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BC jumped out to its first 3-0 start since the 2008-09 season with a win over Harvard, B1

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In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen says to Alice: “It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place.” Th at’s how Patricia DeLeeuw describes the University’s recruitment and retainment of AHANA faculty, a trying and competitive process.

“We not only have to run very fast to keep the number of AHANA faculty where it is, but to grow it we have to run very fast, and we’ve been—I’m pleased

to say—running fast over the past 15 years,” said DeLeeuw, vice provost for faculties within the Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculties.

As of Oct. 1, data from the Office of Institutional Diversity showed that there were 828 full- time AH ANA faculty employed across seven schools within the University, making up 16 percent of the total faculty. Of the parttime faculty, there were 701 AHANA faculty members, making up 14 percent of the total.

DeLeeuw noted that when she began this position in 2000, AHANA faculty

composed 11 percent of the total faculty.

Since 2000, the University has had an increase of nearly 200 full-time faculty members.

This steady growth in full-time faculty has been met with the hiring of AHANA faculty at a higher rate to match this growth. This year, of the new permanent faculty hired across the University, 28 percent were AHANA. The rate of AHANA hires oscillates between 25 and 33 percent depending on the year, DeLeeuw said.

“Now, 11 percent to 16 percent doesn’t sound so dramatic, but when you think about the fact that the pool has grown over this 15-year period as

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“In the case of the Paris attacks, all ran according to plan, thanks in large part to the excellent work of our onsite coordinator,” Gozik said. “Within a very short time, we were able to account for

all students on the BC in Paris program, largely via social media.”

Once the safety of all these students was ascertained, OIP provided updates to all relevant senior-level administrators and staff at BC. The information was then passed onto the BC community through The Heights and a statement released by University Spokesperson Jack Dunn.

“In addition to verifying the safety of BC in Paris students, it was also necessary for us to reach out to students on other programs, some of whom study in other countries yet happened to be in Paris,” Gozik said. “Accordingly, we

sent a message to all students studying abroad, encouraging them to reach out to us if they had any concerns about friends. We also asked coordinators in other cities to check in with their students, and they did so very quickly.”

The OIP monitors news from other countries on a daily basis through a variety of sources, including reports from the U.S. Department of State, the Overseas Security Advisory Council, BC’s Office of Risk Management, and other experts.

Katharine Callahan, MCAS ’17, who is currently studying abroad in Aix-enProvence, said she found OIP helpful, informative, and comforting during the recent Paris attacks. Although her

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‘THE F-WORD BY ADVANCEHER’

Grace Lipo, MCAS ’18, is leading the campaign for UGBC’s collaborative feminism initiative.

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To represent the various ways of empowering women, the Women’s Center, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, Women in Business, Lean In, and I Am That Girl have collaborated in developing the AdvanceHER campaign. To kick-off this year-long initiative, the members have developed the F-Word campaign, spearheaded by Grace Lipo, director of UGBC’s Women and Gender Programming for Student

Initiatives and MCAS ’18. The kick-off campaign began last week and runs until Thanksgiving break.

The F-Word is a campaign where individuals in the BC community are asked to post a picture on Facebook with a caption explaining what feminism means to them. The effort is meant to bring a better understanding of what it means to be a feminist and why it is important.

AdvanceHER started as an idea Alyse Belavic, MCAS ’16, began to develop over the summer with the Women and Gender Committee in UGBC, she said.

Belavic, director of UGBC’s Women and Gender Programming for Student Assembly, believed women’s groups on campus needed to collaborate.

Belavic explained that last year there were instances when two separate women’s clubs would have similar events

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University Mission and Ministry is sponsoring a mass on Monday, Nov. 23 at 12 p.m. in St. Mary’s Chapel. Rev. Pierre De Charentenay, S.J., will lead a prayer for the victims of recent violence around the world, especially Paris and Beirut.

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Kenan Adnawi (‘oud), Sandeep Das (tabala), and Mike Block (cello) will perform new and traditional music from Syria on Monday, Nov. 23 at 8 p.m. in Gasson 100. The Road to Damascus concert is sponsored by the music department.

The Campus Activities Board is hosting a Monday Night Football event on Monday, Nov. 23 at 8:30 p.m. in the O’Connell House.

Compete in tailgating events and square pool to win prizes during halftime, and enjoy free food to kick off Thanksgiving.

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In The Happy Kid Handbook: How To Raise Joyful Children In A Stressful World, Katie Hurley, BC ’97, says that happiness is the most important part of raising happy kids. She writes that it is necessary to parent children individually, because each one is different.

In the introduction, she writes that there is an overload of information on how to parent effectively. Now, parents are faced with blogs, books, and magazines espousing parenting trends and specific ways to best do the job.

“Yes, somewhere along the way the word ‘parent’ shifted from a noun, the role people fill when they have a child, to a verb, an action word that signifies the process of executing the most rewarding yet exhausting and frequently judged job in the world,” she wrote. “Gone are the days of come-as-you-are parenting.”

Above all, Hurley emphasizes that happy kids do better in school, are more successful in relationships, and are healthier. Few books, she wrote, focus on raising happy kids. Often, parenting advice focuses on quick fixes—how to be less stressed, how to stop tantrums—that do not hold as children grow up, she wrote.

Hurley is a child and adolescent psychotherapist. At Boston College, she studied psychology and women’s studies. She is also a blogger and freelance writer on parenting. Her work is frequently featured in The Huffington Post and Everyday Family.

“It’s time to focus on raising happy kids instead,” she concluded in the book’s introduction. “Life is short— you want your kids to live happy lives by learning to follow their passions, empathize with others, appreciate those around them, and manage and cope with their own stress.”

9: gif] ni`k\j ]fi ÊGfc`k`ZfË Government-supported news media organizations are a necessary part of informing the public, co-wrote Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program visiting associate professor Martha Bayles in Politico. The article, also written by Jeffrey Gedmin, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, contends that Western governments have not found an effective way to push back against the government propaganda expressed by Russia, China, and ISIL. One solution could be a rehaul of government media services, they wrote.

“There’s a popular belief that U.S. government-sponsored media are obsolete because U.S. commercial news and entertainment penetrate every major market in the world,” they wrote in the article. “This belief is unfounded for a couple of reasons.

First, U.S. commercial news does not reach many strategic populations, and neither does it offer what is most missing in authoritarian and conflict-ridden environments—responsible journalism, including investigative reporting, about local topics and in local languages.”

Now, the greatest public diplomacy challenge for the United States is in traditional, nonWestern societies that regard the American entertainment industry as suspicious. The purpose of government-supported media is often to reach ethnic minorities or elites abroad, which commercial media usually cannot do.

What is the one way that you can make everyone at Notre Dame and Boston College mad?

“You ask, ‘Is Notre Dame a Jesuit school?’” said John McGreevy, dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame, at the start of Thursday night’s lecture.

McGreevy’s address was the inaugural lecture in the Lecture Series on Jesuit Studies promoted by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. This new lecture series is set to bring scholars in the field of Jesuit Studies to BC. The Institute, launched in 2014, was founded to promote the history, spirituality, and educational tradition of the Jesuits through various lectures, courses, workshops, and publications.

John T. McGreevy is the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He received his B.A. from Notre Dame and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He taught at Harvard before joining the faculty at Notre Dame in 1997, and has served as dean since 2008.

In his lecture, titled “American Jesuits and the World: Toward a More Global Religious History,” McGreevy discussed the suppression of the world’s Jesuits, particularly in Europe and South America, and their migration to the United States and beyond.

At the start of the event, McGreevy was presented with the George E. Ganss, S.J., Award in Jesuit Studies, which recognized his

scholarly work and contributions to the field of Jesuit Studies.

McGreevey’s lecture was about the subject of his forthcoming book, titled American Jesuits and the World, which will be published by the Princeton University Press next year.

McGreevy discussed the global dissemination of European and Latin American Jesuits.

“Over half of the world’s 2,000 Jesuits volunteered for missionary service in the 1830s and 1840s, and during that time alone, the Society established new missions in Syria, Calcutta, Argentina, India, China, Albania, Canada, Madagascar, Algeria, and Australia,” he said.

Many of these missionary Jesuits, however, moved to the U.S. more than any other place between 1814 and 1880. They migrated from places such as Germany, Paris, Switzerland, Lyon, Naples, and Mexico. In the mid-1900s, Jesuits were expelled from 22 European and Latin American countries, he said, and liberal nationals began to think that a global Catholic religious order threatened the stability of new nation states.

McGreevy honed in on the impact of Jesuits in the U.S., in particular. In 1830, the American population was about 3 percent Catholic. By 1900, almost 20 percent of the population were.

“In this sense, the Jesuits followed the Catholic tide,” McGreevy said, regarding the migration of Catholics out of Europe in the 19th century.

This newfound community of Catholic priests, Jesuits, and lay people began to create a community highly attuned to global Catholicism

A songwriting contest on Feb. 16 will give Boston College students an opportunity to explore newly rediscovered poetry, win prize money, and perform at a book launch event.

The contest was arranged by BC English professor Paul Lewis, and is sponsored by University Press of New England and BC’s Institute for the Liberal Arts.

The event is part of an effort to publicize the release of an anthology titled The Citizen Poets of Boston: A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789-1820, to be published by the University Press of New England in March of 2016.

Utilizing the liveliness of song is a way of bringing energy to the anthology’s release, Lewis said.

“Many of the poems [in the collection] have strong voices and tell compelling stories one can almost hear being sung,” Lewis said. “Having a couple of these works set to music and sung today is a delightful way of breathing new life back into them.”

The guidelines for the competition ask students to select one or two of the poems and align them

with their own, original music.

While remaining true to the text is essential, students are free to cut or repeat lines from the poetry to create a song of any style. Their songwriting work will be judged on aspects of their musical compositions as well as their song’s ability to capture the essence of the selected poems.

The competition, which will be held on campus, has attracted attention from other nearby universities.

Ten students from Berklee College of Music have already entered the contest. These entries will be judged alongside potential BC student entries by a panel comprised of Lewis, a member of the Berklee School of Music’s songwriting faculty, and BC Director of Undergraduate Music Studies, professor Jeremiah McGrann.

In an email, McGrann advised songwriting students to be passionate and creative in their work.

“Write from the heart, express the text as you feel it, [and] make the text come alive,” he suggested Those seeking to submit an entry to the contest must request a copy of the poem by Dec. 15. One month later, contestants will be asked to request a competition time

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McGreevy discussed the significant global influence the Jesuits had in history. at the time. McGreevy also discussed religious divisions among Catholics and Protestants in the 19th century which heavily influenced politics and culture and compelled Americans to seek a definition for religious liberty in this now religiously diverse nation.

In the latter portion of his lecture, McGreevy spoke of a Jesuit very significant to the BC community. He told the story of Father John Bapst, S.J., the founder of BC, and the namesake for Bapst Library.

He spoke about Bapst’s time in a small, Protestant town in Maine, his distaste for the King James Bible, and his strong belief in Catholic schools.

McGreevy discussed how Bapst exemplified the Catholic revival in three specific ways: his effort to instill

basic Catholic doctrinal knowledge in populations lacking this education, his focus on Catholic education and the importance of building “self-consciously Catholic institutions,” and his suspicion of the modern nation state. Bapst, among his roles as a parish priest and as founder of BC, was referred to as a “suffering victim of intolerance,” McGreevy said.

He continued to discuss the tension between Catholics and Protestants in America and throughout the world at the time and how this religious conflict possesses further global implications.

“This global consciousness provides a professional opportunity, maybe even a professional obligation, for historians interested in Catholicism,” he said.

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and indicate which poem or poems they will perform. Their creative work will culminate in a presentation of their songs at the competition, during which two pieces will each be awarded $250. In addition, the victorious musicians will be invited to perform their pieces at Boston-based book launch events in the spring of 2016.

The poems that are part of the contest were selected over a threeyear period ending in 2014, when Lewis worked closely with 17 BC English majors to review over 4,500 poems found in 59 Boston magazines published in the late 1700s and early 1800s. This effort began as a part of a spring 2011 seminar on Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History. During this time, students assisted Lewis in creating an exhibition sharing the title of their course. The exhibit was on display at the Boston Public Library and Massachusetts Historical Society in 2012.

Until the creation of online archives, Lewis said, it was difficult to access and read American poems published in the years directly after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. In addition, most poems published in the U.S. during these

decades were copied from prior publications in England.

Due to this inaccessibility and political bias, literary historians have generally held poetic work from this period in low esteem.

Assisted primarily by the American Periodical Series online, Lewis and his students selected 160 poems that they feel are reflective of Boston during this time.

Social movements central to Bostonians at the time, as well as themes of life, death, love, and family are all present in the recovered works.

Dedicated to the students who worked on the project, the anthology will be released this spring.

Some of these students have worked with Lewis since their time in his seminar continuing on the project after graduating from BC. The back cover text invites potential readers to travel back in time.

“We searched for poems that captured the texture of life—what people were doing, thinking, and feeling —here during the early national period. We chose poems that called out to us by providing access to the shops, streets, taverns, schools, and homes of Old Boston” Lewis said.

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CORRECTIONS This correction is in reference to Vol. XCVI, No. 44.

The article titled ‘Disrupting the BC business education’ misidentified Marissa Venuto as Maria Venuto.

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1:30 p.m. - A report was filed regarding possession of Class D with intent in Hardey House.

4:59 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an actual fire in the Middle Campus lots.

Thursday, Nov. 19 8:39 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance in Higgins Hall.

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On Forbes.com, users are used to scrolling through articles that highlight lessons of innovation and creativity from firms like Apple and Google. Andrew Boynton, Dean of the Carroll School of Management and contributor to Forbes, however, explores what there is to learn from a different kind of company, seemingly unrelated to business: improv companies.

In “Four Big Lessons From Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey And Other Improv Masters,” Boynton explores what improv companies have to teach about innovation and creativity.

In an interview with The Heights Boyn-

ton said that he has taken the lessons he writes about in the article into his work at Boston College, specifically, within his work with BC’s core curriculum.

Through teamwork, innovation and creativity within the BC faculty, the new pilot courses, as well as Portico, were created. The new pilot core courses are interdisciplinary courses only open to freshmen.

These courses are taught by two faculty members from two different fields that are brought together within one course.

In 2005, Boynton suggested to faculty and alumni that an ethical aspect be added to the CSOM curriculum. After gathering an interdisciplinary team, discussing the idea, and molding the curriculum, Portico

was created.

Four years after the initial suggestion, Portico was officially introduced to the CSOM core requirement in 2009. Boynton explains that creativity and innovation are, in themselves, a whole field and discipline that researchers have researched and written about.

Boynton stressed the importance of teamwork and building off others’ ideas is in creating anything.

Team members, he said, should not be so focused on controlling their idea’s outcome and receiving maximum credit for the work, but should instead be constantly building on each other’s ideas.

Although the article explains the lessons within the context of the improv stage, Boynton made it clear that the

focus of the article was not humor or improv.

Rather, the article focuses on the methods and processes that surround and foster innovation and creativity.

“It’s not that I take a liking to improv, I’m very interested in creativity, innovation, and teamwork,” Boynton said. “I looked at improv as another interesting setting where creativity and innovation flourish. Innovation and creativity are all about coming up with new ideas, and new ideas are how progress happens.”

His article listed four lessons every improviser has internalized in order to maximize creativity and innovation: no one is the most important person in the scene, everyone must learn to love when they are failing, people should be

open to changing their ideas, and lastly, everyone should try to respond with “Yes, and ....”

Boynton stressed the importance of a team’s dynamic, explaining that the individual is not the most important person in the scene, not because someone else is more important, but rather in the sense that everyone should be open to learning from those around them.

“I went to BC as an undergrad and always instilled in me was ‘Ever to Excel,’” Boynton said. “So, what that is to me, is to always try to get better. I always have a sense of discontent about where we are as a school and how to get better. You need to create a culture of innovation and creativity. I’m never about maintaining the status quo.”

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Belavic said that AdvanceHER is similar, but on a more collaborative level. “[All of the women’s groups] have different focuses within women’s issues,” Temi Ojo, assistant director of Women and Gender Programming for Student Initiatives and MCAS ’18, said. “But we’re all trying to accomplish female empowerment.”

Both Ojo and Lipo noted that UGBC’s Women and Gender Committee focuses on self-esteem, while Women in Business is career-oriented.

AdvanceHER, however, unifies the groups over the issue of empowerment and the F-Word campaign is just the start.

After spearheading the UGBC’s What I Be campaign last year, Belavic said she saw that BC was still lacking female empowerment. Lipo and Ojo also expressed their concerns about the need for female empowerment.

“What really spoke to me is that there is a big issue of women bringing other women down,” Lipo said. “I think to have a unified effort of women helping other women on campus really shows to the women on campus the idea of empowerment.”

The word ‘feminism’ often sparks a lot of different reactions, Belavic said.

“Some people say, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m totally a feminist,’ and other people say, ‘No, I’m

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.Both men and women are involved in AdvanceHER’s social media campaign, which encourages people to display the label of “feminist.” not a feminist, I don’t hate guys,’” Belavic said. “There’s a lot of misrepresentation of what the word actually means and who it actually applies to.”

She said the F-Word campaign gives people a chance to express what feminism

is to them and redefine the word, as well as emphasize self-empowerment.

“By definition, if you’re empowered by who you are, you’re a feminist,” Belavic said.

The photo campaign is an ongoing ini-

tiative. In the past there have been events where people completed the sentence, “I’m a feminist because….” She explained that the F-Word is a way to twist the idea and challenge people to define feminism as they see it.

By coupling this with a photo, the campaign hopes to attract people to join the movement. A Facebook page for AdvanceHER was released on Nov. 19, where individuals can tag themselves. Organizers hope students will post their own photos, in addition to the ones already uploaded on the page.

“I think too often people think you can only be empowered if you go into a career and are the top female, or you do the ‘guy’s’ job,” Belavic said. “For me, I shouldn’t base how I feel about myself on what other people think of me. I should be empowered in myself, as a person and the decisions I make to be happy.”

Belavic explained that this idea of empowerment is universal, and AdvanceHER wants to bring people together. The F-Word campaign does this by sparking conversation in a different way.

