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BC’s Center for Corporate Citizenship will host managment program

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Boston College will play host this week to corporate managers from around the world for the Corporate Citizenship Management Intensive Program, run by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship based in the Carroll School of Management (CSOM). From today through Friday, managers specifically responsible for executing responsible business practices within their respective organizations will attend lectures , analy ze case studies, and participate in small group activities to enhance their skills in developing strategies for corporate citizenship, according to the center’s website. Dean of CSOM Andy Boynton, lecturer within the marketing department Bridget Akinc, and professor of organizational studies Mary Ann Glynn, as well as other members of the CSOM faculty, are among those who instruct managers who seek the center’s services. They are joined by several teaching fellows and the center’s executive director and part-time CSOM faculty member, Katherine V. Smith. The concept of corporate citizenship that the program and the center, in general, focus on emphasizes compliance with the spirit of the law, ethics, and international norms. The center conducts primary research on its member companies’ fields and provides advisory services on how those companies can better their business practices to reflect high standards of

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Campus School settles back in BY CONNOR FARLEY News Editor The 2014 spring semester was a tumultuous one for the Campus School of Boston College. After facing a seven-consecutive-year decline in enrollment and operating within facilities comparatively smaller than nearby Kennedy Day School (KDS)—a Brighton-based school for special needs students between ages 3 and 21 located within the Franciscan Hospital for Children—the Campus School was under extensive consideration by the University for relocation. Parents of Campus School students, however, were unenthused about the possibility. The relocation would have not only involved the transferring of students to a separate, non-BC owned medical facility, but also the merging of two programs—KDS and Campus School—within one building. Although THE Campion Hall space for the Campus School was less technologically equipped than KDS, many parents of Campus School children advocated against the program merger, largely on the premise that substituting a special collegial learning environment for a more hospital-ori-

ented one would detract from both student and volunteer experiences. The controversy surrounding the evaluation reached a zenith during the late winter months of last semester, when the students and families of BC’s Campus School held a prayer service in St. Ignatius Chapel for the continued stay of Campus School students on BC grounds. Attendees for the ceremony—including siblings of students, volunteers, and faculty members, numbered in the hundreds—all gathered to listen to volunteers’ stories and parental testimonies on the importance of having their children overseen within a University context. Nearly three weeks after the prayer service, following months of shared examination, the University announced that the Campus School would stay in Campion Hall, ending its consideration of a merger with KDS and thus a restructuring of the Campus School program. “The Campus School parents asked for an opportunity to keep the campus school at BC, increase enrollment, and balance the school’s budget, and we have agreed to give them this opportunity,” said then-Interim Provost

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Burns Library opens new classical literature exhibit BY NATHAN MCGUIRE Asst. News Editor

Through the end of December, the Burns Library will display an exhibit showcasing a small sampling of classical books published in the Everyman’s Library (EML) series, a project that aimed to create a collection of 1,000 volumes of classical literature that would appeal to every type of reader. The EML was first conceived in 1905 by the British publisher Joseph Malaby Dent and editor Ernest Rhys, according to the Burns exhibit’s website. The project’s goal was to create an affordable collection of some of the world’s greatest texts

In a statement circulated last week by English professor Carlo Rotella, the Boston College English department has announced that it will host Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Hobson, BC ’06, to speak with students on his investigative writing experiences as formed during his academic undertakings at the University. A graduate from BC with a major in English, Hobson, now 29, began his journalism career through several positions with a number of local news publications, including post as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and staff positions at Panama City News-Herald and Daytona Beach News-Journal. It wasn’t until 2011 that Hobson would join the Tampa Bay Times—the news outlet through which he would later earn a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for his coverage of homelessness and government misspending throughout the Hillsborough County area. Hobson was awarded the prize alongside colleague and fellow investigative reporter Michael LaForgia, who began writing for the Tampa Bay Times in 2012 and also helped expose government corruption on spending for the homeless across Hillsborough County. Defined by the Pulitzer Prize Board as an award for a distinguished example of coverage regarding significant issues of local concern, the award for local reporting was given to the two journalists for an extensive and lengthy investigation of living housing conditions for the homeless as funded by local government tax dollars. The stories revealed a longoverlooked absence of government concern for the county’s considerably

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that appealed to students, professionals, and everyday workers. J.M. Dent started publishing the collection in early 1906, but the World Wars and the Great Depression slowed down the process so much so that it took until 1956 for all 1,000 volumes to be published. The series was re-launched in the 1990s after J.M. Dent was sold in 1988. The collection can still be purchased today. The Burns exhibit, which started this month and is curated by Andrew Isidoro, an assistant at Burns Library, displays a handful of EML volumes that the library

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BC lets victory slip through its hands EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The new ‘Everyman’s Library’ display will run from October to the end of December.

Against No. 24 Clemson, the Eagles changed up their play calling in an attempt to charge past the Tigers’ defense. The offense’s success varied, though. Running back Tyler Rouse and wide receiver Josh Bordner dropped passes from quarterback Tyler Murphy at crucial points in the game, as BC saw its fourth quarter lead give way to a 17-13 Clemson victory, B1

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The Winston Forum on Business Ethics, the Environmental Studies program, and the College Republicans will host former U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. Inglis founded the national conservative grassroots organization Energy and Enterprise Initiative.

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On Wednesday at 4 p.m., book editor Claire Wolfteich will participate in a panel discussion as part of the launch for her book, “Invitation to Practical Theology.” The event will take place at 9 Lake Street, Room 100 on Brighton Campus, and it will be followed by a larger, sold-out event at Boston University.

Beginning Wednesday, the theatre department will present the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Performances will be Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for students, available through Robsham.

A czar, but Under new director, Voices of Imani sets no solution itself apart with band, gospel influence By Carolyn Freeman Heights Staff

Chris Grimaldi If there’s one thing that the GOP and early 20th-century Russian revolutionaries have in common, it is an impassioned scorn for the czar. While I’m certain Ted Cruz doesn’t have Anastasia on his movie list, I’m not talking about a return of the Romanov dynasty. Rather, the despot I have in mind is newly appointed Ebola czar Ron Klain. Without any medical expertise or past experience with global health, the former Chief of Staff to the Vice President has been tapped by the Obama administration to salvage a botched effort to contain the virus. And like everything else these days in Washington, a humanitarian crisis has become a politicized issue. This should come as no surprise in a country where partisan allegiance trumps all and turning problems into talking points is a vogue practice. Frankly, if Godzilla showed up on America’s shoreline, officials would be quicker to curry his support for the midterm elections than call King Kong for some much-needed backup. And as expected, both sides have conjured their own definition of “reasonable arguments.” Listen to the Right, and you’ll envision a situation in which health crisis and House of Cards collide—Cruz’s own footnote in the Book of Revelation. All across Sunday morning news shows, Cruz condemned Klain as a political operative. While I don’t think Obama personifies presidential competence, I do believe he has enough common sense to recognize that the magnitude of this situation transcends the spoils-system cronyism. Or does he? In a rare act of brilliance, Cruz points to the crux of an important issue—why Klain? Instead of forging an M.D. next to the new czar’s name, the Left has gone out of its way to tout his “managerial experience.” Sure, because everyone believes that managing political campaigns and containing global health crises are on the same playing field. How silly of us to think that in a country with some of the world’s most talented organizational leaders and medical professionals, Al Gore’s former campaign manager is the cream of the crop. Please, give us a break. We could go on and on dissecting the merits of the two parties’ arguments, but from the latest back-and-forth in Washington have emerged two major concerns. The first is the Obama administration’s struggle to gauge context. Mr. President, your country is 1) concerned over a global health crisis and 2) weary of constant politicization. So in my opinion, calling on a politically connected lawyer with no medical experience to tame Ebola is probably not the smartest call to make. The second and more concerning issue is the lack of agreement over what the main flaw in America’s effort against Ebola even is. Even with the most qualified appointee, a team cannot effectively resolve a conflict without cohesion. And it doesn’t help when some are calling it solely an issue of poor organizational management while others are emphasizing the importance of seriously addressing medical practices. All arguments and Czarist analogies aside, the likelihood of this virus ever posing a widespread threat to Americans is slim to none. But it does shed light upon leadership in this country that is pertinent to any situation—when the going gets tough here, who’s going to get going?

Chris Grimaldi is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at news@bcheights.com.

On Sunday afternoon, the crowd in Lyons Dining Hall jumped to its feet, swayed, and clapped to “Wade in the Water,” a 1901 Negro spiritual performed by Voices of Imani that encouraged the audience to participate at their first concert of the year on Oct. 19. Voices of Imani is the only gospel choir at Boston College. The singing organization performed several songs, including both originals and covers. In addition to the 35-person singing ensemble that comprises the group, Voices of Imani contains a gospel band that features a guitarist, keyboardist, bassist, and drummer, and for its Fall Jam, the band also included a trumpet player. Campus a cappella groups The Beats, The Dynamics, and Against the Current opened the show, with The Beats commencing the concert with “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—a poem historically referred to as the African-American National Anthem and a piece originated by the author James Weldon Johnson. Voices of Imani, which was founded in 1977, differs from other campus singing groups most notably due to the inclusion of a band. In addition, the group does not require auditions, which partially contributes to the choir’s large size. Although the band does not always perform alongside the singers, it joins in during Voices’ typically larger shows, such as the Fall Jam and the annual winter concert. The band adds an element of power that enhances the voices,

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Unlike the numerous a cappella groups on campus, Voices of Imani includes a band for its major performances. said director David Altenor, BC ’09. “It ’s a go sp el b and, and churches have a full band,” he said. “ We have music from that black church experience. We want the voices to be very powerful, but the band also enhances that feeling.” “When the band does perform with the choir, it brings energy to the crowd and to the singing ensemble,” said Bria Coleman, A&S ’15 and current president of Voices of Imani. “I think when you have a live band, it really excites both the choir and the crowd,” she said. “Live music always has that aspect about it. They bring energy to us.”

Altenor, who serves as the youngest director in the organization’s nearly four-decade histor y, sang with the choir while he attended BC as an undergraduate, but became assistant director three years after he graduated. It was just this year that he was named director of the singing ensemble. In addition to musical covers, Voices of Imani also composes and produces original songs. Altenor has written and produced several of the group’s original songs, including “Unbelievable”—which the choir performed during the show. Last year, Altenor also produced the Voices of Imani album Road To Heaven.

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David Altenor, who sang with Voices of Imani as a BC student, was named director of the ensemble this year.

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“When we have rehearsals we try to make it a very creative open space,” he said. “I bring all the music and I bring all the arrangements but we’re open to suggestions. We just let it flow.” In addition to several original songs , Voices of Imani performed numerous musical covers, including the American Negro spirituals “Go Down Moses” and “Sign Me Up,” which contain thematic references to Christianity and assimilation into the Church. In its most recent few years, members of the ensemble have started to incorporate more genres into to group’s performances, including spirituals and rock songs, Coleman said. “We’re singing a lot of different types of genres,” she said. “Now, everyone can find something that they like at Voices.” The ensemble not only sings, but also regularly commits to community service around the country during spring break. Altenor said that he hopes the group will eventually be able to travel beyond the U.S., spanning locations throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. “We’re really pushing the boundaries of what gospel can do … but at the same time maintaining that same history and spirituality,” he said. L ast year, members performed in New York, and this year Voices is slated to travel to Atlanta. The organization’s next performance in the 2014 year will be at the International Gospel Concert taking place at the Berklee Performance Center on Nov. 22. n

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What would have been one funnier place on Who is your favorite BC Dining employee? campus for Shwayze to perform besides the Rat? “Upper basketball court.” —Bryce Council, A&S ’18

“Carney.” —Betty Wang, CSOM ’17

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“The Newton bus.” —Grace Denny, A&S ’17

“O’Connell House.” —Tabitha Joseph, CSOM ’17

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Parents, University join together to maintain Campus School Campus School, from A1 Joseph Quinn in a statement to the Office of News and Public Affairs this past February. “We are all committed to making this plan work.” The administrative decision to continue the Campus School’s presence on BC property was made in light of a proposal submitted by Campus School parents, who joined to pitch a sustainability plan to the University. Through monthly planning meetings, parents collaborated with volunteers, administrators, and Campus School staff members to offer a strategic plan for the school’s future development, namely by way of enlarging its enrollment and increasing its budget. “While this is a very sensitive issue and stirs lots of emotions we also know there is a business model behind all successful institutions,” said Kristen Morin, co-president of the Campus School Parent Advisory Committee and BC ’86, in an email this February. “We did not want to make our case on emotion alone as that would prove to be a short-term solution. Rather our committee developed the outline of a new direction based on facts and potential outcomes to create a sustainable program.” Now, midway through the first semester following the merger consideration, the Campus School has begun taking steps to implement its strategic plan, which was developed toward the end of the spring semester and approved by a team of parents and University administrators over the summer. “[The University] worked with us to identify what was it that made this so important that we stay on campus … to keep the Campus School of Boston College, not the Campus School of Brighton or anywhere else,” Morin said. Upon the agreement first being reached in February, Quinn and thenVice President of Human Resources Leo Sullivan led most of the administrative coordination between the Campus School and the University. Over the next several months, though, the executive support team of University administrators grew to include Provost and Dean of Facul-

ties David Quigley; Dean of the Lynch School of Education Maureen Kenney; Associate Vice President of Advancement Operations and Planning Brenda Ricard; Director of the Budget Office Brian Smith; and graduate lecturer in the Carroll School of Management Scott McDermott, among others. “So, once it was decided that we would stay, the idea was, ‘how do we go from surviving to thriving?’” Morin said. The strategic plan centers on two main themes under which nearly all initiatives will fall: marketing and fundraising. Prior to a refocusing on its marketing capabilities, Morin noted that the Campus School had relied heavily on years of aggregated prestige and word-of-mouth reputation, which enabled an average enrollment of just over 40 students over the last seven years, but also one that had seen a drop-off from 49 students in 2007 to just 38 in 2014. Over the course of their monthly meetings, the planning team worked to develop a re-branding strategy that would effectively generate a rebounded enrollment in future years and maintain the financial stability to do so. Through a series of internal restructurings and a revised emphasis on marketing tools such as promotional materials, an increased social media presence, and a working relationship with BC’s Office of News and Public Affairs, Morin noted that the Campus School is taking on a new, muchneed marketing role. Internal restructuring is slated to include more general marketing responsibilities across most staff positions; the creation of a new board of advisors, composed not only of BC-affiliated members, but also third-party special needs education professionals; and the addition of student interns to help develop methods of image enhancement and publicizing the quality of services offered by the Campus School. McDermott, who directs BC’s MBA Consulting Service, has arranged for three to four CSOM student interns to fulfill a variety of marketing roles for the Campus School in January, according to Morin, who has been a driving force be-

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After months of debate over the future of its location last semester, the Campus School and BC have formed a partnership to continue the program. hind the Parental Advisory Committee. As part of the marketing expansion, the planning team also collaborates with Inspire, a national non-profit consulting firm comprised of volunteers seeded from industry-leading consulting firms such as Deloitte and L.E.K. Once Inspire had assisted the planning team with methods of improved marketing and balancing the budget, Morin said that the second phase of the Campus School’s relationship with the volunteer consulting group will focus on implementation. “We were fortunate to be able to work with a group that could help us with the development of that strategic plan,” said Campus School Director Don Ricciato, who for years has overseen the leadership of the Campus School. “We’re trying to establish a number of students in the program that do allow the [Campus School] to thrive and so that we’ll be able to continue to offer the services that we have, he said. Along with new marketing measures that also include a promotional video produced by the Office of News and Public Affairs for the school, the team evaluated new ways of sourcing funds for the school by working with Ricard and

Vice President of University Advancement Jim Husson. “Our relationship with [University] Advancement over the years had been weak in the sense that we were relying too heavily just on volunteer money that was raised through the Campus School Volunteers through their events,” Morin said. For its renewed fundraising efforts, the Campus School has recently worked with Ricard to conduct a formal financial appeal for donations from its far-reaching listservs of students, families, and BC alumni starting this November—a initiative never before undertaken by the school. The Campus School website has also undergone a redesign for donation accessibility, making the online section for donating a more noticeable feature of the site. With the bulk of its fundraising significantly derived from annual events such as the annual Campus School marathon, the absence of that marathon in 2014 resulting from a Boston Athletic Association ban on “bandit” runners prompted parents and staff to look for alternative funding beyond annual donation drives,

Ricciato noted. “We have done some fundraising, but not to the extent that we would like,” he said. “This is not just a Campus School problem—I mean, certainly any non-profit organization but particularly private and publicly funded special education schools are always looking at outside sources of income beyond the state-approved tuition rate.” The majority of Campus School financing is allocated toward staff wages, with 78 percent of the school’s annual operating budget covering salaries. Ricciato said he hopes the upcoming appeal in November will help supplement that financing. “This is all being done with the support and the systems of the University’s advancements office, which is huge,” he said. For Morin, this year’s expansion of marketing and financing goals marks the beginning of a new, more aware identity of the Campus School, and one that, in partnership with the University, intends to keep students at BC. “We’re actually trying away from that feeling of the past,” she said. “It’s changed so much. It’s all forward now.” n

English department to host Pulitzer prize-winning alum Hobson, from A1 large homeless population—placing millions in danger under highly unsafe living conditions. Published in seven installments over the span of six months, the combined reporting of Hobson and LaForgia exposed a major lack of governmental oversight regarding Hillsborough County’s Homeless Recovery program—a

local effort to provide safe transitional housing for the poor. What they found chronicled a much different reality. Contrasting the program’s proclaimed initiative to locate large portions of the county’s homeless population in safe housing, which was founded in 1989, Hobson and LaForgia detailed how local government was spending millions in tax-payer dollars on crimeinfested, squalid living conditions,

often subjecting families to the danger of slumlords. The series, now accessible in an interactive online format via the Tampa Bay Times website, prompted a speedy government response, and it continued with in-depth interviews from seven members of Hillsborough County’s Commission regarding their perspectives on homelessness. The prize was awarded last April by

the President of Columbia University Lee Bollinger, and with it a Pulitzerbacked $10,000 intended for journalistic purposes of the authors’ choosing. Rotella, who also serves as the director of the American Studies program and director of the Lowell Humanities Series, will moderate the discussion throughout the speaking engagement. Hobson’s return to BC will mark the first of multiple Pulitzer-Prize winning

speaking events on campus this academic year, which also include media editor Gareth Cook, who won the 2014 award for Best American Infographics, and bestselling author Sheri Fink, who also earned a Pulitzer for her news writing. The event is scheduled to take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27 at 10 Stone Ave., located just off of Beacon St. n

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The new exhibit on display in the Burns Library showcases personal works of some of the 20th century’s most prominent authors.

