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Meredith McCaffrey, the executive vice president of UGBC and MCAS ’17, and Anxhela Mile, the chair of the Environment and Sustainability Committee in the Student Assembly and MCAS ’17, have been spearheading the project, which is still in its preliminary stages.

The project’s goal of comparing the University’s environmental policies to

other college campuses is meant to give insight into BC’s ecological footprint and possible methods for improvement.

In part, the project compares whether other universities have divested from fossil fuels. Climate Justice at Boston College, an environmental group separate from UGBC, has been calling on the University to divest since its creation four years ago. Most recently, the group held a rally last Friday. By looking at other schools’ endowments and where their funds lie, UGBC can have a better idea of how BC compares in its assets.

UGBC also plans to look at where university campuses are getting their energy. BC currently uses natural gas, which, according to Mile, is a clean energy source.

Another component of the benchmarking project is to look at the research being done at different univerJULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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Climate Justice Boston College holds a rally encouraging Boston College to divest from environmentally-unfriendly fossil-fuel companies.

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The Massachusetts State Police Department confirmed on Tuesday that a female Boston College student was sexually assaulted while walking to her off-campus residence early Sunday morning. The Heights previously reported that the attack was a physical assault.

According to an email sent to the off-campus student community by the Boston College Police Department Sunday night, the student was walking behind 2000 Commonwealth Ave. when two males approached her. One suspect was described as a black male between 5-foot-8 and 6-feet tall, with a flat-top haircut.

The other male, who was not directly involved in the assault, was described as white with brown hair.

John King, the executive director of public safety, said in an email that the Massachusetts State Police and BCPD are investigating.

King said in an email on Wednesday that although 2000 Commonwealth Ave. is farther off campus than most on-campus housing, BCPD has several security measures in place.

Currently, there is a security officer in the lobby of 2000 Commonwealth Ave. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. BCPD also habitually patrols the roads surrounding the residence hall. There is a blue light phone in the rear of the building, and there are several blue lights in 2000 Commonwealth Ave.’s parking garage.

There is not, however, a security guard installed 24 hours per day outside the building.

King did not specify whether there would be increased security measures.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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“It is equally important, however, that voters ask themselves if a candidate will allow them to contribute to the common good,” Davila said.

She remarked that these absolute rules of non-negotiable religious beliefs in politics do not present a full picture of what a person of faith is called to be in the public.

Davila began the discussion “Religion,

Ethics, and the 2016 Presidential Election” sponsored by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, on Wednesday by asking her audience if there is an ethical candidate and an ethically informed electorate in the 2016 presidential election.

A discussion panel composed of Davila, Marc Landy, a professor in the Boston College political science department, Alan Wolfe, a professor in BC’s political science department, and Erik Owens, interim director of the Boisi Center, discussed the roles of religion and ethics and their relevance to the 2016 presidential election.

She noted that the presidential candidates have ignored the critical issues of alleviating poverty and saving the environment. They have also ignored the protests at Standing Rock in North Dakota and the Black Lives Matter movement throughout the United States, even though these social movements are designed to lift up the plight of the marginalized. People of faith, therefore, have a responsibility to step up and talk about it, Davila said.

In addition, neither candidate has spoken about individual persons and their struggles,

which was an important aspect of past election cycles.

“Not hearing anyone’s personal name in election shows the extent to which both candidates are merely personality driven,” Davila said.

She concluded her talk by acknowledging that many of the non-negotiable topics for people of faith include many of these critical social movements which have been ignored by the candidates. As a result, it has been very difficult for people of faith to have discussions on them, as well.

Davila then gave the microphone to Landy, who promptly asked the audience two critical questions: How can religious conservatives support Donald Trump, and why is Hillary Clinton so unpopular?

In regard to Trump, Landy explained that Trump has religious conservatives’ support because he has the capacity to articulate and channel rage from people in a way that no other Republican candidate could.

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On Wednesday morning, the Eagles announced that they would retire the jersey of Mike Mottau, BC ’00. The ceremony for Mottau will take place on Nov. 27, prior to BC’s game against Minnesota at 1 p.m.

“Mike was truly an ambassador for college hockey and embodied what being a studentathlete was all about,” head coach Jerry York said of Mottau’s number retirement. “He had a certain charisma to him and he will be remembered as one of the cornerstones of Boston College athletics.”

Mottau, a defenseman, is the program’s career record holder for assists with 130. He also ranks 22nd in points scored, with 157.

That total is also the most among blue liners on the Heights. He played in 163 games, ninth all-time at BC. He helped the Eagles to a 99-52-14 record, including two Hockey East Tournament titles, three Frozen Fours, and two national championship games.

His individual accomplishments stand taller than what the team did during his tenure.

Mottau is the recipient of the 2000 Hobey Baker Award, one of only six defensemen to win the award since its inception in 1981. A three-time Hockey East All-Star and two-time First-Team All-American, Mottau won the Hockey East Player of the Year Award and Defenseman of the Year in 2000.

A seventh-round selection in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, Mottau played 321 games for the New York Islanders, New York Rangers, New Jersey Devils, Calgary Flames, Florida Panthers, and Boston Bruins. He amassed 58 points and 164 penalty minutes during his career.

Mottau joins 13 former BC hockey players to have his jersey retired. Mottau’s No. 3, which is currently worn by Luke McInnis, will remain in the rotation.

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The Office of Residential Life will host an off-campus housing fair to educate students on how to find an apartment for the 2017-18 academic year. The fair will be in the St. Thomas More Apartments Commons this afternoon between 3 and 5 p.m.

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The Campus Activities Board will hold a bingo night in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. Winners will be granted prizes, including a livevideo drone and a virtual reality headset. Free food will also be available for attendees.

Michael Brennan, the president of Cristo Rey High School in Boston, will give a talk about how graduating students at Cristo Rey are prepared for success in college and life. The talk will take place tonight in Stokes North 203 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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The APS is a non-profit membership organization that works to advance the knowledge of physics through publishing research journals, holding scientific meetings, and educating the scientific community.

Kempa was recognized by his scientific peers for his contributions to physics through his research, leadership, and commitment to education.

The fellowship is awarded to one-half of 1 percent of the 50,000 APS members across the world.

Kempa’s research focuses on interaction of electromagnetic radiation with novel materials and architectures, particularly optical and plasmonic effects.

“Kris is entirely deser ving of this honor,” said Michael J. Naughton, a Ferris Professor of Physics and physics department chair, to The Chronicle. “He has been a sustained, leading presence in the department, with creative, high level theoretical research that engages many aspects of novel materials physics and phenomena, including its overlap with other disciplines such as engineering and biology—the very essence of integrated science.”

BC’s physics department now has five faculty members, 30 percent of the department, who have been selected for this honor.

Kempa was honored when he heard he was recognized.

“Since most of the work contributing to this recognition was done at BC, I believe that it also reflects well on BC’s support of the sciences in general, and physics in particular,” Kempa said.

9: =\Xkli\[ fe =fo E\nj On the “Campus Craziness” segment of Fox News this week, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) was featured for its “Dress with Respect” Halloween campaign.

UGBC sent out an email to the student body on Oct. 28, encouraging students to take into account what could be seen as a degrading or culturally insensitive Halloween costume.

The email gave examples of disrespectful Halloween costumes: a geisha costume, outfits that resemble aspects of Mexican culture like mustaches and sombreros, and stereotyped Native American costumes.

“When choosing your Halloween costume this year, take the time to research to avoid c ultural appropr iation and strengthen your cultural appreciation,” the email from UGBC said.

The email did note, however, that it is acceptable to dress as a burrito, a taco, or Chipotle.

Fox featured other universities that held similar campaigns around Halloween, including Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Indiana University posted flowcharts and diagrams in residence halls to deter students from disrespectful Halloween costumes. The posters gave students visual examples distinguishing what is respectful and disrespectful.

Rena Finder, her family, and the rest of the Jewish families in Krakow, Poland, were forced to walk away from their homes in 1939. As Finder looked back at her apartment one last time, her neighbors hid behind closed windows and lace curtains.

They did nothing and said nothing.

The people that she had lived next to for all her life watched as Finder’s family was relocated.

On Tuesday, Finder spoke in the Heights Room for the seventh consecutive year at Boston College. While she told her captivating life story, her intention remained to inspire students to stand up for others and spark a deeper understanding of the value of human life within her audience. The event was hosted by the Emerging Leader Program and BC Hillel.

“We need to pass the torch of our memory on to you, to your children, and grandchildren in the future, and the next generation so that the story of the Holocaust will not die, will not be forgotten, because forgetting is dangerous,” Finder said.

After surviving the Holocaust, Finder thought there would never be a war again. But, she said, the world has not learned its lesson.

Genocide, war, and humanitarian crises are happening around the globe. Finder put the responsibility of learning from her experiences on the room full of students.

When Finder was only 10 years old, Germany invaded Poland. Overnight, she said, she became an enemy of the state. The first thing that the Germans did was strip all the Jews

Most accounting majors lose their motivation to continue with their degree while in school, Peter Bell, BC ’86, said to a small group of students on Tuesday. Bell lost interest two months into his job with audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). He switched his career from auditing to a career in entrepreneurship and quickly found his feet as an entrepreneur, eventually becoming a senior adviser at Highland Capital Partners.

In the most recent “Lunch with an Entrepreneur” event, sponsored by the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship, Bell discussed his experiences with entrepreneurship and how they tie back to his time at BC, and outlined his career in venture capitalism.

After Bell’s graduation, he worked for data storage company EMC in sales, marketing, and operations. He then received a master’s degree from Harvard in general management. Bell went on to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at BC in the Carroll School of Management.

He also founded StorageNetworks, a server and network storage company.

POLICE BLOTTER Monday, Oct. 31 4:43 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Keyes South.

5:50 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an intoxicated person at the Boston College Police Headquarters.

6:17 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Stokes Hall.

Tuesday, Nov. 1 3:13 a.m. - A report was filed regarding assistance to another police department off campus.

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Rena Finder, a Holocaust survivor, shared her experience as a name on Shindler’s List with students on Tuesday. of their civil rights.

“That was a bad time to be Jewish in Poland,” Finder said.

The Germans expelled all the Jews in Krakow, and they were forced to live in a ghetto, where Finder and her family lived for several years. Finder was confused. She did not understand why her neighbors did nothing and said nothing. Soon, Germans began taking people away from the ghetto to “work at a farm.” They would never be heard from again.

“My father said that it will be over soon, and that somebody would come and help us,” Finder said.

While Finder worked at a printing shop in the ghetto, her family heard about a factory outside of the ghetto owned by Oskar Schindler. He was part of the Nazi Party and was friends with many high-ranking officials. His factory made pots and pans, but also manufactured ammunition.

Amon Goeth, a Viennese Nazi officer, was placed in charge of Krakow.

He liquidated the ghetto and shipped all of the residents to work in Plaszow, the nearby concentration camp.

Schindler, who employed many of the Jews who lived in the Krakow ghetto, befriended Goeth in hopes of cutting down the commute his employees had to make every day to get to his factory to work.

Schindler’s solution was to build a barrack next to his factory for his Jewish workers. Goeth agreed.

Finder and her mother began to work in his factory.

“To me, Oskar Schindler was like an angel sent from heaven,” Finder said. “When I look at him, I expect him to spring wings at any moment. He immediately became like my father.”

Soon, the SS began to close concentration camps, Plaszow included. Plaszow Jews were to be sent to Auschwitz Birkenau. After deciding to build another factory in Brunnlitz, Czechoslovakia, he convinced Goeth to transport a list, now known as “Schindler’s List,” of 1,000 Jews to his new factory—700 men and 300 women. The two box cars of women ended up in Auschwitz anyway, however.

“There was a terrible stench,” Finder said. “And it was snowing, we thought, and we were thirsty, so we tried to catch the snowflakes.

Except they were not snowflakes.

They were ashes.”

After three and a half weeks, Finder was certain that staying there even three more days would have resulted in death.

Schindler then sent his secretary to Auschwitz demanding his workforce be released from the concentration camp. As a result, the now skinny, malnourished, and sickly women were put on a boxcar destined for Brunnlitz.

“There are no words,” Finder said. “How can you thank someone who saved your life? And I was one of a thousand.”

Finder concluded her talk by urging the audience to stand up to bullies and help the oppressed.

“You don’t know how powerful you are,” she said. “Each and every one of you can become what Oskar Schindler had become—what we call an upstander.”

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His current position at Highland Capital Partners places him in Palo Alto, Calif.

Bell’s career path have largely rested on the connections he made during his undergraduate years.

“Everything I’ve done professionally has tied back to people from BC,” he said.

Bell’s networking skills has been crucial to his success within all of the industries he worked in, including education, entrepreneurship, and venture capitalism.

Bell stressed the role that dedication plays in success in every job.

“You have to have a passion about [the market you enter],” he said. “Good candidates, for any line of work, are able to build a network and are intellectually curious.”

After leaving PwC, Bell helped create EMC, which was later acquired by Dell. His experiences working for EMC gave him considerable experience as an entrepreneur, something that continues to help in his work today.

Bell also reflected upon his experiences as an entrepreneur. The challenging lifestyle is better suited to some than others, according to Bell.

He noted that the ideal candidates are around 28 years old, working in

teams of two, who are already involved with their second business.

Entrepreneurship is a craft suited to the young, which Bell attributes to young people’s lack of obligation.

“Young people have no baggage [and] no preconceived set of responsibilities,” Bell said. “I’m 52 years old.

I’m encumbered. I have responsibility. I have kids. I could not start a company without too much risk, but when you’re young, you can and should go all in.”

Bell also said that while some experience is necessary to get one’s feet off the ground, experience is overrated, and the only way to be successful is to have a passion for the subject.

The volatility of starting a business is undoubted, according to Bell.

Although with drive and purpose, he believes it is possible to have more success than failure, and notes that it’s easy to learn from the pitfalls.

The attention required to pick a team when starting a business is not to be undervalued, according to Bell.

A good team makes or breaks a business, and without a strong backbone, it is likely to fail, Bell said.

“If you’re going to start a company with someone, you have to be thoughtful about picking your team,”

he said. “Having a partner keeps you motivated, but people change and teams break up—it’s human nature.”

Bell also believes that teamwork is integral to the growth of companies, and he pushes the idea of togetherness. He thinks that entrepreneurs should pick diverse teams with different skill sets.

Bell then highlighted the ambiguity of his job as a venture capitalist.

The mercurial nature of venture capitalism can be characterized by Bell’s experience with Uber, as he severely underestimated its success.

He expanded by explaining that the strikeout rate for venture capitalists is around 50 percent, and that it is a hit-or-miss industry.

According to Bell, the success of investments largely rests on two essential questions: “is the market ready?” and “is this the right team?”

Bell’s parting advice to BC students was succinct.

“Have fun,” he said. “Do not rush life through.”

Bell said that often it is not the major that matters, but rather the passion one has for a career that will make him or her successful.

“Find something you believe in [and] something you care about,” he said.

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12:26 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Stuart Hall.

6:05 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Corcoran Commons.

Wednesday, Nov. 2 2:35 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at the Reservoir Apartments.

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The Marketing Academy of Boston College, led by Jackson Rettig, CSOM ’17, hosted “Doing Well By Doing Good: A Diverse Approach to Social Impact” on Wednesday night. The event was the result of planning started last summer and organized through connections with alumni.

