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FËDXcc\p Af`ej 9: CXn Xj M`j`k`e^ Gif]\jjfi 9P JFG?@< I<8I;FE E\nj <[`kfi Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, will teach and lecture at Boston College this spring as the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy’s distinguished visiting professor.

O’Malley will teach Leadership and Data Driven Government, which will be offered to graduate students at BC Law School. He will also appear in several panel discussions as part of the Rappaport Distinguished Public Policy Series, which includes forums and conferences to address societal issues with public leaders.

Previous distinguished visitors for the series include Wendy Sherman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and lead negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal, and Donald Verrilli, the Solicitor General of the United States.

The Rappaport Center, which works with the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University, came to BC Law School in 2015. It includes the Public Policy Series and the Rappaport Fellows Program, which funds summer internships for 12 law students from Boston-area colleges and universities.

The Rappaport Center works to inspire lawyers to enter public policy careers and to run for a government office. O’Malley’s experience in government make him a great visitor, Michael Cassidy, the faculty director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, said.

“He’s such a good role model for them because he was the district attorney for Maryland, and then the mayor of Baltimore, and then the governor of Maryland, so he’s had a distinguished legal career of his own,” he said.

For the spring semester, the Rappaport Center is creating panels based around O’Malley’s interests. The topics of these panels will include gun control and the future of the Second Amendment, criminal justice

reform, democracy and distrust, and lessons learned from the 2016 Presidential Election.

O’Malley will either be a panelist or the moderator for these events, Cassidy said.

When the Rappaport Center was thinking about who to invite to be the distinguished professor this year, the U.S. was in the midst of the primaries for the 2016 presidential election. O’Malley was in the race but dropped out shortly thereafter, prompting the Rappaport Center to reach out to him.

O’Malley said that he was busy for the fall semester—he’s currently teaching at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland—but he was available for the spring semester.

“We’re really excited about him coming,” Cassidy said. “He’s absolutely terrific.”

The Rappaport Center has not yet chosen who will fill the position next fall. It is waiting for the presidential election to end because there will be many politicians looking for employment opportunities, Cassidy said.

While the Rappaport Center offers graduate students a unique opportunity to work with prominent public figures, Cassidy said it also offers politicians an opportunity to take a break from working in the government.

“One of the goals of the Rappaport distinguished visitor is not only to give our students a role model of lawyers and public servants but also give lawyers and public servants an opportunity to step out of public service and look at government from an academic perspective for a short time,” he said. “So we’re confident that there will be some really interesting and high-profile people stepping out of government this spring.”

While O’Malley’s classes are offered only to law school students, undergraduates are welcome to attend his panel discussions. One of them may be held in Robsham Theater.

“We think that the Rappaport Center has made really great contributions to the conversations about government on the BC campus, and we hope to get as many people involved as possible,” he said.

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Former presidential candidate Martin O’Malley visited campus for an event last fall.

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This will replace the harmony bowl station that has been at Eagle’s Nest since the beginning of the semester. “[Harmony bowls are] not meeting everybody’s needs,” said Elizabeth Emery, director of Dining Services. “We are hoping this might bring some new customers to that line.”

BC Dining is also rebranding the stations in Eagle’s Nest by creating new signs and renaming them. For example, the “Green It” salad station will be called “Greens.”

BC Dining performed research and conducted surveys to determine what would best improve the harmony bowl station.

“We are very sensitive to people waiting in line,” said Michael Forcier, general manager of Dining in McElroy Commons. “If we had a perfect world, all of the concepts would have the same line. That wasn’t the case. Three of them were equal, but for the harmony bowls, the line wasn’t there.”

Forcier and other members of the dining staff wanted to keep the bowl concept, but it also wanted to address student concerns. One of the concerns BC Dining heard was that students wanted to be able to pick exactly what was in their bowls instead of having to order from a set menu.

Another concern BC Dining sought to address was that students felt like the harmony bowls were not substantial enough. Although the harmony bowls were high in protein and provided 19 ounces of food, students still felt something was lacking, according to Forcier.

He thought that students would like the option of an animal protein to top their bowls, but the option of adding chicken to the top of the bowls, which was implemented a couple weeks earlier, did not change the popularity of the bowls. BC Dining realized that it needed to reinvent the station in order to attract and accommodate more students.

The “Bowls” station will have a three-step process. First, students can choose a protein base of either warm quinoa, warm brown rice, or sauteed kale.

Students can then pick up to three sides, including roasted cauliflower, roasted brussel sprouts, roasted sweet potatoes, roasted corn, or barbecue black beans. Finally, students can top the bowls with fire-roasted chicken breast or a scoop of warm macaroni and cheese and add marinated carrots

and a dressing.

“All the components have been tested and tasted,” Forcier said. “Now it’s just a matter of putting it all together and serving the bowls.”

Forcier hopes that warm brown rice or quinoa will be popular during the colder months.

“We took the harmony bowl, which we think was a great concept, but added components to it that we think are going to make it more popular with our students,” he said.

Additionally, Eagle’s Nest has seen another change recently.

Dining staff at the specialty sandwiches station have begun preparing tuscan chicken sandwiches ahead of time to meet demand.

Forcier said that the sandwich accounts for 80 percent of all sandwich sales from that station.

To improve the efficiency of the line, dining staff now prepares 100 tuscan chicken sandwiches just before Eagle’s Nest opens and places them in to-go containers.

The number of sandwiches sold has remained the same, but the the wait time for a sandwich has significantly decreased, according to Forcier.

BC Dining hopes the “Bowls” station will attract a new crowd of students and will help balance overwhelming lines in Eagle’s Nest.

“We all want this bowl concept to be successful,” Emery said. “But, we need the student feedback to know.”

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But unlike typical core classes, these

programs examine how both disciplines relate to essential current issues, human health, and to each other.

Human Disease is just one of many new courses available to freshmen next semester as part of Boston College’s Core Pilot program. Introduced in 2015, and now in the second year of a threeyear pilot period, these courses are an interdisciplinary way for freshmen to fulfill the University’s core requirements.

“It’s a more focused and more integrated way to approach these questions,” said Charles Keenan, assistant director

of the core curriculum for the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

The University’s core program has existed in its current form since 1991.

Starting in 2012, Keenan said, professors began conversations about ways to renew and revamp the core to make it more engaging and more beneficial to students.

So far, student and faculty feedback to the core pilot programs has been overwhelmingly positive, so much so that the administration has added more classes and seats to respond to student demand. This year, the program of-

fers more classes with 750 total seats, up from 350 in 2015. In the future, Keenan sees the program expanding even more.

The program offers two different types of classes. Enduring Questions courses like Human Disease consist of lectures by faculty members from two different departments centered around an essential question or theme. The same group of 19 students attends each lecture and often examines the same readings through the lenses of two different disciplines.

Meanwhile, Complex Problems

courses examine a contemporary issue in society and are co-taught by faculty from two different disciplines in the same 76-person lecture.

These courses address current issues that are engaging not just to students but to everyone, said Keenan. Examples include a course on the ethics of climate change that covers both philosophy and environmental science, and Performing Politics, co-taught by professors from the theatre and political science departments.

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Student Affairs and the Boston College Civic Engagement Initiative are hosting an Election Day coverage event to give students the opportunity to view and discuss the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. The event will take place in the Cabaret Room on Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs is sponsoring an event titled “Minding the Gap,” about what people can learn about the mental health, happiness, and resilience of college students from generational data.

The event will take place Nov. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Heights Room.

At an International and Exchange Student Perceptions Panel, international and exchange students will discuss their views on various issues in the United States, including the presidential election, race relations, and foreign policy on Tuesday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in Gasson 202.

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Professor Mary Bilder, as well as five other Boston College Law alumni, were named in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s list of 2016’s Top Women of Law. The publication recognized these women for their “tremendous professional strides and great accomplishments in the legal field.”

Bilder is the author of the critically acclaimed book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention, which offers a close reading and analysis of James Madison’s notes from the Constitutional Convention. The book was selected for the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Library of Virginia Literary Award and the George Washington Prize. It has been featured in both The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

Julie Dahlstrom, BC Law ’08, earned recognition for her work in creating the human trafficking clinic at Boston University School of Law and advocating for anti-trafficking legislation in Massachusetts. Kara M. Delfuto, BC Law ’03, played an important part in testifying for a new state law that called for women to have improved access to health care.

Mary T. Marshall, BC Law ’86, has worked on legal matters concerning construction and properties. In the past, she worked on a partnership between a charter school and a family shelter. Lauren Stiller Rikleen, BC Law ’79, is an accomplished author who has been committed to working on issues of social justice and environmental law throughout her career. Barbara Trachtenberg, BC Law ’98, heads a real estate group and participated in the legal dealings for One World Trade Center.

G_`cfjfg_p IXeb\[ Kfg )' Boston College’s philosophy department was ranked 19th in the nation according to Great Value Colleges, a website that provides information on colleges, careers, and resources for students.

The philosophy department was recognized for offering bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. programs, giving students opportunities to specialize through offering concentrations such as medieval philosophy, philosophy of science, and political philosophy. The department was also recognized for hosting a joint M.A. program in philosophy and theology for graduate students and for its outreach and research projects.

The ranking is based on the number and quality of opportunities for students—master’s and doctoral degrees, research, internships, and scholarships. The survey also factored in awards and recognition related to philosophy, returns on investment, philosophy-affiliated institutes on campus, and related student organizations. Data for considered factors was gathered from the National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator database, Payscale.com, and each school’s website.

Among the top 20 are Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the University of Notre Dame.

There is an overwhelming stigma that prison is an ordinary part of society, when in reality the public really has no idea what is going on inside of them, said Judith Resnik, the Arthur Liman professor of law at Yale Law School.

In her talk on Thursday, Nov. 3 in the Barat House on Newton Campus, Resnik brought attention to the growing issues around corporal punishment within prisons and pushed fields of thought toward a more progressive and just criminal justice system. The event was sponsored by the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy.

She began with the Eighth Amendment , which states , “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” This amendment in itself allows punishment but also suggests that there is some type of limit.

There needs to be some type of baseline, and the government needs to work with the prisons to figure out how bad is bad enough, Resnik said.

“Punishment has some form of boundaries,” she said.

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Judish Resnik, a law professor at Yale University, spoke about the injustice of corporal punishment in the prison system. with the outside world.

There have been, however, increasingly harsh and elongated punishments associated with incarceration, as demonstrated by the Wilkinson v. Austin case.

Resnik revealed the conditions within Ohio’s Supermax facility, the subject of Wilkinson v.

Austin. Nearly every aspect of a prisoner’s life is monitored.

Prisoners typically spend at least 23 hours in their cells each day. A light is on 24/7, and punishment is dealt to those who attempt to shield their eyes from it while they sleep. Meals are served in their solitary cells, and communication and visitation rights are extremely limited. This type of extreme confinement is no anomaly and can be found in prisons across the country. As a result, incarceration has become synonymous with solitary confinement.

Resnik also said that prisons are scraping for funds. As a result, there has been a large increase in prison populations.

Over 1.2 milion people are in prison, not including jails, according to Resnik.

This influx has resulted in double-celling and overcrowding. The federal government has taken the position that prisoners cannot expect to be free of discomfort and choose to leave it to the prison administrators to solve the issue. Leaving so many troublesome prisoners together in such close proximity, however, often leads to prison violence and, in turn, more corporal punishment.

Prison health services are also lacking. Resnik said that health services are so backed up that mental patients are often caged waiting for a psychologist, often for up to a day, without a

bathroom.

Even more concerning to Resnik was the attitude that the federal government has toward this issue. It adopts a hands-off approach, she said, and claims that it handles sentencing rather than prison administration.

Resnik ended her talk by broaching the issue of voting rights for prisoners, which is the topic of Hisrt vs. the United Kingdom. The court ruled that it is not constitutional to take voting rights from prisoners.

Resnik believes that the more people talk about issues such as voting rights for prisoners, the more they will see prisoners as people. She hopes that these people will then join her in the fight for change.

“Prison is not only implementation, but [its] own intrinsic punishment system,” Resnik said.

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By Gibran Caroline Boyce For The Heights A week before the United States presidential election, the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy held a panel on an issue that has been heavily addressed this campaign season: terrorism.

On Nov. 4, the Center hosted a discussion titled “Terrorism: Threats and Responses.” Peter Krause, a political science professor, moderated the panel, which was composed of Mia Bloom, a professor at Georgia State, former Boston police commissioner Edward F. Davis, and Kurt Schwartz, director of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.

Krause began the panel by asking Bloom what the effects would be if ISIS lost territories like Mosul and Raqqa. Bloom referenced her research into the social media chatrooms of ISIS supporters.

“When ISIS is winning, their chat rooms are talking about ‘we’re making orange soda, pizzas,’ etc. showing shelves stocked

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with food,” Bloom said. “When losing, they will say they’re winning. In real time, we’re seeing a shrinking of ISIS.” Bloom said that ISIS itself consists of approximately 35,000 people.

Krause then asked Davis how he sees the threats of ISIS changing over the next couple of years. Davis spoke about U.S. strides in crime control after Sept. 11. After the terrorist attack, the U.S. responded again by passing bills, including the Patriot Act. Davis also commented on the Boston Marathon bombing and said that he does not believe anyone could have built the bombs with just instructions from the internet, as the media reported. “ Th e te r ro r i s t b ro th e r s Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev] had to have had real, hands-on training,” Davis said. “There are a small numb er of p e ople who are radicalizing things and getting people to do things just by a remote control.”

Schwartz noted the importance of first understanding the nature of terrorist organizations’ threats.

“The nature of the terrorist threat has become complex,” Schwartz said. “When you’re reading the news, what exactly are we reading? We’re not necessarily aware of an immediate threat.”

Bloom agreed with Davis that the U.S. is not always aware of an immediate threat. She also talked about how the media portrays the constant danger of terrorist attacks when, in reality, a person is more likely to die in a bathtub.

“It leaves us with a high degree of threat perception and we are constantly on edge,” Bloom said.

One of the final questions Krause asked the panelists concerned the governmental efforts in the area and the need for improvement.

Bloom explained that community engagements have been at the heart of prevention.

“The more knowledge kids

have about the Islamic faith, the less susceptible they are to the radicalization of Islam,” Bloom said. “We should not talk less or learn less about Islam. The more we know as Americans, the more we can fight radicalization and the more capable communities are of fighting it.”

She talked about the need for diversity within the police force to have it accurately represent the public, which will make it a more trusted presence.

Bloom closed out the panel by warning the audience that not every person who claims to be with ISIS is actually affiliated with the organization.

“Just because someone says they are with ISIS does not make it true,” she said. “ISIS is more than happy to take credit for any bad things that happen. Attacks in Belgium, France, Syria, etc., versus a guy taking a gun into a nightclub and saying ‘I am with ISIS’ is not the same authenticity. We cannot keep assuming every single attack and someone randomly saying ‘I’m with ISIS’ is true.”

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“They really appreciate the inte- and to produc creative performances gration across two different disci- in the theatre lab.

Administrators and professors deplines and…learning how different signing these subjects approach courses remain these questions highly aware that in different ways, they are teaching he said. “It’s a difa whole people, ferent way of doing Keenan said. core.”

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“You know, I don’t know how many walks, and visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. students would think they were going to In addition, Complex Problems take a theater course this year,” Keenan classes include lab sections that focus said, referring to Can Creativity Save the on active learning, hands-on projects, World? “It’s been really exciting to see and problem solving. For example, a how creative the faculty can be and how class last semester called Can Creativity much students seem to enjoy it and how Save the World?, co-taught by profes- engaged they are in classes they might sors from the economics and theatre not normally take.”

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Roberto Gonzales, a sociologist and assistant professor of education at Harvard University, characterized the transition of young, undocumented immigrants from childhood to adulthood as traumatic and disorienting in his talk Thursday at Boston College.

Gonzales discussed his latest book, Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, in which he draws upon the 12 years he spent researching the lives of 150 undocumented young people who, before they were 12 years old, migrated to Los Angeles from Mexico with their families.

The event, which shared the same title as his book, was sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and was the third installment of the Center’s four-part “After Obama: What is the Future of our ‘Nation of Immigrants’?” conversation series.

Gonzales said that his study was intended to try to answer a critical question: What happens to undocumented immigrant children as they grow up and make the transition to adulthood? Hundreds of lengthy interviews with his respondents helped him discover how larger processes played out in the individual lives of undocumented children as they grew up, he said.

The exact number of undocumented im-

migrants in the United States is disputed, but the best available data put the figure at around 11 million, 2 million of whom came to America as children, according to Gonzales.

While their parents are largely living in the shadows, undocumented children essentially live American lives, he said.

In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Doe that undocumented children could not be denied public education. This decision now allows over 65,000 undocumented youth to graduate from public high schools across America each year, Gonzales said. Immersed in American culture, most youth become fluent in English, while their Spanish withers, he said.

Largely unaware of their illegal status, they spend their days among citizen children in school, form relationships with their peers, and internalize beliefs about democracy, meritocracy, and the American Dream. But every year that they moved farther into American culture, they moved closer to eventually reentering their parents’ reality, he said.

As their citizen peers are experiencing rites of passage such as getting drivers licenses, applying for summer jobs, and preparing for college, undocumented young people are forced to face a jarring reality—that they, and their parents, are living in the U.S. illegally, he said.

After graduating high school, undocumented youth find themselves hitting dead

ends, as they are unable to drive a car, gain employment, or receive aid for college. As of 2012, none of the 150 young people that Gonzales followed was on a career path that matched their educational background.

Gonzales spoke of the idea of the “master status,” a sociological concept that describes a particular trait that overwhelms, or trumps, other traits, such as personal achievements, political or religious beliefs, gender, or other identities.

For the young people he spoke to, their illegal status was their defining characteristic.

No matter what they achieved, or how hard they studied, these young Americans were always burdened by this “lead weight.”

Undocumented youth are forced to watch their citizen peers move forward with all of the opportunities that they believed they would one day have. They must wrestle with the realization that they now face the same narrowly circumscribed range of options that their parents faced, as they move from somewhat protected to unprotected status, according to Gonzales. For undocumented youth, their transition to adulthood represents a transition to illegality, and their hopes of an American Dream fade as they enter a nightmarish future.

“The dawning of adolescence brings a growing awareness of their status and what this identity means for them,” Gonzales said.

“It’s been really exciting to see how creative the faculty can be and how much students seem to enjoy it and how engaged they are in classes they might not normally take.É

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“I only know how to do one thing, and that is be an English teacher,” she said, addressing the tactics she uses to teach about bioethics.

Garland-Thomson is trying to develop a disability bioethics curriculum that uses the skills, methods, perceptions, and premises of literature and cultural studies to bring ideas

and knowledge forward in bioethics.

The talk was part of the Park Street Speaker Series, a series established last year that aims to engage students by exploring values and ethics related to health care practices. The event was sponsored by the Park Street Corporation and Boston College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts.

Garland-Thomson began her talk by posing a question to the audience.