‘Everyman’s Library’ opens in Burns Everyman’s Library, from A1 houses in its permanent collection. “One of the distinct features of the exhibit is that it draws on the personal collections of many of the prominent 20th-century authors whose personal papers, and in some cases personal libraries, we hold in Burns Library,” said Christian Dupont, Burns librarian and associate University librarian for Special Collections, in an email. Burns Library primarily houses the University’s special collections, rare books, and University archives, but it also holds the personal libraries of authors Rex Stout and Flann O’Brien, both of whom owned copies of the EML collection. In addition to showing the various Burns collections that contain EML vol-

umes, the exhibit also aims to show how the EML changed over time. When the idea was first conceived, J.M. Dent wanted each of the 13 categories to have a different design and was intent on keeping the price low at one shilling a volume, so as to appeal to every reader. To mark the 100-year anniversary of the original project in 2006, Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House publishing, released a collectable set of 100 of the bestselling titles from the EML. The full set now includes authors from Plato to Rousseau to Roald Dahl. According to Dupont, the Burns exhibit attempts to demonstrate the important role that publishers have played in shaping reading habits. “[It] show[s] how many of the prominent individuals for whom we have substantial manuscript collections

owned copies of books published in the EML series,” he said. After publishing all 1,000 volumes in 1956, publisher J.M. Dent sold over 50 million copies of the series. The exhibit at BC is just a small sampling of the series, but showcases some works owned by renowned authors. British novelist Graham Greene’s personal copy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann, for instance, is displayed in the exhibit. Rex Stout’s personal copy of great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s The Pretenders and Two Other Plays, is also displayed. Following the exhibit’s closure at the end of December, the book will be returned to the shelves of Burns Library, where students and faculty can consult it in the library’s reading room. n

corporate citizenship. Founded in 1985 as the Center for Corporate Community Relations, the re-named Center for Corporate Citizenship was created in response to changing community expectations of corporations’ social responsibility. The driving force behind the center’s formation was Edmund Burke, dean of the Graduate S cho ol of S o cial Work (GSSW) from 1971 to 1976 and GSSW ’56. An expert in community planning and domestic policy, Burke also served in the White House in the Jimmy Carter administration before founding the center. A concept that Burke originated and infused into the center’s mindset is that of “neighbor of choice,” meaning that a company must build trust within its neighborhood by, for example, having its workers participate in local events and fundraisers. In doing so, it aims to establish a positive relationship with the community and earn a metaphorical “license to operate.” In addition to direct advising services, the center offers the opportunity for its 400-member companies—embodying over 10,000 individuals that the center engages per year—to network and collaborate on best practices in corporate citizenship. Member companies can also come together to improve their skills and learn about the latest developments

in the field at a number of regional conferences and programs that the center sponsors, including the one taking place at BC this week. The center’s website notes that its strength lies in being a “one-stop resource for professionals seeking information and insights that will help companies achieve maximum business and social value from their environmental, social, and governance investments.” The facets of a business’s strategy on which the center focuses include connecting corporate citizenship to the goal of sustainable corporate development, assessing organizational culture, critiquing current methods of reporting corporate citizenship performance, and e valuating corporate citizenship communication techniques. Beyond specialized research projects for individual member companies, the center also conducts a biennial survey on the attitudes of business executives toward corporate citizenship and releases a State of Corporate Citizenship Report. According to the center’s website, the most recent report—released in 2012—found that companies aligning corporate citizenship strategy with their overall corporate strategy were more likely to achieve key business objectives, and projects related to environmental sustainability are becoming a central funding priority for many companies. n

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Sparking social justice conversations on campus A student walking through O’Neill Plaza, the Quad, or Stokes Lawn is likely to have encountered one group of students or another with signs and slogans, trying to raise awareness of issues as diverse as climate change and justice in Palestine. Many of these clubs are relatively small, with a core group of students passionate about the group’s one concern. Last fall, a group of students came together to found the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) in order to create a forum that brings the many disparate social justice concerns into a single conversation. At a university with a stated commitment to social justice, it is encouraging to see a forum for social justice-oriented groups that often share related concerns. SJC provides a valuable opportunity for the smaller, specific social justice clubs to meet, exchange ideas, and collaborate their efforts. Every other Monday, SJC brings in a speaker from outside the BC campus to share his or her experience with students of a broad variety of concerns. Through both its forum and speaker series, SJC provides

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. -Dante Alighieri (c. 1265 - 1321), Italian poet, “Father of the Italian Language”

a bridge between volunteering, in which so many BC students are engaged, and the discussion of theory and macro-level involvement, which often seems unaddressed outside of PULSE classrooms. SJC is also effective at mobilizing students and bringing them into larger social justice movements outside the boundaries of Chestnut Hill. Right now, it is coordinating students to participate in the Global Day of Health Rally on the Boston Common. It is significant that SJC assists students in finding occasions to express themselves publicly, because the opportunity for and interest in protest at BC is limited. Bringing together socially conscious students is a noble pursuit, and it is noteworthy that the SJC has been successful in facilitating dialogue between those students on BC’s campus at a level of important concerns that transcends an individual group’s purview. SJC has unlocked the potential for attracting greater attention and membership to clubs that might otherwise be unable to by connecting the smaller sociallyminded groups.

An improved outlook for the Campus School The spring of 2014 marked both a distressed time for the Campus School of Boston College—the University’s campus-based, non-profit special needs school for children between the ages of 3 and 21—and an unprecedented strain on the relationship between the University and Campus School parents. In light of a consistent enrollment decrease over the past seven years coupled with the facilities becoming outmatched by other area special needs programs, University administrators, along with Campus School Director Don Ricciato, entered into a mutual agreement to evaluate updated, expanded, and potentially more suitable learning environments for the continuation of the school. What was proposed by the University as a search for an improved quality of services for Campus School students, however, was perceived by most parents and many BC students as an affront to the identity of the Campus School and an abandonment of the collegial atmosphere that has long defined the program. Over the course of several months, parents and administrators clashed over the future location of the school, with parents rallying for its stay at Campion Hall and administrators continuing to consider seriously its relocation to Kennedy Day School (KDS)—a renovated, 80-student special needs program located within the Brighton-based Franciscan Hospital for Children. Although the proposed relocation of the school included a full transplant of staff, student volunteers, and teachers, parents largely feared that uprooting the nearly 40-year-old Campus School would not only strip the University of a necessary manifestation of BC’s mission, but also detract from the overall student experience by placing the program within a medical facility instead of a collegiate one. Following a sustainability plan offered by Campus School parents to then-Interim Provost Joseph Quinn and then-Vice President of Human Resources Leo Sullivan last February, an agreement was finally reached to keep the Campus School on BC grounds, and thus end the consideration of a merged program with KDS.

Despite the uncertainty—and occasional acrimony—surrounding the evaluation, the agreement signified a fruitful collaboration between the Campus School and University administrators, and it reflects an encouraging willingness on BC’s part to identify the best possible outcome for both the Campus School and the BC community. Not only has the University agreed to allow the Campus School to stay, but it has also seeded an impressive list of administrators onto the strategic planning committee for the longterm growth and development of the Campus School. Administrative members from departments spanning University Advancement to the Budget Office have agreed to participate in marketing and financing efforts for the Campus School and evidence BC’s commitment to the strengthening of the school’s enrollment throughout the coming years. Campus School parents and staff should also be commended for their enduring effort to revise the school’s internal operations, and for integrating even more of the BC community into the school by implementing new initiatives such as a pilot intern program for CSOM students and a first-ever donations appeal to the Campus School community scheduled for this November. Other collaborative improvements, including a promotional video produced by BC’s Office of News and Public Affairs, will likely not only enhance the appeal of the Campus School to both volunteers and families of special needs children, but also strengthen the connection of the University with the daily operations of the school, and therefore better comprehend its challenges and needs. If the Campus School is to enact fully its strategic plan, such a connection is vital to fulfilling that goal, which would benefit from the University’s financial and operational resources. While the forefront of the issue was, and must remain, the wellbeing of Campus School students and a continual commitment to the betterment of their education, the renewed University-Campus School partnership also serves as a positive model for how administrative decisions can be reached.

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Monday, October 20, 2014

The celebrity-politician quandary

Delphina Gerber-Williams

Head of the Charles - Great tradition, great race. If we weren’t in the Heights office on Sundays, we would definitely be there. Slow mode Video on iPhones - This feature isn’t new, but we just found out about it, and it is fantastic. You can slow down any video that you take, and it instantly becomes three times funnier. Butterfingers - Ever since we were children, this has been our favorite candy. We can’t quite explain why, but on the rare occasions (and they were indeed quite rare) that our mothers let us pick out a piece of candy in the check-out line at the grocery store, we would always choose Butterfingers without fail.

Butterfingers - On Saturday, Tyler Rouse seemed to have these and not the delicious yellow-wrapper-enclosed kind. Projects Due After Midterms - You just made us pull an all-nighter to cram for your midterm, and then you add insult to injury by making us pull another for a project due two days later? Actually, it’s not even insult to injury—it’s injury to injury. You don’t hit a guy when he’s down on the field, and you shouldn’t in the classroom, either. Come on, have some compassion. Standing at Football Games - Call us lazy, but we are really tired of this expectation that we stand for the entire game. Our feet are tired, we are losing, and we have quite had enough of this. BC Couches - We think there is a conspiracy among whoever at BC is responsible for selecting furniture at BC. We are sure they must have met up over a nice lunch supplied by BC Catering, and, after trading pleasantries about their wives and children, gotten down to the business of finding the most uncomfortable living room furniture known to man. Really, though, you have to scour the earth to find furnishings as uncomfortable as the couches in the senior dorms. We tried, mind you, and the only instance we found of couches as uncomfortable were from Soviet Russia. That doesn’t really count, though, because in Soviet Russia, couch use you. Weekend Elevators - Let us cram great masses of humanity into tiny spaces to move them vertically through buildings. Then we shall know them as they truly are. When the night is young, one can walk into the elevators of Ignacio and smell the cheap perfume, stale beer, and ebullient hopes and expectations of carousing youths as they do not go gentle out into the good night (or anything close, really). But as the night winds down and the witching hour approaches, the swarms return to roost, this time dejected and dispirited, and the elevators smell like sweat, vomit, sex, and regret. And we know them as they truly are.

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Barack Obama smoked pot, Mitt Romney strapped a dog to his car, Chris Christie closed lanes on the Washington Bridge, Anthony Weiner desperately needs a Twitter tutorial, and yes, Bill Clinton did have sexual relations with that woman. Open up the political section of any major newspaper these days, and it reads like an issue of US Weekly. How did politics become so scandalous? My first introduction to this racy world came at the tender age of eight. I was sitting behind my mother in our old minivan as she drove down 95 north well under the speed limit, tuned into NPR. “Paper or plastic?” the host purred over the radio. “Paper,” former president Bill Clinton responded, in a surprisingly serious tone considering the question. “Boxers or briefs?” She changed the station. Maybe politicians didn’t become nastier, maybe we just got nosier. In the U.S., we look to our founding fathers as the ideal politicians. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin—these are true geniuses of politics. Their faces stare up at us from the money we stuff into our wallets and pockets, and we read and reread their work, drooling over the sheer genius of it all. In a country that boasts separation of church and state, we’ve done an excellent job of canonizing these men. Yet, what we know of them is mainly their political work—we mostly revere their minds. They were the lucky ones—they weren’t around in the era of the television. They weren’t around when we

wanted to know what kind of underwear they preferred. Now, we need to know our politicians intimately. With the rise of television, our representatives aren’t only making laws and settling international disputes—now they are invited into our living rooms and kitchens, peering out from these 60-inch devices. We don’t explicitly say we want our president to have a wife or husband, at least one child, and go to church every Sunday, but it is comforting to think that the man we invite into our house is the loving father of two daughters, and is currently considering a second dog. Just imagine an unmarried woman with no religious affiliation being a serious candidate for president. We’ve only had one unmarried president, and that was in the 1850s. We aren’t the only country with this problem of making politicians celebrities. In England, the queen acts as the figurehead of the state, while the prime minister and Parliament govern. Here, politicians must be both figureheads and lawmakers. They must submit to our gossip and criticism and try to govern. They must work for us and give their lives to us. While campaigning, Romney wore a “suit” composed of jeans and a button-down in an attempt to distance himself from the world of CEOs that he actually occupies. Hillary Clinton was harassed over wearing a shirt that showed “too much cleavage.” And, most recently, Twitter and other media outfits covered Obama’s tan suit in the pressroom, but seemed to miss his actual briefing on ISIS. One wonders in retrospect, if image is so important, would Franklin Delano Roosevelt have looked strong enough to be leader of the free world? We expect a certain image, a certain lifestyle, a certain type of religion. Yes, it is hard to vote for a man who recently posted deeply intimate photos

on social media, but does this truly indicate anything about his stance on healthcare, immigration, or possible military intervention in Syria? John F. Kennedy had a poorly hidden affair, but this didn’t keep him from preventing nuclear Armageddon, establishing the Peace Corps, and assisting the Civil Rights Movements. Bill Clinton’s wandering eye didn’t keep him from the longest economic expansion in American history, lowest unemployment in 30 years, and significant increases in education standards. Yes, I would prefer if none of these scandals occurred. I don’t want a dog-neglecter holding public office, and I don’t want a philanderer in the governor’s mansion, but I do want to remember that there is a dividing line between public political abilities and private life. I don’t want to miss out on a political genius that could turn around Congress and solve the crisis in the Middle East because I didn’t like her or his image. I don’t want to miss out on the next FDR. This isn’t to say completely ignore morals when selecting a candidate. Of course, a crook shouldn’t be voted into office, and of course, someone with no moral compass should never be the leader of the free world. But these are issues that do have an impact on what type of official a candidate would be. It is difficult to ignore the media buzz—to ignore the Vine of Michelle Obama with a turnip—but remember that you aren’t voting for the candidate who is best fit to be the next member of your family. Detach the politician’s image from his or her political decisions and his or her potential as a maker of law and public policy. Leave celebrity to the celebrities— leave governing to the governors.