“Everyone has a connection with BC in some way,” Rettig said.

Held in the Fulton Honors Library, the event was an hourlong panel on various applications of marketing techniques for non-marketing majors to see how marketing principles

could be used in non-business contexts. The panel featured four BC alumni who had gone into various fields after school, from running non-profit enterprises to involvement with corporations that spanned three continents.

Rettig hoped that students of various majors and interests would take something away from the event.

“We thought that that diversity in terms of the businesses and organizations [the speakers] work with … is important for the students,” he said.

Throughout the hour, the panelists discussed how marketing could be used for addressing social issues and challenges in areas outside of business. One pan-

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Mile noted that Columbia University, for example, has the Earth Institute, a research institute that hones in on issues facing the planet and sustainability.

Mile, who has been focused on environmental work since her freshman year, noticed that there were a number of environmental groups on campus, but they were not working together. She began working as a sustainability coordinator in UGBC, and has been working to connect groups’ projects since.

“I started thinking about it because benchmarking is a great tool to look at BC’s competitors and seeing what great things BC has done, and how we stand in relation to other schools,” Mile said.

The process they’re using for this project can also be used to benchmark other BC policies in the future, Mile said.

McCaffrey was inspired to help with the project because UGBC has only had an environmental caucus on the Student Assembly for one year.

According to McCaffrey, sustainability is not something UGBC has been as active on in the past, and it is something that needs a more proactive stance.

The project is in its preliminary stage and its logistics are still being worked out. Mile and McCaffrey hope to start a precedent for future classes that allows them to work further on sustainability issues. By comparing BC to other universities, BC can consider what can be done to improve.

“This will be one of the biggest benchmarking projects we’ve done since being in UGBC,” McCaffrey said.

The project is being conducted entirely by students, but director of sustainability Bob Pion has been supportive of the project, McCaffrey and Mile said. “[He has been] very supportive of anything green on this campus,” Mile said. “We won’t have a sense of other administrator responses until the final document, but the goal is to have research done as thoroughly as possible so that it is well received.”

McCaffrey explained that there is so much to learn from others and the policies which they have implemented in the past. This is a great opportunity for BC to take other policies into consideration and to pinpoint ways to better its own ecological footprint.

With a benchmarking system that may seem so meticulous, it is imperative that the big picture of why this project is so important is kept in mind.

“The big idea behind this project is that with climate change, Boston will be affected by the rising sea levels, so it’s interesting to see in the BC community how can we learn from other schools,” Mile said.

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By Katherine Murphy For The Heights Jessica Chicco, supervising attorney of the Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, showed a five-minute video originally published by The Guardian about immigrants from Central America who were deported after immigrating to the United States. Tuesday evening, Chicco led an interactive workshop called Immigrant Lives & Realities: A Look at Greater

Boston and Beyond. It aimed to educate the attendees about the lives of immigrants to dispel stereotypes. The video talks about the struggles many immigrants, especially asylum-seekers, face moving to the U.S. After watching and discussing the video, Chicco presented a slideshow that explained the different types of immigration statuses an individual can have.

She emphasized that the term “undo c umente d immig rant ”

should be used as opposed to “illegal immigrant.”

“Not illegal, simply because an individual cannot be illegal,” Chicco said.

The work shop, which was hosted by the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice, PULSE, and 4Boston, began with the participants setting out rules for how the event was to proceed in order to make sure that everyone’s thoughts and opinions were respected and

and how marketing knowledge helped them regardless of their career paths, such as one who after school made an attempt at a rapping career. Another formed a business partnership with Google through persistently contacting Google offices.

Freshmen were urged not to wait until they were seniors to make a decision on what they wanted to do with their lives after school, as they could be putting their energies toward making the world a better place.

An open question period was held toward the end of the panel, during which the speakers addressed matters such as race, holding conversations about social issues with friends, and how to be

patient and work out problems with loved ones they disagreed with rather than giving up.

Social impact is a subject of interest at BC, Rettig noted, and marketing techniques continue to be relevant to matters of social justice.

“Marketing is about more than just business, ... marketing is everything,” Rettig said.

Rettig continues to plan to increase interest in marketing among BC’s student body, and to host events that can appeal to more students than just marketing majors.

“I thought everyone can take something away [from the event], which is what our goal is,” he said.

heard. These rules included assuming good will and assuming that other people don’t have the same knowledge as you.

She then went on to talk about deportation, including the circumstances that lead to it and the basics of the process. She focused on the struggles immigrants confront when faced with the possibility of deportation, such as not being guaranteed or provided a lawyer. Chicco also spoke about young children having to go through the deportation process completely alone.

For the second portion of the workshop, the attendees were divided into four smaller groups and rotated through four different group activities.

The first activity asked the participants questions about immigrant statistics in Massachusetts, such as the percent of immigrants from Latin America and the amount of state and local taxes paid by undocumented immigrants. For most of these questions, the guesses were far from the actual numbers. The aim of this activity was to show the different stereotypes and realities, and how stereotypes can affect people’s thinking.

Following the statistics activity, there was an activity focused on the emotions and feelings of immigrants. Participants each wrote a list of emotions and difficulties

an adult and child would face as immigrants. The group then discussed both adult- and childspecific problems immigrants face, like job hunting and adjusting to a new school system.

The third station began with the participants taking five minutes to read the stories of four different immigrants. The group then discussed the stories and considered questions about them.

Out of the four stories , only one, the story of a refugee from Rwanda who now lives in New Hampshire, could be classified as having a classic, happy ending.

Each of the other three stories told of hardships immigrants face, including deportation, blockages to citizenship, and being an undocumented immigrant.

For the final activity, the group members were asked what other questions they had about immigrants that were not touched upon during the workshop. The questions were written down and a few that could be answered briefly were explained.

Chicco concluded by remarking that even if immigrants aren’t deported, they still face injustices in the U.S. “You run into people with Ph.D.s from their home countries who are working as janitors , perhaps because they don’t have the language skills or because it doesn’t transfer,” she said.

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He also explained that Hillary’s unpopularity may be due to the fact that she is a female.

People are also skeptical of the national government’s ability to solve the country’s problems.

Wolfe was the last professor to speak. He disagreed with Landy when he stated that religious conservatives support Trump due to their strict religious beliefs. He agreed, however, that Clinton’s widespread popularity

stems from her gender.

“I think it’s much harder to elect a woman than a black man, because there is a furious resistance on grounds to Hillary’s gender,” he said. “Even though people do not explicitly say it, she is hated because of the oddness at a woman being a president.”

Davila concluded the discus-

sion panel by acknowledging that the faithful have a duty to better the world for the sake of the common good.

Even though the election of President Barack Obama in 2008 was an important moment in American history, she said, Americans still faced poverty, terrorist threats, and homeless-

ness. This will be the same for this year’s election.

“Next wednesday morning after the election, the issues in our country will still be the same,” Davila said. “But my question to you is how do we develop in the faithful the kinds of social virtues that help us better the world?”

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By William Batchelor Heights Staff A floating sculpture composed of 22 orange figures clinging onto black inner tubes is the 12th art installation of the Floating Public Art project organized by the Fort Point Arts Community. The artwork, named SOS (Safety Orange Swimmers), was installed in early October and will be on display for six weeks at the Fort Point Channel.

Designed by Ann Hirsch and Jeremy Angier of A+J Art + Design, the Safety Orange Swimmers are an artistic portrayal of the current global migrant crisis.

Hirsch spoke about the thought process behind the sculpture and gave insight into why it’s such a personal piece of work for her.

“I am a granddaughter of immigrants,” she said. “I live in a city comprised of an incredible refugee population who have come with absolutely nothing, and have made lives here.”

The Fort Point Channel was an ideal domain that provided Hirsch and Angier the opportunity to create something that spoke to the current refugee crisis in which 21.3 million people are affected. The floating, bright orange figures symbolize an event many refugees experience as they flee their countries by boat to seek asylum.

Onlookers at Fort Point stop to admire and make sense of the eye-catching figures. The uniform shapes are painted “safety orange” for good reason. From an artistic standpoint, it was important for the artists to choose a bright color they knew would make a big impression on observers.

On a deeper level, the color “safety orange” is a color that

signifies the idea of hazards, danger and safety. Life vests and safety rafts are usually this brash, orange color which set them apart from their surroundings.

The alarming orange color evokes a sense of urgency common to the journey of those seeking asylum.

The installation comes at a time of political uncertainty in relation to immigration. With the election less than a week away, the issue of immigration in the United States has been hotly contested, with both candidates engaging in a back and forth of vitriolic advertisements. Recently, the sculpture has gained traction on social media, with Bostonians sharing images of the orange swimmers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Each post is accompanied by poignant captions with many interpretations of the artworks message, with one person writing, “Each figure represents a million refugees.”

While the artists had a clear meaning for the figures while they created it, Hirsch understands that the message can be ambiguous for some.

“It doesn’t necessarily scream ‘immigrants’ at first glance, and not everyone sees the refugee crisis narrative portrayed by the figures,” she said.

Those who view the work in person will notice how different the swimmers look in contrast to photos of the work. The success of the artwork relies on movement and is intended to be experienced as kinetic artwork. Hirsch notes that those only viewing the work on social media may have ambivalent opinions about the sculpture that is meant to be viewed three-dimensionally.

“It’s critical for people to see how the figures respond to wind,

water, and light,” she said.

The figures are in constant motion in accordance with the movement of the tide. The anchoring system allows the entire group to rotate—as the tide comes in, it turns in one direction, and when the tide goes out, the whole group spins in the opposite direction.

The entire process was composed of three distinct phases: the design phase, the fabrication phase, and the installation phase.

It only took six weeks to complete the fabrication phase, during which the figures were made from marine-grade polyurethane foam and painted with lobster buoy paint. The pieces were then tied and then configured by a tethering system. Each figure was tied to a web comprised of PVC conduit, which keeps it from traveling too far out of its position, but also allows it decent mobility.

All 22 figures display expressionless faces that were computer-generated in order to have a conglomeration of many different faces of no particular race, age, or gender. The figures are clinging onto black inner tubes, an image reminiscent of migrants struggling to make their way to shore from the sea, as many immigrants make long and treacherous journeys on dilapidated boats and rafts that often capsize. After a positive reaction was received, the artists are now interested in traveling with the Safety Orange Swimmers with the hope of generating a physical impact that goes beyond current geography.

“The narrative is that they are trapped in the middle of this art basin and they continually move and turn, but they don’t actually ever arrive,” Hirsch said.

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Located in the Fort Point Channel, the art installation features 22 bright orange and faceless swimmers.

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With its William Merritt Chase Exhibit,

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which opened to the public on Oct. 9, the MFA aims to showcase the otherwise underrepresented American painter—for which the exhibit was named—in an exhibition on display for art enthusiasts, as well as all other curious minds, until Jan. 16, 2017.

Having not been on formal display since 1983, and absent from Boston since 1886, Chase, who also founded the Parsons School of Design in New York City, brings a refreshingly vintage perspective on American 19th-century art, a view that the museum generally lacked prior to the exhibition’s arrival. Before its arrival in Boston, Chase’s art was on display at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., and after its feature in Boston, the exhibition plans to move to the Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia in Italy.

With an approximate total of 60 public and private lenders who have accumulated Chase’s work over the past 100 years, MFA Boston curator Erica Hirshler can be recognized for gathering and extracting a variant of 80 of the artist’s most celebrated

works of pastel and oil paintings. One of the most intriguing reasons to visit any museum is to see an artist like Chase, who can be hard to define in a specific style, she said.

“It is nearly impossible to associate with [Chase] one movement,” Hirshler said. “In one work, his emphasis on light may appeal to the Impressionists, whereas in another he may hone in on his skills as a portraitist. Although [Chase] is not as well-known, so I think this exhibition has been and will continue to act as a discovery for people.”

The exhibition is particularly successful in displaying the striking variety in his work—Chase is known for dark interior portraits, studio scenes, and seaside views, both with or without people. Each of the carefully chosen pieces in the exhibition strikes visitors with its jubilant tone that results from the looser brush strokes Chase employed, and his special attention to light and shadow.

Some of his most popular pieces currently on display include The Ring Toss,

which brings light to his children playing in his work studio while at the same time showing, as an artist, how he had a profound connection between his professional and personal life. Another notable work of similar technique and theme at the museum is Hide and Seek, in which Chase’s children are illustrated playing a game of hide and seek in his studio.

Although Chase is not usually grouped with masters like Rembrandt or Jan Van Eyck, he both admired the art of the past and used it as inspiration for making the masterpieces of his own time. His unique temporal perspective is evident in the settings he illustrates, the techniques he uses, and the people he chooses to portray.

This rare perspective, offered through the distinctive work of an extremely innovative and forward-thinking master, currently lies at the fingertips of all Bostonians.

The Chase exhibit puts the spotlight on both the underappreciated and underdisplayed work of a truly talented contributor to American art. Despite his lack of widespread international popularity in

comparison to artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci or Claude Monet, his successful manipulation of techniques of the past supplemented by more modern artistic practices make this display unique.

Though the Chase exhibit is only a temporary resident of the Boston area, Hirshler is working on creating future projects for people to enjoy at the MFA, as well as other museums throughout the country.

Though still in the preliminary stages, she hopes to organize an exhibit that visualizes the continuities and changes over time with respect to the practice of art collecting in the 20th century.

“Since the exhibit first opened in October, not just art enthusiasts, but everyone has really loved experiencing the Chase project and they’ve felt that they both learned and saw something new and beautiful,” Hirshler said. “What is meaningful to me as a curator is the quality of the interaction to what we show the visitor and for people to positively respond and say that they loved it is particularly profound.”

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Defa ‘ miliarize: v. (trans.), to render unfamiliar; to subject to defamiliarization.

This is a term that has come up again and again in my classes as of late—although it’s usually in connection to some form of writing. It’s a technique favored by authors in order to cast certain everyday words and events in a bizarre light, ultimately prodding their readers to reexamine not only the world of the novel, but also the world around them.

But even though it might not go by the exact same name, defamiliarization isn’t a process confined to the world of literature and books. To me, it seems practically synonymous with the process we more commonly know as ‘growing up.’ As we age and gain independence, we are constantly exposed to new concepts and corners of the world that oftentimes make us reevaluate what we had previously just assumed or taken for granted as true.

The two concepts of growing up and defamiliarization seem so interconnected and parallel that imagining the world around us as a novel becomes an easy stretch of the imagination. The further you progress in the book, the weirder and weirder everything gets.

And right now, there’s a lot of weirdness in the world. Following the convergence of surreal political candidates with the general weirdness that comes along with Halloween each year, it might actually be harder to imagine the world getting any stranger.

Unfortunately, the world doesn’t generally stop to give us a chance to catch our breaths.

No matter where you cast your glance, you’re bound to glimpse something that will only exacerbate the bizarre nature of the world.

Maybe it will even defamiliarize it.

For example, try casting your gaze toward Salem for a moment. Have you heard about its new Satanic Temple? It is one of the newest additions to the Boston-area community.

Officially opened on Sept. 26, a little over a month ago, The Satanic Temple in Salem serves as the international headquarters for the religious group also known as The Satanic Temple (TST). In a statement on the group’s website, TST spokesperson Lucian Greves notes the natural draw that TST would have toward Salem, given the area’s

tumultuous history with the occult.

