Owen (Kevin McKidd) due to their inability to determine their relationship. Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) are still separated after agreeing to see other people. Without making any more heartbreaking decisions to kill off more favorite characters, Rhimes has held off from inflicting any emotional injury on her viewers—well, at least for now.

The most shocking aspect of the new season is undoubtedly the arrival of Callie’s new girlfriend, Penny, a soft-spoken surgeon who is perfect apart from one minor detail: her negligence was the ultimate cause of Derek’s untimely death.

While Meredith grapples with this incredible coincidence, she seeks the reassuring consolation of her best friend and “person” Alex (Justin Chambers). Tensions rise even higher when yet another individual emerges from a main character’s past, as signs of Owen’s posttraumatic stress resurface when he sees the face of nemesis Nathan Riggs. Because Riggs’ identity is still shrouded in mystery, viewers simply see this new cast member as yet another hot doctor with an incredible intellect, but this time

with a dreamy Australian accent to boot.

Throughout the newest seven episodes of the critically-acclaimed hospital drama, the viewers have laughed, they’ve cried, but mostly they’ve lamented over the glory days when Grey’s had Christina Yang’s sarcastic quips and Derek’s perfectly-coiffed head of hair.

Despite plot re dundanc y, Rhimes keeps Grey’s Anatomy engaging. Even after the countless freak accidents and traumatic character deaths that have transpired over the course of 12 seasons, the show has yet to falter in content quality and popularity. While this season has not reached the absurd melodrama of the preceding season, Grey’s Anatomy delivers episodes that allow viewers to sit back, relax, and recuperate from the emotional onslaught of Derek Shepherd’s demise—if only for a moment. Because, much like the familiar first notes of The Fray’s “How To Save A Life,” played during the show’s most distressing scenes, the familiar pangs of the Rhimes-ian doctor drama are sure to return to the ABC original series in due time.

This last weekend, Missy Elliott’s new song “WTF (Where They From)” hit YouTube and racked up almost 13 million views in less than a week. This is the first song the singer has released in several years, and the first the public has heard from her since her appearance at the Super Bowl this past February. To say that her new music video was wellreceived and much-anticipated would be a supreme understatement, as her status as a pioneer in the genre of female hip-hop continues to captivate audiences to this day.

Featuring Pharrell Williams (coming off of his immensely popular song “Happy”), the video brought the widely known “Queen of Hip-Hop” to new levels of stardom, as a result of the video’s heightened sense of innovation and glamour compared even to Elliott’s past works. The sense that Elliott is light-years ahead of everyone in the industry was reiterated to viewers through the song’s catchy dance beats and smooth but sassy vocals. Elliott first appears wearing an ensemble ripped straight off a disco ball, and continues the video with high-energy hip-hop dancers and progressive lyrics that question the sincerity of media portrayals of entertainers.

The video gets even odder with the addition of Missy and Pharrell turned into marionette puppets, which appear as surprisingly realistic interpretations of the singers. This eccentric concept was extended upon when Elliott and others rose up out of rows of boxes wearing a lot of plastic, while other people took up hibernation in their boxes similar to those trapped in the pods of The Matrix. In combination with plenty of lighting effects, glitter, and futuristic-themed lyrics, Elliott showed audiences that her innovative brand of music remains relevant in today’s music culture, and maintains freshness even as a veteran in her career.

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LOWER THAN ATLANTIS “The Reason” As hard as it is to admit, Bieber’s latest single, “Love Yourself,” defies skepitc expectations.

“Love Yourself” really is the anti-Bieber: it has bitter, thoughtful lyrics instead of generic, love drunk ones. It’s simplistic instead of overproduced. By the looks of it, Bieber is well on his way to reclaiming his image.

This single from Lower Than Atlantis, will please your early-2000s pop rock sensibilities. LTA’s newest single contributes the same vanilla flavor to the oversaturated pop rock market, but it still might get stuck in your head for a few days.

SIA “Bird Set Free” As she channels the empowering darkness that epitomized “Chandelier” and “Elastic Heart,” Sia tells the world that maintaining both quality and popularity is possible even in the pop music industry. “Bird Set Free” soars triumphantly, as an anthem to be blasted through the car on a cold New England night.

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Despite having a wealth of winnable home games this fall, BC never really played a game that was fun to watch.

The offense was clearly outmatched against Florida State, Virginia Tech, and NC State.