“What kind of world might we want to build and inhabit together?” she asked.

In response to this question, GarlandThomson described her theory of “conserving disability.” Disability, Garland-Thomson said, provides human communities with opportunities for expression, communication, resourcefulness, and relationship.

Because disability is a natural facet of the human condition, Garland-Thomson argues, we should recognize what we gain from disability and what we lose when disability is

eliminated from our shared world. Her goal for the talk was to bring light to the cultural and material advantages that disability offers.

Disability conservation promotes human biodiversity.

Garland-Thomson described the elements of what she called a “habitable shared world” for people with disabilities. She argued that we need to design environments that anticipate a spectrum of various disabilities to enhance everyone’s well-being and performance. She expressed the need for disability-friendly public spaces and communication tools to make the world more accessible for those with disabilities.

“For humans to thrive, we need to be ensconced in an environment that sustains the particular form, function, and needs of our bodies,” Garland-Thomson said.

She explained how politics plays a role in her idea of a “habitable shared world.” This includes the goal to provide equal access to

open and integrated institutions such as the workplace, the marketplace, and the media.

It also includes access to public institutions like schools, health care centers, archives, and governmental spaces.

“An accessible, sustainable environment creates social diversity and supports the civil and human rights based on understandings of disability,” Garland-Thomson said.

She then led a guided reading, using her literary background to show how narratives may humanize a disabled experience.

Garland-Thomson presented a reading of a New York Times Magazine article from 2003 titled “Unspeakable Conversations” by Harriet McBryde Johnson, an advocate for the disabled. McBryde Johnson is disabled and works as a disability rights lawyer.

McBryde Johnson’s story is a personal narrative that shows what it is like to live as a disabled person in today’s world. McBryde Johnson’s narrative describes two encounters

with Princeton University’s Peter Singer, a utilitarian philosopher and bioethicist whose views on bioethics she strongly opposes.

McBryde Johnson uses literary devices and techniques to humanize the disabled experience and contradict Singer’s work. She begins with a question and an allusion to Singer’s utilitarian philosophy.

“Should I have been killed at birth?” McBryde Johnson wrote.

McBryde Johnson’s story is about issues of humanity, like infants who were disabled at birth, and is told through her unique point of view. She presents herself as a disabled person with close ties to family and meaningful ties with the world.

Garland-Thompson concluded that sharing and analyzing McBryde Johnson’s story has an important purpose.

“It provides for us a model of a habitable world, a world that wants me in it,” GarlandThomson said.

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Ntigurirwa is currently the artist in residence at Arts Connect International, an organization committed to promoting social justice and cultural awareness through artists and their work. He is an advocate for reconciliation and forgiveness in Rwanda, and seeks to promote peace through his life and work. The talk was sponsored by the AHANA Leadership Council, the African and African Diaspora Studies Program, and the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

The genocide in Rwanda was perpetrated by the ethnic majority Hutus against the smaller minority of Tutsis. Ntigurirwa is against calling them ‘ethnic groups,’ however.

“These are racist and polluted identities,” he said.

In precolonial Rwanda, ‘Hutu’ and ‘Tutsi’ were determined by the number of cows a person owned, which allowed people to fluctuate between the two groups.

This original definition was distorted by Belgian colonists, who were given control of Rwanda from Germany after their defeat in World War I. The Belgians sought to divide the population to rule them more easily.

“They started hypothesizing these identities,” Ntigurirwa said. “They started defining Hutus and Tutsis as they wanted.”

The Belgians defined the Tutsis as a more “white-like” group that migrated from North Africa, and Hutus as Rwanda’s ancestral population. Height and the length of the nose were often used to determine one’s placement, and Belgians gave the Tutsis special privileges in return for help ruling the country.

In the 1950s, well-educated Tutsis began to question Belgian rule. In response to this, the Belgians began to speak poorly of the Tutsis. “‘You see these people have been oppressing you. You need to take of your country, because these people are aliens. … You need to take control of your country. Look at what they have been doing,’” Ntigurirwa said, imitating the Belgians speaking to the Tusis.

In 1959, Hutu-Tutsi violence began, and with independence in 1962 a Hutu government highly discriminatory toward the Tutsi was set up, causing many to leave the country.

The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed of Tutsi exiles, invaded the country and initiated the Rwandan Civil War in 1990. Anti-Tutsi sentiment greatly increased. Many Hutus began preparing for a conflict, and Ntigurirwa described young people learning to kill with machetes on the banana plantations.

In 1993, a peace agreement was signed in Tanzania. A military chief of staff in Rwanda, however, didn’t agree. He went back to Rwanda to prepare the Tutsis for “apocalypse.”

On April 6, 1994, the president of Uganda’s

was killed.

“I clearly remember when it happened .…

That evening when the President’s plane was shot down, genocide started happening the same night,” Ntigurirwa said.

Ntigurirwa then described the next morning, when a neighbor searched for his family to kill them, marking the beginning of a long struggle of hiding and surviving.

“You can’t really think of what happened at the age of 7, spending nights by myself, knowing that if I speak I will die,” he said.

His own father was killed near where he was hidden. He shared the story of how, at one point, he and his brother hid feet away from men reading their names out loud from a list of Tutsis to be killed. Ntigurirwa was forced to drink water polluted with blood from bodies to avoid dying of dehydration, and had to hide in the mass graves to avoid discovery.

“You do anything, but you also can’t do enough to survive,” he said.

Ntigurirwa spoke of the toll on the country during the roughly 100-day genocide, a death figure no one will ever know for sure.

“The numbers matter, but what happened matters more than numbers,” Ntigurirwa said. “More than [a] million people died from the government of Rwanda’s statistics … The whole country was like a mass grave.”

He spoke about his disappointment with the rest of the world for not trying to stop the genocide.

“The chiefs of powerful countries, presidents, ministers, U.N. officials, instead of saying, ‘Let’s do something,’ they were discussing

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Hyppolite Ntigurirwa talked about the 100-day genocide and how it affected him and his family. if they can call or if they can let [the] media use the word genocide as something that is happening in Rwanda,” Ntigurirwa said.

The genocide finally ended when the Rwandan Patriotic Front captured Kigali, causing Hutus to flee to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to form their own rebel group.

Still, Ntigurirwa and other Rwandans endured attacks for years after the genocide was over.

A new government was set up, led by the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Courts were created to sentence the perpetrators of the genocide, as well as to provide opportunities for them to confess and ask forgiveness of their victims’ families. Ntigurirwa and his family choose to forgive the people who had killed his father,

uncles, and cousins.

“Forgiving was not just as easy as I’m saying … and it’s never easy to forgive, but I forgave these people because I want to show peace is possible,” he said.

Years later, Ntigurirwa studied sociology, which helped him better understand what had happened to him. He came to realize that ethnicity was not the cause of the killings.

Rather, it was the hate that people had learned all of their lives.

“Rwanda has [a] unique story of tragedy,” he said. “Genocide was horrible. But, it has also [a] unique story that we can learn from, that we can change, that we can make the world a better place.”

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year. The goal is to have [the freshmen] take the conversation outside our group of 31 kids.”

The group is taking on pressing issues Boston College prides itself on teaching students how to think, and on its ability to by bringing in groups like FACES—a race live out the mission of a liberal arts college, and privilege education organization on namely, to challenge its students to discern campus—to speak to ULA members.

“I think it’s a good characteristic of any truths for themselves rather than accept them from society. One campus group in BC student to be skeptical,” Petrella said. particular is catalyzing discussions on race, “We try to foster a culture of advocacy.” gender, and sexuality in an attempt to make The group also brings in professors like BC’s campus more inclusive for all.

Kerry Cronin, who has given her famous The Undergraduate Government of hookup culture talk to the students in the Boston College (UGBC) Leadership Acad- past. The aim of bringing these speakers in emy (ULA) is entering its fourth year of is to give ULA members new worldviews mentoring freshmen who are interested in and to create a well-rounded program. joining UGBC. Zach DuBoulay, co-direcThe program changes slightly every tor of ULA and MCAS ’17, said the group year, though, depending on who the sewas formed in 2013 by combining the AH- nior leaders are. But every year, it serves ANA Leaderas an outlet for ship Academy, many students the Mentoring who want to get Leadership involved and exProgram, and plore conversaa leadership tions that can be program for challenging. t h e G L B TQ “I was inLeadership volved in student Council. government in ULA aims high school, and to ease the that was very re—Lynn Petrella, MCAS ’17 transition into warding to me,” college for Pe t rell a s a i d . freshmen, and to also show them the “Coming [to BC], the first month I felt ropes of student government at BC. The like I was missing something, like missing program uses a three-pillar structure for a part of my identity. I ended up finding the mentoring of its participants, accord- that in ULA.” ing to Lynn Petrella, co-director of ULA The group, however is not comprised of and MCAS ’17. only students who were involved in student The system aims to identify who one is government in high school. as a person, who one is as a leader, and how “It’s definitely a mix,” DuBoulay said, one can use his or her skills to benefit the although the program attracts the type of BC community. As members discover their students who jump at the opportunity to interests and talents, they are then paired join a program that advertises itself as a with mentors who are involved in the area student government leadership program. of policy that suits them best.

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Club cycling competes in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (ECCC), which spans from Delaware to Maine. The ECCC includes over 1,000 student-athletes from 70 schools who compete in a variety of racing events throughout the year.

BC’s team is completely self-coached, led

by Ben Egan, MCAS ’17. One of the team’s most skilled cyclists, Egan radiates a positive, resilient attitude that helps foster success among the cyclists.

“My greatest fear is turning cycling into a chore,” Egan said. “Cycling is very strategic, but it’s also meant to be fun.”

The fun starts with those countercultural spin classes. Club cycling’s spin classes are designed to be chatty—a far cry from the stereotypical SoulCycle class, in which an oath of silence, in the name of sweat, is taken prior to entry. The open class is an opportunity for people to get to know and join the team.

Club cycling’s spin classes are intended to help

bikers translate from stationary biking inside the Plex to road racing in the brisk outdoors characteristic of New England’s fall and spring weather.

At the collegiate level, cycling is divided into two seasons. Mountain biking, composed of four types of races, takes place in the fall.

Road racing, an entirely different set of four races, takes place during the spring.

Women and men compete on the same courses, but events are separated by gender.

At BC, male and female athletes train together, support one another, and ride the same courses. Of all the events, the criterium—a race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit—is the fastest and most strategic.

“Criterium is the NASCAR of cycling,” Egan said. “American riders love it.”

Road races are typically composed of 80 cyclists, with approximately four to five members from each team in a given race.

Moreover, team members are divided into five race classes, ranked by level of difficulty from A to E. The primary strategy of many teams is to slow opposing racers down, frustrating any and all efforts to get ahead.

With fierce strategies come the politics of competition.

“The University of Vermont has a huge team,” Egan said. “Its team usually sends two racers ahead, then leaves two behind to stay in front of all the other riders, cutting them off and slowing them down.”

Often, small teams form alliances with

other small teams in an effort to catch up with and foil large teams like UVM’s.

In races like these, a team’s sole goal is to get its last racer in the back—presumably the best—to win the entire race. As a group of cyclists works together, each rider uses 40 percent less energy than the person in front of them. Essentially, wind resistance is cut down.

This interplay of alliance, strategy, and competitive spirit is perfect for the cohort of political science majors that comprise much of BCCC. “Our sport is very political and chatty,” Egan said.

But beyond the banter, cycling can be risky.

This past summer, during a women’s road race at the Rio Olympics, cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten was injured in a serious crash, suffering a severe concussion and three fractures in her lower back.

During any given race, anywhere from 60 to 80 riders will be speeding downhill at 45 m.p.h.

If a rider leading the pack hits a turn or bump too fast or with too much force, he and about 40 riders behind him will be taken down in a crash, according to Egan.

“In cycling, there are always injuries, often at least one per competition weekend,” Egan said. “It’s part of the sport. Luckily, we haven’t had any serious accidents so far. But there’s a risk and it’s important to know that.”

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BY KAYLA FERNANDO You can eat one for lunch, dinner, and Late Night, and it won’t kill you—at least, not right away. A lifesaver for Boston College students slogging through all-nighters and a meal strictly meant to be enjoyed in moderation by older alumni, the Screaming Eagle has become an iconic BC meal that encompasses the live-fast, die-young glory days of college in a submarine sandwich.

The origin of the Screaming Eagle is almost mythical in nature. From its debut 12 years ago at the steak & cheese station, the sandwich has since become something of a rite of passage for all BC students, receiving the blessing of other icons such as BC’s own Doug Flutie and New York Times food critic Sam Sifton.

Almost 80,000 sandwiches are made to order each year, with 1000 pounds of steak and chicken cooked each week.

Students debate what makes the Screaming Eagle—from the freshly baked bread to the melted American cheese to the onion, pepper, broccoli, and mushroom toppings—what it is. There is general consensus, however, that your choice of sauce is vital, with the most popular being a combination of chipotle mayonnaise and barbeque sauce.

With the Screaming Eagle’s popularity come those intent on improving the sandwich and the way it’s made.

Several BC Dining Test Kitchens have tried to introduce new sauces, turkey, and pastrami to liven up the sandwich, but none seem to have the same impact as the original recipe, according to Derrick Cripps, general manager of Corcoran

Commons.

Several students in the Carroll School of Management have also proposed ways to produce the sandwich more efficiently to meet popular demand, but BC Dining prides itself on the homemade quality of the Screaming Eagle.

“We make it to order, so speeding up the process would require compromises in the quality of the sandwich,” Cripps said.

“The way the process works now limits the throughput, but it’s still custom-made, which is very important to us.”

While many were first introduced to the Screaming Eagle the first time they set foot on campus as freshmen, I had somehow managed to evade it until my junior year. By that point, I had almost given up on getting a Screaming Eagle, figuring that it was too late in my BC career to get one and risk being that person who doesn’t

know how to order.

Naturally, I brought my friends for the ride, all survivors of the notoriously long wait time on the steak & cheese line and with several Screaming Eagles under their belts, to watch me take my first bite.

With their recommendations, I decided to keep it simple: a regular steak sandwich topped with a pinch each of mushrooms, broccoli, and onions—and of course, the beloved chipotle-barbeque sauce combo.

After a half hour of being serenaded by ’80s love ballads by the speakers right above my head, I cradled my savory smelling, mightily overflowing, deli paperwrapped prize in my slightly singed hands.

And with that first fiery bite, the steak & cheese line got one person longer.

I realized that once you start eating, you can’t stop. The sandwich only seemed

to get better as I worked my way toward the middle, where the optimal ratio of bread, meat, topping, and sauce was attained. Before I knew it, I had eaten an entire Screaming Eagle in one sitting, an impressive feat for someone who stands at an impressive height of 5 feet.

After that first rendezvous, I made plans for the next time I could safely beat the Screaming Eagle without significantly increasing my risk of cardiac disease.

And as for the best way to eat the sandwich for the best culinary experience?

Cripps suggests letting the sandwich sit in its wrapping for a few minutes to let the bread soak up the sauce.

Thank me later.

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With the past eight years in mind and the next four years to look toward, one important question comes to mind: how do race and gender factor into the 2016 presidential election?

I met with Marilynn Johnson, a professor in the history department, to take a look at the way these two controversial candidates are changing the way we look at the election.

There has been somewhat of a feminist revolution occurring more recently as a result of the election, Johnson said. It is expected that with a female candidate likely on the way to the White House, she would serve as a catalyst for this new feminist revolution.

But according to Johnson, many argue that it is not Hillary Clinton serving as the catalyst, but Donald Trump.

“It has less to do with Hillary than it does

with Trump,” Johnson said. “I know a lot of women my age and older that feel strongly about supporting Hillary because she is the first woman nominee and she is very experienced. However, it seems as though Trump’s rhetoric has made gender an important issue in the election.”

The rhetoric Trump has used throughout his campaign has been exceedingly controversial and divisive. From referring to Latinos as “bad hombres” to calling Clinton a “nasty woman” in the third presidential debate last month, Trump has received significant backlash from the public for his comments.

Trump’s comments about minorities, immigrants, and women are going to play a huge role in the election, especially when it comes to voters in these demographics. The rhetoric in the campaign has caused greater polarization in American politics than ever before.

“America has been polarized for quite a while, going back to the Reagan administration,” Johnson said. “It’s become so ugly and visceral in this election with the personal attacks, which makes the polarization that much more dangerous. Many people are questioning the whole system and whether or not you can accept the results. People not having much faith in the process is something new. The whole level of political debate has been pulled into the gutter.”

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Marilynn Johnson talks about how the contrasting characters of Clinton and Trump have brought social issues into the national spotlight.

Johnson noted that the response to the sexual harassment allegations against Trump are more pronounced than they have been in the past, as women are now more responsive and critical of issues of sexual assault.

Trump’s rise in politics and the rhetoric he has used have made it clear to many people that women and minorities still face a level of systemic gender and racial inequality that was arguably more surreptitious before, according to Johnson.

She also emphasized the importance of the effect that Trump has had on the Republican Party, essentially splitting it between pro- and anti-Trump camps.

“The major question of whether or not they will be able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again remains,” Johnson said.

When the Democratic nomination came down to either Clinton or Senator Bernie Sanders, it seemed as though younger women were more inclined to vote for Sanders. Why

wouldn’t more young women and feminists want to immediately support the first woman president?

“Those ‘firsts’ aren’t important, because we can have a very good black president, but those race relations aren’t going to be resolved overnight,” Johnson said. “It’s the same with women. No matter how prominent your role is, systemic or inherent gender inequality is not something that can be changed overnight.”

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Have you ever wanted to sell a print from Instagram without any cost or risk? At this year’s most recent 2016 Elevator Pitch competition, the judges and audience felt that the solution, a platform by the name of “Darkroom,” had the potential to satisfy this urge. It took just a 60-second pitch to convince these judges, a panel of entrepreneurs and professionals with experience in entrepreneurship, that Darkroom could really work.

Darkroom is a web-based platform designed so anyone can sell his or her prints in a similar way to an elite photographer, Darkroom was envisioned by Theo-

dore Chapman, CSOM ’17, who came from Minnesota to Boston College thinking he would study economics and finance and move into the banking world after college. After some PULSEinitiated meditation, however, Chapman realized his true passion didn’t lie in banking, but instead in entrepreneurship.

Chapman took his drive for creation to one of his favorite social media apps: Instagram. He saw a problem with how many photographers were using Instagram as a portfolio for their work but couldn’t distinguish themselves from other users, and couldn’t find others who used the app in a similar way. Chapman found a solution to this problem in pstcrd, which he pitched at the Boston College Venture Competition.

“Pstcrd was a discovery and exposure platform for Instagram,” Chapman said of his early idea. “I built out a pretty big network of photographers that were using Instagram as their ‘portfolio’ of sorts, and that’s where I discovered this common pain-point amongst them.”

The thing that connected them all was their desire to monetize their passion–one of the most common ways they try to make money is through selling prints, yet often they lack the resources and money, or simply can’t figure out the best avenue for it.