But to the wider public, the TST headquarters also functions as The Salem Art Gallery, a space that features a giant statue of Baphomet (the Sabbatic Goat idol) along with an exhibition called Satanic Panic.

Interestingly enough, the TST building itself, which can be found at 64 Bridge Street, isn’t exactly what you might picture when you envision a satanic temple in any capacity.

A bright white paint covers the wood of the old, colonial-style house, which has numerous shrubs growing around it. A curling, iron-wrought fence borders the white steps lead from the sidewalk to the front porch, which supports a couple of columns painted that are the same dark-evergreen color as the molding surrounding the building’s many windows. A subtle black sign nestled in the shrubbery reads SALEM ART GALLERY in large letters, and then ‘The Satanic Temple’ on a much smaller sign just above.

From the outside there’s no mysterious black, no pentagrams, no inverted crosses— let alone any fire and brimstone. In a way, the whole thing is a little disappointing.

But if you poke around on the TST website, which clearly outlines the group’s mission, the disconnect between what you might imagine the Salem TST headquarters to look like and what the headquarters actually looks like might make a little more sense.

You see, The Satanic Temple might actually be a bit of a misnomer, because the religious group does not actually worship Satan. Members of TST perceive Satan less as an actual entity, and more as symbol of rebellion—a sense of rebellion that believers feel more against groups like the Westborough Baptist Church and movements like restriction of a woman’s right to choose in regard to her reproductive choices.

The worshipers involved in The Satanic Temple promote social justice, and cite acting with compassion and empathy as one of the seven tenets of their faith.

In a bizarre twist on our preconceptions about ‘devil-worshippers,’ the Satanists found in the Boston Satanic Temple espouse values that hold more honor and dignity than many others found in modern society, and they’re probably better people than you or I could ever hope to be. And if that doesn’t defamiliarize the world around you, I don’t know what will.

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Though new technologies may be dominating the 21st century, events such as this past weekend’s 40th annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Hynes Convention Center provide hope that an appreciation for paper is still alive and well.

The annual event, which takes place in only two other cities in the United States, hosted more than 120 international book dealers offering a wide array of eclectic books ranging from political autobiographies to children’s books. Rare and first editions of works from renowned authors such as Toni Morrison, Stephen King, and Sylvia Plath were on display. For those not as literarily inclined, there were also signed photos from films like The Exorcist, Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, along with Elvis Presley’s first record.

Paul Lewis, a professor in the Boston College English department, was a special guest on Sunday in the program “Adventures in Literary Archeology.”

He discussed his work on Edgar Allan Poe’s relationship to the literature in Boston, some of which is lost work he hopes to uncover from that time period.

Lewis is also the president of the Poe Studies Association.

N i n a B e rg e r, co m mu n i c at i o n s consultant and press correspondent for the event, noted that many of the items on display included Greta Garbo’s keys, Henry David Thoreau’s notes, Albert Einstein’s building blocks that were exhibited sideby-side with designer’s sketches, medieval psychedelia, Japanese manuscripts, and so much more. An unexpected highlight

ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR

In addition to rare books, the Antique Book Fair also featured items like Greta Garbo’s keys. was a recently discovered trove of historic letters penned and signed by founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, John Adams, George Washington, and John Hancock.

Other highlights at the fair included a signed photograph of Harry Houdini that sold for $10,000, a first edition of the first trade edition of the Pennyroyal Press of Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with illustrations by Barry Moser, a souvenir program and scorecard from the 1915 World Series won by the Boston Red Sox against the Philadelphia Phillies, and the original watercolor painting of Hogwarts created for the British edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Berger added that the ‘Collecting the Boston Music Scene’ exhibition was also a huge success, attracting Boston-area rockers Peter Wolfe, Asa Brebner, and members of the band, The Cars,” Berger said.

This exhibition held one-of-a-kind items from the David Bieber Archives of Boston Music memorabilia. Typewriter

ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR

Last weekend, visitors browsed rare and antique books at the Antique Book Festival.

Rodeo, a group known for its poems created on old typewriters, were also present at the event.

Free admission to the fair on Saturday and Sunday drew in over 4,000 people.

Though “antiquarian” can mean ancient or aged, the Book Fair aimed to reshape this definition as instead an exchange of any valued books, no matter how old.

The fair itself attracted lots of younger, first-time visitors, some of who used the event as a date night or just an outing on the town.

Other notable special events on Saturday included a panel discussion where novice collectors had the chance to consult experts and receive feedback on the most successful way to start a collection. Upon receiving this feedback, novice collectors had the opportunity to browse the fair and visit “Discovery” exhibits in order to find reasonably priced items that could spur the start of a new collection.

To cap Sunday’s event, visitors were able to bring their own books and have them appraised by experts for free to see if they held any surprise monetary or collector value.

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), founded in 1812, is credited as being a major independent research library holding the largest collection of rare books. AAS served as a sponsor in putting on the event, along with BC’s Burns Library Boston Athenaeum, Boston Map Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Ticknor Society, among others.

“The annual roundtable at the event was a diverse, but entertaining and interesting panel that delivered their remarks to a packed audience,” Marie Oedel, President of the Ticknor Society, said. “We look forward to doing our roundtable in next years’ Book Fair.”

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9: Dljk Cffb kf ?`jkfip ]fi C>9KH :fddle`kp Gif^i\jj As outlined in The Heights’s “Walk The Line,” Boston College has a long and fraught history involving the treatment and accommodation of LGBTQ students. Over the past three decades, the University has seen controversies over the holding of an LGBTQ dance, the acceptance of an LGBTQ student organization, the institution of an Allies program, and, most recently, the creation of an LGBTQ resource center.

A troublesome thread runs through all of these issues: BC’s slow response to student concerns and fast response to public relations problems.

In 2000, The Princeton Review compiled a ranking of schools based on tolerance. In the “Alternative lifestyle not an alternative” category, BC came in second out of 345 colleges. The University remained on the list for several years, each time prompting a response from University Spokesman Jack Dunn that the ranking lacked merit.

This is ironic, considering the promotional importance of the University’s current No. 22 Forbes and No. 31 U.S. News and World Report rankings.

Around the same time as the Princeton rankings, BC received further negative attention regarding LGBTQ tolerance. A report on anti-gay activity compiled by the advocacy group People for the American Way listed former University President Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J’s, letter denying the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community at Boston College (LGBC) a registration request in its “Hostile Climate 1995” report.

This negative publicity was seen in the television show Boston Public, which depicted a gay football player who hesitated to attend BC because of its anti-gay reputation.

These levels of negative publicity should not have been necessary in prompting further action, but they clearly played a role in the further development of LGBTQ resources on campus.

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LGBC had been denied University recognition in 1985, and in 1986, Haley House, a BC-owned building that was a live-in community for the Social Justice Center and members of LGBC, was taken over and used for other projects. And yet it wasn’t until 2003 that the University recognized Allies, a group for LGBTQ students and allies. Even then, the group remained a compromise and refrained from advocacy from LGBTQ causes. It wasn’t until 2005 that the University added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination clause, after repeated years of negative rankings, a developing reputation for LGBTQ intolerance, and the efforts of groups like the Undergraduate

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Government of BC. Recent coverage by The Boston Globe shares some of these negative connotations and may lead to further progress on LGBTQ issues, such as the establishment of an LGBTQ resource center. Although this would accomplish some of the goals of LGBTQ students and allies, it is not an ideal situation. The University should respond to consistent student concern, not only bad PR from news sources. The center would make BC a more attractive place for prospective students and would improve the atmosphere on campus for LGBTQ students, which is something the University should understand through listening to student’s over the years and not through negative news coverage.

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The Heights has affirmed these requests in the past, arguing that a resource center is necessary for these students. Space is an issue, but the creation of the center is by no means impossible. A centralization of resources, followed by the designation of an area, would be the first few steps before any larger establishment would be built.

If BC is going to become a truly inclusive, tolerant, and accepting university, it must provide students of all orientations with the resources necessary for them to be a part of the University. Over the past 30 years, progress has come in fits and starts. At times, the University has listened to student concerns, and at times, has valued its image rather than immediate problems on campus.

Progress should not be contingent on external reactions, but rather should come from the internal need for change.

As a school that pushes its students to be men and women for others, administrative action should respond to student concern over issues of tolerance and acceptance on campus and not wait until negative publicity forces action.The creation of an LGBTQ resource center is one necessary step toward this, and in the future the administration should work to respond quickly and effectively to concerns without waiting for negative coverage to force its hand. The rights and needs of students ought to take priority over public relations concerns.

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FALLING ASLEEP WHILE PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT - While this may seem like a very specific problem that only really affects a handful of people at this school, all the scientists agree that it is actually an epidemic that should concern us all. You’re sitting in the front row of your weekly band rehearsal, playing along on your clarinet as you always do. The windows and doors are closed in order to prevent any spontaneous fainting that might occur due to unexpected exposure to the coolness levels going on right now. As you jam away like the little rock-chipmunk that you are, you start to feel that irresistible tug toward sleep. You spent too long sitting on your bed, listening to altcountry alone last night. During a brief rest in the music, you slap yourself in the face, but it doesn’t do any good. You start to play again and then … ysuhdfs … ansndjka … BWAAAAAAP. GAAK, GAAAH, PHLLLACKTIC. You sit up, grab the falling clarinet out of midair, snap your neck backward, and knock over your music stand, sending sheets of paper flying around the room. The echo of whatever strange note you just played is still reverberating around the room. Shockwaves run through your chipped tooth. Everyone is staring at you. Instead of facing your embarrassment like a grown-up, you cover your face with your hands, run away, and write a strange little thing in a college newspaper that isn’t under your name because that’s just the type of person you are.

SMILING INSANELY TO COVER UP EMBARRASSMENT - Remember that time you spilled coffee down the entire front of your shirt while walking through Lower? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. LOOK AT HOW WIDE MY SMILE IS AND HOW WELL I’M TAKING THIS CRUSHINGLY EMBARRASSING BLUNDER. I DON’T CARE THAT I’M BEING LAUGHED AT. HEE HEE. Your cheeks nearly split in half as you try to convince the world around you that you have transcended self-consciousness and are a machine of pure unfazed cool, someone that can laugh it all off. “It’s O.K.,” your friend says, grabbing you by the shoulder. “Come on, let’s just go back to your room.” In that moment you are overcome with gratitude for your companion in this life, someone who is there for you and protects you when you’re at your most vulnerable. As you leave the dining hall with your beloved friend, you trip in the doorway, catch the edge of your pants against the doorjamb and tear them clean off. As you fall, you slam into a barista who happens to be walking by, and he spills 17 cups of coffee directly onto you. Rolling around in both metaphorical and literal pain, you see your friend look away, lower his eyes, and then dart off, leaving you alone, pantsless, and soaked in caffeine.

“This was supposed to be uplifting, you jackass,” you scream after your friend, as you pull yourself off the ground. “Now it’s just kind of sad. Nice work.”

NEGATING THE UPLIFTING PART OF STORIES - Good friends do exist to the best of our knowledge. It seems as though that should be made clear considering the way the last TD ended. The Thumbmeister doesn’t want to totally crush your spirits, just enough so that you’ll be more willing to listen to his warnings about clocks and stuff.

‘Why does this school have so many stairs?’ I thought as I dragged my tired body up the marble steps to Bapst. It was a Sunday at noon and I had already gone through my normal routine: hit snooze on the alarm a couple times, had a bite to eat at Lower, and then, feeling panicked about my workload, rushed to the library.

After walking up and down the center aisle of Bapst, I finally found a spot, albeit undesirable, between a girl clicking her pen and a guy tapping furiously on his keyboard. I plopped down into the chair, only to be temporarily blinded by the afternoon sun streaming in through the stained-glass windows. Resting my backpack on the ground, I pulled out my English, statistics, and political science notebooks and laid them on the table in front of me. Looking at each with disdain, I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do first. The red cover of my political science notebook, usually cheery, only heightened my nerves as I remembered the five-page paper due at the end of the week. Pushing that aside, I reached for the relaxing green of my stats notebook, and immersed myself in math problems as those were fairly easy for me.

Five hours later, I was staring at a blinking cursor on a blank page. I had completed my statistics problem set, read some of Plato’s Republic, and answered all my emails, but I still had made no progress on the beast—my political science paper. I glanced at the essay prompt for what seemed like the millionth time, but my brain was a barren wasteland. I had no idea where to begin. The setting sun, combined with the ticking of the clock, only added to my frustration as I realized that the day was almost over and I had made no progress on the one thing that worried me the most.

When I was a little girl, my grandfather shared the following Mark Twain quote with me, “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will

happen to you the rest of day.” I would giggle, finding the image of eating a frog amusing, but I never understood what he meant until now. Twain was suggesting that we complete our most difficult task at the start of the day. That way, with it behind us, we can relax and perform our less arduous tasks with ease. College students take the opposite approach. We start with the easy things. We enjoy the satisfaction that comes with checking these items off our list. I have a special colored pen just for this activity. But we would benefit greatly from reversing this approach and tackling the difficult tasks that keep us awake at night. Most students don’t think about the consequences of procrastinating because they are living in the moment. They cannot see that procrastination affects the quality of their work, and more importantly, their overall well-being.

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Timothy Pychyl, a professor at Carleton University, describes procrastination as an “avoidance behavior.” When students have a large task ahead of them, like writing a paper for an English class or studying for an economics midterm, they often feel a tremendous amount of anxiety. The procrastinator decides to do an easier, more gratifying task, in order to rid themselves of this discomfort. In addition, a study conducted by Florida State University psychologists found that the stress levels and reported illnesses of procrastinators increased over the course of the semester. While procrastinators were more relaxed than non-procrastinators at the start of the term, the two groups swapped when it came time for finals.

The procrastinators were more anxious because they had been avoiding studying the material and tackling important school projects.

Next thing you know, you’re pulling an all-nighter, typing away on your laptop or flipping through the pages of your textbook, wishing you could be fast asleep like your roommate. The following day you navigate campus like a zombie, unable to be present in classes and in conversations with friends, vowing to never again watch the sunrise without getting some sleep.

So how do we conquer the task of devouring the frog? I have a few suggestions. First, try breaking the complex task into manageable chunks. Each time you complete a chunk you will feel more relaxed, knowing that you are making progress toward your goal. Next, if your task is impossible to complete in one sitting, set aside a time each day that you will work on it. A schedule eases our tension over whether we will meet the deadline for this important deliverable. Having something to look forward to when you complete the difficult assignment—maybe watching an episode of your favorite TV show or going with friends to that new restaurant you’ve been wanting to try—provides an added incentive to reach for the intimidating notebook.

As we approach the end of the semester, I encourage you to eat your frog first thing in the morning. When you begin your most challenging task, think of a funnel. The wide top represents that overwhelming feeling you get when you realize that there are myriad approaches you can take. Let’s assume your challenge is a 10-page paper. Possible theses and perspectives swarm at the funnel top.

How do you know which one to choose?

Like Nike says, “just do it,” and jump into your essay like you’re jumping into a pool on a hot summer’s day. Even though the cold water is painful when it first engulfs you, the longer you swim, you get used to the temperature. Once you create an outline for the paper, you begin to progress down the funnel, and as you do so you become more relaxed as you watch your paper begin to take shape. The next time you’re in Bapst, reach for that red notebook. You’ll be glad you did.