Lipo said that there’s a common misunderstanding among men that they can’t be feminists. Feminism is the belief that men and women should have equal rights, she said, and that is something people of all genders can stand for. Lipo and Ojo both expressed their hopes for male involvement, as well.

They hope to incorporate men’s viewpoints in the F-Word campaign, and have already taken photos of some men for the project.

“Overall, I hope that more people are willing to accept the definition of feminism and get rid of some of the stigma surrounding that word,” Belavic said.

“Secondly … let’s stop talking about the perfect BC student and start talking about the BC student that’s empowered in every aspect of their life because that’s healthy and that’s really challenging.”

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On Jan. 1, Clark will be replace Robert T. Johnson, who has been the district attorney for nearly three decades. Clark is a member of the Boston College Board of Trustees, and a founding member of the Council for Women at Boston College.

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—Darcel Clark, the first female district attorney in the Bronx and BC ’83.

Clark attributes her interest in law to her childhood in New York City. She grew up in the Soundview Houses, a city housing project in the Bronx. Both of her parents gave back to the community in their careers. Her father worked within the NYC housing authority and her mother was a tenant activist. Clark, however, was the first in her family to go to college.

Clark relied on the advice of her high school guidance counselor to create a path for herself after graduation. She always knew she wanted to be a lawyer, and informed her guidance counselor of her future goals. To her disappointment, the

counselor suggested that she should attend secretarial school. Clark was confused by this, as she had stellar grades and would graduate with honors. Then, she realized her disadvantage.

“She wasn’t telling that to the Caucasian students that were going to her,” she said.

“So I had to find another way to figure out how to go to college.”

Clark went into the community to search for help, and was eventually accepted into a program that helped inner-city high school students to apply to college.

The program gave out free waivers for college application fees, provided guidance, and took members of the program to tour different universities. One of the Universities she visited was BC. “After seeing BC and how the campus looked just like the viewbook, I was sold,” Clark said. “Until I left for BC, it would be the first time I was out of New York City.”

At BC, she was actively involved in student admissions and the student government.

“I was there when a lot of first things happened,” Clark said.

Clark was the first executive assistant for AHANA affairs. She was elected to this position by UGBC’s first female president, Joanne Caruso, BC ’82. Clark was also the first recipient of BC’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship.

Jack Dunn, University spokesperson, said that Clark is remarkably talented, and has earned a reputation as one of New York’s most respected jurists and public servants.

“Most of all, Darcel is a wonderful person who is always willing to help those in need,” Dunn said. “I am proud to call her a classmate and a friend.”

Since graduating BC, she has remained involved as a member of the Board of Trustees. She recently attended the BC v.

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In 1996, Darcel Clark spoke at the MLK Scholarship banquet: she received the award in 1982, and said that it changed her life.

Howard football game, and was spotted wearing a BC sweatshirt and carrying a Howard University baseball cap—she is also an alumna of Howard’s law school.

At Howard University School of Law, Clark stayed active in the community, assuming several leadership roles, including three years as class president.

Her professors and peers saw her as a leader, so becoming a lawyer was a natural fit. Clark’s first job was as an assistant to the district attorney of the Bronx. Since then, she has assumed various other positions, which ultimately led to her becoming the Bronx’s district attorney.

Clark has several goals for her time in office. She will work to make the district attorney’s office more accessible, accountable, and responsible for the people of the Bronx.

The borough has the worst record of cases brought to trial in New York City, as the office struggles with a huge backlog of cases.

Clark hopes to make the office more efficient by improving the time in which cases receive trials.

Riker’s Island is the city’s local jail and is under Clark’s jurisdiction. The jail has recently reported some of the worst

violence it has experienced in years.

Clark plans to collaborate with a number of stakeholders to make the jail safer for inmates as well as the corrections officers and employees.

For those looking to follow in Clark’s footsteps, she has one piece of advice.

“Never let anybody tell you that you can’t achieve your dreams,”she said. “If I had listened to that guidance counselor, I might have been the best secretary in the world, but I never would have become a lawyer or a judge. Don’t let anybody shatter your dreams. Embrace that negativity and turn it into a positive.”

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Ê:XeeXY`j :li\jË1 G_%; jkl[\ek cffbj Xk k_\ _`jkfip f] dXi`alXeX 9P A8D<J CL:<P ?\`^_kj JkX]] Colonial India, early 1830s: An Irish physician commissioned by the East India Company named William Brooke O’Shaughnessy is stationed in Calcutta conducting research, when his experimental meanderings rouse him to write about an herbal medicine that was unfamiliar to many in the West at the time.

Though he was not the first European to write about the substance, he was ultimately the most influential in sparking a sustained scientific interest in what remains to be a highly controversial plant close to two centuries later—cannabis. It wasn’t long until the news made its way to the colonies.

“1840 is essentially the formal, medicinal introduction of cannabis into the United States,” explained Adam Rathge, a Ph.D candidate in the history department and the author of a recent Organization of American Historians (OAH) piece entitled, “Pondering Pot: Marijuana’s History and the Future of the War on Drugs.”

Having completed his undergraduate study at the University of Dayton— earning a Master’s degree in American History at the University of Cincin-

nati—Rathge is currently exploring the social and legal history of cannabis in the U.S. in a dissertation entitled, “Cannabis Cures: Medicine, Marijuana, and the Origins of the War on Drugs, 1840-1940.”

“I landed on the marijuana topic under the influence of a professor I had during my Master’s program who wrote his dissertation on marijuana in Mexico,” Rathge said. “I’d gotten kind of interested in the history of drugs through that, and I went to BC to work on a, what I saw as a, dissertation on underground economies. That kind of morphed into working on the history of marijuana in the United States, so a couple of years into my BC tenure I started heading down that path, and I’ve really been on it ever since.”

In his “Cannabis Cures” dissertation, Rathge intends to rewrite the conventional narrative about the history of marijuana, and more specifically the history of marijuana prohibition, by retracing its medical timeline alongside its social history, the latter of which the public sphere is generally more familiar with.

In fact, the bulk of Rathge’s work pertains to the medical institution and criminalization of marijuana in the U.S.

“I’m making the argument that the medical side is kind of driving the legal side,” Rathge said. “Almost immediately, American physicians label the drug as a potentially dangerous substance that should be restricted in the same way that opium, morphine, arsenic, and all of these generally regarded as dangerous drugs are. Cannabis ends up getting included in a lot of that legislation, and that’s sort of the crux of the medical background argument.”

After this formal introduction of marijuana into the Western medical discourse, the first baby steps of medicinal research made up approximately the first 20 years of its existence. Though the “double-blind” clinical research with which we are familiar today was not explicitly present, Rathge explains that a fair amount of early cannabis research is documented.

“They’re writing about their research,” he said. “They’re also writing about ‘self-administration’ a lot. Physicians administered cannabis on themselves to determine its effects.”

It was not until the beginning of the 19th century, following this period of “research,” that the legal status of the substance began to come into question.

That research, however, continued well into and runs right alongside this period

of legal confusion, Rathge said.

“The second chapter covers about 1860 to 1900, and continues that medicinal look because that research continues throughout the 19th century, but also starts to get into the legal side of things,” Rathge said of his dissertation. “States start to regulate the control of not just cannabis, but really any medicines or ‘poisons.’ This is sort of the beginning of its regulation and restriction.”

From there, the conventional understanding of marijuana and its legal status as we know it today began to truly take shape.

As the 20th century wore on, the social understanding of marijuana changed drastically, the notion of “Reefer Madness” and the racial implications which it associated with cannabis appeared to shock the nation into a full federal prohibition.

Though many today still see the xenophobia and fear instilled by this notorious campaign as the reason for a seemingly rash federal prohibition, Rathge argues that the medical history of marijuana had more of an impact on this social movement than is widely thought.

“Harry J. Anslinger is the guy who everybody points to as the ‘architect’

of this idea of ‘Reefer Madness,’” Rathge said. “My revision to this whole thing is saying, ‘Yes, Anslinger was important and he does help shepherd a long national prohibition, but most of what he says and most of what he draws on to paint this picture of marijuana as a dangerous drug exists long before he shows up on the scene in the 1930s.’”

Though an exploration of the sociological, medical, and legal history of marijuana seems the focal point of Rathge’s work, from a broader view, it simultaneously endeavors to explore and somehow collapse the “all good” versus “all bad” drug binary which dominates today’s discourse.

“It’s kind of about the development of that binary, and I used cannabis as a lens to talk about that process,” Rathge said of this broad approach. “So what you actually see is, from the 19th century into the early 20th century, going from a world where things are potentially good and potentially harmful, to a world where they’re either good or bad. Over the hundred or so years that I’m tracking, that’s happening in a really slow process. When you get to around the 1930s and the federal marijuana prohibition, that’s where all of this crystallizes, and now we have a world where cannabis is only illegal.”

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The University will move forward with the interdisciplinary core pilot program in an effort to renew the traditional University core, which has been in place since 1991. Although there was a proposal to renew the core in the spring of 2013, it has not yet been approved

by Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley and University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. “We are set to offer twice as many of these classes next year, and some of them—three pairs—will repeat next year,” Julian Bourg, associate professor of history and associate dean of the core said. “Still, for better or worse, they are going to be restricted to first year students.”

Each core pilot course is six credits,

fulfilling two core requirements. The pilot courses are separated into two different formats—complex problems courses and enduring questions courses.

The complex problems are much bigger and taught by two professors, with 76 students. They include lectures, weekly labs, and a reflection component. The enduring questions courses are intimate, linked classes, consisting of 19 students, each professor teaching separately.

Enduring questions courses meet to reflect during the evening four times a semester.

“Both the complex problems class and enduring questions pairs, they equal six credits,” Bourg said. “The same model as Perspectives and PULSE, except it involves history and literature, political science and philosophy.”

This spring, the complex problems course “Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity” will be offered, equalling both one history and one literature core requirement. The enduring questions courses are offered separately, with “Power, Justice, War: The Moderns” linked to “Power, Justice, War: The Ancients,” taught by Aspen Brinton of

the Philosophy Department, and Robert Bartlett of the Political Science Department and fulfilling both the social science and philosophy core requirement.

The “Epidemics, Disease, and Humanity” linked with “Devising Theatre: Illness as a Metaphor” is taught by Mary Kathleen Dunn, of the Biology Department, and Scott Cummings, of the Theatre Department, fulfilling one natural science and one arts core requirement.

On whether there is a difference in workload between taking a core pilot class and taking two unrelated corefulfilling classes, Bourg emphasized that there is not a large difference in workload, but rather, one in experience and reflection.

“In terms of workload, the only difference is that these core classes have an extra element, which we are calling a ‘reflection section,’ that gives students an opportunity to think about how what they’re learning about in the class connects with what is going on in their lives and the rest of the world,” Bourg said.

“It is an extra section in which students get together in the evenings to talk, not just about what they read, but about how

what they’re learning, in a Jesuit Catholic way, connects to their lives.”

The interdisciplinary courses give professors an opportunity to teach unique information that otherwise, they would not have been able to teach. Because freshmen are new to college life, Bourg hopes that the core pilot courses will not only prepare first-years for life on the heights, but inspire them when taking core classes in the future.

“Each discipline is a lens and you look at the question or problem slightly differently from the different perspective of a different department,” Bourg said. “A lot of times core classes are very basic and general, but the faculty have made these classes because they are very interested in the topics. It is not a big survey of everything, it is focused on what the teacher thinks is very exciting.

I think that there is a lot of energy in the classroom because of that.”

Bourg said the University is considering extending the core pilot courses to upperclassmen in the future, but these offerings are still undergoing three years of “pilot,” or “experimental” periods.

Although nothing has officially been

decided, he said, it will be discussed in the future.

“We’re starting with first-year students, and we’re going to learn what’s working and what’s not working,” Bourg said. “One of the things we need to think about is how we can bring excitement about the core to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.”

Overall, Bourg anticipates that the interdisciplinary core pilot courses will positively influence freshmen when picking classes in the future. To Bourg, the beauty of the core pilot courses is in expanding students’ worldview, enhancing their ability to see the world outside of Boston College. In regards to the core, the administration hopes to achieve three goals.

“One, to engage students in very interesting questions and problems that matter,” he said. “Two, to connect them to faculty who don’t normally teach in the core. And, three, to make the core more at the heart of a BC education instead of stuff you just have to do to get out of the way. The more students are engaged in the core, the more meaningful it will be to students and faculty.”

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CORINNE DUFFY Christmas morning 2000 found me downstairs at 7 a.m., sitting on the landing in my family’s front hallway, and staring, eagerly, at the mountain of presents that Santa Claus and his eight reindeer had trekked to my Milwaukee home the night prior.

Now, I am one of six, so Christmas morning is (more than) kind of a big

deal at our house: no one is allowed to go downstairs until all are up—including my overly exhausted parents (who, given their many, futile attempts to sleep in over the years, I realized have no respect for the extensive work Jolly Old Santa put in for us—some people, man).

The way my siblings tell it, by the time they found me I was knee-deep in the heap, attempting to discern the contents of wrapped packages by gently shaking them one by one, and making a mess of the neat pile in the process.

This is somewhat exaggerated.

I mean, sure—I don’t deny the fact that that my juvenile “lack of chill” got the best of me that 25th, but hey, I’m

no Corinch.

I swear, my 6-year-old self did not commit any sins against my guy Santa and his cherished presents—only transgressions on presence.

Although we are just closing in on Thanksgiving this week, I felt it only prudent to conclude my features editor, column-writing journey the way I began it: with talk of Christmas tidings and the eagerness that surrounds them.

(Additionally, I’m obviously as amped as the next person to start listening to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” but that is beside the point.)

Further, the pervasive, materialistic consumerism that dominates our

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American conception of Christmastime and the holiday season that begins immediately in the wake of Halloween (read: Labor Day)—and the abrupt Hallmark transition to Valentine’s day (yuck!) following New Years’—provides an accessible example of time passed too quickly, too apathetically to make room for that which is to come.

The days directly following Christmas and New Year’s Day see trees on the side of the road, gifts already consumed, returned, or closeted, and “new year, new me” resolutions likely abandoned on the 4th of January (5th, if you’re lucky and uncommonly determined).

And as I’m ref lecting upon my experience with the board of The Heights, and on my time at Boston College thus far, I can’t help but notice the similarities between my 6-year-old restlessness—and society’s seasonal impatience—and my broader appreciation of my tenure with this organization, my years on this campus.

Since my arrival to Chestnut Hill, wishing away valuable time has been a significant trope. Due to all of the homework, exams, and papers (upon papers, upon papers), and given the great physical distance that separates me from my parents, sister, and four brothers, for the past three years I have been continually looking forward, waiting for the next step, the next break, the next season.

Constantly so focused on surviving the school week’s strenuous workload, I suffer from tunnel vision and struggle to remain present, to live in the now and fully appreciate life—its harmonies as well as its hardships.

As sentimental and cliche as the forthcoming may be, The Heights has truly been for me a home away from

home, a family of 40 that helps me remain present due to its primary focus as a publication: newsworthy on-campus, Greater Boston, and global goings-on.

From reading (and re-reading) dozens of articles each Wednesday and Sunday as associate copy editor, to finding and pursuing article topics for my budget as features editor, I was effectively forced to live in the moment each week through my compulsory cognizance of current events at the University.

In addition, when you spend more hours a week with a certain group of people than you do sitting in class, the solidarity that exists between you and them as you work toward the same, sometimes seemingly thankless goal, extraneous worries and predicaments become somehow trivial. For the past two years, these incredible people have enabled me to realize what really matters, and to live in the present in so doing.

So as I sit here, I realize that time has not merely wasted away into the ugly abyss that is broken red copy pens and day-old Roggies (RIP), stressful Sunday nights made from dropped stories, but that it instead stands as a testament to all I have experienced in Chestnut Hill, to how I have grown as a student and as an individual, and to the wonderful alacrity of life itself.

And as we progress toward the 25th, I want to maintain the chill my younger self did not have amid the ribbons, tags, packages, boxes, and bags, to revel in the joys of family and friends, and to recall the perennial need to live in and embrace the present. Peace out, y’all.

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?\`^_kj JkX]] For undergraduates looking to improve their skills in French for travel or work—or just hoping to enjoy French culture and language—the Maison Francaise offers a forum for all things Francophone.

Housed in Voute Hall, the Maison Francaise currently enrolls 13 undergraduates from a variety of majors who pledge to speak French during their time in the residence hall. Interested students apply during their freshman, sophomore, and junior spring semesters. Most begin in the program at the intermediate level.

“The Maison Francaise is a kind of window open to the world. We have activities here in order to promote the French language,” said Anik Noudou, the resident director of the Maison Francaise and a Master’s student in French. “We can cook French foods, [sing] French karaoke, dance, view a film, in French of course, or have discussions.”

The program has not only a wide range of activities to introduce students to the French language but often lets students embark on special one-time excursions “Last week we went to the French consul-

ate,” Noudou said. “The consulate invited us for a dinner, and we had fun. We met with other people from other Maisons Francaises and French clubs in Massachusetts. Everything was great.”

For those not currently living in the Maison Francaise who are interested in French culture, the program maintains calendars of events online. Noudou, as resident director, is responsible for planning three events per month, while students organize one more.

While Noudou certainly spoke to the merits and fun in joining the program, she also acknowledged the difficulty, for non-native speakers, of living full-time in a Frenchspeaking environment.

To alleviate anxieties and to allow a French practice forum, Noudou often host more student-focused activities.

“Sometimes we just have a ‘cafe en francais’ that’s just having some coffee and talking about our life at BC, and if they have any problems, maybe in French, we can talk about it,” Noudou said.

Noudou encourages anyone interested in French to try to get involved.

“Our doors are open for you and for everyone” Noudou said. “If you want to live here, I think that’s going to be a great idea.”

La Maison Francaise hosts cultural activities throughout the semester for the residents and non-residents.

?\`^_kj J\e`fi JkX]] The third floor of Voute Hall offers a combination of four-person apartments and large common areas for residents committed to speaking the same target language, either French or Spanish. Like other spaces on campus, each apartment has two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a bathroom.