Delphina Gerber-Williams is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

The sports moments that matter most

Owen Lyons Hanging on the wall above my bed at home is a copy of the front page of The Boston Globe from Oct. 28, 2004, expressing the joy and exultation of New England in one simple word: “YES!!!” The reaction was, of course, in response to the Red Sox’s World Series victory over the Cardinals the previous night, the team’s first championship in 86 years. As Sox fans Maine to Connecticut celebrated with an exhausting mix of joy and manic relief, they attempted to avoid the big question, one that perhaps would have been appropriate for the front page for Oct. 29: “Now what?” For those of you unfamiliar with New England baseball culture, a Red Sox World Series win was spoken of in the same way that evangelists speak of Judgment Day. It was constantly on our minds, discussed in reverential, hopeful terms while we were painfully aware that it might never happen within our lifetime. With every lateseason or playoff loss, I could see it on the faces of the older members in my family—we’re running out of time. When a normal sports fan would experience frustration at bad moments in a game or season, Sox fans felt nothing short of despair. It became the region’s special bond—this destructive, seemingly hopeless wish whose chances of coming true had been dashed in some of the most excruciating ways possible. Pesky holding the ball at short in ’46, Bucky Dent’s home run in ’78, Buckner missing that grounder at first in ’86 … the list goes on, and any loyal Sox fan could tell you about all of them. Such a fan-hood transcended any rational thinking or reflection on what it meant to live a happy life—we couldn’t have turned our backs on the team, no matter how much pain it brought us each October, and no matter how hard we tried to forget it. There was no ignoring the

Curse of the Bambino. This irrational addiction is fueled by the main appeal of sports—that the results are unpredictable, yet cannot be argued once completed. One may complain about questionable calls and bad luck, but such claims cannot make the winner envy the loser. Whereas a theater production or music performance has an expectation of perfection and can leave each audience member with a different level of satisfaction, a sporting event has no such challenge. It is impossible to know who will win a certain game beforehand—and equally impossible to debate it after the fact. Yankees fans love boasting about the 26 World Series rings won by the pinstripes during Beantown’s drought, but what they fail to admit, at least publicly, is that enduring a lifetime of sports heartbreak only to be redeemed in the most dramatic way possible—winning four consecutive elimination games against one’s biggest rival—brought more joy than all 26 Yankees titles combined. Although a World Series victory was in doubt until Keith Foulke tossed the final out to Doug Mientkiewicz, the indisputable triumph as Mientkiewicz caught the ball allowed Boston faithful to revel in pure and certain joy. And revel they did. The moment held such significance that my parents—to this day never faltering in their conservatism regarding my drinking—allowed my 9-year-old self to sip champagne after the final out. (My fake was pretty good back then.) Phone calls were made, tears were shed, and memories from seasons past were recounted as fans rejoiced in partial disbelief. The moment was perfect. Ten years later, with the Sox finishing in last place, one year removed from another World Series, I miss it. As a 9-year-old kid who had just experienced two incredible years of playoff baseball—2003 was heartbreaking, but thrilling nonetheless—I had no idea that moments like these happen as rarely as once in a lifetime. Sometimes, I’ll go back and watch Game 4 and 5 of the ALCS that year in a feeble attempt to relive it, but the nostalgia hurts so badly that it’s tough to finish

the whole thing. The 2004 championship team disbanded quickly. Pedro left that winter, followed by Johnny Damon, Trot Nixon, Curt Schilling, Manny Ramirez, and many others in the ensuing years. They were replaced with the likes of Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez, Jason Bay, Jacoby Ellsbury, and J.D. Drew, some of whom were part of a likable bunch that captured the 2007 World Series crown. This time, however, there would be no champagne or jubilant phone calls—I watched the clinching Game 4 by myself. Nobody else in my family cared enough to stay up. Red Sox Nation once again rejoiced, but without the same relish as three years before. We were just ordinary fans following an ordinary team. It was everything we wanted, until it wasn’t. This isn’t to say we can’t appreciate special sports moments. Following the 2013 championship team made for a spectacular fall, as watching a cohesive, lovable group of castoffs heal a disgraced franchise and a broken city made New Englanders remember how special sports can be. Once again, David Ortiz—the lone remaining player from the 2004 team—rallied his team and city behind him, cementing his legacy as one of Boston’s greatest athletes ever. It was captivating to watch. Yet, still I miss the days when a World Series ring and beating the Yankees were matters of life and death, when Sox fans generations apart could bond over their mutual everlasting hope for deliverance. I will continue to follow my team religiously—memorable sports moments can happen at any time, and I’ll want to be watching. But with the satisfaction and relief of a Red Sox championship, each ensuing one became a luxury, not a necessity, and fan-hood seems more fickle and childish than before. And so, that same question that lingered in the aftermath of 2004’s celebration continues to haunt Boston fans in moments of reflection and recollection: now what?

Owen Lyons is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@ bcheights.com.

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In the end, who pays? Andrew Millette Let’s be honest, do you actually pay for HBO GO? Do you really own a Netflix subscription? I’m sure you watch HBO GO, but I’m just wondering who is paying for it. Is it the ex-boyfriend of your cousin’s old dog sitter? It’s saved on your computer, but whose HBO GO password is that anyway? Someone, in a complex web of friends, family, coworkers, and acquaintances, is actually paying for that entire web’s ability to enjoy Game of Thrones. Someone has created real value for that web, and the rest are just riding the waves of that person’s labor straight into their 10^nth episode of Entourage. We learn in Macroeconomics 101 about the balance of trade. We export goods and services to other countries, and we import goods and services from other countries into the U.S. The value of imports and exports, one would initially imagine, would have to be equal, because why would one country give up something for nothing? For the U.S., this is not true. We have been running massive trade deficits since the early ’90s. Last year, the deficit was about $470 billion. The only way that this relationship can work is if the other nations of the world are okay with purchasing U.S. financial assets, such as Treasury bonds, to balance out the deficit. Luckily, since the U.S. is viewed as the safest place for investment in the world, we are able to attract continuous foreign investment. The U.S. is special, and that’s why we get to use the rest of the world’s HBO GO passwords for free. The U.S.’s debt is now more than its annual GDP. Although we are not unique in this respect among the nations of the world, we again benefit from our status as the international reserve currency in terms of borrowing rates. Despite our massive debts, we still get to borrow from the international community very cheaply, in comparison to a nation like Greece. We are still viewed as safe to lend to despite our massive, crushing debts. My concern is that on top of our propensity to borrow, we are also a “service” economy that may be in danger. The U.S. makes very little now, at least in terms of tangible assets. The Apple laptop on which I am writing this column was designed in the U.S., but not manufactured here, and most of the components that comprise it were not produced here, either. We, as an economy, have long been relying on the fact that we have superior knowledge that we can trade with the rest of the world for physical goods. We have a superior education system that produces the type of people who become Steve Jobs, and make beautifully designed hardware and software, and know how to run a business. All of the innovation and design that takes place in the U.S. is essential to the global economy, and it creates value globally. But I must ask, for how long is this system sustainable? The U.S., long ago, stole manufacturing away from the UK because workers there were too expensive compared to U.S. workers. The U.S. then lost manufacturing to places like China and India, because U.S. workers had become too expensive. As nations become wealthier and wealthier through manufacturing, they begin to become accustomed to a certain type of lifestyle. As we are seeing in China and India right now, the education system improves though investment, and the economy diversifies from just a manufacturing economy to an economy that also creates services. Educated people tend to want to work in services instead of manufacturing. A problem arises, though, if a nation can’t export enough services to cover the costs of all the physical imports it needs to survive. A nation will then start to borrow heavily and live off of investment from the international financial community. At the point when China fully develops its service sector and realizes that it doesn’t need U.S. consultants anymore because it can train its own just as well, will it still invest so heavily in U.S. Treasuries, or will it see the holes beginning to form in our economy? Manufacturing will continue to move from country to country, searching for the lowest labor costs, until the global level of wages rises to a point where it is no longer sustainable to produce somewhere else and ship goods back to a home nation. As more and more nations become service economies that borrow heavily, who is left to pay for the HBO GO? Let’s just watch Boardwalk Empire until a crisis happens.

Andrew Millette is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Monday, October 20, 2014

Gutierrez’s animated ﬁlm ‘The Book of Life’ is better left on the shelf BY RHODA MORRISON For The Heights

One thinks of Mexico, and images of sombreros, chilies, and an array of bright colors are the cliches instantly brought to mind. This may be exactly what happened to director Jorge R. Gutierrez when he came up with the idea for The Book of Life—his newest project with 20th Century Fox Animation. It seems that, in order to divert attention from the bizarre and somewhat ridiculous plot line, Gutierrez has crammed every known Mexican THE BOOK OF LIFE stereoJorge R. Gutierrez type into this picture. Fortunately for him, his efforts have paid off and the audience members are treated to a 90minute spectacle, full of beautiful and eye-catching artwork. It is therefore no surprise that a book, The Art of ‘The Book of Life’, has already been released. The film focuses upon Manolo (Diego Luna), a young Mexican matador whose real passion in life is music. He gets

caught up in a battle with his childhood friend, Joaquin (Channing Tatum), to win the love of the beautiful Maria (Zoe Saldana). At first look, this appears to be the conventional romance with a predictable ending. In fact, this film is anything but predictable. All changes with the arrival of Le Muerte (Kate del Castillo), who controls the Land of the Remembered, and Xibalba (Ron Perlman), who controls the sinister Land of the Forgotten. These two spirits make a wager over which boy Maria will choose to marry. The addition of this sub-plot takes the film in a completely different direction, bringing it into a world of two-headed snakes and life after death. There are many layers to this movie. Firstly, the story is told by a 21st century museum tour guide (Christina Applegate) to a bunch of unruly “detentioners,” drawing an interesting parallel between the old and new. This method of framing the narrative is effective, and the children’s sarcastic and witty comments give much-needed humor to a film that deals primarily with death. The introduction of many different lands and spiritual worlds, however, is a little hard to grasp,

especially from a child’s perspective. The plot seems like a series of disjointed sketches that reach no real conclusion. Many important themes are skimmed over. Manolo’s struggle to be accepted as a musician, or the pressure felt by Joaquin to live up to his father’s legacy could both be central plots in themselves. In an attempt to tie together too many significant ideas, the action in the film is one-dimensional and shallow. Even the characters in the film lack stability. From the beginning, Xibalba is set up to be the villain whom we are all hoping will be defeated. This is, however, not the case. Despite the fact that he cheats, lies and organises Manolo’s death, Xibalba is, by the end, portrayed simply as a mischief-maker. Chakal (Dan Navarro), the real villain, is only introduced moments before the end, leaving the audience unsure of whose side to be on. Furthermore, the integration of well-known songs into the plot is a little embarrassing. It is almost impossible not to cringe when Manolo bursts into a chorus of Mumford & Son’s “I Will Wait” or even more so, Radiohead’s

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Although ‘The Book of Life’ has beautiful animation, the plotline is confusing for young viewers. “Creep.” Not only are these songs far from what children probably want to hear or sing along to, but they appear to have been fitted in randomly or at the last minute—perhaps in a desperate last attempt to improve the film. This is where the problems lie. Throughout the entire film, we are given the impression that the filmmakers had no faith in The Book of Life. The

confusing plot lines, shallow characters, and awkward singing are all ruses to make the film more popular. What is undoubtedly an animation masterpiece has been somewhat spoiled by the inability to stop while ahead. Disappointingly, The Book of Life takes on too much at once, leaving the only remarkable aspect—the drawings—overshadowed by everything else. 

‘St. Vincent’ celebrates unlikely friendships

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With humorous moments and memorable friendships, ‘St. Vincent’ showcases the talents of star Bill Murray and director Theodore Melfi. BY SUMMER LIN Heights Staff

A-list actor and comedian Bill Murray is well-known in Hollywood for his timeless roles in Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, as well as his involvement in iconic Wes Anderson films such as The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom. Througout his career, Murray has been lauded for his effortless humor and heart. He is at his best playing the surly anti-hero with a chip on his shoulder (think Rushmore and Garfield), infusing likeability and depth into these ST. VINCENT unwieldy Theodore Melfi roles . St . Vincent is such a film, chronicling the mistrials of the cantankerous Vincent de Van Nuys, a drunken war veteran who is unwillingly recruited by next-door neighbor Maggie (Melissa McCarthy) to watch over her 12-year-old son. As far as unlikely babysitters go, Vincent takes the cake. An ill-tempered curmudgeon with agoraphobic tendencies, the only two companions he is willing to tolerate are his equally grumpy Persian cat, Felix, and Data (Naomi Watts), a Russian prostitute whom he impregnated. When he is not cooped up in his dilapidated Brooklyn home in self-imposed solitude, he is gambling at the race track, knocking back his fifth glass of bourbon at the local dive bar, or spending time at the strip club where Data works. Because he has a penchant for biting off more than he can chew, his hedonistic exploits often land him in financial ruin, and he’s looking for any and every opportunity

to make a quick buck. The foul-mouthed and bedraggled former war hero seems like the last person one would ask to babysit a goldfish, let alone a precocious preteen, but that is exactly what the newly single mother Maggie decides to do when she moves in next door. Juggling a divorce and a job as a CAT scan technician at the local hospital, Maggie asks the embittered and irresponsible Vincent to look after her son on weekdays after school. Enticed by the $12 an hour position, he begrudgingly takes the runty Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher) under his wing. The unexpected and improbable friendship that blossoms between the ornery old man and the wide-eyed middle schooler serves as the heart and core of director Theodore Melfi’s cinematic debut, unearthing the redeemable qualities in Murray’s seemingly dispassionate character and offering newcomer Lieberher the chance to hold his own against an experienced and talented cast. As Vincent splits his time between instructing his protegee on how to gamble, cuss like a sailor, and break the nose of his most formidable school bully, we learn that there is a heart beneath that bristly exterior after all. We also learn, toward the latter half of the film, that Murray’s character has been caring for a mysterious, Alzheimer’sstricken woman named Sandy for the past few years. The uncouth and irresponsible harbinger of sin seems like the last person to be canonized as a saint, yet Melfi’s comedy sticks to its message: heroes can be found in the most unlikely of places. While the lead role seems to be tailored to Murray’s exact sensibilities, St.

Vincent’s star-studded ensemble is not entirely so well-cast. Atypical to McCarthy’s usual harebrained roles in comedies such as Bridesmaids, Identity Theft, and Tammy, Maggie serves as the straightlaced maternal figure to Murray’s Oscar the Grouch-esque character. McCarthy has the chance to showcase her unique talents as a dramatic actress for a change and test her acting chops beyond her zany typecast characters. While Maggie—in the hands of a less talented actress—could be resigned to a background stock character, McCarthy manages to render a nuanced and relatable performance. Chris O’Dowd, even in a minor role, is at his best in his portrayal of a kind-hearted, off beat Catholic school teacher, lending believability to an otherwise unbelievable role. Watts, however, in her botched attempts at a Russian accent, is hit-or-miss when it comes to comedy and is noticeably mismatched in the film’s ensemble. Ultimately, St. Vincent is a heartwarming film that combines elements of both comedy and drama. Murray’s outstanding performance as the eponymous Vincent, in all of his cranky wit and dyspeptic cynicism, is what puts the film above and beyond. Accordingly, Vincent’s relationship with the diminutive Oliver is the emotional core of St. Vincent and redeems the film from a formulaic plot. Without the clever build up, however, the film’s ending proves to be predictable. Nonetheless, for fans of Murray’s physical comedy and moviegoers desiring a sentimental, often times entertaining film, St. Vincent showcases Murray at his comedic finest. 