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9I@KK8EP JD@K? Black Lives Matter is not All Lives Matter. It’s not a movement for segregation and isolation. It’s the opposite. It’s a movement for unity among different people. In fact, the problem with race in America is that we spend so much time as a nation wanting to be the same that we never spend time recognizing and appreciating difference.

To recognize difference and to see color is the first step to healing and recovering from the national trauma and tragedy that we have never truly healed from: slavery.

Slavery broke up families in the name of building the national economy.

Slavery was state-sanctioned by the very creed and constitution of this country. It broke backs to pay bills. There was a racial order to slavery that persists today.

Not only through the various incidents of white cops hurting black people. It’s much deeper than that. The cops in Baltimore that murdered Freddie Gray were not all white. In fact, that was a multicolored police militia. Therefore, Black Lives Matter is agitating something deeper than color line. The Black Lives Matter movement is an attempt to address the consciousness that has seeped from the history of slavery into contemporary life in how law enforcement and society understand and interact with black identity, which has been and continues to be disregarded, with not a care or concern if we live or die under state-sanctioned authority. In slavery, the state-sanctioned authority was in the form of plantation owners and overseers. Today, law enforcement and judges stand in that position, as those are the positions of leadership that have the power and influence to

determine, relegate, persecute, and execute black life.

It’s because we have not healed from the transatlantic slave movement that Black Lives Matter is now the legacy that we have inherited and must take time to understand.

To consider the resistance against Black Lives Matter, including the counter call of “All Lives Matter,” the meaning of Black Lives Matter has to be explained. That is the problem: that the importance and value of black lives have to be explained rather than taken as an indisputable fact.

But, here we go.

Black Lives Matter is an cry for attention, not a tantrum. It’s inherently political and activist in form, in that it is a social SOS banner being waved, as if to say that we are hurting, we are dying, we are bleeding, and we are in a state of emergency. The bleeding has to stop for our survival. The banner is being raised as a direct result of the murder of unarmed black people across the country by police because of the hue of their skin, which provokes fear, notwithstanding any actual harm imposed.

Black Lives Matter represents an understanding of the apartheid-like law enforcement treatment that is understood in the mass media as “police brutality.” Treatment by law enforcement in South Africa during apartheid and police brutality in Ferguson share a difference in name—but certainly not a difference in treatment and effect. The treatment indicates that racial priorities place black lives at the bottom, discarded by legal systems that can’t be consistently relied upon for justice in a way that feels, if not right, at least compensatory for injustice.

Therefore, in many ways Black Lives Matter represents the racial social order of American life, and especially the way that we understand the treatment of unarmed black citizens, regardless of gender. After all, like the mass media attention given to the travesties of state-

inflicted harm done toward black lives since the invention of the camcorder, the movement itself recognizes that black women and men are susceptible to the fatality of police violence. The Black Lives Matter movement is a recognition of this treatment, these murders, as a vicious historical treatment that did not begin with cell phone documentation of these murders. This movement is acknowledging the trauma and tragedy of this treatment, which began with, and has continued from, transatlantic slavery.

Black Lives Matter is an acknowledgement that the legal system cannot be relied on to always find justice. Some examples in our nation’s recent history are the cases of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Gray, in which there were no indictments for their deaths at the hands of law enforcement. Thus, this movement realizes that our laws and our police officers cannot be depended upon for justice.

Black Lives Matter is not named All Lives Matter because the “all” stated at the beginning of the Constitution has not actually protected all. In fact, language like “all” and “we the people” has been used to separate out and isolate blackness from traditionally understood inclusive language. This fact is demonstrated by the community service sentencing that an offender and murderer of black life receives for the killing of an unarmed black American citizen, the un-sentenced treatment of state-sanctioned violence by police authority, and the legal right for law enforcement to rely on a person’s skin color as the only justification needed to prove someone is suspicious. To say “All Lives Matter” won’t help to keep black people alive or at least draw attention to these issues. It hasn’t before, so there has to be an alternative. Black Lives Matter is that alternative.

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B8IC J8CQD8EE As I wrote before, it ain’t over ’til it’s over, and the only poll that matters is Election Day. This weekend’s revelation that the FBI is re-opening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails only proves what I wrote there. As far as I know, the pollsters and bookkeepers are still predicting a Clinton victory, and it still seems likely, especially knowing how the electoral map is organized—but less likely. We now hear visceral attacks against FBI Director James Comey for revealing this information, which is really extraordinary. What else could he have done? Does the left not want the FBI to do its job? Or does it want him to break his oath to alert the committees he had promised to alert to any changes in his testimony? “But the timing!” we hear, and the timing is indeed unfortunate for Clinton. Yet the FBI’s job is fundamentally apolitical, and taking political concerns into whether to announce a change in testimony would be the most political move of all. The criticisms of the letter’s “vagueness” are equally untenable—the FBI needs to be vague while conducting an investigation. Comey’s letter was no attempt to sway the electorate against Clinton, as Clinton’s campaign and prominent Democrats are now proclaiming. Au contraire, it represents the only possible action of an honorable man in a tight spot.

It only shows how tight this election has become, even before news of Comey’s letter broke on Friday, that Michael Moore, of all people, thinks that Donald Trump is going to win. Interestingly enough, his major argument is reminiscent of one I used: that middleand working-class people are fed up with the “establishment,” that Trump offers significant change for a “system” that they believe is shooting their opinions down. To wit, such individuals provide the very image of Roosevelt’s “forgotten man,” and Moore believes that they’re going to vote for Trump even if they don’t agree with him. As much as I cannot believe that I’m agreeing with Moore, he is making a good point here, one that is simply ignored by both Clinton and the majority of our media—the “little people” are rising up, angry and refusing to “take it anymore.”

One can write an excellent book (and many have) on how the Democratic Party lost the support of these blue-collar people, but I think it is sufficient to deliver a personal anecdote: my uncle is very much blue-collar, a worker on the Long Island Rail Road, a proud union member, and a proud Trump supporter. Indeed, of all my family members, he is probably the biggest Trump supporter—he sees in Trump a plain-speaker who will take on the elites and fight for the little guy.

While Trump’s candidacy shows this important political shift, it is true that partisans on both sides are making too big a deal out of the results of this election. (How many times have you heard, “I’m moving to Canada if Trump gets elected?” or “There’s going to be a revolution if Clinton gets elected?”) Of course, there will not be a mass exodus to Canada or another civil war, no matter what happens. Indeed, I’m reminded of Russell Kirk’s autobiography, in which he recounts that just about everyone in his hometown of Mecosta, Mich., was saying that “[there’d] be a revolution” if President Hoover wasn’t bolted out of office. Indeed, in those days of Depression and the revolt of the Bonus Army, it was far more likely that there would be a revolution than today—and there wasn’t. We got along, as we Americans always do, and the republic did endure—and, despite everything going on nowadays, if it endured the Depression, it will endure now as well.

This is the season when ghosts are said to wake and walk the earth and when the border between this world and the next is at its thinnest. Let us remember, then, the morals of all ghost stories on this Halloween, with an equally spooky election lurking around the corner: the past is still alive, ready to teach us eternal truths one way or the other, and we ignore it at our peril.

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THE HEIGHTS

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

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Honeycomb Creamery strays from the norm with unique, artsy flavors, up to 14 each day. Right: a piece of homemade Honeycomb candy, one of the store’s signature creations and most popular toppings.

9P D8;<C<@E< ;Ë8E><CF 8jjk% D\kif <[`kfi Ice cream lovers often develop a natural tendency to gravitate toward familiar but easy-to-eat flavors (hello there, vanilla, chocolate, and cookie dough) that allow them to quickly devour bowls and pints of the comforting treat at a time. What once was a craving for ice cream and all of the nuance it contains devolves into a simple desire for sugar, no matter what form it takes. Even the most devoted ice cream lovers among us forget all too easily the artistry that a single scoop of ice cream could—and should—contain.

Thankfully, one of the newest additions to the Cambridge restaurant scene is here to remind eaters of just that.

Honeycomb Creamery, which opened its first storefront a little over a month ago on Sept. 26, has already grabbed the attention of Boston’s culinary community with shocking and exquisite flavors that encompass everything from sweeter ones, like Brown Sugar Vanilla Bean or Maple Coffee, to more savory choices, like the seasonal Red Kuri + Sage.

And although Honeycomb Creamery was born in 2015, when the husband-and-wife team of Kirsten Rummel and Rory Hanlon brought its inventive ice cream flavors to farmers’ markets around the Boston area, the original seed of the idea that resulted in the desire to bring such electric flavors to Boston’s ice cream community can be traced back even further.

After moving to Boston with Hanlon in 2011, Rummel decided to depart from her training as a Spanish medical translator and began working at Clear Flour Bread in Brookline.

Hoping to grow and develop pastry skills of her own during the employment, Rummel decided to attend the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, where she studied pastry and quickly found work at the popular Union Square Donuts.

As Rummel worked as a kitchen manager and learned the details of running a small business, she explored potential businesses ideas of her own, finally unearthing the one that would become Honeycomb Creamery after tasting a corn ice

cream while out at dinner one night.

“I remember talking with my husband and talking about how you can go to all of these nice, sit-down restaurants and get fancy ice creams—like corn ice cream or bay leaf ice cream—but if you go to an ice cream shop, you can’t really get anything that’s a little bit more unique,” Rummel said. “You get vanilla, chocolate, coffee, strawberry, and that’s it. But it’s very possible to do different flavors, you just need to put a little bit more effort into your flavoring. So after that, it kind of started to slowly build.”

Following a few months of working out of commissary kitchens, Rummel nailed down a storefront, which she carefully designed with a lighthearted hand.

With its cheerful pops of raspberry pink, and the warm glow from countless edison bulbs dangling from the ceiling, the store’s whimsical appearance does not mislead customers who enter. Each flavor on the menu board—there are between 12 and 14 available each day—contains that same exceptional sense.

In addition to the five classic flavors (Dark Dark Chocolate, Brown Sugar Vanilla Bean, Maple Coffee, Salty Honey, and Honeycomb) that serve as the Honeycomb Creamery’s spin on more traditional and dessert-like ice cream flavors, Rummel has also created a selection of vegan flavors based on coconut and cashew milk that provide those with dietary restrictions options beyond sorbets.

But regardless of the dairy content, Rummel works to develop unique flavors that have included everything from Sweet Corn with Blackberry Jam and Apple Cider Donut with a Caramel Swirl, to savory Basil Goat Cheese and the current Red Kuri + Sage—a fresh spin on the popular fall squash flavor.

Rummel looks to the everyday for her inspiration, explaining how her homemade ice cream base—which she pasteurizes herself—allows her to take the ice cream in any direction she can dream.

“If you can think of a really great dessert that you like, or

foods that you enjoy together, it could probably go really well in an ice cream,” Rummel said.

Although you might not eat more savory ice creams the same way that you would approach a sweeter option, Rummel explains the importance of approaching the ice cream as flavor pairings and an exploration of the palate. For example, instead of eating Red Kuri + Sage on its own, she suggests pairing it with the Salty Honey, or even taking it home to include as a component to a dinner party.

But the flavors are not the only element that distinguish Honeycomb Creamery’s ice cream. Rummel works hard to source the ingredients locally. The milk and cream come from the Massachusetts Maple Line Farm, and the fruits and vegetables come from the local Kimble Food Farm. She also aims to highlight other hard-working small businesses in the Boston area by using Tazo chocolate for her chocolate flavors and donuts from Union Square Donuts in flavors like her Apple Cider and Caramel ice cream.

Rummel’s careful attention to detail is also evident in the little things, like the cones and toppings. The toppings, which include alluring choices like white wine gummy bears and shards of signature Honeycomb candy—a crunchy, hole-filled cross between a meringue and a caramel that also serves as the basis for one of its most popular flavors—are all made by hand and from scratch. This includes its sea salt, which it makes by harvesting saltwater and boiling it down. The handmade cones, which currently come in either vanilla or chocolate, are almost a dessert on their own. Perfectly crunchy and filled with a buttery and subtle flavor, they elevate any flavor of ice cream.

After a warm reception from the Cambridge community, Rummel is eager to continue flexing her creative muscles and help customers reimagine what ice cream can be.

“People have a really strong opinion of what ice cream should be and a lot of preconceived notions about ice cream, but I tend to let those go, and kind of do [whatever I want],” Rummel said.

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This question, one of four appearing in the ballot, will be one of the most significant ones affecting public education in the state in years, especially given that the number of charters in the state has been capped since January 2010. Understandably, this question has received a lot of publicity in the last few months as Election Day loomed ever closer.

Supporters, as well as opponents, have found themselves at a stalemate, with both making their last pushes to sway the vote.

Approving this measure would give the State Education Department

permission to raise the cap imposed on charter schools, allowing it to add up to 12 new charter schools per year, every year. A “no” vote would simply maintain the law as it is currently.

According to The Boston Globe, only 3.9 percent of students in the state currently attend charter schools.

The debate surrounding the question has boiled down to several parallel discussions: whether an approval of the measure drains the public school system of funding—charter schools are considered part of the public school system, receive both public and private funding, have to adhere to Massachusetts education regulations, but have independent boards—whether allowing these schools to be run by third parties would then make these charters appear like another business venture to the independent boards, and whether it is worth it to create new schools instead of improving the existing ones.

Massachusetts already has a school-choice policy, through which parents can choose to send their children to schools located outside of their district, so if this measure were to be approved, it would only increase the choices available to parents. But these extra options come with conse-

quences.

While, on paper, extra choices would allow individuals more options and thus the ability to select the best option for their children, several issues appear if the proposal in its current form passes.

Firstly, at the current level of charter schools, the funding they receive is proportional to the number of students the schools currently have enrolled, according to a recent report published by The Boston Globe. Adding more schools without proportionately expanding the funding pool, however, would leave certain public schools without adequate funding.

Dividing the same amount of funding between larger amounts of receiving parties will only leave each school with a smaller amount of support. While the per-pupil funding may not change in this situation, since the number of students itself is constant, the reality is that schools, be they charter or public, have fixed costs that they have to meet (salaries, utility bills, maintenance, resource costs, etc.).

The argument that adding more charter schools would not drain the system only holds if we look at the per-pupil spending.

Secondly, with the school-choice system the state has, many have argued that adding more charter schools will help alleviate the long waiting list by allowing more students to attend charter schools. This solves the problem only superficially, however, as the best charter schools will still have long waiting lists, without mentioning the fact that we have no way of currently knowing whether these new schools would actually improve the learning environment for students.

Lastly, let us consider the independent boards that currently govern these schools. The idea behind having independent boards is to allow them the flexibility to make individualized decisions that will best help the students in a case-by-case basis depending on the school. Expanding the number of schools in the state by opening them up to higher levels of outside sources would put them in a situation in which investors in these schools begin seeing them as revenue resources instead of educational facilities. The business interests of the sponsors who fund the schools must not be ignored.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders voiced his opinion on this question this week by saying that he opposes

the measure (whether or not Sanders should interject in state politics of another state is a question for another day).

“We must defeat Massachusetts Ballot Question 2,” Sanders said in a statement. “This is Wall Street’s attempt to line their own pockets while draining resources away from public education at the expense of low-income, special education students and English language learners.”

Instead of diverting funding away from public schools and into new charter schools, the way forward should be instead to continue investing in public education and ensure that the needs of the students are met through educational reform. The first step is to identify the issues that force more than 33,000 thousand to join the charter waiting list, and then enact a plan that fixes those issues.