At some point last spring as the pstcrd project was winding down, Chapman explained, a daydream about this problem during class yielded the new Darkroom business model.

Chapman talked through the idea

of Darkroom with a variety of people over the summer, but it wasn’t until he pitched the idea to his roommate Anders Bill, MCAS ‘17, that he realized the possibilities of the project. Bill used the idea for his semester-long project in his Entrepreneurial Marketing class, and carrying on that momentum, Chapman has made a team with Bill and three of his classmates to create the startup platform.

Chapman had previously competed in the BC Venture Capitalist Competition as well as the Start @ Shea Accelerator using pstcrd, so the Elevator Pitch competition was the natural progression to test the reception of Darkroom.

“Prep for the competition was Anders and myself refining the 60-second pitch,” Chapman said. “Trying to figure

out what the most concise way was to describe both the problem and solution for the judges and audience in such a short time period.”

Though it was a short period of time, the judges and audience at the competition found Chapman’s idea worthy of both the Best Overall Pitch and Crowd Favorite awards.

With the win, Darkroom was presented $500 to expand the company.

Chapman plans to use the money in developing a web app once enough data has been collected from the beta version that is being tested at BC. “The best-case scenario is absolutely to turn Darkroom into a viable business that I can continue to work on throughout the school year and beyond,” Chapman said.

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“Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.”

Former governor of Mar yland and Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley is coming to Boston College this spring as the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy’s distinguished visiting professor.

He will teach Leadership and DataDriven Government at BC Law School, while also participating in the Rappaport Distinguished Public Policy Series, which involves panel discussions, forums, and conferences meant to address policy issues and politics in society, while also encouraging law students to pursue careers in politics and policy development.

O’Malley will serve as a moderator and a panelist during these events, which will revolve around the issues and concerns he has dealt with and attempted to rectify throughout his career, such as gun control, criminal justice reform, democracy and distrust, and lessons learned from the 2016 presidential election.

O’Malley, who spoke at BC last year, is an impressive speaker and visiting professor whose public image was recently boosted by his presidential run, despite its brevity.

As Michael Cassidy, the faculty director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, said, “He’s such a good role model for them because he was the district attorney for Maryland, and then the mayor of Baltimore, and then the governor of Maryland, so he’s had a distinguished legal career of his own.”

Br ing ing in a high- prof ile public figure like O’Malley is an impressive achievement by the Rappaport Center and B C L aw, esp e cially consider ing that O’Malley is not an alumnus who could be drawn to the position through

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those direct connections. He presents an exciting perspective to law students, as well as those interested in attending his panel discussions. The Rappaport Center and BC Law will hopefully continue to attract public figures with direct experience in state governance and the national stage.

The plan for one of the panel discussions is also to bring a prominent Republican to campus.

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Securing O’Malley as a visiting professor will likely incur prestige upon the Law School.

It also benefits the entire campus by having O’Malley participate in talks and panels that any student can attend.

This was a great achievement by those involved and will hopefully lead to other interesting political figures coming to BC in the future.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A Response to “A Defense of Donald Trump”

To all, I remember reading an article in The Heights a while back titled “A Defense of Donald Trump.” That author argued (among other things) that people should vote on principle—liberals for Clinton, and conservatives for Trump. I find this thinking narrow-minded and irresponsible. Election day is nearly upon us, and I urge everyone to vote, even if it is for Trump. But don’t vote to follow a party line. Don’t blindly follow what the RNC or DNC say. Instead, vote on where the candidates stand. Vote on what matters to you. Vote on the future of our country and the world over.

The years ahead will shape the United States and the world for decades to come. At home, we as voters and citizens must decide the future direction of American policy on immigration, gun control, police brutality and institutional racism, health care, the national debt, and drug policy, among dozens of others. Abroad, the U.S. must decide how it will interact with the international community on collective security issues, the doctrine of liberal hegemony, cyber warfare, counter-terrorism efforts, climate change, nuclear proliferation, and trade agreements.

Any one of these issues affects millions of people. Together, they will define the 21st century. Yet the author of “A Defense of Donald Trump” argues that voters should support a candidate based not on these solemn challenges facing the world, but on the basis that “nearly all conservative Republicans voted for the Republican nominee in the past, and should do the same now.”

In saying this, the author tells his audience to vote against their consciences. He tells them not to analyze the positions of Trump and Clinton. Perhaps most egregiously, he tells them for whom to vote with nary a mention of either candidate’s policy proposals.

This has not been an election about the issues. Well, perhaps that’s a poor way of wording it. This has been an election not about the campaign issues, but about our issues with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It’s been an election about who is worse, who is less corrupt, who is less morally bankrupt. In such a political environment as this, it becomes even more important to see through the fog of war and rationalize one’s choice based on their ideas and plans. Yes, a candidate’s character matters, but it should not be the only thing one sees.

I don’t agree with Trump. I don’t love Clinton. But in deciding who to vote for in my first ever presidential election, I tried my best to ignore the scandals, the controversy, and the madness. What does Trump want to do regarding gun control laws? (Relax them.) What’s Clinton’s stance on the Iran nuclear deal? (Keep it.) Forget emails. Forget grabbing women by the p***y and calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. What will they do?

In this, I decided to support Hillary Clinton. I don’t expect everyone to reach this conclusion. But please, reach your own conclusion.

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Since 2015, Boston College freshmen have been able to take interdisciplinary courses to fulfill two core requirements in one six-credit class.

Similar to the Perspectives program, these interdisciplinar y offerings, currently in the second year of a three-year pilot program, bring together two departments and explore the intersectionality of the disciplines.

The classes include multiple different approaches to the two disciplines, including reflection sessions, guest speakers, film projects, and museum visits.

As BC reworks the core to create the most effective curriculum possible, these interdisciplinar y programs are useful tools and offer freshmen worthwhile opportunities.

The program was immensely popular last year and, as a result, the number of classes is being expanded dramatically this year. While there were only 350 open spots last year, there will be 750 this year.

The spots filled quickly last year and the growth reflects that.

This expansion marks a positive step for the program, which remains a creative approach to the core.

Often, students view the core as a chore, classes that must be taken to get to classes that really interest the student.

The interdisciplinary program is a good way to offer students options for completing their core, while also encouraging the exploration of multiple disciplines.

Students who might not be able to take a class in one field due to core restrictions are presented with options to integrate different fields.

The intersectional classes make the core more attractive, a benefit for the school, considering the comparative inflexibility of the program as it stands.

Freshmen are given the opportunity to expand their connections and understanding in a way that normal core classes don’t offer.

One potential problem could arise if a student chooses both Perspectives and an interdisciplinar y course—meaning that his or her GPA is extremely dependent on these courses, which count as six credits.

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

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

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Depending on feedback after the pilot program is completed, the classes might be expanded to include offerings for sophomores or maybe a senior capstone class.

It is important, however, that these offerings not be rushed and that feedback is taken into account.

The slow unveiling of the program allows it to be better developed through repeated trials so that if it is ever brought to other grades, it will be of the same high quality.

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Everyone has. And the best step to accomplishing this is to go out and get yourself a nice, tan work jacket.

Walking around campus with your backpack on, you’ll look like you have literally no idea where you are. Because this is a college campus. And you’re dressed like a farmer. But who cares? Work jackets are amazing.

USING THE PHRASE “THE LAST PALE LIGHT IN THE WEST” - When you’re wearing your tan work jacket, smoking a cheroot and gazing into the distance, people might pass by and ask you if you need any help getting home. Ignore their concerns. Just look out to the horizon, affect a gravely, vaguely Southern accent, and say “There’s a light yet to be found / The last pale light in the West.” Then tuck your hands in your pockets and walk on into the fiery sunset.

THE PRICE OF FAME - As an arbiter of taste and fashion at Boston College, I’m often approached by strange, usually somewhat smelly people who ask me to write about various failings they see at BC. This happened just the other day as I crossed Main Campus at roughly 4:23 on a Thursday morning. “Nice job using second person voice, you egotistical piece of crap,” someone yelled from Fulton. “Why don’t you say it to my face?” I yelled back. He then walked out of Fulton and said it directly to my face. “Not even first person plural,” he said.

“You disgust me.” Struggling to maintain eye contact, I hunched my shoulders and shuffled away.

That was when large oysters began to rain down on my head. Ducking for cover, I turned and saw an elderly woman with a bucket full of oysters joyfully tossing them at me. “This confuses me,” I said, as a slimy, recently shelled oyster struck my nose. “ You’ve been ignoring the biggest injustice on this campus,” the woman said.

“This the only way I can get your attention.” “The only way you can get my attention is by waiting in the Quad until 4:23 in the morning and then pelting me with oysters?”

I said. “Yes,” she said. “Now look at Gasson.” I turned and saw that majestic tower of majesty. “Soops Gothic,” I said. “Do you notice anything about the lighting?” she said.

I stared at it a few more seconds.

“Oh,” I said. “I guess, but I don’t really—” “If you don’t write about it, I will follow you around and throw oysters at you every day,” she said.

I shrugged.

THE DIFFERENTLY-COLORED LIGHTS IN FRONT OF GASSON - One’s regular. One’s blue. Like an LED or something. Together they are two different colors. This is odd. Is it some sort of campus-wide conspiracy involving the acquisition of multiple pink laptop covers and a slow degradation of brain activity through the implementation of mandatory athlete’s foot treatments on every student and then an eventual double-vision cerebral-cortex-twisting as a result of repeated nights of staring at a double-lit blue/yellow building? Of course not. That would be crazy.

Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. It’s morning again in America. On this day, Americans will wake up, having chosen from two very different visions. We can peer across the Atlantic to former master and current ally, England, and see how another country faced a similar suite of two dramatically divergent choices.

Confronted with mounting resentment, feelings of doom and gloom, and a tidal wave of elusive and deceitful false promises, our English brethren opted for ‘Leave,’ spurring Brexit. The alternative option, ‘Stay,’ would have been a vindication of the European project, of internationalism, and of an optimistic outlook for the country and its position in the world.

With Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Americans face a similar referendum. The former expounds a vision of robustness and vitality, one that—while conceding and addressing the many problems we face—is a fundamentally positive, proud, and hopeful—if a bit audacious—outlook. The latter serves as a loud wrecking ball to political norms and protocol, promulgates unbridled pessimism, has the instincts of a sophist and the characteristics of a demagogue, relishes in his swaggering egotism, and paints a picture of America as a country teetering on the brink of collapse while propping himself up as its lone redeemer.

Trump’s crass assumptions and dark depictions of America are shared by vast swaths of the electorate. His aversion to all things expected—following the teleprompter, chastising the alt-right and David Dukes of America, respecting the legitimacy and fairness of elections, and ignoring petty criticism or taunts—signals a watershed moment in American politics. His popularity and widespread appeal are indicative of an electoral tipping point. Resentment toward the ‘Establishment,’ immigrants, the United Nations, NATO, and other scapegoats has reached such a fever pitch that an inexperienced and unknowledgeable outsider like Trump has ascended through the ranks of the GOP and reached its apex, as the party toils through a new era of infighting and existential threats.

Clinton offers America a consummate career in public service, a cautious approach

to decision-making, and a more rounded and nuanced understanding of the trials and tribulations of the hard choices required by public office. She is bedeviled by the normal issues that attend career politicians: a long paper trail of voting records and previous policy stances, transparency concerns, and fears of an unassailable alliance with entrenched and moneyed interests in D.C. and on Wall Street. She faces questionable and inescapable concerns, notably her record of hawkishness and a shady email server, which was emphatically brought once again to the fore just 11 days before the election by FBI Director James Comey (allaying any conspiratorial concerns that the FBI was in bed with ‘Clinton, Inc.’).

If he wins Tuesday, Trump will undoubtedly be an agent of change. It could not be more obvious that with his apolitical background, unique proposals, and cult-like following, he is the renegade candidate in this election, the one that will march into D.C. on Jan. 20 and proclaim that he is here to ‘stir things up’ (another unprintable three-word phrase might more appropriately describe his intentions). Some Bernie Sanders supporters, and even “some who saw change in Obama,” are flocking to Trump as a result of their dissatisfaction with staying the course.

Clinton, as detractors quip, is to some extent “four more years of Obama.” The Sanders movement succeeded in pulling her toward the left flank of the Democratic Party, so much so that she is the most progressive candidate in years, yet she has a center-left, relatively conservative record for a Democrat. Despite her shift to the left, she represents the pinnacle of Establishment and the embodiment of status quo.

And all things considered, Trump’s idea that a hegemony of business titans, journalists, editorial boards, politicos, and foreign leaders are backing Clinton isn’t false—it is undeniable. Clinton has received more than 200 endorsements from daily and weekly newspapers, including apolitical editorial boards, such as USA Today, and historically conservative ones, like the Dallas Morning News, the Houston Chronicle, and the Arizona Republic.

Scores of career Republicans, George Bush and Ronald Reagan staffers and high-level aides, and national security advisers have endorsed her. George H.W. Bush is voting for her. W. Bush very well may be, while the Libertarian ticket vice presidential candidate, Bill Weld, is ‘vouching’ for her.

Trump takes all of this in stride, chalking it up—in typical conspiratorial fashion—as

a global Illuminati-esque scheme to stifle his candidacy. But these realities don’t reflect some sort of global, neoliberal, elite conspiracy in which a ruling class is trying to impose its dogma on the people writ large. Instead, these endorsements reflect what they are: self-interested, honest assessments of each candidate, from individuals who have experience and exposure to every realm of policy that the president must work in daily and meticulously.

Why would members of the press be favorably disposed to Trump, when he routinely threatens, sues, and berates them for printing what he says and does? Why would the national security community be inclined to support him when he boasts that he knows more than the Pentagon and senior military officials?

Alas, across the pond, Brexit may not be set in stone. A court ruled last week that Parliament must vote to approve Brexit.

Amid unease in the financial services sector, the prospect of multinationals leaving the country, well-founded economic and trade concerns, and the prospect of Irish and Scottish withdrawal from the United Kingdom, members of Parliament very well may reconsider if Brexit is in the country’s best interests. In a similar vein, Americans would be well-served to question whether dramatic, unprecedented, misguided, and extreme change is in the country’s best interests.

This Tuesday, voters will cast their ballots, polls will close, tallies will commence, a winner will be declared, and Americans will fall asleep.

The next day, it’ll be morning in America, but the sun could rise over two starkly different countries with completely antithetical prevailing beliefs and outlooks. One vision—like that of Reagan’s famous 1984 television advertisement—is optimistic, yet cautious and controlled; informed by reason and ambition, yet tempered by reality and experience; illustrative of a path forward, but cognizant of the difficulties and unsteady times of a turbulent world. The other vision resembles that of Barry Goldwater or Joseph McCarthy—daring and untested; hysterical and unsteady; extreme and unconcerned. The election is more than just a referendum on a package of policies—it is a decision on whether we steer our country forward or back, how we view America and its position and the world, and whether we tolerate jarringly un-American ideals and precepts.

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M8C<I@< :?<I9<IF We call my dad the garbage man.

When I was growing up, he always seemed to favor scraps. We saved him mottled bananas: more brown than yellow. When my mom pulled hunks of cheese out of the refrigerator, fuzzy white mold sprouting up on them like tufts of grass, he would pull out a knife, slash off the rancid bits, and brandish the bare square of cheddar.

“Cheese has mold,” he used to say, and we rolled our eyes every time.

We always knew which cheeses he had rejuvenated. We avoided them, letting him munch on crusty slices while he cooked.

Growing up, I also called my dad cheap. I huffed when he brought home kitchen appliances from the dumpster.

He would clean them on the cobwebbed tool bench outside our house late at night after a day at work. He wiped away the stains and scuffs with gray rags that have lived in our house longer than I have.

Once the appliances were clean, he brought them up to the kitchen. “These are trash,” I would tell him. He didn’t listen. He plugged them in and flipped a switch, and they would whir to life. He raised his eyebrows at me as if to say, what trash?

I always wondered why my dad insisted on settling for mottled bananas and abandoned appliances. We had money. We could buy new cheese or bananas or toasters. Thrift shops weren’t cool yet, and although my dad’s practices were technically environmentally conscious, he refused to recycle.

There was nothing political or moral about this, just a firm belief that noth-

ing should be wasted.

This belief was not hereditary. In my four years at Boston College, I have owned four separate laundry baskets.

They have each been the same: plastic, white, with a divot in the side to rest against my hip.

I ordered each one in September and guiltlessly left it behind in May, dumping it off with the abandoned mirrors and lamps in the dorm donation piles.

Storing bulky laundry baskets costs more than their worth, I would tell my mom. She was reasonable. She agreed. I never told my dad.

Laundry baskets weren’t the only things I shed like ill-fitting snakeskin. I have thrown away stale tortillas, slightly wilted lettuce, cheese, untrendy sweaters, socks, already-read books, and towels. I rationalize this wastefulness by saying I’m in a highly temporary part of my life.

Each year I move into a different dorm. Each semester I start new classes. I can’t possibly eat all the lettuce in a standard Trader Joe’s bag before it goes bad. I have become so used to wastefulness that I didn’t notice it until it got pulled apart by cranes.

Last spring I lived in Edmond’s Hall.

Today, Edmond’s is a graveyard.

Fences surround piles of brokenup cement and metal beams. Some days, construction workers roam the property, moving around piles of rubble with giant excavators and cranes. Most days, the property sits untouched.

People like to joke about the trashiness of Edmond’s, but it was built in 1975. My parents have lived longer than Edmond’s. It may have been coated in asbestos, but frankly, the building was too young to go down.

My grandpa once told me: “They don’t make buildings like they used to.” In that moment, I looked down at his 30-year old Cabela’s hiking boots, worn every day since purchase. A layer of dried mud covered their wrinkled

surface, and the laces were frayed and colorless. I shrugged off his comment (my shoes are much cuter), but as I stood before the crumpled remains of Edmond’s, I couldn’t stop thinking about my grandpa’s old hiking boots.

We have made everything disposable. Don’t want that bulky laundry basket? Throw it in the trash. Is that cheese looking a little tired? You can trash that too. Need space for a new recreation facility on campus? We’ll get the cranes ready.

As we become more used to waste, we learn to devalue the things around us. We misuse laundry machines, knowing that clothes are easily replaced. We spill drinks on our carpets, knowing that BC housing will replace them each fall. We learn to bulldoze through life, respect be damned. But we cannot bulldoze forever.

We have to unlearn this wastefulness. We have to take stock of the many things we depend on: our groceries, our clothes, the four walls that surround us. We have to treat them with respect, knowing that not everyone has access to these same things. Many people don’t have the privilege of disposability. My grandfather grew up in a poor farming family in France. His boots are a vestige of sacrifice and hard work, and he intends to wear them until they split in the soles or dissolve into thin air.

I hope someday I own something that has been with me for 30 years. I hope I learn to scrape the moldy bits off of hunks of cheddar cheese. I hope, like my dad, I poke around at the things that have been abandoned, noticing the life they have left. I hope I learn to value things as much as I have valued my temporary time here.