La Casa Hispanica enables approximately 20 students interested in the Spanish language and culture to live together, and provides residents with the close personal guidance of a nativespeaking graduate student. Laura Mir, the graduate student resident for La Casa Hispanica and GMCAS ’16, lives in one of the apartments on the floor and, in coordination with the undergraduate resident assistant, facilitates the planning and execution of activities designed to improve students’ language skills, enrich their knowledge of the Spanish culture, and generally contribute to their intellectual and personal development. Mir is responsible for the linguistic and intellectual functions of the program, and as such is available to the students as needed.

La Casa Hispanica’s mission statement is: learning a language through the culture. Residents commit to speaking Spanish on the floor and take an active part in the planning and execution of activities, many of which they design themselves. Students take an active role in house events throughout the year, planning at least one occasion and attending at least two each month.

“Each month one student of La Casa has to prepare an event, which I always find enjoyable and interesting,” Mir said. “For example, this month, one of the students who is studying to become a Spanish teacher did a presentation on el dia de los muertos in Mexico.”

Various events are held in the common space of the floor, such as traditional Spanish meals, as well as in other locations on and off campus for concerts, readings, lectures, film screenings, and discussions in collaboration with classes in the romance languages and literature department.

Mir tries to integrate various department programs into La Casa’s schedule because she wants the residents to interact with other Span-

F@G X[[i\jj\j \d\i^\eZp gifkfZfc OIP, from A1 program is located a few hours south of Paris and therefore not in the immediate danger area, she received several emails, updating her on the situation, confirming her safety, and offering counseling and advice.

Yet Max Krys, CSOM ’17, who is studying in Istanbul, had a very different experience with OIP following the October bombings in Ankara, Turkey.

Two bombs went off at a peaceful protest in Ankara on Oct. 10, killing 102 people—the deadliest attack of any kind the country has seen since it formed its republic in 1923.

“Over the next four days, some classes were boycotted, others cancelled, but most were used as time for people to reflect on the situation that had happened,” Krys said. “In my Turkish literature class, it finally became clear—people were losing hope in their country. My professor was in mourning for these victims, but also in mourning for his country which, he believed was slipping into chaos. There were daily protests held by students, vigils during the evening, and a sit-in on the quad that lasted nearly a week. I refrained from participating in

any of these events, as I had been advised to not be apart of demonstrations, but it was impossible not feel the emotionally charged atmosphere.”

The following weekend, while touring the Dolmabahce palace and Besiktas with friends, Krys received messages from other friends, warning him that the American Consulate had issued an advisory not to be in such public places that day due to a bomb threat.

“Of course, already being down there, we carried on with our day, as it was too little too late,” Krys said. “The philosophy my friends and I have taken on is that if it’s our time, it’s our time. With a city like Istanbul, there is only so many precautions you can take before it’s just a matter of wrong place, wrong time. Over this tense week, I was not contacted by OIP at any point. I haven’t received any warnings of any kind, or for that matter, an email checking in on me since getting here. Ironically, the first email I received from OIP was the email regarding Paris, not Ankara or the other bombings that have killed hundreds in the east.”

Gozik pointed to a possible reason for the lack of communication. “With so many incidents taking place in the world, we filter the information coming in, and update students as needed”

Gozik said. “We are careful about not sending too many messages, as this can desensitize students, and prevent them from reading important alerts. Each case is thus handled on an individual basis, as needed.”

Krys offered another potential explanation: he thought the media insufficiently covered eastern affairs. He explained that because of the level of unpredictability in places like Beirut, Baghdad, or even in Turkey, major events that have resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives have less shock value than isolated attacks in countries considered relatively safe. He said this shock value would explain why the media circulates more information about the Paris attacks than about the Ankara bombings or other similarly horrific occurrences in the Middle East. It could also explain the absence of information distributed to Krys when compared to the number of alerts sent to Callahan in France.

Following the recent frightening events, Krys said that he still feels very safe in Istanbul. “Even if OIP sent me precautionary emails, I would likely disregard them, for I won’t let other people’s fear stop me from living my life,” he said.

ish-speaking people on campus, both students and faculty.

Students are able to apply for residence in Voute Hall in the spring of their freshman, sophomore, or junior years. The application is available on the Boston College housing website and it is suggested that applicants have at least moderate proficiency in Spanish. While native speakers are considered for the program, preference is given to non-native speakers.

Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to participate in La Casa’s activities open to the public during the year before they apply. In order to complete their application, students must be interviewed by the graduate fellow-in-residence, which is Mir for La Casa Hispanica, and final selection is made before the start of the routine housing lottery.

“Grades are important and the student’s level of Spanish is important, because you have to know the minimum if you’re ever going to speak in Spanish with your roommate, but the most important thing for me is someone’s attitude,” she said. “For example, if someone tells me I want to live abroad in Spain, it is first a good opportunity to live in La Casa Hispanica because we are like the ‘abroad’ inside of the college. If you want to work hard and you want to be in contact with me then we can work it out.”

According to Mir, La Casa Hispanica is generally composed of two types of students—native speakers who do not want to lose their ability to converse in the language and want to feel more involved in the Latin American community at BC—and intermediate level Spanish students who are interested in furthering their studies and may want to live abroad in the future. “Normally I prefer juniors and seniors because they are more integrated in the school and they are more set up and Voute is mostly senior housing,” Mir said.

Mir said the feedback she has received from students is that they really like La Casa because it feels like a family. It’s tricky because usually in their third or fourth year students live with their friends and in La Casa, students have to live with somebody who wants to be a part of this community, she said. However, Mir encourages students to apply for this unique opportunity because, in her experience, it’s a very accepting and nurturing atmosphere.

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FROM THE EDITORS

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Giving thanks

“End of the line!”

I’m thankful for my sister and parents, for Shannon, for my friends at 55 East 84th Street and 140 Commonwealth Avenue, and for the merciful end of the college football season.

—Michael Sullivan, Sports Editor

from production. Above all, this year I’m giving thanks for a less than spotless office and the tremendous group of people who have spent entirely too much time in it.

—Sarah Moore, Asst. Metro Editor

I’m thankful for my family, roommates, and the memories I’ve made over three years on The Heights.

—Christopher Stadtler, General Manager

I am thankful for caffeine, the Oxford comma, reading and writing (apologies to arithmetic), Clarks and ‘stocks (though not simultaneously), the Green Bay Packers, Bon Iver, and my parents, sister, four brothers, three in-laws, two nephews, one beagle, and the family of 40 that is The Heights for dealing with all my corinsanity (read: hilarity and sentimentality) for the past two years.

—Corinne Duffy Features Editor

I would like to thank BrieCheese for the first words I heard at college being “You look sweaty,” The Heights for surrounding me with smart weirdos who put up with all the “I hate you Dowd’s (who I really don’t hate, not even a little), and for all my friends & family (potatoes, linditas, & chichi) for encouraging me every day to be my nutty self. I love you all.

—Breck Wills, Graphics Editor

I’m thankful for this family, grumpy cat, and our endless discussions about absolutely anything—be it Kanye’s lifestyle choices, Kylo Ren’s origins, or the benefits of a midfield diamond. But, perhaps most importantly, I’m thankful for how it welcomed me with open arms. It’s been a hell of a ride, may it never end.

—Juan Olavarria, Editorial Assistant

I am thankful for country music, Fuel coffee, Bapst, the Chocolate Bar, the Bar in my apartment, wandering into the city, the good ol’ state of Minnesota, and the loyal friends who have made Wednesday nights at The Heights enjoyable over the past two-and-a-half years.

Oh, and my family.

—Bennet Johnson, Metro Editor I’m thankful for family dinners, Pillow Pets, Sauvignon Blanc, the vaguely similar blondes of 505, purple pea coats, and InDesign CS2.

Most importantly, I’m thankful for The Heights—I’m forever indebted to it for the people it put into my life and the confidence and humbleness it taught me.

—Maggie Powers, Managing Editor I’m thankful for everyone on The Heights and Men’s Crew team as well as my family: Dan, Jacquelyn and Kristen.

—Evan Gatti, Collections Manager

I’m thankful for family group messages, functioning ankles, the ladies of 15A, the fourth floor of Lyons and the first floor of Devlin, the city of Paris, and the incomparable (and insane) opportunity of calling The Heights my home for three years.

—Julie Orenstein, A1 Editor

I’m thankful for the clear blue sky, my crappy bike, and a beautiful 30-mile boardwalk on the beach. I’m thankful for Quentin Tarantino, Star Wars, and all the soulful melodies that get me from one day to the next. Most of all, I’m thankful for my family and friends. They are the light of my life. This would be a dark and terrible world without each and every one of them.

—Chris Fuller, Assoc. Arts & Review Editor

I am thankful for black turtlenecks, vanilla iced coffee, the virtual world of Walsh 320, the drop in “Hannah Hunt,” and all the squids in my squad, in Boston and Bethesda.

—Carolyn Freeman, News Editor

I am thankful for DoorDash because otherwise I would starve, for ginger ale (aka gingy) being my best friend Saturday/Sunday mornings, for the kale blend in the salad bar at Eags but not the salad line itself, for Frida Kahlo and Kourtney Kardashian, for my actual friends, for fall sangria and for my entire family who needs to just chill on Instagram.

—Jessica Turkmany, Advertising Manager

I’m thankful for family, friends, food, football, and Jurgen Klopp.

—Jack Stedman, Assoc. Sports Editor

I am thankful for coffee, faux leather jackets, my sophomore Intro to Feminisms course, and the fact that I’m legally allowed to drink wine with Thanksgiving dinner which makes political debates with extended family members more tolerable. I’m thankful for The Heights for helping me to grow as a writer and realize what I want to do for the rest of my life.

—Summer Lin, Asst. Arts & Review Editor

I’m thankful for red pens, the inhabitants of 501Walsh, supporters of the Oxford comma, Chris Fuller’s wardrobe choices, and the home that is 113 McElroy.

—Magdalen Sullivan, Copy Editor

I’m thankful for lentil soup, lindas, lemons, and the ladies of 32G. I’m also thankful for alliteration, matching pajama sets, tildes, mornings spent in Johnny’s booths, afternoons on Newbury Street, and midnight walks home

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

I’m thankful for the boys of 66, perfect Scene covers, stet, muffins, 99-cent Arnold Palmers, and all the people who make Wednesdays and Sundays the best days of my week.

—Alec Greaney, Assoc. Copy Editor I’m thankful for Word’s autosave function, the quick and painless process that is finding an internship in financial services, and the various student groups on campus (you know who you are) for organizing enough protests and walk-outs to keep the news section afloat.

And also for the other two news editors ‘cause you guys are great.

—Gus Merrell, Assoc. News Editor I am thankful for good coffee, vegan banana muffins at Fuel, having Fiorellas on speed dial, my family, friends that are like family, and for all of the people that have made the countless hours spent in McElroy 113 worthwhile.

—Arielle Cedeno, Asst. News Editor I am thankful for my roommates, who are all ridiculously weird in the best (and some worst) ways possible and the Tuscan Chicken (preferably made by Maria).

—Keaton McAuliffe, Asst. Layout Editor I’m thankful for the Maine House.

—Zach Wilner, On-Campus Advertising Manager For Frank Occhiogrosso, my late next door neighbor, who served in World War II when he was 19, mowed his lawn until he was 92, and always let me sleigh down his backyard’s hill when it snowed.

—Ryan Daly, Opinions Editor Ryan is thankful for his flannel lined jeans for keeping him warm, The National for keeping him sad, and The Heights for making him happy.

—Ryan Dowd, Arts & Review Editor I’m thankful for my parents more than anything. They’re the reason I’m not living in a small wooden shack in the middle of the cruel Canadian wilderness. Everyone else, I’m probably thankful for you as well. Also, O’Neill library’s pretty great.

—Archer Parquette, Asst. Copy Editor I am thankful for my family, friends, LinkedIn picture, and two of the greatest to ever grace South Florida: LeBron James and Juan Olavarria.

—Mujtaba Syed, Asst. Features Editor I am thankful for the refine edge tool in Photoshop, Helvetica, and Mac late night, all of which come in handy in tough situations. In the end though, I am thankful for the great friends whose company make every production a pleasure and motivate me to always better myself and those around me.

—Francisco Ruela, Asst. Graphics Editor I’m thankful for my great friends and family, potatoes in all its many forms, basketball, and The Office.

—Jack Powers, Account Manager I’m thankful for this incredible journey that this twice-weekly has given me. For all my friends that put up with and still love Heights Kayla, for my family who read and shared every story, for the supportive and talented board members that give up a lot for this University, for Boston and for Lizzy the dog (the muses), for all of my English professors who pushed me be the writer I am today, and for my FLIP babies.

—Kayla Famolare, Outreach Coordinator I’m thankful for my family, friends, and good health. But I’m especially thankful for Tom Brady having another MVP-type season and further proving he’s the GOAT. —Russ Puleo, Project Coordinator I am thankful for my mother, pasta, and Meek Mill (in that order).

—Tom DeVoto, Asst. Sports Editor For change—and learning to love some things that never will.

—John Wiley, Editor-in-chief

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

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A letter on being AHANA at Boston College Being AHANA on Boston College’s campus naturally has an isolating effect. As a Hispanic woman at BC I feel the struggle of minority twice. In response to the article about hiring more AHANA faculty, I believe this would truly empower the voice of minorities on campus. I am only a freshman—I have been here for two short months and the levels of ignorance and racism that I have experienced have left me in complete shock. I believed coming in that I would be studying among intellectual students with diverse opinions and unique outlooks on life. However, I have encountered insularity and even white supremacy. These issues are treated as outdated but they are relevant and they exist on BC’s campus. In all racial discussions, the entire class will turn to you and expect that you are the expert on your race and hold you responsible for being the voice of your people. Given the opportunity, I thought it would be an honor to represent my race and advocate for my rights, but my experience has been appalling.

To the girl who told me I don’t deserve to be here because you feel AHANA students are taking a place at a school you feel you had more of a right to attend: It isn’t a right to attend such a prestigious institution as this, but a privilege. It is a gift that I have worked extremely hard to acquire, as I’m sure you have too. However, I never viewed my education as a right. No race is any more entitled to the spot you occupy than another. I’m glad to know that you believe the standard for test scores should be significantly lowered for those of us that identify as AHANA. I really appreciate the assistance that you believe I need to attend this University. Let’s talk quotas. You believe only 5-7 percent of the students on a college campus should identify as AHANA. Individuals who hold these views are the reason for the acts of violence

that have occurred around this nation. Rather than accepting what we have to offer and working alongside us, you create the stigma that we are lesser and silence our voices.

We are not asking for handout. Affirmative Action should not be seen as reparation for the lives lost.

Allowing me to attend college will not bring back any of the lives that have been lost as a result of your ignorance and the fear of racial differences. I’m truly sorry that you view the growing AHANA population at higher institutions of education as a handout. We do not receive compensation for the oppression and the struggle that we have had to endure in our respective countries and, quite frankly, we aren’t asking for any.

We are asking for opportunity to contribute to the nation that has awarded us freedom and protected our rights as human beings.

Which leads me to my final point. We are all human beings, regardless of race. Our families have fled other places and come to the United States for freedom, equality, and protection of rights. However, we come face to face with limitations, prejudice, and disregard for our lives. Rather than alienating individuals for having a different complexion, perhaps you should hold our hands and advocate for something that benefits the common good. The only difference between your ancestors and ours is that yours crossed the border first—they had the benefit and fortune of an earlier start. When you try to demean us because we have crossed a border, come on a boat, or invaded your space, don’t forget that your ancestors, too, crossed a vast ocean on ships and occupied a space that wasn’t yours. At least we didn’t kill people for it.

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Sixty-one faculty, staff sign in support of ‘Eradicate’ As faculty and staff members who teach about social justice across various disciplinary areas, we affirm our support of Boston College undergraduate and graduate students who have documented and challenged institutional racism. We write from the premise that racism exists in many forms and has very real consequences. We also take this opportunity to address claims made in “Administrators Criticize Tactics of ‘Eradicate Boston College Racism’” (The Heights, 11/5/15) that dismiss the racial grievances brought forth by our students, faculty, and staff. As long as this type of dismissal occurs, we will rightfully continue to have student groups like Eradicate Boston College Racism as well as activist uprisings like the ones at Mizzou, Yale, and Ithaca College.

It is unfortunate that such a statement needs to be made, but the practices and comments from senior level administration communicate worrisome colorblind definitions of racism and block important student perspectives on oppression on campus. As many of BC’s own faculty have studied, today’s governing approach to address racial disparities and marginalization at Boston College and the U.S. is “color-blind racism.”

This phrase is defined by the idea that racism is largely a stain on the past, and that current racial disparities can be attributed to non-racial issues. In comparison to explicit racism, this “new” racism goes unchallenged because it is hidden from plain sight, making meaningful discussion that leads to actionable political and policy changes near impossible. In fact, the very mention of the possibility of racism existing in rhetorically liberal institutions such as BC is seen as implausible by many of those in power, thus leaving the mechanisms that perpetuate racial inequality intact.

Although there are many ways in which institutional racism manifests, it festers when there is a lack of access to information and policy and accompanying blocks to student-produced work. Since April of 2015, ERBC (Eradicate Racism at Boston College) activists have regularly asked for, and have consistently been denied, existing data on campus climate. They did not request a comprehensive data collection strategy, which would also have been appropriate, but merely access to information about their campus. When they sought approval to post the second of their infographics, which includes a positive thesis for addressing institutional racism, the request was backlogged in several administrative offices, including the Provost’s office. Students were told, as witnessed by several of the undersigned faculty, that because no policy exists for how to approve a student product that doesn’t manifest from either a course or a recognized campus group, the poster could not be approved. This bureaucratic holding pattern may seem trivial but it performs the material function of further enabling questioned practices and stalling possible interventions.

In the above-mentioned article in The Heights, senior administrators Tom Mogan and David Quigley verily scolded the members of ERBC for “disrupting” events on campus and asserted an expectation that dialogue be “respectful, civil, consistent with steadfast academic principles.” Challenges to institutionalized racism should not have to adhere to the language determined by power. To demand those terms first

performs the function of delaying anti-racism debates on this campus.