Regardless of what the state decides next Tuesday, the most important factor is that people turn up to the polls. This is too important to leave up to chance.

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It’s been a crazy time going through Game of Thrones with one of my roommates for his first run-through of the series.

Compared to most people starting out on their Game of Thrones journeys, he is blissfully unaware of many of the show’s spoilers that have become pop-culture icons over the last few years—he knows nothing. I haven’t actively sat with him through every step of the four seasons he has gone through, but I’ve been there for all of the show’s highlights, and there have been more than a few episodes on in the background as I go through my weekly work.

Going through the show chronologically with my roommate, I’ve noticed that it has gotten progressively bloodier with each season and that the special effects teams have gotten a lot better at making brutality seem real.

In the first season of GoT there were a few beheadings that were made up of a few tricky shot cuts and some fake heads. Season 2 saw a guy get his head crushed by a falling rock. This death was reminiscent of that of the poor reporter from Hot Fuzz who got his head crushed by a pedant on a church, as both of these instances’ CGI effects looked comically bad. Season 4 featured two of the most grisly deaths of the show’s history: the Mountain crushing Oberyn’s head in with his bare hands and Jon Snow taking down a Thenn with one hammer-blow that broke through his skull. These made me think about how the show handled the development of special effects and CGI technology and how creative teams are employing these technologies.

“Where do we go from here?” was the first question I asked myself. For years I’ve been playing video games that have allowed me to chainsaw people in half and run through the streets of a fictional New York City shooting innocent people. I don’t think I need to harp much more on violence in movies and on TV with the descriptions above. But, remembering that we humans have an affinity for always taking concepts and practices to the next level, where do we go from here? How could we make our media more violent?

Virtual reality is the answer, of course. As virtual gaming appears to become more and more of a feasible reality, it stands to reason that the platform will evolve into something pretty immersive. What happens when the kid playing Grand Theft Auto IX isn’t just pulling a trigger on a controller to shoot a stylistically-rendered person on a TV screen? What happens to his mode of thinking when he’s wearing headgear that fully sets him in the “game” he’s playing and when the graphics in that “game” are so good that he’s not shooting stylized people anymore, when they look entirely real?

As conflicted as my feelings are towards the program, HBO’s Westworld has these questions floating around a multitude of others about consciousness and reality.

Some of the real people in the show argue about killing the robots that inhabit the park—some ask questions like, “What’s the difference between killing them and killing a real person if they look, act, and feel just like we do?” The show’s more sadistic characters that take pleasure in shooting and killing the park’s robots try to distance themselves from their actions, but their actions say a lot about them. The robots on the show feel pain and emotions just like we do. They’re made of flesh and bone just like us. The only difference is that the robots were created in a lab.

It’s extremely important, as we continue to develop entertainment technologies that expand the possibilities of what can be done on-screen and in video games, that we remind ourselves of these types of questions that Westworld and I are posing.

With the violence we see daily on TV and in movies and video games, we have already numbed ourselves to the horrors we are witnessing. Sure, violence in entertainment is a useful and time-tested tool. We need to make sure, however, that we realize what we’re seeing and doing when we see a war in a movie or go rampaging through a game killing everything in our path to victory.

Otherwise, we may lose a key component of our humanity.

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The Faculty and Staff Art Show, held until Dec. 5 in the First Floor Gallery of Carney Hall, showcases a variety of works by talented faculty and staff from Boston College. Ranging from creative combinations of clay, acrylic paint, and crystals to intricate needlepoint work, the exhibit offers a contemplative collection from a vast array of artists.

Presented by the Boston College Art Club, the gallery provides faculty and staff with an opportunity to showcase talents that venture beyond their typical fields of work. The 12 artists included staff from the Burns Library to professors from the biology department. Most of the pieces presented are fairly straightforward at first glance, such as photographs of scenic Boston and a silhouetted construction site, while others invite deeper examination.

The first work in the exhibit is an aquatint line etching titled On Island Cottage Beach by Anne Bernard Kearney, a professor of romance languages and literature.

It depicts three women spending what appears to be a casual and refreshing day on a pebbled shore overlooking a serene body of water. In the distance of the painting, mountains are topped with a light, calm shade of yellow, drawing the viewers’ attention to the central woman’s yellow hair as well as the yellow blanket shared between the three. The soft, centralizing focus of yellow accompanied by the gentle outlines of each woman’s shoulders suggest that the meeting is nonchalant and joyful.

Directly underneath is On Island Cottage Beach II, also by Kearney. The piece is identical in its scene but is conveyed in black and white. The absence of color carries with it a sentiment of nostalgia, solemnity, and farewell, further emphasizing the sense of comfort, commonplace, and bliss in the colorful piece above it.

Down the hall is an intricate needlepoint piece titled Discernment by Walter Conlan, S.J., and Sammy Chong, S.J., from the art, art history, and film departments.

A Jesuit priest is depicted with his head thrown back toward the piercing purple background, which presents an aura of both wisdom and mystery. Each hand of the priest is outstretched, grasping a circular object. The objects appear to have carried with them a sort of revelation, indicating a freshly discovered understanding by the subject. The mystery, however, lies within whether his face discerns anguish, relief, or further confusion.

Two multimedia pieces by Carol Chaia Halpern from the biology department offer a unique visual to the center of the exhibit through their vibrant colors and creative use of materials. Broken Hearts depicts nine evenly-spaced broken hearts made of clay on a yellow and aqua colored canvas.

Dancers (with broken hearts) directly below depicts its nine dancers as lightly-arched acrylic strokes adorned with colorful dots and fabric around what would be the dancer’s waist. The background is arranged into seven strict blocks of color, signifying a sort of tension, while the looseness in the composition of the dancers symbolizes a sense of freedom.

Our Lady of the Forest by Burns Library staff member Barbara Adams Hebard depicts a lightly-wooded, ethereal forest through a collage of printed paper. The painting’s graceful feel is achieved through faded, earth-based colors of green and tan being contrasted with a glowing warmth of yellow and orange radiating from the right of the painting, back in the distance—insinuating some kind of encroaching, great light. The river in the front reflects this radiance on the central focus of the painting: a woman wrapped in an olive robe kneeling in the weeds. The gradually encompassing light and kneeling position of the woman gives off a sense of reverence and beauty.

Her seemingly distressed gaze issued toward the light brings us to question what the light actually represents. Is it the sun?

An artificial light? God? Directly adjacent is another piece by Hebard titled The End of Time—also a printed paper collage. It depicts Jesus in an orchid pink shawl, his arm resting across his chest. Behind him rests a background sliced into three horizontal sections. On the base is a depiction of an emblematic desert with beige-colored sand, presumably what Israel looked like during the time Jesus lived. In the middle section is a more modern depiction of a desert with rocks and ruins, presumably what Israel looks like today. The top section depicts a fiery sunset, maybe showing what Israel will be when Jesus returns at The End of Time. The juxtaposition of these two otherworldly pieces permeates a sense of deep piety and admiration, and potentially offers us an answer to the question begged by the former piece.

All these paintings and questions prove that, at the Faculty and Staff Art Show, a chosen profession does not necessarily

limit one’s capacity to experience different forms of expression—be it in photography, painting, collaging, or etching.

THIS WEEKEND in arts

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BEYOND BORDERS (NOV. 7 - 8)

PICTURING PARADISE (OPENS NOV. 2)

The O’Neill One exhibition looks at international photographs submitted by members of the Boston College community, as part of International Education Week.

This exhibition features embroidered and appliquéd fabric pictures called cuadros, created by the women of Compacto Humano and Manos Ancashinas, two art cooperatives located in Pamplona Alta, a shantytown in Peru. See this testament to will in the Theology and Ministry Library Atrium Gallery.

‘DOCTOR STRANGE’ (OPENS FRI.) Watch Benedict Cumberbatch as he undergoes a transformation from Steven Strange, a renowned neurosurgeon, to Dr. Strange, a supreme sorcerer, as he undergoes training in other dimensions along with The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton).

FACULTY & STAFF ART SHOW (NOV. 4 - 30) Presented by Boston College Art Club, the 10th annual Boston College Faculty and Staff Art Show in the Bapst Library Gallery shows off the artistic side of members of the BC community. Seeing such work come from all the corners of BC is sure to have viewers marvel at what we are all capable of creating.

MARVEL STUDIOS

‘HACKSAW RIDGE’ (OPENS FRI.)

STORIES OF RECOVERY ROAD (OPENS NOV. 1)

Mel Gibson comes back on the scene to direct Andrew Garfield

conscious and constant refusal to bear arms.

Especially poignant to the New England area, the Stories of Recovery Road photo exhibit showcases the untold stories of Boston’s opioid crisis, the stigma of addiction, and the road to recovery at the Yawkey Athletics Center.

HEIGHTSMEN FALL INVITATIONAL (FRI. AT 7:30 PM)

‘TROLLS’ (OPENS FRI.)

The Heightsmen a cappella group prepares for its biggest show of

Trolls have nothing to worry about until the Bergens invade Troll Village. Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake) set off on a journey to rescue her friends and learn something about troll-kind along the way.

as U.S. Army medic Desmond T. Doss, winner of the Medal of Honor for his valiant efforts in the Battle of Okinawa, despite his

the year, along with Dance Organization of BC, Juice, and Sexual Chocolate. The invitational is sure to attract a large crowd to Robsham Theater, as the event will be held there for the first time.

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Since 1882, A Space for Student Art and Literature

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Boston College’s first literary magazine continues to cultivate creativity after 134 years.

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In a way, everything a person needs to know about The Stylus, Boston College’s oldest literary magazine, can be gleaned from its endearing office aesthetic.

The intimate space accommodates little more than two computers, a couple of large couches, and a printer. Hundreds of old magazine issues crowd the office’s shelves, and a number of art submissions—spanning a few semesters, years, and even decades past—have received the high honor of being tacked hastily onto the walls at one time or another since the magazine’s inception. On one wall, hundreds of colorful sticky notes accidentally create a kind of contemporary paper mosaic. Upon closer examination, however, the carefully placed Post-Its exist only to indicate the layout plan and art piece placements for the semester’s upcoming issue.

It’s cluttered in a purposeful and artistic kind of way, as if the room itself is too consumed with its own creative content to care about keeping itself in a bland state of pristine order. The atmosphere is homey and familiar, the office a well-loved—and certainly lived-in—space that boasts a certain brand of organized chaos. Located at the furthermost point of the hallway, in the lowermost level of McElroy, the office— hardly able to contain the overwhelming quantity of student art submissions—is messiness at its most artistic.

“I dug up these old posters from 1980, so there are these great advertising images hanging up around the room,” said Emily Murphy, a Stylus editor and MCAS ’17, of her contribution to the room’s busy decor.

After nodding in agreement, Allie Ward, The Stylus editor-in-chief and MCAS ’18, changes her expression ever-so-slightly to sport an almost imperceptible grimace as she recalls the current state of the office.

“It’s a little bit cluttered,” Ward said hesitantly, stressing the word “little” in a way that suggests her chosen adjective may be a slight understatement.

Then again, in a room where hundreds of submissions expressing the boundless artistic abilities of the entire student body are filtered by way of in-depth discussion in order to adorn the pages of a biannual publication, how could it avoid this delightful state of disarray?

As BC’s oldest literary magazine, The Stylus is a predominantly student-run magazine that has been celebrating student art submissions since 1882. Accepting a large spectrum of different art forms and writing styles, the submitted pieces include everything from original poetry, prose, and short stories to paintings, photographs, and freehand sketches.

Publishing two issues per academic year, The Stylus must sift through an overwhelmingly large set of diverse student submissions each semester. Weekly general meetings, which are always open to new staff members and are by no means limited to the 10-person editorial board, last for two hours and feature an anonymous session of constructive criticism. After attending three meetings, any staff member is allowed to vote on the written word or visual art pieces to be included in the next issue. As a result, The Stylus attracts art aficionados of all majors, graduation years, and artistic prowess.

The magazine is often described by its members as a welcome break from the everyday stresses of BC’s rigorous academic programs. Neither Ward nor Murphy boasted an extensive breadth of knowledge about literary arts before regularly attending the meetings and eventually rising

layout process.”

As the EIC, the role becomes challenging when it comes to incorporating the work into your academic life,” she said. “Especially at the end of the semester—and we have this process coming up in a few weeks time—we have what we call ‘marathon meeting’ and a layout meeting.” Exchanging a knowing glance with Ward, Murphy continued, “Both of which last between six and eight consecutive hours each.”

An integral aspect of the thriving arts scene at BC, The Stylus incorporates all creative styles into every issue, sandwiching as much creative talent as possible between the front and back of an artfully designed cover. The magazine has made a name for itself thanks to its integration of a diverse set of artistic styles as well as a prevalent policy of inclusion. At a university that boasts hundreds of student organizations, clubs, and specialized

the ranks of the e-board. Their individual academic pursuits—a biochemistry major paired with a studio art minor for Ward, and political science and Islamic civilizations majors for Murphy—have instilled in them an appreciation for their involvement in The Stylus, which offers a much-needed break for them to explore their own unadulterated artistic expressions. While Ward has submitted a number of her own drawings to Stylus for deliberation over the years, Murphy prefers to write poetry.

“The Stylus focuses on the literary arts, which is so very different from any of my other work because I am a biochemistry major,” Ward said. “[Being the EIC] involves a lot of responsibility, but it’s kind of nice to have something else going on that isn’t very scientific. It’s a different outlet.”

Murphy, who assumed the title of The Stylus editor-in-chief last year, agreed with Ward’s sentiments as she explained the

publications, The Stylus stands out thanks to one salient characteristic—its meetings are open to anyone.

Regardless of prior experience criticising art, The Stylus welcomes anyone interested in engaging in lively discussions about a wide breadth of artistic media and personal styles.

“I know that many of the other publications on campus are specialized,” Ward said. “For example, Laughing Medusa is [composed entirely of ] women. Since The Stylus is oldest and largest, we do accept any theme, any topic, and any prospective member. It’s really an all-encompassing magazine, which is nice.”

Always looking to augment the impact of The Stylus in the BC community, the e-board hopes to expand its online presence and continue to collaborate with other campus groups at various events throughout the year. When discussing up-

coming events in the works, Ward excitedly discussed a poetry reading to take place at Fuel, a local coffee hotspot in Brighton.

In addition to The Stylus’s function as a refuge from the stressful realm of academia, the well-established magazine is also a unique kind of emotional archive—a publication that contains no straight news stories from years past, but rather artistic interpretations and personal reactions to those major historic events and social issues that have had profound effects on the student body since the magazine’s early years.

“I think The Stylus has weathered a lot of transitions in BC’s history—for example, we still have copies of the magazine from when the entire student body was all-male,” Murphy said. “Just the fact that it has existed for so long is a connection from the present day to all of BC’s history. I’d also say art in general—whether poetry or visual art—is a great way for the student body to kind of address contemporary problems in the world.”

Murphy highlighted how The Stylus has received a lot of submissions surrounding many social issues of extreme relevance today. A lot of these submissions revolve around racial tensions, issues with the environment, and the political landscape in America. The group’s meetings provide the e-board with a welcoming platform to discuss these types of issues.