WEEKEND GROSS

WEEKS IN RELEASE

1. FURY

23.5

2. GONE GIRL

17.8

3. THE BOOK OF LIFE

17.0

4. ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY

12.0

5. THE BEST OF ME

10.2

6. DRACULA UNTOLD

9.9

7. THE JUDGE

7.9

8. ANNABELLE

7.9

9. THE EQUALIZER

5.5

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3 PHOTO COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY FOX ANIMATION

BESTSELLERS OF HARDCOVER FICTION 1. DEADLINE John Sandford 2. BURN James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 3. EDGE OF ETERNITY Ken Follett 4. LILA Marilynne Robinson 5. SOMEWHERE SAFE WITH SOMEBODY GOOD Jan Karon

6. PERSONAL Lee Child 7. ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Anthony Doerr 8. SOME LUCK Jane Smiley 9. PARIS MATCH Stuart Woods 10. THE CHILDREN ACT Ian McEwan SOURCE: New York Times

David Ayer’s ‘Fury’ falls victim to conventions of the war ﬁlm genre BY GRACE GODVIN For The Heights

Another day, another Brad Pitt-killingNazis movie—or at least, that’s how one may feel by the end of Fury. Written and directed by David Ayer (Training Day, End of Watch), the film reeks of its predecessors. Based on complete fiction, “Fury” is the story of a tank crew, led by Pitt, that fights its way across Germany in the last year of World War II. In picking this historical context, the film relies more FURY on the inDavid Ayer tense and explicit violence of war than it does on any sense of reality. The film’s direction commences once Logan Lerman, playing the doe-eyed Norman Ellison, enters the picture. A typist forced into the field of combat, Ellison is immediately thrust into the command of Sergeant Don Collier (Pitt). The tough-guy leader is less than pleased to have Ellison replace his assistant driver, whose heart only stopped beating a few scenes previous. Nonetheless, he takes Ellison, or “Machine”

as he is eventually called, under his wing. He teaches him the harsh reality and grit confronted in war. In one of Machine’s first encounters with the battlefield, Collier forces Ellison to execute an SS officer, and when Ellison tells him it isn’t right, he shoves the gun in his hand and pulls the trigger. Slowly, Ellison integrates into the testosterone-fueled, dirt-covered brotherhood that is the tank crew. This is a stereotypical WWII army crew here, with Shia LaBeouf playing a quiet, yet intense Bible-beater Michael Pena, or “The Sensitive Mexican.” Jon Bernthal is “Coon-Ass,” an over-the-top caricature of a Southern hick. Together, they teach Ellison what it means to be a “man.” They’re with him when he shoots his first victim, they get him laid, and even give him one of his first swigs of alcohol. Ayer’s story is by no means fresh. The similarities to Saving Private Ryan—perhaps the most famous film depiction of the end of World War II—are difficult to ignore, from the explicit display of violence to the plead for sympathy. But nothing is overemphasized as much as Pitt’s dialogue. In one scene, Collier tells Ellison, “Ideas are peaceful, history

is violent.” In another, he tells his crew, “It will end soon. But before it does, a lot more people gotta die.” After a while, the film loses its authenticity, and all of Pitt’s dialogue becomes little more than cliched one-liners. Collier’s motives in the film also do not seem to add up. He goes from forcing murder on the conscience of Norman to offering eggs to a young German woman, as if that somehow magically redeems his character. It’s as if Pitt is incapable of playing a flawed character. From Inglorious Basterds (a much more satisfying Nazi-killing drama) to Moneyball, the Millennial Pitt can do no wrong. He not only embraces the hero role in Fury, but he also smothers us with it. Being in today’s period of film, a more gratifying depiction of women and minorities would be expected. While war movies are almost always heavily dependent on men, Fury lacks a single significant female character. Instead, Ayer uses females to further define the men of the film. The only considerable feminine influence is that of Emma (Alicia von Rittberg), whose only quality seen other than be-

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As a generic World War II drama, ‘Fury’ fails to distinguish itself from its predecessors. ing timid is providing an opportunity for Ellison to lose his virginity. Perhaps the most affecting part of the film is Ayer’s explicit depiction of violence. From watching heads blown right off the American soldiers to seeing tanks roll over bodies flattened in the mud, there’s an honesty that comes from this horror. Ayer has no reservations, and

he forces his audience to acknowledge its existence. There’s really only so much testosterone and manliness one can take in Fury’s two hours. Eventually, it tests its limits, and not even Pitt’s charm can save it. Generic World War II dramas have been a dime a dozen in the past five or so decades, and Fury is no exception. 

The Heights

Monday, October 20, 2014

Shwayze and William Bolton heat things up for fall concert in the Rat Shwayze Concert, from A8 admittedly a great move on the part of Shwayze—or a pretty “Shwayze” move, if you will. By letting the crowd stir a bit, Shwayze built up a sizable amount of excitement for his appearance, which he really didn’t have before the concert. Before, it was just a concert with Shwayze. After 20 minutes of waiting, Shwayze became an event in himself. Eventually, Shwayze took to the stage. The Rat was fullest at this point in the night, stretching to the third set of columns from the back. The Rat was no longer the den of pumpkin spice coffee, but a half-blown, chaperoned club. Shwayze kicked the concert into gear with “West Coast Party,” which combined a raucous, pop hook with high energy verses. He followed with the fast paced “Tipsy,” and later changed his course with “Sally Is A”—a song about a trendy girl named Sally. This was one of Shwayze’s slowest, yet most lyrically potent efforts. He had opened the crowd up with the party tracks but only began to really Shwayze them in the Shwayze way when “Sally Is A” came on. After the second Kanye cover of the night—a disappointing take on “All Falls Down”—Shwayze responded with a song that combined his lyrical touch with a righteously Shwayze hook. At face, “Get U Home” is a pretty forward song about taking someone home, but

there’s more to it: unwieldy, often selfcontradictory verses like “She was a waitress / Wait she was an actress” and its hook, straight from vintage Blink182, made it special. The crowd had started to shrink at this point in the night—a double product of students heading out and the rest squeezing together to form a smaller, but more dedicated force. Shwayze mused about another girl toward the end of the set, the home stretch, in perhaps his most popular song “Corona and Lime.” Shwayze may be guilty of playing too cool at some points—and that’s part of life on a stage—but despite its title, “Corona and Lime” is actually a very clever little song. It manages to be Shwayze, without getting too Shwayze. Shwayze capped off the show with his grandest party anthem, “Love Is O verrated,” which sort of worked against whatever semblance of charm Shwayze had mustered with his set. Fortunately, it is a song that demands a fair bit of shouting from the crowd, so most were too busy repeating the chorus to do much analysis on the content itself. Ultimately, Shwayze and his modest Rat concert was not about analysis, or reason of any type. It just happened. Shwayze is fun, so is William Bolton, and the Rat can be fun (or dare I say Shwayze), too. n

michelle castro / heights staff

Around three hundred students filled the Rat Thursday evening to see BC’s William Bolton open for California rapper Shwayze.

‘The Heights’ selects seven memorable moments from RHA’s BC Street

John Wiley / heights editor

Musical performances from student bands including Juice and Jammin’ Toast, dance routines from on campus groups like Masti and DOBC, and cotton candy, popcorn, and food from Bolocco and Fuel America met for RHA’s BC Street on Friday.

Best of BC Street, from A8 with Kamau Burton, A&S ’17, acting as the dynamic frontman to the group for Friday’s show. Jammin’ Toast is known for just meeting in Stokes Amphitheater in the morning, and inviting whoever wants to come and play with the band members. It’s an “open source” band, if you will, and it actually works quite well. The mixed bag of musicians involved makes for some interesting live performances. Most Likely To Be Banned From BC: Kilted Colin - He was wildly entertaining, but also a public menace. Kilted Colin earned the distinction of being the first (and hopefully last) man ever to ride a gi-

ant unicycle in his boxers through O’Neill Plaza while playing the bagpipes. Colin insisted on performing for a sizable crowd, so before getting into his routine, he would dance suggestively while shouting, “Look at me!” to students passing by—and dropping his pants from under his kilt when enough eyes were on him. “A” for effort and performance. “R” for restraining order. While he might not have reflected BC’s recently stated goal of including Jesuit values in its programming, there’s always room for a little bit of gray. Most Epic Fall: Masti - There’s little not to like about MASTI, BC’s modern Indian dance company, which won top

prize at last year’s Showdown. So, when a dancer fell to the grass Friday afternoon, slipping off a carefully choreographed human staircase, knees might have been scratched, but the performance was still very much intact. MASTI finished strong, dominating in a rather undefined space that’s usually only used for investment banking tailgates and solicitation. Most Grass Stains On Leggings: DOBC - The Dance Organization of Boston College is flexible—not only in the most literal sense of the word, but also in its style and choice of performance venue. The grass of O’Neill Plaza was hardly the first place you’d want to perform a contemporary

dance routine involving frequently rolls, sits, and falling to the ground—but DOBC did it. The outdoor performance venue, dare I say, actually add to the routine, making it all seem more rugged and raw (and muddy) for all parties involved. Best Vocal Performance: Juice - What started as a performance from duo Ben Stevens, CSOM ’17, and Burton quickly evolved into a Juice party, with Christian Rougeau, A&S ’17, randomly joining in the action mid-set with his electric violin. The highlight of Juice’s performance came by way of a cover of “Super Rich Kids,” modified by the band to target the “rich kids” of BC walking past O’Neill

Plaza. The performers added harmonies on top of the chorus of Frank Ocean’s original song, improving on the Channel Orange song. Despite the tough acoustics of O’Neill Plaza, Juice breezed through some tough three-part harmonies—with Stevens showing off his gravelly voice atop the cool mix. Most Valuable Player: Cotton Candy - Cotton Candy was there to start off the festival, and cotton candy was there to shut it down. We award the entirely-sugarbased-treat top honors at this semester’s BC street for its perseverance. Vendors came and went, but the cotton candy table held down the fort. n

Confusing comedy and real news is dangerous, no joke ‘Fake News,’ from A8

Clare Kim / heights Staff

The British band Bombay Bicycle Club performed in Boston on Saturday night, playing songs like “Shuffle” and “Carry Me.”

Bicycle Club rolls into the House of Blues Clare Kim For The Heights For the last leg of the band’s U.S. fall tour, Bombay Bicycle Club performed at the House of Blues Boston this past weekend. The London-based quartet showcased its versatile sound with a setlist consisting of 19 total tracks. Kicking off the night with “Overdone” and “It’s Alright Now,” the band started strong—the night had a relatively heavy leaning toward tracks off of its latest album So Long, See You Tomorrow. With little hesitation, Bombay Bicycle Club followed up with “Shuffle”—easily the group’s most well-known track, with over 18 million plays on Spotify. The fact that “Shuffle” appeared so early in the set was a pleasant surprise for the crowd, as was evident by the sudden and deafening roar that filled the packed venue at the start of the song. Almost

everyone in the pit put his and her phones away at this point in the night, and opted to sing along and dance. Just as the audience’s energy reached its peak, Bombay Bicycle Club changed the pace of the night and went back to its early hits with a few acoustic tracks off 2010’s Flaws. This created a much more tranquil atmosphere within the venue, but the level of enthusiasm was upheld and sustained through a communal swaying among the crowd to the rhythmic folk beat of “Ivy and Gold.” Following this acoustic interlude, the band once more picked things back up with fan favorites such as “Luna” and “Always Like This.” The energy that emanated from the stage was reciprocated by the crowd, and no one seemed to care about anything else besides the performance that was taking place. Quickly following “What If,” however, was a guitar-heavy track off of the band’s

debut 2009 album—the band promptly left the stage. This quickly instigated a communal riot among the crowd as many screamed for an encore, as if they didn’t already know that this is a routine stunt pulled at almost every show. As expected, the band took the stage again for one last song, finishing off the phenomenal night with “Carry Me.” Although the night definitely seemed to lack consistency—going from psychedelic rock to folk, and everything in between—this is the very thing that kept the entire hour and a half performance lively and interesting. With so much pressure put on musicians by labels to pick a genre and stick with it, Bombay Bicycle Club’s lack of uniformity is a bold characteristic of the band, allowing the quartet to continue growing its fan base without compromising what brought it onto the scene in the first place. n

popular, of course. To watch John Oliver’s investigation into civil forfeiture laws or Stewart’s piece on the Washington Redskins name controversy is to realize that no mainstream news program would tackle these topics in so much detail. Take out the jokes and swearing, and fake news starts to look rather real, featuring more sustained investigative reporting than so-called “serious” news outlets—especially the likes of CNN and Fox, which long ago became self-parodies. For all that, though, there is a real danger in holding comedians as standards of journalistic integrity. Stewart himself has always made that distinction, insisting that what he does is comedy and should not be mistaken for a substantive news show. Yet he wants to have his cake and eat it, too, serving up insightful political reporting but always ready to deflect criticism with the “Hey, it’s just comedy” excuse. His viewers don’t seem to care about that distinction, either. Look on any college student’s Facebook newsfeed, and you will immediately see how clips from The Daily Show or Last Week Tonight are reposted not so much for comedic value as to express the user’s political beliefs about Ferguson, or Ukraine, or ISIS. But what does this reliance on fake news say about the health of our news media? Nothing very reassuring, I think. It speaks to our general skepticism toward the trustworthiness of modern news: it suggests that we are better off mocking our institutional failures than doing something to

change them. Increasingly, though, the major networks and news outlets are embracing the talent that has spent so much time tearing them down. This week it was reported that Stewart was heavily courted by NBC to become the new host of Meet the Press—a remarkable vote of confidence in a comedian to headline America’s longest-running talk show. Next year, Colbert will be heading to CBS to take over Late Show from David Letterman—not a news gig, per se, but it’s hard to imagine that Colbert’s political leanings and satirical bent will be completely absent. The New Yorker has absorbed Andy Borowitz’s satirical blog in a way that frequently deceives casual visitors, who take his stories for the real thing. We are not yet at a point where The Associated Press will recruit its news staff from The Onion, but the line between news and entertainment has never been so blurred. At a certain point, though, we have to start asking whether absorbing fake news into the mainstream is a cure for our ills or a symptom of the problem. Comedians have their place, of course, and hosts like Stewart and Oliver have a unique talent at channeling moral outrage into brilliant comedy. But that doesn’t make them journalists. And at the end of the day, we should all be grateful that Jon Stewart will not be hosting Meet the Press, because the more we embrace fake news, the more we give up on real news—and that is no laughing matter.

Sean Keeley is a senior staff writer for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com

ARTS&REVIEW MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2014

THE FINER THINGS

The fear of missing out

ARIANA IGNERI Spiders with hairy legs, ghosts in movie theaters, Signs, talking to strangers on the telephone, and Halloween— these were the things that I was scared of when I was a kid. Not being able to go to MA’s with my roommates, not getting an inside joke between the members of my volunteering group, and not showing up to the tailgate my friends are throwing on game day—these are the things that I’m afraid of now. I may have outgrown my adolescent anxieties about insects and the supernatural, but at Boston College, I’ve adopted a new fear—the fear of missing out. FOMO is a very real thing. It’s as real as my childhood dread of critters crawling in my basement and of people wearing gory costumes on the last night of every October. It’s a state of mind that has always been around, lurking in our thoughts, but only recently has come to dominate our generation. On any given day, we’re invited to accept, decline, or say maybe to five separate events on Facebook, cryptically implying we be there or be square. We see people pinning locations to their photos on Instagram, showing off the concerts they’ve gone to, the vacations they’ve taken, and the restaurants they’ve eaten at. Snapchats haunt our iPhones, and each time that little ghost icon starts to dance while it loads our messages, we can’t help but feel a little frightened by the possibility that we missed out on something cool. Social media has made it so we constantly know what people are doing, and inevitably, worry about what we’re not doing. We have this compulsive need to “check in” or tweet about each seemingly significant aspect of our lives, almost as if to prove to our peers that we’re not boring, socially inept, or uncultured. Scrolling through the feeds of our countless apps isn’t enjoyable—it’s troublesome, revealing the experiences we weren’t and should have or could have been a part of. With bigger concerns like maybe taking the GREs or finding a job after graduation, it bothers me that we spend so much energy freaking out about not being at every senior night, Boston outing, or themed party that our friends are going to. There are a ton of things we worry about as students, but shouldn’t some make us more anxious than others? At BC, we’ve learned to prioritize our time, but maybe we should be prioritizing our fears, too. There’s no denying FOMO’s existence, but I think we should stop denying it the importance we give it in our day-to-day lives. It’s impossible to attend each and every event going on around us—no matter who you are. Besides, if we’re all missing out, are we really missing out on much of anything? Life is full of experiences that can’t all be ours. With technology, we can share what we do, but I’m not sure if that’s so great. Rather than fostering friendship, social media has come to foster a degree of fear. This weekend, I didn’t catch the Shwayze concert in the Rat, but I did go to Homecoming. I didn’t make it to Hillside’s Pub Series, but I went to the football game. I made a number of decisions over the past few days about whom and what I would or wouldn’t see. There were things I missed, and things I didn’t. I’m only human, and I can’t be in more than one place at once. If I could, I’d have to be a ghost, an alien, or something else that my 10-year-old self probably would have been terrified of—and while that’s hard to imagine, I think that that possibility would most likely be way scarier than my fear of missing out.