The games against Maine and Northern Illinois were technically decent non-conference wins, but were unconvincing and showed signs of the Eagles’ struggles to come. The Howard rout quickly became no fun to watch, and all that’s left then is that time Wake Forest came to town.

After that stretch of lessthan-enjoyable games, it’s rather impressive that over 28,000 fans showed up to BC’s home finale against NC State. I probably wouldn’t have bought a ticket and gone if I hadn’t already coughed up the cash for a Gold Pass back in June—an early purchase that entered me into the crapshoot

of a lottery for Fenway tickets.

I can’t complain anymore, since I did end up with a ticket (thanks Kat) that will get me to Fenway one last time in 2015. I’ll be one of just about 5,000 maroon and gold fans—that’s the number of tickets BC was able to distribute, anyway. I still haven’t met another person that will be in the stands with me, since a good portion of the tickets surely went to top donors.

The thing about that is, if BC really does manage to pull out this upset, it won’t be in front of its fans like the upset over Southern California was last season. Fans will hear about it, and maybe even recognize it as the greatest upset in BC football history.

But they won’t proclaim this season saved—they’ll just ask, frustrated, “Why didn’t we play like this earlier?”

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If Virginia Tech can make Steve Addazio react this way, don’t be surprised to see a lot of headsets flying when BC takes on Notre Dame on Saturday.

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The Eagles will have a lot of trouble with Irish wide receiver Will Fuller (3). Oh, and the entire team, too.

BC perspective, at least) the school’s biggest athletic rival.

Yup, that’ll just about do it.

Let’s look at it first from the football perspective.

Offensively, a good performance against a solid Fighting Irish defense could separate some players in a quest to find who will earn starting time next season.

One of the most important places that may be is on the offensive line. Some of Addazio’s top recruits from last season, including Anthony Palazzolo, were redshirted with the idea that they’d be ready to take over for BC’s two senior line members: Harris Williams and Dave Bowen.

Yet with Aaron Monteiro, Chris Lindstrom, and James Hendren—all freshmen or redshirt freshmen—seeing considerable time, not to mention holdovers Jim Cashman, Jon Baker, and Frank Taylor sticking around, it may ease Addazio’s difficult task at separating the good from the elite.

The same goes for those wideouts, who will face the 37th-best passing defense in the country in terms of yards per game. If one of those underclassmen can separate

themselves—if Addazio allows Fadule to pass a reasonable amount of time, that is—then they could see the top of the depth chart entering next season.

As for this defense, a win against Notre Dame will prove this team hasn’t given up this coaching staff. Let’s face it: there’s no reason for this defense to keep putting in their stellar efforts each week except for pride and faith in the staff. So far, it has done a superb job keeping the energy up. Now wouldn’t be the time to pull back.

For this coaching staff, and for Addazio himself, it will, at least temporarily, dispel the notion that he can’t handle the big stage. In his head coaching career, the criticism has been fair. Between BC and Temple, his teams have defeated one ranked team—No. 9 Southern California last year, if you haven’t heard—in eight total tries.

Addazio is also a mere 15-23 in-conference at his two schools—8-15 in the ACC while serving as BC’s coach alone. A well-coached win against arguably the toughest opponent he has had to face yet will quell the worry that he can’t live up to the moment.

From a non-team perspec-

tive, a win would (temporarily) distract from what has turned out to be a brutal year for the Eagles.

BC has lost games in ways that haven’t seemed possible: Smith’s phantom touchdown against Duke, throwing away fumbles against Louisville and Florida State, the Wake Forest game that I’m still trying to process.

While it’s still troublesome that the team hasn’t won a game in the ACC, beating Notre Dame could provide some hope for next season.

It proves the Eagles, a team that will largely be intact next season, have a shot against upper-level competition. And it’ll crush Notre Dame’s playoff chances, too.

I’m not promising an upset, nor am I expecting one. I’m just saying, in the event that something amazing like that can happen, give the guys in maroon and gold a break.

After all, they just beat Notre Dame. That has to count for something hopeful for this program. ...Right?

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9: mj% Efki\ ;Xd\ Xk =\enXp n`cc [\Ôe`k\cp i`c\ lg k_\ dXjj\j Holy War, from B8 the helmet will still be bright gold. It’s bold, and its plays well with the Fenway color scheme, but it doesn’t hold up to the BC throwbacks.