While The Stylus may publish scathing societal critiques or personal reactions to contemporary topics, the magazine also features a number of incredible pieces totally unrelated to hot-button issues. One of Murphy’s favorite submissions was from a student artist who used coffee as a medium, depicting coffee-related scenems. Another was a dazzling collection of photographs that captured subjects underwater and contorted in intricate dance poses.

Just as it has since the early years at BC, The Stylus continues to showcase intriguing art sourced from within the BC campus itself. While the magazine has evolved since its conception to become more inclusive and open to different forms of artistic expression, The Stylus remains BC’s primary source for a deliciously diverse display of uninhibited artistic talent.

Though layout aesthetics may be altered and the magazine, the dedication to art is palpable in the small confines of its humble basement office. In that respect—as far as appreciation for the arts is concerned—little about the publication has changed.

“We recently got a letter from an editorin-chief from years and years ago asking if we’re still cooped up in Mac basement,” Ward said with a laugh. “I was like, yes we are. 50 years later, we’re still here.”

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Imagine, for a moment, a young woman who finds herself struggling to maintain sanity on an eight-hour flight with nothing but a broken television screen and a pair of malfunctioning headphones to keep her occupied. Or perhaps, instead of the claustrophobic confines of a randomly assigned plane seat, she is swallowed by an uncomfortable velvet recliner, having wasted far too much money on a dizzying 3D children’s movie to just leave the theater a mere five minutes into the already horrendous family film.

To make matters even more terrifying, these very scenarios—in addition to a handful of other awful entertainment experiences— were based on true events. Events in my life, actually.

There’s an Eddie Murphy movie out there called A Thousand Words. The film—released in 2012 and since buried somewhere in a metaphorical cemetery of discarded cinematic duds—is best described as a box-office failure that burnt a gaping hole in the proverbial wallet of Paramount and DreamWorks Pictures just after its release. If you dig it up, dust it off, and are willing to condemn yourself to one hour and 31 minutes of mind-numbing attempts at eliciting audience laughter, then you’re far more fearless than I thought. Admittedly, you’re more courageous than I was when I fell victim to the catastrophic film during a first date in high school.

Murphy, known both for his oft-exaggerated physical comedy and endearing gift of gab, plays manipulative literary agent Jack McCall, who discovers that a tree has spontaneously sprouted in his backyard. This gradually withering thing loses its leaves at the same rate McCall speaks. When he realizes that the tree’s drastically deteriorating health is representative of his own time left on earth, McCall becomes a better man by speaking the truth, becoming more attentive to his family and friends, and experiencing other hackneyed plot resolutions that film fanatics are all too tired of watching.

Now, I’ll save my breath by straying from the whole “thousand word” theme and instead getting straight to the point. In fact, I could summarize the essence of this film in just three words for you, if you’d like. It’s not good.

Deservedly, it got 0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. For comparison’s sake—and if you have any faith in the judgment of the good people on pretentious film review aggregators— that’s less than Boo! A Madea Halloween, as well as the third and fourth installments of the Sharknado series—movies that received generous 23, 36, and 18 percent approval ratings, respectively.

Movies with the audacity to boast titles like Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! and Sharknado: The 4th Awakens were both deemed significantly better than Murphy’s major career hiccup.

I remember sitting in the theater desperately willing Murphy’s character to figure things out already. I wished with every fiber of my being for the unnaturally green leaves on that CGI tree to fall as fast as they could—to drop instantaneously in order to bring about some kind of sweet release, a swift end to a movie that shouldn’t have been made.

It isn’t surprising that one of the scariest situations an amateur arts aficionado can find herself in is the sheer, unadulterated horror of being trapped somewhere with insufficient or unsatisfactory entertainment for an extended period of time. When this nightmare of the inescapable show is applied to the real world—when needless drama inundates the media, the puerile pointing of fingers becomes too painful to put up with, and the only quality entertainment comes from late-night comedy shows that thrive off of the endless material derived from such chaos—it’s called the 2016 presidential election.

This particular election has pervaded virtually all conversations nationwide. Heroes and villains have been identified on both sides of the aisle, skeletons are seemingly stacked high in each candidate’s proverbial closet, and venomous dialogue spews forth from both camps.

This is driving, inconceivably, a wider and more damaging rift between the parties than ever before. The election has become a bloated caricature of its former self, an overblown and frightening parody of what it once was. It’s suffocating. It’s hard to watch. Simply stated, it’s scary—just like A Thousand Words, in a sense.

If this election were a film, it too would probably have a fat 0 percent next to its name.

And I, for one, cannot wait until it’s over.

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American Horror Story reinvented itself once again for its much-anticipated sixth season, providing a fresh take on its typical horror narrative that fans of the show have come to love since its premiere in 2011. This season, which premiered on Sept. 14, will came to a close in the next few weeks, but not before shaking things up a bit for its viewers.

Fans knew this season would deviate from its predecessors almost immediately when pro-

ducers of the show released a series of disjointed, vague ads this summer in what many thought was simply a publicity stunt. The ads, released mostly as short video snippets, contained bugs, monsters, and a mobile made of knives dangling over a crib. A single thread ran through them all, however: a question mark next to the number 6 was woven into each of the ads. Most fans of the show figured this was a milestone marking the show’s deviation from its previous advertisements which became iconic for their vague hints towards the central theme of

a coming season. It is now apparent, however, that ads were a way of communicating that Season 6 does not fit the conventional mold of narrative structure on television.

The sudden change appears to be in response to dissatisfaction with the show’s previous seasons.

Fans of American Horror Story groaned that the show became stale and gimmicky, as viewers were subjected to season after season of the same gore and jump scares without the psychological thrill that hooked them in seasons 1 and 2.

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Season 6, however, turned conventional plot structures on their heads by telling the horrific story of newlyweds Shelby and Matt Miller in the form of a mock crime documentary that detailed their move to a strange house in Roanoke, N. C. The narrative of this season oscillates between the “real” Matt and Shelby, who tell their accounts directly to the viewer in a confessional-type shot, and the “reenacted” form of these two characters, played by actors.

The first five episodes of the series follow this format as Matt and Shelby tell their stories in a voiceover as the “reenactment” plays out for us viewers. The format of Season 6 is simultaneously jarring and refreshing for viewers, as they experience the vertigo that comes with watching a television show within a television show.

Thing s only ge t stranger around the sixth episode, as the fake documentary entitled My Roanoke Nightmare comes to a close and viewers are shown text that reads, “My Roanoke Nightmare was the television success story of 2015...,” followed by an announcement that the show’s producers had been asked to create a follow-up series. The narrative then shifts to the producer of the show, Sid, pitching the idea

of his next show for his network.

The next show would be titled Return to Roanoke, Sidsays, and would involve bringing both the “real” survivors of the traumatic incident and the actors of the reenactment together in the house in which the horrific events took place.

Once the narrative has shifts to what is supposed to be real life, the show takes a more traditional approach to the horror plot as all the participants in Return to Roanoke begin experiencing strange things in the haunted house. As more unexplainable events happen, the focus of the plot shifts toward the tension that arises between the survivors and the actors who played them. The actors are skeptical of the supernatural things happening around them, but the survivors–having narrowly escaped them once before–immediately panic. Viewers are then hooked to both the drama between the two factions and the impending bloodbath about to be perpetrated by the killers of Roanoke.

Season 6 of American Horror Story has proved to be a truly innovative work, breaking traditional norms of narration and returning to the eerie thrill that earned the show its fame.

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In today’s society, a gay, black man has the odds stacked against him. So does a low-budget film about a gay, black man’s life—neither the real world nor the world of critics and box-office watchers are forgiving places.

But despite that, and an inexperienced ensemble cast and a (previously) unknown sophomore director, Moonlight has become the overnight darling of the film industry, generating unheard-of critical acclaim (and a fair deal of Oscar buzz). The New England premiere at Harvard Square’s Brattle Theatre turned away more than 250 people. How could it possibly live up to the hype? By being damn good, that’s how. Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play is a filmmaking achievement. Its camera work is stunning, its pacing is sublime, and its performances are nothing short of enrapturing. Moonlight both defies stereotypes about black Americans in film and uses them to a powerful symbolic effect.

Moonlight is divided into three acts: “Little,” “Chiron,” and “Black,” each act reflecting the different nicknames the protagonist goes by throughout his life. From bullied, neglected boy (Alex Hibbert), to skinny, angsty teenager (Ashton

Sanders), to angry, alpha-male adult (Trevante Rhodes), Chiron’s physical transformation is shocking, but his emotional development is anything but. Chiron is never comfortable in his own body and never has anybody to love.

Jenkins’s complex characters challenge stereotypes of the black American condition. Juan (Mahershala Ali), the neighborhood drug dealer, and his maternal girlfriend, Teresa (Janelle Monae), provide young Chiron—“Little”—with fleeting refuge from his crackhead mother Paula (Naomi Harris). Juan is a physically imposing, do-ragwearing coke slinger who becomes a sort of surrogate father to Little in short time.

Yet there’s more to these characters than the above descriptions suggest. Juan, the seemingly benevolent father figure to Little, is revealed to be the dealer behind Paula’s drug habit. Paula, despite neglecting Little and lighting up in the home, is very protective of her son throughout his life.

Moonlight’s story is full-circle and haunting. As “Little” becomes teenager “Chiron” and eventually hood rat “Black,” his appearance closely mimics that of Juan, from his black do-rag and gold fronts, to his massive, prison-sculpted physique, to his crown-adorned muscle car.

Paula eventually finds her way to re-

hab and reconnects with her distant adult son, while Teresa fades away.

Moonlight is a study of cycles and consequences. As a result, there’s little surprise throughout the whole thing. Rather than feeling bland, however, this cause and effect-style storytelling feels flowing and natural.

Certain events in Chiron’s life seem inevitable given those he’s gone through before.

Silence plays a crucial role, as some of Moonlight’s most striking scenes lack any music at all—a decidedly simple but effective way of letting visual cues dominate.

The camerawork is a joy. It bumps and jitters at times, slowly sweeps at others, and freezes in place at others still. It plays with a viewer’s perception of motion, and deftly paces the film. Though only 111 minutes long, Moonlight feels like a threehour epic.

Well-written dialogue (in local dialect) captures the essence of Liberty City Miami, and the power of the cast’s collective performance simply astonishes. Pain, empathy, and other emotions are present in each character’s every stare, gasp, yell, tear, or conversation. This mostly

unknown cast makes a mockery of movies with many times the budget and name recognition.

This tiny-niche film has captivated all who’ve seen it. It rebuffs Hollywood’s steady, safety-first stream of sequels and conventional dramas. Moonlight opens new doors for non-mainstream films, but its impact hinges on both critical and commercial success. Simple, unconventional, and groundbreaking, Moonlight deserves the crowds it draws and the hype it receives. It might even shake up the Hollywood establishment.

Riding on the coattails of last season’s massively controversial cliffhanger, AMC’s The Walking Dead has returned for yet another year of action-packed, walker-killing fun.

Though the seventh season of the show is only two episodes underway, it has shown repentance for mistakes of the past, and perhaps even a little bit of wisdom on how to fix them.

Though certain aspects of AMC’s brainchild are not without flaws, The Walking Dead seems to be on the road to maturing into the program that it was always meant to be.

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and the second-lowest on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer. The finale concluded—big spoilers ahead—with Negan (the show’s newest antagonist) bashing in the skull of a beloved main character with his barbed-wire-covered baseball bat. But who received the fatal grand slam? The Walking Dead cut to black just before revealing the victim, subjecting loyal fans to seven months of waiting to find out which of their beloved characters was gone forever.

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It’s easy to see just why the show experienced the level of backlash that it did. A well-known television program, especially one that regularly receives high ratings, resorting to a cheap publicity tactic is disappointing on two levels. Not only is it poor writing—it demonstrates a lack of credit and respect given to its viewership. This is precisely why the seventh season premiere was such a do-or-die scenario. In this moment, AMC had the opportunity to prove that it was still at the helm of this money machine, guiding it carefully into artistic prosperity. Thankfully, the company still seems to have a grip on reality.

Season seven opened directly where it left off, and though it dangled the victim’s identity in front of audiences for a few minutes, The Walking Dead (finally) very artfully revealed— again, spoilers ahead—that both Glenn Rhee and Sgt. Abraham Ford faced down the barbed-wire bat and lost. To the show’s credit, it gave these two long-running characters a beautiful sendoff. The cinematography this season, particularly in “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be,” has been beyond stellar. The usage of makeup and fake blood made the deaths of

the two fan favorites disturbingly realistic. The show’s choice of music only exacerbated the sickening reality of what it portrayed—though it may have been excruciatingly gruesome to watch, The Walking Dead still knows how to pull at heartstrings with poise and precision.

It would be easy to keep questioning AMC for its poor writing last season. Many fans still are, truthfully. And there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the seven-month wait was unbearably long. But did the cliffhanger pay off in the end?

Absolutely. The order of events and buildup of emotion, though it could have been framed better since day one, was still a massive punch to the gut of every faithful fan—very much in a good way.

The future of The Walking Dead seems to be looking bright. A sense of terror pervades The Walking Dead—more than anything else, the show has mastered its tone to a T. Whether fans like it or not, it seems that The Walking Dead is here to stay. It remains to be seen if this is for better or for worse, but with competent management and direction (and a little fan devotion), the wise guess is for better.

Charli XCX is back after 2014’s Sucker to promote the all-new and seemingly wilder Vroom Vroom.

XOX’s first music video from the album dropped on Sunday to the tune of her newest single, “After the Afterparty,” featuring American rapper Lil Yachty. If nothing else, the artist timed the video release just right—for the day before Halloween, this unexpected mix of nouveau riche pop and bright pink zombie gore feels perfectly fitting.

The gist of the video involves bringing the adolescent sentiment of going all night—going forever, even—to life in the form of eternally undead teenagers. Dressed in pink silk bomber jackets, hot pants, bikini tops, and more, the cast stalks around glassy-eyed, arms struck out stiff in a zombie shuffle as it gnaws on each other’s necks over bouncy vocals.

It’s this juxtaposition of candypink, childlike sound and campy gore that makes the video fun to watch and provides its strongest moments. At one point a man begins to drink milk straight from the carton, only to have it trickle out from his hole-riddled throat, and later one rubbery arm slips disembodied out of a bathtub. It’s these moments that feel creatively charged and new when they’re combined with the Brit’s poppy sound and superficial party ode.

There are moments when the singer begins to slip from her grounding in this entrancing space between horror flick and sugary pop. The styling in the video is almost universally horrible (note the pink plaid tracksuit of Lil Yachty), and the raunchiness XCX seems so desperate to integrate feel unnecessary at points. As we watch her straddle her friends in a foam rave or see her dance close to her zombie team, one is left waiting impatiently in strange fascination for the next bloody eyeball to appear, while someone sings sweetly about kissing a thousand lips before dawn.

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As Boston College football gears up for its game against the University of Louisville, one word to describe the atmosphere around the locker room is optimistic, a feeling that the team had not truly experienced in nearly two years. The team desperately needed a win after falling to Syracuse last week, and facing NC State on the road was no easy task. Nonetheless, thanks to the late-game heroics of running back Davon Jones and tight end Tommy Sweeney, BC came out with a victory, breaking its 12-game ACC losing streak.

“Food tastes a little better,” quarterback Patrick Towles said regarding the win last week. “The attitude has picked up a little, and we’re super excited about a great chance on Saturday.”