Ariana Igneri is the Assoc. Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com

SHWAYZE AND WILLIAM BOLTON PACK THE RAT MICHELLE CASTRO / HEIGHTS STAFF

BY RYAN DOWD Heights Staff

Nearly 300 students learned about Shwayze on Thursday, having attending this weekend’s Homecoming Concert in the Rat. Some of them simply learned who the Malibu rapper was, while others actually learned how to “Shwayze.” Shwayze is more than an individual— Shwayze is a verb, an adjective, a state of being. All who came could not help but walk away with begrudging respect for the performer who played a little more

than an hour for the steady, yet small crowd in a college dining hall. Shwayze wasn’t the rapper the Rat deserved, but he sure was the rapper it got. Shwayze’s performance, unfortunately, drew bigger crowds than that of William Bolton before him. Taking the stage at 8 p.m., Bolton treated the steadily growing crowd of mostly underclassmen and a few rollicking seniors to a 35-minute set of his ever growing and diverse array of songs. Formerly known as Times New Roman and occasionally referred to onstage as Willy B. Bolton,

Bolton, A&S ’16, has become one of the faces of the Boston College music scene. His performance was a well-paced combination of original songs and popular covers—with the set primarily showcasing his own work. Notable covers were Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” and Kid Cudi’s suburban anthem “Pursuit of Happiness.” Bolton understandably was more dynamic and engaging during his own songs. Songs like the smooth “Summer Breeze” and the catchy “Let’s Stay Together” captured the crowd. Bolton at his best was in “Passion.” The song

exemplified all that’s great about Bolton as a performer—he keeps an endearing intimacy with the crowd, reeling them in with a simple, yet curiously catchy hook. Soon, the crowd members seemed to forget that they were haphazardly tossing their limbs around in the basement of Lyons. Shwayze took his stepping onto the stage. He kept the crowd with an alarmingly low student to police ratio waiting for 20 minutes before arriving onstage with his musical entourage. This was

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The Best of BC Street: A roundup of the festival BY JOHN WILEY

Arts & Review Editor Free cotton candy, mini burritos, hot coffee, and freshly baked pastries made for a welcome interruption to last Friday’s class schedule. An outdoor festival in O’Neill Plaza, hosted by the Residence Hall Association, brought together Boston College artists, local vendors, and city street performers for the three-hour event. Ten BC acts made their way onto the ever-freshlycut grass in front of O’Neill, as well as Kilted Colin, an off-color Boston street performer who worked unicycles, bagpipes, twerking, and several strip tease segments into his routine. The Heights rounds up the best of BC Street, bringing together the most

memorable food, faces, and failures of the outdoor festival. Most Trouble Finding Stage: Guys? - Any band title ending with a question mark demands some raised eyebrows. Lead singer Anthony Perasso, A&S ’17, and the rest of the Guys? trio seemed to struggle to figure out just where they were supposed to be performing. The pathway through O’Neill Plaza was where the stage was to be, but evidently, no one told the Guys? They set up behind a table and never really got the sound system working, either. Respect for powering through it, though. Best Food-Related Pun That’s Also A Band: Jammin’ Toast - The free-lovin’, acoustic kids of Boston College brought good vibes to O’Neill Plaza for their afternoon set,

JOHN WILEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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RHA’s BC Street featured a cappella and dance performances and food from local restaurants.

Bombay Bicycle Club in Boston

How Jon Stewart and ‘fake news’ have changed the media SEAN KEELEY

CLARE KIM / HEIGHTS STAFF

Bombay Bicycle Club played at the House of Blues, delivering a diverse, unconventional set spanning genres and modes of performance, with songs from their latest album, A7

INSIDE ARTS THIS ISSUE

‘Fury’

With its overdone action and explosion scenes, Brad Pitt’s World War II film tanks, A6

Last Wednesday, the newest version of CNN’s polarizing debate show Crossfire was quietly euthanized with an official cancellation announcement. It is hard to imagine that the announcement inspired much mourning. Crossfire, which pits conservative and liberal pundits side by side to state their opinions as loudly and angrily as possible, has long been derided as a symbol of CNN’s decline from “the most trusted name in news” to a ratings-hungry monster. With Crossfire gone, the network will surely devote even more airtime to chasing lost Malaysian airplanes, stirring up panic about the Ebola crisis, and beaming holograms into its newsroom. Fittingly enough, the cancellation came 10 years to the day after Jon Stewart’s famous 2004 appearance on the show, when he was invited to promote his book and instead spent

‘St. Vincent’

Bill Murray plays a bitter old baby sitter, developing an unlikely friendship in this comedic drama, A6

his time insulting his hosts and everything for which his show stood. In his typical blend of snark and sincerity, he accused Crossfire of dividing the nation and shirking its journalistic responsibilities, exploiting the most extreme political positions at the expense of the moderate majority. You can find Stewart’s appearance on YouTube, and it’s still a marvel to behold, as he gradually turns Crossfire’s audience against the show itself, while its partisan hosts squirm, laugh nervously, and defensively cut him off, entirely ignoring the substance of his argument. Ten years later, it would appear that Stewart has had the last laugh. And he’s not alone—a virtual cottage industry of “fake news” has taken hold over our culture, as the careers of Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and the folks at The Onion and Clickhole can attest. There’s a reason this stuff is so

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Sports

Monday, October 20, 2014

Pfalzer and Bender form dynamic pairing for Eagles’ defense By Arthur Bailin For The Heights On Oct. 4, 2014, the public address announcer at Conte Forum ran through the starting lineups for the Boston College women’s hockey team for the first time in the infant season. As is customary in the sport, the visiting Syracuse Orange were introduced before the hosting Eagles were called one by one to their blue line. Something that may have been lost due to the regularity of the procedure was the announcement of the starting defensive pairing. Senior Emily Pfalzer and junior Lexi Bender opened the Saturday matinee on the blue line. The duo would combine for four goals and five assists in the 10-2 routing of the Orange. The most compelling component of the pairing, outside of Pfalzer and Bender’s goal output, may be the bond that they have devel-

oped while sharing the Kelley Rink blue line. “I really don’t know how our friendship began, we’re just friends,” Pfalzer said. “I think, honestly, it was kind of like a team joke, we’re the only two blondes on the team, and so we kind of just got grouped together,” Bender added. “And then, we have a lot of the same goals, aspirations, and work ethic, and so we kind of just became friends.” Pfalzer and Bender are separated by a year, and thus they were recruited at different times. The coaching staff, however, showed enthusiasm for both of them when it came time to get them to come to Chestnut Hill. “Emily Pfalzer, first impression was incredibly quick feet, agility was ridiculous, great head for the game, was the best player on her team, kind of ran show,” associate head coach Courtney Kennedy said. “You just kind of notice, to be honest with you, a small defenseman doing a lot of work out there. But I

never thought, ‘Wow, is she too small.’ Height never even factored in because the kid plays with such a punch.” Kennedy noted that Bender has a different persona—one based more on power and strength with which she moves easily up the ice, her playing style a cross between power forward and defenseman. “The two of them together just complement each other so well with their styles of play,” Kennedy said. While Bender came a year after Pfalzer, the two were not paired together on the blue line until the beginning of last season. While a new pairing may cause a little bit of nervousness in some defenders, Pfalzer and Bender came into the situation with excitement. “I think [we were] definitely excited,” Bender said. “It’s awesome that you get to play Emily Fahey / Heights Editor

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No. 21 Lexi Bender and No. 14 Emily Pfalzer are defensive weapons for the Eagles.

The hidden casualties of Clemson

Connor Mellas

diversified disconnect

Emily Fahey / Heights Editor

The Boston College football team used more variation on offense against Clemson on Saturday, but the Eagles were still overcome 17-13 after making key mistakes. By Jack Stedman For The Heights With the Boston College football team trailing No. 24 Clemson 10-7 early in the fourth quarter, quarterback Tyler Murphy hit a wide-open Dan Crimmins down the 14 Boston College middle for 48 yards. Clemson 17 Soon after, on third and 10, a scrambling Murphy connected with Charlie Callinan for a 15 yard pickup and first down. After a Myles Willis dive made it first and goal, Murphy, sweeping out to his right, found Josh Bordner in the opposite corner of the end zone for a touchdown. The Eagles needed that big drive to put them-

selves in the lead. They did it, however, in an unusual fashion. Against Clemson, offensive coordinator Ryan Day and the Eagles opened up the playbook, attacking the Tigers up the middle and opting for the pass in big situations instead of focusing on the run. In the end, however, BC’s slightly new-look offense came up short, and Clemson held on for a 17-13 victory. “We didn’t just run that thing right up in there, which we would normally do,” Addazio said. “I thought we mixed it up good. I thought we called everything we wanted to call.” With the Tigers’ defensive front seven being one of the best in the nation, the Eagles needed to mix things up to get the offense going. The most

The sophomore skated up behind senior Michael Sit in the neutral zone, gathering the puck and firing it into the back of the net. BC’s defense held off another 10 shots from RIT, making the match 4-0 after two frames. BC’s penalty kill also came out very strong in the first two periods. The Eagles allowed just one shot on two consecutive power plays in the first period, the latter of which developed into BC’s first goal of the night. This was especially important for the team, which

A chilling darkness blankets Alumni as the fourth quarter wanes. The rain slows to a mist, but the wind picks up. They’re fixed just yards apart, but the USC flag perched atop Alumni is whipping to the right as the NC State banner pulls violently to the left. Murphy just did it again—dancing from BC’s 19 to the Clemson 38, he scattered, stuttered, and sprinted left, right, down, up, sideways, backward, forward, and every other direction you can think of for 43 yards. BC can win the game right here, blow No. 24 Clemson out of the polls, jump into prime conference position, and send the Mods into a shower of lukewarm Natty’s. The Eagles control their own destiny. Four plays later, BC is on Clemson’s 26—field goal range, but a missed extra point earlier in the game means kicking is utterly useless with less than two minutes on the clock. BC head coach Steve Addazio has no choice—touchdown or bust. First down: Incomplete pass. Second down: Incomplete pass. Third down: Incomplete pass, and a five-yard penalty. Fourth down: Incomplete pass. Clemson will run out the clock. The game is over. No matter the sport, it’s temptingly easy to pin losses on one moment or one drive, to scapegoat one blown play, and to call out one person’s mistake and say, “Damn, that’s where we lost it, he blew it.” If

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memorable play of the game came off of a double reverse, which ended up in the hands of formerquarterback-turned-wide-receiver Bordner, who completed a 35-yard pass downfield to Callinan. That drive ended, however, without the Eagles putting any points on the board. So far this season, the Eagles have found success pounding the ball into the end zone on the ground, but on Saturday, Day came up with a different kind of red zone play call that left Sherman Alston wide open out of the backfield for his first career receiving touchdown. As for the run game, the Eagles stayed away from the outside, running Hilliman and Willis up the

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Eagles’ offense bounces back to dominate RIT By Alec Greaney For The Heights The Boston College men’s hockey team took to the ice on the road against Rochester Institute of Technology Satur6 day night, Boston College looking for RIT 2 its first win at RIT’s homecoming game after falling to UMass Lowell to open the season. BC held little back in its second matchup of the year, dominating almost the entire game en route to a 6-2 victory over the Tigers.

The No. 7-ranked Eagles came out firing early and often, doubling RIT’s shot total in the first period, 8-4. RIT goalkeeper Mike Rotolo held the game to a shutout for much of the period, which included a BC power play in the first five minutes. Rotolo could only save the first seven shots he saw, however, as BC created a 3-on-2 in the final two minutes of the period. Sophomore Ryan Fitzgerald used a head fake to clear space before finding junior captain Michael Matheson for the goal. From there, BC never looked back.

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Just two and half minutes into the next period, Fitzgerald took advantage of a shot that deflected off Rotolo to the near post, forcing it under the keeper for BC’s second goal and first two-point advantage of the season. Just 25 seconds later, senior Cam Spiro, moving quickly up the ice on the right side, found junior Teddy Doherty streaking up the middle with a wellplaced cross. Doherty launched the puck to the back of the net, putting BC up 3-0. Steve Santini would tag on BC’s third goal of the period four minutes later.

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Arms flailing chaotically in powerful bursts of north-south motion, Tyler Murphy tore through the gap at warp speed. With a half stutter step and shimmy, he hit the numbers and straightened into sprinter’s form—but just inches from open field, Clemson caught him. Two defenders dragged Boston College’s quarterback down the turf, yet the 19-yard run provided BC a desperate lifeline to ascend out of an unending sea of Alex Howell punts. Two snaps later, all five explosive feet and six ankle-spraining inches of Sherman Alston wheeled out of the backfield and caught Murphy’s looping pass for a game-tying, 26yard touchdown midway through the second quarter. But no one will remember that.

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Eagles fail to maintain early lead over Notre Dame, fall in five By Arthur Bailin For The Heights

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word “finish” as coming to an end of a course, task, or undertaking. The Boston College 2 Boston College women’s Notre Dame 3 volleyball team’s match against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish was defined by that word—finish —and the Eagles’ inability to do so. The Eagles fell to the Irish 3-2, despite them taking the first two sets. The Eagles’ day began in an inauspicious fashion, as it allowed the Irish to jump out to a 7-3 lead before the visitors were compelled to call a timeout. The Eagles would win the next point on a service error by Jo Kremer, but a kill by Jeni Houser gave the serve right back to the Irish to advance the score to 8-4. The Eagles would begin to chip away at the Irish lead, even pulling within one at 10-9, before a service error by Courtney Castle stopped the Eagles onslaught. BC kept battling, however, and it

eventually tied the score at 12 off a kill by Sol Calvete. The teams would trade points up until a kill by Julia Topor tied the score at 17. An attack error by Topor and a set error by Kellie Barnum gave the Irish the 19-17 lead. Once again, the Eagles had to work from behind. After a service error by Castle, the Eagles responded through two kills by Calvete and Katty Workman to tie the set at 20. The Eagles would then partake in a hotly contested race to 25, before a kill by Kam McLain sealed the set for BC. The second set started much like the first set ended, with the teams battling back and forth, culminating in a 6-6 tie. The Eagles would then jump out to a 14-11 lead, with Jo Kremer scoring the kill that gave the Eagles the 14th point. The Irish would not go away, however, scoring three straight points to tie the game at 14. The two teams would trade points before BC would go on a 9-4 run to close out the set and give the Eagles the two-set lead going into intermission. From that point, the Irish went into

overdrive. The Irish jumped out to a 6-1 lead to open the third set. The Eagles would struggle to find offense, as they couldn’t stop the Irish onslaught. The Eagles found themselves down 20-13 late in the set. The Eagles would finally find their offensive footing as they scored six straight points to pull within one at 20-19. The Irish wouldn’t be denied, as they finished the set up 25-22. The Eagles would again start out the fourth set playing cat-and-mouse with the Irish. The Irish jumped out to a 12-9 lead, before the Eagles would tie the set at 12 after Maddie Plumlee committed an attacking error. The Irish would go on a 13-6 run to finish the set, and suddenly the Eagles went from having a two-set lead to fighting for their lives in the fifth and deciding set. BC would jump out to a 5-3 lead in the fifth set, before the Irish tied it up on an attacking error by Topor. The Irish would go on a 10-2 run to close out the set, and the match, to steal it away from the Eagles. n

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Despite a win over Wake Forest, Notre Dame set the Eagles back in conference play.

BC offense wakes up to smother UNH By Tom DeVoto Heights Staff

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Hayley Dowd saved Alison Foley’s team again in an overtime matchup with the Wolfpack.