The old BC logo makes it alone, and we can all agree that this logo is far better than the current one. With the dulled out maroon and gold giving it a real authentic old-school look, these can’t be beat. You just can’t beat retro. Flutie magic is in the air, and hopefully in these uniforms.

HOLY WAR HYPE SCOREBOARD UPDATE: Notre Dame: 1, BC: 2.

Next, the ACC Digital network is getting in on the action, making a promo video for the two schools.

Surprisingly, the video actually favors the Eagles. In terms of exact seconds, the Eagles actually get slightly more airtime as the video goes back and forth between highlights of the two teams. The BC highlights are mostly of the front seven getting sacks and tackles for a loss, and the secondary gets some love too. The BC offense clocks in with a whopping three offensive highlights in the video, compared to 10 defensive. We get Jonathan Hilliman and Charlie Callinan scoring against NIU and a one-second shot of

Tyler Rouse doing a shake and bake.

Notre Dame’s highlights are all from the offense, so they get the edge there despite getting less time on screen.

The deciding factor in this video is the Steve Addazio voiceover throughout the video, which at times cuts to the actual video of his locker room speech in the week leading up the Florida State game.

The first line in the video goes, “You’ll bear fruit, if you do what’s necessary to bear fruit.”

It’s an A+ line. He’s talking about a bunch of guys hitting each other on a field for 60 minutes, and using phrases like “bearing fruit.” It’s golden, and for that, BC wins this video.

HOLY WAR HYPE SCOREBOARD UPDATE: Notre Dame: 1, BC: 3 That’s it. That’s your final score. Right now, BC is holier than Notre Dame, by a score of 3-1.

Does this all really matter though? Yes, and I don’t care what you think. I can dish out all the imaginary points I want.

IT’S THE HOLY WAR DUDE!!!!! And right now BC is in the lead.

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See this man? That’s Notre Dame QB Deshone Kizer. And he’s getting pumped up for the Holy War by scoring touchdowns all over the place.

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Kizer, a sophomore dual-threat, has performed beyond expectations since replacing the injured Malik Zaire in the second game of the season. Kizer has accounted for 24 total touchdowns, 16 through the air and eight on the ground. Most impressively, he has completed 66.2 percent of his passes, 16th among FBS quarterbacks, and has thrown just six interceptions, despite playing in an offense that looks to stretch the field with big plays. He has a very strong arm, as well as an ability to move well in the pocket while searching for an open throwing lane. As a runner, Kizer adds an extra dimension to the offense, as defenses must account for him on read option plays.

The extra attention paid to Kizer has certainly benefited Prosise. The converted receiver has rushed for 975 yards and 11 touchdowns, while averaging an impressive 6.6 yards per carry. Kelly looks to get Prosise to the edge, where he can deploy his speed. He has been one of the most explosive backs in the country, with 18 runs of more than 15 yards. Along with Kizer, he has led a Notre Dame

rushing attack that averages well over 200 yards per game.

Occasionally, Notre Dame’s desire to get to the outside has led to some sideways runs that go nowhere. The Irish rank 99th in the nation in offensive plays that end behind the line of scrimmage. Despite missing most of the last two games with a concussion, Prosise is expected to suit up for Saturday’s game.

Fuller is the main beneficiary of the continued excellence of the run game. As the team’s primary receiver, he has amassed 937 yards and 12 touchdowns on the season, while averaging 19.9 yards per reception.

Notre Dame likes to target Fuller on deep routes, particularly off play action, where extra defenders must commit to stopping the run.

Against BC, look for Notre Dame to remain committed to the ground game. Its ability to gash a defense with runs to the outside bodes well for a matchup with the nation’s top run defense, which is far more fearsome between the tackles than on the perimeter. If the Fighting Irish can establish a consistent run game, it could be a long day for the BC defense. With its secondary’s depth tested for the first time all season, the Eagles allowed four pass plays of over 20 yards against NC State in their last game. Expect the Irish to send Fuller deep fairly often,

confident in their star’s ability to beat BC’s man coverage. With their offensive balance, as well as an explosive nature, BC’s defense must limit the big plays—Don Brown’s unit has surrendered just 15 plays of over 40 yards, second in the nation—to keep BC fans in their expensive seats.

On defense, the secondary remains the Irish’s strength this season, as the team ranks 36th in passing yards allowed per game. Opponents haven’t exploited Notre Dame through the air consistently, as a strong defensive line aides the capable secondary. Senior defensive tackle Romeo Okwara ranks eighth in the nation with nine sacks and senior defensive end Sheldon Day has added 13.5 tackles for loss, leading the team. The strong pass coverage is the driving force behind the defense’s success on third down, as they allow opponents to convert just 31.7 percent of the time, 15th in the country.