We still call my dad the garbage man. He’s the smartest man I know.

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I<9<::8 DFI<KK@ All it takes is skipping between radio stations for five minutes—four of which you’ll probably be listening to “Closer”— to notice that love is a major theme of life.

The hard part lies in understanding what love actually is, a concept that, believe it or not, transcends pulling someone closer in the backseat of your Rover. On a whim, I attended the most recent Agape Latte, a coffeehouse speaker series sponsored

by Campus Ministry and the Church in the 21st Century Center. The speaker was Dave Manzo, a long time professor in the PULSE program. He shared experiences of struggle in his life that hugely impacted his perception of relationships and gratitude, and he got me thinking about this “love” concept I’ve been grappling to understand for a while.

Before anyone jumps to conclusions, I’d just like to clarify that I am indeed capable of feeling love, and even strongly.

I love my family and friends, and would be willing to sacrifice anything for a few people in my life out of love—even life itself. The issue I’m having is not with understanding the feeling of love, but with understanding its nature. I’ve always thought that in the end love emerges out of certain primeval needs. Children desperately need the love and care of their parents, so they cling to them in their youth. Even as grown ups, people don’t just stop loving their mothers when they don’t technically “need” them anymore to survive, because of the bond and infinite gratitude that was established throughout the years by that need. Similarly, parents love their children out of a primeval need to propagate the species, but also out of a natural love of what is one’s own. The theory is this: people love what they need, and people love what is their own. Just as you’re more likely to love your own fourth-grade poetry or your own drooly dog more than a stranger’s, people in general tend to love things that are theirs. We love our family, friends, and significant others because of the good and noble qualities we recognize in them, but also because we inherently need them. And through needing them and knowing them, they become our own. To a large extent I buy this theory of love. But on the other hand, I think it’s somewhat dismal and incomplete.

Manzo told two stories that reminded me of the true face of love, stories that don’t fit neatly with the needing and owning theory. The first was about working with a troubled inner-city kid who initially denied his help and mistreated him. The other was about growing extremely close to a college friend and sticking by his side until the very moment he died of cancer. Manzo’s stories reminded me that we don’t just love people because we need them. We love people because they need us, regardless of if they love us, and regardless of how much pain is involved in love and loss.

We love people because of the good we see in them, but also because love is inherently good and necessary in itself. “To love another person is to see the face of God,” goes the quote from Les Miserables that Manzo mentioned in his talk. For those who believe in God, it’s not hard to understand that God doesn’t love us because he needs us. Although we humans cannot love perfectly, we can also understand that true love cannot be based purely on need or ownership. There are plenty of things that we need, create, and own that we do not love. Perhaps love is based on the recognition of the ability and need for love in others.

A few weeks ago, someone in love prompted me to imagine that if love is so beautiful, how beautiful must its creator be? I retorted that whoever created love also created hate. My friend looked perplexed. He knew I was right. Perversely, I felt I’d won. But I’d forgotten one thing he told me. Love is necessary, but hate is not. We desperately need love in our lives, while hate, hate is just something that was created as a choice, he said. One could live a perfectly fulfilled life without hate, but without love, life would be impossible. And that claim I could not counter.

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Eight students explained the motivation, process behind the Ted Talk-like lectures delivered Sunday night in the Heights Room.

NOAH PENDERS Poetry may entail an artistic or emotional outlet for most people, but for Noah Penders, MCAS ’18, the craft encompasses much more. His writing embodies a coping mechanism for his ongoing struggle with depression, and it is this mechanism that fueled his call to speak up about the stigma of mental health.

“My brain does strange things–it stops working. It stops doing its job,” Penders said.

He noticed that his reactions to different mental states seemed to reflect a disconnect. Happiness sometimes evoked crying, and sadness sometimes resulted in internal emptiness. He turned to poetry to transfer his emotions onto paper, but after myriad filled notebooks, he realized that he was writing in countless different ways the same four words: “I suffer from depression.” Penders saw this physical manifestation of his internal battle with depression as a symbol for a need to similarly make visible the issue of mental health.

Society’s bias toward what is external creates a barrier between treating what can be seen and what cannot be seen, and this in turn fosters a mentality that pain undergone in the mind should be accepted as normal. Fear of being viewed as ‘weak’ or ‘crazy’ can hinder seeking help for or generally talking about mental illness, and Penders desires to change that.

“You are not your depression,” Penders said. Dealing with and overcoming depression can be the foundation for great strength. It is the stigma behind depression that cripples it and leads to devastation.

Penders encourages seeking help with depression and other mental health matters through the counseling and therapy sessions BC offers as well as clubs around campus that promote storytelling and listening among peers.

Penders aimed to convey that we are all “powerful beyond measure” and worthy of minds free from depression and its currently negative societal implications.

MORGAN DYKMAN Struggling with mental health is a difficult and painful battle, but Morgan Dykman, MCAS ’18, believes that this struggle comes with unexpected benefits and can help Boston College students realize that they are more powerful than they might think. After experiencing anxiety during high school, Dykman faced depression during her sophomore year at BC and has had to deal with the dark sides of mental illness.

But instead of focusing on these aspects in her BC Talk, “The Bright Side of Dark Stigma: The Positives of Struggling With Mental Illness,” she wants to use the forum to show students that there are bright sides to the struggle.

“I think a lot of BC students have mental health issues,” Dykman said in an email.

“I think what they will take away from my talk is that it is ok to talk about it.”

In the past, Dykman has read articles or attended talks and events about mental health issues. She found that these events usually focus on the unpleasant and negative aspects of mental illness, which she says she doesn’t benefit from hearing because she has already experienced these things herself. Hearing more about them and seeing only the bad portions of the illness highlighted served only to worsen the situation for her. Instead, learning about the potential benefits of the struggle offers a new way to approach the issue.

“My mental health experiences have made me closer to my peers and my pro-

fessors in a whole new way,” she said.

While mental illness can often come with a stigma, Dykman hopes to show students that it is perfectly ok to talk about mental health. The freedom of the BC Talks forum allows her to share her experience the way that she wants to without the restriction that some other forums present. Examining the issue of mental health from a new perspective shows students that there is more than just negativity in mental illness.

“I think it gives BC students a chance to share things without having a label already put on them,” she said.

HARRY CHEUNG Why do you volunteer? This is the question that Harry Cheung, MCAS ’16, attempted to uncover in his BC Talk, titled “Leaving Your Mark on the World.” Rather than just talking about his volunteering experience, Cheung spoke to the motivation to volunteer and help others.

Cheung, who is from Farmingdale, Maine, with a population of just under 3,000, said that his desire to volunteer was instilled in him from a young age.

“I think coming from such a small town and a small community opened my eyes to how everything is better when people work together,” he said. “It was always refreshing to see people drop everything just to help someone, even if they weren’t family.”

Cheung said that although these ideals are instilled in many, it can be easy to lose sight of why you are volunteering in the first place. As is natural, it’s easy to get caught up in yourself when you are giving back, rather than focusing on the people you are helping.

“It’s so easy to forget what drove us to serve and to help others when we get caught up in the benefits it can bring us, the long hours that we put in, or how competitive it can be,” he said. “It’s also so easy to get conditioned to the situations of people we’re helping that we no longer feel that same shock and drive that originally sparked us.”

Cheung hopes that when people hear his talk, they will appreciate that the world needs people to volunteer. They don’t have to cure world hunger or cure a major disease, but the little things add up.

“It starts with a simple decision to take the initiative and to maintain that zeal to help the world, bit by bit,” he said.

ANIKET SAOJI Aniket Saoji, MCAS ’16, is looking to change the way we light cities. In his BC Talk, “The Internet on Steroids: How IOT Lights can make Cities Smarter,” Saoji explained a project he is currently invested in. In the program, there would be sensors positioned on every light in a city that allow a connected grid to “talk” to a program, which translates the sensors’ information into something we can use. An example he gave was with parking spaces—if there are sensors on the traffic lights above a parking space, it can receive information based on whether a car is parked in that space, which can create an online system telling where there are open parking spaces.

Hailing from the Bay Area, Saoji said that growing up around the technology industry helped inspire him to study computer science and to pursue projects such as this. Additionally, he worked on this project with General Electric over summer to advance his knowledge in the niche market of “intelligent cities.” This, he said, is the core of his BC Talk.

Saoji said that having “smarter” cities can make life more efficient. He also said that doing research like this at BC helps advance science programs at the University.

“We’re not a techy school like MIT, so what we see is reactive,” he said, referring

to tech research at BC. “If I can present topics like this, we can become more proactive in creating this technology for ourselves.”

Although the first real-time applications of these light sensors are taking place in San Diego, Saoji has already put some thought into how Boston can benefit from these advances.

“The City of Boston has around 67,000 electric lights,” he said. “We can utilize the amount of lights in our city alongside a connected grid that allows for more efficient parking, stronger public safety, optimized traffic flow, indoor positioning systems, and energy efficient buildings.”

Parking isn’t the only thing that can be improved. These sensors can detect people in rooms, pedestrians on sidewalks, and traffic flow. This technology can turn Boston into a smart, efficient intelligent city. As Saoji said, the future is looking bright.

MICHAELA SIMONEAU How can we help people when it’s a challenge to communicate with them about their needs? This question is one of the central focuses of Michaela Simoneau’s BC Talk.

Simoneau, MCAS ’18, presented “Hari Om: A Model of Accompaniment for International Development.”

Simoneau is part of BC’s chapter of GlobeMed, a national network that pairs universities with community health organizations around the world. Her involvement with this program allowed her the opportunity to start an internship in India, which helped her explore the role that public health plays in international development and the importance of communication.

“It’s amazing when you have these grassroots organizations that are so involved in the lives of the people they are working with,” she said. “We would go with some of the workers into the villages, and they would sit with a person in their house for maybe 45 minutes just talking about life. There is this basic level of dialogue and trust that allows them to put their bigger programs into action.”

Simoneau also witnessed the negative effects of a lack of communication.

She recalled an experience of seeing a public restroom built by the government that lacked running water, rendering the entire project useless.

“The people implementing change weren’t communicating with the people there,” she said. “Instead [they] took the framework of what they thought should be changed and forced it on the people.”

For Simoneau, viewing this failure only reinforced the importance of partnershipbased community networks. She referenced “coordination failure,” a concept she learned about in one of her international studies classes, to explain how hard it is to get people to work together, which is why bonds of communication on different levels are essential in implementing large-scale change.

“Use resources wisely, do the research and connect with other people who have already started programs on the ground, because change needs to come out of motivators who are already in the community,” Simoneau said.

ANTHONY PERASSO Being held back a year in preschool might have changed Anthony Perasso’s life. It’s hard to believe that the extroverted senior, well-known for being the editor-in-chief of The New England Classic and for his Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) presidential run last year, might once have been known for being overly shy, but that’s what led to his second year in preschool.

“I used to just make fun of myself for that,” Perasso said. “But now I get that an

extra year there or something makes a difference. How you behave with people and make friends impacts how you learn.”

Perasso has clearly left his shyness behind. The benefits he received from his extra time in preschool very well might have helped shape him into the person he is today, and his presentation at BC Talks, titled “preschoolis.cool,” demonstrated these benefits.

“Something that happens when you’re 4 can help problems that we deal with when people are 20,” Perasso said.

His talk was part of an independent study he is conducting with Julia Devoy, which collects information from over 30 other studies about the effects of preschool in an attempt to come to new conclusions about the “intangible benefits” of a preschool education and then present these conclusions in the form of a website.

This final website is supposed to translate the “academic jargon” of these wide-ranging studies into larger conclusions with easy-to-understand graphics and videos that anyone from an interested parent to a potential lawmaker could consult.

While students on campus might know about Perasso’s interest in internet media and communication, they might not know about his concern for education and helping kids. As a transfer into the Lynch School of Education, Perasso would like to see increased funding for preschool programs, which are not a nationwide requirement, or the development of legislation to improve programs across the country. It still remains an unaffordable option for some parents, despite the reality that preschool can benefit students who might not be able to afford it.

“There’s 40 or 50 years of research about preschool’s cognitive benefits or economic benefits, but there’s still no ‘when you’re 4 you have to be in preschool,’” Perasso said. “Preschool’s seen as maybe optional.”

YEOJIN YOON When Yeojin Yoon, MCAS ’17, talked about her upcoming BC Talk, she had to pivot the topic a few times. Not surprising in the slightest—the conversation at hand wasn’t an easy one.

Her speech, “When Difficult is Difficult,” touched upon feelings of otherness and broadening realities, and it intended to strike chords of human emotion that transcend merely surface-level differences.

“Can I talk about my background first?” Yoon asked when she began to talk about her topic. “I think it’d make the most sense.”

Yoon, who is originally from Seoul, South Korea, moved to the United States when she was 13 and is currently going into her 10th year of living in America.

Most recently, she experienced her very first Fourth of July fireworks.

Coming from a multinational background comes with all kinds of complications, the most obvious being the legal ones. Yoon is not a citizen of the U.S. and, as she explained with some hesitation, is still classified as a legal ‘alien.’ Though this status has complicated her employment opportunities, the real point of confusion for her has been a matter of identity and her feeling of belonging.

“I spent my developmental period in a different place—I’m very Americanized,” Yoon said. “It’s always a struggle for anyone who comes from more than one culture to find out what you really are and what you identify with more. I feel like there’s always this sense of balancing the two, and I feel like that’s especially difficult at a place like BC.” Having recently come into a consciousness about this lack of identity, Yoon wanted to express this feeling, but

struggled with how her audience would digest the message. By expressing this sentiment in terms of racial “otherness,” Yoon feared that the message would be lost on many who have never experienced a racial stigma, or a stray microaggression.

Instead, Yoon opted for a more human route. By focusing on the human feeling of being an outsider, Yoon’s goal became to tap into an essential human emotion—the feeling of not belonging.

By tapping into this universal human experience, Yoon hoped that the audience could have a collective moment of understanding. By using human emotion to make the moral accessible to everyone, Yoon hoped to create a conducive conversation about a broadening perspective.

REED PIERCEY

When Reed Piercey, MCAS ’19, began volunteering at Samaritan’s Hotline, a suicide prevention and intervention hotline that serves the greater Boston area, he expected he’d be doing a lot of the talking. Instead, when he completed his training and began taking to the phones last February, he found the experience to be completely different.

“A lot of people think of a hotline or think a service like Samaritan’s is the image of talking someone down—of getting out there steering the conversation,” Piercey said. “But I think that’s a pretty big misconception. In most calls that have stuck with me, it hasn’t been me who’s doing the work in terms of who carries the conversation.”

Instead, Piercey discovered that the most powerful support a person could offer is simply that of an empathetic ear. In his talk, “The Lost Art of Empathy,” Piercey shared this sentiment and lessons like it as they pertain to our relationships.

“I’m mainly hoping to convey what my experiences working at Samaritan’s [has] taught me,” Piercey said before his talk. “What it means to be there for someone … The reason a lot of people end up in a dark place emotionally is because they don’t have someone to share their thoughts with.”

Often, it feels like everyone has an opinion of what the best thing to do is. The first instinct of many when approached by a friend or peer in need is to advise that person—to provide advice or give instructions that they think may remedy the situation. Piercey has found, however, that we rarely realize that all someone may need is a companion to simply be present—to hear what he or she has to say on a deeper level.

“It’s more that we’re providing a space of non-judgment and a space where the caller can feel like their voice is being heard,” Piercey said. “I’ve heard so much crushing loneliness, and what a lot of people don’t realize is that you don’t have to be super eloquent or a brilliant conversationalist or anything.”

The most difficult part of this, to Piercey, is that it is often antithetical to the purpose of college.

The whole trajectory of college, in some sense, is making yourself heard— shaking the right hands, getting the right grades, getting the right internships.

Though these are certainly important, Piercey hoped that people would walk away from his talk with a broadened sense of awareness of others.

“It can be so valuable to seek to understand, rather than to seek to be understood,” Piercey said of the message.

“If they can come out with a better understanding of just how much that means to someone—because it doesn’t seem like you’re doing much in the moment—that’s really all I hope for.”

Barrette Janney, Archer Parquette, DJ Recny, Ashley Stauber, and James Lucey contributed to this article.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2016 MEN’S SOCCER

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The Numbers Game, a book about soccer analytics, states that the game is about 50 percent luck.

I n B o s to n Boston College 1 College’s upset North Carolina 0 victor y over No. 4 North Carolina (11-3-3, 5-1-2 Atlantic Coast) in the quarterfinals of the ACC tournament, however, the Eagles’ (8-7-3, 3-3-2) luck doubled.

In the 58th minute, BC keeper Cedric Saladin dove on a loose ball. A split second later, UNC midfielder Andy Lopez kicked at the ball in Saladin’s hands. Saladin responded by shoving

Lopez’s head toward the ground with a closed fist for what should have been a red card. The referee, only a few feet away, let Saladin off the hook, however, giving yellow cards to both Saladin and Lopez.

Fifteen seconds later, Zeiko Lewis had the ball at the top of the box with nowhere to go. Surrounded by defenders, he got off a quick shot that deflected off of the head of Colton Storm and rolled past goalie James Pyle for the opening goal. It was Lewis’s third goal of the tournament, accounting for all of BC’s scoring in the postseason.

These two incredibly lucky moments decided the game. Instead of finishing the game with 10 men and

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succumbing to the offensive pressure of the Tar Heels, Lewis and the Eagles scored with their only shot on goal to win the game.

The top-ranked Tar Heels started off the game on the front foot, holding a lion’s share of the possession in the opening 45 minutes. BC’s defense held strong, however, bending often but not breaking to start the game, and UNC’s dominance in possession only materialized into three decent chances.

In the 13th minute, forward Zach Wright headed a ball just wide of the post, sending Saladin sprawling. In the 21st minute, Nico Melo sent one of his many dangerous passes through the defense to an oncoming Alan Winn,

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but Saladin got a good jump on the pass and just managed to slide in for the clearance outside the box.

The Eagles found their footing when Simon Enstrom entered the game for Ike Normesinu, moving Trevor Davock from forward to winger.

With Enstrom playing well in hold up, per usual, BC began to string passes together, at times eight or more, leading to a shot.

In the 38th minute, Jelani Pieters led the break for the Tar Heels, laying off to Wright, who beat Younes Boudadi for a dangerous cross, which was headed out for a corner.

Boudadi was a busy man in the first half, constantly clearing the ball at the

back and then still getting forward in attack, linking up well with Lewis down the right side.

The second half was more of the same, with B C getting barely any touches on the ball in the opening 10 or so minutes, and the Tar Heels racking up four corners by the 60th minute.

But for all the chances that were coming to the Tar Heels, they couldn’t convert . The play leading up the Saladin yellow card was a dangerous chance. Pieters headed a cross back to to forward Nils Bruening, who chested the ball down in front of goal but took

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While the Boston College secondary chased down receivers three steps ahead of them, Lamar Jackson calmly sat back in the pocket.

The Louisville quarterback admired each of the perfect passes he lofted into the hands of James Quick and Jaylen Smith.