Coming off this much-needed win, BC has a lot of momentum going into Saturday’s game against Louisville, showing potential for an upset. But it won’t be easy at all, especially with potential Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson on the team.

Jackson is arguably the most versatile quarterback in all of college football, with 2,522 yards passing and 996 yards rushing, as well as a combined 38 total touchdowns. He has led the Cardinals to a 7-1 record, and even the best defenses in college football have struggled containing the college superstar.

“He is unbelievable,” head coach Steve Addazio said about Jackson in his Monday afternoon press conference. “The guy is electric running the football and he has a tremendous arm with unbelievable weapons down the field. I mean, this guy is as good as anybody I’ve seen.”

If BC is to pull off another upset, the team’s primary concern must be

to contain Jackson. Last season, the Eagles shut down Jackson, keeping him out of the endzone while picking him off twice. In addition, not only did they lock down Jackson’s passing game, but they also limited his rushing yards to only 15 in 14 attempts for a subpar average of 1.1 yards per carry.

BC’s tough defense came up with many big plays, such as a 34-yard return on a fumble recovery by defensive end Harold Landry, but the team came up just short of victory. Landry, who currently leads the nation in sacks with nine, was a key member of the lockdown defense played against Louisville, and he knows that Jackson is a much-improved player this year, and that it will take a collective effort to stop him.

“You’ve got to be disciplined on everything you do out on the field, and you’ve got to make good judgments on every single play,” Landry said. “One play can get you beat, and everybody’s just got to do their job and we’ll be alright.”

Jackson is deadliest in the open field, and if the Eagles are looking to contain him, it starts with limiting his running game. Therefore, to prevent another rushing explosion from Jackson, one of the biggest keys of the game for BC will be to limit the number of missed tackles by focusing on different angles of pursuit. This starts with the leaders of BC’s defense, including defensive tackle Truman Gutapfel, working to keep Jackson in the pocket to prevent potential big yard rushes. Gutapfel, who anchored BC’s defense last season with 26 tackles, understands the importance of working together as a unit to restrict Jackson’s running game.

“We’ve got to get everybody on defense running after him,” Gutapfel said. “You just can’t rely on one guy to make the tackle. Our pursuit is big

this game.”

As for the offense, the strategy for the game will be very simple: limit dropped balls and follow offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler’s game plan. Prior to the NC State game, the ability to catch the ball had been a recurring problem for the Eagles receiving corps throughout the year.

BC’s offensive efficiency, which is the value generated by a team’s offense, is currently ranked 126 out of all 128 college football teams in America, and this problem can be largely credited due to dropped passes.

Even so, BC receivers worked hard to address the issue during practices, and during the NC State game, the amount of dropped balls was noticeably cut down, helping the offense to be more successful. The other key to success for BC is to take advantage of Loeffler’s playcall. As demonstrated in BC’s unique play when running back Davon Jones threw the game winning touchdown against NC State last week, Loeffler’s play-calling ability is a positive aspect of BC football.

“I think he’s an offensive genius,” Towles said. “I think he called a spectacular game, and he called an awesome game against Syracuse too, we just missed a lot more opportunities.”

To maximize the team’s success, BC’s offense must stick to Loeffler’s game plan and take advantage of every scoring opportunity possible.

Offensive efficiency will be an important factor, and mistakes such as turnovers and dropped catches need to be limited.

BC has officially been revitalized after its win against NC State, and by working collectively as a unit on defense and limiting its mistakes on offense, the Eagles will have a great chance to pull out one of the biggest upsets in college football this year.

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9P :?I@J EFP<J ?\`^_kj JkX]] After weeks of hearing what his team wasn’t capable of doing, Steve Addazio has spent the days following Boston College’s 21-14 victory against NC State reminding the media that a competitive spirit still burns brightly in the Eagles’ locker room.

“To see our kids come together and really, really draw the best out of each other and get validation for the hard work and what they’ve put into this was fantastic,” Addazio said at his press conference on Monday. “Just look what we can do when we come together and we play as a team.”

As the Eagles (4-4, 1-4 Atlantic Coast) snapped their 12-game ACC losing streak, joyously flinging months of negativity and futility from their backs, Addazio proved emphatically that he has not lost the ear of his players. Often, on teams that have suffered massive defeats, the coach will lose his locker room, with the season spiraling to a depressing conclusion.

But Addazio is determined to avoid this fate. Much to his credit, despite deflating 49-0 and 56-10 losses to Virginia Tech and Clemson, respectively, he has kept his players focused on improving and putting their full energy into each game. He has fostered a tangible pride among the players, a bond among each other and the program, forged in the crucible of a steady stream of criticism.

On Saturday, he felt that this team spirit was a key factor in the Eagles long-awaited victory.

“I thought that we saw our team play together for each other hard and with great resolve,” Addazio said.

Whatever the reasons for the struggles, this week’s matchup would be an excellent time for BC to take a step forward from an offensive execution standpoint in a relatively judgment free setting. With No. 5 Louisville (7-1, 5-1) and the Heisman Trophy incarnate, Lamar Jackson, coming to town Saturday afternoon as 24-point favorites, the Eagles are playing with house money.

Scoring 50.3 points and totaling over 600 yards per game, both tops in the nation, the Cardinals’ offense has taken on a surreal, video game quality.

Any discussion of this unit starts and ends with its superstar triggerman.

Jackson has already accounted for a school record 38 touchdowns, 22 passing and 16 rushing, and has become the first player in ACC history to have more than 15 rushing and passing touchdowns in a single season. He is currently set to smash the ACC record for total yards per game, a mark now held by former NC State quarterback Philip Rivers.

He leads the Cardinals with 996 rushing yards, seventh in the entire country. Jackson is utilized on a bevy of designed quarterback runs, including a heavy dose of zone-read plays. Blessed with an unnatural combination of speed and lateral agility, Jackson routinely leaves defenders grasping air in his wake. While he is relatively skinny, this agility makes Bobby Petrino unafraid to have his quarterback run up the middle. Senior running back Brandon Radcliff, who has 605 rushing yards and averages 7.1 yards per carry, has emerged as a highly qualified second option in the ground game. Radcliff, who has lost 20 pounds since last season, now runs much more smoothly and possesses the ability for explosive plays. Buoyed by their dynamic duo, the Cardinals rank first nationally in Football Outsiders’ Opportunity Rate, which measures the percentage of run plays that gain at least five yards, when such yardage is available.

In the passing game, Jackson has a rifle arm, capable of driving throws into tight windows and slinging the pigskin over 50 yards downfield.

Additionally, this season, he has shown a developing sense of touch on his throws. While he doesn’t have the most traditional pocket fundamentals and sometimes likes to scamper around to create plays instead of taking the simple pass, Jackson’s skill level often overcomes these minor deficiencies. He looks to target receiver James Quick and tight end Cole Hikutini, among others, on intermediate to deep throws.

Petrino’s passing offense is egalitarian, with four different receivers having over 350 yards and 10 different receivers having caught at least one touchdown pass.

Much of this stems from Jackson’s ability to simply find the open target, instead of locking in on a single receiver. And if all of his receivers are blanketed, Jackson is a nightmare for defenses to contain on quarterback scrambles, with the long receiver routes taking most of the defenders away from the line of scrimmage.

On Saturday, look for the Louisville offense to give the Eagles’ defense fits. Jackson and Petrino present Addazio’s team with all of the elements they have struggled to defend this season: a spread offense played at a rapid tempo and a running game driven by an extremely mobile quarterback. The Cardinals will target the linebackers or reserve defensive backs stuck in coverage on receivers, and will look to attack the secondary in juicy one-on-one matchups.

On the ground, expect a heavy dose of designed quarterback runs, with Jackson testing the closing speed

of the Eagles’ linebackers. To have any chance of at least limiting this mammoth offense, BC must take Radcliff out of the contest, forcing the run game exclusively into the hands of Jackson. Additionally, in the passing game, they must force him to stay in the pocket. Though easier said than done, if Jackson’s scampers can be limited, Louisville loses one of their most frequent means of picking up first downs.

While the Cardinals’ offense gets most of the publicity, the team’s defense is no slouch either. Led by the aggressive linebacking trio of TCU transfer Devonte Fields, Keith Kelsey, and James Hearns, Louisville has the nation’s 10th best defense by Football Outsiders’ S&P rankings.

They allow opponents to pick up first downs on just 51.7 percent of drives, second best in the country. A commitment to stopping running backs behind the line of scrimmage boosts this rating, as the Cardinals end 24.8 percent of opposing run plays with a tackle for loss.

This success, usually on early downs, creates a lot of long third downs for the opposition. As a result, opponents only convert 28.2 percent of third downs against Louisville, sixth nationally. A strong secondary, led by safety Josh Harvey-Clemons, limits opposing passers to under 200 yards per game and is a major reason why Louisville ranks 14th in Football Outsiders’ IsoPPP+ allowed metric, which rates how well defenses prevent explosive plays.

That statistic doesn’t bode well for the Eagles on Saturday, as the team has struggled to score on drives that don’t contain big plays. Even Addazio acknowledged as much on Monday, citing a lack of consistency in execution.

“We have a hard time sustaining consistency long enough for those long, methodical 12, and 13, 14, 15play drives,” Addazio said.

Against a defense that will likely grind the Eagles’ run game to a screeching halt and against a secondary that doesn’t give up big plays, it looks like the Eagles’ best shot at a massive upset victory will be to string together long drives of short passing plays. That way, they can eat away at the clock and shorten the game, limiting the number of possessions the Cardinals can have, and artificially capping their potential point total.

Doing so will require BC to address its biggest tactical deficiency of the season, providing it an opportunity to hush even more of the critics.

And if this mission should fail, at least the fans will still have the Lamar Jackson fireworks show to look forward to.

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N`k_ Knf >fXcj Yp C\n`j# <X^c\j KXb\ ;fne M`i^`e`X K\Z_ MSOC vs. VT, from B8 BC came out for the second with new personnel, bringing in Enstrom up top to replace Trevor Davock, who moved out wide and pushed Lewis into the middle. The Eagles found new life in the game with this new look.

Davock, who scored a hat trick last game as a center forward, was largely ineffective in the first half. After those numerous chances in the beginning, BC looked to send guys behind the defense, to no avail. Enstrom used his strength to switch things up for the Eagles, as he battled defenders and held the ball up extremely well, providing more options in the attack

“Simon was great in the second half,” head coach Ed Kelly said. “He changed the game for us.”

Enstrom did it all in the half, beating defenders on the dribble and muscling them out of position to find shots with his powerful boot.

In the 56th minute, B C ’s revived play paid off. On the counter attack after a VT corner, Normesinu streaked down the field with Lewis open ahead of him on the other side of the field. When Normesinu held the ball for longer, Lewis made a really smart run, cutting in towards goal behind the defenders.

Normesinu played a great ball through the defense to the oncoming Lewis, who cut around

the goalie and passed the ball into the net for the equalizer.

An even battle continued for the next half hour, with the Hokies continually playing balls into the box from wide areas and the Eagles going through Enstrom up top.

With five minutes remaining, Mion got his second for the Hokies with another headed goal. A cross into the box was headed across goal to the far post and then back to the middle, where Mion emerged from the scramble to get a head to the ball and beat Saladin.

Just as they showed against NC State, BC had the response with Lewis’s second of the game to force overtime.

While Enstrom changed the

game, the whole BC squad upped its level of play after a sluggish first half and showed some resiliency. “ We just kinda woke up,” Lewis said.

Neither team had many clear chances on goal in two uneventful overtime periods, save for one shot by Davock with a little over a minute remaining. The sophomore held the ball near the right edge of the box, cut inside, and fired a curling left-foot finesse shot that forced the Hokie goalkeeper into a diving save.

BC won the toss and opted to shoot first. The teams were tied at two apiece after two rounds, with Tommy Gudmundsson and Joshua Forbes scoring comfortably and Virginia Tech answering

each time.

Davock stepped up for BC’s third attempt , but put up a weak effort on goal that was saved. Saladin came through for Davock in Virginia Tech’s ensuing shot, diving to his left and making a kick save to keep things level.

After Lewis calmly slotted and the visitors kept things tied, Younes Boudadi stepped up and scored with BC’s fifth shot. Needing a goal to extend the PK’s, Hokie midfielder Rory Slevin hit the crossbar for the BC win. The bench emptied as an entire roster-full of frenzied maroon and gold jerseys swarmed Saladin in front of the goal.

The victory in the ACC tournament against a ranked op-

ponent is an important one for the Eagles after a tough regular season. Ironically, however, a win in penalties doesn’t help the cause for an NCAA bid. Since the game goes in officially as a draw, BC will need to upset No. 1 North Carolina in the next round to remain .500 and eligible for the tournament.

While the players celebrated wildly after PK’s, Kelly brought things back to earth, laughing at the thought that this “win” actually hurts the Eagles’ chances in the long run.

“But, another day to play against North Carolina and we just go down and beat them, and get in the NCAA that way,” Kelly said, ending things on a rightfully upbeat note.

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9: 9\Xkj JpiXZlj\# N`ej J\Zfe[ `e X Ifn 9 P E @:FC< G C8 ?\`^_kj JkX]] After its first conference win against Wake Forest on Sunday, Boston College volleyball was hungr y for another Atlantic Coast win—and it wasn’t disappointed. After losing to Syracuse earlier in the season, BC shut out the Orange three sets to one in its second ACC win of the season.

The first set was close, with neither team getting more than a four-point lead on the other.

Syracuse (6-17, 5-8 Atlantic Coast) won four points in a row, giving the team a 8-4 lead on the Eagles, but BC (7-16, 2-11) didn’t let that get the Orange down after four kills in a row.

After two consecutive aces by

Natalie Canulli, the Eagles were back in the lead 9-8. The back and forth continued, but after two more aces and multiple kills, the Eagles ran away with the set, 26-24.

The momentum continued into the second set, with two kills in a row by Jill Strockis and an ace from Madisen Lydon put BC ahead of Syracuse. The Orange tried to keep up, but a service error after Christina Oyawale was hit in the head and multiple out-of-bounds hits made it hard for Syracuse to catch BC. A f te r a n 1 1 - g a m e l o s i n g streak, the Eagles have finally started getting their technique down and show they can play with the big dogs. Three more aces by Canulli, Strockis, and Julia Topor made sure to put

BC over the edge, and the Eagles won the second set, 25-23.

After halftime Syracuse wanted to make sure it wasn’t a complete shutout game, and came in strong . Multiple kills and sloppy blocks forced BC to take both timeouts, while the Orange looked calm and collected as the set continued. An ace by Jane DeJarld and four late kills wouldn’t prove enough, as the Eagles lost the third set 19-25.

After Syracuse took the first point of the fourth set, BC would not let a repeat of the third set happen. Five consecutive kills by BC forced a Syracuse timeout, the one minute and 15 second rest only helped the Eagles, as they took four more points following the break. It looked like Syracuse had a chance after a BC

net violation would lead to seven consecutive Orange points and two BC timeouts, but it wasn’t enough to get a lead on the Eagles. Three more points by BC forced the second and final Syracuse timeout of the game, but after a service violation that resulted in the ball going out of bounds, the Eagles came away with another ACC win.

“Syracuse always blocks well,” head coach Chris Campbell said after the team racked an impressive nine aces in the match.

“They’re big, they’re athletic …

The difference for us to counter that was we knew we had to serve tough to try to limit the damage their middles could do to us. The team did an excellent job of executing that game plan.