In fact, the activists of ERBC have outlined the steps they take in considering direct action, including having little other option when faced with the bureaucratic blocks described above. Given the stoppage of permits while more permit processes are created and the ongoing issues of systemic racism, why wouldn’t “disruption” be a just course of action? The leadership’s demand for civility blurs the fundamentally uncivil conditions that are visited upon people of color on a campus exhibiting systemic racism and dampens speech about fundamentally harmful practices. Calls for civility distract from actions that will change the conditions on the campus that perpetuate systemic racism.

In the Nov. 5, 2015 article, Provost David Quigley asserted that “University resources should not be used to promote the message of ‘Eradicate Boston College Racism’ [because the group’s message] diminished the work of BC faculty who have focused their academic careers on fighting racism.” As scholars whose work evaluates racialized oppression and injustice, and whose mission is to help students engage oppression in its many forms, we find this statement disingenuous. It suggests that the fact of our presence at BC and the fact of our work are somehow equal to institutional change. Provost Quigley’s statement fails to acknowledge that the University’s core emphases remain largely European and white despite the work of faculty and staff who have “focused their academic careers on fighting racism.” To put it plainly, the provost’s assertion reflects the University’s investment in a status quo that has served it well for decades and its unwillingness to do the kind of work necessary for real, structural change.

We charge BC to listen to and address the experiences of its marginalized students, and to its faculty, many of whom who have expertise in understanding color-blind and institutional racism. We must be thoughtful, truthful and brave enough to talk about racism in our own backyard.

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Editor’s Note: Cedrick Simmons, a representative of Eradicate Boston College Racism, has noted that the group does not refer to itself as Eradicate Racism at Boston College.

The Heights reserves the right to edit for clarity, brevity, accuracy, and to prevent libel. The Heights also reserves the right to write headlines and choose illustrations to accompany pieces submitted to the newspaper.

Letters and columns can be submitted online at www. bcheights.com, by e-mail to editor@bcheights.com, in person, or by mail to Editor, The Heights, 113 McElroy Commons, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02467.

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Monday, November 23, 2015

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BOSTON COLLEGE’S EFFORT - Going into the Fenway game, we could only hope that the blow out didn’t actually turn out that bad. And, amazingly, it didn’t. Not only did the defense really shine (five turnovers!) but the offense managed enough answers so that it kept the final score within three points. At least—unlike the Florida State football game earlier this season—a struggle against a top contender wasn’t an absolute nightmare to watch.

DARTH VADER’S JUST A REGULAR GUY - The Force Awakens release is under 30 days away and the Internet has been going crazy over the numerous TV spot reveals. But the fun hasn’t stopped there—some artists have even taken the villains that we hold most close, and given them some more human characteristics. Pawel Kadysz, a designer from Poland, has been photographing Darth Vader doing everyday things—lifting weights, getting a ticket, looking through family photos—and posting them to his blog. It’s nice to see the Father get taken down a couple notches.

THE SCHOOL OF LIFE YOUTUBE CHANNEL - For the study breaks that don’t have to be mindless scrolling through Facebook, this British-based Youtube network looks to tackle issues that colleges and universities across the world don’t address. They also do some sweet summarizing of Western philosophy, in case cramming for those Perspectives and PULSE finals isn’t going nearly as well as you thought it would.

UNEXPECTED TALENTS - When our friend pulls out some crazy magic trick, or starts playing a guitar, we stop and appreciate the fact that even someone we know well—by college standards, that is—might have a few more tricks up his or her sleeve than we were expecting.

There’s a wonderful scene in David Lodge’s novel Changing Places, in which professors of English and the lesser humanities gather for an academic parlor game called “Humiliation.” The point, in short, is that each player, when it’s his or her turn, admits to never having read a classic, canonical work of literature— something like War and Peace or Catcher in the Rye—and scores a point for each other player who has read it. Whoever racks up the most points at the end is deemed the victor. (Lodge’s protagonist ends up winning the game, and losing his job, by admitting that he never made it all the way through Hamlet).

Not long ago, I’d have been able to break the all-time high score pretty quickly. For I had never, until a satisfying binge last week, read a complete page of anything written by George Orwell. Not on purpose, I don’t think.

In high school I managed to get through a few papers and discussions about Nineteen Eighty-Four with big words and occasional recourse to that old Apple commercial. Through college I treated his essays and Animal Farm with similar frivolity. It didn’t seem worth the time, getting acquainted with something so ubiquitous and culturally saturated.

This, it would seem, is one of the more tragic afflictions of writers who become icons—whose surnames morph over decades into moth-eaten descriptors and cliched conversation pieces. Their work is admitted to the canon and added to syllabi and high school curricula the world over, bought up in bulk by high school bookstores, cast aside by students as dry secondary school staples. For little teenage brats like myself, especially, this kind of sacred status can suck the life straight out of a work of fiction, make it almost indistinguishable from a math

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anything else for days—just more pages from the little blue book.

To read Orwell for the first time is, in a sense, to make something like a lifelong friend. Never before have I had the pleasure of encountering a writer whose work seems so simultaneously classic and thoroughly modern, so orthodox and daring all at once. The prose really does read as if it might have been written days, rather than decades, ago.

On the one hand, that’s because the man had a lucid, direct and incomparably passionate approach to writing in English. Each word he set down seems to have been written in pursuit of total force and clarity, against what he calls “staleness of imagery” and “lack of precision,” in a powerful essay called Politics and the English Language. This, if you’ve never encountered his work, would be, in my necessarily humble opinion, an ample point of entry.

On the other, the endurance of his work is a simple—and unfortunate—byproduct of his subject matter, and the many ways it’s been allowed to fester and endure. That is: tyranny. Subjugation and suppression did not die with the regimes of Hitler or Stalin. They didn’t even lie down. They endure with every attack on Western culture by ISIS and other extremists, and every threat or racial slur shouted at a campus protestor. They’ll be around long after we’ve all gone the way of Orwell and the oppressed populations he wrote about.

What’ll remain is the small stack of pages he was able to type out over his short life, and anything we write out of similar hopes or frustrations. I suppose he’s given me a new appreciation for his craft, and the way it can serve as an outlet for quiet, disaffected contrarians, too shy or prideful to march in protests or cover their mouths in duct tape. If there is a patron saint of introverted activists, I think it looks something like George Orwell.

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MISSING THE GAMES - We’re too busy to play video games, but it doesn’t mean that we’ve forgotten about them all together. With the release of two huge ones—Fallout 4 and Star Wars: Battlefront—we’ve been itching for a chance to scavenge a wasteland or return to the thrill of running out of a spawn point and dying that made up our childhood.

textbook or those little grammar exercise books.

So I didn’t read Orwell, always believing that there were better, lesser known books and essays to sit down with in the evening.

In September of this year, however, I had signed up for a panel presentation in Christopher Wilson’s “Literature and Journalism in America” class, on Emma Larkin’s Finding George Orwell in Burma.

Everyone had to take part in at least one, and this was the shortest and farthest down the syllabus. Reading the first few chapters of Larkin’s book, it seemed for a time as if I could skate by with the usual contrived comments and Sparknoteladen analyses.

But after getting deeper into the book—in which she writes anonymously, describing her search through Myanmar for traces of Orwell’s life and work—I wasn’t totally sure I wanted to. She writes about Orwell with the kind reverence that makes him seem essential—like a man everyone should have a chance to meet.

So I wrote to Professor Wilson, who suggested that I start with Shooting an Elephant and some of the shorter essays, and then took a little blue book from the stacks at O’Neill the next day. On the spine was written Orwell Reader in blocky white library type. The pages were well-thumbed, replete with scrawled comments and marginalia, which looks to have been the work of four or five different hands. It’s on my desk right now, with a bookmark close to the middle. I hope to keep it there until my own copy arrives in the mail from Amazon.

I read what I had to and made it through the presentation unscathed, never having to admit to the class that I’d only read everything I was pontificating about for the first time a few days prior.

Although I suppose the cat’s out of the bag on that now.

But there were things about Orwell’s life and writing that stayed with me for days, the way the melody of a good song often does. The takeover was so pleasant and total, in fact, that I didn’t read

A rallying ideological cry among United States feminists is that male status confers many societal benefits not simultaneously awarded to women. On the surface this indeed seems to be the case, especially in positions of power. In fact, more than 90 percent of world presidents and prime ministers are male as are most leaders of the corporate world. Beyond that, men dominate the fields of finance, technology, sports, film, and music, alongside many more. Because men enjoy so many political, legal, and social privileges just by virtue of their sex, it may seem odd to hear that males of the world are in fact in a state of disarray, one that is cause for immense worry.

As a recent Economist article points out, “Men cluster at the bottom as well as the top.” It may come as a surprise that men are, in fact, far more likely than women to be imprisoned, estranged from their children, and attempt suicide. Men earn fewer higher degrees (university echelon) and young men in the developed world are far more likely to fail basic math, science, and reading courses than young women.

Poorly educated men in rich, developed countries have perhaps the worst plight, failing to appropriately adapt to paradigm shifts in the labor markets and the family home. The expansion of technology and flourishing of international trade as the privileged sources labor have subordinated the unskilled, less-educated worker. Simply, more men are struggling to find a role in the evolving modern workplace.

On the other side of the gender gap, women are flourishing. There is a female influx into these expanding and developing sectors (chiefly health care and education), aided by their superior skills.

As the hierarchy of societal imperatives continues to privilege the importance

of educational achievement, young men continue to struggle in school relative to women (except at the very top, where socioeconomic factors play an equalizing role).

To make the situation even more dire, statistics show that men who lose jobs in the manufacturing sector often never find work again. These men consequently have an arduous time attracting a partner to ultimately settle down. The unskilled man in developed countries faces a cyclical and malevolent cycle sustained by a lack of job prospects, no family, and little hope for the future.

The reason why this problem is a concern for all genders and ages, as the

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Amplifying this data, the world is witnessing the unraveling of the workingclass family archetype predicated on two parents. In rich countries, the proportion of births outside marriage has risen nearly 33 percent since 1980, while in areas where traditional manufacturing is no longer viable, extramarital births have risen by 70 percent or more. The cycle sustains itself: children born in these broken homes normally do more poorly in school and are also more likely to form unstable

families of their own.

Economic factors and societal shifts are at the core of the problem with male status in the developed world, and unfortunately, the issue can only get worse as these two contributors are self-reinforcing and self-sustaining.

A shift in cultural attitudes may begin to address the problem. The last generation of middle class men have learned that they can play an active role in child care, and working class men need to follow suit. Additionally since jobs rooted in manual labor are likely not returning, men need to be more open to careers traditionally suited for women (ie. hairdressing and early education).

Policymakers can also help the problem by amending prohibitive legislation.

In the United States, the supply of young men suited for marriage is considerably reduced by the proclivity of southern courts to imprison non-violent offenders, making it immensely difficult for them to find work when they are released. In many states, felons are barred from working standard jobs.

Finally, educational policymakers must recognize that male underachievement is a serious issue. Some policies that are universally beneficial are especially good for young boys. Legitimate early childhood education facilities provide boys with needed structure and gives them a better chance of developing verbal and social skills. Countries with successful vocational systems, such as Germany, have a wonderful job motivating and guiding uneducated young men to find jobs.

The growing equality of the sexes is one of the biggest achievements of the modern world: people have more opportunities than ever to achieve regardless of gender. However, in a world that tends to view women as the subordinated class (with good reason) it is also important to elucidate the struggles of men to ultimately understand that economic and social hardship is a menace that plagues both sexes.

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It was August and raining. I stepped outside of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Universitat Marburg and prepared to walk about 15 minutes to get lunch with some friends.

It was then that I realized I forgot my rain jacket.

Stuck, I considered my options. I could ask someone for their rain jacket, but then they wouldn’t have one. I could just walk without one, but then my hair would be wet for at least another hour—and I care about the state of my hair more than I’d like to admit.

I realized that I could tie my scarf around my hair for at least some protection from the rain. I reached for my scarf and immediately stopped myself, almost as if I was paralyzed. It dawned on me that most of the girls standing around me were wearing hijabs as part of their Muslim faith, and here I was trying to tie up my scarf to not get my hair wet.

I turned to my friend Moza, who is from the United Arab Emirates. “Would you be offended if I tied my scarf around my hair?” I asked timidly. “I mean, I don’t want to disrespect your religion.”

I fumbled on. I felt strange—why was I stumbling over such a simple question?

Why was I so nervous?

“Of course not!” Moza said, smiling.

She reached for my scarf, “Here, let me do it for you.” She tied up my scarf and we started down the road.

When I think of Islam, I think of this moment.

I think of Moza’s warm smile and her willingness to share a part of her religion and culture with me. I think of the fond memories I have from this summer with my Muslim friends from the Middle East.

I think about how much I learned from them. I think of these friendships that I will cherish for my entire life.

But sadly, when I think of Islam, I also am forced to think about the heartbreaking amount of Islamophobia present within Western society, the existence of which has been made painstakingly obvious over the past few days.

I do not disregard the threat that ISIS poses to the safety of Americans and Europeans. The terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut (and the continuing attacks in less well-broadcasted areas) prove this reality.

The safety of the people across the globe is something that our world leaders are trying desperately to ensure. No one should have to live in fear—that is a given.

Yet it seems to me that when some Americans make the argument that letting refugees into this country poses a threat to the safety of citizens, they are completely disregarding the fact that not letting refugees even apply to live in this country is completely taking away their right to safety. It’s as if they are saying, “We Americans have a right to live without fear … but you refugees, not so much.”

The argument that ISIS terrorists could be embedded within Syrian refugees seeking asylum in the United States is an absurd idea based in extreme xenophobia and outright ignorance.

Though it has been reiterated time and time again by the Obama administration that of the thousands of Syrian refugees that have been admitted into the United States since 2011, not one of them has been guilty of terrorism. If ISIS wanted a terrorist in the United States, they would not spend the time, money, or energy supporting a terrorist posing as a refugee.

Yet, more and more governors have come out against allowing Syrian refugees into their respective states. Refugees are trying to escape ISIS. Refugees have nothing to do with ISIS. Refugees are the West’s scapegoats. Yet it seems as if no amount of statistics, data, and hard evidence pointing to the innocence of a terribly high percentage of refugees will change the minds of xenophobic Westerners.

When I think of Islam, I do not think of terrorists. I think of people who are trying desperately hard to be understood as human beings and separate themselves from extremists who represent nothing about all Muslims. When I think of the future of this country, I am optimistic.

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lyse Bush, MCAS ’16, gets strange looks when she tells people she’s a political science major. She’s a co-founder of ModilMe—an upand-coming campus startup—so people assume Bush is a business student. But she sees political science as the ideal educational platform for her work.

“Political science actually has a great deal to do with understanding the needs of your constituents, and understanding the analytical framework for how to fill those needs,” Bush said. “The internships I’ve had have always been about customer satisfaction.”

ModilMe is a clothes-sharing service with a business model based on Airbnb, the website that allows users to list their homes for rent by tourists. Users post their clothes and preferred prices on the website, www. modilme.com, where they can be viewed by people interested in borrowing or buying the clothes. ModilMe connects the parties and charges a transactional fee based on the total.

Along with Daniel Lyle, MCAS ’16, Bush founded ModilMe this past summer, after she started ModelME, an informal clothessharing movement, last spring. ModelME was a collaboration led by Bush and five of her friends that sought to empower women on campus through fashion and celebrate diversity in personal style and body-type.

ModilMe shares the same ideals, just in a more official capacity as a for-profit exchange and sharing service. The slight change in name reflects the company’s values, Bush said.

“We changed it from an “E” to an “I” because we wanted to put the “I” in model, and focus more on individualized modeling,” Bush said. “What we said was, ‘We celebrate everyone’—everyone’s their own model, in a sense.”

Lyle echoed that sentiment when he framed ModilMe as a business with a social mission.

“For me, ModilMe is an opportunity to rewrite one of the most negative codes society has to offer,” he said in an email.

In part, ModilMe is a response to Bush’s freshman year experience of feeling like she had nothing to wear compared to her peers.

She thinks of it as a more community-focused version of Rent the Runway, which allows users to rent expensive items for a fraction of the purchase price.

“One of the things about BC is that a lot of people are very well-dressed,” Bush said.

“We wanted there to be a platform for people to expand their wardrobe on campus.”

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ince launching in earnest at the beginning of the year, ModilMe has seen high student demand, which Bush said is reflected in the number of daily visitors to its site.

The demand is actually so high that

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Elyse Bush, MCAS ’16, created ModilMe as a startup website to facilitate clothes sharing on campus. supply can’t keep up, she said, so ModilMe is especially focused on getting more students to upload their clothes to the website and offer them for rent.

ModilMe recently won Best Service at BC’s 2015 Elevator Pitch Competition, sponsored by the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship. The exposure from the win led to meetings with representatives from Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm, and Tom Coburn, founder and CEO of advertising startup Jebbit and BC ’13.

Bush views Start @ Shea, the Shea Center’s student entrepreneur group, as particularly helpful as she and her team juggle running a growing business and being full-time students.

“Even just being in small groups with other entrepreneurs, I see a passion on BC’s campus where people just lift each other up,” Bush said.

“Everyone’s really helpful because people just want to see each other succeed, so it’s been heartening.”

Bush stressed that ModilMe is focused on developing its model at BC, but that eventu-

ally it hopes to expand to area universities like BU, Tufts, Harvard, and Northeastern.

One way it might seek to expand is through an accelerator program, a common start-up investment that involves a small infusion of money and mentorship to set deadlines and goals for growing companies.

Lyle pointed out that he hasn’t heard of an operation like ModilMe at any other school, which is one of the reasons he and Bush think the start-up has such potential for growth.

Currently, Bush and Lyle both plan to continue working on ModilMe full-time after graduation. ModilMe plans to add 10 new team-members in the coming weeks who will be involved with every step of the operation, from website upkeep to social media marketing.

“I said, you know what, I don’t want to cut myself off and just say that only our minds are going to make this happen, I need a whole body of people to make this work,” Bush said.

“Eventually, we want to spread to not only the Boston area but college campuses everywhere in the U.S.”

8[d`e`jkiXkfij \eZfliX^\ [\gXikd\ekj fe 8?8E8 ]XZlckp _`i\j AHANA Faculty, from A1 well, it’s an achievement,” DeLeeuw said.