As he watched each ball soar through the air, Jackson dreamt of a brisk evening in New York.

It’d come some time between the annual rivalry game against Kentucky and—if he had his way— the College Football Playoff. He’ll be wearing his Sunday best, and his mother, Felicia James, will be in a comfortable seat close to the stage in Times Square’s PlayStation Theatre. Jackson will probably be sitting next to Deshaun Watson and Jabrill Peppers, eager in anticipation.

On that day, there won’t be any drama—at least there shouldn’t be. Jackson will finally

hear his name next to those three magic words: “HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER.” For the first time since Andre Williams made that trip, BC will make an appearance at the celebration. Jackson’s highlight tape could be made up exclusively of the beatdown he put on the Eagles.

Shut out on offense and overmatched on defense, BC was helpless against Louisville.

Jackson split his time crushing the Eagles (4-5, 1-5 Atlantic Coast) through the air and on the ground. In total, the Heisman favorite finished with 416 total yards and seven touchdowns.

And the good vibes from BC’s first ACC win in almost two years disappeared with a 527 defeat to the No. 7 Cardinals (8-1, 6-1) in Chestnut Hill.

“He’s electric,” head coach Steve Addazio said of Jackson. “I’ve been around some of the best quarterbacks in the country in my day, and this guy is really something now.”

It took just 76 seconds for Jackson to make fans spill out of the seats. After two short runs, he went untouched for 69 yards and a score.

After a BC punt, Jackson marched down the field again. Three passes of 10 yards or more set up Quick to beat Kamrin Moore on a slant for 30 yards. On Louisville’s fourth drive, Jackson hit Smith for 44 yards at Isaac Yiadom’s expense.

One quarter in, and the Eagles had already given up three touchdowns of over 20 yards.

With two more touchdowns—one following a Tommy Sweeney fumble, the other on another long drive from within BC territory—Jackson had little reason to stay in any longer. But anyone who knows Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino knows he loves running up the score. So Jackson stayed in, just long enough to prove his humanity with an interception to John Johnson.

The pick caused some concern on the

See Football vs. Louisville, B3

At Boston College, life becomes routine, especially when ResLife, our evil overlord, forces us off campus. Every day I follow the same path. Classes are at the same time on the particular cycle day, save for my 4:30 to 6:50 Mass Communication Theory class on Mondays. I plan everything around those classes. Well, that and the times when I know I’ll get on the shortest lines at Eagle’s Nest (shout out to Maria, Jon, and Fred—the realest there ever were at the Tuscan chicken station).

Part of that weekly routine is getting to watch the Eagles practice at Alumni Stadium every Tuesday morning. In our little section along the south end zone of Alumni Stadium, far, far away from Steve Addazio, it’s sometimes hard to see what’s going on. We usually see more defense than offense, just given the sides on which they like to work.

Yet we can make out the players’ routines every so often. We can see what coaches are specifically working on with the guys, which players seem to be friends, and so on.

One of the biggest benefits is getting to see the younger players work out. Partially from necessity, partially for their own training, the coaching staff pits the freshmen on defense against the first stringers on offense, and vice versa. The coaches wouldn’t field players in the practices that they didn’t think helped the No. 1 units get ready for the next opponent. It’s always a joy when a freshman player, one who has been on the scout team all season, makes a big play. All of the seniors crowd around him and cheer his name loudly. Regardless of whatever happens on the field, you can’t say young and old players don’t love and support one another.

At 4-5 with three games to go, the Eagles still have a shot at making a bowl. It’s worth noting that it’s possible BC does it with just a fifth win, presumably against a reeling Connecticut team. That’s because BC has one of the highest academic progress rates in the country. A high APR means you can get rewarded with a berth at five wins.

But to outright clinch a bowl berth, BC must reach six wins. That means the Eagles will have to beat either Florida State or Wake Forest. Winning even one of those is no easy task: both of those teams are in the ACC, on the road, and have winning records. Since BC currently has the worst offense and the third-worst defense in the ACC—seriously, check out the numbers for points scored and allowed per game in-conference—that task looks even more daunting.

Which brings me back to those younger guys. In practice, there seems to be such a level of trust and confidence in these freshman and sophomore players from team elders and coaches alike. In a way that happens so rarely nowadays, the older players seem genuinely excited for their younger counterparts’ success. And, despite BC’s consistently poor recruiting record in the last four years in comparison to its ACC brethren, the play-

See Start the Youngsters, B3

INSIDE SPORTS THIS ISSUE

Men’s Hockey: Sweep in Orono

Women’s Hockey: BC Splits With BU

BC continued its Hockey East undefeated streak with two wins against Maine.........B4

The Eagles and Terriers won their respective home games in a weekend series...............B4

TU/TD...................................B2 Volleyball..................................B2 Field hockey..............................B4

THE HEIGHTS

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Monday, November 7, 2016 MEN’S HOCKEY

THUMBS UP GO CUBS GO  Chicago has been crushing it lately. First, the Cubs won the World Series after 108 years of heartbreak and loss.

Then, 5 million fans turned out in full force for the parade, making it the largest gathering in human history outside of Asia.

Go Cubs go!

NATIONAL EXPOSURE  Hey BC fans, you should probably check SportsCenter this week—after all, it’s likely BC football will be all over the national channels this week. Of course, it will be featured in Lamar Jackson highlights, but still—exposure is exposure, right?

ZEIKO VIRUS STRIKES - Men’s soccer took down No. 1 UNC on Sunday thanks to the Bermudan Blur, Zeiko Lewis. Lewis netted the only goal of the game early in the second half to send the Eagles to an upset victory.

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Coming off yet another blowout win last Saturday night at Massachusetts, No. 5 Boston College men’s hockey made the trip up to Maine for a two-game weekend series against the Black Bears. The Eagles came into the weekend on a hot streak, posting a record of 5-0-1 in their last six contests.

While head coach Jerry York didn’t make the trip, as he’s still recovering from his eye surgery last Tuesday, BC wasn’t going to let anything stop its momentum against a struggling Maine squad, capping the weekend off with a sweep.

Saturday night’s game occurred at Maine’s home ice—Alfond Arena in Orono—where the Eagles (8-2-1, 4-0-1 Hockey East) have not won since 2012.

Although BC committed an early penalty on David Cotton’s high sticking just 30 seconds into the game, Maine (3-5-2, 0-2-0 Hockey East) struggled tremendously to stay out of the box in the first period, with five penalties, but the Eagles got nothing from those power plays. But BC outshot Maine 22-9 in the first, and didn’t come away completely empty-handed,

as Ron Greco tipped one in from Connor Moore and J.D. Dudek to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead heading into the first intermission.

Although BC continued to pound Maine with shots, goaltender Rob McGovern kept his team in the game with his spectacular play. While McGovern did his part by holding BC to one goal on its first 27 shots, Joe Woll was doing the same for BC. Both teams were flying up and down the ice, but midway through the second, Scott Savage finished off a goal in transition off feeds from Austin Cangelosi and Chris Brown to give BC a 2-0 advantage. As the second period wound down, however, BC found itself running into the same old problem: penalties. With 3:40 left in the period, Ryan Fitzgerald made his way to the box after a hooking call. With 1:45 remaining in the period, Maine appeared to have jammed the puck into the net on the power play, but it was ruled a no-goal as the officials had already blown the play dead. The frustration continued to build in Maine’s sellout crowd, but it was quickly eased as Ryan Smith cashed in on the power play nine seconds later. Although BC was dominating the game, especially in shots, with a 31-20 edge, it only had a

2-1 lead after two periods.

Maine appeared to have the momentum heading into the final period.

The Eagles found themselves back on the penalty kill after a Casey Fitzgerald holding call, but BC got a huge kill, temporarily halting the Black Bears’ momentum. The Eagles couldn’t get a shot on goal until the 9:01 mark in the period, but it was a big one, as a wide-open Mike Booth ripped one past McGovern to extend the lead to 3-1. Maine took control right back 41 seconds later, as Dane Gibson capitalized on a BC turnover to make it a 3-2 game with under 10 minutes to play.

After a grueling third period that saw Maine outshoot BC, nine to three, the Eagles held on to beat Maine, 3-2.

“I thought it might be the best start of the year,” associate head coach Greg Brown told USCHO.com. “Seemed like we carried that about halfway through the game. They took a penalty towards the end of the second. Once they took that penalty, Maine started to build momentum. We managed the game just enough in the third period to get the win.”

The puck dropped for the opening game of the weekend series at the neutral-site Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine, on Friday night. The

Eagles once again found themselves in some trouble in the first period by committing two early penalties.

Despite the Eagles’ success early in the season, staying out of the penalty box continues to be an issue for this young BC team. While the Eagles escaped Moore’s slashing penalty on the first penalty kill, the same couldn’t be said for Chris Calnan’s high sticking call.

With just under seven minutes remaining in the first, Maine’s Gibson capitalized on a rebound opportunity on this power play to put the Black Bears up 1-0. While Maine took advantage of BC’s mistakes early on, Gibson’s power-play goal would be one of the few bright spots of the night for the Black Bears. With 3:25 remaining in the first period, the Eagles went on the power play for the first time.

Toward the end of the man advantage, Cangelosi buried one in the back of the net from Brown and Cotton to even the score at the end of the period. This goal would be the start of Cangelosi’s big night.

BC again found itself in the penalty box soon after, as Dudek was sent off for goaltender interference just 2:31 into the second period. Maine’s man advantage, however, didn’t matter, as Cangelosi added a shorthanded

goal from Michael Kim and Casey Fitzgerald to put the Eagles up 2-1.

Cangelosi wasn’t finished. At the end of the second period, following a setup from Moore and Matthew Gaudreau, he finished off the natural hat trick with an even-strength goal, his eighth of the season, to almost single-handedly give BC a 3-1 lead heading into the third period.

Maine continued to have no answers for BC Friday night. The Eagles piled onto their lead in the third on goals by Calnan, Cotton, and Ryan Fitzgerald. The Eagles outshot the Black Bears 33-23, and Joe Woll was steady in net with 22 saves, as BC blew out Maine 6-1.

The Eagles are on fire as they return home for their Tuesday night contest against New Hampshire. BC is 7-0-1 in its last eight games following this weekend sweep of Maine and sits atop the Hockey East standings.

Even though the Eagles have been playing very well as of late, there are still glaring holes on special teams.

As York soon returns to the bench following his recovery from surgery, he will look to fix those issues and continue the momentum as the Eagles head into the winter against tougher opponents.

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THUMBS DOWN CLEVELAND IS CRUSHED - Wow. Chicago has had a spectacular week. Cleveland has had a horrible week. First the Indians blew a 3-1 lead (and now Cavs fans can never make that joke again), then the Browns lost (yet again) to the Dallas Cowboys, extending their winless streak this season. It’s hard to imagine next week being any worse for Cleveland.

After two consecutive 3-1 conference wins against Wake Forest and Syracuse, Boston College volleyball traveled Boston College 3 to Virginia Virginia 2 to take on the Cavaliers. Both teams were evenly matched, as neither has had a particularly strong season overall or in conference play. The Eagles and Cavaliers were both coming off long losing streaks and were hoping to gain some momentum as they headed into the last stretch of conference play. The match went down to the wire and ended with BC showing heart and grit to win its third ACC match in five sets.

The first set was initially close,

with 12 straight kills deciding the points before the Eagles (7-16, 2-11 Atlantic Coast) committed a service error to go down 8-6. While BC tied the score multiple times in the early portion of the game, UVA (5-20, 211) did not relinquish the lead that it built up. The Cavaliers went up 15-10 and only allowed BC to get as close as 20-17, before finishing the set on a 5-2 run. BC hit .378 during the set, but UVA bettered that mark, hitting .458 as a team, which eventually led to its six-point set win.

The second set began in BC’s favor, with the Eagles quickly going up 3-0. UVA chipped away, coming within one point after a kill, but consecutive kills from Sophia West and another Cavaliers error kept the lead at four points. Kills from West and McKenna Goss gave BC

an 11-6 lead, forcing UVA to take a timeout. Coming out of the timeout, Kelsey Miller hit another ace, and BC committed three straight errors.

A Cavaliers kill cut the Eagles lead to 15-13, and BC called a timeout.

UVA dominated after the break in play, tying the set at 16 and forcing the Eagles to call another timeout.

The Cavaliers then hit two consecutive kills to go up 18-16. While the Eagles tied the game at 20 after an ace from Lexi Riccolo and a kill from Sol Calvete, UVA closed the set out 25-22 with an ace.

BC was not going to roll over, as it jumped out to a quick 6-0 lead in the third set. The Eagles benefitted from UVA errors and three kills from Calvete.

UVA scored two points on a kill and a BC error, but kills from Cat

Balido and West kept the lead at six points. A kill by Jill Strockis gave the Eagles an 11-4 lead, but UVA ran off four consecutive points to bring the score to 11-8. After a timeout, the Eagles extended their lead. UVA called two timeouts in order to slow down the Eagles’ scoring, but it was not enough, as Calvete put away a ball to win the third set for BC. The Cavaliers took a 3-0 lead in the fourth set, aided by consecutive attack errors from the Eagles. Consecutive kills from Strockis tied the score at seven, and from there the teams traded points, matching kill with kill and error with error. UVA went on a 6-1 run to go up 16-11, but BC responded with a 3-0 run of its own to get within two points.

The Cavaliers built up an 18-14 lead and appeared poised to run

away with both the set and match, but kills from Calvete and Goss brought BC back within one point.

The Eagles tied the score at 23, 24, 25, and 26, before a service ace and an error from UVA gave the Eagles a fourth set win.

After struggling to capitalize during the first few sets, BC welcomed a chance to put away the match during the fifth set. It ran off four straight points to go up 4-1, after two UVA errors, a kill from Calvete, and an ace from Haley Kole.

UVA battled back to tie the score at 6, and after a kill and BC error, the Cavaliers went up 10-8. BC battled back, and regained a late lead due to three kills by Julia Topor. Kills from Goss and Calvete gave BC a 15-12 set win, and ultimately a five-set match victory.

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RABONEHEADED BOSWELL - Steelers kicker Chris Boswell tried to execute an onside kick using a rabona, but ended up kicking the ball straight into his own foot. Hey, Chris—word to the wise, if you’re going to try a really cute trick play, you should probably practice beforehand. Otherwise, you just look like an idiot.

SEC STRUGGLES - In one of the more surprising results on Saturday, Mississippi State upset Texas A&M, 35-28. This loss knocked the Aggies down from No. 4 to No. 10 and shook up the football playoff picture. Maybe a more deserving team should get consideration—how about Washington? You know, the team that should’ve been No. 4 to begin with.

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One year removed from its firstever win in the ACC Field Hockey Tournament, No. 11 Boston College traveled 6 Virginia t o Wi n Boston College 3 ston-Salem, N.C. with lofty goals.

The Eagles entered the first round of the tournament with the No. 3 seed, the highest in program history, as they were matched up with No. 7 Virginia, the No. 6 seed in the tournament.

In spite of a strong first half, the Eagles’ efforts were not enough, as they fell 6-3 to the Cavaliers in a shootout.

BC (10-9, 3-3 Atlantic Coast) came out of the gate looking sharp, as it netted the game’s first goal. Brittany Sheenan buried the ball past UVA (12-7, 3-3) goalie Carrera Lucas on a feed from Leah Frome to put the Eagles up 1-0. Just three minutes

later, Emily McCoy notched a second goal for the Eagles to temporarily put them up 2-0. Upon review, however, it was determined that her shot was too high, and the goal was overturned.

Over the course of the next 20 minutes, the Cavaliers and Eagles traded punches.

By halftime, the score was 3-3, after Frederique Haverhals, an AllACC second team member, scored two goals off penalty corners.

BC began the second half looking like the better team, as it outshot UVA over the first 15 minutes. From that point forward, the Cavaliers took control of the game.

The rest of the Eagles’ second half was plagued with unforced errors.

After allowing UVA to get the ball deep on a penalty corner, Caleigh Foust scored on a rebound to put UVA up 4-3 with 20 minutes remaining in the game.

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After scoring three goals in the first half, the Eagles did not find the back of the net again in their loss to UVA. the Cavaliers another opportunity.

Immediately following the penalty, Anzel Viljoen netted a penalty corner to put UVA up 5-3.

With 2:45 left in the game, BC pulled goalie Audra Hampsch in a last-ditch effort to generate some offense.

After two minutes without any shots for the Eagles, Foust scored her second goal for UVA to make it 6-3,

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the game’s final result.

The Eagles and Cavaliers entered Thursday’s contest as two of the most battle-tested teams in the country, with matching conference records.

BC boasted the second-most difficult schedule in the country, and its opponent UVA finished with the hardest.

While no team looked much better than the other in the box score, BC could not overcome two mishaps at a

crucial point in the game.

With their disappointing loss, the Eagles look to Sunday’s NCAA Tournament selection show.

The most important metric that is considered in the selection of the tournament’s field is RPI. Before its loss, BC was ranked No. 10 according to RPI, which would place them in contention for an at-large berth in the 16-team field.

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So why not go to them instead?

As I wrote in my column last week, merely reaching a bowl game is not some honorable goal for a college football program that has fans bred to expect competitiveness. While I stand by my statement that, if Addazio meets the rumored administrative requirement of six wins, the Eagles should not be satisfied, nor should they make that their mission. From the moment he started, Addazio has repeatedly said it would take five years for BC to be a contender.

I’m ready to see more of these young players in action. Addazio needs to know what he has at each position. Testing out his younger players will allow him to decide which areas he needs to put more time into during recruiting, who can be a starter one day, or who might be in line for a position change.

He’s already done this at the running back position, where redshirt sophomore Davon Jones has received almost as many handoffs as Jonathan Hilliman, who was expected to receive the bulk of the carries this year. Jones’s opportunities at running back have greatly outpaced those of proven seniors Myles Willis and Tyler Rouse. The two have taken over a recurring role in the offense, while spending much of their time on special teams. For the future of this team, Addazio is doing the Eagles a service by allowing younger talent to get in. After all, running back was a position with a lot of question marks entering the year. The Eagles will still need to add a couple for depth purposes, but Jones provides an unanticipated safety net with the departure of Willis and Rouse after this year.

This process should continue down to the quarterback position.

As many fans have clamored for on Addazio’s detested social media outlets (RIP Vine), Darius Wade should get more looks at quarterback. With the Louisville game firmly out of hand—it was 38-0 at half—Addazio should have sat graduate transfer Patrick Towles for Wade. Freshman Anthony Brown is waiting patiently in the wings to get a shot at the starting job. Under no circumstances should Addazio burn his redshirt, but Brown may be ready to be the starter as early as 2017—based on what I’ve seen in practice, I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case.

Thus, throughout the remainder of this season, Addazio should figure out if Wade should get a shot at the job. Since breaking his ankle against Florida State last season, Wade hasn’t gotten much of a chance to show what he can do.