I was really happy.”

FIELD HOCKEY

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“Ever since we watched them in high school, we knew that they were a step ahead,” Doton said.

“They have those field hockey skills that not a lot of people in the country have.”

The McCoy deal has been a great benefit to BC. Their connection on the field is unmatched.

Because the sisters have been playing together for over 15 years, they have that twin telepathy. If one passes to the other, the other twin knows exactly what she is thinking and where she is going to go next. That uncanny accuracy has allowed the McCoys to succeed and continue to build on the legacy they will leave behind after graduation.

The two have helped the Eagles soar into the national rank-

ings, complete 13 upsets against top-10 teams, and score over 165 points combined. And this is just the start. Last year, for the first time ever, BC made it past the first round in the ACC Tournament. Emily played a huge role in this game, so naturally, it’s her favorite BC memory. The Eagles were up against Wake Forest in a tight battle. Emily scored the tying goal to send the game into overtime, allowing the Eagles to complete a 4-3 win and move to the next round.

Recently, Eryn had a great achievement of her own. Almost three weeks ago, in the 3-1 upset against No. 8 Louisville, Eryn scored her 80th career point, allowing her to break into BC’s top-10 all-time scoring list.

Even with these great achievements, there is never sisterly competition on the field. They are always neck-in-neck in almost every stat category, including shots, assists, game-winning goals , and even the all-time scoring list. But they don’t pay attention to it.

“It never bothers me,” Emily said. “I’m not like, ‘Oh, I have to get ahead of her.’ I wouldn’t re-

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Eryn McCoy has scored seven goals and added four assists so far this year.

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Emily McCoy has scored five goals for BC this season along with three assists. ally say there is a competition.”

Because their positions are so different, Eryn, who is a forward, cannot compare herself to her sister at midfield. Emily is willing to point one thing out— their differences in aggression.

“It’s not like Eryn isn’t aggressive, but I would say I’m more intense on the field and feisty,” Emily said. “Other than that, I would say we are fairly similar.”

Now, the season is almost over, and it is time for the seniors to soak up their final dose of field hockey before it is time to move on.

“I feel like I was just a freshman last year, and now I’m a senior and we don’t have many games left,” Eryn said. “It’s exciting, but very sad at the same time. I don’t want it to be over.

Come November, we aren’t going to have anything to do. It’s sad, but exciting to see how far we’ve come.”

Both sisters have high hopes for the rest of their season. They want to work hard for their team in order to have an exciting rest of the year. Each of them wants to surpass last year’s achieve-

ments and make it past the second round in both the ACC and NCAA tournaments.

Doton believes the twins can do it.

“They’re goal scorers, they’re great field hockey players. I know they aren’t done yet contributing to BC field hockey,” she said.

In November, the McCoy sisters will have their final pregame meal as a team, then the twins will sit in the locker room while Eryn braids her sister’s hair one last time. Emily will take her last pregame walk outside to calm her nerves.

They will dance as a team in the locker room once more before silencing the speakers.

And after never missing a game, home or away, the faithful McCoy family will take their final seats in the bleachers to watch the twins play one more time.

But it will not be the last you see of them. The McCoys have been working together their whole lives to improve to the next level. With a legacy at BC coming to a close, only time will tell where they will leave their next mark.

It’s hard to imagine a team that has more to prove following a big ACC win than the Eagles, but that’s exactly what Louisville is. After nearly losing to conference bottom-feeders Duke and Virginia in back-to-back weeks, Lamar Jackson and the Cardinals have to prove that they deserve consideration for the College Football Playoff should anyone else falter. That desperation to crush an opponent will come at BC’s expense.

Prediction: Louisville 45, BC 14 RILEY OVEREND

Assoc. Sports Editor Last season, the BC front seven did a great job of containing Lamar Jackson and limited his rushing attack. Although Jackson has shown incredible improvement since then, I’m not expecting a Louisville rout on Saturday because the Eagle front seven is still elite. But scoring on the Cardinal defense and preventing Jackson from exploiting BC’s secondary and making big plays through the air will be a lot harder. Louisville has struggled of late, but this weekend won’t yield a mammoth upset.

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The only time I can clearly recall Lewis not being the best player on the field was against Wake Forest last year when he went head-to-head with a fellow ACC Freshman of the Year.

British sensation Jack Harrison, who won the award in 2015, carved up the Eagle defense for two goals in a 5-0 blowout on a cold October night. He was utterly dominant on the wing, emphasizing possession over playmaking until just the right time.

“He should go home now,” head coach Ed Kelly told me after that game. “He’s wasting his time in college—not for his education, I mean soccer-wise.”

A former teammate of Lewis’s at the acclaimed Berkshire School, Harrison spent time with Manchester United’s youth academy until

his mother decided to send him to the United States for a proper education. His unconventional path to soccer stardom has taken him from academies, to prep schools, to Wake Forest, and, now, to the MLS, where he was selected as the No. 1 overall pick in January.

Lewis also faced off against the 2014 ACC Freshman of the Year, Tim Kubel, when No. 9 Louisville visited Newton Campus Field in September. This time, it was Lewis who got the better of a fellow honoree, scoring an 86th-minute equalizer in a 1-1 tie. One mock draft projects Kubel going first overall in the upcoming SuperDraft.

The point is, Lewis certainly belongs in the same league as his Freshman of the Year successors. But it’s hard to gauge whether MLS teams hold the same opinion. Given that the hype surrounding the SuperDraft is nowhere near that of the NBA or NFL drafts, there’s not exactly an abundance of mock drafts on the internet.

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In fact, I only found two, and Lewis was included in just one.

I thought I had discovered a third list on DraftSite.com, only to find updated rankings for the WNBA and an MLS mock draft from after the 2013 season.

Okay, so maybe there’s about as much hype for this SuperDraft as there was for your fantasy football draft this year. But that doesn’t change the fact that Lewis deserves to hear his name called in two months when the league gathers in Los Angeles for the first two rounds.

Last year, I followed the journey of BC defender Toby Ampadu, a fan-favorite during the Eagles’ Cinderella run to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. Kelly pushed for Ampadu to get exposure to MLS, NASL, and USL teams after he graduated, and I, naively, was optimistic about his odds.

When the SuperDraft rolled around, I watched as four rounds passed by without mention of the Ghana native, putting his dream of remaining in

the U.S. in peril. After covering this program for two seasons, it would pain me to see Lewis suffer the same fate.

It doesn’t take a professional scout to recognize the extraordinary talent Lewis has been blessed with, but it does require video footage. In any sport, stats don’t paint the full picture, but it’s especially the case in soccer, where the spark of a scoring opportunity is often left uncredited and one’s numbers rely so heavily on the play of their teammates.

Scouts evaluating players on who scored the most goals or tallied the most assists are simply barking up the wrong tree. The story of Zeiko Lewis is not a numbers narrative, but a tale of the tape—one that is begging not to be overlooked and screams first-round draft pick.

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Louisville 24, BC 10 ANNABEL STEELE

Asst. Sports Editor I was lucky enough to be present in Raleigh when BC football won its first conference game since Nov. 29, 2014, and I could sense the pure joy and enthusiasm from the team.

The Eagles have ended the drought, and now it feels like a new season with new opportunity.

Even so, Louisville is just too good to pull off a major upset. UVA gave the Cardinals a scare last week, so look for Lamar Jackson and Co. to come in and make a statement with a huge win over an embattled team.

Prediction: Louisville 35, BC 7

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Standing side by side, Emily and Eryn McCoy look almost identical.

Both have long, straight brown hair, blue eyes, and big infectious grins. There are few subtle differences that distinguish the two. Even so, only those who know them best can tell them apart. Whether it is ear piercings, the one-inch gap in height, or a birthmark, these physical traits are the only things that make these two visibly different. But you’d have to look really close.

The “twin thing” is something the McCoys have constantly been asked about. Everyone seems to be fascinated with trying to tell them apart and learning about what it is like to have a twin. After being asked these questions for years, even the McCoys struggle to pinpoint key differences. But there is one thing that easily distinguishes them.

“Emily really just tells it how it is, and she is much more sassy than I am,” Eryn said. “I’m more laid back and quieter than her. I think that is the big difference.”

Even with the distinction in personality, freshmen on the field hockey team have trouble telling the two seniors apart. That’s normal—after all, they look so similar.

But even their head coach at Boston College, Kelly Doton, struggles at times.

“Coach will once in a while get it wrong and then she will be like, ‘Oh, shoot, I knew that!’” Emily said. “But for the most part they are pretty good.”

Born only two minutes apart, Emily and Eryn have been a unit since day one. They grew up in Lancaster, Penn., a big country town that is fondly referred to as the “hotbed of field hockey.” If that was not enough to guarantee this duo would play the sport, their mom, Lisa, made sure her daughters loved it as much as she did. When the girls were 5, Lisa got them a field hockey stick—only one, mind you.

They’d go in the backyard and hit a ball around for fun, taking turns with the stick. The backyard play turned into a family passion, and Lisa soon became the twins’ role model in field hockey.

“She was always the one that

taught us and always had a stick in her hand,” Eryn said. “Even though sometimes I didn’t like her being our coach, she was really helpful for us and beneficial.”

They followed in their mother’s footsteps and played field hockey at Penn Manor High school, where their mom became the team’s assistant coach. With their dad, Jim, who never missed a game, and older brother, Evan, the McCoys became a field hockey family.

Growing up, the McCoy sisters were always playing together, a connection that motivated them to get better. They occasionally tried to help each other and point out places for improvements, then decided it was best to leave that job for the coach. Even though they wanted to help each other, your sister can be the last person you want to hear criticism from. Always having someone to practice with helped the McCoys greatly, but in the competitive hotbed of field hockey, that was not enough.

So to take their game to the next level, the McCoys joined a club team to practice year-round.

The two would travel across the country, to California, Arizona, or Florida, to showcase their game at field hockey festivals. Emily enjoyed them in particular because it was like taking a vacation. That, and the fact that it’s a better place to get a tan than southeast Pennsylvania.

That hard work and fun paid off. In high school, Penn Manor made it to the state championship during the McCoys’ senior year.

The team won sections, leagues, districts, before heading to states.

Though Penn Manor didn’t win at the state level, the McCoys look back on that game with fond memories because it was proof that they left their mark and worked as hard as they could. Lisa cherishes these memories as well, even with the confusing relationship between family member and coach.

“I tried hard to keep the lines of mom and daughter straight when we could, but for the most part it was really fun,” Lisa said.

Because they were so successful together in high school, the McCoys knew they wanted to take their game to the next level, but as a package deal. Going through the

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After Virginia Tech scored in the 85th minute to go up 2-1, Zeiko Lewis had a simple message for Simon Enstrom: “We’re gonna get one back. We’re gonna get one back.”

A minute and eight seconds later, Enstrom and Lewis did just that. After receiving the ball out wide, Enstrom took on his defender, muscled him for position on the endline, and cut a ball back into the box. With a little bit of luck, the ball came to Lewis, who passed it into the far corner to tie the game up.

After two scoreless overtime periods, the Eagles (7-7-3, 3-3-2 Atlantic Coast) beat the Hokies (10-4-4, 3-4-1) on penalties, 5-4, for BC’s first ACC tournament win since 2011.

The Eagles could have been up by at least two goals within the first eight minutes of the game. Both teams started out shaky, and BC had a few golden opportunities off of giveaways in its half.

In the sixth minute, Lewis took over possession near midfield and passed across to a wide-open Ike Normesinu down the left side. Normesinu barreled in on goal but couldn’t beat the keeper,

who parried it out for a corner. A minute later, Lewis again picked up a poor giveaway from the Hokies and had a clean look from the top of the box, but his shot went wide.

After that, Virginia Tech slowly accumulated possession over BC, looking to its best player, Marcelo Acuna, up top. Acuna rivaled Lewis for best player on the pitch, showing off a deft ability to chest the ball in hold-up play and led all plays with seven shots in the game.

Virginia Tech looked most threatening in the air, constantly floating the ball into the box and beating BC in many aerial duels.

While BC held the shot advantage nine to five in the first half and had a few more good chances after the opening 10 minutes, Virginia Tech looked like the better team. In the 44th minute, the Hokies capitalized on their strength in the air and broke through the BC defense to go up 1-0.

Cedric Saladin made the initial save on a shot from point-blank range off of a corner, but the ball popped up to Hokie defender Alessandro Mion, who headed past Saladin to give his team the lead at the break.

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At 5-foot-6, the Bermudan midfielder is a small player from a small country competing for an underrated soccer team. With three goals and five assists, the senior is on pace for his second-worst statistical season as an Eagle. His three straight All-ACC Second Team selections suggest both success and plateaued progress, and Lewis would be fortunate to add yet another Second Team berth this year.

Plus, because college soccer is seldom televised, only those in attendance will actually see the game, leaving others—like MLS scouts—to largely judge performances based on stats alone.

For Lewis, that might not be enough. He played in his last regular season game on Saturday, and the MLS SuperDraft is right around the corner.

There’s only four rounds and 22 teams, which begs the question: Is he one of the 88 best players in college soccer?

The answer is absolutely. Frankly, I’d be offended if he fell past the first round.

Lewis, also known as the “Bermudan Blur,” is consistently the most explosive player on the pitch, even against elite ACC talent. (Editor’s note: Only the writer of this piece calls him this.) The 2013 ACC Freshman of the Year led the conference in assists with 11 in his rookie campaign, thanks to his Steve Nash-like knack for seeing plays before they develop. During the last match of the regular season versus NC State last weekend, he broke the BC record for career assists with his 26th and 27th in a 5-4 overtime win.

Not to mention he has experience scoring at all levels, from the Eagles to the Real Boston Rams of the USL Premier Development League to a World Cup Qualifier with the Bermudan National Team. His soccer IQ is off the charts, and so is his touch. Lewis does things with a soccer ball that I didn’t think were humanly possible.

Against Louisville, Lewis put his effortless creativity on display with a dazzling spin move that beat two Cardinal defenders. Receiving a pass from a teammate in the midfield, Lewis started his spin before the ball even reached him, redirecting the pass into open space with his left foot and turning past his defender before he could realize what was happening. A second later, he used his breakaway speed to toast another defender for good measure.

Sequences like these, which showcase his glaring pro potential, are routine for the 21-year-old. A typical game for Lewis features a few nutmeg passes, Vine-worthy (R.I.P.) jukes, and beautiful balls that set up scoring chances—all of which never appear on a scoresheet.

When he does show up on the scoresheet, it always seems to be in the biggest moments. Last season, he assisted on Simon Enstrom’s gamewinning goal against No. 10 Virginia, as well as both game-winning goals against Vermont and No. 15 USF. Most recently, with his team down 1-0 in the first round of the ACC Tournament against No. 23 Virginia Tech, Lewis netted the equalizer at the end of a clever run through the entire Hokie back line. Then, after Tech regained the lead with a go-ahead goal in the 86th minute, Lewis responded once again with an equalizer to keep the Eagles’ playoff hopes alive.

I am convinced that Lewis would have been an outstanding slot receiver had he taken up the other football as a child. His cuts are sharp and vicious, and he might be quicker than every BC football player other than Jeff Smith. Too often are defenders running toward their own goal to catch up with Lewis. He has a keen ability to recognize where the nearest open space is, bait his defenders closer, and leave them in the dust with one-two

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