A renewed concern with institutional diversity comes at a time when race and race relations are at the forefront of the discussions on college campuses nationwide. The nation has seen a wave of protests and student activism across universities, including Yale University, University of Missouri, Dartmouth University, and BC. The executive council of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College called for the University to provide a comprehensive plan to address institutional racism and inequality. The University responded with a Letter to the Editor from the Provost Office and Student Affairs, stating the administrative commitment to “ongoing discussion, reflection, and action in the hopes of making BC the best university it can be.”

Last Wednesday, students staged a sit-in to address problems of diversity within University faculty and leadership as part of a campaign led by the AHANA Leadership Council (ALC). The next day, 61 faculty and staff members published a Letter to the Editor through The Heights to offer public support for

students challenging institutional racism at BC. For DeLeeuw, much of this work happens behind the scenes, as University leadership works silently and diligently toward achieving a more diverse faculty, she said.

“In our quiet way, we do everything we can,” DeLeeuw said.

While peer institutions have similar percentages on the composition of faculty of color, few are taking strategic action to address the issue. Brown University recently outlined a 10-year, $100 million plan to create a more inclusive and diverse faculty in order to better reflect the diversity of the nation, with the goal of doubling the number of faculty from historically underrepresented groups by the 2024-25 academic year.

BC has not outlined any similar, strategic plan.

“It’s not in our nature to set goals like this, especially since when you can’t meet them—who knows what the world is going to be like in five or 10 years?” DeLeeuw said. “So, no, we don’t have specific targets—we just keep at it every year.”

In her role as vice provost for faculties, DeLeeuw works closely with the deans of the seven schools, who in turn work closely with their department chairs. The hiring of full-time and

part-time faculty is an activity within the departments. As an administrator, DeLeeuw can encourage departments to consider diversity when hiring, but administrative leadership does not have direct jurisdiction over whom they hire.

“We, in central administrative offices, can say to departments, ‘You should, you must,’” DeLeeuw said. “But, I can’t do the hiring for the math department or the accounting department— that is done within the department. I can encourage and reward if they find AHANA candidates, but the work goes on in the departments.”

The hiring process for full-time faculty positions begins with hundreds of applicants who undergo two winnowing process. The first one includes the interviewing of 10 to 15 prospective candidates, generally conducted at a meeting of a professional association.

From that pool of 10 to 15, three are invited to campus for one to two days of interviewing, when they meet with students, faculty, and the appropriate dean.

The dean then, in conversation with the department, chooses among them.

As for part-time and adjunct faculty, the hiring process is done solely by the department. Staff is hired by human resources.

“We [the central administration]

encourage them, through the process, to make sure they have a diverse pool of candidates,” DeLeeuw said. “If they find an underrepresented faculty, especially African-American faculty candidates, we do everything we can to make sure that those traditionally underrepresented faculty members are in the final pool of candidates that come to campus, and then we try to make sure that we get them hired.”

DeLeeuw noted the most recent AHANA faculty hire was an AfricanAmerican full time faculty member in marketing. Another candidate, an African-American prospective hire in sociology, has yet to accept the University’s offer.

Ultimately, the pool of AHANA faculty candidates is traditionally limited, and most peer institutions are hiring from the same graduate programs, DeLeeuw said. Within that pool, the few candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds are highly sought after by other institutions, as nearly every institution in the country is actively trying to diversify faculty. In the case of another African American prospective candidate in marketing, the candidate had 15 offers from other higher institutions.

“It’s a pipeline problem,” DeLeeuw said.

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percent of total full-time BC faculty who identify as AHANA.

percent of new, permanent faculty of AHANA background hired this year.

In order to remain competitive, in some cases departments allow for two offers to be made to prospective AHANA candidates, as was the case for the marketing and sociology hires. The departments also work with the Office of Institutional Diversity to advertise in periodicals and publications targeted at doctoral students and faculty of color.

Though there is no strategic plan in place to address diversity in faculty, as Brown has done, DeLeeuw said that University administration, deans, and departments hope to continue to do the slow, hard work they are doing in actively recruiting and competitively hiring faculty of color.

“It’s important that we all continue to talk to one another about this and continue to talk to one another with civility about these things, because we may have different ideas about how to get there, but we owe to it ourselves and to our students to have a diverse workforce, a diverse faculty,” DeLeeuw said.

“If students of colors can see people like themselves, and, frankly, if majority students—white students—can see faculty who don’t look like them, you really get a quality education. This is really still fundamentally about education, and the more diverse our faculty, the more diverse our student body, the better the education we offer is.”

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JACK STEDMAN Stepping off the T into the streets of Boston on Saturday night was a surreal experience.

Everything was business as usual as I walked up from the Fenway stop. It was just like any other night where a big sporting event was going down the street.

Then, with the flip of switch as I turned onto Brookline Ave., I entered into another world.

This is Boston, correct? Yes, so then why are there Notre Dame fans everywhere?

And by everywhere, I mean everywhere. I counted about two or three groups of BC fans as the rest of the crowd produced one big mass of green and gold. Every pub and every restaurant was filled to the max with a line out the door—all Notre Dame fans.

It was like waking up in your bed and then realizing your house is now in the middle of some foreign country.

Then things got really strange. The faint sound of drums, horns, and marching grew louder and louder as I walked toward the park. Sure enough, we came across the Notre Dame marching band mid-parade as it turned onto Brookline Ave. It started belting out the famous fight song, and the fans all took their phones out to record it.

Toto, we’re not in Boston anymore. This is something scarier—this is South Bend.

BC fans grew in number as Fenway came into sight, and we made it to Yawkey Way and Landsdowne St., but a quick glimpse inside the Notre Dame “Fan Zone” on Yawkey, it was Notre Dame on every street corner.

This fantasy land I was experiencing got me thinking. The gears started churning as I yearned for better days than the ones filled with empty stadiums, a quiet Shea tailgating scene, and 3-0 home losses.

What if BC played all of its home games at Fenway Park? Imagine that scene again, but replace everything related to Notre Dame with the maroon and gold and the Eagle logo. Completely disregarding public safety for a moment, it’s like all of Boston is your Shea Field.

UMass made the switch to Gillette Stadium, and so can we!

You might be thinking, well wouldn’t BC’s football season interfere with two months of baseball season? You’d be correct, but it cannot stop this from happening.

If the guys over at TD Garden can switch from ice to a wood floor in a day, then the Fenway grounds crew can easily make the switch from dirt to less dirt.

Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly, for one, loved playing there. He talked about

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BOSTON—Anyone who has seen a minute of Boston College football this year probably knew the game would end up this way.

We saw it against Duke. It happened against Wake Forest.

Even the Florida State game showed it.

Dominant defense, anemic offense, and a sprinkle of coaching and special teams miscues.

And that painful feeling that the Eagles might have a chance at coming away with a win against a really good football team, but ultimately, cannot do enough to earn a happy postgame press conference.

On Saturday night, four miles from its home base, in front of a national audience at one of the world’s bastions of sport—Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox—BC (3-8, 0-7 ACC) displayed that technique in the most egregious way it has shown all season.

With five turnovers— three of them coming inside the BC 5-yard-line—the defense gave this team every chance possible to win this game. But the Eagles couldn’t score on any of them, leading to a 19-16 loss in the Shamrock Series to the University of Notre Dame.

On their opening drive, the Fighting Irish (10-1) appeared to show a gritty mix of running by C.J. Prosise and short, over-the-middle passes from DeShone Kizer that had helped them pick apart defenses all season.

But Kizer, in homage to ND’s turnover-prone starter, caught a brief bout of Everett Golson’s Disease, getting picked off by John Johnson in the right back corner of the far end zone.

Quarterback John Fadule, trotting out to lead the offense, made a couple of big

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“Hope” is a funny thing to talk about after a heartbreaking defeat.

The world of Boston College football has been unforgiving in 2015—it offered very few reasons to be hopeful this season. A hot start against non-conference opponents in early fall was derailed by devastating injuries, one after another.

Inexperienced backups had to come in and shoulder the load, but the weight proved too heavy for the underclassmen to bear.

Ever since week four of the college football season, when starting running back Jonathan Hilliman was lost with a broken foot just a week after starting quarterback Darius Wade left with an injury, BC has struggled mightily to make its new pieces of the puzzle fit.

In a lot of ways, it was

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more of the same on Saturday night in Fenway Park against the University of Notre Dame (10-1). BC’s stout defense stood tall once again, forcing five turnovers from the Irish offensive attack. The offense struggled, as it has for a number of weeks. The Eagles (3-8, 0-7 ACC) played tough against a stronger opponent, and in the end, their efforts proved futile.

But at the podium in the bowels of Fenway, at the tail end of an ongoing seven-game losing streak, BC head coach Steve Addazio had a different attitude than in weeks past—it was one of unadulterated hope, free from the all-too-familiar sentiments of disappointment and confusion.

Addazio sees the extraordinary amount of youth on the field—he says he has never had so many freshmen and sophomores playing key roles before. He knows it will be a

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Nervously fidgeting with the collar of his jacket, Matt Milon sank deep into his chair at the first press conference of his collegiate career. Having 56 Harvard just torched HarBoston College 69 vard’s defense for four 3-pointers and 16 points on just seven shots, you wouldn’t blame him for considering the media a more daunting opponent. He needn’t have worried—everyone just wanted to understand how a shooter gets into such a groove.

“When you see that first shot go in, your confidence just goes up, like tremendously,” Milon said.

Led by Milon’s outburst, Boston College men’s basketball (3-0) raced out to its best start since 2008-09, igniting its outside shooting in the second half to pull away from Harvard (1-3), 69-56. Against a defense that had conceded just 12 threes all season, BC nearly matched that in one game, drilling 10

triples and shooting 42 percent from deep, 20 percent higher than Harvard had allowed entering the afternoon.

Latvian freshman Ervins Meznieks hit three triples of his own, scoring 12 points on just five shots, forming a dynamic duo with Milon. “Today was a big Ervins game,” head coach Jim Christian said. “He can make threes and they weren’t guarding the four-man.”

The Eagles made a huge offensive turnaround after entering the locker room at the half trailing 20-16. After shooting a paltry 24 percent, with just two free throw attempts, the Eagles shot 50 percent from the field and took 27 free throws in the second half, making a concerted effort to get the ball near the basket.

The Crimson focused the bulk of their defensive attention on Eli Carter, as Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker had 6-foot-8 forward Agunwa Okolie guarding BC’s offensive leader for much of the night. The first half frequently featured a stagnant BC offense, with Carter,

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Matt Milon (22) goes high for the layup.

Men’s hockey: Calnan out with injury The Eagles won their ninth straight, but forward Chris Calnan went down with an injury....B2

With three minutes left to play in the first overtime period of Sunday’s matchup against No. 14 University of South Florida (11-63, 5-1-2 AAC), Boston College 2 Boston College South Florida 1 freshman Simon Enstrom received a tailor-made through ball just outside the 6-yard box from Len Zeugner.

Enstrom, the Eagles’ points leader and recent ACC All-Freshman Team honoree, was the hero for the Eagles (11-7-1, 4-4-0 ACC) last Thursday as he sent them to the second round with a game-winner at home against Vermont. With a chance at deja vu on the road against the Bulls, the Swede opted instead to go the unselfish route, laying the ball back into open space at the outskirts of the penalty box. All eyes cut back in anticipation.

No one was there.

A minute later, he had a shot at redemption.

Women’s hockey: Eagles keep rolling Katie Crowley’s squad shut down Northeastern’s Kendall Coyne in a 4-2 win...........B2

Junior midfielder Zeiko Lewis broke free about 20 yards away from the goal, drawing attention away from Enstrom on the right side.

Lewis tapped him a quick pass, and, this time, Enstrom didn’t hesitate. The forward wound up and struck a screaming one-timer to the far post to lift BC to a 2-1 overtime victory and its first trip to the Sweet 16 since 2009.

The biggest play before Enstrom’s emphatic finish came courtesy of Randy Cook—not an Eagle or a Bull, but the head referee. After a skirmish left BC midfielder Joshua Forbes writhing in pain on the pitch, the pinstriped official jogged over to issue a yellow card to USF’s Lindo Mfeka. Following a brief exchange of words, Cook changed his mind and pulled out the red card, leaving the Bulls to finish the match with only 10 players.

The game-altering decision forced USF to drop its entire team back behind midfield to protect against the Eagle attack. But a combination of poor passing and exceptional defense kept the game scoreless well into the second

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THUMBS UP BIG D  My goodness. There are just no words anymore for how good BC football’s defense is. The Eagles forced five turnovers against Notre Dame on Saturday, including three that came within 5 yards of the end zone. While the offense and the special teams struggled mightily against the No. 4 team in the country, the defense kept BC in the game with clutch and timely turnovers.

WE BUILT THIS CITY  For the second year in a row, BC basketball is best in Boston. With a win on Sunday afternoon over Harvard University, the Eagles got off to their best start since 2009, the last time they made the NCAA Tournament.

WINDMILL AWAY - We salute you, Michigan State kicker Michael Geiger. After nailing a 41-yarder as time expired to top No. 3 Ohio State, Geiger ran the length of the field, windmilling his arms all the way. “That was the biggest kick of my life, and I f—king nailed it,” he said after the game. You sure did, Mike. Party on, and Sparty on.

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Colin White took a shot close in on net. The University of New Hampshire’s Andrew Poturalski was ready, and Boston College 6 blocked New Hampshire 3 the shot inside the crease. Unfortunately for Poturalski and UNH goaltender Danny Tirone, Matty Gaudreau was ready, too. Gaudreau corralled the rebounded shot from the front of the net and swept it to the left of Tirone to send the puck to the back of the net.

The game was now 3-1 for Boston College and Gaudreau had netted the first goal of the game not coming from one of the Wildcats’ or the Eagles’ special teams.

While the Wildcats were quick to answer the Eagles, BC (10-1-0, 4-0-0 Hockey East) used the momentum from its first even-strength goal of the game to bring solid 5-on-5 play to the third period. BC’s Saturday night hockey game against UNH (3-6-3, 11-3) was initially a battle between special teams, but the Eagles’ 5-on-5 play followed through when it mattered, and was the difference that brought the game to a final score of 6-3.

BC’s first goal was not by its power-play team, but its penalty-killing unit. A penalty on Ian McCoshen

WHERE YA REAL FANS AT? - We’re sure that Notre Dame has lots of wonderful people. But like any school, they just happen to have many more people who are not wonderful. All of those people, and exclusively those people, seemed to descend upon Fenway Park on Saturday.

Most of them probably didn’t even go to Notre Dame, since very few Fighting Irish fans actually did.

CAL-NOT PLAYING FOR A WHILE - O (Alternate) Captain! My (Alternate) Captain! Chris Calnan will be out for an extended amount of time with an upper-body injury (gotta love really vague hockey injury terminology). While BC has more than enough depth to account for his absence, it’s still a major blow for the Eagles.

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for hooking at about six minutes into the period gave the Wildcats a power play.

BC, however, was the team that benefitted from UNH’s one-man advantage. Assisted by White, Ryan Fitzgerald netted the puck past Tirone for the first goal of the game, displaying the Eagles’ effective offensive play on the penalty kill.

UNH responded in kind to the Eagles with a power-play goal. With four minutes left to play in the first, Zach Sanford was called for interference. On the power play off a rebound from Matias Cleland, Matt Dawson got the puck and brought it soaring past the glove hand of Thatcher Demko to tie the game.

In the second period, two penalty calls against the Wildcats gave the Eagles a two-man advantage. UNH’s defense and Tirone, however, cleverly read the Eagles’ play and did not give up any goals.

BC’s penalty-killing unit was also tested, and brought the play to the Wildcats’ defensive zone, diluting any scoring efforts from UNH. While these penalties did not yield any results for either team, a penalty on UNH’s Richard Boyd caused a scoring opportunity to happen in front of the Wildcats’ net. Sanford had passed to Alex Tuch, but Tuch did not connect with the puck.

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But in the match between No. 2 and undefeated BC (14-0-0, 8-0-0 Hockey East) and No. 5 Northeastern (10-21, 6-1-0 WHEA), spectators instead got a competition between two stout defenses. Thanks to Brianna Bugalski

in the net for the Huskies and Katie Burt in for the Eagles, combined with excellent defensive performances on both sides, the goals came in spurts as opposed to a torrent. In the end, Tori Sullivan scored two goals and BC did enough to win 4-2 over the Huskies.

An early checking call on Megan Keller gave Northeastern a power play, during which Kendall Coyne promptly turned a Denisa Krizova assist into a goal in the fourth minute.

It was only the second goal the Eagles have given up in the first period all year. But, in what became a pattern for the game, the lead was short-lived.

Sullivan skated through the chaos and rifled the puck high inside the near post to level the score.

The fast start turned into a more patient game, with each side favoring possession over speed. Both teams were very selective in taking their shots, but when a player finally did

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With some fight still left in the Wildcats despite the 5-2 score, UNH continued to pressure Demko.

With less than two minutes left in the game, Tyler Kelleher swiftly directed the puck into the Eagles’ net, sending Demko sprawling to try to save it. Wood then rounded out the game for BC by getting an empty-net goal, thanks to a pass from Fitzgerald,

bringing the final score to 6-3.

The Eagles’ game against the Wildcats showed that being the Beacon Street Bullies can bring good and bad.

But in seeking another Hockey East win away against University of Connecticut on Tuesday, York will hope that the Eagles will not be missing a player due to an injury from a penalty.

pull the trigger, they rarely threatened.

The best chance for either side during the remainder of the first period came with less than two minutes left in the first period, when Burt blocked a great shot but could not control it and a scrum in front of the net nearly let the puck in.

BC almost took the lead in the second with a flurry of chances in the opening minute. But after that, the Eagles could not capitalize on power plays and neither side could separate itself from the other. The defenses played superbly, blocking shots left and right. Burt only faced 23 shots all game against a team that has averaged more than 30 this season.

“With their top line, that we were able to hold Kendall [Coyne] to a just power play goal [is huge],” BC head coach Katie Crowley said. “[Kaliya Johnson] is so fast and was out there with their top line. Going down the

wall a couple times Kendall had the puck and [Johnson] caught her. That’s just tremendous athletic ability.”