If Wade can show some progress from the little gameplay he has gotten over the last two years, he can compete with Brown for the starting job next year. If not, it may serve Addazio well to move Wade to another position. The coaching staff scored huge successes by moving Jeff Smith and Michael Walker to wide receiver, from quarterback and defensive back, respectively.

Walk-on John Fadule is still on the roster, and BC currently has three quarterback recruits: E.J. Perry, Drew McQuarrie, and Tate Haynes.

Either give Wade a quarterback tryout, or put him in a place where he’ll thrive.

Over the last two years, Addazio has preached ad nauseum to the media that he’s working with a young team. While his main focus has been trying to get that bowl game this season, it’s not in BC’s best interest.

In a season in which the Eagles will not compete for the ACC Atlantic or even a Tier One ACC bowl, they are better served getting a look at the future. If the talent Addazio has recruited and trained truly is there, BC may make a bowl anyway.

So let’s see what his young team has got. At this point, BC truly has nothing to lose.

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But that’s not how Jackson rolls. He slapped an IV on the arm and got back to work in the third quarter. And when Patrick Towles opened up the second half with a touchdown to Tyler Rouse, set up by a Jackson fumble, the Louisville quarterback got angry. After scares against Duke and Virginia, he needed an otherworldly performance that ended in a blowout to get the early engraving on his Heisman Trophy.

At BC’s expense, he did just that.

He led one drive methodic ally dow n the f ield— well, as metho dical as Louisville gets—capping the 3:45 off with a 13-yard off- tackle option keeper. A few minutes later, he just wanted to score.

Jackson pulled out one of the dirtiest jab steps you’ll ever see for his seventh touchdown.

After faking a handoff, Jackson ran to the right behind his tight end, cutting across the field for a block. He then quickly stopped, pushing BC’s defensive line on the backs of its heels. By forcing the Eagles to sell out too far to the left, Jackson opened a hole down the middle of the field.

Three seconds and 53 yards later, Louisville capped off its 52-

point day. It’s the first time ever that the Eagles have allowed 50+ points twice in a single season (Oct. 7 vs. Clemson).

Most alarmingly, the Eagles have now given up 15 touchdowns of more than 20 yards this season. Last year, BC allowed only five touchdowns of that sort. Although the Eagles switched defensive coordinators to Jim Reid from Don Brown, who departed for Michigan, Addazio insisted that there has been no difference in BC’s defensive scheme. According to Addazio, the Eagles have run the same coverages and combinations—though there has been a little more zone coverage.

Rather, he believes the difference has been the talent around the league.

“I told our defense in preseason camp, everybody likes to talk about stats, but the biggest challenge for you is going to be the young offenses and quarterbacks and skill players that are going to be coming into play this season,” Addazio said.

“We’re not going to have those same stats now, and we’re going to face elite guys right now...

And that’s really the difference in a nutshell.”

If the talent is the case, then BC is doomed defensively. As Addazio also noted, B C got beat in man, zone, and double coverage in the end zone. And whatever strategy that worked last year clearly doesn’t work this time around.

The Eagles may still be in the top 20 in the country in defense, but that’s only because of the weakness of their non-

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Bobby Wolford and Michael Giacone (T.L.) sit on the bench in sadness as Lamar Jackson and Louisville crushed BC. conference schedule. Against ACC opponents, BC has been outscored 216-72. Against its top three opponents—Virginia Tech, Clemson, and now, Louisville—that jumps to 157-17.

If the Eagles can’t score, and they haven’t been able to all

season long, then their defense must play better than it has thus far to make a bowl game.

There’s not a lot of time to turn it around, too—the Eagles fly to Tallahassee this week for a Friday night game against No. 19 Florida State.

As for the Cardinals, well, the y ’ve got bigger plans in mind. Between a national title and a Heisman for Jackson, there are trophies to be won.

No one—especially the mythical BC defense—is going to stand in their way.

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It was about as predictable as a between-the-tackles run out of a three tight end set.

In his press conference following Boston College football’s (4-5, 1-5 Atlantic Coast) 52-7 thrashing at the hands of No. 7 Louisville (8-1, 6-1), Steve Addazio fielded a question about his defense’s slipping performance. Specifically, he was presented with the fact that his defense has already allowed 15 touchdowns of 20 or more yards in 2016, after allowing only five during the entire 2015 season.

Addazio was asked if he could identify a reason for the slippage.

Before the question even concluded, the Eagles’ head coach directed his anger at the person who dared to offer this question.

“I just told you what the difference is,” Addazio said in a low voice. “It’s who we’re facing.”

While admirably trying to deflect attention away from his players’ performance, Addazio gave the impression that the quality of the opposing offenses that the Eagles have faced this season outstrips that of last year’s slate. Using that statement as an open invitation, let’s compare this season’s opposing offenses to last year’s.

According to Football Outsiders’ Offensive S&P rankings, which only include matchups against FBS programs—and thereby excludesgames against Maine and Howard in 2015, and against Wagner in 2016—the average ranking of the Eagles’ opponents in 2015 was 53.3. The team faced four opponents with a top-35 offense. Thus far, throughout nine games in 2016, BC’s opponents have an average ranking of 56.6, with just two games coming against top-35 offenses.

While Addazio’s recent memory is correct—Louisville’s top-ranked offense in 2016 is easily the best unit the team has faced over the last two years—BC has actually played a slightly easier schedule of opposing offenses in 2016.

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tained to explosive plays, let’s take a look at the big-play capabilities of the Eagles’ opponents over the last two years. In 2015, the team’s average opponent had a ranking of 54.2 in Football Outsiders’ IsoPPP+ metric, which tracks a team’s ability to generate explosive plays. This season’s opposition has averaged a ranking of 54.9 by the same statistic. The team has only faced one top-15 team by this explosiveness metric in 2016 after facing three top-15 teams in 2015.

This season, BC’s defense has conceded three times as many touchdowns of 20 or more yards than it did last season, while the team’s schedule hasn’t featured a corresponding uptick in explosive offenses. Even excluding the four such touchdowns scored Saturday

by Louisville, the results that prompted Addazio’s response, the Eagles would still have allowed 11 explosive scores.

With opposing offenses sporting neither a better average rank-

Last season, BC’s defense ranked second nationally by allowing just 18.3 percent of drives that conceded one first down to end with a touchdown. This season, that number has ballooned to just over 40 percent, 79th in the country.

A large portion of the blame for this decline falls on the secondary.

The defensive backfield ranks a dreadful 103rd in Football Outsiders’ Havoc Rate, which measures tackles for loss, passes defensed, and forced fumbles. Unable to consistently force incompletions, the secondary has become highly reliant upon the front seven to cover its mistakes.

The brilliance of BC’s pass rush, a unit led by superstar Harold Landry, who leads the nation with nine sacks, is a big reason why the Eagles rank fourth defensively on passing downs, defined as a second-down play with eight or more yards to go or a third or fourth down with five or more yards to go. When the opponent is

pocket gives them time to dissect a secondary whose performance has slipped since last season. Often, teams will string together a few consecutive passes for first downs, discombobulating the defense, before breaking off a massive play.

Having established the secondary’s struggles, the next question to ask is whether they can be attributed to personnel or schematic issues. Somewhat unsatisfactorily, it appears to be a little bit of both. Certainly, the loss of safety Justin Simmons to the NFL’s Denver Broncos has left an irreplaceable hole in the middle of the defense. Simmons patrolled the middle of the field with authority, doling out huge hits to receivers crossing in front of him and instinctively breaking toward receivers who had beaten their defender. Though William Harris and John Johnson are an above-average safety tandem, neither is as adept at plugging leaks in the secondary as Simmons.

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The defense has struggled greatly with offenses that push the tempo, a fact brought into excruciating clarity following the losses to Clemson and Syracuse that concluded the team’s monthlong October homestand. Against the four opponents that rank in the top-30 in Football Outsiders’ Adjusted Pace metric, which considers how many plays a team runs relative to an average team with the same time of possession, BC has conceded 11 touchdowns of 20 or more yards. In comparison, against its three top-30 opponents last season, the Eagles only gave up two such scores.

An inability to halt drives dooms BC against these offenses.

in a situation in which they must throw the football, the pass rush can pin its ears back, with eyes only on the quarterback. Third downs against Landry & Co. are an experience in which no quarterback wants to partake, as they have little time to read the defense and look for an open receiver. This gives the secondary a reprieve.

The issue for the Eagles, however, has been getting opponents into third and long scenarios. On standard downs, defined as all non-passing downs, the Eagles rank 79th in the country, after ranking 10th in those situations last season. When the front seven must also worry if the opposing offense will run the football, the pass rush is slowed. As a result, when passing on these downs, quarterbacks have more time to throw the football, setting their feet and going through their progressions.

The extended time in the

While the cornerback rotation has largely been the same, though Gabriel McClary has seen an increased role in 2016, their play has been placed on center stage more frequently. Teams appear to have determined that the best way to attack BC’s defense is to target receivers covered one-onone by members of the secondary.

Whether this is because they feel the secondary represents a real weakness or because the Eagles’ run defense is so formidable, they have repeatedly sought out the defensive backs to the tune of increasingly excellent results, particularly on downfield throws.

At least some of this success stems from BC’s steady commitment to man coverage on the outside, with varying degrees of safety help over the top. Against Louisville, on Lamar Jackson’s 30-yard and 44-yard passing touchdowns in the first quarter,

the Cardinals receiver who caught the pass was matched up in single coverage with a BC cornerback, with no deep safety in sight.

When the Eagles did put in a deep safety, results improved. Johnson intercepted Jackson on a play where he broke from the deep middle to the sideline, beating the Louisville receiver to the spot.

Another solution to the problem would be to sprinkle in more zone coverage. Addazio said after the game on Saturday that, while he has kept the core tenets of last year’s defense, he has utilized some more zone schemes. No matter what defense was called against Louisville, however, Lamar Jackson ruined it.

“We rolled through every coverage we had,” Addazio said. “We got beat in man, beat in zone, and beat in the end zone.”

Perhaps some increased combination of zone and deep safety help would discourage opponents from constantly targeting Eagles’ cornerbacks down the field.

While this exercise involves speculating on some things that only a coach could decide, what isn’t up for debate is that the Eagles’ schedule has not had a significant impact on their secondary’s decline. This issue lies within the locker room, not on the opposing sideline.

It’s not as though the Eagles have suddenly rolled out an FCS pass defense—this season’s unit ranks 52nd against the pass, by Football Outsiders’ S&P metric, after ranking 14th last season.

The decline is just made more noticeable by the degree to which this team relies on its defense, with an offense that scores only 21 points per game. The issues are not impossible to solve, and there remains plenty of talent in the secondary.

But the solution can only be found once the source of the problem is acknowledged. And based on Saturday’s press conference, that process still appears ongoing.

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Week 9 was not kind to Lamar Jackson and No. 7 Louisville.

The Cardinals nearly got upset by lowly Virginia, a game which they entered as 34-point favorites, and consequently missed out on the final College Football Playoff spot. Texas A&M took that honor, instead.

To call Louisville’s 52-7 demolition of Boston College in Week 10 a turnaround would be a drastic understatement. Jackson led a refocused squad into Alumni Stadium and scored 38 first-half points as part of his seven-touchdown performance—equaling Eagles quarterback Patrick Towles’ season total entering Saturday’s game. As if that wasn’t sweet enough, the Cardinals learned that the No. 4 Aggies had lost on the road against Mississippi State. Their road to the CFP became

that much easier.

And BC’s road to a bowl game got that much harder. With matchups versus Florida State, Connecticut, and Wake Forest left on the docket, head coach Steve Addazio needs two more wins to secure bowl eligibility—and possibly the future of his job, too.

Let’s take a deeper look at a blowout that we’re sure to see highlights from when Jackson’s Heisman campaign comes to a close.

King Lamar Pompano Beach is a hotbed for unique talent. Not only did Jackson emerge from the Florida coastal city, but so did Dieuson Octave, better known by his stage name, Kodak Black. Octave has gained popularity over the past couple years with his trap hits “Skrt” and “No Flockin’.”

After Jackson’s milestone victory at Florida State, the Heisman hopeful gave his former classmate a shout-

out, yelling “Free Kodak!” Octave had been sentenced to two months in jail for minor drug charges in September, and Jackson’s advocacy quickly made rounds on the internet.

At the postgame press conference, Jackson said he is looking forward to Lil Kodak’s release, but said he hasn’t contacted him yet.

If the rapper was watching his fellow Floridian on Saturday, there is no doubt that he would’ve been impressed.

Jackson torched the Eagles’ ninth-ranked defense for over 100 yards through the air and on the ground, accounting for three touchdowns—all in just the first quarter. The most electric player in the country forced BC’s defense to respect Louisville’s run game, opening up the vertical passing game.

Jackson’s nice 69-yard touchdown scramble on the first drive of the game left the Eagles’ secondary ripe

for exploitation. The dual-threat sophomore certainly took advantage, adding touchdown throws of 30 and 44 yards before the first 15 minutes were up.

The craziest part? Jackson didn’t even break a sweat on any of his four touchdown passes. During each big play, he patiently waited for the route to develop, had confidence that his receivers would beat the BC defensive backs, and fired darts that hit them in stride.

Jackson is everything you could ask for in a college quarterback. He’s explosive. He’s poised. And he’s not afraid of taking shots downfield or making plays with his legs.

His last touchdown run of 53 yards showcases just what all this hype is about.

Offensively Bad The Eagles showed promise on offense against NC State, scoring on a huge play from Jeff Smith and

incorporating a trick play when they needed it most. Davon Jones looked like the back of the future, and the defense showed flashes of last year’s unit that forced an abundance of turnovers.

Yes, Louisville’s defense is elite.

And yes, it’s hard to motivate your offense to score when trailing by 30+ points. But, no matter how you chalk it up, BC’s offense took a step back on Saturday.

Towles threw too many passes behind receivers, and Darius Wade wasn’t better, either. The offense looked blindsided by the Cardinals’ front seven, which disrupted every aspect of the Eagles’ game plan.

“They do a very good job pressuring,” Towles said. “They’ve got some really kind of complex blitzes.

It’s a really good football team, and I can’t give enough credit to them.”

BC recorded just 57 rushing yards on 37 attempts, an average

of just 1.5 per rush. Louisville shut down the Eagles’ best playmaker, Jeff Smith, and largely contained tight end Tommy Sweeney, who finished with two catches and a lost fumble. The team was also abysmal on third-down (4-of-16) and fourthdown (0-of-2) conversions.

The lone bright spot came in the third quarter, when Towles rolled out to his right, reversed course, and dumped off a screen pass on the opposite side of the field to Tyler Rouse. The primary punt returner took off in the open space and broke a Cardinal defender’s ankles en route to a 39-yard touchdown, the first of his career.

Rouse’s big-play capabilities have briefly been shown on special teams, but it would be foolish to limit his contributions at just that.

The coaching staff would be smart to continue similar screenplays with Rouse in the coming weeks.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

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5 anthem plays in the emptiness in a way that makes it sound like you’re in The Hunger Games. Each slap of the puck resounds in the 8,606-seat stadium.

If you’ve come on a good day—and BC women’s hockey has largely had good days in the Katie Crowleyera—you’ll hear the nasally sound of puck against twine and the clang of sticks against pipe.

Walter Brown Arena is a different entity entirely. Boston University’s pep band sits near the announcer to play a rousing and non-threatening rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Fans come bearing signs and strong vocal cords. The Eagles got an earful from the crowd Saturday, after a sure three-goal lead into the third period guaranteed a win, until BU came back to win, 5-3.

The Eagles (7-3-2, 6-2-1 Hockey East) came out of the gate ready to play. They put the pressure on BU (4-4-1, 3-4-0) from the start, with Makenna Newkirk slamming the first shot at goalie Erin O’Neil. The Terriers soon caught up, however, and began to make convincing runs at Katie Burt. In a seamless play, Sammy Davis streaked up Burt’s left side for a shot, and crossed it at the last second to someone on the right.

It appeared that it would be an easy goal for BU, but Burt got to the other side in the nick of time to deflect the puck out of the crease and prevent any more offensive strikes. Later, the puck off of a hard shot made it nearly into the goal, but Burt’s leg kept it from passing over the line.

After a tough 10 minutes, BU came through with a reprieve for the Eagles. Connor Galway took her place in the penalty box after

being called for interference, and Newkirk lunged at the opportunity.

Her shot from outside of the faceoff circle landed under the goalie’s left arm, making the BC bench erupt with screams and sticks slamming on the boards.

The tension was lifted, but only for a moment. The period, as with the rest of the game, was ridden with penalties from both teams. There were 16 total, leading to 10 powerplay opportunities for the two teams combined. BC had the upperhand with six and capitalized on two.

BC appeared to have found a sweet spot outside of the faceoff circle, as Grace Bizal took a shot from nearly the same place as Newkirk.

It sailed under O’Neil’s glove, and Bizal stood there for a few seconds before being surrounded by a rush of teammates. Amid the constant back-and-forth of the crosstown rivalry, the goal served as a triumph, like the ones at the end of The Mighty Ducks or Miracle.

“Everyone was playing really well,” Bizal said. “Makenna had a beautiful pass to me, and I just tried to get it on that.”

But alas, hockey doesn’t end after 40 minutes. And the Terriers did a lot of damage in the final 20.

Victoria Bach dug the puck out of two warring players in Eagles territory and charged to the goal.

She shot toward the left pipe, and Burt couldn’t save the puck. With the possibility of a shutout over, she tossed the puck to a referee, looking disappointed.

It didn’t look so bad … yet.

Seconds later, BC answered back with another goal. Newkirk took the puck around to the front of the goal and passed it off to Caitrin Lonergan, who was waiting at the doorstep to knock one in on O’Neil’s right side.

The rest of the game came quickly. The Terriers made use of a power play that came their way when Erin Connolly got called for

hooking. Mary Parker slammed a powerful shot from a few feet in from the blue line. The puck went so quickly that there was no way it wasn’t going in.

Bach, who had been trying her hand at a goal for the entire afternoon, finally got one off to tie the game up. Streaking down the ice with Toni Ann Miano keeping her at bay in front of her, Bach didn’t need to take her time to get her goal.

Burt tried to snatch it out of the air, but it hit twine and sent the Terriers into a frenzy. Suddenly a game that seemed under lock and key for the Eagles wasn’t looking winnable.

Freshman Deziray DeSousa didn’t decide that her first goal would be the game-winner against BU’s greatest rival, but it didn’t hurt that it was. Sarah Steele took a shot, but Burt deflected it—right into DeSousa’s path. Her first try didn’t land it in, but another chance on the deflection allowed her to net her career first. The 4-3 lead breathed new life into the wearers of red and white. The crowd was wild. The band played with a spirit that had been lost in the second period, after the Eagles had the 2-0 lead. It was far too noisy in Walter Brown Arena for the Eagles to bear.

Burt held BU for a little while longer, but with 1:10 left, Crowley decided to pull her out in favor of the sixth forward. No matter the extra attacker, the Eagles couldn’t find the back of the net. The Terriers would one last time. Nina Rodgers glided toward the BC goal and shot effortlessly. Without Burt, all the empty net could do was accept the shot. Fourteen seconds later, and the Terriers officially won.