Run defense might be the one chink in Notre Dame’s armor, as the Irish allow 163.4 yards per game on the ground, with opposing backs getting 4.49 yards per carry. Despite its strong play in passing situations, the Notre Dame defensive front can sometimes be driven back by a physical offensive line on run plays. Wake Forest, a team not normally known for its rushing prowess, used its run game to effectively control the clock against

the Irish last week. Despite losing 28-7, the Deacons controlled the ball for just over 35 minutes, minimizing the time Notre Dame’s potent offense possessed the ball. The strategy provides an interesting template for an upset-minded opponent.

Fortunately for Notre Dame, it should be able to divert most of its resources to corralling the run game on Saturday. BC’s struggles through the air have rendered the offense onedimensional. Even so, Notre Dame must be on guard for deep play-action throws from John Fadule, something Steve Addazio has added to the offense in recent weeks. The Irish don’t want to allow BC to string together successful drives, which could energize the underdog.

Marked as the road team in their own city, the Eagles will obviously enter the game with a great deal of momentum. Even with the added desire to win, the recent bye week and the tendency of underdogs to rise to the occasion in rivalry games will take an effort vastly superior to any that the Eagles have produced this season for them to crush Notre Dame’s playoff aspirations. While the actual game might not offer them much consolation, at least the players can take solace in their throwback jerseys, remnants of a bygone era in which theirs was the team to beat.

9: ZXe Zcfj\ `kj j\Xjfe n`k_ Y`^ lgj\k BC Preview, from B8 the injury bug ruin its season. Notre Dame actually lost its star players to injury before BC did, having lost standout running back Tarean Folston to a torn ACL in the season-opener against Texas, and Heisman-hopeful quarterback Malik Zaire to a broken ankle in the very next game against Virginia. The Eagles, on the other hand, didn’t lose quarterback Darius Wade and Jonathan Hilliman until the third and fourth game of the season, respectively, to broken ankles.

“It’s easier when you have a bunch of good surrounding pieces, you can plug a guy in and make that go,” Addazio said at his Monday press conference. “We don’t have a firstround draft pick out at wide receiver.

We don’t have a veteran offensive line that is playing like that. So it’s not quite the same deal.”

When confronted with similar adversity, the two teams have responded in different ways. When the Irish lost Zaire late in the game against Virginia, Deshone Kizer coolly stepped off the bench and threw the game-winning touchdown pass. In contrast, when Darius Wade went down for the Eagles, Troy Flutie entered the game and proceeded to turn the ball over on downs and lose the game. The Irish have won despite their injuries, while

the Eagles have lost because of them.

As good as Notre Dame may be this year, the Eagles are not without hope. BC’s defense is as good as any unit in the country, ranking first nationally in total yards per game, yards per rush, and yards per play.

“We have good athletes, too,” Johnson said.

Only one team has managed to score more than 30 points against the Eagles, and that was Clemson in Death Valley (34 points). The Eagles have arguably the best defensive frontseven in the country, and will be the stiffest test that Irish running backs C.J. Prosise and Josh Adams have faced all season. While the Irish will likely struggle running the ball on Saturday, it seems that their best chance to move the chains and score points lies through the air, where an Eagles secondary missing the services of standout cornerback Kamrin Moore will be tasked with slowing down one of the most dynamic passing attacks in the country. Irish wide receiver Will Fuller is having one of the best seasons for a pass-catcher in Notre Dame history, having already totaled 937 receiving yards and 12 touchdown receptions, including the game-winner at Virginia.

The best way for the Eagles to limit Notre Dame’s passing attack on Saturday is for the BC front-seven to

generate consistent pressure on Kizer in order to keep the deep passing plays from developing in the first place, but falling short of that, the Eagles’ secondary needs to be disciplined and prepared to make a play when the ball is in the air, particularly when it is thrown to Fuller. “[The Irish wideouts] do such an amazing job of high-pointing the ball and getting separation from defenders,” Simmons said. “We need to do our best, play the ball, challenge the receivers, and make plays.”