Eagles score in overtime for victory over NC State By Jim Hill Heights Staff

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The Boston College women’s soccer team topped North Carolina State’s squad 1-0 at Harvard’s Soldiers Memorial Field this Sunday, w ith the 1 Boston College decisive NC State 0 goal coming in overtime, during the 96th minute. The victory was the team’s second consecutive win over an ACC opponent, improving the squad’s record to 3-4 against conference competition. Meanwhile, the loss was NC State’s third over the course of an unfruitful three-game road trip—as well as the squad’s seventh straight defeat overall. In spite of the Wolfpack’s recent struggles, the visiting team made the contest an especially hard-fought affair. Over the course of the game, the Wolfpack had some close chances—including a one-touch shot from freshman forward Kayla Saager, the squad’s leading scorer, in the 26th minute—and played impeccable defense. Among the team’s standout defensive performers was sophomore goalkeeper Mackenzie Stelljes, who made 13 total saves. But the Eagles met the Wolfpack’s sporadic drives and substantial defense with an overwhelming and sustained offensive attack. With their consistent presence on the opposite side of the field, the BC players would collect 26 total shots by the end of regulation time. The first of its 26 efforts came within the

match’s opening minute, as junior midfielder Jana Jeffrey notched a shot on goal approximately 25 seconds into the game. The scoring opportunity, which was quickly snuffed out by Stelljes, would not be Jeffrey’s last. By the contest’s end, the midfielder had 12 total shots, five of which were on goal, and repeatedly threatened to break the stalemate between the two teams. Jeffrey’s regulation-time scoring opportunities, though numerous, were supplemented by even more from her teammates. During the game’s first 90 minutes, midfielders Lauren Bernard and Rose DiMartino combined for four shots and five corner kicks. And, through the two halves, junior forward Hayley Dowd, the team’s and conference’s leading scorer, and senior forward Stephanie McCaffrey collectively had eight shots. But the chances did not lead to goals—at least not immediately. Weathered by the consistency and strength of the BC attack, Stelljes and NC State would allow the first goal of the game merely four minutes into overtime. The scoring opportunity—and deciding goal—was prepared when an NC State defender fouled Dowd just outside of the box. Taking the free kick awarded, Bernard quickly sent a cross hurtling toward the net. Dowd was the first to reach it, leaping in the air to head the ball over an overmatched Stelljes and into the near post. The goal would be the ACC-leading scorer’s 12th of the season and her fourth in the past three games—and, beyond that, a good omen for the recently resurgent Eagles. n

ACC Field Hockey Standings Team

Conference

Overall

Virginia

4-1

12-4

North Carolina

3-2

12-2

Wake Forest

3-2

10-5

Louisville

3-3

11-4

Duke

2-3

10-4

Boston College

2-3

10-5

Syracuse

1-4

10-4

In its last game against St. Lawrence University, the Boston College women’s hockey team struggled to finish its opportunities in a 2-2 tie. 4 Boston College The team UNH 0 dominated puck possession, crushed the Saints in the shot count, and spent great lengths of time in the offensive zone. BC’s scorers just couldn’t come up with the goals they needed to pull ahead. This time around, that wouldn’t be a problem. Fueled by two early first period goals, the Eagles bounced back with an impressive allaround performance to defeat the University of New Hampshire 4-0 in Durham. The victory came in BC’s first Hockey East contest of the season. The No. 4 Eagles came out of the gates firing on all cylinders, putting the pressure on the Wildcats and forcing mistakes. Defenseman Lexi Bender scored an unassisted goal three minutes into the game to put the Eagles ahead quickly. It was her fourth goal

of the year, tying her with Alex Carpenter to lead all BC players. With 11 minutes remaining in the first, freshman forward Kenzie Kerr took a pass from Haley Skarupa and put the puck past UNH goalie Vilma Vaattovaara to give the Eagles a commanding 2-0 lead. Carpenter also assisted on the play. With that assist, Skarupa gained entrance into the 100-point club, notching 52 goals and 48 assists in her career. The Eagles controlled the pace against the Wildcats throughout the contest. Despite not finding the twine during the rest of the first period, they had multiple good chances. Entering the locker room during the first intermission, the Eagles held a cool 2-0 lead. The second period was characterized by penalties, though neither team could capitalize on its powerplay chances. Six players found themselves in the box during the second period alone, with the penalty-killing unit coming out on top every time. BC’s best defense during this game was a good offense, which kept the puck out of its own zone to keep the load light for freshman netminder Katie Burt. The young goalie wasn’t challenged frequently, but she was able to turn

away the shots she faced with confidence. Although BC could not add another goal to its total, it went into the final 20 minutes with a strong hold on the lead. The Eagles were finally able to convert on the powerplay after a penalty call on UNH’s Hannah Armstrong for hitting after the whistle. With just over 10 minutes remaining in the third, Carpenter beat Vaattovaara on the man-advantage to solidify the Eagles’ lead. BC would finish one-for-six on the powerplay for the game, while UNH didn’t score on any of its six chances playing with a woman up. Just a minute later, BC put the nail in the Wildcats’ coffin on a quick goal from sophomore forward Haley McLean. Megan Keller and Andie Anastos provided the helpers on the Eagles’ fourth tally. Despite late pressure from UNH, the Eagles, anchored by Burt, were able to hold on to shut out the hosts. Burt stopped all 21 shots that came her way, giving BC its first shutout of this short season. The Eagles were able to double the Wildcats’ shot output, leading 42-21. With the victory, the Eagles (3-0-1, 1-0 WHEA) remain undefeated, while the loss drops UNH to 2-4-1, with two Hockey East losses. n

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A win over New Hampshire served as a way for women’s hockey to rebound from its 2-2 tie with St. Lawrence last weekend.

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4 The number of goals Wake Forest scored from crosses against men’s soccer on Friday night.

1 The number of games in which Tyler Murphy has thrown for more than one touchdown.

— BC football head coach

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BC mixes up offense only to fall to Tigers From Football, B1 the middle for most of the game, aside from a few Alston jet sweeps. So far this season, both Willis and Hilliman have been extremely effective in getting to the outside and picking up yardage. “We came out trying to attack the perimeter as hard as we could,” said head coach Steve Adazzio. “We tried as much play-action as we could, and then we had to come back and take our shots inside.” More often than not, pounding the ball up the middle was ineffective, as the Eagles’ running backs were continually hit in the backfield for losses. Willis’ 15-yard first down, off a straight dive, ended up being one of the few successful runs up the middle of the game. As he has shown a tendency to do throughout the season, Murphy came up with some big plays against Clemson when BC needed them. This time, however, Murphy

did it through the air, rather than on the ground. With the exception of a key 19-yard pickup to set up the first TD and a 43-yard scramble late in the game, Murphy looked to pass the football instead of trying to beat the defense with his legs every time. Twice he threw the ball deep on the same play down the middle, with Bordner dropping the first and Crimmins catching the second. When it really mattered the most, Murphy connected with his receivers en route to taking the lead in the fourth quarter. “We tried to do a little bit of everything. We tried to keep it as loose as we could possibly keep it,” Addazio said of the more dynamic play calling. In a defensive game filled with three and outs and booming Alex Howell punts, the Eagles got away from the run game, and the usually dominant Hilliman recorded his lowest carry total since week two by a significant margin.

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While the Eagles moved the ball through the air more, it wasn’t enough. “In a game like that, which we knew would be that game going in, it was going to be a bunch of ugliness, and we gotta play defense, hang in there, and make some plays,” Addazio said. “We hit a couple of runs—a few, not many—here and there, not a ton, and we were going to try to make our plays.”

While the Eagles’ defense looked very strong, with solid tackling and a couple of key breakups in the secondary, the Clemson offense was able to get into the end zone just enough to hang on for the win, as BC’s varied play calling, notwithstanding bright moments, came up just short in the end. n

saw UMass Lowell take a 2-1 lead last week with a failed penalty kill in the first period. While the majority of UMass Lowell’s goals came with a man advantage, on either a rush or a power play, BC’s defensive effort did not permit RIT the same type of chances. RIT’s first goal to break up the drought came early on in the third period from Todd Skirving, who launched in a long slap shot from the far boards. Matt Garbowsky would tack on a second goal for RIT later on in the period, this one coming on a power play, but by that time BC had already put the game far out of reach. Sophomore Ian McCoshen put the final touch on for BC, netting the Eagles’ first power play goal of the year on a one-timer delivered by Doherty. While Doherty finished with a strong performance of a goal

and two assists, freshman forward Zach Sanford also shone. The rookie picked up the first points of his young career on three assists, coming on BC’s first, second, and sixth goals of the night. Fitzgerald and junior Brendan Silk also finished with multipoint nights, Fitzgerald tallying a goal and an assist and Silk two assists. BC sophomore goaltender Thatcher Demko finished with 25 saves to earn his first win, bouncing back after allowing four goals against UMass Lowell. BC will take to the ice in Chestnut Hill for the first time this week after splitting its first two road games , with home games against Colorado College Friday night and Massachusetts Saturday night. After tying UMass in its home matchup last year, BC will look to continue its trend of scoring early and hold off the Minutemen to even its conference record. n

Mistakes will resonate, drowning out big plays From Column, B1 you could fill a small book with those types of moments from Saturday’s game and sell it as a depressing ode to BC football: Josh Bordner’s dropped pass in the open field and his underthrow to Charlie Callinan; Mike Knoll’s personal contribution to BC’s saga of disgusting kicking with another missed extra point; Murphy’s terrible end zone overthrow; Tyler Rouse’s touchdown-blowing drop; the offensive line getting blown out again, and again, and again. As with nearly all other failures, the cruel legacy spawned by BC’s loss to the Tigers is

simple—the screwups will be remembered, harped on, and critiqued for weeks, but the handful of brilliant plays BC made on Saturday will fade into the abyss. A forlorn Addazio, looking left and right, and then staring into nothing with his hands on his head, will stick in our minds—but we’ll forget about Alston cutting left and spilling two elite Clemson backs onto the turf like two slapstick stooges hitting an oil slick. We’ll remember that interception Justin Simmons nearly came down with—and probably should have come down with—but not Myles Willis’

gut-busting 50-yard kick return to spark BC’s offense, or Alex Howell’s transformation into the terminator of punters, bailing the Eagles out of what could have been miserable field position with both booming and precise punts many times throughout the entire game. The frenzied genius of Murphy on the run, speeding across the turf, flat-out flying for his life—beating five defenders to the corner before turning and throwing across his body to hit Callinan for a beautiful first down—will drift away. We’ll only be able to think about what could have happened if he had found Shakim Phillips cut-

D-women bring chemistry to BC hockey on and off the ice

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From Women’s Hockey, B1 with your best friend. If you mess up, Emily’s going to have my back and vice versa.” The “having-her-back” mentality has worked well for the elder stateswomen on the blue line. Pfalzer and Bender have combined for a plus/minus total of plus-12 through three games of play, in addition to the nine points amassed in the Syracuse smackdown. In addition to its on-ice success, the pair brings comedy into the locker room through their quirky natures. “We really don’t have common sense,” Bender remarked. “They’re goofy,” Kennedy said. “That’s why I like them so much, as much as Emily Pfalzer is studying to be a doctor and figuring this all out, at the same time, she can laugh at herself and laugh about something funny that happened or that was overlooked. They’re always smiling, and they’re genuinely just fun to be around.”

Kennedy also noted that Pfalzer and Bender were “good teammates,” adding a depth of veteran leadership to keep the team focused on the season, while still keeping it light in the locker room. One of the moments that Pfalzer and Bender gave the team a chance to chuckle was at the back end of last season. The team had just won the Beanpot, before dropping a game in Storrs, Conn. to the University of Connecticut. It travelled up to Orono, Maine for a weekend series against the University of Maine Black Bears. The team arrived in Maine on Feb. 14, a day before the series opener the next afternoon. BC decided to take in a movie at the local theatre. The Eagles saw the movie Endless Love, a film that Kennedy noted was received as very cheesy by the team. That is, except for two players in particular. “We all come out, and all of us, every one of us is like, ‘That was like horrible,’ and we’re just ripping on the movie, and those two come out, and

they’re like, ‘That was so good,’” Kennedy said. “They just loved it, and I’m like ‘You know what, you two would love that movie.’ And it was painful to sit through, real painful movie to sit through, and they loved it. And to this day I’m like, ‘Ooh, maybe we can get Endless Love for the bus ride!’” Despite their quirks, Pfalzer and Bender continue to be an asset to the blue line, both in practice and on game day. Kennedy, who is in charge of the defensive unit, sees them as people the younger players on the team can look up to, and ask questions of when practice begins to turn confusing. “I rely on them a lot ... I look to them to be doing a lot of that stuff around our D,” she said. “I expect freshmen if they’re confused to be able to skate up to Pfalzer and be like, ‘I don’t get that.’ They don’t always have to go to me, and that’s what those two have set. They’re very mature kids.” And for a team with relative youth, maturity can go a long way. n

ting into the end zone. And we’ll forget about the spine-tingling image of Bordner bombing down into the end zone with the ball secured in his grasp before thrusting it into the air, a piece of personal redemption realized before our eyes. BC hung with one of the best teams in the ACC for four quarters on Saturday afternoon—no one can deny that. But Clemson got away, and so no one will remember that.

Connor Mellas is the Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@ bcheights.com

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A crisis in the making: Demon Deacons destroy Ed Kelly’s team BY ALEX FAIRCHILD Asst. Sports Editor Zeiko Lewis just kept running. He had one defender beat and then another with the ball glued to his Boston College 1 left Wake Forest 4 foot. The sophomore had a force field between him and the Demon Deacons’ defenders as they backed away from him, begging him to have a 1-on-1 opportunity with their keeper. Lewis looked up to see where the keeper was and used the inside of his foot to place it into the back of the net. The only problem was that his effort went wide of the post, and BC was trailing 4-1. His miss was another step in the Eagles’ progression toward ACC mediocrity, which must be corrected immediately. Boston College’s men’s soccer team has won only one of its last eight matches, and it put itself in crisis mode four games before the postseason it might not have. As soon as Philip Parker cut into the box and drove a cross that bounced off the hip of Atobra Ampadu and past Alex Kapp, the Eagles were set to be in for a long night, as the deadliest part of Wake Forest’s game had already

bit BC a mere six minutes after the opening whistle. The team should have become more aware of the danger of the centered ball and taken extra precautions to cut out play from wide areas, but the Eagles failed to cope and suffered a 4-1 defeat. All four goals came as the result of crosses, which caught BC’s back four off guard. Entering the match, the strongest part of the team was its rearguard. Head coach Ed Kelly’s back four, which consists of three new members, includes freshman Mohammed Moro at left back, and Atobra Ampadu next to freshman Len Zeugner at center back. Matt Wendelken is the lone returner from last season, but his campaign did not start until the team’s win over Notre Dame due to injury. Even with the new back four, though, everything was going well until it fell apart. Individual errors have led to multiple losses this season, but on Friday night, a plague of mistakes hit the defense. Parker was able to get behind Wendelken and Zeugner on the wing and through the channel between the pair not only in the sixth minute, but also twice between then and the 23rd minute when he delivered a dangerous

ball to Michael Gamble, who should have made it 2-0. As Wake Forest’s attack ran rampant, the Eagles were stagnant, and the for wards were rotated to change things up. Phil Sandgren and Cole DeNormandie entered the game to give the Eagles more bulk up front. Lewis and Isaac Normesinu bring speed and skill to the lineup, but Sandgren and DeNormandie have the strength and athleticism necessary to mix up a match. Kelly’s swap worked on 32 minutes when Alex Kapp’s free kick forward found the head of Sandgren, who flicked the ball forward to DeNormandie. The senior took the space the Demon Deacons conceded in midfield, got the ball onto his favored right foot, and unleashed a laser into the back of the net. The Eagles’ ship was righted, but two minutes later, Jon Bakero rocked the boat and kicked it off course. Instead of exploiting the right side, a through ball to Kris Reaves put the left side of the defense at sixes and sevens. Zeugner failed to clear Reaves’ ball across the face of goal, and Bakero opened up his body, reached back with his right foot, and corralled the ball from behind him to beat Kapp. The rout

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The men’s soccer team is struggling for wins and goals, as its regular season heads into the final stretch. was on. Kapp was called on multiple times before the clock struck 45 minutes. He batted an errant cross over the bar and diminished the danger of a few balls that were floated into the area. The junior was wrong-footed in the 43rd minute when Rick Greensfelder’s ball was centered to Bakero. Moro failed to get goal side of the forward, and all Bakero had to do was tap it in. For the Eagles to get back into the game, the attack would have had to click, but it did not. Lewis continued to get forward, but was limited to headers in the area, which is not the attacker’s

strength. BC could not get forward with the ball on the ground and if it did, Wake would counter with ferocity. The Demon Deacons broke forward in the 57th minute to ice the game. Michael Gamble twisted Len Zeugner up on the left flank to free up five yards of separation at the elbow of the box.Greensfelder bashed Gamble’s in-swinging ball to the far post past Kapp, even though the junior keeper made the initial save. Shot after shot followed from the hosts, who should have tallied two more before the final whistles. Had the Eagles finished

earlier opportunities and been more physical defensively, the scoreline may not have been as bad, but it was the second time that the Eagles were not only frustrated by opposition, but also played off the park. Failing to get goal side of attackers is one of defending’s cardinal sins and a mistake that should never have taken place four times in the same match, as each cross should have been dealt with easily. To avoid being one of the two teams that miss the cut for the ACC Tournament, the mistakes will have to end, and the finishing will have to improve. 