“Hey Baby” blared from the pep band as fans danced along. BU slammed its sticks on the ice, as a team does when it wins. The Eagles trickled off of the ice to the side, heading into the locker room.

Sometimes it is better just to have the quiet.

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one too many touches before Saladin covered. Numerous other chances were all squandered by the Tar Heels, as they just couldn’t get a foot on a number of loose balls right in front of the net.

Since Carlos Somoano took over as head coach of UNC six years ago, his program has been hailed for its defensive abilities.

Since 2011, the Tar Heels have kept a clean sheet in just about half of their games, with 10 this year for Pyle. Prior to Lewis’s goal, UNC hadn’t allowed a goal in 368 minutes of play.

This time around, though, BC was steadfast and disciplined in defense, shutting down the Tar Heels over 90 minutes. Saladin continue d to come up with big save after big save for the team, including a diving stop in

the 69th minute. Cam Lindley whipped a dangerous free kick from 20 yards out over the wall that was headed for the upper corner, until Saladin got a glove on it and it deflected out off the crossbar.

As time wound down, the Eagles fell more and more in a defensive shell to secure the victory. UNC nearly tied the game in the 73rd, when Melo dribbled into the box, faked out Boudadi, and cut back inside but sent a curling effort with the outside of the boot just wide.

UNC’s last chance came with 1:25 left and an opportunity to put a free kick into the box. The kick was not terribly dangerous, though, and Saladin rose above the crowd to punch the ball clear.

A first signature upset victory of the season, which BC had plenty of last year, came when it

mattered most. A loss in regulation or overtime would have dropped the Eagles below .500 on the year, making them ineligible for the NCAA tournament. Now, with three wins out of three, the Eagles are making a claim for an at-large bid.

Earlier this year, the Tar Heels handed BC a 5-0 defeat on the same field. The Eagle defense had no answer for Bruening, who torched the backs for four goals in the midseason rout.

Head coach Ed Kelly noted the importance of early mistakes for his team, as the Tar Heels scored two quick goals in the 32nd and 34th minutes of that game to take the momentum. The second time around, though, BC minimized the mistakes and giveaways at the back and held strong against the No. 1 seed in the tournament.

The defense did its job, and the rest was up to luck.

9P 8E;P 98:BJKIFD =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Prior to Friday night’s women’s hockey showdown between No. 4 Boston College and Boston University, 3 Boston Univ. each of Boston College 5 the last three games played between the B-Line rivals at Kelley Rink had been decided by one goal. A streak that would have been extended, had it not been for a last-minute BC empty-net goal.

The Eagles continued their undefeated ways at home, making it 57 games without a loss at Kelley Rink. Despite a 5-3 victory, BC (7-2-2, 6-1-1 Hockey East) was tested from the opening faceoff. Head coach Katie Crowley expected nothing less from a BU (3-4-1, 2-4-0) team that always brings everything they have to Comm. Ave. “That’s a very good hockey team over there,” Crowley said.

“I don’t really care what their record is, they’re a very talented team, and they play hard for 60 minutes.”

And at first, it looked as if the Terriers were finally going to get the better of BC in enemy territory. In the 14th minute of the first period, Grace Bizal was called for a hooking penalty, granting BU with a power play. To this point of the season, the Eagles were seventh in the country on the penalty kill, only allowing four power-play goals in the first 10 games. But Sammy Davis was willing to put a dent into that statistic.

Following a pass from Nina Rodgers, Sarah Steele launched a shot from the blue line. Then Davis redirected the puck midair, which slowly slid through the legs of BC goaltender Katie Burt.

Davis earned her second goal of the fall, and Rodgers and Steele were credited with their fifth and

second assists, respectively.

Midway through the second period, the scoring ramped up.

Near the attacking zone’s blue line, Caitrin Lonergan intercepted a Terrier pass and sent a give-andgo pass to Makenna Newkirk. As Newkirk waited patiently at the blue line, Lonergan sped down the right half, receiving the puck on her left side. Lonergan shot, tallying her seventh goal of the season in the 12th minute.

Just 17 seconds later, BU fired back.

Assisted by Natasza Tarnowski, a charging Davis received the cross from the edge of the right end zone faceoff spot and lit the lamp for the second time, putting the Terriers back up 2-1. Before the end of the second period, the Eagles knotted it all up. Erin Connolly had just returned from her body checking penalty, giving BC the power play, as Savannah Newton had just left the ice for an interference call.

Kristyn Capizzano passed the puck to Kenzie Kent, who was situated behind the BU goal.

Surveying her options, Kent hovered in place, but eventually eyed an opening. The junior forward slung a pass to Connolly, who was just a few feet in front of the right post. Connolly flicked in her first goal of the fall, equalizing the game at two.

The back-and-forth battle continued into the final period of play. In the fourth minute, Alexis Crossley passed the puck to Mary Parker on the right side of the attacking zone. Parker whipped a shot, but Burt made the save. But while Burt was still recovering, Rodgers gathered the rebound and finished the goal. It was BU’s third of the game and Rodgers’s first of the year. Crossley and Parker each gained their fourth assists of the season.

Down 3-2, with about 10 minutes remaining, the Eagles

needed someone to step up. Delaney Belinskas did just that. The freshman forward, who knows a thing or two about stringing goals together, having netted four against Maine on Oct. 9, worked her magic once again.

Lonergan found C aroline Ross, who passed the puck to the pursuing Belinskas. Skating toward BU goalie Erin O’Neil from the left, Belinskas chipped in her sixth goal of the season. Ross and Lonergan received their second and sixth assists of the year. Then, 11:45 into the third, Belinskas positioned herself in the right place at the right time. She retrieved a rebound from a blocked shot and sent the puck past O’Neil for her second goal of the game.

To many, Belinskas’ momentum-shifting pair of goals was astounding. But for the freshman, they were routine as ever.

“I’m just using my speed and my body,” Belinskas said. “And I was keeping it simple—just shooting where it’s open. It’s backhand, so the goalie doesn’t really know where it’s going, but it worked.”

Leading for the first time of the night, BC protected its zone with an extra sense of urgency.

Out of desperation, the Terriers pulled O’Neil out of the net in the final minute. But, sooner than BU could muster a last-chance opportunity, Capizzano stole the puck and glided down the right side of the ice to tap in the fifth and final goal of the game—her third of the season.

While the game did not yield a one-goal differential, it sure was close. In those previous three years, in which BC defeated BU at home, the two met in the Hockey East Championship each time.

Following tonight’s play, there is no reason to think that a fourth consecutive matchup is out of the question.

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Lionsgate Films On that day, Doss saved an estimated 75 men from almost certain death, while under heavy fire from the enemy, without picking up a gun.

Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, captures the incredible true story of one man who, when millions were fighting and killing each other, set out to save as many as he could. The film wastes no time in setting the tone and does not attempt to sugarcoat the awful violence that occurred

in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. In the first 10 minutes, the audience sees slowmotion shots of a horrific battlefield. Men are shot and blown to pieces, soldiers lie dead in piles, and fire from flamethrowers ignites troops who scream for their lives.

War is hell.

It then cuts to two young brothers playing in the mountains of Virginia. The boys begin to fight on the ground until one, whom we later learn is Doss, hits his brother in the head with a brick, knocking him unconscious. As the horrific realization that he could have killed his brother dawns on him, he stares at a picture of the Ten Commandments. Focusing in on “Thou shalt not kill,” the audience sees Doss’s powerful motivation not to cause any more suffering, though his brother did not die.

The movie jumps ahead 15 years to an adult Doss (Andrew Garfield) working in his church. He hears shouts for help and finds a man in the road pinned under his car. The man is badly wounded in the leg, and Doss fashions a makeshift tourniquet from his belt. He rides with the man to the hospital, where he meets his future wife,

Dorothy Schutte (Teresa Palmer), who is working there as a nurse. Soon, the war is in full swing and Doss signs up. He wants to be a medic so he can serve his country and his fellow man while keeping his vow to never harm anyone again. Doss then goes to boot camp, where he is ostracized and shamed by his superiors. They attempt to get him discharged. Nothing works to deter the unstoppable will of Doss, and he ends up on the front lines of the war in the Pacific.

There are no wasted scenes in this movie. Every frame adds to the heart and the gravity of the film, and the emotional impact the events have on the characters reverberates through the hearts of the audience. The events depicted would be unbelievable if it were not for the actual footage of an elderly Doss speaking about his actions at the end. What Doss does in the few days of the battle shown on screen is simply incredible. Hacksaw Ridge is not at all shy about showing the violence that occurred in this battle. Soldiers are riddled with bullets, men are shot in the head without warning, and the death and destruction presented are horrifying. Yet

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Desmond T. Doss saves 75 of his fellow soldiers without firing a gun in ‘Hacksaw Ridge.’ the violence never feels gratuitous. Instead, the audience is given a glimpse into the hell that was the war in the Pacific. To watch Doss save a wounded man, abandoned on the battlefield, and then go back into the fighting to save more is awe-inspiring. The sheer strength of this man’s will is palpable, especially with his repetition of, “Please Lord, help me get one more. Help me get one more,” after every rescue.

The cast of Hacksaw Ridge all turn in an amazing performance, Garfield steals the show as Doss. There is one minor character that absolutely knocks it out of the park.

Doss’s father Tom (Hugo Weaving) is an alcoholic WWI veteran haunted by memories of his fallen friends. The performance he gives is stunning and award-worthy. Other exceptional characters are Smitty Ryker (Luke Bracey), Sgt. Howell (Vince Vaughn), and Capt. Glover (Sam Worthington).

Hacksaw Ridge is a fantastic, if sobering, movie. There are no faults to find upon first viewing of this achievement in storytelling.

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Strange doesn’t buy it. Out of nowhere, the Ancient One delivers a punch to Strange’s chest that knocks his soul out of his body and through a multitude of universes.

Strange is brought back to his body and is understandably completely bewildered by what he has seen. He is then thrown out of the temple, Kamar-Taj, and readmitted after one of the DR. STRANGE Ancient Marvel Studios One’s students, Mordo, convinces the Ancient One to allow Strange entrance and training. Walking upstairs with Mordo to his room after this traumatic, yet alluring experience, Strange is handed a crinkled, ancient-looking piece of paper that reads “Shamballa.”

“What is this?” Strange asks, expecting it to be some sort of spell.

“The wi-fi password,” Mordo answers casually. “We’re not savages here.”

This scene is a perfect microcosmic

display of the entirety of Marvel and Disney’s newest superhero flick, Doctor Strange. Almost all of the film’s key scenes, built up with a heap of tension, are laced with this hysterical humor that is sure to have audiences crying with laughter for a minute or two. While this is all good and fun, the question is, besides this dynamic, what else is at play in Doctor Strange?

What does Strange bring to the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the egotistical neurosurgeon who, after badly damaging his hands in a car crash, seeks out the Ancient One to heal him fully. The Ancient One shows Strange a different side of life—a view of the multiverse and how expansive it is. Mesmerized by what he has seen, Strange begs to be taught by the Ancient One and is granted his wish. Along the way, a former student of Kamar-Taj, Kaecilius, attacks the temple and threatens to break the order of the universe by sacrificing everyone on Earth to a being of the Dark Dimension, Dormammu.

If that last part sounds a little trippy, that’s because it really is. This film strays away from previous Marvel movies in that, even considering Th or and all of his people’s magical properties, Doctor Strange really builds a whole new universe for the MCU’s characters to work with.

This is both intriguing and a bit worrying.

Strange’s traversing multiple universes and his magical powers work well for this movie, but it will be interesting to see how the rest of Marvel’s cast of characters gets brought into the fold—Strange is seemingly so powerful that even Hulk and the series’ primary antagonist, Thanos, seem kind of obsolete and weak.

Doctor Strange’s biggest strength is by far its visuals. The film’s biggest set piece, the multiverse fight through Manhattan, is one of the most detailed and awe-inspiring spectacles in film history. This multiverse fighting, pulling bits of other universes into our universe, is present throughout the entirety of the film and really is a sight to behold.

The most captivating performance in Doctor Strange is Cumberbatch’s, as he handles the tension between the dramatic and comedic aspects of many of the film’s scenes really well. Otherwise, there’s not much going on with the rest of the film’s cast. Rachel McAdams plays your typical, boring superhero love interest. Tilda Swinton is your usual mystical kung-fu master/teacher—the Ancient One. And Chiwetel Ejiofor is just the other half of the Mordo-Strange buddy-cop dynamic, though the film sets up his future role in the MCU rather nicely. Notably, Mads Mikkelsen’s villain, the rogue student Kaecilius, is weakly developed, though he looks rather menacing.

There’s a lot going on in Doctor Strange. Cumberbatch is a great addition to the already all-star cast of the MCU. This standalone origin story is fun, though it exhibits many of the typical problems of most Marvel standalone films—a poorly developed villain and subpar supporting characters. Marvel is at its best when it brings together its biggest heroes in its larger films. Doctor Strange is successful, holistically, in that it introduces Strange into the MCU. Now that we’ve gotten to know Strange, the filmmakers can throw him into the pot with the likes of Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and Bruce Banner— that’s when the real fun begins.

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The “Girl on Fire” burned bright once again on Nov. 4, the release date of Alicia Keys’s new album Here. Revitalizing Keys’s niche of R&B with gospel undertones and New York grit, HERE encompasses Keys’ desire to recognize both her roots and the struggles afflicting society today.

Keys grew up on the west side of Manhattan. A proud mix of African, Scottish, Italian, and Irish heritagHERE es, she RCA discove re d at a young age the value of diversity that would prove essential to establishing her sound and message. Her natural inclination for music early on in her life culminated in wild success throughout the 2000s, including The Diary of Alicia Keys, As I Am, and Girl on Fire. In this time she also channeled her philanthropic drive into a prominent advocacy role in the HIV

and AIDS crisis in Africa, creating the Black Ball which raises millions of dollars annually for the cause.

Despite such success and charity, Keys acknowledges her frustration with her own inhibitions and with the current social climate as a primary source of inspiration for HERE. She notes that expectations and fear of judgment narrowed her sights before, but this kind of mentality can no longer persist in these times of oppression toward black life. HERE embodies her conversion to a raw confrontation of reality as it is, accomplishing a sound that highlights her artistic and social boldness.

The album’s first single, “Blended Family,” was released Oct. 7 and portrays a modern ideal of familial love despite the depth surrounding family dynamics. The simplistic tone of three guitar chords is gradually paired with a strong drum pulse to create a layered, uplifting sound. A$AP Rocky joins in on the track with personal rap material, adding a grounded feel to the meaning of family roots.

The other tracks released with HERE follow the album’s trend of coalescing Keys’s classically soulful R&B voice with gospel and

even jazz flairs. “Holy War” speaks to the indoctrination of division in society, in both “sexuality and skin,” through a simplistic yet strong vibration that allows Keys’s earnest emotion to shine. “Illusion of Bliss” advances this emotional depth in its tale of a 29-yearold addict. A jazz-infused, desperate intensity built through the use of cymbals and cop car sirens fosters a transition into a euphoric, depressing reflection paired with a lone piano.

Another standout track is “The Gospel,” which uses a powerful drum line to develop the vibration of a march, reflecting a call to acknowledge how strength is born out of rugged upbringings. Keys notes that, despite rough beginnings in “ghetto universities [...] change is gonna come.” “More Than We Know” inspires boldness and boundary spanning through a gospel choir echo and vibrant drum beat enlivened by a novel buzz of everyday background voices, forming a feeling of community and unity.

Five unique interludes titled “The Beginning,” “Elevate,” “You Glow,” “Cocoa Butter,” and “Elaine Brown.” “The Beginning” delivers a slam poetry-esque performance that builds around a once-repressed voice becoming

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Exploring euphoria through jazz sounds and soulful R&B rythmns, ‘HERE’ is decidely powerful. liberated. “Elaine Brown” focuses on the, “sweat and tears,” of the “black mother,” and shows how children will honor the mothers who attempted to shield them from struggle once they achieve freedom.

Elaine Brown was an active member of the Black Panthers, the famous black nationalist group, which furthers the sense of black empowerment in Keys’s work. Conversely, “Elevate,” “You Glow,” and “Cocoa Butter” produce more light-hearted, conversationaltype pieces that instill serious messages, such

as a teacher explaining how, if she rubbed all her students’ faces with Vaseline, black and white alike, all would “glow.”

HERE symbolizes Keys’s daring pursuit of a grander voice in the social issues of today.

The clarity of Keys’s diverse vocal range is not lost on such a pursuit but instead enhances the raw sentiment of meticulously evoking lyrics and steady yet punching instrumental accompaniment. The album reflects a newlyemboldened voice of defiance that cannot be silenced, but is instead here to stay.

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One walks into the venue, finds a seat, and patiently awaits the beginning of the night.

As the music starts, if they’re not careful, they might forget that they are at a Heightsmen show at all. It is almost impossibly bizarre to say so, but the Heightsmen, BC’s only all-male a cappella group, are often just as good as the artists they cover—if not better. Such was the case at last Friday’s Fall Invitational.

Looking stylish as ever in their suit jackets and maroon-gold ties, the Heightsmen took Robsham’s stage with a bang. The group carries with it an undeniable sense of class—something that it does better than perhaps any other club on campus. As the first strains of Ward and His Dominoes’

“Sixty Minute Men” echoed through the auditorium, it became clear that the audience was in for a treat.

It’s not the first time that this has been said—and it certainly won’t be the last—but the way in which the Heightsmen match their covered artists (while still adding a unique twist) is truly unfathomable. Go listen to the original version of “Sixty Minute Men” that Billy Ward performed at the height of the doo-wop movement, and this point will become evident. Comparing this to the Heightsmen is almost humorous, as the group matches the style with an absurd level of mastery.

Of course, the Heightsmen are not limited to that one song. The night was filled with high points, from the “Come Fly With Me” quartet, to the “My Girl” serenade. In fact, special recognition must go to David Lee, MCAS ’20, and Patrick McGrath’s, CSOM ’20, performance on Friday—the

freshman duo unveiled new solos with the songs “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and “Leavin’,” respectively. These two Heightsmen shone brightest of all, proving that the group has a very, very bright future ahead should it choose to follow this path.

The Heightsmen were not the only centers of attention, however. The Dance Organization of Boston College (DOBC), as well as Sexual Chocolate, lended their hands—or feet, rather—to the Heightsmen Fall Invitational. DOBC’s performances are always entrancing to watch. It is as though the dancers draw you into their world and do not let go—more often than not, audience members may find themselves locked in a dance-induced daze as they watch. At least, that seemed to be the case last Friday.

On the opposite end of the dance spectrum lies Sexual Chocolate. Relying on humor, fortitude, and a penchant for ridiculous levels of timing and accuracy,

BC’s all-male step team is the very picture of energy and strength. The way in which Sexual Chocolate lights up a room with its performances truly does explain its levels of fan-favoriteness on BC’s campus. Sexual Chocolate’s skit on Friday night, which explored the evolution of music from the Stone Age until the year 3,000, rocked the room with laughter and awe. Never let it be said that dance is simple, easy, or boring—Sexual Chocolate is pure evidence to the contrary.