Make no mistake, BC’s offense is dreadful and the Notre Dame defense is stout, but the Eagles have done a few things well in recent weeks that they hope to build on this Saturday. The insertion of freshman walk-on quarterback John Fadule into the starting lineup has provided something of a spark for the Eagles’ offense, and two weeks ago he threw for 257 yards against NC State—the most for a BC quarterback in over two years. Hopefully coming off the bye week with an extra week of practice, Fadule has built upon the chemistry he showed with his receivers against NC State and is ready to generate some explosive plays for the Eagles offense. Wide receiver Thadd Smith shows flashes of talent every week for the Eagles and scored BC’s lone touchdown against NC State two weeks ago—he will likely be

the one Fadule targets if he decides to throw the ball deep.

Running the ball should be difficult for the Eagles on Saturday—as it has been all year—and Notre Dame middle linebacker Jaylon Smith might be the fiercest defender the Eagles’ offense has reckoned with all season.

Smith is projected to be a high firstround NFL draft pick (one of several on the Irish defense, along with Sheldon Day and KeiVarae Russell) and will likely cause the Eagles all kinds of trouble on Saturday.

As the years go by, the sting of defeat will dull and the losses will fade away. With the exception of the Wake Forest game, the day will come when people will forget all about the tough losses that the Eagles have suffered this fall. Hard as it may seem to believe now, in 30 years it is unlikely that anyone will remember the 24-8 loss to NC State.

A win over the Irish in Fenway Park Saturday night, on the other hand, will forever immortalize the 2015 Eagles in BC football lore, and will add another chapter to an old rivalry filled with exciting finishes and unpredictable upsets. As big as the win over USC was last year, a win over the Irish this year would be even bigger due to the nature of the rivalry, the unique venue, and Notre Dame’s postseason aspirations.

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Junior Kelly Hughes continued her streak of double-digit scoring with an efficient 17-point performance, filling the stat sheet in all the right areas with five rebounds and zero turnovers. Emilee Daley chipped in 11 points off the bench, adding three crucial 3-pointers that stretched the defense and opened up the post game for freshman center Mariella Fasoula.

Fasoula, a 6-foot-4 native of Greece, was perhaps the biggest surprise for the Eagles on Wednesday, emerging from the bench and torching the Crusaders for 12 points and five boards against a solid Holy Cross interior defense.

“The post presence this year is way different,” Daley said. “It’ll open up a lot more shots because

[defenses] are going to be having to sag in on the post because they’re going to be getting layups all day.”

For much of the game, Fasoula was a machine that BC would not stop feeding. Nearly all of her field goals were identical: A guard would feed her the ball deep in the paint, a low post move would give her just enough room to sneak past the defender, and she would flip her signature underhand scoop off the glass and in. It was automatic—only sometimes too automatic.

Fasoula’s instinct to turn and shoot led to many buckets for the Eagles, but it also caused her to ignore open guards along the perimeter when double teams came her way. The potentially lethal inside-out game, head coach Erik Johnson said, is still developing.

“Last year, we were a great shooting team,” he said. “This year, clearly, we’re emphasizing the inside game. But the problem is, how many times did that ball go in and it never came back out?”

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correct read, however, the result was a beautiful synthesis of the team’s strong inside presence and deadly long-range shooting from veterans Hughes and Daley.

On one particularly telling play, Fasoula received a pass on the low block and sensed a double team approaching. She immediately kicked the ball out to the open guard on the wing, who found Daley in the corner for a wide-open three.

“That was our best possession of the game for us offensively,” Johnson said. “When that happens, I really think we’re going to be able to stretch the floor in huge ways and score easy baskets inside, as well as get open threes on the perimeter.”

It wasn’t all pretty for the Eagles, though, who turned the ball over 13 times and often found themselves stuck with the shot clock winding down and little to no open looks at the basket. The offense stalled out frequently in the first half, as the guards had trouble getting the ball down low and Holy Cross shut down shots

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Another bright spot for the Eagles was backup freshman point guard Stephanie Jones. Listed at a generous 5-foot-7, Jones doesn’t make it far past Fasoula’s hip, but she showed off her skill at the helm of the second team offense.

Although Jones only put up two points, she tallied two assists, one steal, and, most importantly, a knack for disrupting opposing point guards with stout defense.

As for the other members of the starting five, they will have to improve their play if they want any chance of being a contender in the ACC. Hughes aside, the first team disappeared in the first half, as key scorers Ella Awobajo, Martina Mosetti, and Katie Quandt finished with a combined nine points.