The beginning of the third saw more of the same. But then, after a relatively uneventful first half of the third period, the floodgates opened.

Meghan Grieves set it all off with an absolute sniper shot past Bugalski in the 11th minute to put BC ahead.

The celebration, as before, was short-lived, as once again the score was evened within a minute. Hayley Scamurra silenced the previously ecstatic Eagles bench with a goal only 27 seconds later to make it 2-2.

Momentum was even again, but Johnson put the Eagles ahead for good with her first goal of the year in the 12th minute. “She steps up in big games when we need her,” Crowley said.

This time, however, BC did not come out slow but played with inten-

sity. BC withstood the Northeastern offense, and eventually a power play at the very end let the Eagles kill the two remaining minutes. After Bugalski was pulled with 20 seconds left, Sullivan slotted her second goal into the open net with one second to spare, securing the 4-2 win.

Despite it being so close, this was a statement game for the Eagles. They welcomed the No. 5 team in the country into Conte Forum for their largest test of the season and beat them, simple as that. It was not flashy hockey nor was it overly exciting hockey, but it was clean, well-executed hockey.

And the truth is that this is what the Eagles need to do to be contending for a national championship come March.

“We’ll try to carry this into Wednesday [against Providence],” Crowley said, “and then push on the road to finish strong this semester.”

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This weekend, the team lost its two final road games of the season to the University of Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech, making it a seven-game losing streak for the Eagles.

BC came out with surprising strength on Sunday against Virginia Tech. With a win in the first set and forced extra points in the second, the Eagles played better than they have for most

of the season.

BC won the first set, 25-17, thanks to a service error and four straight attack errors. The team took a quick 9-1 lead, at some points extending its lead to as much as 10 points. Katty Workman and Sol Calvete each contributed a kill to the winning set.

D e spite the force d extra points in the set frame, the Eagles could not grab the win.

With three straight attack errors on the final three points, the Eagles set the score at one-all.

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In the mess of bodies in front of the net, Teddy Doherty collected the puck and shot it past Tirone.

Penalties can bring goals, but they can also bring injuries. Due to some pushing on both sides after the whistle at 12:21 into the second, Chris Calnan skated off the ice injured. While BC killed the penalty, Calnan will be out for more than a five-minute major—BC Athletics announced after the game that the Chicago Blackhawks’ prospect will miss extensive time with an upper body injury. In the two penalty kills later in the second, the Eagles worked in front of the net to block shots and kept the score at 2-1.

Even though the Eagles and the Wildcats both had power plays in the beginning of the third, neither resulted in a goal.

The Wildcats quickly cleared the puck, and the Eagles skillfully intercepted shots on net. Debated for a while due to a potential earlier offsides, Gaudreau’s goal for BC brought the Eagles to a two-goal lead. John Furgele’s response was a nice five-hole on Demko to reduce UNH’s deficit.

The two-goal lead, however, was restored by Doherty, who, skating up the left side of the ice, received a pass from Miles Wood and notched his second goal of the game. Less than a minute later, Casey Fitzgerald sent a scorcher to the Wildcats’ net, which was tipped

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lead changed six times and the game featured 12 tied scores.

The Hokies wound up taking the set, however, 26-24.

After the break, the Hokies ran away with the lead. They began with a 3-0 run and quickly proceeded to a 25-11 victory.

In the fourth and final set, BC kept up in the beginning, but a seven-point lead for the Hokies was enough to leave them victorious in the tight match. They finished the afternoon with a 25-16 win.

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lead that never wavered. Pitt’s Kadi Kullerkann put the first point on the board, defeating BC 25-20 in the first set.

The Eagles showed more promise in the second set, only losing by four points.

BC’s Michelle Klinikowski and Workman each registered a kill, managing to tie up the set to 17-all. But, the Panthers offense proved too much for BC, finishing with an 8-4 run. The Panthers took the set 25-21, bringing their lead up to 2-0.

The third set was more promising for the Eagles, keeping the

match within two points the entire game.

Thanks to a Pitt attack error, BC almost took the lead at 1615, but the Panthers managed to get two more points. Workman almost closed the gap again with another kill—racking up 11 total for the night.

That was followed by two straight kills from Calvete and a Pitt attack error, again evening out the score at 23-all. The game ended with two attack errors from BC, closing out the third set and completing the Friday evening sweep.

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The Irish got on the board immediately after with a 30-yard field goal

by Justin Yoon. But the Eagles got an opportunity again in the first quarter, when Justin Simmons chased down Prosise after a 19-yard run, stripping the ball and recovering the fumble.

The offense followed it up with a three-and-out. Turnover No. 2, irrelevant.

BC almost looked like it got a stop at the end of the first when Yoon’s 44-yard field goal attempt clanked off the right post. Again, a dash of special teams problems hurt the Eagles. An arguable roughing the kicker penalty on Johnson directly led to a 10-yard TD pass from Kizer to Amir Carlisle, and a 10-0 lead at the end of the quarter.

A disaster situation on special teams almost buried the Eagles in the second. Sherman Alston, BC’s beleaguered and ineffective return man, finally made a move that could’ve cost BC, fumbling a Tyler Newsome punt at BC’s 5-yard-line. But Matt Milano made a play that would make Luke Kuechly smile, ripping away the ball from Notre Dame backup running back Josh Adams.

This turnover almost—notice a trend?—paid dividends.

BC head coach Steve Addazio changed his game plan, allowing Fadule to air it out downfield. After a 22-yard pass to tight end Tommy Sweeney, Fadule did just that—a perfect throw down the two teams’ sidelines to Thadd Smith that looked destined for six points. But, like in the Duke game, Smith couldn’t tuck the

ball in. A surefire touchdown led to a missed opportunity. Turnover No. 3? Pointless.

But on the subsequent drive, Kizer just couldn’t prevent the mistakes. On a 3rd-and-10, Steven Daniels blitzed up the middle, forcing Kizer to loft it into no man’s land, perfect for Simmons to pick it off—his second turnover of the day.

That’s when the questionable coaching returned. With 1:08 remaining in the half, Addazio left his timeouts on the board and called poor short pass plays, allowing the Fighting Irish to run out the clock after a punt.

Turnover No. 4: inconsequential.

Michael Walker provided a spark to start the half, returning the ball on the opening kickoff 67 yards to set up a Colton Lichtenberg 43-yard field goal, and getting the Eagles on the board.

Kizer marched down the field right after, with effective and wellexecuted passes over the middle to Alize Jones, Will Fuller, and Carlisle.

But Simmons intended to keep that momentum with the BC side. Truman Gutapfel tipped a Kizer pass aimed toward the end zone, which the senior safety snagged with one hand.

At that point, Addazio made the switch behind center to Jeff Smith.

“We planned on doing that,” Addazio said of the move. In the immediate, it didn’t pay off. Smith stepped into the offense decently, operating with Richard Wilson to push to Notre Dame’s 40.

But Smith fumbled on 3rd-and11, falling on it for a sack, making Turnover No. 5—you guessed it—worthless. And with a quick touchdown right after to Chris Brown from Kizer, and a field goal to open the fourth quarter, Notre Dame appeared to “shake down the thunder from the sky” and finish off the Eagles

for good.

But the toughness and grit of this football team—the positive signs from a youthful group playing difficult competition week-after-week, the dividends that Addazio has promised all year—finally seemed to appear in a small dose.

Smith broke away from the Irish front-seven, dashing 80 yards through the middle for a touchdown. A couple of drives later, Fadule and Smith combined for a 86-yard scoring drive that culminated in a touchdown over the middle to Charlie Callinan.

A game that the Eagles could’ve had ultimately came down to an onside kick, easily recovered by the Irish.

Despite not taking the path many expected, the Shamrock Series had the same outcome: Notre Dame walking off victorious in BC’s city.

“I don’t like where we are in terms of our wins and our losses right now, but I like where the future is headed,” Addazio said. “It’s heartbreaking, it’s frustrating, but it’s exciting.”

BC may grow from these experiences when it goes up against these same opponents in the near future, and given how many underclassmen on offense have gotten valuable ingame action over this year, there’s a reasonable chance that it could happen.

But this season, the Eagles have cooked up a recipe for failure, with a defense that never stops giving the Eagles a chance to win, an offense that, right now, can’t cash in on those opportunities, and, once in a while, a 404-error from the special units and sidelines.

As Addazio said, it is exciting to see what the team could become. But for many who have stuck with the Eagles this year, it’s just frustrating and heartbreaking.

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Quarterback Jeff Smith (5) ran for an 80 yard touchdown before throwing one to Charlie Callinan (83).

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Walk-on John Fadule (14) gave the Eagles a glimpse of his potential.

process to get the young guys into competitive shape for the Atlantic Coast Conference gauntlet in years to come. But he has hope that it will all turn around.

“We’re taking steps—I like where we’re headed right now,” Addazio said.

“For those who can’t understand that, then they can’t understand that. We’re building a foundation here.”

It might be lost on the casual BC fan just how many underclassmen have been thrust into positions of importance this season. Three key members of the offensive line, as well as all four quarterbacks that have seen game time and a majority of the receiving corps, only started contributing to BC this season.

The steps that Addazio’s team is

taking are small. These baby steps were not enough to make a bowl game in 2015, and it remains to be seen whether they will be big enough to cause ripples in the college football landscape in the future. But baby steps are steps in the right direction nonetheless, and thus can be appreciated.

Justin Simmons witnesses these early stages of greatness developing at practice each and every day. The de-facto leader of the defense had likely the best game of his long career on Saturday night, picking off two passes from ND quarterback DeShone Kizer. But even Simmons didn’t want to think about his individual statistics on Saturday.

Despite the fact that the game ended nearly an hour before he took the press conference podium, Simmons approached the stand still

wearing his customary headband, his left cheek still sporting eye black fashioned in the shape of a cross. His eyes were tired, his body looked weary, but he could still think of nothing but the bright future of BC football.

“I would take our team over any team,” Simmons said. “Everything that is going on with Coach Addazio and this program is being done the right way. I believe there is something special coming in the future.”

While there is one game remaining on the schedule—a Thanksgiving weekend date with Syracuse University—this game against Notre Dame was the one that BC wanted the most.

It showed before the game, when sixth-year offensive lineman Harris Williams scuffed up the pristine paint spelling out “Notre Dame” in the end zone. It showed when quarterback

John Fadule tucked the ball and ran with it, lowering his helmet like a bull to pick up just one more yard after contact. While the results on the scoreboard were not what the Eagles wanted, Addazio feels like he saw real, tangible progress being made by his mostly-young team. At this point, that’s all you could really ask for from it.

“To watch Jeff [Smith] compete out there, to watch John Fadule compete out there, to watch Thaddeus Smith compete out there, to watch Elijah Robinson compete out there, to watch Mike Walker compete out there, to watch Tom Sweeney compete out there … Chris Lindstrom, and Aaron Monteiro, and Jon Baker, wow,” Addazio said. “I’ve been coaching a long time and I haven’t ever seen a list that long.”

<ejkifdËj ^fc[\e ^fXc n`ee\i j\e[j <X^c\j kf Jn\\k J`ok\\e BC men’s soccer, from B1 half. In the 74th minute, Atombra Ampadu lobbed a deep cross to Isaac Normesinu at the back post, who nailed a volley from close range over the head of the Bulls’ keeper for a 1-0 lead. Normesinu, a junior who led the team in goals last year, notched his first goal of the season after struggling to get playing time because of personnel changes and injuries.

USF responded by adding two additional forwards in its desperate

search for an equalizer. With just under two minutes remaining in regulation, the Bulls saw their best chance at scoring in the form of a throw-in deep in Eagle territory. The toss found Kendan Anderson in the far corner one-on-one against BC’s Abe Bibas.

Bibas attempted a tackle at the edge of the box, but was beat goal-side as Anderson streaked into the heart of the Eagle defense. Zeugner stepped up to help, but the speedy USF striker ran around the 6-foot-4 German.

Before a third BC defender could try

his hand, Anderson found a cutting Prosper Figbe for the finish, tying the game at 1-1.

The improbable comeback was amplified by the fact that Figbe wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near the goal in the first place. The freshman defender was only called upon to play forward to fill the void left by the ejection of Mfeka. In fact, it was Figbe’s first collegiate goal—and probably one of only a handful the back will amass in his time at USF. The deadlock continued into

overtime with the Bulls hoping for two scoreless periods in extra time and a chance for penalty kicks, where they could escape their crippling disadvantage in numbers. Enstrom, however, ended any shot of a PK shootout with his goal in the 98th minute, his ninth of the season and fifth game-winner of the year.

The win advances the Eagles to the Sweet Sixteen against No. 2 Georgetown, a powerhouse Big East program coming off a recent 3-0 victory against Hofstra in the second round. If the

Eagles want any chance of pulling off another upset, they will need to capitalize on their goal-scoring opportunities—much more so than they did Sunday against an undermanned USF squad. BC totaled 15 shots, yet had nothing to show for them until late in the second half.

The Eagles will also need to be more disciplined, as they racked up three yellow cards during a very physical contest. These cards weren’t assessed for hard tackles or rough collisions in the air, however—these

penalties were the result of unnecessary shoves and similar blunders that exhibited BC’s youth and unruliness.

Regardless, the Eagles will present a challenge to Georgetown when they meet next Sunday with a quarterfinal appearance on the line. Enstrom has already had two signature slides during the tournament as part of his post game celebrations of game-winning goals. Perhaps a third could spoil the Hoyas’ hopes of winning their first national championship.

=\enXp GXib i\d`e[\[ lj n_p `k `j k_\ dfjk jg\Z`Xc m\el\ `e jgfikj Column, from B1 how it really had that stadium feel to it, and most importantly, he was pleasantly surprised that the turf was in such good condition. Well done, grounds crew. Well done.

The specifics of getting a football field into Fenway is well and good. They pulled it off nicely.

But now, let’s get down to the good stuff that is really going to make home games at Fenway special.

Easily the best of the game was the sideline battle. No other stadium in the country puts both

teams next to each other on one side of the field … except for Fenway. With both coaching staffs wary of some wandering eyes from their opponents, hilarity ensued.

Notre Dame had these officiallooking fold-out blockers that could be used when the coach need a play call. It was neat and tidy. BC, on the other hand, went a little more rogue. Using the BC Athletics sheet used for an interview backdrop, two of the managers were tasked with unfurling the big sheet. It looked like two guys running around with a big sheet ready to make the most epic fort ever.

The two managers would move with the coaches, and would even get a couple yards onto the field to block Notre Dame’s view. Kelly complained, and the ref had to come in and shut the operation down, limiting the play-call blocking to sidelines only.

That’s the kind of extra flavor that would come with BC home games. No longer is the battle on the field, but it gets a little more physical on the sidelines.

The marching bands would also have a lot more fun. The Fighting Irish band was situated behind the benches, and it had all of left field

as a playing field. The possibility of antics are much greater when a band isn’t restricted to a section of the stands. The away band—in this case BC’s—on the other hand, would be even more restricted. It looked really squashed in those tiny Fenway seats behind third base.

In theory, the away band, so fed up with the uncomfortable arrangement, would then storm into left field, thus creating a face-off between opposing bands.

If my math is correct, we are now up to three face-to-face battles happening in one game. The first one is on the field. The next is on

the sideline, where the two coaches go to extreme lengths to shield their play calls, and the third is directly behind that, where the two bands meet.

That’s triple the action, and triple the fun!

In all seriousness, other sporting events at Fenway Park are awesome.

It’s historic, it’s a bit quirky, it’s in the city, and it has been home to some great events. There have been two Frozen Fenways in which BC has played Notre Dame and Boston University. Liverpool, AS Roma, and Celtic have all played the soccer matches there. It was once even

home to a professional football team, and now we even get hurling and big air ski jump, too!

Fenway Park deserves all of the sports.

With a tragic BC season about to come to a finish, a switch to Fenway would instill some new life into this program.

Football is back at Fenway, and hopefully there are many more games to come.

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After the break, BC adjusted to Harvard’s defensive focus, beating the defense with ball movement and spacing. Meznieks and Milon were the main beneficiaries of this focus, with both players often left open with the extra defenders that Carter drew.

Despite finishing just 3-for-14 from the floor, Carter again proved to be an offensive catalyst. After seeing how Harvard was defending him, Carter switched tactics after the break, utilizing his passing skills more frequently. He picked up four assists in the second half, including a gorgeous cross-court feed to Meznieks for a wide-open corner three to secure the outcome of the game in the final minute.

“Even if he’s not putting the ball in the basket, he’s putting pressure on the defense all the time,” Amaker said after the game.

Starting two freshman guards, Harvard continued to exhibit the offensive struggles that have plagued

the team all season. The Crimson finished the game with 16 turnovers to just 12 assists, with freshman point guard Tommy McCarthy putting up a particularly brutal line of zero assists and five turnovers.

Christian credited the stellar defensive performance to increased aggression from his perimeter defenders. “I didn’t think in the first two games that we played, we were very aggressive on the perimeter, we were almost cautious,” he said.

“I thought we were a lot more aggressive today.”

Even the much-maligned Dennis Clifford put up a performance that escaped criticism. The 7-foot senior tallied a career-high 12 rebounds, 11 of which came on the defensive glass, where he prevented Harvard from extendeing possessions and finding any sort of rhythm.

“I thought this was as hard as Dennis has played since I’ve been here, to be honest with you,” Christian said.

In a day of encouraging performances, perhaps the lone negative takeaway was that BC’s glaring lack of depth in the frontcourt was showcased again. Behind Clifford,

redshirt freshman Idy Diallo drew the ire of Christian by fouling out in just six minutes. Foul trouble was a significant issue for the BC frontcourt all afternoon. Diallo’s struggles meant that freshman Johncarlos Reyes was called upon for nearly 10 minutes of action.

Harvard immediately attacked the skinny center, repeatedly dumping the ball inside to center Zena Edosomwan, who made 6-of-8 total field goals while Reyes was guarding him. Edosomwan finished with a team leading 20 points and nine rebounds.

Despite the dominant effort down low, he also made just 4-of-9 free throws, emblematic of Harvard’s team wide struggles from the charity stripe.

The Crimson made just 9-of-23 free throws in the contest, much to the dismay of Amaker.

“I’m disappointed we didn’t put in a little better effort on the little things to win a game like this,” he said.