The night would not have been complete, naturally, had a few Heightsmen not tried their hand at dance. As has happened for several years, the freshman members of the Heightsmen took the stage about halfway through the show to prove their talent alongside DOBC and Sexual Chocolate.

Though the results may not have been quite so impressive on a technical level, the dancers were, in fact, hilarious. Perhaps the

funniest part of the night, the youngest of the Heightsmen were forced to put on a dance (encompassing music from genres across the ages) to prove their dedication to the club.

This low-level, all-in-good-fun test made the Heightsmen seem less like a group of guys from across the country, and more like a family. Even through all the laughter, the event truly was heartwarming.

All fun and games aside, the Heightsmen Fall Invitational was one of the most serene events on BC’s campus in a while. DOBC and Sexual Chocolate make for some excellent changes of pace, but closing one’s eyes and letting the vocal reverberations of the Heightsmen wash over the room is one of the most unique experiences a BC student can have.

Be sure to make it to the next show if possible—if it is anything like last Friday, there will not be a single disappointed soul in the house.

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Be yond Borders : Identitie s and Perceptions in Today’s World is a compilation of international photographs taken and submitted by members of the Boston College community. The cohesive collection of distinctly different photographs that come together to create one united celebration of cultural diversity in the Level One Gallery of O’Neill Library. Featured from Nov. 1 through Nov. 30, this exhibit is being showcased by the Office of International Students & Scholars and BC Libraries.

The galler y ’s showcase also ser ves a larger purpose. “The exhibit is part of ‘International Education We ek ,’ a nationwide initiative with the goal of fostering international education,” states the BC online events page. BC’s “International Education Week” will run from Nov. 7 through Nov. 18.

The collection includes 25 photographs that all provide unique and fascinating insights into global identity and international culture. Some pieces are more straightforward than others, simply celebrating certain buildings or cities, while others delve deeper into political and emotional aspects of each foreign lifestyle.

The first photograph, entitled Beginning

by Chunhui Li is a wistful image of a woman staring at the camera. Awash with lateevening glow, she peers from behind her hair across her face.

“This photo was taken after a tough workday in the village [...] Her tired face in this evening is so attractive for me,” Li describes in her caption.

Vibrant with brilliant colors, Tibetan flags, mountains, and clouds, Shangri-La by Jinting Fu provides a scenic view that serves as a dreamy escape from urban landscape.

“The photo was taken in May 2014 in Yading, Sichuan Province, China. The place is also known as Shangri-La described by James Hilton in his novel, Lost Horizon,” Fu writes.

The beauty of the picture serves as a testament to the inspiration the area has become.

Much like Shangri-La, Erik Eppig’s photo, Revolution Redux, uses a wide array of colors to illustrate a picture of distinct beauty. Where Fu’s photo dwells in pure happiness, however, Eppig captures of scene of contrast.

“Taken at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, this photo displays stark juxtapositions between peace and violence, growth and stagnation, life and death,” Eppig states. The young Ukrainian girl shown whimsically dancing in front of a memorial embodies that inherent human innocence.

The pattern of introspection continues with Yi Zhao’s Fruit, Drinks, Ghanaian Girls. The juxtaposition of hostility and approachability define the theme of this photograph. “Ever y time our shuttle stopped, there would be groups of young

boys and girl, gathering around with fruits and drinks on their heads. People there made a living by sell [sic] local products to the travelers.” This insight into a different culture and custom is the perfect example of this exhibit’s theme.

Featured photographer Jae Berr y ’s experience attending the Tongdo Monastic College in South Korea was defined by his work in the rice kitchen. His photo entitled Rice Kitchen, although taken in black and white, gives off an intense energy. It’s as though you can feel the heat emanating from hearth and smell the rice crust scorching in the pots. The wispy waves of smoke fight for space among the pots and pans in the hectic environment.

This kind of palpable energy can also be found in Sarah Gross’s Moshav Modiin Art Fair. Capturing the Moshav Modiin Fair in Israel, this image is alive with bright lights and a technicolor crowd. The widespread conversations and interaction among the people gives the picture an inherent buzz.

Old & New by Emily Sosrodjojo gives a sneak peek into a living room depicting the knick knacks, CDs, television screens, and photographs that adorn the shelves.

“This is a picture of a glass showcase from my grandparents’ house (Indonesia) that is filled with gems from my dad’s childhood,” Sosrodjojo writes. “It contains the roots of my identity.”

It is in this description that the message of the exhibit is driven home: the need to see, and honor, the variety of identities.

In the poem “Man and the Echo” W. B. Yeats asked, “Did that play of mine send out / Certain men the English shot?” He was, of course, referring to what he viewed as his role in the Easter Rising of 1916. Yeats, however, was actually in London during the Easter Rising, likely embarrassed he couldn’t play a part in the revolution.

Yeats’s vanity can be forgiven—his place in Irish literature is indispensable—but one cannot brush aside the fact that so many larger forces were at work. W. H. Auden once asserted that “poetry makes nothing happen.” So perhaps it’s no surprise that Irish poet Paul Muldoon’s bitter response to Yeats’s question was: “Certainly not. / If Yeats had saved his pencil-lead / Would certain men have stayed in bed? / For history’s a twisted root / With art its small, translucent fruit / And never the other way round.”

The Easter Rising has never failed to highlight the emerging Irish literature of the early 20th century. Often neglected by this narrative, however, is the central role that women played. Just as World War II saw women assuming crucial roles, revolutionary Ireland witnessed women’s participation as couriers, nurses, and even sharpshooters, not to mention other critical roles. The Irish Women Rising: Gender and Politics in Revolutionar y Ireland, 1900-1923 exhibit, which began its display in Burns Library Oct. 17 and runs until March 17, focuses on six women in particular: Maud Gonne, Constance Markievicz, Margaret Skinnider, Kathleen Clarke, Mollie Gill, and Hannah SheehySkeffington.

Irish Women is stunningly dense, fe atu r i n g s i x l a rg e p l a c a rd s o f th e aforementioned women in the Burns corridor as well as another room of Easter Rising artifacts. Maud Gonne— undoubtedly the “celebrity” among the women featured—is the first placard one approaches. Better known as Yeats’s muse and the object of his lifelong infatuation,

Gonne made her mark upon the Republic of Ireland with her contribution as founder of the Daughters of Ireland, which she led for 14 years. Originally formed as a cultural protest against political, social, and feminist issues, the Daughters of Ireland evolved into direct protest against British rule.

With labor leader James Connolly, who was later executed, Gonne co-authored The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property.

Her claim to notoriety, however, stems from her connection to friend and fellow nationalist Arthur Griffith, through whom she met her husband John MacBride. The two fostered a child, Sean MacBride, who later came to serve as Irish Republican Army Chief of Staff and cabinet minister.

Later, Sean eventually became a founding member of Amnesty International as well as a U.N. Commissioner and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gonne was accused of assisting in the “German Plot” of 1918 along with fellow women Markievicz, Clarke, and SheehySkeffington, later imprisoned in Holloway Women’s Prison in London. Markievicz was elected as the first woman to British Parliament in the House of Commons in 1918. Like other members of Sinn Féin, however, she disavowed her seat.

Though the exhibit focuses upon the six integral women, the most artistically impressive component of Irish Women lies in its inclusion of various remnants of revolutionary art. One such example is the table-sized banner by Gonne, influenced by the “Fellowship of the Four Jewels,” which references the four treasures bequeathed to Ireland by mortals: the Sword of Light of Nuada, the Spear of Lugh, the Cauldron of Dagda, and the Stone of Fal. Additional representations of this piece of included in Celtic Wonder Tales next to Gonne’s placard.

Ultimately, what makes the exhibit worthwhile is an original Easter Rising Proclamation. It forces one to contemplate the material consequences of not only the six women specifically honored, but also the sheer work done by women behind the scenes.

8 Aflie\p kf k_\ 9fjkfe ?flj\ f] 9cl\j ]fi >iflgcfm\ Xe[ DLE8 GRIFFIN ELLIOTT Often a concert is merely a display of a band’s ability to perform live: to prove that its commercial success is more than just studio wizardry. Rarely does a band come on stage and deliver more. Grouplove, however, did just that on Thursday night.

Having never been to the House of Blues, experiencing the two-block long line and aggressive security were nothing less than an annoyance. Getting onto the general admission floor made all of that angst go away. Unlike many other concerts in the Boston area, this one was filled primarily with college-age millennials, all of whom seemingly could not wait for Grouplove to take the stage. Before they would perform, however, two openers played. The first two acts of the night: Dilly Dally and MUNA.

Often openers can thrive in their unpopularity, relative to the main act. Dilly Dally, who played first on Thursday night, certainly was going for gold, performing with confidence not reminiscent of a band whose top song just recently breached 1 million plays on Spotify. While Dilly Dally was ready to embrace the crowd, the crowd wasn’t so eager to return the favor.

The band’s lead singer loosely clutched her guitar while belting out high-pitched, perhaps randomly-timed screams. This was not the upbeat, alt-pop the crowd paid for—this was hardcore grunge. While some concert-goers embraced the commotion, others were put off by the hectic set. The band seemed an odd choice of opener for such a cheery main act.

For those who didn’t love the heavy grunge exuded by Dilly Dally, MUNA was a refreshing relief. While not necessarily

upbeat, MUNA’s clean and modern sound elevated the overall feel of the crowd.

Electronic beats harmoniously fused with strong instrumentals and vocals made for a pleasurable experience. MUNA’s experience on the stage shone through as well.

Coming to the end of its final song, every member of the band formed into a line on the stage, and they jumped synchronously with each other to the beat. The crowd responded well to the band, but was still restrained in its anticipation of Grouplove.

The intermission between MUNA and Grouplove seemed to take forever. Just as the band was about to perform, “Come Together” by The Beatles played through the venue’s speakers. The crowd belted the song to the very end, when the lights went black and the crowd exploded.

Having last seen Grouplove in Dec. 2013 at The Rave Club in Milwaukee, it was

immediately apparent that the band was more mature, not only in its musical portfolio but even more generally in its overall stage presence. While Grouplove released a new album this year, its stage composure truly shone through on its most popular songs from older albums. Most notably, “Colours” and “Shark Attack” energized and engaged the audience in a way that few other bands could. There was not a soul on the floor who wasn’t dancing, and the band members added to the excitement by repeatedly throwing themselves into the crowd.

The title of Grouplove’s most recent album, Big Mess, encapsulates the philosophy of the band. It is exciting and unpredictable. In the middle of the set, the stage lights changed from green and blue to red, and the lead guitarist, Christian Zucconi, laid down a familiar guitar track:

Grouplove was playing the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage.” The crowd did a double take, and followed suit, the entire crowd turning into a huge mosh pit.

At the end of the Grouplove concert in 2013, the young band came back on stage, bowed to the crowd, and used a GoPro to film the crowd and concert venue before finally leaving the stage. Though the crowd loved the gesture at the time, it was nonetheless a sign of a younger, less-experienced band, still wide-eyed at the sight of a boisterous crowd. At the end of the concert on Thursday, instead of personally filming the crowd, Zucconi honored his father, who sat in the upper mezzanine seats of the venue.

Grouplove had made it.

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In keeping with my literary analysis of Walker Percy, I find myself drawn to a particular notion that seems to prevail within his novels. As he explores the woes of being a writer, Percy’s Love in the Ruins grapples with the notion of emotional motivation among the citizens of the small, fictional Louisiana town of Paradise. Percy delves into why we feel the way we do and how we cope with it.

When one is feeling happy, there are innumerable sources to which one may credit that happiness. But when the same scene is set for the unpleasant emotions of sadness, regret, and apathy, without the source, the implication is a recipe for depression.

Percy finds as much in one of his characters. The man, wrought in self-doubt and alienation, can confide in no one as he searches for the root of his painful depression. Pleading with the divine, he asks for a miracle—something to justify the way he feels, for his suffering cannot be for nothing. Then his daughter is diagnosed with a terminal disease. As if to retroactively justify all his past woes, the man now has a reason to feel the way he does.

In life, we often look to the past to motivate our current status or disposition. What seems counterintuitive is to look to the future. A man in the throes of depression looks for a reason, any reason, to justify his current state. Why would he feel such a way without reason? But as Percy explores in the novel, these things come at a cost.

As the man rejoices in his newfound self-understanding, he has to deal with the impending death of his daughter. Her dying is a gift from the divine in his eyes, as his internal strife has become manifest in the physical world. One of the most poignant lines in the novel comes when he questions, just for a moment, if his silent wish should have come true.

“Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?”

It is reminiscent of a God who does not give you what you expect, though it is precisely what you asked for. It reminds me of a moment in Evan Almighty when God explains the nature of prayer and miracles. Looking onto Evan’s wife, God lovingly says, “If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous?”

For Percy’s character, would God give him solace or a moment to find solace?

But such comfort in death, strange as it is, was only a passing remedy. As his daughter passed, the solace and understanding was taken away all at once as he had to find something else into which he could funnel his depression.

This is a very pertinent notion in the modern world as we look to find the reason we feel the way we do. As previously stated, we are very accustomed to the cause-effect relationship associated with our feelings. That notion is directly orientated with looking back in time. But, as if through clairvoyance, can one also look to the future?

I’ve found that the way in which we deal with our emotions is so deeply rooted in cause and effect, that any deviation from it is cause for internal anguish.

When we have reason and purpose to feel bad, we are okay with it. The thought of meaningless torment does not sit well.

In Westworld, Ed Harris, as the Man in Black, states in a recent episode that people come to the park to find purpose, a quality the real world lacks. He delves into the suffering, pain, and bloodshed of a world where it certainly has a deeper meaning. There always has to be meaning.

So when we are looking for the heart of our discontent and discomfort, though we may look to lessen its effects on us, it is considerably more comforting to know that all the suffering has a meaning and that the emotional torrents we endure are not for nought.

FROM MIND TO MIC.

FRANCISCO RUELA / HEIGHTS EDITOR

JR Aquino performs covers, originals at the annual Asian Caucus event.

9P :?I@J =LCC<I 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi There are a lot of spots across Boston College’s campus that are great for the litany of events that the school hosts on a weekly basis. Robsham Theater is Lower Campus’ perfect, tucked-away nest for all theatre productions and the bigger arts events and lectures throughout the academic year. Gasson 100 has the perfect atmosphere for the many classical concerts that run through BC’s oldest building.

Stokes Lawn and O’Neill Plaza are great spaces for outdoor concerts and dances—at least before winter hits. And The Rat has one of the most intimate settings available to those looking to host any sort of arts event.

BC’s Asian Caucus must have come to this conclusion too, as the group hosted, alongside BC’s a cappella group Against the Current, its annual From Mind to Mic in The Rat last Thursday night. The basement/dining hall featured a candlelit ambiance that was perfect for the night’s performances.

The setting enhanced the tranquility that both Against the Current and the Asian Caucus exuded throughout the event.

This year, the Asian Caucus welcomed YouTube sensation and singer JR Aquino to perform a few covers and original songs of his, as well as to have a discussion with this year’s moderator Christine Minji Chang, the executive director of Kollaboration, a nonprofit organization promoting Asian Pacific Islander American artists. After Aquino’s performance, the two sat down for about 30 minutes to discuss the Asian-American’s role and position in the entertainment industry today.

The discussion was particularly enlightening, as both Aquino and Minji Chang have spent quite a bit of their adult lives working in and around show business.

After the emcees gave a brief introduction to the event, detailing the group’s history, Against the Current took to the stage to open Aquino’s performance with a few a cappella numbers.

The group took on the Katy Perry classic “Unconditionally” and the Black Eyed Peas’ “Where is the Love?”—both stunning renditions.

The duality between the quick rap coming from the front of the group and the more melodious chorus in the background was especially well delivered.

Though Against the Current’s performance was enjoyable, some sort of collaboration with Aquino

would have been more captivating than just having the group open for him. This sort of collaboration, however, is probably more easily discussed than put into action.

Having performed its small set, Against the Current left the stage as the emcees came on to introduce the evening’s moderator. This seemed a bit strange, as the emcees introduced Minji Chang just so she could immediately introduce Aquino.

Though a minor point, it seemed unnecessary.

Regardless, Aquino soon graced the stage with his presence, dawning his beautiful acoustic guitar and charming smile.

Many performers can be funny and personable, but few are really both to the extent that Aquino is. Throughout his performance, Aquino would inject humor straight into the song he was singing, changing lyrics as he saw fit. In one instance, Aquino changed out a name in a song with that of Tim, an audience member that Aquino had a particular fascination with. At another point, Aquino screwed up a lyric in his rendition of Drake’s “Hotline Bling.”

Immediately after doing so, he, keeping with the melody, sang, “I know that I screwed that up.” The audience erupted in a fit of laughter. These kinds of gags and interactions with the audience worked well for Aquino, as the audience was visibly extremely captivated with his performance.

Aquino performed a few covers of popular hits and then moved on to a few of his original s ong s . What was really impressive was that the audience was well aware of Aquino’s personal w o r k s .

Throughout his performances of

his “Rather Be (With You)” and “By Chance,” Aquino would eggon the audience on to sing the lyrics for him. This, at first, seemed like a bold decision, as it might be expected that not everyone was familiar with Aquino’s work. The large majority of the audience, however, sang along to the melody, not just mumbling the few words that they knew.

These types of moments spoke to Aquino’s talent and notability. Though not everyone at From Mind to Mic had probably heard of Aquino, he proved that he is a popular singer that has touched the hearts, minds, and ears of many people across the country.

Though Aquino’s original songs were very enjoyable, his covers really pumped up the crowd that gathered in The Rat. Aquino’s version of “Hotline Bling” was especially impressive, with his effective deconstruction and reconstruction of the song. Aquino had nothing but his acoustic guitar on stage. All in attendance necessarily noticed the conviction that was at the heart of Aquino’s performance.

After the thunderous applause that accompanied Aquino’s song died down, Minji Chang, alongside the evening’s emcees, hopped onto the stage to begin the discussion segment of the evening.

Minji Chang and Aquino held a very intriguing conversation, as the two actually know each other quite well. The chemistry between the two was palpable and contributed greatly to the discussion at hand.

Minji Chang and Aquino’s talk revolved around the broader condition of Asian-Americans in American entertainment industries and their personal experiences in these industries. While the performance half of From Mind to Mic was very entertaining and captivating, this discussion between Minji Chang and Aquino was equally, if not more, compelling.

From Mind to Mic offered students from all backgrounds a glimpse of AsianAmericans’ role and situation in the media and an intimate, awesome performance from a YouTube great. Aquino’s likeability was almost overwhelming and is definitely the key to his live performances.

Though he may be famous for his video work, Aquino made clear his appreciation for performing for live people.

“Live performances are something you can’t replace with a YouTube video,” Aquino said.

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