While the progressing squad isn’t quite ready to take down powerhouse ACC programs at the moment, the team is finding its groove behind Kelly Hughes and the renewed inside-out game plan that has the Eagles sitting undefeated to start the season.

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Sports Editor If you asked me at the beginning of the season what would happen come the Shamrock Series, I would’ve said Notre Dame would be fighting for a playoff spot, while BC would be gunning for bowl eligiblity. I was half right. Unfortunately, it was the half I feared would be right.

And now, here we are, at this game, and I’m forced to give a prediction for this game. I’m not picking Notre Dame. And you can’t make me.

Prediction: BC 14, Notre Dame 10 JACK STEDMAN

Assoc. Sports Editor I’m feeling optimistic. Harris Williams mentioned how he hates Notre Dame and ‘Cuse the most. You could tell that it was a no-nonsense kind of hate, where you just go out there, keep a level-head, outplay them, and beat ‘em. Then you go wild. In an ideal world, Addazio gets his team fired up for a possible seasonsaving game. In an ideal world, Addazio has been stringing Notre Dame along with some awful play this year just to spring a multi-faceted surprise attack and unleash every weapon in new ways. He’s been saving all his cards for this one game. In an ideal world, the defense plays its best game of the year, the offense breaks out of its conservative shell, and the Eagles shock the world. Like I said, I’m feeling optimistic.

Prediction: BC 21, Notre Dame 17 TOM DEVOTO

Asst. Sports Editor I wanted to pick BC to win this game so badly.

I wanted to write that the Eagles, in storybook fashion, would end the Fighting Irish’s playoff hopes with the biggest upset of the 2015 season.

I wanted to write that Notre Dame would regret choosing the country’s most storied ballpark as a location for a home game against a team from that city. But I just can’t do it. At this point, I know all too well what is going to happen on Saturday.

Prediction: Notre Dame 13, BC 7

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It has been an incredibly trying season for all involved with Boston College football.

Trust me, no one knows that more than me.

Regardless of the cliches that Steve Addazio has impressed upon you in his weekly Monday afternoon press conferences, this season has been an abject failure, even for a rebuilding year. And don’t put yourself in the spin zone by recalling the mighty BC defense, and how it has stifled its opponents, holding them to the least yards and the third-least points in the country—whatever gets you through the night. It won’t work.

But you also must remember that the defense wasn’t the issue heading into this year. No one should be surprised that the defense was dominant, though the fact that it has been the nation’s best gives positive vibes.

No, it’s the offense that was supposed to develop. And that has not happened, no matter how you trick yourself.

Darius Wade, the guy who was supposed to be BC’s next starting quarterback, has hung out on the bench since Nile Lawrence-Stemple ate his ankle in the season’s third week. Addazio often claims the Eagles now have four trained quarterbacks who have seen time against ACC teams. That’s not really the case.

Instead, BC has four players, each of whom have either been shuffled around (Jeff Smith and Troy Flutie), used incorrectly based on helping them grow as quarterbacks (Smith and Wade), or gotten incredibly lucky and made the most of garbage time (John Fadule). Together, given their current experience, they make for one good serviceable quarterback. But unless they morph into one Mega Dude, BC will likely have the same growth issues it had this year behind center.

Since no true quarterback has emerged, it has hindered the development of the wide receivers, a group that already has enough trouble in the Addazio offense. The young wideouts, such as Elijah Robinson, Thadd Smith, Drew Barksdale, and Charlie Callinan, haven’t had the opportunity to evolve because of Addazio’s stubborn insistence on a run-firstand-probably-run-only offense. And yes, despite Addazio’s promise for a more balanced attack this year, that’s how this season has turned out. The Eagles have attempted a mere 213 passes this year, 10th-fewest in the country, compared to 427 rushing attempts, the 37th-most in the country.

Think twice about saying that’s the better option for the Eagles: BC only averages 153.2 yards on the ground, 91st in the nation. Every team lower than them in that category has fewer rushes. So the running game that Addazio touts as so dominant is not that efficient, making it all the more absurd that he’s not giving more of an opportunity, not only to his quarterbacks, but to his wide receivers.

Granted, that’s because his running backs have faced their own injuries, too. Their top two choices—Jonathan Hilliman (foot) and Myles Willis (shoulder)—have been sidelined for a good chunk of BC’s minutes. In addition, they’ve played behind a patchwork and youthful offensive line that has been thrust into a starting role before it was ready. And while it has been excellent practice for the line to center up against stout ACC defenses, they’ve looked wholly unprepared to work up to the task.