While BC must clean up the fouls, on the whole, the performance of his young team has given Christian great hope for the future. “This team has more ceiling than the team I had last year,” he said.

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With the freshmen stepping up and the entire team putting in a solid effort, the Eagles closed out the Crimson.

“There’s just more room for growth here.”

Part of that growth happened during the game, with Milon taking over

with his shooting. With his smooth left stroke, he’s a player that figures to hold a prominent role on this team in the coming months. If his

performance from this game is any indication, he may have to become comfortable with the media room very quickly.

8cc$Xifle[ g\i]fidXeZ\ gifg\cj 9: kf m`Zkfip fm\i ?XimXi[ 9P J:FKK ?@CC ?\`^_kj JkX]] Sunday’s victory over Harvard spurred Boston College men’s basketball to its best start in seven years and sets the stage for a big game on Thanksgiving day against Michigan State. The Eagles shot terribly in the first half and were lucky to only be down four at the break, but they turned things around in the second half and eventually put the Crimson away.

THREE UP 1. Matt Milon’s Offensive Outburst Matt Milon was the first player off the bench and played with great poise on both ends of the floor for all of his 25 minutes. Milon led the Eagles in scoring with 16 points, sinking four 3-pointers in the process. Milon’s hot shooting allowed BC to space the floor, opening up the paint for the likes of Eli Carter and Dennis Clifford.

“Matt really stepped up for us tonight,” BC head coach Jim Chris-

tian said after the game. “He’s getting better each and every night.”

The extra defensive attention Milon garnered also resulted in open looks for Ervins Meznieks, who scored nine points in the second half. Milon’s play was extremely encouraging off the bench and provided the Eagles with much-needed offense on a day when Carter and Jerome Robinson struggled to score.

2. Dennis Clifford Earns Reason to Celebrate “I thought this was as hard as Dennis has played since I’ve been here,” Christian said.

It was Clifford’s energy, defense, and rebounding prowess that allowed the Eagles to survive an icecold first half, helping them to separate from the Crimson down the stretch. Clifford played big, snaring a career-high 12 rebounds—11 of them defensive—despite logging only 24 minutes due to foul trouble.

While Clifford let a number of potential rebounds slip through his fingers in the two previous games,

on Sunday afternoon he secured every rebound that came his way, and never allowed Harvard to poke the ball away from him. Clifford left his fingerprints all over this game: hitting free throws, blocking shots, dishing out assists, and again, clearing the glass.

As a result of Clifford’s efforts the Eagles outrebounded the Crimson by a margin of 37-33 and allowed only four second-chance points. When Clifford finally came out of the game for good with 24 seconds left and BC was up big, there was joy written all over his face. Clifford ran to the bench, his arms held out wide and playfully shoved Idy Diallo while his teammates laughed and Conte Forum showered him with applause. It has been awhile since Dennis Clifford has appeared to have this much fun playing basketball.

3. Eli Carter’s second half shoes Eli Carter made a shoe change at halftime, and boy did it make a difference. After having suffered through a scoreless first half, Carter

began the second period like a man on a mission, quickly drawing a foul on a drive to the hoop en route to scoring 15 second-half points for the Eagles.

“Let’s never see those first half shoes again,” Christian joked.

Carter has been BC’s most consistent player so far this season.

He would have matched his point total from the CCSU game if he had hit his free throws late in the game, but he missed three foul shots in the waning minutes.

THREE DOWN 1. Idy Diallo Fouls Out Again Idy Diallo found a way to foul out unintentionally despite playing only six minutes. Incredibly enough, this marks the second time that Diallo has fouled out despite playing fewer than 10 minutes in the Eagles’ first three games. After committing his fifth and final foul with 10 minutes left in the game, Diallo lingered on the court, seemingly basking in the moment’s significance. Reluctant to go back to the bench, Diallo stood on the court until PA announcer

Andy Jick confirmed that it was indeed he who had committed the foul, at which time he bowed his head and returned to the bench for the last time.

“He needs to understand that we have to watch every foul he commits,” Christian said. “He gets too worked up in the game I think, and he tries to overcompensate when he gets caught out of position.”

2. First Half Eli Carter As good as Eli Carter was in the second half, he was that bad in the first half—missing every one of his six shots and throwing up not one but two airballs.

Granted, he was being defended spectacularly by Harvard’s stopper Agunwa Okolie—a 6-foot-8 senior forward from Canada—but for the second straight game Carter failed to provide any offense in the first 20 minutes, which was a big reason why the Eagles only scored 16 points in the first half.

In addition to not scoring, Carter also recorded only one assist in the first half (finishing with five

for the game). It didn’t come back to bite the Eagles this week, but BC cannot afford for Carter to wait until the second half to get going when they play Michigan State on Thanksgiving Day. 3. Zena’s Paradox In addition to having an alien name, Harvard’s junior forward Zena Edosomwan punished the Eagles with a 20-point, nine-rebound performance less than a year after barely playing in an overtime loss to BC. “I think that guy is the most improved player in the country,” Christian said about Zena. “Last year I think he played three minutes [against the Eagles] and got called for travelling twice.”

Most of Zena’s damage occurred during the time Johncarlos Reyes spent guarding him. Reyes shows obvious defensive potential for a freshman, but he was eaten alive by Zena on Sunday and needs to grow up quickly if he is going to be ready to play against Michigan State.

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On a rainy Sunday afternoon, Boston College women’s basketball traveled down the B Line en route to take on Boston College 58 ComBoston Univ 37 monwealth Ave. rival Boston University.

The Eagles trounced the Terriers 58-37 after a very strong defensive effort.

The decisive victory marked

the team’s fourth consecutive win to begin the season, and featured exactly the all-around team effort coach Erik Johnson expects from his team.

“I’m proud of this team,” Johnson said. “A 4-0 start is great.”

Johnson’s team won thanks in large part to the sharp shooting of junior Kelly Hughes. She was the game’s leading scorer, chipping in 15 points, while hitting on an impressive 5-of-7 from 3-point range.

This has become the norm so

far this season for Hughes, who is shooting 57 percent from beyond the arc through four games.

BC came out firing in the first half, as Hughes hit three consecutive threes to give the Eagles an early 14-5 lead. From there, the Eagles wouldn’t look back.

BC’s early momentum continued throughout the first half, with solid play from Nicole Boudreau and Mariella Fasoula, who helped build a 31-19 lead at halftime.

Fasoula would finish the game with an impressive 11 points and

nine rebounds, in what was a very encouraging performance for the freshman.

The Eagles didn’t let up in the second half, as Hughes once again came out shooting.

The junior was unstoppable, hitting another highlight reel three early in the second half to help BC pull away.

A 41-19 lead left no doubt as to the final outcome. Solid ball management and defense capped off what was never really a competitive contest at BU on Sunday.

One of the most encouraging parts of the victory for the Eagles came in the team’s execution of the basics—facets of the game like passing, rebounding and free throw shooting—that are generally only mentioned when done poorly.

On Sunday, however, the Eagles excelled in all three and it paid off.

BC out-rebounded BU 37-33, but the team’s biggest strength came in its free-throw shooting.

The Eagles shot at an 82-percent clip, ensuring that there were few wasted opportunities to score.

What most impressed Johnson, however, was not rebounding or free-throw shooting. He praised the team’s defensive effort as its strongest asset, and named it the number one reason for the 4-0 start.

“That’s why we have a four-game winning streak,” Johnson said. “For four games in a row, we’ve been able to hold down our opponents significantly in point production and from their field goal percentage. I think that’s a really good sign of a buy-in from our team on the defensive end.”

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Red alert, ladies and gentlemen, red alert. Boston College men’s basketball just took down the Blue Devils. This 57 CCSU is not a Boston College 82 drill.

Okay, it’s kind of a drill. The Blue Devils in question are from Central Connecticut State University—not exactly the same as the defending national champions from Durham, N.C. Nevertheless, it’ll count as a win for this young Eagles team in the standings on tomorrow’s early presses.

And after falling down all-around early in the first half, the Eagles (2-0) ran away in the final 30 minutes, blowing out CCSU (0-3), 82-57. BC’s early problems stemmed from slow starts from the team’s two senior leaders: Dennis Clifford and Eli

Carter. The 7-foot center struggled offensively, reigning in rebounds but getting pushed back far enough to prevent easy layups. As for Carter, BC’s leading scorer in the seasonopener against St. Francis (N.Y.), he simply couldn’t find his shot, missing all seven of his attempts from the floor. Still, Carter made plays, including one where he purposefully angled a shot attempt off the backboard to land perfectly in Clifford’s hand for the easy putback.

When the veterans faltered in scoring, the young guns stepped to the plate. Sammy Barnes-Thompkins, Matt Milon, and Ervins Meznieks all lit up the scoreboard from beyond the arc. The three freshmen combined to hit 6-of-9 three-pointers in the first, helping the Eagles on a 13-2 run at one point in the latter part of the first.

Head coach Jim Christian was

impressed with the quick adjustment made by his freshmen, many of whom occupy the Eagles’ bench.

“The first time they went in, they looked very tentative, and not executing,” Christian said. “And then the second time, they played a little looser.”

But like in the season-opener, it was one freshman in particular who lifted his team. Jerome Robinson, who grabbed America’s attention with a SportsCenter-worthy dunk on Saturday, took over on Thursday, knocking down 6-of-9 shots for 13 points.

His best play didn’t come with Andy Jick screaming his name.

While playing the point with Carter on the bench, Robinson took the ball up and dribbled along the baseline. He split two defenders and caught a third eyeing Meznieks in the corner, wide open. Robinson took advantage, sending a quick touch pass

through the defender’s legs, allowing Meznieks to catch it on a bounce to nail down the trey.

When asked about it after the game, Christian tempered his young player’s ego after two games against comparatively weaker, non-conference opponents.

“Don’t act like he did it on purpose,” Christian said, inciting a laugh from the Conte Forum media suite.

Robinson’s sheepish smile would imply that he knew exactly what he was doing.

The second half flipped, as the Eagles came out focusing on defense while slowing the ball down and making more calculated shots. BC held the Blue Devils to a mere 24 points in the second on only 25.8 percent shooting from the field (1-for-9 from 3-point range). A big key came in shutting down junior guard J.J. Cratit.

In the first, Cratit did everything he

could to keep the game close, shooting 6-of-9 for 15 points. But by the second, he had nothing, shooting 1-of-7 in the second, including going 0-for-the-game from 3-point range.

Defensively, Christian credited a lot of that success to his guards’ ability to get rebounds in the back 20.

Oh, and that Carter guy found his footing, too. The Eagles’ de facto leader scored 16 points in the second, focusing less on making jump shots and more on driving to the rim and forcing his way through a sea of defenders.

Once the game was handily out of reach, Christian sent in the reserves—and it was more than just the typical Steve Perpiglia sighting in blowouts. Christian allowed his two walk-ons to get into the game: 6-foot-8 Aser Ghebremichael from Somerville, Mass., and St. Sebastian’s alumni Jordan Barros, son of BC

great, Dana.

Both hit clean, nothing-but-net 3pointers on their first collegiate shots.

Each sent the bench into a frenzy of cheers, smiles, and laughs.

But for Christian, who, with the walk-ons, now has 11 out of 15 players on the roster who have never played in a college game before this year, age is not an excuse for lack of performance. And he’s not going to allow it to be one this season.

“I’m never going to talk about it,” Christian said. “If you want to win, you have to do these things. I don’t care if you’re a freshman or a senior.”

For a fanbase that has heard a lot of age-related excuses this year from other coaches (who shall remain nameless), Christian’s resistance to blaming his team’s youth points to good signs ahead.

Maybe even when they play the real Blue Devils.

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The connecting thread of the compilation is a clear and present tension between maturity and unyielding rawness,

the latter coming back to seep through even the most restrained and coolheaded numbers. First and foremost, 25 is a crooning documentation of this quintessential 20-something negotiation over age and love, one which is given bluesy groundings in the expansive voice of its creator. A high point of the internal tug-of-war is in the lilting “When We Were Young,” a sweetly anxious tribute to former love which is equal parts ode to an individual and to youth. You could almost miss the closing lines, “I’m so mad I’m getting old. It makes me reckless,” except for the enraged intensity of their delivery, which makes it clear that this particular sense of loss is aimed at more than just a relationship.

This tension, this dilemma over youth and age, inexperience and experience, makes itself apparent over the entirety of the album. Adele is not simply tackling her four-year gap in production and the aging of her career with wizened restraint—she is deliberately and vocally distraught. In “Water Under the Bridge” and “All I Ask,” the singer finds the right

voice to capture endings with an inconsolable melancholy that manages to keep its distance from becoming a whine. On “Million Years Ago,” the vocals come in close and stripped down, guitar plucking in the background as she steps as close as she dares to pure indulgent sentimentality—the good times you just can’t get back. The result is an album ringing with authenticity in its weakness, its brutal longing to cheat time.

As much as this soulful angst is a tribute to strife, lighter moments abound in which the artist appears to present her progress toward a place of contentment. A release from the inhibitions of adolescent trembling, “Send My Love” opens the album on a farewell note that feels unapologetic, jangling, but most of all ready. The production throughout the track trends toward the minimalistic to accommodate Adele’s vocal might, but it is swelling numbers like “Love in the Dark” and the heavy, ringing “Sweetest Devotion” which capture the singer’s moments of unrepentance best.

The Piano-led “Remedy” provides a

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The British vocalist laments lost love and expresses her fear of aging on her newest album. perspective shift from the desperate to the comforting, perhaps marking the most wholly matured moment on the album as Adele knowingly reassures one whose “heart makes you feel like a fool.”

“River Lea” offers an interesting opportunity, then, with its neither here nor there, organ-tinged opening and intimate conversational verse. One of the more memorable tracks on an album full of solid work, the song succeeds in its self-awareness, forgoing lamentation

or anger to decree, “I need to learn how to be young.” It is an origin story of a global success, an uprising and a tribute all at once.

On a grand scale, the album serves a similar purpose, triumphing as a fresh narrative of the not quite young and not quite old, the very grey area where Adele has currently staked her powerhouse claim. 25 is a revival album, and it is as much a tribute to love well-lost as it is to the traitorous act of getting older.

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Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica Jones, a gifted Hell’s Kitchen resident who faces off against David Tennant’s Kilgrave in a new Netflix series.

9P D8;<C<@E< ;Ë8E><CF ?\`^_kj JkX]] Being a hero in the modern world is an almost laughable aspiration. No one person could ever solve the problems facing current and future generations, yet escaping into worlds where intelligent scientists turn into giant green men and dapper young men flying around in capes are heroes who can solve most of society’s problems is still a treasured pastime. But Netflix’s newest Marvel series, Jessica Jones, does not provide such a straightforward JESSICA JONES escape.

Netflix The series certainly begins with a bang, launching viewers into the confusing world that Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) inhabits. Jessica freelances as a private eye employed mostly by jealous spouses and icy lawyers, but she is special.

Despite her slight frame she has superhuman strength, making her one of the secretly ‘gifted’ citizens of Hell’s Kitchen.

The viewer slowly learns about Jessica’s twisted history. She is recovering from a traumatic encounter with the mind controlling villain, Kilgrave (David Tennant).

Unfortunately for Jessica, Kilgrave has returned. Suddenly the hard-edged, guarded loner has more problems to deal with than getting over the trauma of being under the control of a telepathic maniac.

At first glance, Jessica Jones is the typical angst-ridden superhero. She hides behind the ratty hoodies, black leather jackets, and eyes rimmed with smudged black liner that seem to be the classic uniform favored by disillusioned youth in any universe. In some ways, her character is just as stereotypical as her costumes are. Like any young person bearing the burden of responsibility upon her shoulders, she is pitifully damaged. She downs countless bottles of whiskey to escape from the pain of her memories, and seems to have just one friend to her name. She struggles with her relationships, constantly burns bridges, and pushes the few individuals who love her away.

Yet Jessica is supposed to be our hero, the only one who can save us. She self destructs as she attempts to save those around her, and as the series continues the viewer realizes just what she is capable of. At times, Jessica seems more of the self-centered villain than the selfless hero, a complex mishmash that Ritter portrays well. She is clearly comfortable playing a sarcastic woman who, as much as she hides is, might need just as much saving as the world around her.

Like with any good Marvel production, Jessica’s arch-nemesis, Kilgrave, is delightfully evil. Although Tennant’s character does not appear on screen until later in the season, he is omnipresent, haunting both Jessica and the viewer with his chilling voice and gaunt silhouette. And when Tennant finally does appear on screen it is a treat, making viewers wish he had come earlier. A far cry from the lovable Doctor he played on

BBC’s Doctor Who, or the heart-wrenching detective in Broadchurch, Tennant’s Kilgrave is frightening in every sense of the word.

Kilgrave is almost the evil embodiment of a certain trend in today’s very vocal and personalized world where individuals’ desires are paramount.

Aside from the complex characters and themes Jessica Jones presents, the series is also visually enthralling. Although there are many dark scenes—the world of Hell’s Kitchen seems to have abnormally short daylight hours—the cinematography is certainly interesting. Many of the shots are disorienting, taken from bizarre angles, and blurry, all with the purpose of putting the viewer in Jessica’s confused mind. They see the world through her alcohol-addled vision, building a sympathy for her character that takes precedent over any feeling of disdain that they might initially have.

Netflix is reeducating the world. It has shown us the beauty and pain of binge watching, and revealed to everyone the way that a Friday night should be spent. And with Jessica Jones, Netflix is trying very hard to tell viewers that heroes cannot possibly save the world when they can’t even save themselves.

In fact, what really separates the heroes from the villains? Maybe in reality, as well as Hell’s Kitchen, the grey areas are too wide for these comforting labels. While watching Jessica Jones, you might not be able to slide people into such simple categories, but you will ask yourself what you would really do if you woke up tomorrow with super strength or the power to control minds.