BC tops ‘Cards on the road

Eagles hang on for third ACC triumph against Wake Forest

BY CELINA DANIEL

A dramatic third-set comeback propelled the Eagles to inspired play that gave them their third ACC win on Boston College 3 Friday Wake Forest 1 night in Power Gym, where the Boston College volleyball team took down the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in four sets. The first set was messy from both ends of the court. Numerous serving errors and shaky defense abounded, and the score line went back and forth. Toward the end of the set, BC made a few defensive adjustments that solidified affairs on the Eagles’ end of the court. Katty Workman took a swing on the set point for the Eagles, providing a powerful spike that went through the fingers of Demon Deacon blockers in the middle of the net. Workman led the team in kills, coming through with 16 total in the match, most of which came from the outside. Following BC’s initial set win, Wake Forest responded with its only win on the night. The second set was once more a back-and-forth situation, but Wake Forest pulled it

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The No. 17 Boston College women’s field hockey team defeated No. 7 Louisville at Trager Field in Louisville, Ky. on Friday, Oct. 17. It was not only the Eagles’ third win over a top-10 program this season, but it was also their eighth overtime game this season. The Eagles started off strong, striking quickly to take a 1-0 lead over the Cardinals in the eighth minute of play when sophomore forward Eryn McCoy scored with an assist from junior forward AshLeigh Sebia. The BC offense controlled possession in the first half of play and took its 1-0 lead over the Cardinals into halftime. In the Eagles’ net, goaltender Leah Settipane faced just two shots on goal. BC had a narrow advantage in the shot count with three. The second half brought backand-forth play between the Eagles and the Cardinals. Louisville got its first attack penalty corner opportunity with 19:30 left in the game. The Eagles’ defense put forth a strong ef-

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BC’s weekend victory over California was its third straight triumph. fort, keeping Louisville from scoring until the 57th minute of play. Settipane recorded a total of three saves against the Cardinals on Friday, as Louisville managed just one more shot in the second frame of play and none in the overtime period, a testament to the dominating game that the Eagles’ defense was putting forth, which was matched by a steadfast performance in the net. The Cardinals scored with 13 minutes left in the game to bring the score to a tie at 1-1. The goal was scored by Elisa Garcia and assisted by Nicole Woods. The score remained unchanged as the clock ran out of time, bringing the teams into overtime, a situation with which, at this point, the Eagles are very familiar. BC started overtime on the attack, and the game was decided quickly—just four minutes after the start of the sudden death period. McCoy scored on a fast break up

the middle, bringing her goal tally to two on the day as the Eagles’ only scorer. It was her seventh goal of the season. She is surpassed in goals on the season only by her twin sister, Emily McCoy, who after the two games the Eagles played this weekend, has nine goals in the 15 games that they have played on the season. Later in the weekend, BC played another game, this one against the University of California, Berkeley. At the neutral site, the Eagles topped the Bears in commanding fashion, 5-1. Eryn McCoy moved her goal count for the weekend to three, while her sister, Emily, notched one for herself. Emma Plasteras, Kelcie Hromisin, and Leah Frome tallied the other goals for BC, while Settipane had four saves before being relieved by Audra Hampsch with just under nine minutes remaining in the game. 

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out in the end. Some good blocking from Kellie Barnum and Anna Skold, combined with solid offensive play down the middle from Skold and Kam McLain brought the Eagles to a 20-20 even score line, but sloppy defense and missed opportunities on offense saw the Demon Deacons tie the match at one set apiece. BC head coach Chris Campbell admitted that his team initially played poorly, but was happy that it was able to pull its act together at certain points in the match. “We didn’t play our best volleyball, but one of the things you have to learn to do as a collegiate athlete is that if you don’t have all of your game, use the parts of your game that are there as an anchor,” he said. The third set proved to be the deciding factor of the entire match. BC trailed significantly for the entire set, but managed to turn around an 18-23 scoreline into a 26-24 win. Workman, Skold, and Julia Topor all provided essential kills and blocks. The entire team collectively regained defensive form, only allowing Wake Forest one point, while the Eagles gathered eight. McLain jumped for the final block that put BC at 26 points.

Campbell credited Courtney Castle’s serving and the collective mentality of the team for their ability to see out this third set. The Eagles carried this form into the fourth, leading for the majority of the set. The Demon Deacons did provide them with one scare, coming to a 20-19 score from what was formerly 19-13. The defense stepped up to see out the set for the Eagles, though, as they claimed victory at 25-21. Workman had the winning kill, as she nailed a perfectly set ball into a hole within the Wake Forest defense. While there was no one star player on this night for the Eagles, Workman and Topor led the team in kills. Skold and McClain also provided kills down the middle, with eight and nine blocks, respectively. Setter Barnum ended the game with 45 assists, 12 digs, and six blocks. These five players were the mainstays of BC offense and defense. “We are still inconsistent … and that takes time,” Campbell said. “That is just experience. We do good things. It is a question of whether we can string enough of them together in a row to come out on the winning end.” 

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At the ITA Regionals, Katya Vasilyev beat her opponent from Columbia, 6-4, 62. Sophomore Lexi Borr followed up Vasilyev’s victory with a win in three sets against a Hannah Liljekvist of Seton Hall. Assiya Dair beat Lina Qostal of Pennsylvania, 6-3, 6-1. Another victory for the Eagles came through Jessica Wacnik. She won her match versus Yale’s 6-1, 7-5. In doubles play, Wacnik and Borr beat Lehigh’s pairing. The BC duo, ranked No. 21 in the nation heading into the tournament, continued its winning ways by knocking off doubles pairings from Pennsylvania and Albany. 

Women’s cross country was ranked No. 17 in the country, but finished 21st overall at the Wisconsin Adidas Invite. Depending on senior Liv Westphal to put in a strong effort at the meet, the Eagles got the performance they were looking for from their star. Westphal ran the women’s 6K in 19:43, which was good enough for fourth place overall. Westphal set a personal record and came within eight seconds of the race’s winner, Iowa State’s Crystal Nelson. Laura Hottenrott, Danielle Winslow, Madelein Davison, and Sarah Gwinn followed Westphal for the Eagles. Sophomores Danna Levin and Megan Young finished behind that pack. 

Women’s rowing competed at the 50th annual Head of the Charles Regatta on Sunday. The Women’s Championship Eights came in 22nd place, finishing with a time of 17:37.76. Coxswain Kaitlyn Votta led the boat that was rowed by Makenzy Brown, Ellen Burr, Alycia Da’Loia-Moore, Megan Carney, Erin Anderson, Grace Grunau, Caitlin Yaccarino, and Margaret Hanlon. In the Women's Club Fours, the boat of Meghan Bailey, Catherine Goldberg, Morgan Rann, Haley Clarke, and Claire Mason came in 18th place out of 59 competitors. 

The Hoosier Invitational individual title was scooped up by an undefeated Cristina McQuiston over the weekend. The senior beat out Dana Gattone of Illinois and Northern Illinois’ Lena Gautier. McQuiston continued her winning ways on Sunday when she defeated Brianna Cooper of Illinois State after 16 holes of play. As a team, the Eagles finished in fifth. A defeat at the hands of No. 3 Illinois cost the Eagles, though they did get victories in the match from McQuiston and Katia Joo. The pair also contributed to the team’s win over Northern Illinois. Christina Wang’s win was decisive in the match. 

The Eagles dominated the Captain Hurst Bowl, winning with a low score of 78. BC beat out Roger Williams, which scored a 122, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland, which scored a 164. Sailing also claimed a victory at the Lane Trophy in-conference regatta by defeating Tufts and Rhode Island. At the 35th Yale Women’s Intersectional, the Eagles could not pick up a win, as they settled for third place behind the hosts and Vermont. A third-place finish would have to suffice for BC as well, as it was beaten by Harvard and Roger Williams at the Norman Reid Team Race 

In a meet against Bryant University, the women's 200yard medley relay team beat out its hosts A-team by under a second. The Eagles’ A and B teams for the men’s 200-yard medley relay beat out Bryant’s A-team. In the men’s 1,000yard freestyle, Joshua Lacey, Drew Cuttic, and Anthony Richardson took the top three spots, while Emily Downs won the women’s 200-yard freestyle. Downs’ counterpart in the men’s race, Nicolas Henze, beat Bryant’s Benjamin Schulte. Conor Chamness, Josh Williams, and Daniel Creigton earned BC a sweep in the men’s 100-yard backstroke, and Melissa Merwin won the women’s edition of that race. 

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Languages Kreeft explores atheism, non-Christian religions of laughter BY THOMAS KEENAN

OLIVIA KOZIOL I find myself sitting in a pub on a Wednesday night drinking beer, listening to a Scotsman translate between Ukrainian and Russian, while speaking English to the Czech girl next to me. Occasionally I can piece together bits of a conversation in Slovak going on nearby, thanks to my poor Polish skills. Meanwhile, one of my roommates is talking about her new best friend, this hilarious French guy. At this moment, I realized that America is sometimes the dullest place in the world. In America, it’s a big deal if you speak a second language, never mind a third. Studying in Europe, especially eastern Europe, proves that only knowing two languages is the most normal and boring thing you could possibly do. I’ve spent the past month hanging out with people who speak three languages at minimum, and since most of them speak some form of slavic language, they can also understand and casually communicate in most of the other slavic languages as well. It’s just so normal. But of course, the language shared by most people in the international program I am in is English. It’s the language spoken when you want to be taken seriously, to communicate your academic prowess and intelligence. And, needless to say, there is a lot of that in this program. What has made studying abroad in Poland most fascinating has been the wide variety of people I’ve been sharing the experience with. There are only six study abroad students from America in our program, and all the other students are masters students from a wide array of countries. Most of them are around 25 years old, and they will casually mention in conversation that they just spent three years teaching English in Taiwan or Korea, or that they intend to work for the United Nations and have an internship with this-and-that important government office. It’s absolutely overwhelming being in the same room as people who are so ambitious and have accomplished so much at such young ages. Overwhelming, that is, until they start to drink. With drinks in hand, every person in this program, from the middle-aged veteran to us “youngsters” in study abroad, suddenly become the best and oldest of friends. This is when the languages get thrown around, with new swear words being taught and learned, when glasses get broken and drinks are spilled, terrible music is sung and compared, and the whole atmosphere becomes less academic and more comfortable. The amazing realization that came with this observation was that this change has absolutely nothing to do with alcohol. Even when people are just drinking juice or water, there is something about the experience of sitting down to a beverage among friends that just sums up the spirit of central and eastern Europe. It’s an excuse to drop the businesslike air and just goof off. Sometimes I think this happens because there is nothing more basic and human than needing a refreshing glass of [insert drink here] to unwind after a long day. The other most unifying aspect of meeting so many people from so many places has been that most basic human instinct toward humor. Even with a language barrier, a story will be funny if it’s told by the right person with the right faces and sound effects. The popular Polish music genre “discopolo” will always be charmingly horrible and lighten the mood, even when it is translated into Japanese. And whether one is from Slovakia, Germany, France, or America, apparently listening to a song about a papaya, pretending to be various kinds of fruit, and dancing around a hostel will always be hilarious. (I’m going to be honest, that one I didn’t witness personally, but I’m very upset I missed it.) All of this—the humor, the languages, the time spent sitting and talking about nothing in particular—has made the start of my time abroad absolutely incredible. And all of this is also how I found myself in a pub on this particular night, surrounded by more languages and forms of communication than I will ever understand in my lifetime, watching two new friends accidently shatter a glass with a salt shaker, and laughing harder than I ever have before.

Olivia Koziol is a contributor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com

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WHO: Peter Kreeft

“I should just always ask what God wants me to do and then do it. That’s all, isn’t it?” wondered a 6-year-old Peter Kreeft. A longtime Boston College philosophy professor, he cites this gift from God as his first “important conscious discovery.” Kreeft joined the BC faculty in 1965 and has written over 70 books, all building upon this first realization. The circumstances of this pivotal moment are somewhat surprising, according to Kreeft. It was a Sunday after church with his parents, who raised him as a Dutch Calvinist. He eventually entered Calvin College in 1955. General Protestant opinion on Catholicism was, and continues to be, less than positive, according to Kreeft. “Most evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants think the Church is pagan idolatry, worshipping statues, saints, Mary, and the Pope,” he said. “They do not understand the concept of a sacrament, a sacred material thing.” During college and graduate school, he investigated Catholic history. The historical claims of the Catholic Church convinced him to join what he sees as the true heir to the early Church and that of the saints he admires. At his baptism, his new godmother made a joke about them falling in love. “Spiritual incest,” the priest warned, could only come of this. Two years later, a dispensation from the Vatican was required before he could marry his godmother. Kreeft regards Protestants warmly, believing that Catholics can learn from them. “Until Catholics know the Bible better than Protestants do, and until they know Christ, both personally and theologically, better than Protestants do, there is no reason why God should end the Reformation and make all

TEACHES: Philosophy in Literature, Thinking in Religion. EXPERIENCE: Has a Ph. D. from Fordham University and a bachelor’s degree from Calvin College FUN FACTS: Though Kreeft was born a Calvinist, he converted to Catholicism and married his eventual godmother after a special dispensation from the Pope. PHOTO COURTESY OF POSTBULLETIN.COM

Protestants come back home,” he said. With this mentality, he has made it his mission to unite Christians of different denominations. Kreeft spends a lot of his academic energy on non-Christian religions. “I love to explore other religions, both for their wisdom and for the mysterious and complex question of how they are related to Christianity,” he said. “Buddhists typically have a profound spirituality despite a very unprofound theology, and Muslims grasp the greatness and majesty of God.” Today, Kreeft believes atheism is probably the most prevalent alternative to Christianity, rather than another religion. “Reading passionate atheists like Nietzsche and Sartre—not the shallow, recycled, talk-show-style cliches of the current crop of atheist media darlings—sets off Christianity powerfully, as death sets off life or night, day,” he said. Unlike the popular portrayals of faith by the New Atheism “media darlings,” Catholicism does stand up to intellectual debate, Kreeft said. Protestant and atheist misconcep-

tions of the Church parallel in at least one way, and Kreeft identifies the common root as misunderstanding of the sacred. “Non-Christians almost always have a different problem [than Protestants] with the Church,” he said. “Its morality, especially its sexual morality. It is thought to be repressive, Puritanical, and impossibly idealistic. Here, too, the concept of the sacredness of something material is not understood. I think a serious study of the Theology of the Body by Pope John Paul II would be a powerful antidote to both misunderstandings.” Kreeft does not align himself with others of his profession. “I tr y to build bridges between ordinar y people and scholars and philosophers,” he said. “Academia has always been a sort of scholarly ivory tower, but more so in modern times, with increasing specialization. In my own field, philosophy, I find that most ‘great books’ in philosophy were written for ordinary intelligent people, until the 20th century, when philosophers started to write for other philosophers. This is why they are ignored … I think God

must love ordinary people best—that’s why He made so many of them.” Kreeft positions himself opposite most intellectuals on the general direction of American morality. “Let’s be very clear and candid,” he said. “It’s not an option to opt out of the culture of death, it’s a necessity for survival of your soul. The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it.” Kreeft identified abortion as the gravest moral evil that the “culture of death” promotes. Secular society is no alternative to faith for Kreeft, either. “I find it very significant that just about all the robustly Catholic students and teachers I know at BC are very happy and all the anti-Catholics are very unhappy and angry,” he said. “Deep happiness is a winsome and unanswerable argument.” His antidote to depression: “Visit the Missionaries of Charity in Roxbury and see how deep and genuine joy is possible in the middle of the worst misery and poverty.” 

Jumpstart BC nears student participation goal From Jumpstart, B8 cord for the number of people reading the same children’s book on the same day. This year’s book is Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells. Each year, the event is endorsed by a celebrity ambassador, with this year’s being actor Josh Duhamel. The event in 2013 saw 2,462,860 children read the same book on the same day, and the program hopes to see even larger numbers for 2014. “We really try to raise awareness not just for our organization, but for early literacy and why it’s so important,” Fitzpatrick said. Beyond having a nationwide impact on disadvantaged children, Jumpstart has had a significant influence on BC students. “Since 2008, 260 BC students have participated in Jumpstart and in that time have served over 67,600 hours and worked with 600 children in the

Boston communities,” Fitzpatrick said in an email. According to a survey taken of BC’s participants for the year 2013, Jumpstart improved 100 percent of participants’ leadership skills. The report also showed that 98 percent of participants were satisfied with the program experience, and that 90 percent would recommend Jumpstart to a friend. “Our recognition on campus has gotten a lot stronger,” Fitzpatrick said. “For a while, people just saw us as a part of Lynch. More and more students are realizing that beyond being a part of the education major, it’s a really cool service opportunity.” Although Jumpstart BC has received positive reviews from past participants, the program is currently struggling to reach its participation goal, with only 45 students of the desired 65 signed up. “We have a lot of positions available, and there are a lot of perks to participating,” Fitzpatrick said. Students who

are interested in work-study are encouraged to apply, as well as anyone looking for service opportunities in the city. Participation in the program also opens up availability for over $1100 in AmeriCorps Education awards for students.

Another major perk of involvement in the Jumpstart program is the subsequent eligibility to apply for preschool teacher certification in Massachusetts after the completion of 300 hours of community service. 

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Jumpstart BC volunteers spend time teaching literacy skills in Boston-area preschools.