So yeah, it’s been a frustrating year for the Eagles.

But fear not. All of those bad vibes could disappear as soon as this Saturday evening.

All it will take is a win against the University of Notre Dame, the No. 4 team in the nation and (from the

point on the board for the little guys.

All of a sudden we are talking about points on the board. You know what that means, it’s HOLY WAR HYPE SCOREBOARD time!!!

BC hasn’t done a lot of winning this year. Sept. 26—that’s almost two months come game time—was the last time the Eagles got a W in anything football-wise. On paper, BC doesn’t have chance to end that streak on Saturday. We can hope that the players are fired up and will play with a chip on their shoulder, which they should do, but talent is talent and Notre Dame has much more. So for now the only thing that matters is winning the hype battle.

So far, we’re tied up. Notre Dame: 1, BC 1.

Notre Dame gets Fenway, but BC gets the Pru for the whole day. The two team are even on historic landmarks.

Next up, uniforms. These are some beauties. Notre Dame is going with the Green Monster approach. The players will be decked out in a green uni, while

In nearing the end of a season filled with constant analysis and critique about the ineptitude of his offense, Steve Addazio has one number that he really can’t ignore. Sure, the head coach of Boston College football can try to get through each day by writing odes to the top-three defense he has inherited and rationalizing his bottom-10 offense through injury and inexperience, but what he can’t avoid is the goose egg that has gradually sunk and made a home at the bottom of the conference win column in the ACC’s Atlantic Division. That’s the telltale heart thumping in his head, the one number besides bowl-eligibility wins that can sum up a year in one swoop. And this week, there’s nothing he can do to stop it from beating.

On Saturday, No. 4 Notre Dame will be in Boston to take on an Eagles program that hasn’t topped the Irish on the football field since 2008. This one’s at good-ol’ Fenway Park though, shoved a little uncomfortably from the third-base line to the bullpens in right. And believe it or not, a football field actually fits—I know, I was doubtful, too, but the lines are already drawn.

I’ll warn you, before you take a look, this is a Notre Dame home game. This means not only Notre Dame colors, but also large, sprawling text reading “Notre Dame” and “Fighting Irish” are covering the Red Sox’ field. It’s a travesty—I mean fact—that pales in comparison to BC’s lack of tickets, but what are you gonna do?

To take your mind off that, here’s a hypothetical scene to ponder: the Eagles’ defense steps onto the field at Fenway on Saturday and turns its game up to 11. It holds the Irish to a single touchdown in the first quarter and returns a fumble for a score in the second quarter, keeping the game knotted up at halftime. John Fadule comes out of the locker room and uses his retro BC jersey to channel Doug Flutie, leading the Eagles 70 yards for a score. The defense allows Notre Dame into the red zone twice more, forcing a field goal on the first and a turnover-on-downs on the second.

Time expires, Addazio beams, the mini section of BC supporters goes crazy.

And yet, other than getting some satisfaction from knocking Notre Dame out of a spot in the playoff, it doesn’t really matter.

Regardless of whether BC wins on Saturday, that won’t change the fact that the team will finish in the bottom-five in the ACC. For all this team’s youth coming into the season, for all the injuries it has suffered at premier positions, there was no reason this team had to be the worst in the ACC. Let’s take a quick look at the oneconference-win teams, all of which are currently, technically better than BC. First is Georgia Tech, which knocked off No. 9 Florida State. Then there’s Syracuse, a team that picked up an early-season win against another one-win team, Wake Forest, which in turn picked up its only win in that 3-0 shutout against BC, a game that may have been the worst college football game to watch of all time.

That wasn’t the only close game that BC lost in excruciating fashion—the 9-7 loss to Duke featured a missed BC field goal and the 17-14 loss to Louisville featured the Cardinals returning a Jeff Smith fumble for a touchdown. So close, yet ….

The Eagles will get one more chance to pick up a conference win against the Orange in a week and a half, a game that will finally put this headache-inducing season to bed and give BC’s coaching staff nine months to reevaluate its offensive strategy, or maybe at least to draw up a new play.

What the Eagles don’t have another

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THE GREEN MONSTERS 9fjkfe :fcc\^\% Efki\ ;Xd\% =\enXp GXib% 8 ^Xd\ p\Xij `e k_\ dXb`e^ `j Ô eXccp _\i\% 9P :?I@J EFP<J ?\`^_kj JkX]] Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith couldn’t contain his anticipation for the game any longer. “I’m very excited when it comes to dressing up appropriately and being in style,” Smith said.