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6. CRIMSON SHORE Douglas Preston 7. THE PROMISE Robert Crais 8. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Anthony Doerr 9. THE JAPANESE LOVER Isabel Allende 10. CAREER OF EVIL Robert Galbraith SOURCE: New York Times

IfdXeZ\ Xe[ XYjli[`kp Zfd\ kf^\k_\i fe dfZbld\ekXip ÊDlgg\kjË j_fn 9P :?I@J =LCC<I 8jjfZ% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi What happens when you introduce Chelsea Handler, one of Hollywood’s raunchiest comedians, to Scooter, the shy and dorky Muppet stage manager for Staying Up Late with Miss Piggy? A beautiful and perplexing romance unfolds. Here, we see a romance that actually symbolizes the new ABC Muppet show rather well. As strange as it is to see episodes of a Muppets show focus so much on dating and THE MUPPETS relationABC Studios ships, whoever’s controlling the little felt puppets sure knows what they’re doing.

Let’s face it—this show isn’t going to be on for very long. The Muppets, working off of the (at this point) cliched Office/Modern Family mockumentary formula, has been a lot of fun to watch so far, but there’s no way this show could prop itself up for more than

two seasons. The show isn’t doing well. Critics pan it for replacing the archetypes from NBC’s Office with the beloved Muppet cast, its viewership has been dropping sharply, and it struggled to garner ABC’s backing for the entirety of its season.

To a large extent, criticisms of the show are grounded. The Office and 30 Rock have already done everything the show is putting out. We’ve seen the same relationships, and the same gimmicks. This show just threw puppets into the same blueprint. Also, The Muppets has put a lot of its puppets into romantic relationships with actual people. Critics and some outspoken parents feel that giving the Muppets these relationships and having them be the focus of the show is distasteful and overly bawdy.

Taking these points into consideration, if the viewer can move past them, The Muppets is actually a really funny show.

The writing’s quick. The mockumentary style is actually done really well, and the puppeteering itself is hysterical. Each of the three central Muppets (Kermit, Miss Piggy, and Fozzy) have gotten a proportionate amount of screen-time and focus. While Fozzy’s focal episodes are probably the funniest, Kermit’s

episodes have an intriguing and heartfelt moral lying at the end of them.

The show has also been pretty consistent.

The only episodes so far that have faltered from the show’s standards are episodes where Miss Piggy is the main character. Piggy has always been a self-absorbed and annoying pig, but this show has taken things too far with her.

Especially without the masterful Frank Oz doing her voice, she really has no redeeming quality.

On the other hand, Fozzy Bear and Kermit have kept the show standing on its feet since day one. Fozzy’s naivety has never been depicted as well as it is here. Watching him stumble from one embarrassing situation to the next, shrouded in his adorable humility and sentimentality, has been a blast. We’ve also gotten to see a darker side of Kermit.

Kermit, the executive producer for Up Late with Miss Piggy, will do anything to keep Up Late going. He has manipulated his friends, lied to them, and been a real hard-ass on set.

Just when you feel he’s gone out of character the show reels him back in with a moralizing or embarrassing moment where Kermit realizes the consequences of his actions.

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The expressions and motions the show’s puppeteers give to their characters have been noticeably outstanding on this show. Kermit’s face has never been scrunched up in this many ways before. There’s a spectrum of very distinct and noticeable faces that these puppeteers have given to their characters and this helps viewers ignore the fact that they’re watching puppets. These points may seem unnoticeable, but long-time fans of the Muppets will notice and appreciate these improvements.

The Muppets isn’t Masterpiece Theater. It’s probably taken many viewers out of their comfort zones. Sure, it’s weird to see the Muppets in these romantic situations and swearing a bit more, but it’s not like they’re up to anything too obscene. They’re still the Muppets. The Muppets isn’t innovative comedy, but it’s witty and most of all just fun. It won’t be on television very long, but it’s making the best with what it’s got. And that’s all true Muppets fans really wanted from The Muppets.

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Although it bears the weight of Charles Mee’s original play, the Robsham production ultimately fails the transport the audience to another place and time as it often labors through transitions and musical numbers.

IfYj_Xd _fjkj X n\[[`e^# dli[\i `e X[XgkXk`fe f] :_Xic`\ D\\Ëj Ê9`^ Cfm\Ë Big Love, from B8 plastic—instead of water—generating laughter from the audience for the wrong reasons. Transitions between scenes were jarring at best, once again taking the audience out of the world of the play.

The audience seemed more interested in the changing set pieces than the plot of the show. All the little things that should have brought the audience deeper and deeper into Mee’s story in some ways worked against the production.

In fact, the transitional difficulties of Big Love represented the larger issue with the production. A good show can transport you to another place, another time, to an entirely new place of thinking. You forget you’re in a softly cushioned seat in a theater. But often in Big Love, and in more than just its sometimes roughly hewn transitions, you are never quite swept up in the world of the show.

Charles Mee’s playwriting represents some the best of American theater. But

many of Big Love’s musical numbers never quite did the work they were meant to. The choreography was bland, and oftentimes rather repetitive. The musical stylings of “You Don’t Own Me” were enjoyable, but it was not enough to raise the entirety Big Love. Even forgetting the distasteful and offensive depiction of the LGBTQ community, Big Love more than often misses the intended mark The directorial choice to allow actors numerous opportunities for a soliloquy was an interesting note. On a number

of occasions, characters would face the audience and almost break the fourth wall, revealing their inner thoughts on the situation and gender politics as a whole.

While this may have been the right choice for another production, it was not well used in Big Love. Revealing the opinions of a character in such a way is sometimes effective, but more often than not removes any suspension of disbelief. Emma Howe and Samuela Nematchoua , b oth MC A S ’18 (a s

Olympia and Thyona, respectively) did an excellent job in their roles. Adriana Castanos, MCAS ’17, had a standout performance as well (most notably, her tomato scene, which was both humorous and well acted), bringing much-needed comic relief to the play.

Overall, Big Love was an impressive attempt at producing a well-respected work. It was ambitious, but ambition alone couldn’t get Big Love off the ground.

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Moving renditions of poetry and a cappella use art to carry a simple yet poignant message of solidarity.

8Zfljk`Zj Xe[ gf\kip `e :lj_`e^ Yi`e^ Xkk\ek`fe kf j\olXc XjjXlck m`Zk`dj Speak Out, from B8 so were the raw emotions of the performers. Some discussed emotional abuse, a physically abusive relationship, the painful aftermath of rape, and others a mother’s advice to her daughter.

Some were brought to tears while others stumbled over the lines. Yet, all were embraced with great love and care by their friends and the entirety of the audience.

One of the most important aspects of the night that merits recognition was the simple presence of art and its ability

to carr y poignant meaning .

Unlike the “Carry That Weight” demonstration of protest through performance art initiated by former Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz last year, Speak Out was not a grab for attention.

Rather it was an event that gave people an opportunity to come together and shed meaningful light on a pressing issue through an artistic medium.

Each performance was meaningful not only to the performer, but to every member of the audience, underscoring that whether this issue affects a college

student personally, it is still the obligation of the entire community to provide support. One of the most resounding moments of the night came from BC student Julie Rain who read Alice Walker’s To Stop Violence Against Woman and then read her personal response to the piece. Rain eloquently highlighted the changes that comes with support and equality, just as Walker masterfully articulates in her poem, “To stop violence against woman, woman must stop violence against herself …

Woman. Awake! Arise! Stand up!”

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the room. After Lyons and the rest of the boys sang “Earth Angel’s” final notes, the group performed its first contemporary song of the evening: The Weeknd’s “Earned It.” Sophomore Patrick Fei, MCAS ’18, wooed the audience with a range that challenged even that of The Weeknd’s famous sultry heights.

Putting a doo-wop spin on an R&B track, the group’s accompaniment was equally as impressive. During the final song before a short break, David Goebel, MCAS ’16, invited his girlfriend, Emma McCabe, to join him on stage. Serenading her with The Temptations’ “My Girl,” Goebel won the award for boyfriend of the year.

The Heightsmen returned to the stage with a short skit, written

by Spata. The scene was set as an Heightsmen Alumni reunion weekend, where past greats came to the BC campus to relive their glory days. There were a few surprise guests, though—namely, Doug Flutie, Dr. Ben Carson, and even founding fathers Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. Flutie stated that his days with The Heightsmen were his single best memories at BC, as “current” members incredulously looked at the football under his arm. Revere and Adams were less impressed with the club, however, disappointed by the fact that T-Pain was not a nickname for their good friend Thomas Paine.

But the current and past members of The Heightsmen found common ground in their motive for joining the club—“We do it for the girls,” Patrick Fei told Samuel Adams.

“Well, then,” he responded, “I never should’ve doubted you!”

Following the skit, the group launched into another wave of all-

male vocals. This set was kicked off by soloist Lyons, who led the group in an energetic rendition of Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl.” After the pop-rock anthem concluded, Kamau Burton, MCAS ’17, started crooning the lyrics to “How Deep is Your Love,” not by Calvin Harris, but the classic

by The Bee Gees.

The evening took another surprising turn with the iconic start of a more recent, country classic—“Your Man,” by Josh Turner.

Murphy returned to take on the challenging solo, executing the widerange changes perfectly with only a slight hiccup in the lyrics marring his excellent performance. The group stuck to the modern theme with its next song, as well, inviting Goebel back to the microphone to perform T-Pain’s “Buy U a Drank.”

With slight changes in the lyrics to promote The Heightsmen, the performance was witty and even raunchy, as Goebel shed his jacket on stage and threw money from his pockets. The highlight of the song was undoubtedly when freshman Greg Gao, CSOM ’19, stepped up to rap the bridge—a feat that would take some guts for any Heightsmen, and much more for a freshman member.

Granted, that took nothing compared to the confidence required for the show’s next segment.

The next act was introduced as, “the only reason that anyone comes to this show, anyway.” The Heightsmen’s two freshmen, Gao and Joseph Lin, MCAS ’19, took to the stage to perform a choreographed dance to, of course, a Justin Bieber medley. Imitating the dance moves from the viral “Sorry” video and shedding a few layers of clothing, the performance was hilarious, and surprisingly showed a high quality of dancing. While the crowd nursed

its split sides after the performance, The Heightsmen took another quick break to gather themselves for their final set.

Fei returned to the mic for the group’s first song, belting Alicia Key’s “If I Ain’t Got You” to a swooning audience. With Mastellone and Goebel contributing harmonies, their performance sounded arguably better than the original. Spata took to the microphone next, choosing to sing a Sinatra classic (and continue the group’s heart-melting setlist).

His rendition of “The Way You Look Tonight” sounded uncannily like that of the Sultan of Swoon, making him the perfect choice for the song’s soloist. Succeeding Spata was Burton, returning to the group’s front to perform R. Kelly’s “Remix to Ignition,” much to the delight of the crowd. Also featuring Goebel, the performance allowed The Heightsmen to show just how much fun they were having putting on the Fall Cafe for such an enthusiastic audience.

Before their final song, The Heightsmen took a break from their set list to take care of some personal business—singing “Happy Birthday” to the freshly-faced and now 19year-old Lin, with the help of the audience, of course. Then, Spata returned to the microphone to lead the group in their finale, Brenda Lee’s “Good Old Acappella.” As the song came to its final notes, Devlin 008 erupted into cheers and whoops for the performers. The performance of over an hour had flown by in what felt like minutes, keeping the audience constantly laughing, crying, and honestly, crushing on the group’s members. The Fall Cafe was the perfect end to The Heightsmen’s fall season, and the BC community will be anxiously awaiting their return in the spring.

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SUMMER LIN Thirty-five women, shot in all black and white, each sit in a chair facing the reader on the July 2015 cover of New York Magazine.

The group of women, ranging from 20 to 80 years old, seemingly have little in common aside from their shared aggressor. On the end is an empty chair, meant to signify the 11 women who chose not to publicly come forward in the sexual abuse claims made against actor and comedian Bill Cosby.

Accusations of drug-facilitated sexual abuse and rape against Cosby date all the way back to the 1960s, when Kristina Ruehli claimed in an interview with Philadelphia Magazine that Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was 22 years old. It wasn’t until October 2014, when Hannibal Buress lambasted Cosby in a stand-up routine that the allegations by over 50 women against Cosby came to light. ‘“I can talk down to you because I have a successful sitcom,’” Buress said in the routine. “Yeah, but you rape women Bill Cosby, so turn down the crazy a couple of notches.”

The 55 women in question, however, don’t consider Buress their hero. “This guy is a man,” said Victoria Valentino, former Playboy Playmate and one of Cosby’s alleged victims. “A man is making a joke about it in his stand-up routine, and suddenly everyone believes him?”

In the fallout of Buress’ routine, scores of women, including supermodels Beverly Johnson and Janice Dickinson, journalist Joan Tarshis, and Playboy {Playmates Valentino and Sarita Butterfield decided to come forward. In 2005, Temple University basketball star Andrea Constand filed charges against Cosby for allegedly drugging and raping her, spurring 12 other “Jane Does” to come forward. California lawyer Tamara Green then appeared on The Today Show, saying that Cosby had drugged and assaulted her 30 years ago. Four more women, as of Nov. 13, have joined a defamation suit against Cosby, claiming that he has continued to call them liars through 2014.

Denial of rape allegations, the fact that victims do not think that they will be believed, and the oft-touted false rape claim statistic (which ranges from 2 to 8 percent of all rape reports) have prevented sex abuse victims from coming forward. Cosby has also been paying off his victims for years in exchange for their silence, according to ex-NBC facilities manager Frank Scotti in an article for the New York Daily News.

The final nail in the coffin was the unsealing of a 2005 court deposition where Cosby admitted to giving quaaludes to women before sex. Although Cosby has not been prosecuted for his alleged crimes, in the court of public opinion, he has already lost. The question has become whether watching an episode of The Cosby Show justifies lining the pockets of an alleged rapist.

If you ask the scores of universities who have rescinded Cosby’s honorary degrees and the institutions (including the U.S. Navy, Walt Disney World, and his own talent agency) that have severed ties with the actor, the answer is a simple and resounding no. TV Land and NBC have refused to air The Cosby Show reruns while Netflix cancelled a Cosby comedy special. Among the universities that have rescinded Cosby’s degrees are: Tufts, Berklee College of Music, UMass Amherst, Brown, Drexel, Marquette, Fordham, New York University, University of Pittsburgh, and California State University (with BC opting not to rescind his honorary degree).

Dozens of protesters gathered around Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Saturday to demand changes in rape laws. Sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes, with 68 percent of cases going unreported and only two out of 100 rapists serving jail time, according to the U.S. Justice Department. In the case of Cosby, it might be too late for his accusers to sue for their alleged assault under the statute of limitations, but that won’t stop scores of universities, organizations, and celebrities from distancing themselves from the once-celebrated actor.

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Those who are familiar with the work of Charles Mee know his standard method of operation when it comes to playwriting. He is best known for using scattered, absurdist imagery as he reconstructs ancient texts to create social commentaries on American society. Working with such a prestigious work, Scott T. Cummings’ production of Big Love was an ambitious decision—and though the theatre department has made a valiant attempt to live up to Mee’s

imaginative wit, the effort ultimately fell short.

This is not to say that this production of Big Love had no positive qualities. It effectively embraced the absurd surrealism of Mee’s work— on numerous occasions, the themes of the play created an almost psychedelic environment. The production never shied away from any of the darker topics, whether it be forced marriage, rape, or the impressively designed murder scene in the second half of the play. Most importantly, Big Love presented a realistic spectrum of gender politics. If this was the goal of the show, then its mission was accomplished. If the goal was to

viscerally entertain, though, Big Love failed in that regard.

The negative aspect of Robsham’s latest production outweighed the good. Big Love’s stage management simply never came together to make the show feel cohesive. The props used throughout the night ranged from adequate to downright mood-breaking at certain points. At the very beginning of the show, Lydia—played by Noelle Scarlett, MCAS ’18—climbs into a bathtub filled with what resembles bubble wrap and

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Institutions of higher learning across the United States have been plagued by increasing and disturbing reports of sexual misconduct and assault. At many colleges and universities, women and men are not afforded the simple, innate luxury of security. According to a survey conducted by the Association of American Universities, released this past September, more than one out of four female college seniors reported being a victim of rape or attempted rape since entering college. Of these women, however, only 11 percent reported the incident to the police, and of these reported cases, less than 10 percent resulted in criminal charges against the perpetrators.

Ye t , e v e n i n th e f a ce o f s u c h disheartening statistics, some college students are standing up against sexual violence in the hopes of comforting victims and bringing change. The organizers and participants of Speak Out, an event held last Thursday, are examples of such.

The show, a night of healing and

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empowerment through the arts, featured a performance by The Acoustics and an array of powerful poetry readings.

Flameless, electric tea lights were handed out to each member of the audience before the event and everyone was encouraged to flick their candle light on if anything being said or performed resonated with them.

The Acoustics soon took the stage to open the night with renditions of Sara Bareilles’s “Hercules” and Celine Dion’s “Taking Chances.” The first song, “Hercules,” sung perfectly by Audrey Huelsbeck, LSOE ’16, with a mellifluous tone echoing with power, set the mood artfully. The Acoustics displayed their talent while also providing a sweet melody to the e vent’s foundation of ref le ction, emp owerment , and intimacy.

The Acoustic’s performance was followed by student recitations of poetry. Some poems were personal and written by the performer herself, while others read the works of their close friends or a famous poet. The poems were incredibly moving and even more

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David Goebel, MCAS ‘16, performs in The Heightsmen’s packed Fall Cafe this weekend.

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Devlin 008—one of Boston College’s largest lecture halls—is an intimidating space, to say the least. It’s hard to entertain and even harder to fill. Yet well before the start of The Heightsmen Fall Cafe at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, the room was already packed. The crowd anxiously chatted as free Heightsmen stickers circulated the room, waiting for the performance to start. A collective roar of cheers and yells rose from the hall’s seating as the Heightsmen filed in and launched straight into a rendition of Blue Swede’s

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“Hooked on a Feeling,” featuring soloist Brian Murphy, MCAS ’16.

After a short introduction by the group’s president, Sean Spata, MCAS ’16, in which he reminded the audience that The Heightsmen is BC’s only, and by default, best all-male a cappella group, the boys began a cover of ’50s classic “Earth Angel” by The Penguins.

Owen Lyons, MCAS ’17, led the rendition, with Michael Mastellone, CSOM ’18, joining him on the mic to contribute rich harmonies.

Lyons’ impressive lower range captivated the audience, eliciting cheers from all around

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