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LeaderShape encourages personal development, builds communication skills in retreats BY JUAN OLAVARRIA For The Heights

In today’s tech-savvy world, it may seem as if people are more interested in their smartphones and laptops than the people sitting right in front of them. The LeaderShape Institute, a national organization beginning its third year of programming at Boston College, is dedicated to developing future leaders’ interpersonal skills in an effort to combat dependence on technology. LeaderShape’s goal is to create an environment where students can “explore what makes [them] a leader, equip [them] with the tools to achieve [their] leadership potential, and aid [them] in sustaining [their] leadership goals for the future,” according to its website. The program is open to anyone who wishes to participate. The ideal participant, according to the program website, is someone who “is passionate about local and global issues, enjoys engaging in constructive dialogue, is ready to turn planning into action, is comfortable collaborating in groups, and is open-minded about the potential

of their LeaderShape experience.” It features a six-day retreat at the Wonderland Retreat Center in Sharon, Mass., during winter break wherein a group of about 50 students, accompanied by visionary faculty and administrators, develop leadership skills based on a daily theme. There, each participant gets the opportunity to look inward and ask himself or herself, “What is it that I want from life? What am I passionate about? And, how can I put this passion to good use?” Just by asking these questions, the strong barriers hindering self-discovery and progress established by society begin to break down, according to Marwa Eltahir, student coordinator and A&S ’17. Some of the topics discussed during the retreat are titled, Building Community, The Value of One, The Power of All, Challenging What Is, Looking to What Could Be, Bringing Vision to Reality, Living and Leading with Integrity, and Staying in Action. These topics are essential to what Eltahir called “a formative experience,” where she, like many other LeaderShape graduates, found “a sense of direction,” and “what makes them get up in the morning.” This experience

allows many to find a vocation, or his or her calling and place within the world, and a path through which to pursue it, whatever it might be, according to Courtney Cameron, a student program coordinator and A&S ’16. The retreat challenges the students intellectually, creatively, and mentally in order to develop the skills necessary to become effective leaders. The program seeks “long term vision for positive change” through “becom[ing] more self aware of … leadership potential,” according to the website. “LeaderShape at Boston College inspired a confidence in me that empowers me to make change on campus,” said Joseph Maimone, a 2013 LeaderShape graduate and A&S ’16. “The skills I took from it enabled me to start an organization on campus that I developed out of the vision I created at LeaderShape.” Other graduates have also cited the program as being extremely influential in their personal development and on shaping their definition of leadership. “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react,” Cameron said. “If you’re

in control, they’re in control.” The club prides itself on its “Personal Action Plan,” which is developed during the retreat when each participant engages in deep reflection, collaboration, and mentorship within the newly formed community. “It really does play into the ideal of men and women for others … you will collaborate a lot with your peers … I could not have reached the level of discernment that I have without all of the discussions that we had and everything we did to get there,” Eltahir said. “It’s just something you have to experience, because describing it to someone who has not taken part in it is very difficult, but it is definitely worth it, and it is extremely rewarding,” Cameron said. “We would not be here if we did not feel so strongly about this.” LeaderShape is hoping to increase its presence on campus, as it believes that the skills students learn during their six days in the program will prove essential to their development both as professionals but also as people. As such, it highly encourages those interested in the program to register, especially since it is offered free of charge. 

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BC justice clubs unite From SJC, B8 haven’t found their social justice calling yet and are interested in it, and also for people who do know exactly what they want to do in terms of social justice and want to get that message out there.” SJC serves as a resource for students who have an interest in any variety of social justice issues. One way the group provides information to students is through an email newsletter that Dowd sends out every Sunday afternoon to the SJC Listserv with updates about the groups’ meetings for the coming week The newsletter also provides information about other on and off-campus groups’ social justice events, rallies, and protests that are happening on and off campus each week. SJC strives to connect students with events in the greater Boston community. “Our group is evolving to connect social justice groups on campus with what is happening in the greater Boston community,” Osborne said. “There are so many rallies and protests constantly going on in Boston.” One upcoming rally that SJC encourages students to attend is the Global Day of Health Rally this Sunday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on the Boston Common. SJC is planning a big event for the upcoming spring semester called “Reorientation,” which will be a fair accompanied by a longer newsletter containing information for students and faculty and will serve as a way for underclassmen to learn about social justice resources on campus. Professors who teach courses pertaining to social justice will be present to speak with students and to answer students’ questions, information will be available about the Faith, Peace and Justice minor in the College of Arts & Sciences, information will be available about which speakers are coming to campus, and all of the different social justice clubs and organizations on campus will have a table with representatives. One major goal of the event is to build awareness among students, faculty, and the greater BC community. “We want to merge awareness building and education aspects of social justice issues with the activism aspects—taking the education and putting it into action,” Osborne said. Members of the SJC are looking to expand their club, and they encourage all students who are interested to join. “One of our main goals right now is increased involvement from students and getting all the groups on campus that are focused on social justice involved. One appealing factor of our club is that since we are a new group we are open to what people’s ideas are,” Quirk said. n

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Introduced in 1970, the Modulars have survived many protests, stricter alcohol policy, and water damage By Emiliana Omick For The Heights If there is one feature of Boston College that cannot be easily explained to a visitor, it is the Mods. Originally erected in 1970 as temporary student housing, the Modulars have been often neglected but never underappreciated by the student body. Besieged by problems from the moment they arrived on Lower campus, the Mods have become a staple of BC culture, and a rite of passage for students. Having your own Mod is seen as the pinnacle of BC housing, but considering their history, it is a surprise the Mods have triumphed and become a beloved institution. The first construction of the Modulars happened in 1970, in response to a dramatic lack of beds available for students on campus. According to the Sept. 15, 1970 edition of The Heights, the housing committee approved them after it became clear that the University desperately needed a better plan for student housing. Many students that year were forced to live off campus in areas such as Cleveland Circle and nearby hotels. Student response to the offer to live in the six-bed structures was much greater than administration anticipated. Even then, students were able to recognize what a big deal the Mods would become for BC. When the Mods were first being assembled, the very first pre-built Mod was dropped from a crane and became a spectacular wreck of a building, which prompted a tongue-in-cheek Heights graphic in the same Sept. 15, 1970 issue entitled, “How to Build a Modular in Three Easy Steps.” The steps were: “Step 1: have your Executive Vice President and the unit’s builder shake hands while part of the unit is lowered into place. Step 2: drop it. Step 3: have your Executive Vice President and the unit’s builder survey the damage.” Shortly after the start of construction, the pipe fitters and plumbers in the Boston area went on strike. Then the construction got behind schedule, and students were not able to move into their Mods on time, according to the Oct. 20, 1970 issue of The Heights. The students who were able to move in were greeted by shaky housing with no permanent furniture save for the bunk beds. Several months later, students discovered that the Mods were not as watertight administrators expected,

according to the Feb. 8, 1971 issue of The Heights, because pools of rainwater had formed in several of the new housing units. Three years later, on Sept. 16, 1974, it was reported that the Mods had to be re-roofed years before they were expected to need any repairs or improvements because water had been building up on roofs and damaging the interiors. In the Sept. 4, 1979 issue, students arrived back on campus to Mods still filthy from the last year, with food and garbage that had been in them since the previous June. No repairs had been done, and the general state of the Mods was overall dilapidation deemed practically unacceptable for student housing. The history of the Mods contains a fair number of battles between students and university authorities, clashing over issues of partying and alcohol policies in the Mods over and over. Students as far back as 1976 protested about regulations on parties, many of which are still in effect today. This includes limits on how many people can attend a Mod party, as well as the guidelines for registering parties and the number of parties each person can register per semester. Students objected again in 1985 when the University proposed a stricter alcohol policy following the increase of the drinking age to 21, sharply cutting the number of students eligible to drink on campus and the number of peole who could live and party in the Mods. The Resident Advisory Board (RAB) at the time reviewed the proposal, although it was going to be approved whether the RAB gave its stamp of approval. In 1992, The Heights chronicled another protest in the Mods, this one for their very existence. Students raised their voices against a construction plan that would get rid of a Mod Quad area and six Mods, and relocate 14 more, to make space for a dining hall and more dorms. The plans eventually went forward despite continuing protests, andCorcoran Commons, Vanderslice Hall, and 90 St. Thomas More were constructed in their place. In 1993, a story in the March 1 issue of The Heights was written about BCPD raiding the Mods and a supposed “tightening of the reins.” Police confiscated 11 kegs, harkening back to a time when kegs were allowed on campus in the first place. n

Home is a tricky word From Editor’s Column, B8 tick in a way that I had never considered before, and I’m not sure that I would have grown like that if I had stayed in L.A. and gone home every weekend. Going to school outside of driving range meant that I just had to make things work. I’ve also wondered if it’s the people here, and not necessarily the place, that has made BC feel like home. Maybe we feel better because we’re surrounded by so many like-minded people who are intelligent and willing to learn, who have similar values but are also okay with having discussions about differing viewpoints. We’re all trying to figure out what to do after graduation, how to manage our time better, and how to essentially function as adults. We’re on our own for the first time. There’s a level of understanding there, simply because we’re all at similar points in our lives. College kids might just be more at ease with each other because they all, on some level, just get it. So, I think the definition of home varies for everyone. For some, it’s where you go when everywhere else has turned you away. For one person I know, it’s not the place so much as what she does there—she feels more at home when she’s doing some kind of volunteer work or helping other people. For others, it might be the right combination of people, place, and little adventures to take every day. In the end, home, to me, is wherever I feel most comfortable and most like myself. For now, that place is Boston. The people are nicer than I was led to believe they’d be, there’s never a shortage of things to do in the city (and thanks to the T, there’s a way for me to get there), and the seasons—well, they actually exist, which is a more than welcome change. I’ve think I’ve gotten to know Boston better in almost four years than I got to know L.A. in 18 years. I still wonder what I’m going to answer when people ask me “Where are you from?” a year from now, if I end up staying in Boston. Right now, it feels too impermanent to truly call it home, because I’m theoretically only here for four years. But once I graduate and have to pay rent for longer than just a summer, where will I be from? Part of me desperately wants to say that I’m from Boston, but part of me thinks that that’s a lie. No matter how long I live here, how many Red Sox games I go to, or how many times I spend a day at the Gardner Museum, I might always be from L.A.

Samantha Costanzo is the Assistant Features Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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BC Social Justice Coalition gives campus’s issue-based groups a chance to learn from each other and join in off-campus advocacy BY KATHRYN SEWALL Heights Staff

Boston College Social Justice Coalition (SJC) was started last fall when students from Charles Derber’s sociology class Peace or War: United States/Third World decided to form a group outside of class to facilitate further discussion about routes to peace and social activism among students. “After taking Professor Derber’s class, we wanted to start a club connecting a lot of social justice groups and clubs on campus,” said Ryan Dowd, communications director of SJC and A&S ’16. The mission of SJC, according to the group’s Facebook page strives to “[connect] individuals and groups to enable a community of advocacy and activism. We establish a supportive action-based environment, amplify the importance of social justice, and mobilize BC’s campus to take action.” “The issues [that SJC addresses] are political ideologies, and listening to things that bother you in society and how you would go about making some form of social change, and turning awareness into action,” said Grace Quirk, outreach coordinator of SJC and A&S ’16.

“It’s one thing to be in a classroom and to learn about these topics and to think about them, but it’s a whole other thing to actually put what concerns you into action for positive social change,” she said. SJC has weekly meetings on Mondays at 6 p.m. in McGuinn 413. The styles of the meeting alternate every week. Twice a month the group has “Coalition Forums” where it invites representatives from other social justice related clubs on campus to come and speak to members and to hold a discussion. Student clubs and organizations that have come to SJC meetings include Students for Justice in Palestine, the BC chapter of charity: water, Climate Justice at Boston College, Global Zero of BC, and United Students Against Sweat Shops, among others. “In our [Coalition Forum] meetings, we come together and share what each group has been doing, what we are working on, just keep each other informed, and try to create a cohesive family of people working on different social justice groups on campus that way we can mutually strengthen each other’s movements and actions through this network, and just be aware of what each other is doing,” said Nate Osborne, director

of SJC and A&S ’16. The other two meetings each month are called “Inter-generational Dialogues,” wherein social justice advocates and activists from outside of the BC community come and speak about the struggles and joys of their experiences to complement the classroom learning of the group and then hold a discussion with the group afterward. At this week’s meeting, a representative from the American Friends Service Committee is coming to talk with the group about her time in Japan this past summer where she participated in a peace march in remembrance of Hiroshima and in a protest for nuclear disarmament. Currently, the group has around 15 core members who attend its weekly meetings. However, SJC encourages anyone who is interested to attend and welcomes everyone to come to the meetings. “Our meetings would definitely be interesting for someone who hasn’t been involved in social justice and who is looking to learn more about it,” said Katherine Quigley, secretary of SJC and A&S ’16. “They are a good place for people who

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“How was home?” is probably the first question East Coast kids get asked after they return to campus from Columbus Day weekend. I’ve found that it’s relatively safe to assume if they aren’t on campus, they’re back wherever they came from—from two towns over to upstate New York. The difference, though, is someone’s answer. “It was alright,” one of my roommates said when we were all trading weekend stories in the living room. “It doesn’t really feel like home, you know? I got back to campus and thought about how nice it would be to sleep in my own bed.” The rest of us there agreed—somehow, in less than four years, Boston College has become home for us. The funny thing was, it was weird for us to admit that until now. In my first two years of college, I was always careful not to call my dorm room “home.” It wasn’t home, I told myself. Home is in Los Angeles, where you have family and a full-size bed and a bathroom that you share with three people, not 30. But it still took a certain effort to just call it “the dorm” instead of home. It felt unnatural for some reason. Lately, though, I’ve been slipping up. I tell friends that I’m headed home when they bump into me on campus and ask what I’m up to. “Like, home, home?” they ask. And I know what they mean—hometown home, because I couldn’t possibly mean to call any other place by that name. No, no, I clarify. I’m going to my Mod-home. We usually laugh at the confusion and keep talking, but I still wonder when BC became home. When did my roommate and I decide that it was okay to call dorm rooms, where we’d be living for less than a full year, home? Maybe being on our own helps make this feel like our personal space. Maybe we’ve gotten a chance to break out in a way we couldn’t before BC by exploring a new city, new way of life, and new perspective. I know that between my courses and my friends, I’ve learned so much about how I feel about certain issues or what I think we can do to make the world better. I know what makes me

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Jumpstart BC volunteers promote literacy in local preschools BY ANNE BIGLER Heights Staff Modern America is experiencing an early education crisis. Children attending preschools in low-income areas are severely disadvantaged and are far less prepared for upper-level schooling than children from affluent backgrounds. Jumpstart for Young Children, particularly its branch at Boston College, however, is steadfastly combating this issue and attempting to make significant educational advances in the Boston area. “We are a national non-profit organization,” said Julie Fitzpatrick, senior site manager for BC. “We recruit, train, and mentor college students and other community volunteers to go into underserved preschool classrooms.” The Jumpstart program began in 1993 after two students at Yale University recognized the immense potential of college students to make substantial changes in the lives of preschool children in order to help them be more successful in higher level education. “Since 1993, Jumpstart has trained 36,000 college students and community volunteers to transform the lives of

76,000 preschool children nationwide,” according to the program’s website. Because Jumpstart is a nationwide program, more than 70 colleges and universities participate as active partners of the organization. “For the most part, we are all very similar programs because we have the same curriculum, use the same resources, and do everything centralized,” Fitzpatrick said. Although the strategies and curriculum used by BC volunteers are common to all participating universities, Fitzpatrick believes the BC program is different from most. “I would say BC Jumpstart is unique in that we have a culture of heavy service-oriented students,” she said. “So, in that respect, the group of students at BC who participate in Jumpstart may be different from those at other sites.” Teams of BC students travel into Boston two times a week to visit the city’s low-income area preschools. The college students work primarily with children within the age range of 3 to 5, ages just before reading level. “We do a lot with intentional language and literacy,” Fitzpatrick said. “We do a lot with letter recognition. For example, what’s the difference between

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an ‘R’ and an ‘S,’ what do they look like, and how do you draw them?” Another critical part of the Jumpstart program’s work is to focus on reading and to convey its importance to the young children who are just beginning their educational experience. On the BC campus, Jumpstart acts as a unifying program for its diverse group of participants. Although Jumpstart BC is technically a part of the Lynch School of Education, the group’s membership consists of work-study and PULSE students, as well as people who are looking to volunteer. The program, while rewarding, requires a large time commitment, ranging from about 10 to 12 hours per week. “This year we want to get 65 BC students involved in our program,” Fitzpatrick said. “That goal of 65 correlates directly with how many children we can serve. Our goal is to serve nine classrooms this year, which is about 180 children.” On Tuesday, Oct. 21, Jumpstart looks to achieve a nationwide goal with its annual Read for the Record event. The event will attempt to break the re-

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Jumpstart hopes to get enough volunteers to be in nine Boston-area classrooms this year.

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