Smith’s confession summed up the main focus of fans heading into this week’s Shamrock Series game at Fenway Park, where College Football Playoff contender, the University of Notre Dame (9-1), takes on Boston College (3-7, 0-7 ACC). Rather than the game, people have paid more attention to the uniforms—Notre Dame will wear special Green Monster-themed uniforms and BC will counter with throwback jerseys commemorating the 30th anniversary of their 1985 Cotton Bowl victory and Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary against Miami—than the historic venue.

9P J:FKK ?@CC =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Boston College will take on the University of Notre Dame on Saturday evening in what is the Eagles’ last chance to make this year memorable for the right reasons. As bad as the Eagles have been this season, and for all the painful losses they’ve endured, if they can find a way to ruin Notre Dame’s National Championship hopes on Saturday night at Fenway Park before a national TV audience, the season will not have been in vain. A win on Saturday would mark one of the greatest victories in program history, and would at least give the team—and the fans—something to feel good about as they prepare to spend bowl season in front of the fireplace.

“Throw the records out of the window,” junior defensive back John Johnson said. “This game matters the most.”

The Fighting Irish enter this game holding an impressive

Fans have good reasons for treating the outcome of the game as a mere formalNOV. 21. 2015 ity, with Vegas installing BC vs. Notre Dame Notre Dame as an over7 p.m.

NBCSN|Ch. 57 whelming 16-point favorite. Between BC’s anemic offense and Notre Dame’s general dominance, anything other than another comfortable victory for the Fighting Irish would qualify as an upset.

Coach Brian Kelly’s squad is paced by an explosive offense. Scoring 36.2 points per game, the Irish have scored 11 touchdowns this season of more than 50 yards. According to Football Outsiders, Notre Dame averages over 10 yards per play on 27.4 percent of drives, fifth among FBS teams. The

See ND Preview, B7 9-1 record to go along with a No. 4 national ranking, while their only loss came at the hands of No. 1 Clemson University (by two points, at that). Notre Dame began the season with a rout of the University of Texas at home (a team that went on to beat Oklahoma University) before making short work of ACC foes Virginia and then-No. 14 Georgia Tech. Following its loss to Clemson, Notre Dame has strung together five consecutive victories over good teams, putting itself in the thick of the College Football Playoff conversation.

BC head coach Steve Addazio has complained all year about how things would be different if only his starting quarterback and running back didn’t get hurt, but the Irish don’t want to hear it. Like the Eagles, Notre Dame knows what it’s like to lose its starting quarterback and running back to season-ending injuries, but unlike the Eagles, the Irish haven’t let

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>\k gldg\[1 @kËj k`d\ ]fi k_\ ?fcp NXi JACK STEDMAN I won’t say that things are heating up, because nothing is hot about this Boston College team right now. Nonetheless, the hype is starting to build for the big matchup with Notre Dame this Saturday.

IT’S THE HOLY WAR! YEAH, GET AMPED. But wait, it’s a Notre Dame home game. Fenway Park is already plastered in green and gold, and the stands will only have a small section of BC fans.

Brian Kelly is the big bully, coming into Addazio’s own backyard and triumphantly sticking his flag in the ground.

The whole thing adds a little insult to injury for Eagles fans, who have suffered through enough this year and now don’t even get to call this game their own.

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A small debate is popping up regarding this point. Notre Dame gets to be the home team? In the city of Boston?!?! They don’t even get one endzone that says “Boston College”!!

What a joke BC is.

Well, better that BC is the opponent than UConn or UMass.

That doesn’t make sense, though.

Why would Notre Dame ever want to schedule UConn or UMass? Everyone in their right mind sees the rivalry and the marketing gold mine that comes with the BC-ND matchup. IT’S THE FREAKING HOLY WAR! Doug Flutie is running around some random dock in full pads, rocking the Under Armour throwback jersey and throwing deep passes. If that doesn’t get you all kinds of fired up, then go back to bed.

Fans just have to live with the fact that until BC gets back to the Flutie or Matty Ice glory days of yesteryear, Notre Dame can do these kinds of things and the Eagles won’t get their name sprayed onto the Fenway turf.

Fear not, though. BC gets the iconic Prudential Center, which will light up in maroon and gold on Saturday. Put a

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